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Full Show Podcast: 07 July 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: an earlier edition with ex pole insulation keeping Kimi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and try this winter News Talks they'd be as well.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you and welcome to the programs. So today,
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Speaker 2: in the next sixty minutes, kids are still wagging school
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Speaker 2: despite a government that announced it had to stop. So
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Speaker 2: what's really happening in the classroom, more more importantly, what's
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Speaker 2: happening outside the classroom? We'll have that story for you.
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Speaker 2: In five Liam Lawson crashed on the first lap. England
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Speaker 2: is playing India in cricket and Argentina in rugby, and
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Speaker 2: oh that's right, the All Black's got a bit of
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Speaker 2: a scare. We'll have Andrew Ordison on sport and ten
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Speaker 2: we'll talk about the return of a pop star who's
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Speaker 2: done the hard yards. He's coming back to New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and the government's thinking about minimum sentences. Will have Jason
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Speaker 2: Walls just before six. All these stories plus correspondence from
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Speaker 2: what from the UK, also from One around New Zealand
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Speaker 2: at News as it breaks and you can text me
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Speaker 2: on ninety two to ninety two a small charge of player.
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Speaker 2: He can email me Dickens at news talks at bt
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Speaker 2: CO dot and Zed It's great to be with you.
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Speaker 2: It is now eight after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday, the seventh of July. At least sixty eight
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Speaker 2: people have been killed after flash floods swept through parts
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Speaker 2: of central Texas. Here's the Kerryville County Sheriff, Larry Leitha.
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Speaker 3: Among those who are deceased, we have thirty eight adults
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Speaker 3: and twenty one children. Eighteen adults pending identification and four
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Speaker 3: children are also pending identification. At present, there are eleven
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Speaker 3: Mystic campers unaccounted for, along with one counselor. We extend
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Speaker 3: our sincereous condolences and prayers for every single family affected
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Speaker 3: by this tragedy.
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Speaker 2: So to the Middle East, Israel has decided to send
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Speaker 2: a delegation to Qatar for proximity talks with Hamas on
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Speaker 2: the latest proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release steel.
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Speaker 2: That comes as Netanyah to Netanyahu is set to meet
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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump on the u IS time.
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Speaker 4: I think we'll be watching very closely over today and
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Speaker 4: the coming days if they stay and if more senior
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Speaker 4: officials also join those talks. That will give us a
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Speaker 4: sense whether this is moving really forward with the momentum
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Speaker 4: that President Trump wants this time for there to be
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Speaker 4: and for there to be a breakthrough as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: And as the Osborne's back Baby and Black Zebbath. They
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Speaker 2: came back on stage for their final Final, Final Final
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Speaker 2: gig in their hometown Birmingham, playing at Villa Park, very
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Speaker 2: first time the original members have performed together in twenty
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Speaker 2: years and this is what this is what they said
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Speaker 2: like at least the crowd was a good force, that's
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Speaker 2: for sure. More on that a little bit later on.
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Speaker 2: It is now ten minutes after five U SAORCV.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 1: Dickins and x fol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
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Speaker 1: This winter news talks a'd be.
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Speaker 2: So on Friday our warner Saturday Night. It came true.
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Speaker 2: France were better than expected. We were worse with the
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Speaker 2: all backs scraping pass. Some said rustiness is the factor
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Speaker 2: in the all backs. I don't get that personally. We're
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Speaker 2: fresh off as Super Rugby season which saw international grade
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Speaker 2: football being played. There should have been no rustiness in
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Speaker 2: the players. If there's rustiness, it's in the game plan.
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Speaker 2: And that's another thing, and that is on the coaching staff.
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Speaker 2: But you don't really criticize the coaches these days. The
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Speaker 2: French also came here right after their Top fourteen competition
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Speaker 2: and they showed that they've been playing high grade foot
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Speaker 2: be a footy this year. So I warned on Friday,
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Speaker 2: we all warned on Friday of the possibility that France
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Speaker 2: might be like the Baby Blacks of nineteen eighty six.
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Speaker 2: That was a great old team captain by David Kirk,
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Speaker 2: included many green players, in fact, eleven eleven new players
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Speaker 2: because the old hands have been punished for the Cavaliers
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Speaker 2: to but yet they beat France eighteen nine in christ Church.
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Speaker 2: So this new French side, it's kind of similar. So
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Speaker 2: I'm going to call them the Baby La Blue. And
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Speaker 2: it's not the first time we've been scratchy in the
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Speaker 2: first Test and it's something really we need to solve
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Speaker 2: these days. We need to hit out against ernest, but
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Speaker 2: lesser opposition might be a good idea. And last week
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Speaker 2: people were mentioning how much they missed the Possibles Versus
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Speaker 2: Probables games, which were the training matches for all Blacks
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Speaker 2: but also a chance for the second stringers to have
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Speaker 2: one more cracket and pressing the selectors. And they were
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Speaker 2: ding dong games and they cut the rust out. Now
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Speaker 2: we can't really bring that game back. But I have
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Speaker 2: another idea. Why don't we organize a pre season game
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Speaker 2: between the All Blacks and the Maori All Blacks as
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Speaker 2: a precursor to their international seasons. It doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: be full noise, it doesn't have to be a big
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Speaker 2: money maker, and nor does it have to be in
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Speaker 2: the weekend. It could be a midweek feature at a
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Speaker 2: funky venue like fung Are or maybe even County Mancow's
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Speaker 2: boutique ground and Pokacoe. It'd be a blast. It'd be
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Speaker 2: a load of fun. It will bring rugby back to
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Speaker 2: the grassroots and it might cut out the rust and
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Speaker 2: prevent the AB's having such dodgy first games.
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be kids.
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Speaker 2: Are still working school. The statistics are amazing. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to tell you those statistics in a few moments time.
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Speaker 2: But the government said no, we don't want this, and
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Speaker 2: they've got a fat wire against us. So why is
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Speaker 2: it still happening. We're going to talk to Joe Malcolm
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Speaker 2: Black She's the CEO of the Graham Dingle Foundation. They
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Speaker 2: are the charity that figured this all out. And she
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Speaker 2: is next on News Talks Here, b this is the hour.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Padrew Dickins at X full Insulation
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Speaker 1: keep Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news Talks,
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Speaker 1: the'd be.
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen minutes after five. Some pretty grim numbers around
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Speaker 2: truancy out this morning. Around one thy one hundred and
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Speaker 2: ten students weren't enrolled in school for more than a
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Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty four. Two thirds of those ages
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Speaker 2: between twelve and fourteen years old. Students are put down
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Speaker 2: as no enrolled if their absence is unexplained for twenty
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Speaker 2: days or more so. Joe Malcolm Black is the CEO
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Speaker 2: of the Graham Dingle Foundation. This is the charity that's
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Speaker 2: worried about all of this, and she joins me this morning.
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Speaker 5: Hello Joe, Good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: This is pretty dire, isn't it. These kids aren't just wagging,
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Speaker 2: They are choosing not to be educated for a year.
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Speaker 5: It is pretty worrying.
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Speaker 2: Why is it happening?
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Speaker 5: Wow? It's an interesting one obviously, at least since it
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Speaker 5: is a pretty tricky chime for young people. There are
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Speaker 5: lots of complex things happening in their lives. What we
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Speaker 5: are seeing at the Foundation, and we've noticed it since
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Speaker 5: after the twenty twenty guns, is that a number of
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Speaker 5: young people are flying under the radar. They're just becoming
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Speaker 5: less connected to their friends, they're learning, and their communities.
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Speaker 5: And what that tends to do is that tends to
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Speaker 5: have a long impact normal things like not just on
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Speaker 5: things like confidence, anxiety, loss of direction, but it can
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Speaker 5: have a really negative long term impact on their well being,
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Speaker 5: their educational outcomes, and of course the futures.
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Speaker 6: So what can start it.
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Speaker 5: Is something pretty small, massive impact on their lives.
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Speaker 2: It's not just the kid's choice here. The parents are complicent,
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Speaker 2: So why are they letting the kids get away with us?
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Speaker 5: Young people, if you've got some in your lives, are
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Speaker 5: complicated animals, and it is really hard to replace blame
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Speaker 5: entirely on parents or on students. What tends to happen
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Speaker 5: with young people at the stage is there are a
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Speaker 5: lot of complex things going a lot around that in
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Speaker 5: their lives that are needing to be managed. They will
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Speaker 5: be dealing with developmental, social, emotional, and environmental factors. Sometimes
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Speaker 5: the parents just don't know, sometimes they do. Sometimes there
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Speaker 5: are complex things happening happening in their families. The best
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Speaker 5: way that you can turn this around, or the best
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Speaker 5: way that you can can change this from happening, is
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Speaker 5: to try and engage early with young people. Can provide
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Speaker 5: consistent support about rege and that will reduce the risk
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Speaker 5: of of disengagement. It's really something you can start at five.
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Speaker 5: You can actually start it at four, things like building
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Speaker 5: coping skills as preschoolers, but you can start it at
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Speaker 5: five with creating some fun, interact experiential sessions that help
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Speaker 5: young people stay connected. With the feedback we got during
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Speaker 5: COVID around some of our provo school cadsers how much
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Speaker 5: their attendance school happened. We know it attending here, we
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Speaker 5: can classes. It's a habit that resiliences built. You are
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Speaker 5: born with some inateability, but you you augment that by help.
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Speaker 5: But they're learning their experience. This is not a child
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Speaker 5: doesn't wake up at five and say I've got to
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Speaker 5: disengage from school now. There is a whole lot of
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Speaker 5: cumulative factors that cause that to happen. You can keep
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Speaker 5: them connected by staying alongside them and helping them learn
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Speaker 5: with their peers about why being engaged and connected to
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Speaker 5: their colleagues and connected to their schools, connected to their
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Speaker 5: communities is important.
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Speaker 2: Now, this was an election issue, so is the work
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Speaker 2: that the government doing on truancy working and what could
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Speaker 2: they do more?
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Speaker 5: It is hard to say the stay Obviously, we really
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Speaker 5: support the government getting involved in this subject because it
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Speaker 5: will change the impact of how our next duration has grown.
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Speaker 5: So we think it's a really good thing to do.
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Speaker 5: What we advocate for is working towards community approaches that
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Speaker 5: really really does take your whole community. Obviously, supportive families
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Speaker 5: and communities are important engagement of skilled teachers, but social
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Speaker 5: services and community organizations as well are important are important
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Speaker 5: to We will all create an environment that want to
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Speaker 5: stay connected to and parents support and the government feels
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Speaker 5: as valid.
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Speaker 6: All of those.
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Speaker 5: Things will create a social system that can make this
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Speaker 5: happen for us.
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Speaker 2: Jo American Black, I thank you so much for getting
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Speaker 2: up early for us and show as the CEO of
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Speaker 2: the Graham Dingle Foundation. And it is now five nineteen,
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Speaker 2: so let's be having you. The text number is ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. I see, why don't we bring back well,
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Speaker 2: why don't we institute the All Backs against the Mardi
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Speaker 2: Allbacks is a preseason game to knock out the rustiness?
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Speaker 2: Is this a good idea? Is this not a good idea?
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Speaker 2: In speaking at sport, Andrew Ordison is with us next.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with ex bowl insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kili homes warm and try this winter news talks at
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Speaker 1: be so Inger.
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Speaker 2: Versus India and cricket is over and so we've got
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Speaker 2: the full attention of Andrew Ordison. Finally this morning, good
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Speaker 2: oneing your Andrew.
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Speaker 7: Morning andrewing Not quite, I mean Australia Western. He's still
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Speaker 7: going on as well, So.
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Speaker 2: It's never over in the cricket world. It's all Blacks
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Speaker 2: were rusty. France were better than expected. Actually I expected
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Speaker 2: them to be that good. To be fair. The top
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Speaker 2: fourteen's a brilliant competition. These are good players. I just said,
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Speaker 2: why don't we have a preseason hit out All Backs
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Speaker 2: versus Malory All Blacks in Pocacoe. This is like Old
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Speaker 2: North versus South day basketball versus probable Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: those are the days with they karake. Yeah quite a
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Speaker 2: full on hit around, it'd be great, but we've got
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Speaker 2: to do something about the fact we always study every
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Speaker 2: season with a bad game.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think France really did play out of their skins.
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Speaker 7: I thought it was a really enjoyable test actually, and
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Speaker 7: they were in it the whole way obviously. And yeah,
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Speaker 7: I think sometimes we the temptations to underestimate size and
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Speaker 7: particularly the French, I mean, given their record against New
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Speaker 7: Zealand over the years.
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Speaker 2: But I thought the New Zealand performance was okay.
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Speaker 7: I mean, obviously the three TMO reversals, but there's just
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Speaker 7: a lack of discipline, Like you say, don't think. Yeah
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Speaker 7: they were, they were rusty. It's fair, a fair call,
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Speaker 7: but I suppose it takes a wee while to get
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Speaker 7: into actions.
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Speaker 2: So they moved to Wellington and we want revenge, yes, Cracker,
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Speaker 2: well yeah, yeah, bring on the UTU. Yeah exactly. You
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Speaker 2: forming the one today Silverstone. It rained a little bit
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Speaker 2: and Liam didn't even get through the first lap. And
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Speaker 2: what I thought was just ironic about that it was
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Speaker 2: a Yuki sin Node who forced Esteban Okhonn after the
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Speaker 2: left and slammed into the right of Liam and Liam
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Speaker 2: what the hell was that, yes.
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Speaker 7: Truck and trailer effect in Formula one, is it just
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Speaker 7: that knock on and your loss has gone before even
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Speaker 7: finishing the first lap, So I mean starting in fifteenth
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Speaker 7: towards the back of the grid anyway and leading iris
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Speaker 7: going on to infor McLaren. Likewise, with my teammate Oscar Piatra,
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Speaker 7: it's quite a duly at the front of Formula one,
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Speaker 7: isn't it. But I think one of the key facts
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Speaker 7: this morning, editor is Nika Holkenberg two hundred and thirty
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Speaker 7: eight forty to one starts, never been on the podium
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Speaker 7: and he's there this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so absolutely yeah. And Wimbledon last week was
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Speaker 2: the week the seeds fell. This this week is the
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Speaker 2: week we find out who will win.
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Speaker 7: Exactly it is and well Seberleinka looking particularly strong and
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Speaker 7: the women's draw she's through. Anastasia public Tenkov is through
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Speaker 7: this morning as well, so Lara Sigemund is another who's
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Speaker 7: made it through to those quarter finals. Taylor Fritz has
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Speaker 7: had a walk over over Jordan Thompson as well, and
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Speaker 7: the men's raw a couple more of those games still
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Speaker 7: cut this morning. Is we update you with with all
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Speaker 7: the action from each w iteen.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff, Nice to have you here. Five four. Yes
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Speaker 2: it is. Congestion pricing is coming. More on this in.
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Speaker 2: At Me News Talks B five twenty seven. This is
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Speaker 2: early edition. I'm Andrew Dickens. So Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop
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Speaker 2: is in the United States for a range of meetings
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Speaker 2: across housing, planning, development and transport, and he's in fact
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Speaker 2: in New York right now to speak to city officials
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Speaker 2: about their congestion pricing. And that makes it seem as
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Speaker 2: though congestion charges are inevitable in this country, and not
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Speaker 2: just for the basket case that is Auckland. I think
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Speaker 2: Totalager and Wellington will be in the firing line as well,
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Speaker 2: and the point about them is not just to ease
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Speaker 2: congestion on our roads, but it will be a white
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Speaker 2: lie to assertain that it's not a money maker as well.
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Speaker 2: So when not if Chris Bishop comes back and pulls
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Speaker 2: the place non congestion charges in this country, the question
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Speaker 2: is who will get the money? And I think it's
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Speaker 2: a no brainer that any money raised in a district
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Speaker 2: should be reinvested in that district. That's Wayne Brown's position
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Speaker 2: on the matter, and the legislation that has already been
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Speaker 2: proposed to do that says that, but never under estimate
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Speaker 2: a government's ability to hold on to any revenue, so
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Speaker 2: stay vigilant on this now. The other thing to note
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Speaker 2: about congestion charges overseas is that the cities that have
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Speaker 2: them have alternative transport options, you know, the underground or
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Speaker 2: the subway. Auckland CRL rail project means the city will
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Speaker 2: have an alternative, but introducing it elsewhere I'd like Teldonger,
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Speaker 2: maybe even Wellington would be unfair. And it's an irony
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Speaker 2: that the electorate's unwillingness to invest tax money into public
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Speaker 2: transport means that pressure is now mounting to take money
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Speaker 2: off them for congestion. And you know you can't escape tax,
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Speaker 2: and make no mistake about it, congestion pricing is a tax?
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Speaker 2: Is it a tax? Technically, taxes are used to raise
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Speaker 2: revenue for broad public spending. Congestion pricing designed to manage
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Speaker 2: demand and change behavior, But it's still the government taking
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Speaker 2: money off you. It feels like a tax, and therefore
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Speaker 2: it's a tax. So it would be very rich for
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Speaker 2: a national party to claim in the next election we
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Speaker 2: are not the party of taxation, and that just on
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Speaker 2: arrests only with the left wing. No, they're going to
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Speaker 2: tax us for driving on roads. And you know what,
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Speaker 2: I haven't met any politician from either side who actually,
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Speaker 2: in their heart of hearts doesn't like a good tax.
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Speaker 2: But some are just too shy to admit it. Sid
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Speaker 2: I have a wonderful feel good story for you coming
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Speaker 2: up right after the news. It's a guy who's just
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Speaker 2: got the most magnificent voice, fantastic singer. But it's a
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Speaker 2: guy who stepped away from singing. In fact, he cancel
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Speaker 2: the concert tour of New Zealand. But now he's back
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Speaker 2: and I can tell you I should tell you after
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Speaker 2: the break, I'm going to tell you now he's coming back.
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Speaker 2: So who is it and when is he coming back?
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Speaker 2: That is on its way. Also Gavin Gray from the
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Speaker 2: UK and Jason Walls as Paul Goldsmith starts thinking that
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Speaker 2: minimums sentences are possibly a good idea. This is early edition.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens and for Bryan Bridge, he'll be doing
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Speaker 2: the Drive show today. It's time for the fight that
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Speaker 2: he news ah been a sabbath.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 8: Me already, so's finn a good? Or to forget me,
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Speaker 2: But he's so good after all this time and is
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Speaker 2: the voice of English superstar good Lewis Capaldi. Now Lewis
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Speaker 2: is the guy who stepped away from touring and recording
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Speaker 2: because of a battle with mental illness, most noticeably terrets,
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Speaker 2: which ironically makes him a very entertaining stage show. The
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Speaker 2: old Turrets, he says some funny stuff, but he stepped away.
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Speaker 2: He in fact canceled a tour of New Zealand. But
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Speaker 2: at Glastonbury a week ago he made an emotional comeback
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Speaker 2: to the stage. He came out and he sang, and
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Speaker 2: he cried, and fifty thousand people cried and it was
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Speaker 2: triumphants and his voice was just as good as it's
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Speaker 2: always been. It was beautiful to see him back in.
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Speaker 2: Today it's announced he's coming back to New Zealand playing
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Speaker 2: christ Church at Wolfbrook on Sunday, the thirtieth of November,
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Speaker 2: orkn Spark Arena Tuesday, the week of December. Tickets go
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Speaker 2: on sale Monday, July fourteenth. That's Vast Steel Day. Welcome back, Lewis,
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Speaker 2: You're a brave man. Meanwhile, we played some Black Sabbath
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Speaker 2: just before the news. The band did another final concert.
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Speaker 2: They've done them before twenty years ago. They did it again.
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Speaker 2: They did a four song set on Saturday night at
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Speaker 2: Villa Park and Birmingham and before that Ozzy Osborne came
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Speaker 2: out and performed a brief solo set and it was hilarious.
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Speaker 2: He rose out of the stage sitting down on a
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Speaker 2: throne and the throne was decorated with bats and it
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Speaker 2: was a great gig. Guns and Roses played, Stephen Tyler played,
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Speaker 2: Sammy Hagar from Van Halen played. Allison Chains were there
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Speaker 2: as well. It was a great gig. And one other
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Speaker 2: great gig over the weekend. Oasis is back. They played
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Speaker 2: in Cardiff in front of seventy thousand people, first time
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Speaker 2: they played together since two thousand and nine. And the
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Speaker 2: good thing about that the boys didn't hit each other.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty two to six said be around the country.
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Speaker 2: We go to Janet and Callum prok good morning to you,
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Speaker 2: Callum morning, Andrew and accolade for Otaga University.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the institution's been ranked first for student performance amongst
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Speaker 9: New Zealand universities. So that maintains an unbroken record for
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Speaker 9: Otiger University, which stretches back more than a decade. Now,
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Speaker 9: this is the annual educational performance indicators. They examined course
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Speaker 9: and qualification completion rates, first year attention and progressions are
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Speaker 9: higher levels of study. So Otago ranks first for qualification
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Speaker 9: completion and second for course completion and first year attention.
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Speaker 9: So that's the strongest result of any university. The Vice Chancellor,
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Speaker 9: Grant Robinson says these results are a testament to the
20:38
Speaker 9: dedication of students and its staff.
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Speaker 2: That's cool. Meanwhile, Dunedin's still cold.
20:43
Speaker 9: It is eleven the high today. Chance of a morning
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Speaker 9: shower nor easterly is developing here today.
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Speaker 2: Christ you as we go, clere, sure we are good
20:49
Speaker 2: morning to you.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
20:51
Speaker 2: Does Air New Zealand want more international roots in and
20:53
Speaker 2: out of christ Church?
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Speaker 10: Wow, that's what we're trying to work out to Andrew
20:56
Speaker 10: and in New Zealand is definitely not ruling it out
20:59
Speaker 10: at this point. The Garden City, as we know, has
21:01
Speaker 10: become a magnet for airlines recently. I've been here sharing
21:05
Speaker 10: that Quantus, Singapore Airlines, China Southern have all increased their
21:08
Speaker 10: capacity over summer. Our national carrier has also announced that
21:12
Speaker 10: there's a christ Church to Adelaide route starting from October.
21:15
Speaker 10: It used to run a direct service to LA but
21:18
Speaker 10: that was stopped in two thousand and six. The reason
21:20
Speaker 10: for that at the time was financial downturn in New
21:23
Speaker 10: Zealand's long haul manager, Kylie Migilvray Brown says launching new
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Speaker 10: routes does depend on several factors, including the likes of
21:30
Speaker 10: customer demand, as well as fleet capacity and operational considerations.
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Speaker 10: She says though they are continuing to assess how christ
21:37
Speaker 10: Church fits into the company's wider international strategy as the
21:41
Speaker 10: fleet grows. And it's not warm and Canterbury today, No,
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Speaker 10: it's cloudy here, northeasteries particularly a bit later.
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Speaker 5: And a high of nine.
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Speaker 2: Max told joins us from Willington. How Max, good morning,
21:51
Speaker 2: We've got another baby death, this time in your region.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, there's been a devastating space of baby related home
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Speaker 11: cases in the past few weeks that awful to discovery
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Speaker 11: in a wheely bin in Ponstanby included a thirty two
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Speaker 11: year old woman charged with interfering with human remains there.
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Speaker 11: Then we learned of serious fractures and breaks are suffered
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Speaker 11: by a three month old girl in the hud Valley.
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Speaker 11: She was taken to hospital by family last month, where
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Speaker 11: staff alerted authorities. Police notified us about that case last
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Speaker 11: week and now a homicide investigation also underway after the
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Speaker 11: death of a six month old found with critical injuries
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Speaker 11: at a house at Foxton Beach. Police have already spoken
22:29
Speaker 11: to a number of people there and we'll liaise with
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Speaker 11: medical experts. How's your weather party, cloudy with light showers
22:36
Speaker 11: today ten the high in Wellington talk can we go Nino?
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Speaker 2: Let him man a good morning to you morning injury.
22:41
Speaker 2: So today auckn golfers find out where the half of
22:44
Speaker 2: the Takapuna golf course could be turned into a swamp.
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Speaker 12: Well, yes, an announcement will be made so yeah. The
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Speaker 12: council weighing up this redevelopment option so to improve vulnerability.
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Speaker 12: This is in the north Shore suburb of Milford. The
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Speaker 12: city council's considering two earning half that course as you're
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Speaker 12: saying to wetland to take on floodwaters. Now, this was
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Speaker 12: one of the worst affected areas, you know, that was
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Speaker 12: the flooding of the Anniversary weekend twenty twenty three. The
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Speaker 12: proposed transition would reduce the course from eighteen holes to nine.
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Speaker 12: So let's just see what happens. That announcement will be
23:18
Speaker 12: well is expected today.
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Speaker 2: I think you'll find that the people of Glenfield would
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Speaker 2: say it's their course and not Milford's. Well, but that's
23:25
Speaker 2: another thing. How's Awkin's weather?
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Speaker 12: Fine becoming partly cloudy from the afternoon cold though today's
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Speaker 12: high fourteen. Currently it's five degrees.
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Speaker 2: I imagine congestion charges just before the news. I think
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Speaker 2: it's coming, and we've got Chris Bishop in New York
23:39
Speaker 2: trying to see what's happening there and where does the
23:42
Speaker 2: money go once it's paid to get rid of the congestion.
23:45
Speaker 2: I said, it's going to go back into the roads
23:47
Speaker 2: of the district. Rob Reckins. No congestion charges must go
23:50
Speaker 2: to debt repayments that Durnham Robertson put us into and
23:54
Speaker 2: that of course, Nikola Willis is running just as much
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Speaker 2: debt as ever, so that's one things that shouldn't tarog
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Speaker 2: and get money from it. No, given Taruga Council's spending record,
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Speaker 2: there will be nothing useful for the public done with
24:08
Speaker 2: this money. And finally a textas says Andrew Shirley, Chris
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Speaker 2: Bishop will be better off visiting a city where congestion
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Speaker 2: charging has already been implemented. The New York program launches
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Speaker 2: this year, but Singapore has been running congestion charging since
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three. Is supposed to chart of success. Yeahere
24:26
Speaker 2: he's doing other stuff in New York. He's also going
24:28
Speaker 2: to Texas as well. So now it's seventeen minutes to six.
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Speaker 2: Can you believe it's been twenty years since the London
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Speaker 2: terror attacks? Remember the one that happened down in the
24:38
Speaker 2: underground and they blew up a bus and there were
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Speaker 2: kiwis involved and its horrific. Yes, it's twenty years ago,
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Speaker 2: so what's happening on the anniversary? Gavin Gray from the
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Speaker 2: UK is next. It's seventeen to six, So good news
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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with ins and eye insurance, feace of mind
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business lead into Sex.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray out of the UK, Good morning to you either, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe it's been twenty years since the London
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Speaker 2: terror texts in the underground and on the buses as well,
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Speaker 2: and we've got some bloke who's been talking about it
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Speaker 2: and how it's still affixed us today.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so demark the twentieth anniversary, which is Monday, the
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Speaker 13: seventh of July a few hours yet on our time,
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Speaker 13: but the twentieth anniversary of the terrible suicide bombing attacking
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Speaker 13: three underground trains and a bus, leaving fifty two people
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Speaker 13: dead seven hundred and fifty injured. There will be events
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Speaker 13: around London to remember that day tomorrow our time, Monday.
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Speaker 13: But one of the former head of counter terrorism officers
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Speaker 13: here in the UK was saying he is in no
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Speaker 13: doubt that foreign policy was a driver behind that atrocity
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Speaker 13: and it is left behind it. He described a sole
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Speaker 13: destroying legacy of a rise in hate, he said. Neil Bassu,
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Speaker 13: who was for many years the head of counter Terrorism,
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Speaker 13: said governments needed to accept that foreign policy currently like
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Speaker 13: britain stance on Israel and Gaza could have a direct
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Speaker 13: effect on domestic security. He basically said that the seven
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Speaker 13: to seven attacks was a foreign policy and Iraq driven attack.
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Speaker 13: He said he doesn't excuse it, of course, but he
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Speaker 13: said it led to radicalization and made extremists of people
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Speaker 13: who might not have been radicalized or extreme. It's tough
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Speaker 13: reading this, very difficult, Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, meanwhile, we've got an eighty three year old
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Speaker 2: vicar who got arrested as part of a Palestine protest.
27:37
Speaker 2: Tell me that story.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, so it kind of comes off the back of
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Speaker 13: that twentieth anniversary story that I was just saying there.
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Speaker 13: So at the weekend, the government made Palestine Action a
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Speaker 13: prescribed terrorist organization. Palestine Action seeks to be very critical
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Speaker 13: of Israel, of course, as saying that they are conducting
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Speaker 13: genocide is relicor strongly denying this. But Palestine Action also
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Speaker 13: went onto an RAF base, breaking in and painted some
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Speaker 13: Royal Air Force planes with the graffiti. It has cost
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Speaker 13: several million New Zealand dollars to repair. And the government
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Speaker 13: then acted saying it's prescribed it as a terrorist organization,
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Speaker 13: which means that it's now anybody relating to it can
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Speaker 13: be charged under the Terrorism Act of two thousand, which
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Speaker 13: is suddenly is suddenly much more serious. Even supporting it
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Speaker 13: or giving it any sort of direct action membership of
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Speaker 13: it can be punishable bar up to fourteen years in prison.
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Speaker 13: And today, or rather yesterday, there were a group of
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Speaker 13: a couple of dozen people, maybe three dozen people in
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Speaker 13: London saying we decry the genocide, but we support Palestine action. Well,
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Speaker 13: I'm afraid they were arrested and even if you're wearing
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Speaker 13: a T shirt with the group's name on, can attract
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Speaker 13: a maximum of a six month sentence. And as you
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Speaker 13: said in among those arrests an eighty three year old
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Speaker 13: female vicar.
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Speaker 2: All right, Gavin Gray the UK, I thank you. It
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Speaker 2: is news Talk ZIP. Early addition, it is ten to six.
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Speaker 1: ZIBB.
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Speaker 2: It's a recess week for Parliament. But the government still
29:13
Speaker 2: has a lot of ideas being thrown around. Yesterday morning,
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Speaker 2: Justice ministerpau Goldsmith floated the idea on Q and A
29:19
Speaker 2: of introducing minimum or mandatory sentences for certain crimes. And
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Speaker 2: the government's also seeking advice from Inland Revenue around the
29:26
Speaker 2: tax settings for our major banks. And we've got phase
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Speaker 2: two of the COVID nineteen war Commission of Inquiry getting
29:31
Speaker 2: underway to day, so to join us to talk about this.
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Speaker 2: It's good morning once again to our political editor, but
29:37
Speaker 2: only for another month. Jason Wall's good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. So these changes to the tax setting. This
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Speaker 2: is a little bit ironic since we learned last week
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Speaker 2: that the banks are our biggest corporate taxpayers.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, it's an interesting article to read nicol
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Speaker 6: Willis confirming to The Herald that a wide range of
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Speaker 6: options are being considered to ensure the major banks are
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Speaker 6: paying their share in tax. And it's noting that they'll
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Speaker 6: be looking at but in the next year's budget, which
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Speaker 6: is just a few months before the general election. So
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Speaker 6: it's interesting to see nicol Willis making this move because
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Speaker 6: she's in the past has not been shy about calling
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Speaker 6: out the banks or the supermarkets or any of the
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Speaker 6: big players in New Zealand's economy, because she wants to
30:22
Speaker 6: get this idea that you know, she's on the side
30:24
Speaker 6: of Kiwi consumers rather than big banks. So I'm interested
30:28
Speaker 6: to see where this one ends up.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so am I. But they're looking for text because
30:31
Speaker 2: they got debts, so you know that's what they're doing,
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Speaker 2: Paul Goldsmith and the minimum and mandatory sentences floated yesterday.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it makes sense that this one was
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Speaker 6: floated yesterday after the week of Top on crime and
30:43
Speaker 6: the government really really really digging in its heels of
30:47
Speaker 6: a crime last week and really owning that narrative. So
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Speaker 6: now to hear that Justice Municipaul Goldsmith says it's the
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Speaker 6: possibility that the government could introduce more minimum or mandatory
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Speaker 6: sentences for crime. Is it's expected? You know, this is
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Speaker 6: something that he talked about before. This is something that
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Speaker 6: the government has mused about in the past and to
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Speaker 6: see this forty minimum sentence being sort of floated around
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Speaker 6: by the Justice Minister doesn't surprise me.
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Speaker 2: And the new and improved COVID nineteen Rold Commission starts
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Speaker 2: off today. Now this is going to be a fight.
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Speaker 6: It is, and it's sort of the more meaty part
31:25
Speaker 6: of the inquiry this. You know, the government was or
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Speaker 6: the former government was criticized for its COVID inquiry not
31:31
Speaker 6: really having the teeth, not really getting into things that
31:34
Speaker 6: a lot of people wanted to see it get into
31:37
Speaker 6: this one and this was put back on the menu
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Speaker 6: by both the Act and New Zealand first parties when
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Speaker 6: the government was put around the table by the people
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Speaker 6: is yeah, it is the part that's going to be
31:49
Speaker 6: really actually looked at by a lot of people in
31:52
Speaker 6: terms of what went on to around the sort of
31:55
Speaker 6: the more meaty parts of COVID towards the end.
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Speaker 2: Well, Jason, part might be in recess. But you sound
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Speaker 2: like you've got a busy day ahead of you and
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Speaker 2: I thank you for joining us this morning News Talks
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Speaker 2: there be it is seven to.
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Speaker 1: Six the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Andrew Dickins and x Fole Insulation keeping
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Speaker 2: You just heard on Q and A yesterday Paul Goldsmith
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Speaker 2: a bit of that. The government's looking at minimum sentences now.
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Speaker 2: There are five downsides to that. One, Judges can't tail
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Speaker 2: the sentences to specific circumstances of a case. Every case
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Speaker 2: is different too. Minimum sentences often disproportionately affect low level offenders,
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Speaker 2: particularly drug related cases. You know, marijuana smoker versus a
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Speaker 2: meth smoker. Three, increased prison populations whatever, four reduced and
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Speaker 2: Center for Rehabilitation, why bother and it's questionable whether the
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Speaker 2: sentences stopped the crims committing the crime in the first place,
32:51
Speaker 2: because frankly, they don't give a damn. So David Seymour,
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Speaker 2: the Deputy Prime Minister on this on the Breakfast Show,
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Speaker 2: along with a Q A Case AKC in the show
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Speaker 2: who's hosted by Head, they do good morning, Welcome to
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Speaker 2: the earlies.
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Speaker 14: Jesus, a change, isn't it. Do you know what I've
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Speaker 14: just done is I've jammed the paper.
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Speaker 2: Oh you mean the little one by his desk, not
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Speaker 2: the big one that everyone uses.
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Speaker 14: You that when I say hoskings, I mean literally that
33:19
Speaker 14: the stuff that we set aside for him to make
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Speaker 14: his life as easy as possible. I've jammed as printers
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Speaker 14: trying to fix it.
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Speaker 2: You've got two weeks to fix it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well it probably will take the entire two weeks.
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Speaker 14: Listen on the sentencing thing, We've got Ron Young, former
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Speaker 14: former High Court judge, who's going to be with us
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Speaker 14: to talk us through it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 14: I don't know about you, but I feel absolutely no
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Speaker 14: sense of sadness for criminals should they get a minimum
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Speaker 14: sentence of course. However, however, I suspect Ron may not agree,
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Speaker 14: but you've got you got to write a good law
33:47
Speaker 14: that's you know, that takes into account that that that
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Speaker 14: you know, a marijuana dealer.
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Speaker 2: Is different to a meth dealer. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 14: I'm sure the judges will try the very hardest to
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Speaker 14: consider the.
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Speaker 2: Lauren till themselves, hence the minimum.
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Speaker 1: So that'll on.
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Speaker 14: And yeah, we've got heaps to cover off today.
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Speaker 2: Great, love you to see you, and I'm here for
34:03
Speaker 2: a fortnight as well. Well, Mike does whatever Mike does,
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Speaker 2: and Ryan's doing drive. See you tomorrow.
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