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Full Show Podcast: 19 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with one Root Love where you Live
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Speaker 1: News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six after five GDP
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Speaker 2: day today. We'll head to Westpac. We've got employment numbers
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Speaker 2: from Seek for you. We'll go to Washington's Senate hearings
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Speaker 2: underway there and Westport Whale route is Gonski. We'll ask
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Speaker 2: why the agenda. Thursday, the nineteenth of March. Israel's hunting
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Speaker 2: Iranian leaders is in their hideouts and taking them out
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Speaker 2: one by one. They've got the intelligence minister overnight.
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Speaker 3: This is meant to enable the brave people of Iran
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Speaker 3: to celebrate the Festival of Fire. So celebrate and happy
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Speaker 3: in orders. We're watching from above.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Trump's pick to run this is in the US Homeland
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Speaker 2: Security Mark Wwayne Mullen is his name replaced Tulsey Gabbard.
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Speaker 2: He's getting grilled in the Senate.
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Speaker 5: I don't believe in political violence. I've made that very clear,
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Speaker 5: but sometimes theoretically speaking, this sir, I get it. It's
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Speaker 5: about character assassination. For you, that's the way this game
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Speaker 5: is played. Understand it. And you are making this about you,
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Speaker 5: which is fine, but that doesn't keep me as soxscascination
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Speaker 5: when you are the one lighting the assault.
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Speaker 2: All right, settle down, separate hearing underway on Capital Hell.
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Speaker 2: Will the Russians or Iran or anyone else meddle in
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Speaker 2: the midterms?
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Speaker 6: Are you saying there is no foreign threat to our
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Speaker 6: elections in the midterms this year?
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Speaker 7: As I stated in the outset of my remarks, this
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Speaker 7: year's annual Threat Assessment matches the prioritization of threats and.
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Speaker 1: Answer the question yes or no?
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Speaker 6: Is there foreign threat interference to our elections?
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Speaker 8: As she laid out, are there foreign please allow me
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Speaker 8: to answer the questions.
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Speaker 2: Seems like that was useful. Let's go to Australia. Kyle
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Speaker 2: and Jackie Oh, this is the Sydney They were then
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Speaker 2: syndicated to Melbourne Radio show Music radio show, but a
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Speaker 2: lot of talking and a lot of content in there
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Speaker 2: as well. Kyl Sandalan's has had his contract terminated by
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Speaker 2: ARN after an on air row with Jackie O last month.
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Speaker 2: Now both hosts a threatening legal election.
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Speaker 6: Oh sand Lands is going on about these hundred billion
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Speaker 6: dollar contract i'lean my.
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Speaker 2: God forgive me here he is again quite a lot
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Speaker 2: of money, isn't it.
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Speaker 6: Oh sand Lands is going on about these hundred billion
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Speaker 6: dollar contract I mean, my god, We've got people who
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Speaker 6: can't put a roof over their head, and people who
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Speaker 6: can't grow fuel in their tanks to fill up there
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Speaker 6: to fill up their tractors, and he's worried about his
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Speaker 6: ten million dollar contract with Jackie Oh.
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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, goodness, what a goose. Get ahead of
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Speaker 1: the headlines on early edition with Ryan Bridge and one
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Speaker 1: roof Love where you Live News Talks, that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be eight after five. We've got the oil price spiking, futures,
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Speaker 2: brink cruise spiking to one hundred and eight dollars a
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Speaker 2: barrel overnight. I'll bring you more on that in a second.
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Speaker 2: But if you are driving your car and you you know,
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Speaker 2: have the luxury of putting petrol on it, at the moment,
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Speaker 2: a lot of us are speeding, at least they're issuing
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Speaker 2: more fines. So there's new numbers on this. Five hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty eight thousand fines over twenty twenty five, more
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Speaker 2: than half a million. The total for twenty four was
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Speaker 2: four hundred and sixty thousand, and the total for twenty
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Speaker 2: three was four hundred thousand, So it's going up and
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Speaker 2: up and up. This is the highest number in fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: They reckon and think with about the fines I got
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Speaker 2: to find over the Christmas period because I was going
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Speaker 2: just to clip over one hundred and the police officer.
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Speaker 2: And this is not a stationary cameras, this is just
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Speaker 2: police officers issuing fine. So five hundred and thirty eight
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Speaker 2: thousand is quite a lot. I got a fine over
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Speaker 2: the summer and for going just over and it was
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Speaker 2: he told me it was going to be thirty dollars fine.
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Speaker 2: Is that really going to change your behavior if you
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Speaker 2: if you get a thirty dollar fine in the mail.
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Speaker 2: I've had parking fines twice that amount, you know, and
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Speaker 2: I am I saying it's put up the fines. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's an easy way. It's an easy way to try.
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Speaker 2: And if you believe that slower cars will mean fewer accidents,
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Speaker 2: then it would be an easy way to do it,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't it. Look it Over in Australia they have much
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Speaker 2: steeper fines and people are frightened to even go at
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Speaker 2: you an inch over the speed limit there, So six
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty dollars in an immediate loss of license.
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Speaker 2: That's what you get if you're fifty sorry, forty six
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Speaker 2: to fifty k's over the limit, So there you go.
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Speaker 2: They're eshering more fines, lots more than usual. If you
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Speaker 2: were into seeing the Abs in France at Kaha Stadium
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Speaker 2: in christ Church one New Zealand Stadium, then you're out
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Speaker 2: of luck because the tickets have sold out in the
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Speaker 2: space of four hours. July four is the test, thirty
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Speaker 2: thousand capacity stadium and it's a sellout and did it
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Speaker 2: very quickly. The Crusaders and war retars Friday April twenty four,
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Speaker 2: that'll be the first actual rugby game there. But the
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Speaker 2: first AB's Test in July of course the Crusades Wartars.
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Speaker 2: That's the Super Rugby Pacific Super Round, so you have
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Speaker 2: lots of opportunities to see a bit of rugby that weekend.
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Speaker 2: One other little tidbit for you this morning is your mortgage.
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Speaker 2: So fixed mortgage rates are going up, up up. A
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Speaker 2: in Z has now joined B and Z which had
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Speaker 2: joined Westpac and putting them up there what rates are
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Speaker 2: going up and A and Z's have now got the
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Speaker 2: highest rate card in the country. Their rates are up
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Speaker 2: and highest for one year eighteen months, three years, four years,
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Speaker 2: and five years, and good news if you're a term depositor.
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Speaker 2: Good news they are putting those rates up as well.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good, but only for terms of one to five years.
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Speaker 2: Now the problem, as interest dot Co points out this morning,
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Speaker 2: longer term deposit rates are not popular with savers, so
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Speaker 2: it might look like they're offsetting the rises and your
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Speaker 2: mortgage rates. In fact, they probably won't be because of
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Speaker 2: what savers prefer. Eleven after five, Ryan Bridge, and you're
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Speaker 2: on News Talk ZB Next we will talk about the
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Speaker 2: government's changes to migration rules. News be back in a
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Speaker 2: second on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live.
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Speaker 2: What news talks had been fourteen after five, So one
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Speaker 2: hundred and eight dollars a barrel. This is Brent crude futures. Why, well,
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Speaker 2: there have been some attacks overnight. Iranian energy sites have
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Speaker 2: been hit and so futures have gone up. And you
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Speaker 2: might say it's a South Pass gas field, which is
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Speaker 2: the world's largest such facility, and Iran has shared this
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Speaker 2: with Katar. So Katar is not happy that the US
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Speaker 2: and the Israelis are hitting a gas field which they
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Speaker 2: part run. However, why would the price of oil go
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Speaker 2: up when you're hitting a gas field. Well, the problem
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Speaker 2: is that it's highly unlikely Iran is going to just
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Speaker 2: stand by and let that happen. So then the feeling
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Speaker 2: is if you start heading their gas fields, they will
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Speaker 2: continue hitting the Straight of Humus and therefore it affects
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Speaker 2: your oil price.
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Speaker 1: Rain Bridge, the.
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Speaker 2: Government's cracking down on criminal migrants and refugees applying here
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Speaker 2: there is a catch. Miss your biometrics appointment and your
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Speaker 2: claim could be canceled. Simon is immigration lawyer, chairman of
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Speaker 2: New Zealand Association of Migration and Investment joins me this morning. Simon,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, Good to have you on the show. Overall,
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Speaker 2: these changes are hard to argue with them.
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Speaker 9: They well, if someone doesn't turn up to an appointment,
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Speaker 9: does that mean they get thrown out of the country.
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Speaker 8: It seems a little bit stark if that's what in
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Speaker 8: fact the paper proposes. The thing is that someone has
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Speaker 8: made a valid claim for asylum. Well a claim for asylum.
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Speaker 8: Whether it's valid or not is another matter, but that's
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Speaker 8: the point. It hasn't yet been decided prior to them
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Speaker 8: even turning up for the appointment to have that tested.
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Speaker 8: They're supposed to go to another appointment in order to
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Speaker 8: carry out the biometrics. If they don't show up for that,
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Speaker 8: on the face of it, it appears that means that
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Speaker 8: their claim is going to get thrown out. What it
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Speaker 8: used to be was that when biometrics are brought in
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Speaker 8: is that those biometrics readings were taken on the day
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Speaker 8: of the appointment the person was supposed to go in for,
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Speaker 8: so it could all be dealt with at once. For
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Speaker 8: administrative reasons or efficiencies, it was decided to split those
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Speaker 8: out so that the biometric appointment will be first. The
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Speaker 8: problem is it was meant to happen. It was required
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Speaker 8: to take place very shortly after the person had filed
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Speaker 8: their claim, which might be shortly after they've come into
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Speaker 8: the country. They're new to the system here, they may
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Speaker 8: not even know where the office is that they're supposed
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Speaker 8: to go to, and they may and probably don't speak
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Speaker 8: English very well. So there's a number of reasons why
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Speaker 8: this could be really a problem for people to actually
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Speaker 8: need that requirement right right at the get go.
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Speaker 2: Okay fair, So maybe there's a tweak that can be
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Speaker 2: made if that seems like it's a little unjust, but
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Speaker 2: the fact that there are murderers and sex offenders convicted
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand among current asylum claimants that's got to
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Speaker 2: be cleaned up, didn't it.
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 8: It actually still can be quite clear because they haven't
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Speaker 8: seen the paper what was really intended here at the present.
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Speaker 8: The exclusion clause of the Refugee Convention says that you
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Speaker 8: can only exclude someone from refugee recognition if they've committed
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Speaker 8: the crime overseas, and this is extending it to New Zealand. Yep, Okay,
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Speaker 8: that on a face of it sounds pretty good. But
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Speaker 8: the point is New Zealand is a signatory to a
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Speaker 8: convention that's been around for seventy five years, and essentially
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Speaker 8: this is a seeking to change this convention which we
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Speaker 8: signed up for. I'm a bit concerned that we're seeking
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Speaker 8: to cherry pick through.
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Speaker 2: Who cares what we've signed. If you've got refugee claims
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Speaker 2: from people who've been convicted of serious offenses in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: and you can't consider those serious offenses when you're trying
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Speaker 2: to determine whether they should get refugee status. That's wrong,
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Speaker 2: isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 8: It would be wrong if there was no other means
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Speaker 8: to deal with them. The factors that there is also
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Speaker 8: Article thirty three of the Convention, which allows a nation
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Speaker 8: to expel someone if they've committed a serious crime that
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Speaker 8: poses a risk national security or a threat to the community.
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Speaker 8: And the sort of offenses that the ministers referred to
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Speaker 8: are those. So why not use that?
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Speaker 2: But then you'd have to go through the process of
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Speaker 2: accepting them as refugees and then booting them out, would you?
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Speaker 2: Why not that that's useless? Why not? I mean, do
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Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying? But this is far more efficient.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get rid of them anyway.
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Speaker 8: What if they've got a valid claim for recognition of
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Speaker 8: facing serious a threat of serious harm, which could include death,
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Speaker 8: and they come here and committed it. If they've come
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Speaker 8: here to cause death, maybe there's a justification, but it
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Speaker 8: doesn't We're not clear how serious is serious. If they've
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Speaker 8: committed a burglary, it sounds like they might actually face expulsion,
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Speaker 8: exclusion from refugee recognition. And the point is that recognition
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Speaker 8: of refugee status is I say, something we've actually signed
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Speaker 8: up to as an international citizen. We don't just throw
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Speaker 8: that away or try to get around it.
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Speaker 2: Simon, I appreciate your time this morning. Thanks very much
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Speaker 2: for being with me. Simon Lrent, immigration lawyer, would love
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Speaker 2: your feedback on that nine two nineteen after five.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof love
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Speaker 1: where you live news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be five twenty one. While the feedback has been
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Speaker 2: swift and harsh about that interview. Just then on immigration, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: this is very concerning to say here some unjustifying a criminal,
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Speaker 2: says Lewis. Ryan. Let's cherry peck away. We don't want
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Speaker 2: murderers or serious criminals in our country. Don't accept these
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Speaker 2: people in here. Get rid of them. I don't care
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Speaker 2: if they die when they get sent back to where
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Speaker 2: they come from, says Kirsten. Now there are fourteen. I
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Speaker 2: want to make clear it's not all refugees are asylum
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Speaker 2: seek There are fourteen refugee claims this according to the Minister,
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Speaker 2: from people who have been convicted of serious offenses in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, including murder, serious sexual assault and drug offenses
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Speaker 2: in Arson. This will mean that immigration in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: if the change goes ahead, can take convictions for crimes
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Speaker 2: committed here into account when making a decision on that claim.
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Speaker 2: Brian Bread, Right, let's talk aviation now, time Air twenty
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Speaker 2: two minutes after five. Westport's losing its only air service.
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Speaker 2: Originally has been running the Wellington Westport route since Soundzier
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Speaker 2: pulled out, but now that's done too. War was the
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Speaker 2: last straw. They're losing five hundred k year on the route.
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Speaker 2: Iron King Aviation Industry commentated with us this morning. Iron
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning there surprised.
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Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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Speaker 10: Really, this route's been extremely marginal for as long as
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Speaker 10: I can remember.
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Speaker 2: So what happens now? Will anyone come in? Or that
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Speaker 2: was sort of the last chance saloon?
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Speaker 10: I'd say, you know, it might be sustainable for sort
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Speaker 10: of unscheduled casual operations, but for a schedule operation, you know,
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Speaker 10: that's sort of a fixed cost. And yeah, no, I'd
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Speaker 10: say it's going to be very tough to get anyone
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Speaker 10: in there.
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Speaker 2: And how you know full with the.
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Speaker 10: Planes, Well, from what I can work out, you know,
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Speaker 10: the weekends were okay, but you know it's a typical
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Speaker 10: problem of midweek and who wants to travel midweek and
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Speaker 10: so you know, obviously when you get a blow about
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Speaker 10: eighty percent load factor on these routes, you start losing
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Speaker 10: a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: Iron appreciate your time this morning. That's Iron King Aviation commentator.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty three minutes after five Brian Bridge. Rolls
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Speaker 2: Royce is you know how those car companies came out
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Speaker 2: and said we're going to go all green, We're going
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Speaker 2: fully in, we're going all electric. And they had a
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Speaker 2: target Rolls roystered of twenty thirty they would be all electric,
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Speaker 2: no more combustion engines, is what they said. And they
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Speaker 2: brought out in twenty twenty two a brand new all
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Speaker 2: EV Specter brand and they said, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be our new big sales. You know, the big push
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Speaker 2: for EV sales will be the Specter. They said it
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Speaker 2: to make up twenty percent of them sales of the
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Speaker 2: goal of seventy percent by twenty twenty eight, So pretty soon,
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Speaker 2: by the end of twenty thirty, we will no longer
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Speaker 2: be in the business of producing vehicles with internal combustion engines. Well,
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Speaker 2: scrap that. The new CEO in town says, no, we're
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Speaker 2: getting rid of that target. Why government regulations around the
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Speaker 2: world have been relaxed, including here in New Zealand, by
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Speaker 2: the way, and custom demand. So if people want petrol,
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Speaker 2: they will get petrol. If you don't have petrol cars,
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Speaker 2: they will buy from someone else. Next.
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Speaker 2: ZIB News TALKSB five twenty six. Why today's GDP number
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Speaker 2: is not irrelevant? Old, yes, backward looking by its nature,
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Speaker 2: but irrelevant. No, we're tip to grow. By the way,
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Speaker 2: it around zero point three zero point four percent for
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Speaker 2: quarter four of twenty twenty five, so this is to
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Speaker 2: the end of December. It would mark, barring any surprises,
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Speaker 2: the second straight month of per capita growth on the
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Speaker 2: trot and it tells you that number does if we
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Speaker 2: get it that the average in common standard of living
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Speaker 2: was ticking up on an on per person basis, albeit
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Speaker 2: from a low base, which has been the problem we've
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Speaker 2: had for the last few years. This is important because
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Speaker 2: it tells you we're on the move, that we've been
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Speaker 2: fighting back against recession. Some say the numbers is irrelevant
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Speaker 2: because of the war and the oil supply that's currently
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Speaker 2: before us, but there are reasons to be optimistic. The
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Speaker 2: Reserve Bank is likely to leave interest rates where they
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Speaker 2: are in three weeks when they next meet, and there's
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Speaker 2: a fork in the road. If inflation bumps, there'll be
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Speaker 2: temptation to hike rates later. But we can still grow
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Speaker 2: at a clip under three percent. Of two things happen.
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Speaker 2: One we don't panic and a self fulfilling fuel shortage ensues,
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Speaker 2: and two we learn the lessons of liberation day. Trump's
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Speaker 2: actions are chaotic and often quickly reversed. We're looking at
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Speaker 2: alternative oil supplies as we speak. Our current stocks are
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Speaker 2: described as stable at the moment. The tariff shock wasn't
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Speaker 2: so much about a direct effect. It was the knock
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Speaker 2: on business and consumer confidence that got us Last year.
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Speaker 2: People spent less, business paused hiring, investing because of the uncertainty,
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Speaker 2: and it blew over. Yes, this is different, it involves
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Speaker 2: more balls in the year, but the fundamental lesson is
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Speaker 2: the same. If we freak out, if we let uncertainty
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Speaker 2: rule our lives, we exacerbate the very problem we're trying
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Speaker 2: to avoid in the first place. So I'm relatively optimistic
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Speaker 2: for me once, shame on you, form me twice shame
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Speaker 2: on me. So much of economics is basically just human
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Speaker 2: feelings when it boils down to it. So when today's
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Speaker 2: GDP read comes out, let's take stock of where we've been.
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Speaker 2: Let's pat ourselves and our business is on the back
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Speaker 2: for our contributions. That number is not irrelevant. It was
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Speaker 2: hard fought. Confidence is key and if we think we
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Speaker 2: can do it, we.
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Speaker 1: Will, Ryan Bridge, I.
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Speaker 2: Think we can't. We won't. Five twenty nine on News
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB very quickly, Harry and Meghan an update from Netflix.
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Speaker 2: You know the ideal that was worth two hundred and
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Speaker 2: forty million dollars apparently is going to be ripped up.
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Speaker 2: Ratings aren't good and here's a quote from Variety. The
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Speaker 2: pattern of selling repackaged versions of the same story about
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Speaker 2: the exit from Royal life is exhausting. Never a truer
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Speaker 2: word spoken. We're live to Washington next and we'll look
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Speaker 2: at that GDP number before six News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roofe Love
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Speaker 1: where you live Talk said, be okay, say it's the
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Speaker 1: last we spoil.
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Speaker 2: The face twenty four away from six year on News
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Speaker 2: Talk said be before we get to six o'clock. We's
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Speaker 2: pac on today's GDP number. You'll be hearing in about
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Speaker 2: that a lot this morning and throughout the day. Also
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Speaker 2: we'll head to Washington. This is from Paul Morning, Paul,
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Speaker 2: he says, on the speeding fines, because the number that
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Speaker 2: they issued this is just not stationary cameras, but just
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Speaker 2: police officers zapping you as you speed pass them. Five
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Speaker 2: hundred and forty thousand fines over the year. It's the
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Speaker 2: highest in fifteen years. Paul's not happy about where they
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Speaker 2: are finding you. He says that he and his wife
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Speaker 2: were traveling on an expressway, so one hundred and ten k's,
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Speaker 2: you know, like the one up north, there's one near Hamilton.
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Speaker 2: One hundred and ten k's honky dory. Happy is Larry
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Speaker 2: off you go and then the speed drops to one
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Speaker 2: hundred But the right I mean it's no longer probably
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Speaker 2: as wide, but it's still a motorway that you are
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Speaker 2: driving on. He says that they got stung just after
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Speaker 2: the speed changed. I actually thought there was a was
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Speaker 2: sort of a grace period or a little grace distance
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Speaker 2: where if you're within COOWI of a speeding sign change,
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Speaker 2: then you would be okay. But apparently not. They got fined.
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Speaker 2: It was only thirty dollars because they weren't going crazy.
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Speaker 2: But that does seem a little bit unfair. The location
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Speaker 2: of them is annoying, isn't it? Like if there's an
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Speaker 2: area where people are crashing and dying and it's because
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Speaker 2: of speed, then sure, but outside of that, what are
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Speaker 2: you actually doing? Twenty three away from six ran Bridge
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Speaker 2: our reporters Jamie for Deneed and Jamie.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: What's going on with the Southland's council regig Well?
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Speaker 7: The Local Government Commission's undertaken a reorganization investigation after Southland
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Speaker 7: Mayor Rob Scott proposed turning the local governments into two
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Speaker 7: unitary authorities that would include one rural based and one
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Speaker 7: for Invercargo City. The Southern regions are currently made up
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Speaker 7: of four councils in the Kargo Southland District, Gore District
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Speaker 7: and Environments Southland Local body politicians have had their say
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Speaker 7: and now it's the region's residents turn to provide feedback
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Speaker 7: over the next fortnight, including community meetings and online surveys.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather, Jamie? Fine?
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Speaker 7: Apart from some morning and evening, cloud northeast lees, changing
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Speaker 7: southerly this afternoon and a high of eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day, Clears in christ this morning, Clear,
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Speaker 2: good morning. You've got details on how this Jetstar flight
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Speaker 2: lost its nosewheel back in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this was a plane that landed from Auckland to
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Speaker 11: christ Church JQ two two five in twenty twenty four
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Speaker 11: and when it landed, it quickly started sliding, went through
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Speaker 11: a signboard and then landed and el sort of came
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Speaker 11: to a rest on some grass. The Transport Accident Investigation
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Speaker 11: Commissions looked into the crash. I should say that no
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Speaker 11: one was injured in it. Investigators, though, have found that
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Speaker 11: there had been a mid flight hydraulic failure, meaning the
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Speaker 11: plane lost its nosewheel steering during the trip, but the
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Speaker 11: captain also accidentally moved thrust levers to the wrong position
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Speaker 11: with landing, which caused the crash. The chief investigator of
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Speaker 11: Acts Accidents, Louise Cook, says the pilots could have planned
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Speaker 11: to stop on the runway and wait for a toe
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Speaker 11: that had opted to go for a rapid exit that
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Speaker 11: that often used before. The good news from this is
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Speaker 11: that within less than three months of this incident, Jetstar
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Speaker 11: had already made changes to procedures around the landing, which has.
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Speaker 12: Made it safer.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather fine?
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Speaker 11: Aside from some morning and evening cloud about northeasterlies developing
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Speaker 11: in the morning and a high today of eighteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, clear and joy Max and Wellington Morning Max,
21:30
Speaker 2: Good morning. So the fairy cost dispute rages on.
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Speaker 13: Yes, the reporter at the Post who's been in a
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Speaker 13: bit of a tiff with Winston Peter's office about the
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Speaker 13: cook Straight ferry project potentially going over budget, has a
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Speaker 13: new article today. So last week it was reported the
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Speaker 13: cost estimate had reached one point eighty six seven billion
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Speaker 13: dollars rather than the one point seven billion approved. Peter said, beloney,
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Speaker 13: you'd been reading the figures wrong. The author now focuses
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Speaker 13: specifically on the cost of the ferries themselves, beyond the
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Speaker 13: port infrastructure work, etc. Officially priced these fairies at five
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Speaker 13: hundred and ninety six million dollars, could apparently reach seven
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Speaker 13: hundred and sixteen million in cost overruns, contingency exchange rates,
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Speaker 13: other delivery costs. So it still all seems a bit
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Speaker 13: more like a possibility rather than anything definitive. Peter's not
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Speaker 13: quoted in the article. We're still waiting to see whether
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Speaker 13: there has been a budget overrun yet.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Cloudy periods with southerlya's a
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Speaker 2: high of eighteen nice one, thank you and Neva and
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Speaker 2: Auckland morning. Neva. A guilty plea from a former Auckland
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Speaker 2: DHB senior manager. What's this about?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 12: Now, Gary Gorham admitted to accepting more than two hundred
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Speaker 12: and fifty thousand dollars in undisclosed payments from medical equipment
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Speaker 12: and software companies. Now Gorham pleaded guilty to all the
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Speaker 12: charges laid against him. This includes accepting gifts by an agent,
22:52
Speaker 12: also disclosing official information on six occasions between April twenty
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Speaker 12: twelve and August twenty fourteen. And it's alleged that he
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Speaker 12: ass of the companies with business relating to the DHP
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Speaker 12: in exchange for the payments. So he's going to be
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Speaker 12: sentenced in August.
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Speaker 2: All right. How's our weather fine apart from.
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Speaker 12: Some afternoon cloud.
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Speaker 1: Gosh, it's hot, isn't it?
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Speaker 12: Twenty six is the high today?
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Speaker 2: Brilliant? Never thank you? Nineteen minutes and yes it is
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Speaker 2: hot nineteen minutes away from six. By the way, I
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Speaker 2: told you earlier about the attack. So the US and
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Speaker 2: Israel been going after this gas field, South Pa gas field.
23:24
Speaker 2: This is shared between Iran and Kata, so the Qataris
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Speaker 2: are actually quite upset about this too, and it's the
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Speaker 2: largest natural gas field in the world, and the US
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Speaker 2: and Israel have started hitting it. Kata not happy, of course,
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Speaker 2: Iran not happy. And now Iran's revolutionary Gars they are
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Speaker 2: ensuring evacuation warnings for several oil facilities across Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 2: the UAE and Katan. So basically America hits their gas fields,
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Speaker 2: they will hit the Gulf States oil and they will
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Speaker 2: continue to choke the Strait. Therefore, hitting a gas field
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Speaker 2: drives the price of oil up. It's now one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eight dollars a barrel. Overnight News Talks, HEB News
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Speaker 2: Talks HEB. We mentioned earlier that banks here are starting
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Speaker 2: to up their rates as the swap rates go up.
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Speaker 2: Well over in the UK, they actually have some numbers
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Speaker 2: on how much their mortgage costs have gone up after
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Speaker 2: the war in Iran began, and home owners they reckon
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Speaker 2: their sixteen A typical mortgage sixteen one hundred dollars a
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Speaker 2: year more expensive than before the war. And the reason
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Speaker 2: for this is the banks have basically been pulling all
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Speaker 2: of the deals and all of the specials that they've
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Speaker 2: had that's been had the biggest impact so far. So
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Speaker 2: that's based on a twenty five year mortgage for a
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty thousand pound average two year fixed
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Speaker 2: rate of five point to eight percent.
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Speaker 1: It's quarter to six international correspondence with ends and eye
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Speaker 1: insurance peace of mind for New Zealand business couple.
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Speaker 2: Of Bennet Herringchapenning in Washington at the moment. Jagru To
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Speaker 2: Dave is our correspondent. Jagruzi, good morning.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So what do we know?
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Speaker 14: Well, first of all, we've got a hearing for the
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Speaker 14: replacement for Homeland Security Secretary. If you remember, President Trump
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Speaker 14: fired Christi Nome over a series of controversies and picked
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Speaker 14: someone called Mark Wayne Mullin instead. And it's his confirmation hearing,
25:21
Speaker 14: so he has to convince senators in Congress that he
25:26
Speaker 14: is the right man for the job, and he's doing
25:28
Speaker 14: that by saying that his goal in six months is
25:31
Speaker 14: that the DHS is not the lead story every single day.
25:36
Speaker 14: These he's referring to controversies under Christie No, most notably
25:40
Speaker 14: the actions of federal agents implementing the Trump administration's aggressive
25:45
Speaker 14: immigration crackdown, which resulted in the killing of two US
25:49
Speaker 14: citizens in Minnesota by federal agents. So, you know, I
25:54
Speaker 14: guess some of the standout moments really so far have
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Speaker 14: been Mullin saying that it was a mistake to call
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Speaker 14: Alex Pretty, a man who was shot in Minnesota, a
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Speaker 14: deranged person, but he refused to retract his comment about
26:11
Speaker 14: the earlier shooting of Rene Good. He said it was justified,
26:15
Speaker 14: and he is saying that there's an investigation ongoing. It
26:18
Speaker 14: was a split second decision. So that's one of the
26:21
Speaker 14: things that's been happening. And the other thing is this
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Speaker 14: clash that he's had with a fellow Republican, Rand Paul.
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Speaker 14: He's the chair of the committee who's holding the hearing,
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Speaker 14: and you know, they've got sort of this historic beef.
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Speaker 14: Mollin had made some comments about Rand Paul in twenty
26:37
Speaker 14: seventeen following an assault that Ran Paul had experienced, and
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Speaker 14: Paul took this opportunity to air those historic grievances, and
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Speaker 14: you know, questioned his temperament really being able to run
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Speaker 14: an agent, suggesting that he alleging that he's got anger
26:53
Speaker 14: issues and is he the right person to lead an
26:58
Speaker 14: agency that's got issues with the use of force. So
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Speaker 14: these are just some of the sort the fiery exchanges
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Speaker 14: that have been happening at this hearing.
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Speaker 2: Right, they've also hit a hearing on Worldwide three. It's
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Speaker 2: anything interesting come out of it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Tulsa Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has been speaking
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Speaker 14: alongside Cash Patel, the FBI director, and the CIA directors.
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Speaker 14: Gabbard's statements would have been interesting because she's been running
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Speaker 14: a bit of a tight rope with regards to Iran. Historically,
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Speaker 14: she's been very against US intervention abroad, particularly in places
27:29
Speaker 14: like Iran, and here we have you know, the president
27:32
Speaker 14: of her boss effectively haven't gone into Iran, and so
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Speaker 14: she has been speaking about this. Now. What's interesting is
27:41
Speaker 14: that according to her written statement, she was to have
27:44
Speaker 14: said that as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's
27:47
Speaker 14: nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There have been no efforts
27:50
Speaker 14: since then to try and rebuild their enrichment capability. But
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Speaker 14: she's kind of deviated from these written remarks which are
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Speaker 14: one Center questioned her on and she said that she'd
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Speaker 14: skipped some of these portions that he referred to because
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Speaker 14: time was running long. But Senator Warner accused her of
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Speaker 14: having chosen to essentially skip over the parts that contradict
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Speaker 14: the President, who is arguing that there's an imminent threat
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Speaker 14: posed by Iran. So this is just some of the
28:23
Speaker 14: testimony that we've been hearing from that. But you know,
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Speaker 14: the Middle East is clearly the front and center of
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Speaker 14: this hearing, which is, even though it's on worldwide throughout
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Speaker 14: the Middle East, obviously the key at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Jagrudy Dave are US correspondent. Thanks so much for your time.
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Speaker 2: Eleven to six Brian Bridge, Hittypter today. In quarter four,
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Speaker 2: that's the three months to December, obviously, most economists expected
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Speaker 2: to land around point three point four percent. The Reserve
28:46
Speaker 2: Bank was expecting point five percent. Kelly ych Old, WISPAC
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Speaker 2: chief economist, Kelly, good morning.
28:50
Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: If it lands where you think it will, which is
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Speaker 2: point four, how significant is that? What does it mean
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Speaker 2: for us?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's actually a bit dated now, isn't it. I
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Speaker 4: mean we're talking about what happened in the fourth quarter
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Speaker 4: of last year. It will be encouraging that we will
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Speaker 4: have recorded a second consecutive decent quarter of growth. But
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Speaker 4: we're all looking forward to see how this Arab war
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Speaker 4: is going to influence growth sort of through the middle
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Speaker 4: of this year now, and obviously that's where the flock
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Speaker 4: of war is such that it's hard to known.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously that's backwards looking, and you've revised down your
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Speaker 2: forecasts I think two point eight percent, down from three
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Speaker 2: point three percent for the year, which still doesn't sound
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Speaker 2: like defeat to me. Kelly, how much of this comes
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Speaker 2: down to sentiment and confidence? You know, when we had
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Speaker 2: the Liberation Day last year and business is tightened, consumers tightened.
29:43
Speaker 2: How much of this comes down to how confident we
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Speaker 2: feel going into it.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it does matter in terms of the
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Speaker 4: size of the impacts. But there are some actual, real
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Speaker 4: economic dislocations occurrying out there at the global economy now
29:57
Speaker 4: because the oil isn't flowing, the fuels flowing, and economies
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Speaker 4: depend on that. I think it's certainly true that if
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Speaker 4: the confidence and the consumers in the business sector plunges
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Speaker 4: relatively hard, then we'll get an earlier and larger impact
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Speaker 4: on the economy. I have optimism that, given we've still
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Speaker 4: got very strong commodity prices, the exchange rates helping us
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Speaker 4: out here, and also we've got quite low interest rates,
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Speaker 4: that we're very well placed, I think to whether it
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Speaker 4: compared to what we could have been.
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Speaker 2: Hard to disagree with that. So what about overnight? I
30:34
Speaker 2: see the oil has gone up again one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eight dollars a barrel. There's gas field has been hidden.
30:40
Speaker 2: Then there's the fair that more oil fields will be
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Speaker 2: hit as a result. Does that worry you or is
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Speaker 2: this just it's up and down at the moment.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 4: I mean this continues to worry me because I think
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Speaker 4: what the markets are gradually working out here is that
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Speaker 4: it's a long road back to resolution of this issue.
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Speaker 4: Iran can probably expend relatively little effort to cause quite
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Speaker 4: a lot of damage, and you know, until that straight
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Speaker 4: or moves opens up, then nobody's going to be eating
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Speaker 4: their taco.
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Speaker 2: Kelly ech Old, westpat Chief Economists eight minutes away from
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 2: B six to six lots of texts this morning. I
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Speaker 2: have to say on immigration after we spoke to our
31:29
Speaker 2: lawyer just after five o'clock. Brian, if you commit a
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Speaker 2: serious crime, you've now lost the privilege of living here.
31:34
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. A
31:37
Speaker 2: country should do what's best for its people and its
31:40
Speaker 2: country ahead of any other. Ran bread Bridge, Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 15: Well, I can tell you what was a fascinating case
31:48
Speaker 15: in Australia that's been going for years and was came
31:52
Speaker 15: to a sort of a conclusion yesterday and these it's
31:55
Speaker 15: the same story as we're having here with immigration. So
31:57
Speaker 15: these guys come to the country, they get stay, then
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Speaker 15: they commit crime. Yes, or there are people who have
32:03
Speaker 15: been criminals but arrive in the country and then so
32:05
Speaker 15: they did lock them up. The court said you can't
32:07
Speaker 15: lock them up, that's illegal. You've got to let them out.
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Speaker 15: They then did that thing with NARU, remember that where
32:12
Speaker 15: they pay NARU billions of dollars and you go park
32:14
Speaker 15: them and NARU. The people haven't stuck to NARU. They
32:17
Speaker 15: put on ankle bracelets. So this was yesterday's case. They
32:19
Speaker 15: stick on an ankle bracelet and they say you can't
32:22
Speaker 15: do that either. So you as a government, you seemingly can't,
32:26
Speaker 15: whereas I would have thought your case, there is a
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Speaker 15: simple case. You can make up any rule you want.
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Speaker 2: But well maybe you can't. We sign well we can,
32:35
Speaker 2: but we signed some documents seventy years ago that protects
32:38
Speaker 2: and so they will go to court and then if
32:41
Speaker 2: they win. But this is ridiculous because you can't, like
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Speaker 2: if you come here and you and you murder somebody,
32:48
Speaker 2: nobody will disagree with the apart from our lawyer this
32:51
Speaker 2: more year.
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Speaker 15: But they're lawyers and there's a case to be arguing.
32:54
Speaker 15: That's how lawyers work. Unfortunately, the Brits are doing something
32:57
Speaker 15: with this too.
32:57
Speaker 2: They're trying to make it harder for refugees and asylum seekers.
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Speaker 15: We're just lucky we don't have those problems. I mean,
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Speaker 15: they don't arrive on boats.
33:04
Speaker 2: No. And also the drones. I was thinking yesterday about
33:07
Speaker 2: the drones. You know, you think about the ones flying
33:09
Speaker 2: over those airports in Europe from the Russians, and you
33:11
Speaker 2: think about the ones having the Gulf States. We're too
33:14
Speaker 2: far for a drone, aren't we.
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Speaker 15: Well it depends where youve seen it from. But yes,
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Speaker 15: We're very lucky to be at the bottom of the world.
33:21
Speaker 15: Some days, you know, some days when you worry about
33:23
Speaker 15: being at the end of the chain on the oil.
33:25
Speaker 15: There are other days where you think, well, being at
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Speaker 15: bottom of the world's no bad thing. Miles Hurrell, who
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Speaker 15: quit on Monday, I wasn't going to speak until next week,
33:32
Speaker 15: but he is now. So he's very much the man
33:36
Speaker 15: of the moment for a couple of reasons. One because
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Speaker 15: of his role at Fonterra, and he's moved on at
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Speaker 15: a time of extraordinary success.
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Speaker 2: Unless you asked Winston. The results the results next week.
33:45
Speaker 2: But the hot word.
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Speaker 15: Is increasing as it seems to me to be slightly
33:51
Speaker 15: more than the rumor he's the new CEO of New
33:52
Speaker 15: Zealand Rugby.
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Speaker 2: Oh, come on, that was a rumor. I agree one
33:56
Speaker 2: of those.
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Speaker 15: I agree, I agree, But Gregor Paul, who I am
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Speaker 15: told is of some standing within the sports department, is
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Speaker 15: increasingly convinced it's true.
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Speaker 2: I think it's art call byes. Okay, we look forward
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