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Full Show Podcast: 22 September 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Francesca Rudgin on
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Speaker 1: earlier is show Where's One roof Love? Where You Live?
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Speaker 1: News Talk SAIDB.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to early edition. I'm Francisca Rudkin. So
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Speaker 2: the school holidays have begun, as has the host Juggle
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Speaker 2: Here at news Talks HEDB. You can catch Ryan on
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Speaker 2: Drive this afternoon. Good to have you with us. I
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Speaker 2: hope you've survived the wins over the weekend. You're most
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Speaker 2: welcome to contact me anytime this morning. Flip me your
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Speaker 2: text on ninety two ninety two and you can email
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Speaker 2: me at Francesca at Newstalk SHB dot co dot MZ.
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Speaker 2: On the show today, investor confidence drops to pandemic levels.
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Speaker 2: We find out why. How about Liam Lawson fifth at Baku?
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Speaker 1: It's not bad is it?
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Speaker 2: And the silver firms had no problems against South Africa.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Ordison has the weekend sports rap and the government
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Speaker 2: has announced one hundred million for hospital maintenance and redevelopment.
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Speaker 2: Is it enough? Simon Brown is with us before.
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Speaker 1: Six the agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday, the twenty six of September, and the UK
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Speaker 2: has now formally recognized a Palestinian state, joining Canada and Australia.
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Speaker 3: Today we join over one hundred and fifty countries who
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Speaker 3: recognize a Palestinian state, also a pledge to the Palestinian
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Speaker 3: and Israeli people that there can be a better future.
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Speaker 2: Israel's Foreign minister says recognition is nothing but a reward
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Speaker 2: for Hamas crowds are pouring into Arizona for Charlie Kirk's memorial,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump and JD. Vance will speak with more than
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand expected to attend.
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Speaker 1: Well look forward to it.
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Speaker 4: It really is.
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Speaker 1: We want to look at it as a time of healing,
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Speaker 1: a time of whatever.
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Speaker 5: That something like this could have happened is not even forlievable.
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Speaker 1: Well will be well, have a very interesting day, very
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Speaker 1: tough game.
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Speaker 2: Security has been cranked up to levels the same as
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Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl. Two UK papers say the Duchess
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Speaker 2: of York, Sarah Ferguson, called g free Epstein the Supreme
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Speaker 2: Friend in a twenty eleven email. It was sent weeks
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Speaker 2: after she publicly capt ties with him.
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Speaker 6: Back in twenty eleven, Sarah Ferguson gave a newspaper interview
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Speaker 6: in which she was asked about her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein,
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Speaker 6: the disgraced Peeda file. Now she said that she abhorred
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Speaker 6: pedophilia and described it as a gigantic error of judgment.
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Speaker 6: But according to the Sun newspaper and the Mail on Sunday,
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Speaker 6: just weeks after giving that newspaper interview, she was in
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Speaker 6: fact in contact with Epstein once again.
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Speaker 2: Her team says it was only to stop Epstein's suing
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Speaker 2: her for defamation, and that's.
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Speaker 1: The agenda on your radio and online on iheard Radio
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Speaker 1: Early Edition with Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where
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Speaker 1: you Live Newstalk ZEDB.
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Speaker 2: So yesterday was World Gratitude Day. Don't worry, I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to tell you to start journaling. But I did
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Speaker 2: have a really interesting conversation with my Sunday session Wellness
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Speaker 2: Contribute Aaron Ahara about the benefits of gratitude, which quickly
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Speaker 2: slipped into a conversation about how little people express gratitude
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Speaker 2: to each other these days. And Aaron was saying to me, look,
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Speaker 2: people don't even send thank you cards after a wedding
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Speaker 2: to say thank you for coming or thank you for
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Speaker 2: the gift, and I thought that was appalling. It was
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Speaker 2: one of those moments when you realize you're old. I
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Speaker 2: was brought up on the thank you card. I might
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Speaker 2: make children right thank you cards after every Christmas and birthday,
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Speaker 2: or they were pretty average. The art of letter writing
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Speaker 2: took a while to kick in. It probably debatable whether
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Speaker 2: it has already, but they will always appreciated. I just
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Speaker 2: think it's good manners, and you can't go wrong in
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Speaker 2: this world with some manners. Look, you don't need to
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Speaker 2: send a card to say thanks for everything. A text
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Speaker 2: is fine, maybe after a dinner. I like to send
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Speaker 2: a card if I've stayed with someone. But often these
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Speaker 2: days people don't bother with the thanks at all. It
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Speaker 2: is mostly younger generations who are more relaxed about saying
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Speaker 2: thanks these days. But maybe they should because research shows
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Speaker 2: practicing gratitude offers significant physical and psychological health benefits, including
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Speaker 2: lower blood pressure, improved immune function, better sleep, reduced sleep,
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Speaker 2: reduced stress, sorry and decreased anxiety and depression, and enhanced
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Speaker 2: self esteem. I reckon a few young people could do
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Speaker 2: with a bit of that love to hear from you?
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Speaker 2: Am I completely out of date? Is it not bad
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Speaker 2: form to just flag the thank yous? Is it perfectly
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Speaker 2: acceptable in twenty twenty five, not to bother with a
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Speaker 2: thank you cup, but I would have thought after you'd
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Speaker 2: gone to the effort of going to a wedding and
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Speaker 2: giving a nice, generous wedding gift, a card would be
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Speaker 2: the least you should get. You can text on ninety
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Speaker 2: two and ninety two. It is eleven past five.
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Speaker 1: You're with Early Edition News and Views you trust to
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Speaker 1: start your day. It's Early Edition with Francesca Runkin and
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Speaker 1: one roof Love where You Live news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be thirteen past five. So investor confidence has slumped
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Speaker 2: back to pandemic levels, and ASB survey out this morning
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Speaker 2: shows confidence it's just one percent sen for quarter two
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five. That's the lower since twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: but we're still well above the negative twenty five percent seen.
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Speaker 2: Then half of investors say they're very worried about global
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Speaker 2: issues hurting returns. ASB Senior wealth economist Chris tinant Brown
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Speaker 2: joins me. Now, thanks for your time.
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Speaker 7: Chris, Oh, good morning, Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 2: So why is confidence so low? What's impacting it?
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Speaker 7: I think there's two or three things going on. One
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Speaker 7: is that offshore uncertainty investors are feeling a bit rattled
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Speaker 7: by what they're seeing overseas, but it's important to also
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Speaker 7: note that that hasn't necessarily translated into bad investment returns
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Speaker 7: for people that are invested in global markets. The other
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Speaker 7: things are the housing market, I think is surprising many
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Speaker 7: that it hasn't picked up the way you'd expect it
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Speaker 7: with all the reductions and mortgage rates that we've seen.
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Speaker 7: And there's a bit of mirroring of the weakness we're
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Speaker 7: seeing in consumer confidence within this investor confidence survey as well,
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Speaker 7: with people just not that confident in the overall economy
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Speaker 7: and outlook.
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Speaker 2: Is confidence different around the country it is.
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Speaker 7: It's interesting to see that confidence in Auckland is the
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Speaker 7: highest area, whereas the Lower North Island, which of course
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Speaker 7: includes Wellington, is the lowest, even though a lot of
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Speaker 7: the drivers are similar across these areas. But again we
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Speaker 7: see the same thing in consumer confidence. Wellington consumer confidence
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Speaker 7: is weakers than Auckland consumer confidence at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Okay, were they any areas we're confidence did lift yed?
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Speaker 7: I think the one thing that's really pleasing is that
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Speaker 7: confidence in managed funds is holding up, and likewise with
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Speaker 7: key we save us. So hopefully, although people are feeling
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Speaker 7: rattled by those global events, they're not chopping and changing,
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Speaker 7: and if they've stayed the course through the first half
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Speaker 7: of the year, they will have seen a recovery from
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Speaker 7: those April jitters, and I think that's helping the mood
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Speaker 7: for investors that are using those products.
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Speaker 2: Chris, how do we do deal with that disconnect that
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Speaker 2: you mentioned there before, whereby you know, we have this
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Speaker 2: lack of confidence and investment in marketing, but actually investments
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Speaker 2: are doing quite well.
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Speaker 7: I think the key thing there is it just highlights
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Speaker 7: the importance of getting advice when you're feeling nervous and
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Speaker 7: sticking with well thought out plans. People are saving for
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Speaker 7: retirement with key we Saver, for example. This won't be
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Speaker 7: the last time that we see a bit of global
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Speaker 7: volatility influencing the mood. But people stay the course, hopefully
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Speaker 7: they'll be able to achieve their longer term goal. So
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Speaker 7: I think that importance of getting advices is highlighted by
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Speaker 7: the survey.
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Speaker 2: What impact does low investor confidence have on the economy?
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Speaker 7: I think the first places in the housing market. At
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Speaker 7: the moment, Housing is very important for key we Ike,
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Speaker 7: so for people that are investing in the property market
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Speaker 7: and they're seeing houses go house prices go sideways. It
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Speaker 7: contributes to this lower level of activity that we're seeing
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Speaker 7: in the housing market. For other areas of the economy,
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Speaker 7: hopefully people just carry on using products like managed funds
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Speaker 7: and key we savor for their longer term savings goals.
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Speaker 7: So the other area of the economy, which is which
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Speaker 7: is impact I think is the overall picture of there's
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Speaker 7: lower interest rates that we've got within the economy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's not hugely helpful for the government,
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Speaker 2: isn't it when they're focuses on economic growth and investment.
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Speaker 7: That's that's that's right. I mean, the confidence is so
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Speaker 7: important for activity, particularly when you're looking at consumer confidence
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Speaker 7: and and and invest in business confidence. For investor confidence,
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Speaker 7: I think when we see it at these sorts of levels,
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Speaker 7: it's just really important for them for individuals and then
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Speaker 7: in turn for the overall economy for people just to
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Speaker 7: stick with those longer term plans that they've got.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no panicking. Can we predict when we're going to
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Speaker 2: see investor confidence improve?
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Speaker 7: I think it's going to vary from asset class to
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Speaker 7: asset class. If people have got housing as there as
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Speaker 7: their main investment, and that's why they're feeling low at
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Speaker 7: the moment. Then we should see monetary policy work. We
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Speaker 7: think the housing market will eventually pick up. It's just
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Speaker 7: taking longer than it would normally expect it times like now,
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Speaker 7: and for things like key we favor and managed investment funds.
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Speaker 7: I hope that those that those returns just keep on
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Speaker 7: slowly boosting confidence and people pick up somewhat from the
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Speaker 7: from the doldrums that we've been in at the moment.
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Speaker 2: In the Slate survey, Chris, thanks so much for your time.
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Speaker 2: That was asb Senior Wilth Economists, Chris Tenant, Right, busy
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Speaker 2: weekend when it comes to sport. Andrew Ordison is with
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Speaker 2: us next with the weekend sports rap.
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Speaker 1: It is a teen past five, The news you need
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Speaker 1: this morning and the in depth analysis earlier this year
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Speaker 1: with Francesca Rudkin and One Root Love Where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talks. A'd be joining me.
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Speaker 2: Now is Andrew Ortison.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Gredins, Francisca.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I was pretty impressed with fifth for William Lawson
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Speaker 2: at Baku. I mean qualified third, but he had some
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Speaker 2: pretty fast cars behind him.
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Speaker 4: I think it's done well. I mean he's got that disadvantage.
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Speaker 4: I mean the car is not especially quick, but he's
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Speaker 4: held on and you know.
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Speaker 5: No one can play with the best.
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Speaker 4: Best resultant for me to one, and he's continued to
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Speaker 4: improve across the course of the season. Makes me start
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Speaker 4: and taking it out on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
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Speaker 4: But Lawson just making in roads here. He's moved from
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Speaker 4: fifteenth to thirteenth. They've ruled out the championship I think,
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Speaker 4: just nine points behind Teamatee Isaac Hadger so improvements on
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Speaker 4: the way.
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Speaker 8: So it seems what happened to the McLaren cars this
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Speaker 8: time right well Perst she set the wall in the
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Speaker 8: first lap and then disappointment for Landon Norris as well
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Speaker 8: and he getting up into seven. But it just adds
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Speaker 8: the excitement of the overall championship I think, and wesht
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Speaker 8: up and still with a sniff with the races to come.
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Speaker 2: Wait and see what happens. How good have the World
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Speaker 2: Athletic Championships been for Kiwi athletes?
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Speaker 4: Well, the best in their history for meccating mets ninety
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Speaker 4: eighty three and an incredible performance when we saw with
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Speaker 4: Hamish cure with the high jud that was possibly expected.
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Speaker 4: That's what we've come to demand of him as a
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Speaker 4: top athlete. And Jordi Beamish with the three thousand meters
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Speaker 4: steple chasers completely just rarefied air I mean to have
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Speaker 4: done that.
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Speaker 2: I just keep watching it last week, smile on my face.
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Speaker 2: It just made me feel good.
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Speaker 5: I'm sure he keeps watching it too and thinking how
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Speaker 5: did that have?
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Speaker 4: Away has always been renowned for his sprint, so coming
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Speaker 4: into the reckoning and winning the race, and of course
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Speaker 4: medicine wishy the shot put in now with a third
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Speaker 4: place as well, so two golds and a bronze, that's
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Speaker 4: outstanding effort.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of other key He's made finals too.
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Speaker 5: Athletics in a good space.
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Speaker 2: NRAL has been pretty interesting, hasn't it?
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Speaker 4: Is Penrith Panthers here they come for a fifth consecutive title,
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Speaker 4: well I think the first and what since Saint George
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Speaker 4: in the nineteen fifties sixties to going to that territory potentially,
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Speaker 4: and yeah they've they've thumped Canterbury forty six twenty six
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Speaker 4: this morning, and yeah, wait and see what what what
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Speaker 4: is in store for them up against coming into the
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Speaker 4: semifinals now and then what you've got Melbourne Cranella on
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Speaker 4: the Friday, and then what the panthers up against?
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Speaker 8: Trying to think of my head, who's against them now?
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Speaker 2: Sharks? Who are the sharks? Who are they with? What
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Speaker 2: city they know?
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Speaker 8: Cronella Cronella, sharks must say we.
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Speaker 5: Go importanly, the raiders are out, the raiders are gone.
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Speaker 4: But the other the way you're looking at me going,
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Speaker 4: it's completely escaped me right now anyway, exact.
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Speaker 5: Same Brisbane, Brisbane, Brisbane on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: There we're going.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, but then that's gonna be interesting to just
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Speaker 4: having those that two day gap as well because its
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Speaker 4: potentially fatigue there. So yeah, but I'm not going to
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Speaker 4: put anything past Pendrith now, I mean, Ivan clear, he's
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Speaker 4: just such an amazing treak recorded and yeah, we're waiting
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Speaker 4: to see. But Brisbane with the extra east of course,
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Speaker 4: so yeah, they're you know a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of people were a lot of people were really
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Speaker 2: interested to see how the silver Ferns went last night
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Speaker 2: because there's a lot happening off the court. But of
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Speaker 2: course there's a professional sports women who got on the
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Speaker 2: court and South Africa didn't really seem to be a
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Speaker 2: problem winning was it seventy seven to fifty one?
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Speaker 4: I think they've dominated every quarter and you can't ask
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Speaker 4: more than that. I mean they've had a lot of
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Speaker 4: pressure on them, of course with the whole day, not
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Speaker 4: even told her fiasco whether she's going to remain on
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Speaker 4: as coach or not. And obviously some some problems there
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Speaker 4: within the team environment. But they've turned this around. They've
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Speaker 4: done exceptionally well. I think, yeah, commanding performance, I means,
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Speaker 4: can't do better than winning every quarter there and just
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Speaker 4: showcasing what talent they've got based in wiki, back in
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Speaker 4: the frame, et cetera.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, it's that's a fine e fit.
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Speaker 2: When's the next game?
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Speaker 4: Oh you got me the it's well next to or
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Speaker 4: three days? I think three tea series?
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Speaker 2: Yeah turn around?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yep, so brit and that'll complete tiny Jemison.
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Speaker 4: But I suppose the true test always a constflation cup
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Speaker 4: later on the years to you know where the reckoning
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Speaker 4: is against Australia.
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Speaker 5: Why do you do the holders? So you know it's a.
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Speaker 8: Looking in fine form so far, Andrew Alison, thank you
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Speaker 8: so much.
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Speaker 5: Good Francesca.
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Speaker 2: It's five to twenty four News Talks ab.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty six, so yesterday Health Minister Simeon
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Speaker 2: Brown announced one hundred million has been allocated for hospital
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Speaker 2: maintenance and refurbishment. It will fund twenty one upgrades around
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Speaker 2: the country. The money was set aside in the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five budget, listed under things like remediation redevelopment, but
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Speaker 2: at the time Treasury didn't say how much had been
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Speaker 2: allocated due to commercial sensibilities. But it has been announced
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Speaker 2: now and if you're a cynical person, you could think
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Speaker 2: it was time to distract us from the forty eight
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Speaker 2: hour strike five thy five hundred a CMS members are
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Speaker 2: undertaking this Tuesday and Wednesday, which will delay healthcare for
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Speaker 2: almost thirteen thousand patients. But it's been announced. It's a
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Speaker 2: little bit of an underwhelming announcement because the work the
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Speaker 2: money is funding, it's not sexy. It's the basic stuff
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Speaker 2: which needs to happen to keep the lights on in
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Speaker 2: some cases and improve services in others. Maternity services are
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Speaker 2: getting an upgrade at Ashburton Hospital. The Lake's District hospital
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Speaker 2: is getting an ed expansion, which kind of makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Considering they're located in an adventure playground. Fungadi Hospitals outpatients
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Speaker 2: rooms have been upgraded so they can be used for
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Speaker 2: minor procedures, freeing up capacity in the hospital's eight large
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Speaker 2: theaters makes sense. Auckland City Hospital is getting an electricity
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Speaker 2: fixed to mitigate the risk of power failure, which sounds
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Speaker 2: kind of vital, and Manico Health Plant Park is getting
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Speaker 2: a new cancer infusion space, so you know that kind
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Speaker 2: of thing. The question, though, is whether this is enough
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Speaker 2: to achieve what the Minister keeps telling us he's focused
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Speaker 2: on providing New Zealanders with modern, resilient hospitals that can
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Speaker 2: deliver timely quality care. Well, no, because that's a ten
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Speaker 2: year vision. These small scale projects go some way though,
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Speaker 2: to addressing issues in different areas of the country and
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Speaker 2: will hopefully make a difference for patients. And these solutions
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Speaker 2: have been achieved by working out how to make current
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Speaker 2: facilities work better, which is a good approach. The opposition
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Speaker 2: has a course said it's not enough money, but it
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Speaker 2: never is, no matter who was doing the budgeting and
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Speaker 2: who is in opposition, there's never enough money. However, I
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Speaker 2: do meet clinicians who tell me quite often, we can
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Speaker 2: do better with the funding and facilities we already have.
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Speaker 2: Labor Health spokesperson the Aisha Veryl says the funds are insignificant, insufficient,
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Speaker 2: I should say, to meet the needs of a growing
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Speaker 2: and aging population. Well, few policymakers and politicians are prepared
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Speaker 2: to deal with the long term impacts of an aging population,
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Speaker 2: much like how few want to really deal with the
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Speaker 2: superannuation issue. We're all like there to be more money.
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Speaker 2: We all want an equitable and sustainable house system. We
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Speaker 2: all want modern and resilient hospitals. How we are considering
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Speaker 2: the labor disputes and the large hospital projects already on
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Speaker 2: the government's hand. The reality is this is as likely
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Speaker 2: as good as it's going to get.
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Speaker 1: Francisca, so keen to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Are you pleased to hear about this money? I mean
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Speaker 2: it is kind of the you know, the money that
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Speaker 2: we need just to keep the lights on and keep
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Speaker 2: things moving on. I like the fact though, that they're
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Speaker 2: trying to find solutions which are you know, manageable and affordable,
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Speaker 2: but can still make a different from patients. So keen
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Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts. On ninety two ninety two you're
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Speaker 2: as Early.
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Speaker 1: Edition Magic, the first Word on the News of the Day,
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Speaker 1: Early Edition with Francesca Runjia and one roof Love where
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Speaker 9: Talks, that'd be.
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Speaker 2: This is early edition on News Talks Zibbe. I'm Francisco
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Speaker 2: Bucn filling in for Rahan who was on Drive today.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us. A little bit of chapel
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Speaker 2: got to be enrolled today. There we go right in
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Speaker 2: the next half hour, so we're going to have the
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Speaker 2: latest on the cyber attacks which cause chaos at the
19:04
Speaker 2: European airports. Simon Brown is going to be with us
19:07
Speaker 2: to talk about this one hundred million that's been allocated
19:09
Speaker 2: for hospital maintenance and refurbishment. It's going to fund twenty
19:13
Speaker 2: one upgrades around the country. So we're going to talk
19:15
Speaker 2: about whether that's going to be enough to keep our
19:17
Speaker 2: hospitals modern and resilient or is it just a band aid.
19:21
Speaker 2: But thank you very much for your feedback. A lot
19:23
Speaker 2: of people are telling you that we now say thank
19:25
Speaker 2: you for Instagram and social media, and that is absolutely
19:27
Speaker 2: fine as long as it's still personal. It's just not
19:30
Speaker 2: a general poster thing. Everyone that came to the wedding
19:32
Speaker 2: for coming. It's still going to have a personal touch, right.
19:34
Speaker 2: I think that's quite important because that's when we feel
19:37
Speaker 2: good about someone saying thank you. So look, I totally
19:39
Speaker 2: get that, but there is nothing like receiving a little
19:42
Speaker 2: car in the mail or someone taking the time out
19:44
Speaker 2: to write something personal for you. I always stick with
19:47
Speaker 2: that in regards to investor confidence, investor confidence and text
19:53
Speaker 2: reads in New Zealand as one hundred percent dependent on
19:54
Speaker 2: the housing market has been since nineteen eighty seven. We
19:57
Speaker 2: don't even have a real domestic stock market. Commissions huge,
20:00
Speaker 2: you can't shorten, and it's not even listed on global
20:02
Speaker 2: share market tables. And look a lot of you think
20:05
Speaker 2: this is good news. Regarding the health funding, there is
20:08
Speaker 2: a large amount of funding already in the opposition. Of course,
20:10
Speaker 2: we always say it's neverlne. It doesn't matter with the
20:12
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who's in power and who's in opposition,
20:14
Speaker 2: there's always never enough of it. At least National is
20:16
Speaker 2: prepared to try and fix the problems and are proactive.
20:19
Speaker 2: So keep the feedback coming. You can text on ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. It is twenty one two six.
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Speaker 1: Francesco.
20:28
Speaker 2: Let's head around the country and joining us now from
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Speaker 2: Dneedin is Jamie Cunningham. Good morning, Jamie, good morning. Public
20:35
Speaker 2: submissions have opened on plans to discharge treated wastewater into
20:39
Speaker 2: a Tago's Shotover River. Yeah that's right.
20:42
Speaker 10: Queenstown Lakes District Councils applied for two consents one for
20:46
Speaker 10: the discharge and an outfall structure, and another for a
20:49
Speaker 10: diversion channel to ensure the flow intos moving water and
20:53
Speaker 10: the Otago Regional Councils fully notified both applications and extended
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Speaker 10: the submission period to six weeks.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 10: This treatment plant has faced ongoing performance issues with both
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Speaker 10: councils involved in compliance action and the Environment Court will
21:08
Speaker 10: make the final decision on this.
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Speaker 2: And today's weather in Dunedin, Jamie.
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Speaker 10: Fine with high cloud nor the leaves for a time
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Speaker 10: during the day and a high of nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Joining us now from christ Church.
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Speaker 9: Claire.
21:21
Speaker 2: Sure, but good morning Claire.
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Speaker 11: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Look the stadium. I feel like we talk about this
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Speaker 2: quite a lot, but we're getting there, nearing completion.
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Speaker 11: Nearing completion, and we drove past it on the weekend
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Speaker 11: and my seven year old said, mum, it must be open.
21:33
Speaker 2: I said, not quite yet.
21:35
Speaker 11: The six hundred and eighty three million dollars stadium is
21:38
Speaker 11: still set to open in April ahead of the Super
21:40
Speaker 11: Rugby super Round. It's facade, though is now complete. The
21:44
Speaker 11: roof is that now only days away from completion. It's
21:47
Speaker 11: very hard to see anything that needs doing though From
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Speaker 11: the ground level Project director Kent Summerfield tells us that
21:53
Speaker 11: preparations for the field of play are now in full swing.
21:56
Speaker 11: He says the subgrade for the southern part of the
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Speaker 11: field has been left and the underpitch ventilation and pop
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Speaker 11: up irrigation systems are also being installed. He's added that
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Speaker 11: constructions due to finish by the end of this year,
22:08
Speaker 11: and that's when the attention turns to testing and to
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Speaker 11: operate a training.
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Speaker 2: And how's the weather today in christ Church? Has that
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Speaker 2: wind eased? Claire? Wind has eased, will be fine today.
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Speaker 11: A bit of high cloud from this afternoon and so
22:20
Speaker 11: northalleies developing.
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Speaker 2: The high will be twenty Thank you so much, Claire.
22:24
Speaker 2: And Max Tollers in Wellington, which has also taken a
22:26
Speaker 2: bit of a hit from the weather. Are the lights
22:29
Speaker 2: back on? Max? MAXI you're there. Look while we find Max,
22:35
Speaker 2: we'll go to Nev Ritty Marnu, who is always prompt
22:38
Speaker 2: and on time and in the studio although the microphone
22:41
Speaker 2: doesn't work. This is like watching an episode of the Office.
22:47
Speaker 2: I tell you, here we go. They're aretty Manu, good morning.
22:51
Speaker 3: No, no, no, what's going on?
22:53
Speaker 2: I don't know. We can't seem to get the guest
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Speaker 2: mics to it. Do you want to come and share
22:57
Speaker 2: my microphone over? Yeah, come on, let's do this this
23:00
Speaker 2: so this will be one for the social media when
23:02
Speaker 2: they take her. When they film this, I won't spit
23:05
Speaker 2: on you tell me about the cruise ship.
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Speaker 12: Yes, well, look the first cruise ship in Auckland. It's
23:10
Speaker 12: going to be docking.
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Speaker 5: Guess what time?
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Speaker 12: Seven am? Seven am. But we will be here at work.
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Speaker 2: They'll be able to see the eclipse exactly.
23:16
Speaker 5: That's what I thought.
23:17
Speaker 12: Has moved the two So the Crown Princess is docking
23:20
Speaker 12: at about seven am, leaving port tonight at ten pm.
23:24
Speaker 12: Now look it's the first one obviously, but more cruise
23:27
Speaker 12: ships are going to start docking countrywide next months through
23:30
Speaker 12: until May. Now, look the number of port calls Francesca,
23:33
Speaker 12: they've dropped rapidly, down from more than nine hundred last
23:36
Speaker 12: season to six hundred and sixty three this season. So
23:40
Speaker 12: Jackie Lloyd, she's the New Zealand Cruise Association's CEO, she
23:44
Speaker 12: says she's a bit worried. She's a lot of ports, regions,
23:47
Speaker 12: tourism operators all want to know what's going to be
23:49
Speaker 12: happening for future seasons. You know, they don't want to
23:52
Speaker 12: see this continual decline, but maybe seeing this partial solar
23:56
Speaker 12: eclipse at seven might tempt them.
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Speaker 2: In Auckland's weather today, NEVA professionals.
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Speaker 12: Well, okay, I've got to say it's cloudy, so probably
24:08
Speaker 12: not that great for the partial solar eclipse, but you know,
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Speaker 12: all ends shells.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen is the high.
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Speaker 12: Okay, I've got to go because we're sharing this mic
24:18
Speaker 12: microphone and I've just like kind of like just thrown
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Speaker 12: you away.
24:21
Speaker 2: Oh dear, old, dear, there we go. Thank you very much,
24:24
Speaker 2: never ritty money. We are going to head to the
24:26
Speaker 2: UK and Europe next. Gavin Gray is with us. We'll
24:29
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Speaker 2: Right time to head to Europe and the UK and
25:50
Speaker 2: joining me now is Gavin greg Good morning, Gavin.
25:53
Speaker 9: Hi there fran Jaska.
25:54
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you. We've seen a bit of
25:56
Speaker 2: chaos that made you European airports. What's with a cyber ticket?
26:02
Speaker 1: Yeah?
26:02
Speaker 9: Well I think look if anyone from New Zealand knows
26:05
Speaker 9: anyone or is flying in and out of major European
26:08
Speaker 9: hubs that just need to check break carefully with the
26:10
Speaker 9: airlines about delays, particularly leaving. That is because it's a
26:13
Speaker 9: system that basically operates the online check in and also
26:20
Speaker 9: some of the luggage computer programs are said to be
26:23
Speaker 9: at risk. So the main airports are Brussels, Berlin, Dublin
26:28
Speaker 9: and also Heathrow, Heathrow of course being the UK's biggest airport.
26:32
Speaker 9: It's thought is cyber attack has knocked out the check
26:36
Speaker 9: in and baggage systems. They are run by a software
26:38
Speaker 9: provider called Collins Aerospace and lots of airlines have them
26:42
Speaker 9: so they don't have to have their own system as
26:44
Speaker 9: it were, so they use their system and that would
26:47
Speaker 9: appear its new software allowing different airlines to use the
26:51
Speaker 9: same check in desks and boarding gates at an airport
26:54
Speaker 9: has been affected. Now we don't yet know definitely that
26:57
Speaker 9: it's a cyber attack, but it's a hack. But we
27:00
Speaker 9: do know that things are going wrong and many airlines
27:03
Speaker 9: are having to use paper and pen manual check in
27:06
Speaker 9: and boarding, and that of course is taking much longer.
27:09
Speaker 9: I think some of the biggest problems now because he
27:12
Speaker 9: seems to be getting back not to normal by any means,
27:15
Speaker 9: but canceling and delaying less flights is that at Brussels,
27:20
Speaker 9: it's thought around half the flights there are going to
27:22
Speaker 9: be delayed or canceled.
27:24
Speaker 2: And Gavin, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson is in
27:27
Speaker 2: the news again. I've just finished reading Andrew Lowney's book
27:30
Speaker 2: entitled and Nothing would surprise me.
27:33
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm afraid more bad news for the Ryles and
27:36
Speaker 9: even greater connections with Jeffrey Epstein coming back to haunt people.
27:41
Speaker 9: So in this particular instance, it's been revealed that Sarah
27:44
Speaker 9: Ferguson in twenty eleven gave an interview in which the
27:50
Speaker 9: interview asked her about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It's
27:54
Speaker 9: alleged that he gave her roughly forty thousand New Zealand
27:57
Speaker 9: dollars in order to pay off a debt after that
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Speaker 9: and sorry. During the interview, she was asked about her
28:05
Speaker 9: friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, of course, the late sex offender,
28:09
Speaker 9: and she said, oh, I'm going to have nothing more
28:11
Speaker 9: to do with him. I apport pediphilia and any sexual
28:14
Speaker 9: abuse of children. I cannot state more strongly. This is
28:17
Speaker 9: a quote that I know a terrible, terrible error of
28:20
Speaker 9: judgment was made my having anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
28:24
Speaker 9: She says what he did was wrong and which he
28:27
Speaker 9: was rightly jailed. But it's now been revealed that actually
28:31
Speaker 9: shortly having after having said she wants nothing to do
28:34
Speaker 9: with Jeffrey Epstein, guess what she emailed saying he was
28:38
Speaker 9: the supreme friend.
28:39
Speaker 13: There we go.
28:40
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Gavin Gray. That book entitle does
28:42
Speaker 2: actually a joint men. Where about the Duke and the Duchess?
28:44
Speaker 2: A lot of fascinating information in there. It is ten
28:47
Speaker 2: to six, Friend, Chase Good is the government spending one
28:51
Speaker 2: hundred million of cash from the budget on upgrading hospitals
28:54
Speaker 2: across the country. Twenty one projects will get fundings for
28:56
Speaker 2: things like car parks, new trends at loungers, Edie upgrade
29:00
Speaker 2: and labs. Simeon Brown is the Health Minister, and he
29:02
Speaker 2: joins me, now, good morning.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, how are you good?
29:05
Speaker 2: Thank you? Now these new projects tell me where are
29:08
Speaker 2: they going to be delivered by?
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Speaker 13: So the twenty one new projects will be delivered. There
29:13
Speaker 13: is a start as soon as possible. They'll be delivered
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Speaker 13: over most in twenty twenty six and some of them
29:18
Speaker 13: going into twenty twenty seven, and ultimately this is about
29:21
Speaker 13: looking at how we can use our current facilities, make
29:24
Speaker 13: them more efficient, deliver more care for patients, and also
29:28
Speaker 13: to provide a number of construction jobs up and down
29:30
Speaker 13: the country while they're underway.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one projects. As you say, across the country, it's
29:34
Speaker 2: quite a lot. Is one hundred million enough?
29:38
Speaker 13: These are mostly small scale projects. The largest is the
29:41
Speaker 13: new infusion clinic at Menicow Health Park, and ultimately about
29:46
Speaker 13: making sure we use the space that we've got more
29:48
Speaker 13: efficiently and effectively. Look, we always need to deliver more
29:52
Speaker 13: into our health infrastructure. We delivered as part of our
29:56
Speaker 13: budget also major investment in Nelson Hospital, major rebuild of
29:59
Speaker 13: Nowson Hospital. Last friday our signed the new We're Healthy
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Speaker 13: z and signed a new to need in hospital main
30:05
Speaker 13: construction contract. So it's great to get that construction contract underway.
30:08
Speaker 13: So we have to also be delivering these major rebuilds,
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Speaker 13: but we also have to make sure we are delivering
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Speaker 13: for those frontline clinicians in these hospitals so that they're
30:16
Speaker 13: able to be able to deliver that care for patients
30:19
Speaker 13: that they wish to and they need to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sensible and it's good to see that you're
30:23
Speaker 2: utilizing existing facilities, but is this a bit of a
30:26
Speaker 2: band aid solution? Are we doing just enough to keep
30:29
Speaker 2: these hospitals we.
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Speaker 9: Came to do?
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Speaker 13: We have to do the major rebuilds, but we also
30:33
Speaker 13: need to make sure that the current clinical space that
30:35
Speaker 13: we've got for our clinicians and our patients is up
30:38
Speaker 13: to scratch and is they able to be used as
30:40
Speaker 13: efficiently and effectively as possible. So, for example, one of
30:43
Speaker 13: the one of the projects that Fungerra Hospital is actually
30:45
Speaker 13: putting an integrated operations center in place. Currently operations center
30:49
Speaker 13: is spread across the hospital. Bringing it together into one
30:52
Speaker 13: place means that that hospital can be operated more efficiently
30:55
Speaker 13: and effectively. So that's a good thing for the star
30:58
Speaker 13: Fare and it's going to make a huge difference for
31:00
Speaker 13: patients as well. So, yes, we have to do the
31:02
Speaker 13: major rebuilds, we also have to make sure we're using
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Speaker 13: what we've currently got as efficient and effectively as possible
31:07
Speaker 13: to deliver patients.
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Speaker 2: And have these hospitals been able to decide what their
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Speaker 2: priorities are where they need something to go.
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Speaker 13: Yes, it's been that the projects have come through from
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Speaker 13: the local hospital leadership up to as reallocated the money
31:20
Speaker 13: in the budget. There's been a process to out to
31:23
Speaker 13: identify what those projects are and then we've been able
31:25
Speaker 13: to sign that off as ministers and now get onward
31:29
Speaker 13: delivering which is the key priority from now.
31:31
Speaker 2: So will there be more money allocated for further upgrades
31:34
Speaker 2: in next year's budget, you know, because unfortunately maintenance and
31:37
Speaker 2: upgrades just keeps coming on it.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, look we can't obviously talk about next year's
31:42
Speaker 13: budget will be yet. We still we're just starting those processes.
31:46
Speaker 13: But there's a lot of work underway at Health New
31:48
Speaker 13: Zealand looking at business cases for future hospital upgrades. We
31:52
Speaker 13: announced the Health Infrastructure Plan earlier in this year, I
31:55
Speaker 13: think was in April, which looked at the ten year
31:58
Speaker 13: view of what's needed to be delivered or health infrastructure
32:01
Speaker 13: across the country. A lot of major hospital rebuilds. The
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Speaker 13: next three big priorities are Total Hospital, Hawkes Bay Hospital
32:09
Speaker 13: and Palmers North Hospitals. So a lot of work going
32:12
Speaker 13: into the planning for major hospital rebuilds. But as I
32:17
Speaker 13: said that, we also need to make sure we're using
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Speaker 13: what we've currently got as efficiently and effectively as possible
32:22
Speaker 13: so that patients and clinicians have modern, reliable infrastructure and
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Speaker 13: get that care and a time and quality manner.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Minister. That was Health Minister Simeon Brown.
32:31
Speaker 2: It is six to six.
32:35
Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
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32:45
Speaker 2: As Meg and earlier I was mentioning with neither when
32:48
Speaker 2: we were sharing a microphone just before. There is a
32:52
Speaker 2: rare partial solar eclipse happening at dawn today. You can
32:55
Speaker 2: see it between six am and eight am around the country.
32:58
Speaker 2: The only problem is is a little bit of cloud
33:01
Speaker 2: coverage which might be making things a little bit difficult.
33:04
Speaker 2: So this is a clip that it was going to
33:05
Speaker 2: be again before sunrise is going to reach its peak
33:07
Speaker 2: around seven am, with the moon covering up to seventy
33:10
Speaker 2: percent of the sun in parts of the Lower South Island,
33:13
Speaker 2: about sixty percent the further north you come. So it's
33:17
Speaker 2: it's going to look quite cool. It's going to look
33:19
Speaker 2: a little bit like the Apple logo. That's what it's
33:21
Speaker 2: going to look like. But here's the thing. As much
33:23
Speaker 2: as we're talking about this, you cannot look at it
33:26
Speaker 2: with the naked eye. You need to have your solar
33:29
Speaker 2: eclipse glasses. That is very important. So there's going to
33:32
Speaker 2: be a little bit of cloud, yes over much of
33:35
Speaker 2: the North Island, which is a shame. But I'm telling
33:37
Speaker 2: you what the place to be if you want to
33:40
Speaker 2: take a look at this as christ Church, they stand
33:42
Speaker 2: out as the one with the chance of clear good
33:45
Speaker 2: skies this morning. Thank you very much for joining me
33:49
Speaker 2: this morning on Early Edition. Have a great day. Mike
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