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Full Show Podcast: 26 September 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bands and a play at store us dogs.
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Speaker 2: He'd be good morning at a six after five year
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Speaker 2: old news talks. It'd be great to have your company
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Speaker 2: this Thursday morning. Coming up. Labour leader Chris Hipkins is
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Speaker 2: with us from the UK Labour's plans to tax us more.
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Speaker 2: What exactly are they? New numbers out this morning? More
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Speaker 2: kiwis are now in Middle East hot spots than two
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Speaker 2: months ago. Why, there's also a new infrastructure report out.
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Speaker 2: We've got the details and Mitch mccanner's stateside Trump is
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Speaker 2: currently talking about some Iranian pots to assassinate him. He's
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Speaker 2: got all the details.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: Israel is increasing its strikes and this is in preparation
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Speaker 2: for a possible ground incursion into Lebanon. This is the
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Speaker 2: latest from the Middle East. Some from Hispuller that these strikes,
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Speaker 2: that is, have come close to Tel Aviv, which Israel's
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Speaker 2: strikes have also been far reaching.
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Speaker 4: People here in Beirut who are attends, You know, we've
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Speaker 4: had three DA's of strikes here in Dahe another missile
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Speaker 4: strike in Jia only about twenty kilometers where I had
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Speaker 4: people messaging me to say that they heard that from
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Speaker 4: their rooms in Bea Route.
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Speaker 2: Have more on that in a second. An update on
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Speaker 2: the Boeing strike. Workers have declined an initial payoffer of
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent, instead voting to go on strike. Boeing
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Speaker 2: has now presented what they've called a best and final payoffer,
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Speaker 2: which includes a thirty percent pay rise. The union members
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Speaker 2: are saying, nah, we want forty and they're holding out.
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Speaker 2: Remember that's costing Bow and Bowing half a billion dollars
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Speaker 2: a week the strike. Business New Zealand's forecasting gradual growth
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Speaker 2: out to September twenty twenty six, suggesting we could be
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Speaker 2: close to or possibly pass the worst of the economic downturn.
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Speaker 2: But there are still some challenges like rising debt, aging
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Speaker 2: popular which could impact health and super Those things are
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Speaker 2: going a weigh on our economic performance.
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Speaker 5: Don't really tackle them at some stage.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 3: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing Store.
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Speaker 1: News talk zidby He's.
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Speaker 2: Gone eight after five nine nine two. The number to
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Speaker 2: text we spoke yesterday about southern Lebanon, and we spoke
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Speaker 2: to Stephen Hoadley, remember, and we talked about the fact
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Speaker 2: that it would be very hard for Israel to go
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Speaker 2: into Lebanon because they are basically armed up to the
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Speaker 2: eyeballs thanks to Iran, and when they last went with
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Speaker 2: a ground in cursion in two thousand and six, it
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Speaker 2: was basically a stalemate. And since then they have got
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Speaker 2: this as Hesbilla far more weaponry than they had back then,
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Speaker 2: including a new long range weapon from Iran. So to
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Speaker 2: wake up this morning and hear the news that Israel
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Speaker 2: is preparing for a ground offense of a possible entry
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Speaker 2: into Lebanon is quite a development. So I'm just going
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Speaker 2: to read you this is from Israel's the Chief of
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Speaker 2: the General Staff, Israel's Defense Force. He says that the
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Speaker 2: strikes that have been taking place by the jets are
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Speaker 2: to prepare for a possible ground entry, and this has
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Speaker 2: got his quote that he's given to some troops to
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Speaker 2: achieve that we're preparing the process for a maneuver, which
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Speaker 2: means your military boots, your maneuvering boots into enemy territory,
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Speaker 2: into villages that Habilla has prepared as a large military
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Speaker 2: outpost with underground infrastructure, staging points and launch pads into
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Speaker 2: our territory and carry out attacks on Israeli's civilians. He says,
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Speaker 2: your entry into these areas would be with force, which
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Speaker 2: of course it would have to be. So that is
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Speaker 2: quite alarming, and you can imagine all around the world,
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Speaker 2: particularly in New York overnight last night, concern Kia Stamer
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Speaker 2: from the UK is there. He said he's worried about it.
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Speaker 2: He said that he's talking to his colleagues at the
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Speaker 2: UN General Assembly. Swinston Peters is there. Joe Biden has
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Speaker 2: done an interview with the ABC and said that all
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Speaker 2: out war is possible in the Middle East. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it always is, isn't it. But he does temper that
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Speaker 2: by saying that there is also a possibility of a settlement,
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Speaker 2: so we'll have to wait and see. One of his
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Speaker 2: advisors has said in the last couple of hours, we
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Speaker 2: are working on it in real time in New York
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Speaker 2: and in capitals around the world. So hopefully there is
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Speaker 2: some resolution to this sometime soon. Though if you look
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Speaker 2: at Gaza, you don't hold your breath. And bread Rich
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Speaker 2: just gone ten minutes after five. You're on News Talk ZBI. Interestingly, Leo,
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Speaker 2: our producer, has been in touch with m Fat. Back
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Speaker 2: in September we asked them how many Kiwis are in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East. Lebanon there with thirty sorry, Elebanon there
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Speaker 2: with twenty nine, Israel one hundred Iran five. This is
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Speaker 2: Kiwis in the sort of hot spots in the thick
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Speaker 2: of it now, Lebanon thirty, Israel one hundred and one
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Speaker 2: and Iron twenty. So there are more Kiwis there now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't explain that myself, other than
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Speaker 2: maybe they were on holiday when we first asked. Just
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Speaker 2: gone eleven after five, you're on news Talk zeb.
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Speaker 3: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 3: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 3: beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSZBB, just gone five point thirteen. Interesting. So Keir Starmer,
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Speaker 2: the British Prime Minister. He's now in New York, but
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Speaker 2: he was in Liverpool. We're going to chat to the
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Speaker 2: our labor leader, Chris Hipkins from there just before six
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Speaker 2: this morning. But they are sending doctors to areas which
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Speaker 2: have the highest number of people who are out of
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Speaker 2: work because of illness, so they reckon if you send
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Speaker 2: the doctors to the places that have the need, you
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Speaker 2: might get more people off the benefit. They're also looking
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Speaker 2: well keeping actually a Tory policy which is if you
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Speaker 2: have more than two kids you don't get any further
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Speaker 2: beneficiary allowances. Keeping that policy. This is a labor government
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Speaker 2: in power at the moment, so we'll ask Chippy about
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Speaker 2: those things. Fourteen after five Ryan Bridge, obesity rates in
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Speaker 2: England have stabilized for the first time in two decades.
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Speaker 2: The number of children who are overweight has fallen to
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Speaker 2: the lowest level since two thousand, while obesity rates and
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Speaker 2: adults have remained stable for the past five years. It's
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Speaker 2: raised the issue back here as New Zealand still has
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Speaker 2: the third highest adult obesity rate in the world, with
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Speaker 2: one in three adult New Zealanders over fifteen years classified
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Speaker 2: as obese and one in ten children. It's just raised
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Speaker 2: the issue here of what do we do about it.
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Speaker 2: Boyd Swinburne is the Professor of Population Nutrition ucin University. Boyd,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, thanks for being with me. What
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Speaker 2: is the UK doing differently?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting, you know the UK have had nine
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Speaker 5: years of Tory government with quite a lot of chaos
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Speaker 5: with exit and all those prime ministers and so on.
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Speaker 5: Despite that, they have introduced the number of programs, policies
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Speaker 5: and things that do help to reduce childhood obestie. Whether
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Speaker 5: that all adds up to to this flattening off and
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Speaker 5: perhaps decline as you say, But you know they've put
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Speaker 5: a sugary drinks tax on several years ago. They've had
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Speaker 5: the food in schools and improving the quality of that.
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Speaker 5: They have just now introduced bands on junk food marketing
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Speaker 5: to kids, you know, one of the first in the world.
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Speaker 5: So you know, they have been actually quite progressive in
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Speaker 5: their in their actions. Not the band on junk food
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Speaker 5: marketing will have caused this change in prevalence of Obesian kids,
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Speaker 5: but you know they have been remarkably progressive throughout this
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Speaker 5: Tory government.
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Speaker 2: What do you think is going to happen to us?
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Speaker 2: Are we're just going to keep getting fatter? Like when
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Speaker 2: when do we reach peg fat? Or is it?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's that's a good question. We're we're slowly trickling up.
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Speaker 5: This was a bit of a jump up during COVID
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Speaker 5: and then it's then a drop immediately after that, but
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Speaker 5: we're going to keep bubbling up until we do something
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Speaker 5: about it. And this has changes in the in the environment.
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Speaker 5: I mean, we know what to do. Really, We've been
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Speaker 5: told by WHO and expert committees and panels all over
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Speaker 5: the world about the priority policies to implement, but New
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Speaker 5: Zealand just has not taken any of those steps.
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Speaker 2: Do you think we're getting smarter about knowing what we're
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Speaker 2: putting in our mouths? Apparently I've read something the other
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Speaker 2: day about just how much ultra processed food is in
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Speaker 2: our supermarket. I mean we know this by now, We
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Speaker 2: know that coke's bad, we know all this stuff. Surely.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't think that the fall in childhood obesity
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Speaker 5: in the UK is because they've found some the kids
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Speaker 5: have found some willpower or something like that, because there
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Speaker 5: is a tendency to blame obesity on the individual. But
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Speaker 5: these fluctuations in these global patterns, they're caused by changes
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Speaker 5: in the environment and particularly around ultra processed foods.
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Speaker 2: We can still have a choice, can't we. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we can be surrounded by meth or booze and not
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 5: Well, we can, but what we're surrounded by makes it
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Speaker 5: easier or harder, and we're in creatures of our environment.
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Speaker 5: We respond to and you know, at the moment, we
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Speaker 5: don't even know what proportion of our diets are ultra
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Speaker 5: process food, but government judging by other countries is probably
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Speaker 5: about fifty percent, you know. So these are the foods
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Speaker 5: that have driven up obesity around the world. So nobody's saying, Okay,
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Speaker 5: we're suddenly going to ban all ultra process food's nay,
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Speaker 5: but let's get it down from fifty percent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not a great number, is it. Professor. I
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Speaker 2: have to leave it there. Thank you very much for
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Speaker 2: your time this morning, Professor Boyd Swinman. Ultra process doesn't
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Speaker 2: sound good. It has just gone eighteen minutes after five
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Speaker 2: News Talks c B would love your views on this one.
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Speaker 2: Nine two ninety two is the number.
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Speaker 3: To text get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you
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Speaker 3: for twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 3: New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News talks'd be five twenty Good morning, Welcome to News Talks,
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Speaker 2: he'd be. China has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile and ICBM,
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Speaker 2: and normally they do this within their own waters for
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Speaker 2: the first time since the nineteen eighties, they have fired
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Speaker 2: this thing into international waters. Despite that this is this
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Speaker 2: is a funny part. Despite that, they say the test
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Speaker 2: was both routine and annual, and one of the commentators
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Speaker 2: has said that is very odd, given that they don't
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Speaker 2: do this sort of thing either routinely or annually. So
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Speaker 2: something to watch perhaps. Yeah, first time since the nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighties that they have fired this into international waters. And
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Speaker 2: they also said that they warned their neighbors in Japan,
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Speaker 2: says no one told us. Twenty one after five Infrastructure
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Speaker 2: Commission's got to report out this morning. It says we're
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Speaker 2: about in the right place at the moment, or at
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Speaker 2: least on par with other OECD countries in terms of
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Speaker 2: our infrastructure, which might surprise some people. However, they do
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Speaker 2: caution that future investment is needed. It's looked at population
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Speaker 2: changes and what we could need with a changing climate
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Speaker 2: and natural hazards to secure our infrastructure long term. Nick
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Speaker 2: Leggett is Infrastructure New Zealand's chief executive. He's with us
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Speaker 2: this morning. Hey, Nick, Hello, Ryan, good to have you
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Speaker 2: on the show again. That this is interesting that they're
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Speaker 2: saying we're basically on par and well compared to the
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Speaker 2: media and OECD country we have a typical amount of
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Speaker 2: physical infrastructure per capita. Is that surprising.
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Speaker 6: It's not surprising because we know that on the per
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Speaker 6: capita we spend around about what other OECD nation spends.
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Speaker 6: But it's not what or how much we spend, it's
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Speaker 6: the quality of the speed and what we get for
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Speaker 6: it that is our problem. We're in the bottom four
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Speaker 6: in terms of the efficiency we get from our infrastructure
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Speaker 6: and the way we manage our assets. That's poor as well.
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Speaker 6: And I think Key Wes can probably feel that they
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Speaker 6: know we've got big challenges and water. They know that
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Speaker 6: our roading and rail networks have not been well maintained,
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Speaker 6: and that's really the key. We have a bit of
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Speaker 6: a set and forget attitude in this country where it
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Speaker 6: comes to infrastructure. We build stuff, but we don't maintain it,
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Speaker 6: and a big chunk of what we call our infrastructure
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Speaker 6: deficit is actually that failure to invest in those assets
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Speaker 6: we've already got. The other thing Ryan about this is,
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Speaker 6: you know, it does show us that there are challenges
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Speaker 6: long term and that actually as a country we're pretty
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Speaker 6: low in terms of where we rank on the scale
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Speaker 6: of infrastructure overall. Now, of course these are different measures.
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Speaker 6: There's some good stuff in here. I think the most
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Speaker 6: important thing is that it says that long term, we've
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Speaker 6: got to be thinking about the factors are going to
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Speaker 6: lands what sort of country we become and infrastructure New
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Speaker 6: Zealand's viewers. New Zealand needs a vision. It needs to
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Speaker 6: know what kind of country it aspires to be. That is,
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Speaker 6: how many people we're going to have, where they're going
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Speaker 6: to live. What's the sort of competitive advantage that we
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Speaker 6: need in our economy that we're going to be able
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Speaker 6: to sell things the rest of the world effectively, We're
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Speaker 6: going to be competitive, We're going to be really productive. Now,
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Speaker 6: infrastructure is the means to getting there, but you've got
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Speaker 6: to have a really clear, united by partisan picture, as
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Speaker 6: other successful small countries have done.
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Speaker 2: And we know we know that's going to be But
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Speaker 2: there is some hope right the National Infrastructure Agency is
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Speaker 2: going to kick off what December. Hopefully that will bring
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Speaker 2: everyone around the table and will be come by. Just
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Speaker 2: one quick question for you. Our birth rate's going down.
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Speaker 2: Immigration will drive our population increase. Do we need a
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Speaker 2: bipart as an immigration plan? So that we have certainty
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Speaker 2: over the flow.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that flow and certainty are two very
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Speaker 6: good points where it comes to infrastructure as well. You've
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Speaker 6: got to know how where your population's going, right, because
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Speaker 6: you need to be able to estimate and plan and build.
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Speaker 6: The reason we don't get that efficiency out of our spend.
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Speaker 6: You know, we're in the bottom four countries and the
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Speaker 6: OECD is because the pipeline keeps getting cut when there's
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Speaker 6: a change of government, so the industry scales up because
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Speaker 6: they've got some certainty for the next couple of years,
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Speaker 6: and the new government will come in and change the priorities.
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Speaker 6: What we've got to do is get consistency. We're a
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Speaker 6: small country and a small market. When you stop work,
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Speaker 6: you take capacity out of the market. People go elsewhere,
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Speaker 6: and it takes money and time to build that back up.
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Speaker 6: What bipartisanship will get us as a nation is a
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Speaker 6: bit more security and a bit more forward planning, so
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Speaker 6: the pipeline can be a bit more even, and I
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Speaker 6: think that's what the Infrastructure Commission is building towards. What
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Speaker 6: we've got to do is demand that of both of
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Speaker 6: our major political parties, because we shouldn't politicize stuff that
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Speaker 6: really isn't part political. This is about good infrastructure that
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Speaker 6: keeps U zeal On moving, keeps usial on healthy and safe.
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Speaker 2: Nick, thanks so much for your time this morning. Nick Leggett,
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Speaker 2: who is with US Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive, Twenty
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Speaker 2: Welcome back News Talks HEB twenty seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company this morning. Nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text. I'll get to some
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Speaker 2: of those in just a second. Have you noticed what's
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Speaker 2: with all the door knocking that's going on at the
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Speaker 2: front door at the moment. Has anyone else been getting this?
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Speaker 2: I think it must be because it's summer and you know,
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Speaker 2: it's lighter later, et cetera. A lot of charities coming.
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Speaker 2: Every man and his dog seems to be coming to
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Speaker 2: the front door and knocking at the moment, and they
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Speaker 2: seem to be They're not from the charities that they're
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Speaker 2: there to represent. I think they're contracted. They're a separate
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Speaker 2: company that's contracted to do the door knocking and try
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Speaker 2: and collect the donations. Last night we had someone from
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Speaker 2: Hello Fresh. I was like, goodbye, Sorry, it's dinner time.
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Speaker 2: Has anyone else noticed this? Nine two nine two is
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Speaker 2: a number to text. I find it a little intrusive.
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Speaker 2: I find it annoying, and it's probably my fault because
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Speaker 2: you can not that I should say this, But you
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Speaker 2: can actually get to my front door without you know,
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Speaker 2: going through much in the way of security, and actually
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Speaker 2: you can see straight into the living room once you
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Speaker 2: get to the front door. So maybe that's on me.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I need to be behind a big gate like
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Speaker 2: everybody else with an intercom, you know, But I would
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Speaker 2: like to think you could have a you know, a
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Speaker 2: pretty open house and not be disturbed. Maybe I need
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Speaker 2: like a no circular sign for your letterbox. Maybe I
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Speaker 2: need a no door knocking sign so that people don't
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Speaker 2: come by. But I just wanted has anyone else noticed
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Speaker 2: this going on at your place? Nine two nine two
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Speaker 2: is the number to text twenty nine after five Ryan Bridge, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Things will come right in the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: according to Keir Starmer, when they release the sausages, says Neil, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was a bit of a snaffoo. Actually we have
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Speaker 2: the audio. You don't play that, Leo. This was at
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Speaker 2: the party conference released not the hostages but the sausages.
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Speaker 7: I call again from immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: The return of the sausages the hostages wasn't great, was it? Anyway?
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Speaker 2: Lots more to come on that. Plus Chris Hipkins has
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Speaker 2: been at that very conference in Liverpool. He is with
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Speaker 2: us just before Sex News Talks had been.
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Speaker 3: Okay on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
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Speaker 3: with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture Bids
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Speaker 3: and applying store News Talk sid be.
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Speaker 2: Good Morning, New Zealand. It is twenty four minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six. Great to have your company this morning. Chris
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Speaker 2: Hipkins is with us alive from Liverpool, of all places
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Speaker 2: in the UK. That's just before six o'clock. Also, Mitch
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Speaker 2: McCann is in the US very quickly. Michael has text
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Speaker 2: in on the door knockers. The charity is going after
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Speaker 2: your front door. He says, it's worse outside the supermarkets.
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Speaker 2: I wish they would stop. Just gone twenty four minutes
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Speaker 2: away from six and we're going to our reporters right
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Speaker 2: around the country, starting with Cullum, Proctor and Dunedin Cullum,
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. The Aurora Energy remaining in council hands.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, Ryan. This comes after much deliberation and debate.
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Speaker 8: City council is yesterday voting thirteen to two in favor
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Speaker 8: of retaining the company after a move to sell was mooted,
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Speaker 8: which was strongly opposed by the public. The Lin's company
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Speaker 8: supplies electricity to more than two hundred thousand residents across Otago.
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Speaker 8: Mey Jills Raddicks says that ratepayers you the company as
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Speaker 8: a strategic asset and they want to.
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Speaker 2: Retain it for the long term. Seradick says that's what
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Speaker 2: they've done.
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Speaker 8: He says he's hearing residents will take the discomfort of
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Speaker 8: higher debt and rates rises in order to retain Aurora.
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Speaker 8: How's your weather today, Callum, Rain develops this morning with
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Speaker 8: a cell west change. The height today fifteenth brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire, Shechward's and christs this morning, Claire. The
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Speaker 2: families reacting to news there will be some accountability over
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Speaker 2: the CTV building collapse.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Ryan, Yes, and Engineering in Deed Disciplinary Committee
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Speaker 9: has upheld a complaint against Alan Ray. He's the man
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Speaker 9: whose company designed the six story CTV building, which of
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Speaker 9: course pancaked in the twenty eleven earthquake. The Engineering Disciplinary
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Speaker 9: Committee has found that Ray's oversight of the building design
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Speaker 9: engineer was virtually nonexistent. We've spoken with CTV Families Group
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Speaker 9: spokesperson man Al Casey. He says it's been a very
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Speaker 9: long drawn out process. He says the delays they've been
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Speaker 9: up against have been unjustified and victims shouldn't have been
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Speaker 9: put through that the trouble, as it may be a
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Speaker 9: case of more to come. Ray's legal team have already
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Speaker 9: signaled they will be challenging this decision.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's you weather, Claire cloud.
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Speaker 9: Increasing rain developing this evening, Nor that these will be
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Speaker 9: gon elated today a maximum of nineteen with three over night,
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Speaker 9: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Mexis and Wellington max to rail enable the furies or
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Speaker 2: not rail enable the theories?
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: What that means, for instance, for a company like Maine Freight,
20:13
Speaker 11: that a container can be put on a rail wagon
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Speaker 11: at its site in Auckland and can seamlessly travel to
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Speaker 11: christ Church on and off the ferry. You can currently
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Speaker 11: do it on the adder, Teddy. So we've got government
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Speaker 11: ministers currently weighing up if and what they're going to
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Speaker 11: do with the current aging fleet of Tero islander ships.
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Speaker 11: We're expecting a significant decision by the end of the year.
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Speaker 11: The rail aspect of Labour's previous scrap deal meant you
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Speaker 11: needed newport infrastructure at either end, a big reason for
20:42
Speaker 11: why the cost exploded so much. But main Freight still
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Speaker 11: wants a rail enabled ferries. Kiwi Rail says without them,
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Speaker 11: our single rail network would be broken into Simeon Brown
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Speaker 11: Coy at this point, but a statement hints that the
20:56
Speaker 11: industry may not get what it wants. Brown says the
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Speaker 11: government's focus is investing in the busiest and most productive
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Speaker 11: parts of the round network between Auckland, Hamilton and toad On.
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Speaker 2: There the so called Golden Triangle. How's your weather in Wellington?
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Speaker 11: Max should be mainly find some very strong wins expected
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Speaker 11: later on Higher fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you NIVA's and Auckland Nava. Good morning, good morning.
21:17
Speaker 2: Now we've been looking forward to this one, the all
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Speaker 2: you can eat buffet from Pizza Hut. The day has
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Speaker 2: finally arrived.
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Speaker 7: You've got it today celebrating fiftieth anniversary here in New Zealand,
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Speaker 7: Pizza Hut. Now this is going to be happening at
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Speaker 7: Auckland City Works from today until Sunday. Now, I have
21:32
Speaker 7: to say one of our reporters in the Herald this morning, Rachel,
21:35
Speaker 7: she has scored a ticket. She's going on Saturday. Now,
21:39
Speaker 7: she's got a strategy. So I thought, let's share Rachel's strategy.
21:42
Speaker 7: She's going to be wearing sweatpants. She's going to be
21:44
Speaker 7: wearing a bib the morning. She's going to expand her stomach.
21:47
Speaker 7: She's going to have cereal, you know, in the morning
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Speaker 7: in a coffee. She's going to get there because I
21:51
Speaker 7: think she's Her session is at twelve forty five at
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Speaker 7: Pizza Hut. So she said she's going to expand her stomach.
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Speaker 7: That means eat very very quickly, because if you eat slowly,
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Speaker 7: you'll feel full. No fizzy drinks, I see, don't wear
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Speaker 7: any lipstick, don't try and look all pretty and nice there,
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Speaker 7: just wear your sweatpants and yeah, so she's going to try.
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Speaker 7: And also her favorite is chocolate moose.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's most is good. You know, it sounded nice until
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Speaker 2: he started talking about sweetpants and no lipstick. How's the
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Speaker 2: weather today?
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Speaker 7: Okay, cloudy and high of eighteen here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, never thank you. It is twenty to six.
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Speaker 2: Don't forget Chrisipkins here before six and next Mitch McCann
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Speaker 2: out of the US.
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Speaker 3: International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
22:34
Speaker 3: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Who talks at the seventeen away from six is talk
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Speaker 2: of a ground offensive by Israel into southern Lebanon. We'll
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Speaker 2: have more on that shortly right now though Mitch McCann
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Speaker 2: is a US correspondent. He's at the United Nations in
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Speaker 2: New York City for US this morning, and the Ukrainian
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Speaker 2: President Vladimir Zelenski has sounded the alarm over the illumining
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Speaker 2: threat of a nuclear disaster there. Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 12: A really concerning speech, you could say, from Zelenski here
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Speaker 12: at the YUN this morning.
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Speaker 2: He wore the General Assembly.
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Speaker 12: That Russia is planning attacks on Ukrainian power plants. Zelenski
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Speaker 12: said he recently viewed intelligence reports from his own offices
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Speaker 12: that Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, is receiving detailed
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Speaker 12: information about Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Zelenski said, any missile or
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Speaker 12: drone strike any critical incident in the energy system could
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Speaker 12: lead to a nuclear disaster.
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Speaker 2: A day like that must never come.
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Speaker 12: And Zelenski also used his address this morning to remind
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Speaker 12: the world not to lose focus on his country's plight,
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Speaker 12: particularly given what's going on in Levanon and in the
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Speaker 12: Middle East of the moment.
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Speaker 2: What's happening with these intelligence briefings for Donald Trump about
23:42
Speaker 2: assassination attempts?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, so, US intelligence officials have spoken to Donald Trump
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Speaker 12: and his team about suspected Iranian plots to kill him now.
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Speaker 12: The briefing was from the Office of the Director of
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Speaker 12: National Intelligence. Donald Trump's campaign says they are real and
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Speaker 12: specific threats. They are different from the attempts on his
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Speaker 12: life earlier this year. In recent weeks in Pennsylvania and
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Speaker 12: in Florida, Donald Trump posted about this, as he always
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Speaker 12: does Ryan on social media. He said, big threats on
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Speaker 12: my life by Iran. Moves were already made by Iran
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Speaker 12: that didn't work out, but they will try again. Not
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Speaker 12: a good situation for anyone, and he finished by saying,
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Speaker 12: an attack on a former president is a death wish
24:21
Speaker 12: for the attacker.
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Speaker 2: Interesting that, Thank you very much. Mitch McCann, our US
24:26
Speaker 2: correspondent from the UN in New York this morning, just
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Speaker 2: gone quarter.
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Speaker 3: To six, Bryan Bridge.
24:31
Speaker 2: Chris Tippins is in Liverpool for the UK Labor Party conference.
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Speaker 2: It comes as the party back in New Zealand looks
24:38
Speaker 2: at a wealth tax or a capital gains tax, or
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Speaker 2: potentially both, this while their British count's parts are being
24:44
Speaker 2: absolutely hammered in the polls at the moment over a
24:47
Speaker 2: series of what you could call gaffs and also spending scandals.
24:52
Speaker 2: Chris is with us this morning, Chris, what have you
24:54
Speaker 2: learned over there? His starma is down in the polls,
24:57
Speaker 2: he's cutting into energy payments. Things aren't looking good for them.
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Speaker 10: Oh, and there's interesting challenges here that are similar to
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Speaker 10: New Zealand, and there's challenges that are different. I guess so,
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Speaker 10: I mean the similarities. Cost of living crisis is clearly
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Speaker 10: still a big issue here, as it is still a
25:11
Speaker 10: big issue in New Zealand. Issues around tackling climate change
25:14
Speaker 10: and sustainability, and the kind of the bigger question of
25:17
Speaker 10: how do you grow an economy that on a per
25:19
Speaker 10: capita basis has been stagnant? You know, these are similar
25:22
Speaker 10: issues and similar challenges that we face in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Did you bond over your mutual drop in the polls?
25:29
Speaker 10: Look at early days with them. Yet they have the
25:32
Speaker 10: luxury of a five year term, so he doesn't have
25:35
Speaker 10: to go back to the polls for another five years.
25:37
Speaker 10: So I think at this point, you know, they're just
25:39
Speaker 10: focused on doing the early things they need to do
25:41
Speaker 10: in government.
25:42
Speaker 2: You have to go back to the poles in twenty
25:43
Speaker 2: twenty six. Will you be the leader?
25:46
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
25:47
Speaker 2: You want to be. You want the job absolutely.
25:50
Speaker 10: And coming away here and looking at you know, the
25:52
Speaker 10: some talking to people about ideas about how we can
25:54
Speaker 10: actually move New Zealand forward, it's actually left me even
25:57
Speaker 10: more energized. I think there are some big challenges in
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Speaker 10: New Zealand. They're going to require some fresh thinking and
26:02
Speaker 10: some new ideas. I'm taking the time to make sure
26:05
Speaker 10: we generate those new ideas that are twenty twenty six
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Speaker 10: election is not going to be a rerun of the
26:10
Speaker 10: twenty twenty three election, and you know, we've got to
26:12
Speaker 10: be focused on the future.
26:13
Speaker 2: Let's talk about a couple of his ideas and see
26:15
Speaker 2: whether you're into them or not. We can quick fire these.
26:18
Speaker 2: He wants long term sickness beneficiaries to start looking for work.
26:22
Speaker 2: Good idea, bad idea.
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Speaker 10: Oh look, I don't want to get into discussing UK politics.
26:27
Speaker 10: So if you want to ask me about things in
26:28
Speaker 10: the New Zealand context, in New Zealand policy, all.
26:30
Speaker 2: Right about that in New Zealand.
26:32
Speaker 5: In New Zealand, I don't want to provide a commentary.
26:34
Speaker 2: I don't want to provide no fair enough in New Zealand.
26:37
Speaker 2: In New Zealand, would you be on board with long
26:39
Speaker 2: term sickness beneficiaries having to look for work?
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Speaker 10: No. I think we've got a system in place at
26:45
Speaker 10: the moment that sets out clear expectations around long term
26:47
Speaker 10: sickness beneficiaries, and then I'm quite comfortable with that.
26:50
Speaker 2: They have a limit there. And again this is a
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Speaker 2: New Zealand question. Would we limit a child benefit allowance
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Speaker 2: to two kids max?
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Speaker 3: No?
26:59
Speaker 10: Ill and support that.
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Speaker 2: Would you reduce the winter energy payment to help pay
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Speaker 2: the bills, the government's bills?
27:05
Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 10: I mean there's a different issue over here, in the
27:07
Speaker 10: sense that it was a universal entitlement over here, whereas
27:10
Speaker 10: it's not a New Zealand.
27:12
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the elephant in the room, the capital
27:14
Speaker 2: gains tax, the wealth tax. A lot of news in
27:17
Speaker 2: New Zealand. About that, Antonia, the head of the a
27:20
Speaker 2: Z Bank, has said that she thinks we need some
27:23
Speaker 2: sort of capital gains tax. Can you just clarify for people?
27:27
Speaker 2: Would that cover the family home? If you're a family
27:32
Speaker 2: who's saved up your mortgage free, you've got a rental property,
27:35
Speaker 2: would you ever be hit by either of these?
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Speaker 10: Well, I wouldn't be happy with taxing a family home
27:42
Speaker 10: and gains on a family home, And the other questions
27:45
Speaker 10: really are hypothetical because you know, we haven't committed to
27:47
Speaker 10: a particular form of capital gains taxation. But I think
27:51
Speaker 10: what we've got to acknowledge is at the moment, the
27:52
Speaker 10: New Zealand tax system is loaded against working people. Working
27:56
Speaker 10: people end up paying more tax because we're not kept
27:59
Speaker 10: taxing other forms of income. And as our other comparable
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Speaker 10: countries do. There's capital gain sex here and the UK
28:06
Speaker 10: is capital gain stacks in Australia and so many other
28:09
Speaker 10: countries that there isn't in New Zealand. And what does
28:11
Speaker 10: that mean? It means that salary and wagering is the
28:13
Speaker 10: people who work hard every day for a living end
28:15
Speaker 10: up paying a disproportionate share of the tax because we're
28:18
Speaker 10: not taxing other forms of income.
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Speaker 2: So this is not about solving the housing crisis. For you,
28:22
Speaker 2: a capital gains tax, it's about fairness.
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Speaker 5: It's both of it.
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Speaker 10: It's about both things. I mean, I think we do have.
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Speaker 2: The Tax Working Group. The Tax Working Group has said
28:31
Speaker 2: that it wouldn't solve the housing housing crisis, it wouldn't
28:33
Speaker 2: help to bring prices down.
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Speaker 10: Well, I think you've got to look at that. There's
28:37
Speaker 10: a range of things that have led to people into
28:40
Speaker 10: New Zealanders putting money into the property market instead of
28:43
Speaker 10: other forms of productive investment. Taxation is only one of
28:46
Speaker 10: the things that you've got to look at there. You've
28:48
Speaker 10: got to look at a range of other things as well.
28:50
Speaker 10: I certainly don't think, you know, taxing income from capital,
28:54
Speaker 10: you know, capital gains on property, for example, would hurt
28:58
Speaker 10: the housing crisis. I think it's likely to be helpful,
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Speaker 10: but it's not going to be a solution. There's no
29:03
Speaker 10: one thing that's going to solve the housing crisis in
29:05
Speaker 10: New Zealand. That's going to require a range of different things.
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Speaker 2: In the UK, they've got a capital gains tax, they've
29:10
Speaker 2: got an inheritance tax. Look at the state of their NHS.
29:14
Speaker 2: Isn't your bigger problem convincing keywis that if you do
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Speaker 2: do a tax, we will actually get some benefit from it.
29:22
Speaker 2: Oh we yep.
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Speaker 10: But we've got to make sure that New Zealanders see
29:24
Speaker 10: the benefit of any changes that we would make to
29:26
Speaker 10: the tech system. They've got to see what's in it
29:28
Speaker 10: for them.
29:29
Speaker 2: Stats n Z put out their General Social Survey yesterday.
29:34
Speaker 2: This is the twenty twenty three So this is when
29:35
Speaker 2: you guys were in office twenty twenty one to twenty
29:37
Speaker 2: twenty three. Trust and the health system down, education down,
29:41
Speaker 2: Parliament down, police down, courts down, people's sense of belonging down.
29:46
Speaker 2: Do you take some responsibility for those numbers?
29:50
Speaker 10: Of course, but we've got to recognize that those numbers
29:52
Speaker 10: were on were record high. It's just three years ago,
29:56
Speaker 10: during the COVID nineteen pandemic, we saw record levels of
29:59
Speaker 10: trust and conf it's in government, and now they're coming
30:02
Speaker 10: back down to more like the levels that they were
30:04
Speaker 10: before the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: So you're saying that this is actually a good thing
30:09
Speaker 2: or a normal thing.
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Speaker 10: No, not at all. I'd love to see those numbers
30:12
Speaker 10: stay higher. I think we've actually got to work really
30:14
Speaker 10: hard to make sure that our democratic institutions are ones
30:18
Speaker 10: that inspire confidence and trust from the New Zealand public.
30:21
Speaker 10: I think they are taking a bit of a knock
30:23
Speaker 10: in recent years. I think we do need to take that,
30:26
Speaker 10: you know seriously as politicians, we need to make sure
30:29
Speaker 10: that we're making the changes to the way our democratic
30:32
Speaker 10: system operates so that we're increasing public trust and confidence.
30:36
Speaker 2: Is anyone doing the numbers against you and the Labor
30:38
Speaker 2: Party Tivy?
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Speaker 10: Absolutely not, absolutely not that I'm absolutely confident that I
30:44
Speaker 10: have the full support of the Labor team.
30:46
Speaker 2: Hey, the nuclear free moment, obviously it's been well for
30:49
Speaker 2: five six years now since just Cindra Durn's proclamation. We've
30:53
Speaker 2: now had in the last twenty four hours Todd Energy
30:55
Speaker 2: come out and join the likes of method X and
30:57
Speaker 2: OG and Windstone and they are making cuts at Toddy Energy,
31:01
Speaker 2: which is hugely concerning. Do you concede that what you
31:06
Speaker 2: did with the offshore oil and gas band has had
31:09
Speaker 2: an impact on investment here and it is costing jobs,
31:13
Speaker 2: good regional union jobs.
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Speaker 10: No, absolutely not to totally reject that rhyme and the
31:19
Speaker 10: facts actually say otherwise. I mean that's spin from the
31:22
Speaker 10: oil and gas industry. For the reality here is we
31:24
Speaker 10: haven't had a significant oil and gas bye in New Zealands.
31:27
Speaker 10: It's two thousand and one. The Oil and Guess Band's
31:30
Speaker 10: only been in place for the last five years. So
31:32
Speaker 10: if there was a ready supply of oil and gas there,
31:35
Speaker 10: they would have found it by now.
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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know that, do we. I mean, I mean,
31:39
Speaker 2: you don't know what you don't know. And the fact
31:41
Speaker 2: is if you ban it, you'll never know.
31:44
Speaker 10: Well, there's still a lot of offshore oil and guess
31:46
Speaker 10: exploration permits that are active now. They could be out
31:49
Speaker 10: there exploring now, even because we didn't cancel any of
31:52
Speaker 10: the permits that were in place when the band was
31:54
Speaker 10: put in place. They chose not to do that.
31:56
Speaker 2: So you're saying that when method X, when these companies
31:59
Speaker 2: put out press releases and they've sent me statements partly
32:03
Speaker 2: blaming your ban on oil offshore oil and gas exploration
32:06
Speaker 2: for a dampening and investment, they're making it up.
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Speaker 10: It's always easier to blame that. It's always easier to
32:12
Speaker 10: blame the government when companies have to make some difficult decisions.
32:16
Speaker 10: But the reality is New Zealand's future should be focused
32:19
Speaker 10: on renewable energy, it's cheaper. It's going to be better
32:22
Speaker 10: for New Zealand business because of New Zealand businesses paying
32:25
Speaker 10: lower power prices, they're going to be more competitive. Fossil
32:29
Speaker 10: fuels are more expensive than renewable fields. The thing that
32:32
Speaker 10: causes our electricity prices to go up is not the
32:35
Speaker 10: cost of renewable energy, it's the cost of fossil fuels.
32:38
Speaker 2: Just finally, you might have seen I mean, I'm sure
32:40
Speaker 2: you've been keeping abreast of politics here, but Chris Luxeen
32:44
Speaker 2: has had a Oh he's had a few I don't
32:47
Speaker 2: want to say tanties, but he's had a few run
32:49
Speaker 2: ins with the media. What do you make of his
32:51
Speaker 2: performance this week?
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Speaker 10: Oh you know. I mean, I think Christoph Luxem said
32:55
Speaker 10: that he's setting all these targets so that the public
32:57
Speaker 10: can hold him accountable for the governments before Womans, and
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Speaker 10: now that the targets are actually showing that the government's
33:02
Speaker 10: performance is getting worse, his say, we'll forget about the targets,
33:06
Speaker 10: stop questioning me on them. I mean he's contradicting himself.
33:09
Speaker 10: I mean, if he wants to set targets and say
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Speaker 10: hold me accountable for the targets. He's got to be
33:13
Speaker 10: prepared to be questioned on them.
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Speaker 2: How long did you get in a meeting with Starma?
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Speaker 10: It was a relatively brief meeting we were meeting for
33:20
Speaker 10: you know, it was a meeting between meetings.
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Speaker 5: For both of us.
33:24
Speaker 10: So we've got to about ten minutes. I suppose had
33:27
Speaker 10: a good sit down with Angel rain As the Deputy
33:29
Speaker 10: Prime Minister over here for about half an hour, and
33:31
Speaker 10: have meeting with plenty of other Labor MP's as well.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge, that was Chris Hopkins, the Labor leader over
33:38
Speaker 2: in Liverpool for the UK Party conference. There long way
33:41
Speaker 2: to go for ten minutes back in a second News.
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