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Jenee Tibshraeny: NZ Herald Wellington business editor on the Prime Minister's business dealings in Japan · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Janative trainee Herald Wellington business editor with us now. But currently,
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  Speaker 2: where are you? Janet? Where in Japan?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Heather, I am in Tokyo and we are in
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  Speaker 3: this beautiful sort of office area filing our stories. We
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  Speaker 3: have the New Zealand Business Delegation next door, lots of
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  Speaker 3: people in suits, shaking hands, business deals being done. It's
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  Speaker 3: a great, great vibe here in Tokyo.
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  Speaker 2: Is the Business delegation just fizzing about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they're the A listers?
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  Speaker 3: They must be, I mean, how good would that be
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  Speaker 3: to be the A Listers? But the awkward thing here
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  Speaker 3: is that some of the people on the current business
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  Speaker 3: delegation were on delegations when Labor was in government. So
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  Speaker 3: you know there'll be some people here thinking, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: why has the Prime Minister effectively called us C listers
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  Speaker 3: and tag alongs as well? And people who couldn't convert
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  Speaker 3: talk into business during previous trips? Do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can see what Luckson's trying to do here, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to talk himself up as the big business
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  Speaker 2: guy as opposed to Jacinda, who was just sort of like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's cool, the kind of like the cool Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 2: But in the crossfire of this are people who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's having a crack at right, not so smart.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, look that's the thing. It's one thing to
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  Speaker 3: criticize labor, but it's another thing to criticize businesses ahead
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  Speaker 3: of a trip aimed at selling businesses to the world.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the timing of this was really poor.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, even if Chris pH Luxen believed he
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  Speaker 3: had a good point to make, you know, this business
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  Speaker 3: delegation undoubtedly is excellent. We have the CEO's chairs from
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  Speaker 3: some of the largest companies in New Zealand. Even if
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  Speaker 3: he thought he was making a point, it is just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, absolutely the wrong thing to say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a real kick in the guts for businesses that went
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  Speaker 3: on previous trips also just just naive. And the thing
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  Speaker 3: with us is that he didn't. It wasn't just the
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  Speaker 3: flip of the tongue to news talks EDB. He made
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  Speaker 3: the point to my colleague Jason Wolves, and then he
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  Speaker 3: made similar comments to me during interview I had with
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  Speaker 3: him ahead of the trip, so you know it's not
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  Speaker 3: a good look. And another point that I had thought.
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  Speaker 3: I went on a business trip when Jasinda Radun was
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  Speaker 3: Prime Minister and there were in fact smaller businesses that went,
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  Speaker 3: like you know New Zealand fashion brands and luxury goods,
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  Speaker 3: these sorts of things, special types of food, handbags, so on.
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  Speaker 3: But those for those smaller businesses, those trips are pretty valuable.
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  Speaker 3: It's harder for them to get into newmarkets alone than
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  Speaker 3: it is for slon Terra or an am Z. You know,
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  Speaker 3: these guys already have the connections around the world, so
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  Speaker 3: you know there is still value. I believe in doing
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  Speaker 3: trade trips with smaller companies.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you make some really excellent points, they enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the trip and thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 2: That's your Native Trainee, The Herald's Wellington Business Edit driver
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  Speaker 2: in Japan.
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