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Full Show Podcast: 29 November 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 the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Vans and a play at store.
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Speaker 2: News Talks, it'd be good, A good morning. It's six
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Speaker 2: after five year on News Talks, it'd be I can
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Speaker 2: confirm today's Black Friday for anyone who's wanting a sale
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Speaker 2: or wanting a bargain, although it has technically been running
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Speaker 2: all week. Lady Deborah Chambers, you'll remember the opinion piece
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Speaker 2: she wrote during COVID, which was highly controversial but right
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Speaker 2: on the money. She reacts to the first phase of
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Speaker 2: the COVID inquiry. Just before six this morning, we're going
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Speaker 2: to talk to the Greater Wellington Regional Council and before
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Speaker 2: you go, it's about a potential seventy percent increase in
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Speaker 2: public transport prices. Are ay fairmongering. Vincent McAvennie is in
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Speaker 2: the UK and Putin is gearing up for a bigger,
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Speaker 2: more expanded or on Ukraine will have details the agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is right at the twenty ninth of November. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to the program. It's past. Australia's the first country to
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Speaker 2: ban under sixteen year olds from sosh Med that comes
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Speaker 2: into falls later next year.
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Speaker 3: We know there is wide press spread concern and evidence
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Speaker 3: about the severe mental health impact of social media on children.
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Speaker 3: We've seen very disturbing global trends and youth mental health
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Speaker 3: since the rise of social media.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how I know this is not going
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Speaker 2: to work? Social media companies face fines of up to
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Speaker 2: fifty four million dollars for non compliance. Drop in the ocean,
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Speaker 2: Russian drone and missile strikes have hit twelve targets according
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine's Air Force, mostly energy and fuel facilities. Around
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Speaker 2: one million people are without power right now as a
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Speaker 2: result of these latest strikes. Meanwhile, Putin has said Russia
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Speaker 2: has begun manufacturing new nuclear capable weapons and is selecting
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Speaker 2: targets for them in Ukraine, including in Kiev's decision making centers.
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Speaker 2: Winston Peters has put out of release over the Night'll
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Speaker 2: get to that shortly. Surprise, surprise. Israel and hissbil I
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Speaker 2: have accused each other of breaking the ceasefire. This is
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Speaker 2: twenty four hours in.
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Speaker 4: Israel says what they're calling suspects had made their way
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Speaker 4: to southern Lebanon. Israeli tanks have reportedly hit six areas
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Speaker 4: along the border. A Hasbela official is now accusing Israel
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Speaker 4: of attacking people going back to their villages.
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Speaker 2: UK can't count. They told us they had net migration
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Speaker 2: positive net migration numbers for June twenty twenty three. They
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Speaker 2: said at the time that it was about seven hundred
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Speaker 2: and forty odd. They've added one hundred and sixty six
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Speaker 2: thousand people that they didn't count. That number has since
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Speaker 2: come down.
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Speaker 5: The Independent Office of National Statistics to conducted vital work
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Speaker 5: on the state of immigration. The previous government were running
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Speaker 5: an open borders experiment.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: beds and a playing store news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be nine after five news talks. They'd be great
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Speaker 2: to have your company on a Friday morning. They said
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Speaker 2: that Mark Mitchell's war on gangs wouldn't work. Remember that
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Speaker 2: it'd be ineffective and people wouldn't feel any safer. What
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Speaker 2: I saw on the news yesterday at Matzipiphi and the
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Speaker 2: Bay of Plenty proved them all wrong. A big line
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Speaker 2: of big burly cops longer than your arms, stopping the
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Speaker 2: gangs in their tracks. Fourteen arrests in totals, some for
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Speaker 2: wearing patches, dangerous driving, possession of firearms. It felt like
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Speaker 2: we were finally striking back against the intimidation factor that's
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Speaker 2: driven Granny to lock her doors at night and avoid
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Speaker 2: Main Street. And how did we did nims feel about
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Speaker 2: it all?
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Speaker 6: Well, at the moment I reckon they're coming down, you know,
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Speaker 6: stup Hey, because it's just a minus thing.
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Speaker 2: You want to catch people doing other things, not just
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Speaker 2: being clothes. He said it was unfair. What about the
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Speaker 2: unfairness and the pain caused by some of these gang
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Speaker 2: members when they bash a member of the public or
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Speaker 2: kill one of their rivals. And the five months to
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Speaker 2: April they committed roughly six thousand crimes. They're harassment, sexual
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Speaker 2: assaults and twelve homic science. That's in the space of
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Speaker 2: about five months. So do I have sympathy for them
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Speaker 2: crying wolf outside the cop shop and mutipaker yesterday? No, none, zilch.
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Speaker 2: The public has had a guts fill, a guts full
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Speaker 2: of this and they want their streets back. And to
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Speaker 2: use the words of the current lot in Wellington, this
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Speaker 2: is war and in war there are usually casualties on
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Speaker 2: both sides. Ranbridge eleven after the five year on news
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Speaker 2: Talk said, but I am very much looking forward to
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Speaker 2: hearing what Lady Deborah Chambers has to say about that
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Speaker 2: COVID response yesterday. I'll very quickly run you through Winston
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Speaker 2: Peters So he has imposed new sanctions on behalf of
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Speaker 2: our government overnight. This is for the use of chemical
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Speaker 2: weapons by Russia on Ukraine. Illegal riot control agents are
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Speaker 2: being used on the front lines, according to a statement
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Speaker 2: he released last night. They've also hit out at the
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Speaker 2: Iranians for supplying missiles to Russia, which we all kind
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Speaker 2: of knew was happening. Also, they've had a crack at
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Speaker 2: North Korea for using shadow fleets. This is how they're
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Speaker 2: getting around all of these sanctions. And you're wondering, how
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Speaker 2: the hell is Russia still operating shadow fleets of ships
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Speaker 2: which are basically under the radar carrying the oil, carrying
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Speaker 2: the weapons, whatever dirty stuff they are trading between each
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Speaker 2: other illegally and ignoring maritime traffic and the process. So
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Speaker 2: there you go. Winston's had a crack overnight twelve after
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Speaker 2: five news talksb.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio. Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and
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Speaker 1: a Plying store. On Youth Talk said be.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen a half to five on news Talk said, be
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Speaker 2: interesting the posturing that's going on over Donald Trump before
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Speaker 2: he announces any of his actual policies. He's announced his
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Speaker 2: intention for somebody hasn't actually done anything yet. But this
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Speaker 2: is one, an interesting one that's come from some oil
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Speaker 2: big wigs and some bond investors in the United States.
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Speaker 2: They're saying to Trump, this is on Venezuela. Remember Venezuela
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Speaker 2: as well, not far from the United States and has
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Speaker 2: a lot of migrants who cross. Basically want to get
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Speaker 2: the hell out of Venezuela. They've lost about twenty percent
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Speaker 2: of their population. They have about two thousand of their
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Speaker 2: own residents a day who were fleeing, and most of
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Speaker 2: them heading towards the United States border. So what these
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Speaker 2: oil executives are saying is, rather than apply your usual
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Speaker 2: strategy of maximum pressure, which is what Trump does with
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Speaker 2: the Rahan et cetera, they're saying, do a deal. Do
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Speaker 2: a deal more oil. In other words, we will buy
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Speaker 2: more oil from you Venezuela, which would make Maduro very
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Speaker 2: happy for fewer migrants. So there you God, that's one
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Speaker 2: way to do diplomacy. Quarter past five. Whether he does
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Speaker 2: or not, I guess is another matter. Let's come back
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Speaker 2: to New Zealand now, public transport prices could be on
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Speaker 2: the rise and there's a furious war of letters going on.
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Speaker 2: NCTA has written to councils saying basically, increase your revenue,
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Speaker 2: share that from your users so that we can support
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Speaker 2: the record level of public transport spending by the government.
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Speaker 2: Greater Wellington says it could see a seventy percent high
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Speaker 2: can fear prices as a result. The move has prompted
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Speaker 2: all public transport authorities aside from all can Transport, to
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Speaker 2: request a meeting with the Transport Minister, Simeon Brown. Darren Pontes,
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Speaker 2: the Greater Wellington Regional cherries with me this morning, Darren,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Really has he written back? Is he going
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Speaker 2: to have a meeting with you guys?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 7: But we've talked and look, I think we both agreed
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Speaker 7: that the meeting is required. This is quite a significant
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Speaker 7: issue for New Zealand, for public transport users, for any
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Speaker 7: transport users for that for that matter.
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Speaker 2: Are you serious when you say, on average, if you're
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Speaker 2: paying ten dollars at the moment you'd be per day
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Speaker 2: for public transport in Wellington, you would be paying seventeen
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Speaker 2: from next year if this goes through.
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Speaker 7: We're only using in New Zealand Transport authorities figures to
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Speaker 7: come to that conclusion, correct.
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Speaker 2: And that would need to happen next year.
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Speaker 7: Well, they are saying, they're saying, for example, in the
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Speaker 7: Wellington region that they want us to move from twenty
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Speaker 7: point five percent fairbox recovery to thirty five percent of
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Speaker 7: fairbox recovery by twenty five, twenty twenty twenty five, twenty
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Speaker 7: twenty six. So that's starts on the first of July
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Speaker 7: next year.
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Speaker 2: Right, So first of July next year, if you're paying
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Speaker 2: about ten bucks, you'll be having to pay seventeen unless
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Speaker 2: you can come to some kind of compromise correct.
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Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, and look I think we will. There are,
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Speaker 7: as you probably are aware of, ry and there are
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Speaker 7: many moving parts in public transport. The Minister is effectively saying,
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Speaker 7: or the New Zealand Transport are effectively saying, that the
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Speaker 7: amount that comes from the actual users has slipped over
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Speaker 7: the years. And that is true, and that is true
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Speaker 7: across the country, and a large part of the reason
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Speaker 7: for that is the whole COVID period and the fact
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Speaker 7: that most public transport operators have been very focused on
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Speaker 7: getting people back onto buses and.
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Speaker 2: So you don't want to hike fir. Yeah, you want
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Speaker 2: to keep the first as as possible. So what will
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Speaker 2: be why is why is Wellington so high? Because you
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Speaker 2: look at Auckland, they're only required thirty percent I think
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Speaker 2: next year thirty four, the year after, forty year after that.
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Speaker 2: Why is your one seem to be so high? Are
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Speaker 2: you paying less? Are your users paying less? As a proportion?
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Speaker 7: Historically we have been able to recover more from the
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Speaker 7: from the fairbox. It's it's largely because we provide a
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Speaker 7: more intense public it's a more mature public transport network
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Speaker 7: RYAN that has more reliable services, more frequent services, et cetera,
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Speaker 7: et cetera, and as a consequence, we are able to
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Speaker 7: extract a little bit more from the from the user.
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Speaker 7: If you go out into provincial areas, even historically, you'll
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Speaker 7: find quite a lot of areas that are only at
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Speaker 7: about twenty percent, seventeen percent some of them.
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Speaker 2: Right, can't you can't you just cut the services that
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Speaker 2: aren't that full.
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Speaker 7: And we will and we will we will look at
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Speaker 7: those services. All public transport providers will look at those services.
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Speaker 7: But the reality is that public transport is growing quite significantly.
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Speaker 7: We are on our bus network in Wellington, we are
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Speaker 7: getting close to one hundred and ten percent of where
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Speaker 7: we were prior to COVID. Okay, so we only need
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Speaker 7: more services, not less.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, but but I mean someone's got a paper,
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Speaker 2: I guess, Darren is the point. We'd love to hear
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Speaker 2: how that meeting goes with the minister. Do let us know,
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Speaker 2: Darren Ponter the Great at Wellington Regional Council. Share You're
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Speaker 2: on news Talk zemb coming up next Black Friday. Yes,
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Speaker 2: this week it's Black Friday. What's the best deal?
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Speaker 1: We will tell you news and views you trust to
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Speaker 1: start your day. It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and
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Speaker 1: Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Flying Store.
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Speaker 1: Youth Talk ZIBB.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two after five. Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group managing
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Speaker 2: directions with us because why it's Black Friday to day
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Speaker 2: and people will be going out and getting some sales. Chris,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Cura right, Well, what's the best deal you've
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Speaker 2: seen so far?
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Speaker 8: Look, that's those perennial deals. It's the like of the
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Speaker 8: dysons that drop massively at this time of the year.
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Speaker 8: We've got some pretty good deals going on Might to ten. Know,
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Speaker 8: they've been doing some pretty big drops across the wall.
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Speaker 8: There's some good pricing out there this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw an umbrella yesterday for about seventy percent off,
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Speaker 2: and I well, I nearly clicked on it and then
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Speaker 2: I fell asleep. But you know, there are some good
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Speaker 2: deals to be had. How important an indicator is Black
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Speaker 2: Friday for what's going to happen at Christmas?
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Speaker 8: You're pretty significant. Once upon a time it took a
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Speaker 8: long time for Christmas to boil in retail. These days,
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Speaker 8: Black Friday is that real kickoff. So getting a strong
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Speaker 8: Black Friday, to be honest, Brian, it's actually the week
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Speaker 8: ahead off and beyond Black Friday that makes the difference.
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Speaker 8: It's already been pretty strong out there for retail this
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Speaker 8: particularly last weekend.
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Speaker 2: That's interesting because I did promote Black Friday as a
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Speaker 2: Black Friday week starting seven days ago, so I think
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Speaker 2: I've done my part. Chris, thank you very much that
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Speaker 2: this morning, Chris says some mighty ten deals might be
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Speaker 2: on the cards. That's Chris Wilkinson's first retail group managing
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Speaker 2: director about Black Friday coming up next. I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: what I think about that COVID inquiry. I honestly had
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Speaker 2: to restrain myself watching the news last night. Anyway, it
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Speaker 2: is twenty three after five. You're on news Talks AB
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Speaker 2: the Early.
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Speaker 2: Talks the b twenty five minutes after five. This COVID
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Speaker 2: Phase one report. The verdict is in and it's pretty
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Speaker 2: much guilty your honor fine to begin with, and then
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Speaker 2: they as the single podium of truth basically went too
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Speaker 2: far for too long, tell us something we don't know.
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Speaker 2: Trust in our institutions is shot. Media took a hammering,
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Speaker 2: and rightly so in some cases. Labor supporters and hysterical
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Speaker 2: scientists and other groups went full militant. I never spoke
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Speaker 2: about the messages I got from some of them during
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Speaker 2: my interviews challenging Old Jasinda Adourn during that period, especially
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Speaker 2: those outside of Auckland. During the lockdown to end all lockdowns,
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Speaker 2: they were threats of beatings on my social media loads
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Speaker 2: of homophobia. I was killing people with my questions. There
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Speaker 2: was hate, there was vitriol. Now I'm not complaining about this,
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Speaker 2: this is part of my job. But it just shows
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Speaker 2: how wacko everyone got. Which is not to say the
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Speaker 2: anti mandate lot were angels either, But what we the
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Speaker 2: public were fed was a meal from only one of
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Speaker 2: the two menus. Then there was the MiQ cruelty. You
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Speaker 2: will never get another opportunity to kiss a loved one
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Speaker 2: goodbye never. I watched Hipkins in his media stand up
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Speaker 2: yesterday with the usual half mere culpa lines we can
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Speaker 2: learn lessons from this in the future, and the benefit
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Speaker 2: of hindsight is a great thing. What's the problem with that, Well,
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Speaker 2: there were plenty of people with plenty of advice at
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Speaker 2: the time. He could have listened to, chose not to. Instead,
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Speaker 2: they labeled the protest as a river of filth. We
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Speaker 2: wrote off entire sectors of scientific community in the name
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Speaker 2: of social cohesion, like a pack of rabid dogs attacking
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Speaker 2: a limp lamb. That's what we were. We turned into that.
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Speaker 2: Had they listened to Auckland, to the planned bears, some
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Speaker 2: economists and experts in other fields, to Lady Deborah Chambers
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Speaker 2: who bravely put her head above the parapet on behalf
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Speaker 2: of the legal fraternity. Simon Bridges basically lost his job
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Speaker 2: over a Facebook post pointing out many of the problems
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Speaker 2: that turned out to be quite accurate. But now it
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Speaker 2: was all Susie Wiles and co. Crying because we didn't
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Speaker 2: go further and go harder, and where are we now?
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Speaker 2: Kids not going to school, productivity, jabbed in the face, crime,
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Speaker 2: out of controlled mental health and anxiety, particularly for kids,
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Speaker 2: also taking a head to the face, the weightless for
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Speaker 2: critical medical treatments, delayed, construction stopped, projects delayed, despite the
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Speaker 2: Aussies being faster and looser on both counts. It was
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Speaker 2: the biggest overreach of power, both in real terms and
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Speaker 2: in some cases legally this country's potentially ever seen. And
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Speaker 2: only now do they say we might reconsider forcing a
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Speaker 2: barista to get a jab that they don't want. Don't
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, I got the jab twice, but that
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Speaker 2: was my choice to a large extent. And is this
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Speaker 2: all Labour's fault?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 2: The bigger culprits in my mind, media hype, social media pylons,
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Speaker 2: and unwavering support for the party pushing that lockdown agenda.
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Speaker 2: The problem was tunnel vision. It was arrogance, ignorance or both,
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Speaker 2: and now we're all paying a very hefty price tag
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Speaker 2: for it. There was just one thing missing from yesterday,
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Speaker 2: any response from the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Grant,
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Speaker 2: Jacinda Ashley and Adrian Orr. Where were they? Grant's on
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Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand dollars at Otaga University, all is doing victory,
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Speaker 2: glad for cutting rates he hiked too high and then
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Speaker 2: flooding the country with cash and adirn Remember she said
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Speaker 2: her single biggest driver in politics was to fix child poverty.
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Speaker 2: Now living in New York while a cost of living
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Speaker 2: crisis she helped engineer and then deny was existing hammers
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Speaker 2: some of our poorest and to use a word they
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Speaker 2: made famous during the COVID catastrophe, our most vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds at a playing store.
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Speaker 1: News Talk Sydney.
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Speaker 2: Scopy, Good Morning, New Zealand. Welcome to your Friday, twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes away from six This legend and I can
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Speaker 2: remember Mum putting his cassette tape on in the car.
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Speaker 2: This absolute legend of rock and roll is going to
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Speaker 2: be headlined in Glastonbury. You might have heard about that yesterday.
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Speaker 2: What you may not have heard is how much is
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Speaker 2: going to cost the poor old bugger to perform on
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Speaker 2: the Legends stage.
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Speaker 5: The time.
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Speaker 2: Spread to legs and that.
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Speaker 10: So he's eighty years old. God he's good, isn't he?
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Speaker 10: And he still looks good too. He's got a full
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Speaker 10: head of hair, which he says is real. You know,
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Speaker 10: old people when they get old, they still of go
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Speaker 10: half ghost like they go. But gray, he's still I mean,
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Speaker 10: whether it's a fake tan or not, he's still got
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Speaker 10: a great tan, grateful head to hear, and he can
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Speaker 10: still sing anyway.
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Speaker 2: He said. It's going to cost him a fortune to
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Speaker 2: play Glastonbury on the legendary stage. He said, to fly
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Speaker 2: his band over, get everything together. It's going to be
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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand New Zealand dollars. He says, I don't care.
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Speaker 2: I would do it. It is such a I would
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Speaker 2: be willing to shell out a million US one point
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Speaker 2: seven million New Zealand dollars for the privilege. So there
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Speaker 2: you go, get your tickets. I don't know when they
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Speaker 2: go on sale. Actually, but Glastonbury Rod Stewart got to
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Speaker 2: be there.
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Speaker 1: Secret is that?
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Speaker 2: Two?
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Speaker 1: That's Bryan Bridge right.
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Speaker 2: We're going to our reporters around the country twenty two
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six o'clock. Don't forget labor debris later
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Speaker 2: Deborah lady, goodness me, Lady Deborah Chambers with us, who
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Speaker 2: is a CAC and wrote a very critical pandemic column
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Speaker 2: in the Herald in twenty twenty two. We'll get her
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Speaker 2: reaction to the COVID report full six plus we're lied
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Speaker 2: to the UK with Vincent Macavenie. Right now, Callum Proctor
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Speaker 2: is Indneedin Cullum. A huge funding boost for Otago Uni
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Speaker 2: health research Yeah, right on.
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Speaker 11: Sixteen researchers here out of Ottaga University have received in
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Speaker 11: total two point eight million dollars of government funding from
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Speaker 11: the Health Research Council. So that is a big boost.
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Speaker 11: It will help enable research into topics such as concussion,
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Speaker 11: eating disorders and homelessness. Dr Ema Wade is one who's benefited.
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Speaker 11: She's received a fellowship with almost six hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 11: to study how genes contribute to pelvic organ prolapse. She
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Speaker 11: says it's a condition incredibly common in women, but it's
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Speaker 11: poorly understood. The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Richard Blakey says this
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Speaker 11: funding is a testament to the caliber of emerging scientists
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Speaker 11: at otarge.
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Speaker 2: His name right now. How's there weather, Collen?
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Speaker 11: A morning cloud then find for us today southwesterlies and seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you and Claire is in christ It's clear the
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Speaker 2: finishing touches going on for a milestone Christmas in the Park.
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Speaker 12: Yes, it is a milestone Christmas in the Park here
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Speaker 12: tomorrow at Hagley Ryan it will be thirty years since
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Speaker 12: Christmas in the Park started. We've got local performance who
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Speaker 12: will shine at the free celebration Hip Hop Royalty. Apparently
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Speaker 12: Chaffour will take the stage along with ki We singers
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Speaker 12: Shi and Georgia Lines. Creative director of the show Nixon
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Speaker 12: Daisy says there was a record number of applications for
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Speaker 12: this year. He says the christ Church talent on offer
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Speaker 12: is incredible, with the show featuring eight local singers and
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Speaker 12: at least forty dancers. The Auckland event is in a
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Speaker 12: couple of weeks time, on December fourteenth.
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Speaker 2: O nice one, Claire, how's your weather today?
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Speaker 12: Clardie with a few spots of early rain, then fine
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Speaker 12: breaks for a time This afternoon southerly's easing and a
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Speaker 12: high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant maxism well max. The on boodsman is investigating Kiwi Rail.
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Speaker 7: What for?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is over KiwiRail refusing to disclose the cost
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Speaker 13: of its advice from global consultancy firm McKinsey and Company.
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Speaker 13: We believe this information should be made public. This advice
21:45
Speaker 13: was commissioned to improve performance for its rail freight faery.
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Speaker 13: Business Finance Minister Nicola Willis has a better idea of
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Speaker 13: the number and told us it immediately concerned her, particularly
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Speaker 13: when KiwiRail has such highly paid executives and his commission
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Speaker 13: external people to tell it how to run its business.
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Speaker 13: Willis and The Herald have made efforts to publicly release
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Speaker 13: the spend Kiwi Rail, though saying it would breach their
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Speaker 13: contract with McKinsey. So we've got the ombudsman involved. No comment,
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Speaker 13: No further comment by Kiwi Rail. Victoria University law professor
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Speaker 13: Dean Knight has weighed in. He believes there's significant public
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Speaker 13: interest in knowing the public money spent by a state
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Speaker 13: owned enterprise on consultants, especially when the Minister is concerned
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Speaker 13: they're outsourcing a business as usual work.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your with a mix?
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Speaker 13: Mostly cloudy so Easterly's a high of sixteen?
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Speaker 2: Brilliant? Thank you? Were you ever at Rod Stewart Finn
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Speaker 2: You struck me as someone who would be I fit
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Speaker 2: the bill.
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Speaker 13: I can't say I am, and I think I'm going
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Speaker 13: to disappoint you with that answer.
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Speaker 2: It's your choice. It's a free world. You can do
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Speaker 2: what you like. DoD, did you go to maw and
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Speaker 2: Nui or what was it called Miao Knwei? Was that
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Speaker 2: last night?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: No, I haven't been.
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Speaker 13: I've been to miaw a few times, the original bar,
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Speaker 13: but this new venue looks pretty d good does Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I saw the pictures. Looks great.
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Speaker 13: As I inserted into my script yesterday. Going to some
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Speaker 13: of those bars like san fran and Meow sorry mew,
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Speaker 13: it gets a bit claustrophobic and sweaty, too many people around.
23:12
Speaker 13: I like a bit of space. Meo knew he seems
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Speaker 13: to have that, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, good to know. Let's go to Neva. Hey, Neva.
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Speaker 14: That does not surprise me that you know mix doesn't
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Speaker 14: like sweetie go and going into bars with heaps of
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Speaker 14: people around him.
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Speaker 10: Don't you reckon?
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Speaker 2: I think he's sort of struck me as someone who
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Speaker 2: might be a bit of a rager. Oh, I don't know. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: he'll be somewhere like on his own with headphones on,
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Speaker 2: just shaking in the corner, the corner, no rods to it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: what's going on with the theories?
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Speaker 9: Now?
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Speaker 2: It's theories that you go on the sea, not theories
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Speaker 2: that fly.
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Speaker 14: Get that's Friday, isn't it fun? And you're absolutely quite right.
23:48
Speaker 14: So this is good news for Auckland because the Auckland
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Speaker 14: Theories in now back to full schedule, just in time
23:54
Speaker 14: for summer. So the Auckland Transport Services, now you'll remember
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Speaker 14: this back in October last year and there was gale back.
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Speaker 14: This was because of an industry wide crew shortage and
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Speaker 14: they weren't expected to be reinstated until mid next year.
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Speaker 14: But Rachel Kara, now she's the eighty Public Transport Operations
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Speaker 14: Group manager. She says, their operator which is full of
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Speaker 14: three sixty. They've been able to quickly get in their
24:16
Speaker 14: upskill the existing crew, train new people and because of
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Speaker 14: all of this, the Fairy timetable is now up and running.
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Speaker 14: They reckon. This is five months ahead of schedule. But
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Speaker 14: you know it's always a problem around summer, do you remember,
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Speaker 14: you know, there's always cues going.
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Speaker 5: To why he cared?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, long weekend, so they've already got to get on
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Speaker 14: top of that.
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Speaker 2: But they've had a schedule. Did you never hear those words? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: congratulations to whoever did that. A weather today.
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Speaker 14: It's going to be really really lovely actually chance of
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Speaker 14: a light morning shower, but we've got afternoon sunny's spells,
24:44
Speaker 14: you know, just getting really really warm. Twenty three is
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Speaker 14: the high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant neither, thank you. That is great news for today
24:50
Speaker 2: for your Friday morning. If you're in all Clint Mients
24:52
Speaker 2: in maca any a UK correspondent, Next, how do you
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Speaker 2: just lose one hundred and sixty six thousand people? He'll
24:59
Speaker 2: answer that question.
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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of mind
25:05
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen minutes away from six Winston Peters has
25:11
Speaker 2: just put a press release out. He's in Germany. He
25:13
Speaker 2: is the first foreign minister to visit Berlin since twenty sixteen. Interestingly, anyway,
25:18
Speaker 2: they had a range of conversations about a bunch of stuff,
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Speaker 2: including Ukraine and overnight, as we reported earlier this morning,
25:25
Speaker 2: Winston Peters and our government have introduced new sanctions on
25:30
Speaker 2: Russia over its war in Ukraine, these of chemical weapons.
25:33
Speaker 2: Right now, we're going to Vincent mcaviny, UK Europe correspondent,
25:37
Speaker 2: and we will start with that. Actually, Ukraine has suffered
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Speaker 2: a huge drone strike with Russia threatening to use new
25:44
Speaker 2: types of missiles on Kiev. The Vincent, Yeah, that's right.
25:49
Speaker 6: Overnight Ukraine suffered a huge attack once again on its
25:52
Speaker 6: power gred Roy In winter here in Europe, it's very
25:56
Speaker 6: cold in Ukraine and it's left around a million in
26:00
Speaker 6: people without power after they struck twelve targets. This is
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Speaker 6: a pattern they've been following over recent months to really
26:07
Speaker 6: try and make this winter as difficult and horrible as possible.
26:11
Speaker 6: And that warning as well that they might use that
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Speaker 6: new missile. Now, last week when I spoke to you,
26:16
Speaker 6: Ukraine had suggested it was potentially an ICBM without a
26:19
Speaker 6: nuclear warhead on it, but we now know it was
26:21
Speaker 6: some kind of new type of misstile that Russia's developed
26:25
Speaker 6: that Western governments are scrambling to try to understand, and
26:28
Speaker 6: they have threatened more attacks, particularly in what they're saying
26:32
Speaker 6: is the sort of power centres, decision making centers, so
26:35
Speaker 6: that would be central key trying to possibly destroy the government.
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Speaker 2: And very quickly the knit migration revised figures from twenty
26:43
Speaker 2: twenty three. How do you lose one hundred and sixty
26:45
Speaker 2: six thousand people?
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Speaker 6: Well quiet, and just to frame this, when the Conservatives
26:49
Speaker 6: came into governments in twenty ten, they promised that they'd
26:52
Speaker 6: get migration underneath six figures, so net migration be less
26:56
Speaker 6: than one hundred thousand. When they left their final full
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Speaker 6: it turns out that they had claimed in the twelve
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Speaker 6: months to June twenty twenty three only net migration was
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Speaker 6: only and I say only seven hundred and forty thousand.
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Speaker 6: It was in the fact nine hundred and six thousand.
27:12
Speaker 6: That is a huge revision, and there are questions about
27:15
Speaker 6: why that revision is so drastic. We have found out
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Speaker 6: the latest in the twelve months to June this year
27:21
Speaker 6: it's fallen back to seven hundred and twenty eight thousand.
27:24
Speaker 6: But we know from what's happening in governments around the world,
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Speaker 6: the US and Europe as well. If labor can't bring
27:30
Speaker 6: that number down, then they'll likely be punished at the
27:33
Speaker 6: election in five years time.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for it that it's been to mecavini
27:36
Speaker 2: Are UK Europe correspondent News Talk CID be just gone
27:39
Speaker 2: Living away from six. Ryan Bridge shows phase that the
27:42
Speaker 2: Royal Commission inquiry into the COVID response has been released,
27:45
Speaker 2: and while it says many things were done correctly, it's
27:48
Speaker 2: highly critical of the government response at the time, particularly
27:51
Speaker 2: around mandates and the length of lockdowns. Lady Debrah Chambers
27:56
Speaker 2: case he wrote an opinion piece at the time and
27:59
Speaker 2: I spoke to her then. This is the first line
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Speaker 2: from it. The emergency legislation in response to COVID nineteen
28:05
Speaker 2: giving our government the right to control our freedom of
28:08
Speaker 2: movement is no longer demonstrably justified in removing the fundamental
28:14
Speaker 2: rights to which New Zealanders are entitled. And Lady devis
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Speaker 2: with me this morning. Good morning, Good morning Ryan, great
28:22
Speaker 2: to speak to you again. How did you feel or
28:25
Speaker 2: what did you think reading that or having a look
28:28
Speaker 2: at that report yesterday?
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Speaker 9: Well, I thought there was some good news there in
28:34
Speaker 9: that Tony Professor Tony Blakeley has grappled with and the
28:44
Speaker 9: hurt caused to a lot of New Zealanders and the
28:47
Speaker 9: harm caused to a lot of New Zealanders by our
28:49
Speaker 9: government's response to COVID. And he also obviously has some
28:55
Speaker 9: pretty good ideas about how to cope next time, but
28:58
Speaker 9: he does grapple with this issue of excessive use of lockdowns.
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Speaker 9: And it's also, as we know, very critical of the mandates,
29:06
Speaker 9: particularly towards the end period of the epidemic.
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Speaker 2: Do we need some kind of accountability for this?
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Speaker 9: Well, personally, I think that an apology is due. I mean,
29:24
Speaker 9: I was pro vaccination, so I wasn't affected by the mandates.
29:28
Speaker 9: But I know from my interaction and from this report
29:32
Speaker 9: that those people affected by the mandates who lost their jobs,
29:36
Speaker 9: for example, are very angry still because you see them
29:41
Speaker 9: and you hear them in the community and political things
29:44
Speaker 9: and so on, that they disrupt political meetings. They are
29:47
Speaker 9: feeling so angry by that and that social lack of cohesion.
29:54
Speaker 9: They're not forgetting and they're quite a big group and
30:00
Speaker 9: they feel very hurt. And also I also think there's been,
30:04
Speaker 9: as the Commission says, this reduction throughout New Zealand and
30:10
Speaker 9: confidence and government. So I must say I'm pointing the
30:16
Speaker 9: finger at Chris Hipkins. Why because he was Minister in
30:20
Speaker 9: charge of COVID nineteen response, Education, Police, Health and Deputy
30:24
Speaker 9: Prime Minister. And he's the only one of the three
30:27
Speaker 9: of them who are still there in Parliament. And you
30:30
Speaker 9: know his response is so far quote it's a really
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Speaker 9: helpful report. Quote, I accept the Royal Commissions finding it.
30:40
Speaker 9: There were things that could have been done differently. Well,
30:44
Speaker 9: it's the usual weasel words, isn't it from politicians. I mean,
30:49
Speaker 9: he would be better and it would be it would
30:52
Speaker 9: make a difference to people if he said we made
30:55
Speaker 9: for real mistakes and I'm sorry we did that. I'm
30:58
Speaker 9: sorry we did that around these as use of mandates,
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Speaker 9: lockdowns and I think am i q as well?
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Speaker 2: What about just an apology basically from Hopkins? Yeah, what
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Speaker 2: about the And we've only got about a minute left here,
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Speaker 2: lady Debriah, But what about the you wrote this column.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you would have got lots of kick back
31:19
Speaker 2: from lots of corners. Just that social fragmentation. When one
31:24
Speaker 2: person put their head above the parapet to say something
31:27
Speaker 2: that God forbid, might contradict the prevailing narrative.
31:31
Speaker 15: You're shot down, Yes, yes, that was definitely the case
31:37
Speaker 15: that no other view was accepted, and it was, you know,
31:41
Speaker 15: very it was like a fundamentalist religion was it was
31:45
Speaker 15: far too rigid and far too lacking and taking into account.
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Speaker 9: Other people's perspectives as a sorry state.
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Speaker 2: That we were in, Lady debri Chambers, I appreciate your time.
31:56
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for being with me.
31:58
Speaker 8: My pleasure.
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Speaker 2: who said that Hepkins needs to stand up in front
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Speaker 2: of the public, stop pussy footing around my words and
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Speaker 2: apologize for what happened during COVID. You're on News Talks
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Speaker 16: Fortunately, we've got jacindaduon who arrives back in the country
32:35
Speaker 16: this morning to come into the studio and answer all
32:38
Speaker 16: the questions.
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Speaker 2: You don't undert honestly, shock don't. We don't either. That's right.
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Speaker 16: Where where's where's she?
32:46
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, she's not here in New York. Get
32:49
Speaker 2: three hundred capers speaking.
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Speaker 16: Apparently saying no, she's not available to talk to anyone
32:53
Speaker 16: about the decision she made.
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Speaker 2: How ironic in some ways you think, well, if she
32:58
Speaker 2: did come back, could she actually walk down the street.
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Speaker 2: I thought that quite long, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 16: I'm waiting for her book, which apparently was due out
33:05
Speaker 16: by Christmas, which is clearly never coming. But how do
33:08
Speaker 16: you how does a woman like her? And that seems
33:11
Speaker 16: I almost feel sorry for it. How do you come
33:13
Speaker 16: back to the country ever, Well, that's right, go sit
33:16
Speaker 16: and wit calls without the book, security guards around your saying,
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Speaker 16: oh you're wanting me to sign your book, or where
33:22
Speaker 16: else would you like me to put the book? But
33:23
Speaker 16: we know where her book sales will do best, and
33:25
Speaker 16: that's overseas. Yeah, I think that's part of it. Anyway,
33:27
Speaker 16: we'll be doing a bit of that today. And I
33:29
Speaker 16: liked your comments earlier on about the police yesterday, that
33:31
Speaker 16: that local superintendent he's the goods.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And also I like the fact that they spoke, they
33:37
Speaker 2: had someone there to speak in Maldi to the coury
33:39
Speaker 2: who was upset. That's progressive policing. See Tomorrow No Monday for.
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