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Full Show Podcast: 11 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: This is the issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca
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Speaker 1: Rudgin on Early Edition with Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving, news talks there'd be It is six.
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Speaker 2: Past five, Good morning, welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francisco
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Speaker 2: Budkin filling in for Ryan Bridge this morning. Good to
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Speaker 2: have you with us. You're most welcome to contact me
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Speaker 2: anytime throughout the morning. You can flict me a text
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Speaker 2: on ninety two ninety two or email me at Francesca
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Speaker 2: at Newstalk zb dot co dot nz SO. On the
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Speaker 2: show today, charter schools get their first performance reports and
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Speaker 2: the results are mixed. Semes are making too many bad
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Speaker 2: hires and it's costing them. So how do we fix this?
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Speaker 2: And as Labour's proposed public transport cap even feasible.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday of the eleventh of June. Trump says Tearan
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Speaker 2: is taking too long to negotiate a deal and we'll
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Speaker 2: have to pay the price. Iran's warned it will leave
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Speaker 2: no attack or threat unanswered. It comes after the two
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Speaker 2: sides exchange strikes.
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Speaker 3: We're really close to a deal, but they keep tapping
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Speaker 3: us along, they keep playing us. The suckers, because you
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Speaker 3: know what they dealt with some very stupid presidents. I
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Speaker 3: have to say that I'm embarrassed to say some very
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Speaker 3: stupid people were sitting here in Belfast.
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Speaker 2: The family of knife attack victim Stephen Olgavy is urging
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Speaker 2: calm as police deport deploy extra officers after more violence overnight.
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Speaker 2: Ogovi lost his left eye and suffered serious injuries, while
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Speaker 2: he accused remains in custody on attempted murder charges.
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Speaker 4: But say, given what happened on Monday night, the horrific
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Speaker 4: attack that we all witnessed in North Belfast, and I
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Speaker 4: think their viberations on ourselve and felt.
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Speaker 5: People were shocked, people.
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Speaker 4: Were concerned, people were worried for Safday, all very understandable emotions.
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Speaker 4: But what we saw uspill onto our streets since Monday
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Speaker 4: night has been nothing short of thuggery. What we saw
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Speaker 4: has been not been short of racism.
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Speaker 2: Houses, cars and a bus were torched during the unreast
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Speaker 2: with masked crowds chanting foreigners out.
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Speaker 6: Please please please let the criminals this process take its course.
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Speaker 6: This morning at Belfast Magistrate's Court, an individual based the
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Speaker 6: court charge relation to what we saw online. Let that
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Speaker 6: follow due process and I appeal for everybody in Northern
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Speaker 6: Ireland who may have any sense of people involved last
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Speaker 6: night to take control of their actions.
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Speaker 2: And finally, England Test captain Ben Stokes and bowler Gus
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Speaker 2: Etkinson have been axed for the next Test against the
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Speaker 2: black Caps. The peer and investigation after a nightclub incident
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Speaker 2: and allegiately breaching the team's midnight curfew. Ironically to curfew
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Speaker 2: Stokes himself push for after a string of drink related
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Speaker 2: issues on tour.
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Speaker 7: It is very very bad timing and embarrassing timing the ECB,
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Speaker 7: so they are seeking further information. They've referred it to
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Speaker 7: the Cricket Regulator who deal with the disciplinary procedures.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on IHEA Radio Belly Edition
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Speaker 1: with Francesca Rudkin and Spark for Business Technology that Keeps
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Speaker 1: Business Moving, News Talks b.
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Speaker 2: It's nine past five, So we got some policy as promised.
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Speaker 2: We have been asking Labor for a while now when
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Speaker 2: are they going to be delivering some progressive, groundbreaking policy
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Speaker 2: And yesterday some good news for public transport users, mostly
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Speaker 2: in our main centers, so you'll be familiar with the
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Speaker 2: policy by now. Nationwide public Transport fair cap maximum of
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Speaker 2: twenty dollars per week for buses, trains and eligible ferries
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Speaker 2: in Auckland, Wellington and christ Church ten dollars per week elsewhere.
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Speaker 2: Labour estimates the policy would cost around sixty five million annually.
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Speaker 2: It's coming from the National Land Transport Fund, which as
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Speaker 2: we all know, was a a little over subscribed at
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Speaker 2: the moment, and it's going to save regular users around
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Speaker 2: one thousand, two hundred dollars per year. And that is
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Speaker 2: of course the aim of this policy. It's a relatively
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Speaker 2: simple policy that allows labor to say, hey, look we
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Speaker 2: are doing something practical to help elect the stress of
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Speaker 2: the cost of living. So it benefits are obvious. It's cheap,
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Speaker 2: it's estimated to increase public transport by six percent, which
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Speaker 2: might happen somewhere like Auckland if for congestion charge kicks in.
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Speaker 2: And it's good for the environment. But there are a
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Speaker 2: couple of issues when it comes to selling this targeted
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Speaker 2: cost of living measure. One, it's a policy paid for
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Speaker 2: by New Zealanders that mostly benefits a relatively low number
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Speaker 2: of people living in our metropolitan areas. Two, can we
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Speaker 2: afford it? And what won't get funded from the National
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Speaker 2: Land Transport Fund now to allow city slickers to get
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Speaker 2: their highly subsidized bus trips, and three is sixty five
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Speaker 2: million annually actually enough. So it's not the most inspiring
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Speaker 2: start to Labour's new policy drops and it feels very
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Speaker 2: much aimed at buying votes in Auckland and maybe those
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Speaker 2: in Wellington and christ Church. But there are questions to
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Speaker 2: answer around its feasibility. But it does give us a
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Speaker 2: sense of what to expect from Labour's campaign policy that's
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Speaker 2: easy to explain and aimed squeally at household budgets. I
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Speaker 2: think that's we should expect anyway, Did it rock your boat?
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Speaker 7: Let me know?
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Speaker 2: Ninety two ninety two is the text you're.
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Speaker 1: With early edition the news you need this morning and
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Speaker 1: the in depth analysis earlier edition with Francesca Rudkin and
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Speaker 1: Spark for Business Technology that keeps Business Moving, News Talks
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Speaker 1: that b.
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Speaker 2: It's thirteen past. Five charter schools have released to their
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Speaker 2: first performance reports, and the results are mixed. Three of
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Speaker 2: the seven schools missed one or more of their targets.
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Speaker 2: Those targets include ninety five percent NCAA Level two achievement,
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Speaker 2: eighty percent of students working at curriculum level and eighty
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Speaker 2: percent regular attendance. But while some schools are falling short
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Speaker 2: of their goals, others are beating them, which is good news.
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Speaker 2: Chris Abercrombie, the PPTA president, joins me. Now, good morning, Chris,
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Speaker 2: thanks for your time.
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Speaker 8: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: What did you make of the numbers the reports?
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Speaker 8: Well, I just wanted to clarify something. So they actually
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Speaker 8: don't have eighty percent attendant. Each school's got their own
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Speaker 8: attendance goal. I think one of them was sixty percent
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Speaker 8: and they didn't hit that, So, you know, I just
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Speaker 8: really hope Minister Seymows is forgiving of other schools, safe
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Speaker 8: schools that don't meet their higher targets than are of
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Speaker 8: these charter schools.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what about the curriculum working at the curriculum level
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Speaker 2: or the NCAA level to achievement? Would you think about
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Speaker 2: those numbers.
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Speaker 8: There's always great that young people are achieving at a level.
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Speaker 8: We want every young person achieving at the best they can.
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Speaker 8: And but like these are small schools, they're very highly resourced,
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Speaker 8: so it makes sense that that they will be able
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Speaker 8: to achieve some of those results.
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Speaker 2: Is this not a bad start, though? For schools that
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Speaker 2: are starting from scratch and quite often involve children who
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Speaker 2: are completely disengaged from wanting to go to school.
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Speaker 8: Well, we want every young person to be able to
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Speaker 8: have those results, and if they disengage, want their local
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Speaker 8: school to be able to do that. So, you know,
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Speaker 8: local schools are more equipped to deal with some of
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Speaker 8: these issues. They've had a longer time, they've got networks,
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Speaker 8: they've got understandings of this, So we want every young
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Speaker 8: person to do that. So look, I'm never going to
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Speaker 8: distrect are the young person's achievement. It's fantastic, but you know,
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Speaker 8: we want everyone to be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting you say that though, Chris, you are
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Speaker 2: speaking to an associate principle of the South Auckland School
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Speaker 2: who works who was talking to me about how they
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Speaker 2: just work tirelessly to keep kids in school and they're
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Speaker 2: really concerned that because we're losing so much flexibility with NCAA,
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Speaker 2: it's going to get even harder. Isn't it good that
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Speaker 2: we have another option?
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Speaker 8: Well, we really concerned we're losing the flexibility of NCAA.
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Speaker 8: The ministries aren't documents said let these children will achieve.
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Speaker 8: Particularly Maria Pacifica in law, socio economics. So that's a
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Speaker 8: real concern. We've got one of the most evolved education
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Speaker 8: systems in the world, one of the most flexible systems already.
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Speaker 8: We don't need to add more flexibility, more fracturing of
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Speaker 8: the system. We need to be building what we already
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Speaker 8: have because that's where the vast majority of our young
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Speaker 8: people go.
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Speaker 2: The Maria Pacifica Boys boarding school Tipinoy, they recorded some
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Speaker 2: pretty good all the strongest gains. If we accept that
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Speaker 2: MARII kids learn better in their own environments, why is
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Speaker 2: there such pushback on Marie's specific charter schooling.
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Speaker 8: Do you think, well, there's there's not pushback specific on
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Speaker 8: mari specific charter schools, but we want that an easier system.
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Speaker 8: We want EWI. We want Mario organizations to be able
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Speaker 8: to set up special character schools. We believe that's the
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Speaker 8: best way of doing that. We we know that Mario
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Speaker 8: achieve and Maria students achieved best in mari settings, so
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Speaker 8: we want to make sure that's more available and not
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Speaker 8: have it as an almost as a small elite system.
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Speaker 8: We want every Mario should to be able to have
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Speaker 8: that choice.
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Speaker 2: How long do you think these schools cannot achieve their
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Speaker 2: targets before funding needs to be looked at.
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Speaker 8: Well, we don't know what their contracts are, their secret
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Speaker 8: so we don't know what what their rules are. We
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Speaker 8: already know that they've got lesser targets for lots of
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Speaker 8: things in state schools, and so that's the first time
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Speaker 8: we should knew this from this report. So we just
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Speaker 8: don't know what what the what their rules are.
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Speaker 2: What's the biggest issue with LISA targets? If they are
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Speaker 2: quite different from mainstream education system.
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Speaker 8: Well, they're they're they're they're supporting the same students. There's
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Speaker 8: not less you know, there's not less students would need
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Speaker 8: in the state system than there is in this and
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Speaker 8: and you know a lot of these schools are in
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Speaker 8: the same communities. I did find it ironic though, as
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Speaker 8: the French language school only had fifty percent success in
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Speaker 8: French and more success in English. I thought that was
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Speaker 8: quite ironic.
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Speaker 2: Interesting you point that out. I did notice that as well,
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Speaker 2: doing very very well with the with the education when
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Speaker 2: it comes to the English, but the French. It's always
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Speaker 2: good to have something to work towards, isn't it. Chris
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Speaker 2: Well in never perfect, are you not loving to talk
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Speaker 2: to you. I appreciate your time so really in the morning,
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. That was Chris Ebercrombie, their PPTA president,
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Speaker 2: key to hear your thoughts on this. I think, look,
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Speaker 2: these schools are here for a reason. They're here because
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Speaker 2: a lot of the time, well for two reasons. Why
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Speaker 2: a parent might decide that they don't want it their
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Speaker 2: child to go through the mainstream education system and they
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Speaker 2: might send them to the French school or But for
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Speaker 2: a lot of these kids, they just are not functioning
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Speaker 2: and can't work in the mainstream system, and I think
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Speaker 2: it's great that we have another opportunity for them. But
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Speaker 2: you know, these schools are dealing with kids who are
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Speaker 2: very disengaged. I think we need to give them a
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Speaker 2: little bit of time to keep building up. Ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two is the number to text it is eighteen
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Speaker 2: past five.
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Speaker 1: Hererett first Francesca Runkin on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moving, news talks, there'd be.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty past five. The wrong hire could come at
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Speaker 2: a big price tag for small businesses. Seek recons It's
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Speaker 2: costing Kiwi SMEs over nine hundred million dollars a year,
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Speaker 2: so for an individual business, that's about twenty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: Phil Wicks is the director of BSP Advisory and Small
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Speaker 2: Business New Zealand founder. Thank you so much for your time, Phil.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, good morning, good morning. How are you good?
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Speaker 2: Thanks? Hey, how do you know? How quickly do you know?
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Speaker 2: Maybe when you've made a bad hire?
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Speaker 9: It normally doesn't take that long. Sometimes it can be,
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Speaker 9: especially if it's an attitude thing, but generally most businesses
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Speaker 9: will know. Most business owners will know reasonably reasonably quick
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Speaker 9: that they've done something wrong here.
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Speaker 2: So where do the costs come into play when you've
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Speaker 2: made a bad hire?
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Speaker 9: There's going to be things like some obvious things like
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Speaker 9: wages and training and loss, productivity and fixings, mistakes possibly,
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Speaker 9: but there are also some hidden costs the owner's time,
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Speaker 9: stress on other staff, sometimes morale, missed opportunities, potentially unhappy customers.
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Speaker 9: So yeah, it is Look, it's a big it's a problem.
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Speaker 9: There's things that owners can do probably better to prevent
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Speaker 9: those problems, but once it happens, it can be quite
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Speaker 9: a long road to correct.
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Speaker 2: The mistake is the quality of applicants getting worse?
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Speaker 9: Not that wrong, it's definitely. I experienced this a lot.
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Speaker 9: It is definitely getting hard, especially in the trades to
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Speaker 9: find the right people. And often with businesses there are
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Speaker 9: under a lot of pressure to find people quickly, and
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Speaker 9: you know they have work waiting. They feel that they
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Speaker 9: cannot afford to leave the role empty. But the dangers
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Speaker 9: and trying to solve today's staffing problem, they actually create
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Speaker 9: a bigger problem for the next six to twelve months potentially.
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Speaker 2: Because Phil, we're hearing from people who are looking for
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Speaker 2: work that there are just so many applicants for each job.
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Speaker 2: I wonder whether that's a little overwhelming for an employer
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Speaker 2: who might not, as you say, have the time to
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Speaker 2: go through and make a good selection.
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Speaker 9: Well, sometimes it depends a lot of it depends on
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Speaker 9: the role that's been advertised. So there will be certain
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Speaker 9: roles where there are a lot of applicants, but there'll
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Speaker 9: be other roles, you know. Like I was talking to
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Speaker 9: a plumbert just yesterday morning, and he was the first
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Speaker 9: thing I did when I see him. I saw him
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Speaker 9: which he said, look, I've had this ad going for ages.
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Speaker 9: I'm just trying to find it really hard to get
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Speaker 9: in response to it, and it was a good position.
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Speaker 9: He's offering a sign on bonus as well, but he
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Speaker 9: just wasn't getting sort of he wasn't sort of getting
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Speaker 9: any sort of response. So it's a bit of a
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Speaker 9: it's a bit of a mixed bag. But in general,
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Speaker 9: like I said, with the trades, it generally isn't that
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Speaker 9: easy to find the right people for the right position.
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Speaker 9: And that's where the mistakes mistakes happen, is that desperation
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Speaker 9: takes business owners away from the correct process that they
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Speaker 9: should be using.
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Speaker 2: Are there any red flags that employers are missing that
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Speaker 2: they should watch out for.
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Speaker 9: I think I think, like I said, I think the
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Speaker 9: thing is that they they through that desperation, they stopped
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Speaker 9: doing what should be a correct process. Firstly, understanding exactly
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Speaker 9: what the job is that's required, you know, what the
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Speaker 9: skills are there that are essential, making sure that they're
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Speaker 9: writing even just writing a correct job description and an
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Speaker 9: advert for the position, not just doing something generic. Probably
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Speaker 9: one of the biggest mistakes is not checking references and
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Speaker 9: referees properly and asking the specific questions. And you know,
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Speaker 9: I see that happen a lot, and you know, they
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Speaker 9: just it's a process that where they need to be
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Speaker 9: patient because you know, a vacancy is expensive, but the
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Speaker 9: wrong person is often more expensive.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Phil, thank you so much for your time this morning,
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Speaker 2: twenty four.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty six so the Move On Order's
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Speaker 2: Amendment Bill has passed its first reading in Parliament. This
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Speaker 2: is the bill that would give police the power to
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Speaker 2: issue move on orders to rough sleepers or people begging
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Speaker 2: in the streets or obstructing entrance ways. Submissions to the
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Speaker 2: bill closed next month.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: The majority of Autan City counselors agree did this week
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Speaker 2: that they want begging and rough sleeping to be taken
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Speaker 2: out of these posed move on orders. They see the
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Speaker 2: proposed legislation very much as a tool to deal with destructive,
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Speaker 2: disorderly and threatening behaviors, not to further marginalize those who
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Speaker 2: are already struggling. At the end of the day, the
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Speaker 2: action taken will be at the discretion of the police.
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Speaker 2: This is what Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told Kerry Woodham
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Speaker 2: this week on News Talk B Mornings.
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Speaker 10: The intent of move on orders is to give police
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Speaker 10: a mechanism to remove someone who's exhibiting antisocial behavior, who's
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Speaker 10: a nuisance to any community, just wanting to get on
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Speaker 10: and do what it does. This is not about targeting
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Speaker 10: homeless people, as some seem to have interpreted that. This
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Speaker 10: is just about giving the police the opportunity to deal
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Speaker 10: with people who are creating a nuisance.
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Speaker 2: The bill is the bill in its current state puts
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Speaker 2: the police in an awkward position because it is being
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Speaker 2: sold to us as a bill it is going to
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Speaker 2: get rid of homelessness in city centers. It gives the
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Speaker 2: impression police will be out on the beat daily, moving
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Speaker 2: on those sleeping rush from doorways or bust outers, and
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Speaker 2: that all of a sudden homelessness will disappear and we
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Speaker 2: don't have to think about it again. In theory, this
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Speaker 2: sounds good. It will make city centers safer and more welcoming.
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Speaker 2: Respond to the business communities concern that rough sleepers harm
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Speaker 2: economic activity and help connect homeless people to support services.
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Speaker 2: But we all know that the issue of homelessness is
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Speaker 2: complicated and nuanced, and that temporarily removing the problem from
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Speaker 2: site does nothing to fix the problem. The Police Association
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Speaker 2: said it would be a drain on resources, retail new
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Speaker 2: Zealand welcomes new tools for police but doubts their long
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Speaker 2: term usefulness, and those who deal with homelessness aren't impressed.
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Speaker 2: In short, no one seems convinced by this bill. So
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Speaker 2: the move on law may provide businesses and the wider
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Speaker 2: public with short term relief from visible homelessness and anti
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Speaker 2: social behavior, but without meaningful investment in housing and support
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Speaker 2: services at risks criminalizing vulnerable people, fracturing service access, and
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Speaker 2: just merely sweeping the problem under the rug. Police will
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Speaker 2: use the law to move people on who are causing
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Speaker 2: a dis stupids and to get people the care and
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Speaker 2: support they need. But it's not going to work as
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Speaker 2: it's being sold. Simplifying the bill to reflect this reality
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Speaker 2: isn't a bad idea. The legislation as proposed is about
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Speaker 2: optics and it won't fix the issue.
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Speaker 1: Does that look?
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Speaker 2: And we all know homelessness is an issue. The new
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Speaker 2: bill does have its benefits, but I just think we
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Speaker 2: should be more realistic about our expectations as to what
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Speaker 2: is going to be achieved. Oh, it's going to be
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Speaker 2: a bit tough, I think on the police love to
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Speaker 2: hear your thoughts. You're most welcome to text are ninety
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Speaker 2: two ninety two. News is next.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day earlier
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Speaker 1: this year with friend Jessica Rudkin and Spark for business
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Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving, News talks bad play.
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Speaker 2: This is early addition on newstalks, the Francisca Rudkin filling
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Speaker 2: in for Ryan. And according to some new research, this
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift song is dangerous to drive to. Okay, that's
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Speaker 2: a slight exaggeration, but this research tells us. This new
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Speaker 2: study tells us it doesn't matter what genre comes belting
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Speaker 2: out of your speak because well not all you know
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Speaker 2: how loud it is while you're driving. It is the
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Speaker 2: speed of the music that matters most. So they have
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Speaker 2: found that lower tempo music, which kind of makes this
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Speaker 2: all makes sense, anything under eighty beats per minute promotes
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Speaker 2: influences more relaxed, controlled driving behavior on the roads. If
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Speaker 2: you're feeling a little bit anxious, no Taylor, you want
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Speaker 2: party's over, or Adele someone like you. So next time
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Speaker 2: your kids drive up and pick the car and you
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Speaker 2: can hear the music blearing and you say them turn
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Speaker 2: that down. That's a distraction, not necessarily the case. You
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Speaker 2: want to say to them, hey, can you pick some
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Speaker 2: slower music that'd be great. Okay, coming up this out,
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Speaker 2: we heard to the US where the cheapest tickets to
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Speaker 2: see the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs
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Speaker 2: in the NBA finals are going to put you back
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Speaker 2: a call seven thousand dollars. That's just for the cheap seats.
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Speaker 2: And of course we're going to look at Labour's plan
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Speaker 2: to cap public transport fares as well. Do the numbers work?
19:22
Speaker 2: Is it even feasible? Thank you very much for your
19:25
Speaker 2: feedback as well. Good morning Francesca. No labor policy didn't
19:28
Speaker 2: rock my boat, It actually sunk the boat. If this
19:30
Speaker 2: is Labour's introduction to election policy, we are damned. And
19:34
Speaker 2: another here in regards to employers hiring employees dangerous times,
19:41
Speaker 2: they know the game. We have some strong and pretty
19:43
Speaker 2: good practices in place before full time contracts are offered.
19:46
Speaker 2: Once they are given, instant changes can happen. Employees have
19:49
Speaker 2: all the support and all the rights to not work.
19:51
Speaker 2: Employers get nothing, Employers spend thousands on removing problems. Employees
19:56
Speaker 2: make thousands for doing nothing just knowing the game. So
19:58
Speaker 2: thank you very much for your thoughts. Keep the feedback coming.
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Speaker 2: You can text on ninety two ninety two z B Okay,
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Speaker 2: let's head around the country now and joining us from
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Speaker 2: Dunedin Callum Proctor.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, morning, Francisco.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Another South Island event has exceeded economic expectations. Tell
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Speaker 2: us more.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is the Warbirds over Wanaca Air Show, so
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Speaker 11: no surprise here. This is a big event, attracts huge
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Speaker 11: crowds and this year's show contributed more than fifty seven
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Speaker 11: million dollars into the region's economy. So that's up forty
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Speaker 11: percent on twenty twenty four. And that's despite the Royal
20:35
Speaker 11: New Zealand Air Force you'll remember withdrawing from the event,
20:38
Speaker 11: as well as forces from Australia, the US and Singapore
20:41
Speaker 11: due to the Middle East conflict. Despite that, thousand still attended,
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Speaker 11: so it was a great easter in Wannaca. The Warbirds
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Speaker 11: General managers Ed Taylor. He says the success is mainly
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Speaker 11: down to the increase in the number of key wes
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Speaker 11: from outside our region attending this year, especially Aucklander's. A
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Speaker 11: lot of Aucklanders were there, He says. It indicates the
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Speaker 11: value of the event to the whole South Island and
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Speaker 11: it has long lasting effects on the region for visitors
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Speaker 11: who choose to return.
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Speaker 2: And in Eden's weather today, callum it's fine today.
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Speaker 11: A few spots rain maybe from late evening on the
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Speaker 11: radar the high today fourteenth.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much and joining us from christ Jet
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Speaker 2: Claire Sherwood, good morning, good morning. What can Kee we
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Speaker 2: Rail learn from a Canterbury bridge collapse?
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Speaker 12: Yes, this was the collapse of a rail bridge over
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Speaker 12: Canterbury's oft Angitata River due to flood damage in April
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Speaker 12: twenty twenty four and it's exposed some network wide weaknesses
21:31
Speaker 12: and infrastructure management for KiwiRail. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission
21:35
Speaker 12: has looked into it and found KiwiRail knew it was
21:39
Speaker 12: vulnerable before the collapse happened, but it found its systems
21:42
Speaker 12: did not adequately translate known risks into operational controls.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 12: The Commission has made three recommendations to KIMI Rail in
21:50
Speaker 12: this report, covering inspection and audit compliance, risk based assessment management,
21:55
Speaker 12: and also reviewing trigger action response plans. It says there
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Speaker 12: are lessons for rail infrastructure nationwide as severe weather becomes
22:03
Speaker 12: more frequent. And the weather today, Claire well a very
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Speaker 12: frosty start, but clearing to fines and cloud developing later
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Speaker 12: in the day. Northeasterlies and the high should be twelve degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Adam Cooper is in Wellington. Good morning, Adam, morning, Okay.
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Speaker 2: Councilors in Wellington say that they've been sold broken promises
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Speaker 2: around the new water entity.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so we do have a new collective water entity
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Speaker 13: beginning next month tiaki y. Unlike the previous Wellington water model,
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Speaker 13: this new entity owns all the assets, allowing it to
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Speaker 13: borrow more to get on top of the aging infrastructure.
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Speaker 13: But the posts reporting this morning that mayors and councilors
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Speaker 13: in our claiming it was all sold to them on
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Speaker 13: an ill considered plan. That've been told the only way
22:41
Speaker 13: to limit the first few years on tiaqi wise bills
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Speaker 13: to residents was for councils to keep four hundred million
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Speaker 13: dollars borrowing capacity aside for the next ten years as
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Speaker 13: a rainy day fund for any unforeseen major failure. Of course,
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Speaker 13: council is very much cash strapped already. Regional Counselor Roz
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Speaker 13: Connolly says this differs from what that was sold at
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Speaker 13: the beginning, as the government said the entity would be
23:03
Speaker 13: financially separate from councils, but the goalposts have shifted and
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Speaker 13: potty to a mayor. Anita Baker says, needing this borrowing
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Speaker 13: capacity has come out of the blue. Local Government Minister
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Speaker 13: Simon Watts, though, says financial separation or balance sheet separation,
23:17
Speaker 13: was not mandatory. The government had agreed to deal with
23:20
Speaker 13: the local government funding agency that didn't need this balance
23:23
Speaker 13: sheet separation. So bit a controversy leading up to this new.
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Speaker 2: Model and Wellington's weather today, Adam.
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Speaker 13: Frosty start this morning, but then a fine day head
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Speaker 13: and a high fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, neither Ritty money. Who is in
23:34
Speaker 2: the Auckland studio and she joins me now, good morning,
23:37
Speaker 2: good morning. So a trip to Ponzimby might cost you
23:39
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
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Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. Look the side streets around Ponsonby Road. There's
23:43
Speaker 5: set to change to paid parking. But this is not
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Speaker 5: going to happen during the evenings now. The Way to
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Speaker 5: Massar Local Board is backing changes these changes proposed by
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Speaker 5: Auckland Transport, but after public pushback, the evenings will remain free.
23:59
Speaker 5: So here that's Alex Bonham. She says that there isn't
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Speaker 5: a lot of off street parking and ponds and by
24:05
Speaker 5: so she says introducing the paid parking on side streets hopefully,
24:08
Speaker 5: and she was that there's going to be some spaces
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Speaker 5: during the day. She's also saying obviously there has been
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Speaker 5: pushed back on the evening aspect, which may hurt local businesses.
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Speaker 7: But I don't think.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we pay for parking in the evening
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Speaker 2: in many places. I mean, you don't play for it
24:21
Speaker 2: in the city there, I don't don't after the city.
24:27
Speaker 2: I don't know some of the places you do. I mean,
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Speaker 2: is this I'm surprised they don't have some parking paid
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Speaker 2: park at this point.
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Speaker 5: I mean they do during the day, but but I
24:38
Speaker 5: mean this is just for evenings, I suppose, just so
24:41
Speaker 5: evenings are not going I think that's the thing because
24:43
Speaker 5: if people were and during those side series of they're
24:46
Speaker 5: going to cafes and things like that, they're just going
24:48
Speaker 5: to hurt them.
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Speaker 2: Just to bore the rest of the country about this,
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Speaker 2: it's ponds is filled with tiny streets and no one
24:52
Speaker 2: has in the off street parking. She's just going to
24:54
Speaker 2: be filled with anyway.
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Speaker 5: So I was driving down there the other day only
24:58
Speaker 5: last week, trying to find a park on those and
25:01
Speaker 5: thinking what.
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Speaker 8: Were you doing?
25:03
Speaker 5: I should have just walked from home of cour on
25:05
Speaker 5: a scooter like everyone else.
25:07
Speaker 2: What's the weather today?
25:08
Speaker 5: Fine but cloudy this morning? Oh I feel down now
25:10
Speaker 5: after talking to you. Fifteen is the high yere in Auckland,
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Speaker 5: Fine and frosty.
25:14
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26:16
Speaker 3: So?
26:17
Speaker 2: Look, Trump is threatening more strikes on Iran. Where are
26:19
Speaker 2: the peace talks at?
26:21
Speaker 14: No, It's hard to know, isn't it. Donald Trump has
26:23
Speaker 14: held a press conference in the White House in the
26:25
Speaker 14: last ninety minutes. He was speaking of Iran and he
26:27
Speaker 14: says we're going to hit them hard again today. And
26:30
Speaker 14: that comes a day after Donald Trump said that a
26:32
Speaker 14: peace deal was imminent. According to seeing In as of yesterday,
26:36
Speaker 14: Donald Trump has suggested a deal is close thirty seven
26:39
Speaker 14: times since the start of the conflict. But more missile
26:42
Speaker 14: strikes or more strikes have been taking place in the
26:44
Speaker 14: last twenty four hours. Are very hard to know where
26:46
Speaker 14: things stand. It seems no deal is about to be signed,
26:50
Speaker 14: as we may have thought it would be yesterday.
26:51
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, if you want to go and watch the
26:54
Speaker 2: NBA Basketball Finals in New York City, it's kind of
26:58
Speaker 2: cost a bit, isn't it.
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Speaker 14: Well, it's fine for me. You know, journalists get paid
27:01
Speaker 14: a lot of money, so it's no problem there. But
27:04
Speaker 14: I have to say, I've been here in New York
27:05
Speaker 14: four years now and I've never seen such fever about
27:09
Speaker 14: anything in New York. It's such a diversity, it's so populated,
27:11
Speaker 14: so it's rare that a single thing brings so many
27:14
Speaker 14: people together. But the street parties every year, the bars
27:16
Speaker 14: are packed. A real vibe in New York at the moment.
27:19
Speaker 14: But if you want to go to Game four tonight,
27:21
Speaker 14: it's going to cost you. I had to look a
27:22
Speaker 14: couple of minutes ago. The cheapest ticket and the back
27:25
Speaker 14: of the stadium at Madison Square Garden is seven seven
27:28
Speaker 14: hundred New Zealand dollars. But if you want to sit
27:30
Speaker 14: in the VIP section that's behind the celebrities court side,
27:34
Speaker 14: it's currently selling on the resale market for one hundred
27:37
Speaker 14: and eighty five thousand dollars a ticket. That is three
27:39
Speaker 14: hundred and eighteen thousand New Zealand dollars for a ticket
27:42
Speaker 14: to a game that lasts about three hours.
27:44
Speaker 2: I think I'll just get the TV. Sup, Who is
27:47
Speaker 2: at you and me?
27:47
Speaker 7: Both?
27:48
Speaker 3: Yeah?
27:48
Speaker 2: There we go much love you to catch up with you.
27:50
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time this morning. It
27:52
Speaker 2: is eleven to six.
27:55
Speaker 1: Zibby Right.
27:56
Speaker 2: Labour's finally put some policy on the table. It wants
27:59
Speaker 2: to cat public trends. Bought fairs at twenty dollars a
28:01
Speaker 2: week in the main centers and just ten dollars a
28:02
Speaker 2: week out everywhere else. The price tag sixty five million,
28:06
Speaker 2: funded from about one percent of the National Land Transport Fund.
28:09
Speaker 2: Bruce ware is the Independent Urban is an independent urban
28:12
Speaker 2: planner and strategic development expert, and he joins me, now, good.
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Speaker 15: Morning Groce, Good morning Francesca.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so from an urban planning perspective, is this feasible?
28:23
Speaker 2: Does that amount some right to you?
28:26
Speaker 15: Yeah? Yeah, it sounds about right and in yes, it's feasible.
28:29
Speaker 3: I mean it's a.
28:31
Speaker 15: There's sort of embarking on something that's got a great
28:34
Speaker 15: headline number, but it's a very slow burn in terms
28:38
Speaker 15: of benefit. But hey, look every little bit makes a difference, right.
28:43
Speaker 2: How slow would it burn? How quickly? Because they're anticipating
28:46
Speaker 2: six percent added, you know, patronage on public transport. How
28:52
Speaker 2: long would that take do you think to kick in?
28:54
Speaker 8: Oh, look, it's.
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Speaker 15: You're really talking about help. I I think it'll be
29:01
Speaker 15: quite slow. To be honest, I think I can't say.
29:04
Speaker 15: It's not like an instant effect. I would have thought
29:07
Speaker 15: it would take sort of three to five years before
29:09
Speaker 15: you started to seeing direct benefit. It's not as big
29:13
Speaker 15: a drop as so Brisbane, where they dropped, you know,
29:16
Speaker 15: fifty cent fears one dollar ferry rides, and you know
29:20
Speaker 15: this is so which was a massive effect pretty quickly.
29:26
Speaker 15: This is sort of a lot, a lot more graduated,
29:29
Speaker 15: but still halo adds to it, I guess, and it
29:33
Speaker 15: certainly helps help people at the bottom of the ladder.
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Speaker 2: We have the CRL opening in Auckland at some stage
29:39
Speaker 2: this year. Potentially that's going to entice a lot more
29:42
Speaker 2: people onto public transport. Do you think they've accounted for that?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, look, I think that will have a much more
29:51
Speaker 15: immediate effect in terms of changing people's behavior. You know,
29:56
Speaker 15: the sort of we've worked three legs of the stall
30:00
Speaker 15: and looking for benefit, you sort of you know, it's
30:03
Speaker 15: sort of better, faster, cheaper, and they're trying to tackle
30:08
Speaker 15: the cheaper one, which is great better, and so most
30:14
Speaker 15: centers have been centers around New Zealand and electric buses
30:17
Speaker 15: a lot quieter, smooth, so that's underway faster. Auckland roads, yes,
30:26
Speaker 15: unless you've got dedicated lanes, you kind of it's just
30:31
Speaker 15: a different form. So you know you've got to tackle
30:33
Speaker 15: all three to get those big benefits. So CRL will
30:37
Speaker 15: be quite noticeable and buses, yeah, look at it. It helps,
30:44
Speaker 15: certainly helps.
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Speaker 2: Do you think the rest of the country has a
30:47
Speaker 2: bit of an issue with this, you know, potentially not
30:50
Speaker 2: wanting to pay for main centers to have a highly
30:52
Speaker 2: subsidized bus trip.
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Speaker 15: It's a tricky one, you know, like one hundred million,
30:58
Speaker 15: sixty million doesn't go very far in roading. It sounds
31:03
Speaker 15: like a great big number and everybody jumps up and
31:05
Speaker 15: down about it, but you can think, you know, we
31:08
Speaker 15: do projects were build the main road and the road
31:12
Speaker 15: costs not far from that for a single project, which
31:15
Speaker 15: sounds terrible, but you know, bang for buck. It's if
31:20
Speaker 15: you sunk it into the roads network, it would see
31:24
Speaker 15: be distributed pretty quickly. And you wouldn't see a a
31:27
Speaker 15: lot of benefit for it. So and look, if you
31:31
Speaker 15: can get twenty thirty thousand households better off by doing this,
31:35
Speaker 15: it's probably it's probably a reasonable investment. I there's other
31:43
Speaker 15: ones I think that you would probably push a bit
31:45
Speaker 15: harder on that would give a better bang for buck.
31:51
Speaker 15: I just think, you know, continuing through, Look, I'm not
31:55
Speaker 15: a huge cyclist a walker, but if you can get
31:58
Speaker 15: people walking shorter distances, increasing the frequency of buses dedicated
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Speaker 15: bus lanes probably have a better better outcome than dropping fares,
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Speaker 15: you know, that's the way I'd be heading.
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Speaker 2: Better services and a better run public service.
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Speaker 15: Then I guess the one thing I would say is
32:22
Speaker 15: that you probably get savings in terms of admin if
32:26
Speaker 15: you can simplify the admin, get rid of bryucracy, and
32:30
Speaker 15: then it's the same push of the government's trying to
32:32
Speaker 15: do with healthcare. If you can get money to the
32:35
Speaker 15: front line where it counts, there's a lot better saving
32:40
Speaker 15: than just through the one benefit that you can't really
32:44
Speaker 15: quantify us how much you save in accounting and admin
32:47
Speaker 15: costs simplifying it all down. So yeah, look, that's that's
32:54
Speaker 15: the analogy for most people just make it simple, yeah,
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Speaker 15: and pay simple prices, not edding twenty five cents or something.
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Speaker 15: So to each fear because the account would say, so.
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Speaker 8: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Bruce, really love you to talk to you this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 16: We're going to talk about the labor policy. We called
33:34
Speaker 16: it right yesterday. We predicted it would be cheaper public
33:37
Speaker 16: transport and so bang on. And that's probably not a
33:39
Speaker 16: good sign for labour because boy are they predictable or what? Also,
33:43
Speaker 16: this housing slump that we're in well turn into the
33:47
Speaker 16: longest on record in about six months time.
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Speaker 2: Fascinate, isn't it interesting? I'm very much looking forward to that.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Heather is up next. Thanks for
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