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Full Show Podcast: 03 July 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: News Talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be very good morning, six after five on your Friday.
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Modi is coming for a visit to New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: That's the room of this month potentially as the government
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Speaker 2: looks at immigration restrictions on Indians. We'll look at that
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Speaker 2: before top of the hour. The Hurricanes are playing France
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Speaker 2: in christ Church. We'll speak to the stadium boss in
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Speaker 2: just a few moments. Also, well, kids probably having a
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Speaker 2: little bit of trouble getting when they get to school,
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Speaker 2: been able to speak, and because of this, Erica Stamford's
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Speaker 2: making a bunch of changes before they get there. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that before top of the hour too. News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Theb the Agenda Friday, the third of June, eight days
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Speaker 2: under the rubble in Venezuela, and they'll pulled the guy
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Speaker 2: out alive.
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Speaker 3: If they had just gone in and drilled quickly, there
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Speaker 3: was the risk that one of those worlds could have
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Speaker 3: collapsed on him and would have crushed him. And so
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Speaker 3: they had to do this really carefully.
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Speaker 2: To the UK now where they forced adoptions that people
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Speaker 2: know about happened in Britain. Starmer on behalf of the
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Speaker 2: government has formally said, sorry.
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Speaker 4: The shame is not yours. The shame was never yours.
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Speaker 2: The shame is ours. It's quite shocking. One hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty five thousand babies are taken from unmarried mothers in
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Speaker 2: England and Wales. During the fifties, sixties, seventies, not that
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Speaker 2: long ago, many women pressed into giving up their children.
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Speaker 5: As an adopted person born in nineteen seventy two, I
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Speaker 5: welcome to this statement from the Prime minister. Does a
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Speaker 5: Prime minister agree with me? The mother should be supported
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Speaker 5: by the state to look after their children and not
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Speaker 5: forced to give them up.
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Speaker 2: Now Trump is going after Cuba again.
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Speaker 6: Of Cuba after many, many decades, it's coming our way,
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Speaker 6: coming over.
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Speaker 2: Cuba's president says, we're not for sale.
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Speaker 7: Mate is an outreach and an upfront to the dignity
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Speaker 7: of our people. We don't want the war, but we're
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Speaker 7: not afraid of it, and we are getting ready so
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Speaker 7: that we're in a surprise or defeating.
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Speaker 2: There you go, coming up in a few minutes. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you what Mam Dami, the new Socialist Democratic mayor
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Speaker 2: of New York is telling them and what to do
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Speaker 2: in a heat wave.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on a early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be eight after five. Rough sleepers big story in
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Speaker 2: the mainstream media this week. You would have seen it.
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Speaker 2: They've been covering it all over it like flies to
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Speaker 2: a blanket. And the other day I was watching a
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Speaker 2: scene unfold before my very eyes. It was on a
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Speaker 2: relatively nice street in Auckland, like a cafe retail area,
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Speaker 2: so lots of people. It was during the middle of
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Speaker 2: the day. I'd finished work and there was a woman
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Speaker 2: who was who police were trying to restrain. She was,
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Speaker 2: you know, middle aged. I don't know if she was
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Speaker 2: a rough sleeper or not. I have no idea, but
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Speaker 2: I just know that she looks she was having a meltdown, right.
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Speaker 8: It was.
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Speaker 2: She was going crazy. She was yelling, she was screaming,
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Speaker 2: she was saying, don't take me away, don't take me away.
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Speaker 2: And people were and this was an awkward situation for police.
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Speaker 2: And I was just kind of watching from across the street, thinking, oh,
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Speaker 2: you poor guys and girls having to do this in
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Speaker 2: front of everybody, because you've got all your Karens and
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Speaker 2: your Kens having their coffees and their lattes and going
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Speaker 2: into the shops and watching all this scene unfold. And
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Speaker 2: as soon as the police start putting their hands onto
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Speaker 2: this woman, they stand up, and then some of them
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Speaker 2: get their phones out. And I'm thinking, oh, you poor guys,
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Speaker 2: who would want to be a police officer, because you're
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Speaker 2: damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
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Speaker 2: This person is causing a scene, running into the shop,
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Speaker 2: you know, sitting on the ground, all this kind of stuff,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know what. Maybe there was a reason
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Speaker 2: that they were going to arrest her anyway, you know,
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Speaker 2: like it might have been something completely unrelated to just
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Speaker 2: causing a public nuisance. I don't know, but just just
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Speaker 2: thinking about being a police officer in a situation like that,
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Speaker 2: when you've got every Tom, Dick and Harry with a phone,
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Speaker 2: the judgment, the casting of aspersions, and it's an impossible situation.
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Speaker 2: And then you also now have politicians weighing in saying
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Speaker 2: this is inhumane, this is cruel, this is making rough
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Speaker 2: sleeping illegal. Once they change the law, how easy is
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Speaker 2: it going to be for a police officer to actually
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Speaker 2: enforce it. How difficult is that job going to be
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Speaker 2: for them, not because of the actual work involved, but
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Speaker 2: the judgment from the rest of us. Looking one Chapter
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Speaker 2: five News Talks, there'd be coming up next. We're going
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Speaker 2: to talk about the early childhood education. This is a
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Speaker 2: really interesting one because too many kids. In fact, I
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Speaker 2: was watching last night there was a woman saying who
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Speaker 2: works in an early childhood center that normally by the
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Speaker 2: time a kid gets to school, they have about two
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Speaker 2: thousand words in their vocab. Kids are coming to school
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Speaker 2: with five hundred. So something has to change. That's next.
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Speaker 2: to text Amanda, Good morning to you. Amanda says I
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Speaker 2: was one of those children, well not in England but
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Speaker 2: here in New Zealand. Adopted child of the seventies. My
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Speaker 2: sixteen year old birth mother was sent to a stranger's
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Speaker 2: farm in the Wycuto when she showed her pregnancy. It's
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Speaker 2: just crazy how women were treated back then for just
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Speaker 2: and to be fair, teenage pregnancies were a thing then.
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Speaker 2: Teenage pregnancies were a thing when I was at school.
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Speaker 2: Teenage pregnancies these not a thing at all. They just
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Speaker 2: don't happen. Isn't that crazy anyway? The Amanda says the
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Speaker 2: mother wasn't treated very well, but luckily Amanda was adopted
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Speaker 2: within the family. Others weren't so lucky. Nice to have
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Speaker 2: you listening this morning. It is fourteen enough to five
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Speaker 2: ran Serica. Stanford's going big on early language support in
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Speaker 2: EC centers. Centers going from sixty five to five hundred
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Speaker 2: kids starting school can barely speak. Some of them too
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Speaker 2: much screen time a problem. To Kelly Seberg, advocates for
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Speaker 2: Early Learning Excellence chair and a News Shoots Sonny Nook
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Speaker 2: director joins us this morning.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Kelly, morning, Ryan, How are you very well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? So what is it? From what I can
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Speaker 2: understand yesterday, this is about getting EC staff to be
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Speaker 2: more engaged with talking to young to talking to the kids.
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Speaker 2: Is that about right?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: And look, it's a program. I've had colleagues and staff
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Speaker 6: who've gone through it, and they rave about what they've
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Speaker 6: learned and what they're putting into practice with children. So
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Speaker 6: it's a really highly regarded program in the sector. And
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Speaker 6: you're thinking about intentional teaching strategies around oral language. So
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Speaker 6: it's wonderful to talk to children and that's great, but
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Speaker 6: we really want to think about our questioning skills, how
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Speaker 6: we're eliciting responses from children and being much more aware
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Speaker 6: of developing oral language skills in early learning. So it's
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Speaker 6: a fantastic program.
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Speaker 2: Because one of the important things, and this is what
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Speaker 2: ECE centers. I mean, some parents worry about ECE centers
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Speaker 2: because are there enough instructors or teachers there to give
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Speaker 2: the child everything that they need to develop those skills
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Speaker 2: because when you're that young, it's very much about one
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Speaker 2: on one, isn't it.
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Speaker 6: Well, one on one or with small group is what
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Speaker 6: you need. But you've got to remember an early childhood education.
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Speaker 6: The vast majority of staff thirty three thousand qualified registered
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Speaker 6: teachers are in early learning, so we have highly qualified staff.
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Speaker 6: But this is about building professional development and if you
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Speaker 6: think about most only learning services might have a one
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Speaker 6: to four ratio four or three or four ratio for
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Speaker 6: their for their under twos, and as the moving up,
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Speaker 6: the you know, they might be only one to seven,
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Speaker 6: one to eight, a maximum one to ten for their
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Speaker 6: up to five year olds. Those are really quality ratios
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Speaker 6: across across internationally and with qualified teachers. This is great,
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Speaker 6: but like you all teachers, everyone needs a focus on
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Speaker 6: particular parts of curriculum and this is a program that
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Speaker 6: really supports that. And I think what's really important is
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Speaker 6: when we're focusing on oral language, you know, we really
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Speaker 6: do have an opportunity to build a connected zero to
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Speaker 6: eighteen years literacy pathway. And I think this is why
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Speaker 6: the Minister is so interested, because we know that when
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Speaker 6: we build strong foundations in oral language, that leads on
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Speaker 6: to you know, early literacy, which feeds into his structured
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Speaker 6: literacy and curriculum and schools, teacher education and ongoing professional development.
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Speaker 6: You can't just sort of set teach and then leave them.
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Speaker 6: It is around really focusing what their practice is looking
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Speaker 6: at and their ongoing professional learning.
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Speaker 2: Kelly, it all sounds fantastic to me. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: targeting exactly the area we need to be targeting, because
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Speaker 2: as we know, if we don't get it right before
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Speaker 2: they get to school, then they are far less likely
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Speaker 2: to get it right while they're there. Kelly Seberg, Advocates
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Speaker 2: for Advocates for Early Learning Excellence Chair, Newstreet Studying Look
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Speaker 2: Director with us. This morning time is seventeen minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: and you're on News Talks. There'd be excellent news for
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Speaker 2: you this morning on consents. I'll give that to you
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Speaker 2: News Talks a B five nineteen. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company this morning. I've got good news coming from the
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Speaker 2: rural sector, but good news on consents because if you
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Speaker 2: look at Australia, they've got new consents, are actually starting
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Speaker 2: to dip a bit, their taxes are going up, they've
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Speaker 2: got capital gains changes, negative gearing changes, all that sort
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Speaker 2: of stuff. Here we have not only do we have
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Speaker 2: housing prices either flat or stable or falling outside of
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Speaker 2: the Unicorn South Island consents her up. So even though
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Speaker 2: prices are stable are falling, consents her up. That's monthly
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Speaker 2: and annually. Rents are down. This is all good news.
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Speaker 2: Affordability in the North item, for example, a lot of
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Speaker 2: places is up. Stats n Z says three eight hundred
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Speaker 2: billion consents issued for new dwellings in May. That's up
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Speaker 2: twenty one percent on May last year. Thirty nine thousand
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Speaker 2: consents annually, nineteen percent increase on the year before. This
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Speaker 2: is after three years of going backwards, So this is
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Speaker 2: good news. And it's across a whole bunch of different
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Speaker 2: property types as well. Eighteen thousand standalone houses that's up
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Speaker 2: seventeen percent on the year, seventeen thousand town houses that's
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Speaker 2: up twenty two percent, and a twenty percent increase in apartments,
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Speaker 2: although I have seen a lot of ugly ones lately.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one after five Rayon Bridge, big weekend for the
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Speaker 2: Garden City. The All Blacks take on France in the
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Speaker 2: first test of the season. Sold out one Insied Stadium
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Speaker 2: seven ten pm Saturday. Put it in your diaries, put
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Speaker 2: it in calendars. Caroline Harvey tears with us one Insied
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Speaker 2: stadium boss. Good morning, good morning, how are you very well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? Another sellout.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're sort of getting used to it down here.
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Speaker 9: It's awesome. It's been a bit of a whirl wind.
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Speaker 9: Seventy days so far, so no, we're very happy with
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Speaker 9: how everything's going on. The weekend is going to be
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Speaker 9: an absolute electric atmosphere down here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy days. How many people have you head through now?
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Speaker 2: Have you done? Have you done a tally?
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Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah. So after the weekend with thirty thousand coming
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Speaker 9: into the All Blacks, we're at just over three hundred
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Speaker 9: and seventeen thousand guests through the stadium. So a really
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Speaker 9: awesome start and just incredible to see the positivity and
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Speaker 9: pride that's around the city.
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Speaker 2: I've been there. I think it's fantastic. It's hard to
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Speaker 2: argue with it. Have there been any hiccups?
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Speaker 9: Oh, look, there's always things to learn, you know. We
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Speaker 9: got the keys four days before we held Souper around
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Speaker 9: so but look, it's really incremental shifts, you know, and
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Speaker 9: that's what we wanted to see. So the venues performing beautifully.
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Speaker 9: There's some operational tweaks that we've made over the time.
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Speaker 9: We're really looking forward to having an enhanced external overlay
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Speaker 9: for the All Blacks. Obviously, we had a bit of
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Speaker 9: feedback around the concert overlay, so we're really hoping that
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Speaker 9: everyone has a great experience with that.
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Speaker 2: On Saturday night, what do you mean external overlay.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so we have to when we have more than
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Speaker 9: twenty five thousand people in the building. So the building
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Speaker 9: is designed for twenty five thousand, we have to bring
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Speaker 9: in extra food and beverage and toilets just to supplement
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Speaker 9: the offering for what's for.
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Speaker 8: That extra number.
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Speaker 9: And so we had a few cues and things that
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Speaker 9: we weren't too pleased with for the concert, so built
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Speaker 9: a night market for this one. So really enhanced offering
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Speaker 9: and a replication of some of those vendors that are
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Speaker 9: inside because everyone's loving the food vendors, all of our
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Speaker 9: local offerings inside the building. So we just want to
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Speaker 9: make sure that we're enhancing that offering for those that
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Speaker 9: have that other experience as.
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Speaker 2: Well more lose fewer queues. Caroline, how's revenue going?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Look, we are. We're having a great year. You know,
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Speaker 9: we knew that it was going to be solid, and
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Speaker 9: we knew that it was going to be positive, but
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Speaker 9: we probably didn't expect it to be quite so. Look,
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Speaker 9: and we know that there's a honeymoon, of course there is.
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Speaker 9: But I think what we're seeing is people are genuinely
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Speaker 9: connecting with the venue. People are loving the experience and
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Speaker 9: they're coming back, and so our job is to maintain
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Speaker 9: that momentum, maintain that good quality service and that that
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Speaker 9: wonderful guest experience, and keep delivering awesome.
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Speaker 2: Content, fantastic. Caroline Harvey tea who is cheap Ezech venues
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Speaker 2: all today. He possibly one the n ZED stadium four
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Speaker 2: after five line is a kindergarten department teacher of twenty
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Speaker 2: six years. I can tell you that, yes, oral language
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Speaker 2: is a huge concern. There are a lot of fantastic
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Speaker 2: PD programs personal development. I'm assuming that is to promote this. However,
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Speaker 2: your guest has deluded. Our biggest problem is ratios. There
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Speaker 2: is little time for focused, intentional teaching as we operate
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Speaker 2: under ratios of one to ten in groups of children
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Speaker 2: aged two to five. That is the real problem. Okay, interesting,
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Speaker 2: So a ratio of one to ten when you've got
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Speaker 2: two to five year olds, so you've got ten three
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Speaker 2: year olds. Now look, I'm no parent, but to me
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Speaker 2: that sounds a bit insane. How are you meant to
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Speaker 2: get and how are you meant to improve oral language
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Speaker 2: and vocabulary? And a lot of these kids you need
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Speaker 2: to have them focus, you know, focus, focus, focus, If
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Speaker 2: there's ten of them. That does sound difficult. I appreciate
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Speaker 2: your text this morning from a kindergarten teacher twenty five
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Speaker 2: minutes after five News TALKSVB News Talks VB. It is
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Speaker 2: twenty seven minutes after five. The government's looking to move
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Speaker 2: on from free school lunches for every kid in a
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Speaker 2: poor school. David Seymour told me this week they're looking
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Speaker 2: at tightening things up, and I think that it's probably
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Speaker 2: going to happen at present. If your kid's school is
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Speaker 2: signed up to the school lunches program, your kid automatically
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Speaker 2: gets a lunch, whether you ask for one or not.
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Speaker 2: The only way to stop that is to actually contact
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Speaker 2: the school and opt out on an individual basis. Now,
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Speaker 2: how many parents are doing that, even if they're providing
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Speaker 2: lunch to their kids. I reckon they'll change this so
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Speaker 2: that parents will have to opt their kids in rather
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Speaker 2: than the other way around. I think it makes much
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Speaker 2: more sense to do it that way. If it's true
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Speaker 2: that half the lunches aren't being eaten, then why waste
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Speaker 2: the resources taxpayer resource? After all, if the food was
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Speaker 2: good enough for the fifty percent of kids who did
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Speaker 2: eat it, then why Wasn't it good enough For the
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Speaker 2: fifty percent who didn't, It's obvious they're not hungry. There
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Speaker 2: is an alternative for them. If there really is a
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Speaker 2: problem with the quality of the lunches, then surely producing
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Speaker 2: fewer of them will lower the costs and perhaps allow
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Speaker 2: quality to improve further. You know, do less, we do
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Speaker 2: more with less. I must say it seems odd that
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Speaker 2: all the meals must be hot when most Kiwis pre
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Speaker 2: the previous labor government were raised on a lunch of
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Speaker 2: cold sandwiches, weren't we. I'm not saying this is soundingly
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Speaker 2: some grumpy old man. I'm like thirty eight, you know,
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Speaker 2: but I never had a hot lunch in my life. Seriously,
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Speaker 2: hot meals were for dinner only. Anyway, to those frustrated
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Speaker 2: by the media coverage of these stories this week, and
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Speaker 2: there have been many of you, it seems like changes
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Speaker 2: are coming, which should mean only those kids who are
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Speaker 2: actually hungry will get fed by the state cry and
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Speaker 2: bread in nine minutes after five Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company play you that audio on Mamdami. He's asking actually,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what he's doing, and then I'll give
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Speaker 2: you the audio after the news. He's telling because there's
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Speaker 2: a heat wave coming. I've been to Europe. Now the
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Speaker 2: heat wave coming to New York. You wait, No one
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Speaker 2: moans like in New Yorker. Mamdarmi is the MIA and
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Speaker 2: he has put out a social media video saying New York,
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Speaker 2: it's hot out there. However, will we cope? The power
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Speaker 2: grid is working over time? Set your AC to seventy
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Speaker 2: eight degrees that's fahrenhearit obviously, now what is seventy eight
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Speaker 2: degrees fahrenheit and celsius twenty five? Sorry, that's not acceptable.
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Speaker 2: That's a saunat in your apartment living room. We're in UK.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four minutes away from sixty year on News Talks
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Speaker 2: MB on your Friday and Morning. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company coming up inside the next twenty Modi is apparently
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Speaker 2: coming to New Zealand a mid and immigrations spat. Winston's
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Speaker 2: not happy. We'll look at that. Also in the UK,
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Speaker 2: Starmas saying sorry, but for what we'll answer. That text
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Speaker 2: of the morning is from Jane. Good morning Jane, She says,
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Speaker 2: morning Ryan. We were talking about police and what a
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Speaker 2: job they're going to have, moving on rough sleepers in
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Speaker 2: front of Karen's and Ken's with their mobile phones out
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Speaker 2: filming the whole thing, getting all judgy and tisk tisk.
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Speaker 2: Jane says, good morning, Ryan. My partner is still serving
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Speaker 2: as a frontline police officer in his mid sixties, completed
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Speaker 2: twenty years joined later in life. He has always seen
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Speaker 2: it as a vocation and remains committed to his role.
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Speaker 2: That's in spite of the constant cuts, the poor wages,
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Speaker 2: and the ever present danger, let alone the constant judgment
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Speaker 2: by people who have never walked a day in his shoes.
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Speaker 2: This is what I was getting at. This is people
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Speaker 2: all judging Judgey tisky tiskey. But do they have any
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Speaker 2: idea what's going on? Anyway, Jane continues, they want him
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Speaker 2: when they're in danger, which is the point. But it's
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Speaker 2: fine to fling judgment and insults when they observe a
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Speaker 2: situation that they know nothing about. The hierarchy don't want
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Speaker 2: to see the daily challenges. Politics and ambition overrides where
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Speaker 2: the focus needs to be on the front line where
19:24
Speaker 2: the rank and file face the daily grind, where they
19:27
Speaker 2: are underpaid, often underprotected, and always on trial. Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: the number to text plenty on parents too, first Callum
19:37
Speaker 2: and the need morning Collum. Morning, right, very wintry weather.
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Speaker 2: Condition's unsurprisingly given its winter for you guys this week, well, that's.
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Speaker 10: Right, middle of winter and this is what you'd expect here.
19:48
Speaker 10: It's been a chaotic couple of days though on our
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Speaker 10: roads here in Danneeda and Aroardo'sago, Dunedan residents bracing for
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Speaker 10: our potential third day of slipping and sliding with the
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Speaker 10: ice roads again expected to cause this option. It's been
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Speaker 10: a panel beats delight, Ryan, that's for sure. Southern roads
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Speaker 10: turning into ice rinks, black ice everywhere, freezing fog as well,
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Speaker 10: and hare frosts our southern motorways and Eden's been closed
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Speaker 10: the last two mornings after peak hour crashes in similar spots.
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Speaker 10: The Council says contract contractors have been out again monitoring
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Speaker 10: conditions over nights. They've applied written to the icing chemicals,
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Speaker 10: but so it's important motorists to their part by driving
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Speaker 10: to the conditions. The Council's official word this morning as
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Speaker 10: areas of isolated black ice, so great care is required.
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Speaker 2: All right, good to know, callum, thank you very much
20:34
Speaker 2: for that. Clear and christ Church morning, Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Is this about job losses in christ Church?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, We've got twenty workers at called the Stuart's Hornby
20:43
Speaker 11: Concrete plant facing redundancy after a closure proposal which was
20:47
Speaker 11: put to them last week. The company cited tough market
20:50
Speaker 11: conditions and financial losses for them. What's really upsetting these
20:54
Speaker 11: workers and the union is the fact that the company's
20:56
Speaker 11: owners have just been listed on the billion dollars to
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Speaker 11: the Stuart family's estimated fortune is one point one billion
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Speaker 11: dollars Air two unions and a half Startlers says the
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Speaker 11: workers previously accepted pay cunts in order to be able
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Speaker 11: to keep working. She says, collectively they have one hundred
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Speaker 11: and forty four years of loyalty to the business and
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Speaker 11: they feel very scared and confused now. A spokesperson for
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Speaker 11: called the Stewart says they will carry out fair consultation
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Speaker 11: during this process, but a final decision will be made
21:25
Speaker 11: next month.
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Speaker 2: Right, how's your weather, clearp frosty.
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Speaker 11: To start here as well and very foggy on the
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Speaker 11: drive in. Otherwise should clear to fine northeasteries developing as
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Speaker 11: we make our way to thirteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Are you going to the rugby on said day?
21:37
Speaker 11: Missed out on tickets four minutes sold.
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Speaker 2: Out, Ryan, You need better hook ups, said B.
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Speaker 11: Think you have to introduce me to some of your mates.
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Speaker 12: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Clear sherevid In Christ and to be a smacking doosh, Wellington,
21:49
Speaker 2: Good morning morning, local MP upset with the tiaquy Is
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Speaker 2: this the water thing?
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Speaker 13: No, this is on more point wastewater plays and she's
22:01
Speaker 13: actually not upsets this time. A Green MP, Julian Genta,
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Speaker 13: were seeking reassurance that staff will be on site at
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Speaker 13: all times when it reopens later this year. She actually
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Speaker 13: believes that will be the case. So this is our
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Speaker 13: wastewater facility, which has been shut since February after heavy
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Speaker 13: rain flooded and destroyed most of it, sending untreated wastewater
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Speaker 13: pouring into the Southern coast, she says. Despite a Crown
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Speaker 13: review still being underwag tiaki Wi believes twenty four to
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Speaker 13: seven staffing will be the outcome. Interestingly, though, a story
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Speaker 13: in the Post this morning reports that the first take
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Speaker 13: of this three hundred and fifty thousand dollars rate path
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Speaker 13: undered review has already paid the four member team about
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Speaker 13: two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and it's still been
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Speaker 13: kept under wraps as well, despite being due back before
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Speaker 13: July first. So we'll keep pressing Simon Watson's office on
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Speaker 13: that one.
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Speaker 2: Good on you, And just to clarify, you're saying that
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Speaker 2: Julian Gender not angry.
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Speaker 13: No, she's sent a letter and got the outcome she wanted.
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Speaker 2: Was man bites dog. Hey, what's your weather doing.
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Speaker 13: It's going to be a cloudy day for us today,
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Speaker 13: possible shower or two northerly wins in a mild thirteen
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Speaker 13: degrees in Wellington.
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Speaker 2: Got on you to be as thank you neither an
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Speaker 2: or good morning Neva, Good morning now Devenport Waterfront Development
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Speaker 2: people upset.
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Speaker 4: Yes they are?
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Speaker 5: What right?
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Speaker 2: So what this is?
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Speaker 14: It's a four hundred million dollar plan. Now this includes apartments,
23:24
Speaker 14: there'll be a hotel with up to fifty rooms, retail
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Speaker 14: commercial space, and also car parks between eighty and two
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Speaker 14: hundred car parks. So private credit fund that's Peninsula Campital.
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Speaker 14: They've applied under the fast Trek regime. Devenport Heritage chairperson,
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Speaker 14: it's Margo McCrae. She's very dismayed at the plans. She says, look,
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Speaker 14: this will dwarf the heritage buildings on the suburb, you know,
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Speaker 14: Victoria Road. But the local architect and urban advocate, that's
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Speaker 14: Judy Stout. She says, Look, I'm excited. She's excited about
23:54
Speaker 14: this project.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's Devenport's one of those. It's like a mount
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Speaker 2: eat and it's you know, like Clark Area where they
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Speaker 2: will fight tooth and nail executive development. So quite right,
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Speaker 2: good luck to them. How's the weather fine?
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Speaker 14: Apart from pitches of morning fog here in Auckland, fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Is the high brilliant, Thank you very much. Hey, ma'm Damie.
24:13
Speaker 2: You know the New York mayor I was telling you
24:14
Speaker 2: about earlier who has just told everybody to set their
24:17
Speaker 2: ear conditioning. There's a heat wave. Set their ear conditioning
24:21
Speaker 2: to seventy eight degrees fahrenheit, that is twenty five degrees celsius.
24:26
Speaker 2: I mean, that's madness. He's saying, that's what you need
24:30
Speaker 2: to do to save the grid. This is what I
24:33
Speaker 2: don't know if you know Bill Mayer, he's the late
24:35
Speaker 2: night comedian. This is what he's saying about. The Democrats
24:38
Speaker 2: need to just come out and be a bit more
24:39
Speaker 2: honest about who and what this guy is.
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Speaker 15: Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not
24:45
Speaker 15: may or Mom Danny is a socialist or a democratic socialist.
24:48
Speaker 15: Let me settle it. He's a straight up communist. How
24:52
Speaker 15: do I notice? Well, I'm reading between the lines when
24:59
Speaker 15: one of his mete your advisor says, elect more communists,
25:07
Speaker 15: which is fine, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: It's a belief system.
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Speaker 15: He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to
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Speaker 15: vote for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's
25:16
Speaker 15: just going through a garth phase, they're going to lose
25:21
Speaker 15: more elections. This is not a communist country.
25:24
Speaker 2: It's film a heat wave coming to New York this week,
25:26
Speaker 2: we're in London next fourteen away from six year old
25:29
Speaker 2: news talk cib I. Tell you who is looking stunning
25:32
Speaker 2: overnight is the Princess of Wales's Kate. Princess Kate looking
25:35
Speaker 2: absolutely fabulous and she's off to the tennis first time,
25:38
Speaker 2: first appearance there at Wimbledon since her diagnosis cancer diagnosis
25:43
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty four. She's wearing this big blue
25:48
Speaker 2: pants suit. People are loving her. She's smiling, she's shaking hands,
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Speaker 2: laughing with the crowd. She's got these lovely matching airings on.
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Speaker 1: Look.
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Speaker 2: Everybody, almost unilaterally across the science this morning is saying,
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Speaker 2: what a fantastic excited is to see Princess Kate so
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Speaker 2: happy after such a and has been by the way
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Speaker 2: walking mountains literally to raise money for cancer. So all
26:13
Speaker 2: they are thirteen.
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Speaker 1: To two international correspondence with Ensign Eye Insurance Peace of
26:19
Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand business saying in.
26:21
Speaker 2: The UK, if you got a Minton Macavanney a UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent, a good morning, good evening to you.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So it's a big sorry about these adoptions. What actually
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Speaker 2: happen with them?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is a big moment. Around one hundred and
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Speaker 12: eighty five thousand babies single mothers in the nineteen fifties,
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Speaker 12: sixties and nineteen seventies across the country simply because they
26:40
Speaker 12: were unmarried, These were sort of forced into adoption. And
26:44
Speaker 12: today the Prime Minister Sirkir Starmer has issued a historic
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Speaker 12: apology on behalf of the British state for its role
26:51
Speaker 12: in these adoptions.
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Speaker 2: And has the apology been accepted, well.
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Speaker 12: It has been from some of the campaign who were
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Speaker 12: in the chamber of a House of Commons when he
27:03
Speaker 12: made this apology. Obviously, some of these families have now
27:08
Speaker 12: passed away, but many saying it has sort of been
27:11
Speaker 12: about time beyond time that this was taken. They're going
27:15
Speaker 12: to receive around four million pounds in the next few years,
27:18
Speaker 12: not as compensation but as a package to try and
27:21
Speaker 12: help them access records and improve family reunions because some
27:25
Speaker 12: of these women were never reunited with their children. And indeed,
27:28
Speaker 12: one of Kirstama's own MPs and Keen she herself had
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Speaker 12: a baby taken from her when she was seventeen in
27:36
Speaker 12: nineteen sixty six, and she said that this important apology
27:40
Speaker 12: has been so important to her because she's had to
27:42
Speaker 12: live in the knowledge of having this sort of state
27:46
Speaker 12: shame put upon her and the babies growing up thinking
27:50
Speaker 12: that they had been given up and weren't sort of
27:52
Speaker 12: forced to be given up by their parents.
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Speaker 2: Now to another topic, grooming gangs in the UK. It's
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Speaker 2: something we hear a lot about in the media and
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Speaker 2: there was twenty years ago now as a Pakistani guide
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Speaker 2: jailed for his partner grooming gang. He's going to be
28:05
Speaker 2: released and won't be deported.
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Speaker 10: Why.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: This is the sort of most famous incident of this.
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Speaker 12: This is the so called Rochdale brooming gangs, where these
28:15
Speaker 12: groups of largely Pakistani men were going about and targeting
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Speaker 12: specifically young white girls, grooming them and then sort of
28:23
Speaker 12: passing them around for sex. It was really horrific. But
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Speaker 12: the ring leader of that gang, he was jailed back
28:29
Speaker 12: in twenty twelve. He has now been released with the
28:32
Speaker 12: end of his sentence. He's been put out on license
28:35
Speaker 12: this afternoon. But due to a fifty five year old
28:38
Speaker 12: law that was intended to help Commonwealth citizens settle here
28:42
Speaker 12: in the UK, as it stands at the moment, he
28:44
Speaker 12: cannot be deported back to Pakistani. Has had his British
28:47
Speaker 12: citizenship revoked, but this law says he can't be deported.
28:51
Speaker 12: But we're hearing from MPs right across the house and
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Speaker 12: actually Andy Burnham, the likely incoming Prime Minister, that they
28:58
Speaker 12: think this law needs to be check so that this
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Speaker 12: man can be deported back to Pakistan.
29:03
Speaker 2: Vincent mcaviniy a UK europe correspondent, Time is ten away
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Speaker 2: from six insuson this morning about what exactly is and
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Speaker 2: isn't happening re immigration in the India FTA. Modi is
29:15
Speaker 2: expected to visit here this month. Winston's been agitating about it.
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Speaker 4: The National Party has just changed its course, no doubt
29:21
Speaker 4: due to poor poling. Immigration policy settings are being made
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Speaker 4: more restrictive in a way which targets India and India alone.
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Speaker 2: Now Erica Stanford's officers has confirmed there are changes out
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Speaker 2: for consultation at the moment. Sunny Lamb, immigration expert at
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Speaker 2: Queen's City Law former immigration officer, joins us this morning. Sunny,
29:38
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, how are y good? Thank you?
29:41
Speaker 2: So what changes are they actually looking at? Do we know.
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Speaker 16: At this stage? Not exactly sure, nothing is really reviewed
29:51
Speaker 16: right now, but it does seem like there are going
29:53
Speaker 16: to be specific restrictions ons targeted under the FTA with India.
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Speaker 2: And has that to do with bringing your husband, your wife,
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Speaker 2: your kids along with you?
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Speaker 8: Well, yes, it seems like based on Winston anyway, that
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Speaker 8: it will be restricting the ability to apply for a
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Speaker 8: fur divisa once you're in New Zealand, and there will
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Speaker 8: be restrictions on bringing family and also some sort of
30:21
Speaker 8: means testing which is a little bit different, but I
30:25
Speaker 8: wouldn't say completely new.
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Speaker 2: How common is it then just place restrictions or to
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Speaker 2: tag one particular country.
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Speaker 8: In question.
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Speaker 16: There's a matter of extent.
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Speaker 8: Really we do have country specific policy, say for example,
30:46
Speaker 8: with Chinese special policy visas or tai chefs or Japanese
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Speaker 8: tour guides. These currently do exist and are not well known.
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Speaker 8: But the proposed restrictions will be more extreme than previous examples.
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Speaker 8: Certainly having a restriction on the plank for a further
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Speaker 8: visa once your own New Zealand that's somewhat new, not
31:16
Speaker 8: completely new, but will be similar to imposing automatic limited visa. Ultimately,
31:24
Speaker 8: I think it depends on what the restricts are not
31:26
Speaker 8: going to be.
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Speaker 2: And we will find out in due course, I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: although the government apparently would like us to not know
31:32
Speaker 2: before Mighty arrived. Sunning Lamb, immigration expert Queen said law
31:35
Speaker 2: former immigration officer. It is eight to six News Talks ABB.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving News Talks B.
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Speaker 2: Fine, it's six minutes away from six News Talks. There'll
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Speaker 2: be fifty seven thousand jobs added in June next to
31:54
Speaker 2: the US economy puts a bit of a snap on
31:58
Speaker 2: a hot streak, a hot high streak that they have
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Speaker 2: seen over there. Less than they were expecting, but still
32:03
Speaker 2: the US economy is going to be fine. Tesla selling
32:08
Speaker 2: more cars twenty four percent increase from the same period
32:10
Speaker 2: last year. This is for the second quarter, four hundred
32:13
Speaker 2: and eighty thousand electric vehicles sold, and that comes after
32:16
Speaker 2: an increase in the first quarter of six point three percent.
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Speaker 2: It is five to two. Bryan Bridge, good morning, mate.
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Speaker 17: Tell you what's interesting about the job numbers yesterday? That's
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Speaker 17: the forecast was one hundred and something. Yeah, and they
32:30
Speaker 17: said forty thousand would come from the World Cup, so
32:33
Speaker 17: they were expecting some booming time and maybe there are
32:36
Speaker 17: forty thousand in the World Cup, which if you take
32:38
Speaker 17: the forty thousand off the number you just gave.
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Speaker 2: There are no jobs.
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Speaker 16: No.
32:42
Speaker 17: So the market is weakening.
32:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've been going gangbus they are, and well
32:47
Speaker 2: going gangbusters is a strong word. Half percent, they're more
32:51
Speaker 2: robut wage increases too. I mean, you cannot hurt America,
32:54
Speaker 2: can you, despite what Trump does to it.
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Speaker 17: That's that's the size of the domestic market when you
32:59
Speaker 17: got three hundred and twenty million people. You can make anything,
33:03
Speaker 17: and you will have a market.
33:04
Speaker 2: Plus AI plus all that investment that's going on. But
33:07
Speaker 2: deeper you in the spade this weekend?
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Speaker 17: What you're on the spade?
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. Father in law's come up
33:14
Speaker 2: to do that. That's pathetic.
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Speaker 17: Are you going to stand there and watch him do it?
33:19
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to go out and do something else.
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Speaker 2: You're kidding me?
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Speaker 17: No, so he will turn out.
33:23
Speaker 2: I've got a bad back, Oh god, I do. Are
33:28
Speaker 2: you kidding me? No, I'm not. I'm being honest with you.
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Speaker 2: Make When was the last time you were on a spade? Exactly?
33:36
Speaker 2: Hot kettle black? When was the last time I was
33:41
Speaker 2: on the spade? Have you ever been on the spade?
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Speaker 17: I have been on a spade, don't get me wrong.
33:46
Speaker 17: Oh no, I don't my fish air of spade, remember anyway,
33:50
Speaker 17: I know exactly. Erica Stanford's with us and Dave Rennie.
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Speaker 17: Exciting weekend for him, won't it? First time up? Must
33:57
Speaker 17: be it must be a moment in.
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Speaker 2: Time you're impressed with the team. I don't do that.
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Speaker 17: I'm the team's the team all are the Hurricanes, the
34:05
Speaker 17: all I want is victory.
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Speaker 16: You know that.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to him Happy Friday, see him Monday.
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