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Full Show Podcast: 26 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and try this winter.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning, it is six alf
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Speaker 2: to five year on news Talk said, be coming up
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Speaker 2: this morning. Two scandals with taxpayer money this morning, both
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Speaker 2: involving Farno order. One is about funding the Muana pacifica
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Speaker 2: rugby team, and another is about funding what some people
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Speaker 2: are calling an election ad. And the comment from metepecat
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Speaker 2: Okawa take yesterday that I'll play for you, which is
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Speaker 2: I think sackable at best. Another day, another list of
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Speaker 2: infrastructure projects from the government.
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Speaker 3: Is this an.
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Speaker 2: Announcement about an announcement when there's somebody actually going to
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Speaker 2: build something? Mitch McCann is in the US for US,
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Speaker 2: Trump and NATO go for five percent and fifteen story
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Speaker 2: buildings in Auckland. Sounds pretty reasonable for a city, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at that as well. The agenda first day,
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Speaker 2: the twenty sixth of June. So NATO has agreed to
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Speaker 2: five percent defense spending. Trump very happy, calling it a
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Speaker 2: big win.
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Speaker 4: It's a monumental win for the United States because we
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Speaker 4: were carrying much more than our fair share. But this
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Speaker 4: is a big win for Europe and for actually Western civilization.
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Speaker 2: Pete higsaid, he's saying that report about the US strikes
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Speaker 2: on Iran only setting the program back, the nuclear program
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Speaker 2: back by a few months, as nonsense when.
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Speaker 3: You actually look at the report.
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Speaker 5: By the way, it was a top secret report, it.
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Speaker 6: Was preliminary, it was low confidence, all right, So this.
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Speaker 7: Is a you make assessments based on what you know
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Speaker 7: that it said.
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Speaker 4: It could be very devastating, very honoring, a severe and
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Speaker 4: we believe far more likely severe and obliterated.
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Speaker 1: So this is a political motive here.
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Speaker 2: In Australia, the journalist Antoinette Latooth she's won her case
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Speaker 2: against the ABC, the court ruling she was unfairly sacked
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Speaker 2: over a social media post about the war in Gaza.
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Speaker 3: This after lobbying from pro Israel groups.
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Speaker 8: The ABC rejected and offer last July to settle the
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Speaker 8: case for eighty five thousand dollars, instead blowing over one
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Speaker 8: million dollars in taxpayer month money to discredit itself.
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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 x fol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry this winter news talks a't b good morning.
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Speaker 3: You can get me on nine two ninety two this
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Speaker 3: morning fickus of text.
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Speaker 2: Now the Prime Minister is coming home what is today, Thursday,
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Speaker 2: coming home tomorrow, but has been at NATO, and you know,
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Speaker 2: gripp and grinning left, right and center. He's put out
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Speaker 2: a statement saying that basically, the reason that we should
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Speaker 2: be so interested in what's happening in you know, the
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Speaker 2: euro Atlantic region is because of what's happening here the
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Speaker 2: link between Russia and Ukraine and North Korea. So he says,
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Speaker 2: the links between the euro Atlantic and Indo Pacific and
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Speaker 2: North Korea's in North Korea's support of Russia's invasion of
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Speaker 2: Ukraine and in Russia's technical expertise that can help North
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Speaker 2: Korea develop its nuclear program. In other words, basically, the
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Speaker 2: Russians are helping Rocketman with his nukes, and North Korea
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Speaker 2: is providing cannon fodder for Russia and Ukraine or supporting
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Speaker 2: the war effort in Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: So that's why we should care.
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Speaker 2: They've released a communicay, which is honestly so, I mean,
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Speaker 2: those communicators never make any sense because they're written by
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Speaker 2: pen pushes, but you know, they and they purposely don't
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Speaker 2: kind of tell you what's going on because they don't
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Speaker 2: want to tell you what's going on. But suffice to
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Speaker 2: say they're getting closer on the procurement of military equipment
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Speaker 2: whatever that means. Ten minutes half to five. And this
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Speaker 2: business with medipek at Okawa Tate. And I've known Medipekka
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Speaker 2: for many years and I like medipek at Okawa Tate.
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Speaker 2: But she has to either resign or the agency that
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Speaker 2: she oversees has to have its funding pulp because of
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Speaker 2: what she said yesterday is just completely out of whack.
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Speaker 3: It's completely wrong.
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Speaker 2: This is taxpayer money going to Pharno Order Funding Agency.
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Speaker 2: She's the head of the Pharo Order Commissioning Agency. This
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Speaker 2: is government money. This is taxpayer money, and it's going
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Speaker 2: to fund an ad including tama Eti, where they encourage
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Speaker 2: people to go onto the Maldi role, which is not
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Speaker 2: the job of a Pharo Order Commissioning Agency, right, And
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Speaker 2: this is how she justified it in an interview on
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Speaker 2: r NZ yesterday.
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Speaker 5: If you're going to go on the general role, what
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Speaker 5: you're doing is you're going into well basically the mainstream parties.
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Speaker 1: Now your Mali issues never come to the four on
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Speaker 1: the mainstream parties.
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Speaker 5: So this is what I'm saying, this is why it
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Speaker 5: is necessary.
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Speaker 3: She's a former Malori Party candidate. I'm sorry. You can't
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Speaker 3: do that. You can't.
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Speaker 2: You cannot say that main stream parties, as in Labor
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Speaker 2: and National don't support Maori development or don't support the
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Speaker 2: Maori population and then fund an add which tries to
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Speaker 2: get them onto a different role if it's political. You
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Speaker 2: can't do that with taxpayer money. So something's going to
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Speaker 2: have to happen there. It's going to have to have
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Speaker 2: him quick, quicker than Tama Pawtucker's investigation into this, which
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Speaker 2: was launched yesterday just gone eleven minutes after five year.
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Speaker 2: On news talks AB in Auckland, they're looking at fifteen
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Speaker 2: story buildings, shock horror around train stations for the city
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Speaker 2: rail Link.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to that next.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on early edition with Expole insulation, keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: owns warm and try this winter news talksb.
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Speaker 3: More good news on the export front. We had our
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Speaker 3: May exports surging.
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Speaker 2: This is goods trade and we've got another surplus worth
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Speaker 2: more than a billion dollars one point two billion dollars
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Speaker 2: for May. Imports were down and that so exports up
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Speaker 2: nine point seven percent, imports down seven point two percent
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Speaker 2: for the month, which means we had a monthly goods
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Speaker 2: trade surplus of one point two billion dollars similar to April,
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Speaker 2: first time outside of the pandemic that we've had two
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Speaker 2: consecutive months of a billion plus surplus. And your culprits,
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Speaker 2: you guessed it. It's your dairy year on year up
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Speaker 2: seventeen percent, meat ten percent, fruit forty one percent, but
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Speaker 2: also interestingly gold twenty nine percent. And medical equipment Fisher
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Speaker 2: and Pikell Health medical equipment up seventeen percent.
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Speaker 3: It is quarter past five, Ryan Jentleman.
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Speaker 2: Announcing yesterday it's going to force at coand Council to
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Speaker 2: allow new developments of at least fifteen stories next to
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Speaker 2: key stations for the City Rail Link. The new rules
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Speaker 2: will apply to developments within walking distance of Munga Foe,
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Speaker 2: which is the new station Kingsland Morningside. A ten story
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Speaker 2: limit would apply around Mount Albert and Baldwin av stations.
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Speaker 2: Campbell Dunoon is head of Network at AL J.
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Speaker 3: Hooker and with me this morning. Campbell, good morning, good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 3: Is this what people want?
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 6: Well, hopefully Look, I think it's a positive move by
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Speaker 6: the government. We need to do something to address it.
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Speaker 6: But I think we have to accept we need consultation
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Speaker 6: here and we need to I guess, a balanced approach
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Speaker 6: to the development.
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Speaker 2: What do we need to consult about. I mean, does
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Speaker 2: it not make sense to go up given the traffic,
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Speaker 2: given all the problems we've gotten this city. If we're
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Speaker 2: going to build spend billions building a city rolling, then
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Speaker 2: you know it doesn't not make sense to have big
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Speaker 2: buildings to house people next to them.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, look it does.
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Speaker 6: I mean, yes, you have to go up. There's not
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Speaker 6: the land to go side away, so to speak. But
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Speaker 6: I think people and our research shows this is the key.
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Speaker 6: We certainly want to have living accommodation that gives them
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Speaker 6: some sort of green space and practical amenities and so
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Speaker 6: on and so forth. And I'm also slightly concerned about
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Speaker 6: the parking issue as well, because you don't want cars
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Speaker 6: all parked during the evening on what is it, New
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Speaker 6: North Road. So it'd be interesting to see what sort
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Speaker 6: of the detail is in these plans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and whether the government will force the council to
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Speaker 2: do that, because if you leave leave it up to
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Speaker 2: the council.
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Speaker 3: They don't like car parks.
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Speaker 1: Do they?
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Speaker 10: No, they don't.
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Speaker 6: But look at the end of the day, it's about,
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Speaker 6: you know, do you want to force this on people?
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Speaker 6: Do you want to work with them? And I would
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Speaker 6: prefer to see the latter. But all in all, I
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Speaker 6: think it's a pretty good idea and it's something we need.
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Speaker 6: We just have to be pretty careful how we manage
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Speaker 6: the implementation of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Campbell, appreciate your time this morning. Cambell deon
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Speaker 3: noonhead of network at al J. Hooker. They did a
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Speaker 3: survey interestingness.
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Speaker 8: Al J.
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Speaker 2: Hooker did a survey finding eighty four percent of key
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Speaker 2: we still dream of owning a standalone home, outdoor living
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Speaker 2: high on the wish list. You don't get much outdoor
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Speaker 2: living in a fifteen story apartment building, do you That's
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Speaker 2: part of the problem. Seventeen after five news Talks said,
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Speaker 2: be the story about Muana Pacifica, the rugby team and
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Speaker 2: how it's funded and the role that you play in
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Speaker 2: that next news.
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Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis earlier
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Speaker 1: this year with Ryan Branch at ex Bowl installation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter, news Talks had been it is nineteen after
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Speaker 2: five News Talks, he'd be revelations this morning. Super Rugby's
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Speaker 2: Muana Pacifica team is being propped up to buy a
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Speaker 2: taxpayer cash to the tune of about eight million dollars. Yes, so,
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Speaker 2: through its inception and first three seasons, the team receiving
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Speaker 2: eight million dollars in New Zealand government help. About five
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Speaker 2: million were grants, three million dollars was a Sport New
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Speaker 2: Zealand loan. First repayments of that made in March and
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Speaker 2: the rest now due. Apparently three hundred thousand dollars of
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Speaker 2: the loan has been written off already and another use
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Speaker 2: of money through Farno Order funds has come via the
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Speaker 2: Pacifica Medical Association Group, which is a charity which is
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Speaker 2: the primary backer of the team. Now this money is
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Speaker 2: going to dry up under government changes. Jason Pine News Talks,
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Speaker 2: he'd be week in Sport host with me this morning.
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Speaker 2: This is a story in the Herald.
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Speaker 11: Jason, good morning, Yeah, morning, right, what does this mean
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Speaker 11: for the team, Well, it can't be good news, can it.
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Speaker 11: When money dries up, that's never a good thing. And
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Speaker 11: as you've outlined, the owners of the team, Pacifica Medical
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Speaker 11: Association Group, the charity that owns mo Onana pacific are
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Speaker 11: going to lose that fun to order contract. Not all
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Speaker 11: of that money obviously went to Majana Pacifica, but their
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Speaker 11: funds the rugby teams that have been bolstered significantly in
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Speaker 11: the last couple of years through that money, as well
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Speaker 11: as broadcast, which we know is also going to be
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Speaker 11: reduced when the new Sky ideal comes out. Sponsorship is
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Speaker 11: never easy to come by, so there's a lot of
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Speaker 11: revenue streams here, Ryan, and none of them are increasing.
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Speaker 11: So yeah, it's got to be it's got to be
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Speaker 11: furrowing the brow of those that Wana Pacifica HQ.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. How are rugby teams super rugby teams normally funded
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Speaker 2: like it would it be normal for government money to
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Speaker 2: be involved in stuff like this.
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Speaker 11: No, And I think Winna Pacifica was a special case
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Speaker 11: when they were stood up. You know, it was an
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Speaker 11: idea that I think most people agreed with. Another super
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Speaker 11: rugby team with pathways through to the Tongan and some
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Speaker 11: Mouran national teams. They take part in a competition with
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Speaker 11: all of the other New Zealand sides. So I think
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Speaker 11: a New Zealand rugby. New Zealand Rugby were their biggest
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Speaker 11: backer in the first season of their existence, along with
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Speaker 11: government money. But no, I mean you must remember that
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Speaker 11: that they're not one of New Zealand Rugby's teams. You know,
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Speaker 11: despite what I've just said, there are New Zealand players.
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Speaker 11: They're arlisav the best example. But no, it wouldn't be
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Speaker 11: common for, for example, New Zealand Rugby to ride and
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Speaker 11: on a white horse here and save the franchise if
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Speaker 11: it came to that.
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Speaker 2: Right, So they're sort of on their own without and
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Speaker 2: if this government money does dry up, it looks like
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Speaker 2: perhaps the team what.
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Speaker 3: May not continue.
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Speaker 11: Well, I mean that's the worst case scenario. You hope
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Speaker 11: that they find a way. There's broadcast, there's sponsorship, there's
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Speaker 11: ticket sales, and there's obviously the owner's own funds and
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Speaker 11: perhaps money from New Zealand Rugby and World Rugby might
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Speaker 11: be forthcoming if it meant that the franchise could continue.
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Speaker 11: As we know, Ryan, they had an excellent season, their
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Speaker 11: best season you know, by far, and almost made the playoffs.
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Speaker 11: So it would be a great shame if they were
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Speaker 11: to dissolve. But yeah, there's some thinking to do with
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Speaker 11: as I say, these revenue streams maybe not quite what
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Speaker 11: they were in previous years.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, good on you, thanks for coming on the
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Speaker 3: show this morning. Good to hear you.
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Speaker 2: Jason Pine, News Talks, he'd be week in sports hosts
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Speaker 2: with us and it's twenty two minutes twenty three minutes
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Speaker 2: after five on News Talks, he'd be interesting the Fiji
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Speaker 2: and Drewer supported by fifteen on Ireland sponsors and Super
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Speaker 2: Rugby's highest merchandising sales for Fiji and Drawer. It is
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Speaker 2: financially impossible for one of PACIFICA to be based in
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Speaker 2: Samoa or Tonga. So basically their countries are too small
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Speaker 2: and it just they don't have the infrastructure, they don't
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Speaker 2: have the facilities, they don't have the high performance sports,
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Speaker 2: so they have to be based here. It is twenty
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Speaker 2: three minutes after five year on News Talk, said b
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Speaker 2: coming up next another report confirming something we already knew,
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Speaker 2: but do we need to actually seriously start thinking about
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Speaker 2: a solution. This is the aging population. This is the
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Speaker 2: cost of the pension, and it's the cost of the healthcare.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 1: by News Talks.
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Speaker 2: B five twenty five News Talk said b it's obvious
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Speaker 2: to anyone paying attention that in the coming decades, and
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Speaker 2: even if you're not paying attention, it's just logical in
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Speaker 2: the coming decades we're not going to have enough young
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Speaker 2: people working to support the cost of health and super
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Speaker 2: for the elderly. All this is spelled out in a
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Speaker 2: Treasury report which Thomas Coglan published in The Herald today.
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Speaker 2: This is not new, We've known this for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Future governments will either have to take a sledge hammer
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Speaker 2: to spending on health or raise the age of super.
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Speaker 2: The obvious answer, I think is to raise the age
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Speaker 2: of super. Don't worry, not immediate, not tomorrow, but raise
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Speaker 2: the age of super not going to happen of course,
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Speaker 2: of all. Winston's around. But the other thing we could
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Speaker 2: cut is our expectations boys born. This is stats in
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Speaker 2: his head data. Boys born in the early nineteen sixties
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Speaker 2: who were reaching sixty five now wish could expect to
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Speaker 2: live to around seventy nine years on average, and girls
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Speaker 2: eighty three. Boys born in the early twenty twenties, so
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Speaker 2: you're freshies could expect to live to eighty eight years
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Speaker 2: on average, girls ninety one years on average, so we've
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Speaker 2: added about ten years to our lives. This is very
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Speaker 2: expensive and it's only going to get better or worse,
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Speaker 2: depending on how you look at this problem.
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Speaker 10: Now.
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Speaker 2: I was speaking to a woman in whose seventies this
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Speaker 2: week now I won't name, who firmly believes that when
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Speaker 2: you reach the age of eighty, you must choose.
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Speaker 3: The pension or healthcare. We can't afford both.
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Speaker 2: How can we afford to fill our hospitals keeping eighty
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Speaker 2: plus year olds alive and keeping paying their pensions and
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Speaker 2: not send the country bankrupts her point, and she's older,
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Speaker 2: closer to eighty than I am, much closer. I know
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Speaker 2: it sounds jarring. I know it sounds cruel, But isn't
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Speaker 2: it fair to ask how we plan to fund the
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Speaker 2: very expensive long lives that we are now planning to live, which,
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Speaker 2: by the way, was not the intention when the pension
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Speaker 2: was set up when it was universal.
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Speaker 3: The age has blown out massively, hasn't it?
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Speaker 2: So I think it's fair to ask the question at least,
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Speaker 2: how do we confront that problem? Twenty eight minutes after five, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: we live in so many people on the tall buildings
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Speaker 2: in Auckland, Ryan, we live in an earthquake prone nation,
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Speaker 2: says Harry, what fools would build housing ten to fifteen
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Speaker 2: stories high. So do the Japanese and they go pretty high. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: consultation on high rise buildings nonsense, just do it. Some
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Speaker 2: countries build cities in five years. We take the same
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Speaker 2: time to consult and report back, and look how expensive
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Speaker 2: and delayed our projects have become. Seas Graham. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 2: sort of in your camp, Graham. I think if we're
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Speaker 2: going to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars
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Speaker 2: on a new city rail link, you've got to get
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Speaker 2: your bang for you, but you've got to get the
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Speaker 2: most out of it. And if that means building up
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Speaker 2: around the stations, then I think that makes a lot
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Speaker 2: of sense. This is from Cameron on the one of
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Speaker 2: pacifica Ryan, but bring back cigarette sponsorship for sport. It's
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Speaker 2: endless money. I don't think we can do that, but
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Speaker 2: you could go for you McDonald's, because I do wonder sometimes,
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Speaker 2: you know, with the All Blacks and they've finally got
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Speaker 2: themselves a new sponsor, but do they turn their nose
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Speaker 2: up it? You know, has KFC come in and offered
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Speaker 2: money and they've turned their nose.
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Speaker 3: Up at it because it's fast food. You know, we've
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Speaker 3: been a bit snobby with that sports funding. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: On the aging population, Ryan, I completely agree. We have
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Speaker 2: to cut our cloth in order to afford the very
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Speaker 2: and by historical standards, the very luxurious lives that we
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Speaker 2: currently lead.
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Speaker 3: You're on News Talks VB. Get to our reporters around
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Speaker 3: the country.
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Speaker 9: Next games for you person over again.
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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 ex Fole Insulation keeping Keighley
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry. This winter News Talks ed B
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Speaker 1: and then.
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Speaker 3: Look morning twenty four minutes away from six. News Talks
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Speaker 3: EDB is Thursday, the twenty sixth of June.
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Speaker 2: Before six, we'll get to Nick Leggett Infrastructure, New Zealand
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Speaker 2: on this new plan that's been running. How many plans
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Speaker 2: do you want before you actually start building something? Do
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Speaker 2: we like pile all the plans on top of each
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Speaker 2: other and hope that a sky rise appears?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll talk to Neglegant about that much we can
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Speaker 2: is in the US for US after the Trump at
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Speaker 2: the NATO summit, they've got to five percent. Good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: Paul Luxon looked as important as someone trying to sell
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Speaker 2: people a vacuum cleaner at the NATO meeting, says George,
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Speaker 2: I mean that's essentially what you're the equivalent of when
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Speaker 2: you come from the Pacific, isn't it? And you're at NATO.
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Speaker 2: So give I mean, give them a bit of a break.
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Speaker 2: And on pension or healthcare, loads of feedback on this,
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Speaker 2: as you can imagine, Ryan, taking away healthcare from people
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Speaker 2: would just increase you sorry, taking away the pension from
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Speaker 2: people would increase your health care costs because you're not
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Speaker 2: eating good food, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The
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Speaker 2: things we can't afford to do it all, can we
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Speaker 2: with an aging population? And no one is suggesting even
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Speaker 2: if we change the age of entitlement for superannuation, no
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Speaker 2: one's going to do it tomorrow, And it's not going
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Speaker 2: to affect anyone who's even.
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Speaker 3: Remotely close to it.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be people who are probably my age
19:05
Speaker 2: or younger who will be affected by any change that's made.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to affect anyone who's close to it.
19:12
Speaker 2: But you have to admit, don't you, that there's a
19:13
Speaker 2: bit of a problem, you know, little elephant in the room.
19:17
Speaker 2: Twenty three to two six our reporters around the country
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Speaker 2: this morning, Callum Proctor and needing for us. This morning,
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Speaker 2: Calum doubts a major growth is on the cards for
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Speaker 2: won Aca Airport.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Ryan.
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Speaker 12: Public consultation has opened now on the future of Wonaka
19:33
Speaker 12: Airport and locals are encouraged to submit feedback on their
19:37
Speaker 12: vision for its future. It was only last year the
19:41
Speaker 12: District Council first signals it's intent to begin this process
19:45
Speaker 12: to develop a long term plan for Wonaca Airport. The
19:48
Speaker 12: Mayor's Glenn lewis he isn't ruling out community interest and
19:51
Speaker 12: expanding the airport domestically or maybe even for international flights.
19:55
Speaker 12: He says all options are on the table. He doesn't
19:58
Speaker 12: think though, there'll be much support for growing the airport.
20:02
Speaker 3: And how's your weather?
20:04
Speaker 12: Early rain pleas to find this morning northeasterlyes die out
20:07
Speaker 12: the high sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Today, nice one, thank you and clears and christ Church
20:10
Speaker 2: this morning, Hey clear, good morning. Now we've got more
20:13
Speaker 2: evidence that christ Church is well and truly left its
20:16
Speaker 2: post quake struggles in the past.
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Speaker 10: I'm just here to.
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Speaker 13: Skute again Ryan Look. Demand is taking off at Christchurch Airport.
20:22
Speaker 13: We've got another new announcement from an airline. This time
20:25
Speaker 13: it's China Southern Airlines announcing a twenty six percent boost
20:29
Speaker 13: in capacity as well as a longer operating window this summer.
20:33
Speaker 13: So the Guangzhouta christ Church service will initially operate five
20:36
Speaker 13: times a week, then we'll become daily from mid December.
20:40
Speaker 13: This is after we've already heard about Quantus and Singapore
20:42
Speaker 13: Airlines increasing capacity to and from christ Church. We've spoken
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Speaker 13: with Christchurch inz It's destination and Attraction manager Lauren Aberhart.
20:50
Speaker 13: She says the airline connectivity is changing the way people
20:54
Speaker 13: use the city. She said christ Church is now seen
20:56
Speaker 13: as a destination rather than a gateway into the South.
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Speaker 13: The city's seen a big increase in international visitor nights
21:03
Speaker 13: here as a result. Meanwhile, some good news from venues
21:06
Speaker 13: Auto Tahi yesterday as well. That's provided a twenty eight
21:09
Speaker 13: million dollar boost to the local economy between last July
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Speaker 13: and March of this year.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant. How's your wear?
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Speaker 7: The clear, cloudy with a bit of.
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Speaker 13: Rain expected later northeasterlies is quite strong this morning, a
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Speaker 13: high of fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thank you and Max's and Wellington Haymax, good morning.
21:24
Speaker 2: Now council has received some freeback on public satisfaction.
21:28
Speaker 3: How's that going?
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Speaker 14: Every year the City Council quizzes residence on their satisfaction
21:33
Speaker 14: with council affairs. It was once, indeed, known as the
21:36
Speaker 14: Wellington Residence Satisfaction Survey. It's now rather tellingly the Residence
21:41
Speaker 14: Monitoring Survey because there are fewer people satisfied. The really
21:46
Speaker 14: story in the post this morning. More than half us
21:49
Speaker 14: either somewhat or very dissatisfied with the council matters twenty
21:53
Speaker 14: three percent. Just twenty three percent agree that the Council
21:56
Speaker 14: made decisions in the best interests of the city US year,
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Speaker 14: shockingly or not. The biggest gripe is the perception that
22:03
Speaker 14: the Council's spending on the unnecessaries, the nice to have
22:07
Speaker 14: other than the essentials. Following that, infrastructure like water, the
22:12
Speaker 14: performance of the Mayor and councilors cycle ways as well.
22:15
Speaker 14: Rates obviously shooting up seems like a bit of a
22:18
Speaker 14: water of October.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it does. How's your weather?
22:22
Speaker 14: Cloudy and drizzly with a strong wind all day sixteen
22:26
Speaker 14: Today's high that's fun.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Max and they have a good morning.
22:29
Speaker 1: Good morning.
22:29
Speaker 2: Now Auckland War Memorial Legium. We've got a couple of
22:33
Speaker 2: attractions there.
22:34
Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 5: Yes, now two popular attractions. Apparently they could remain closed
22:39
Speaker 5: for a few years. Ryan, Now, look, the museum was
22:42
Speaker 5: forced to shut I think everyone will remember this. This
22:44
Speaker 5: was in early May after asbestos was detected, and then
22:47
Speaker 5: it reopened in stages twenty four days later. However, now
22:51
Speaker 5: we know that timuri Atia Mauldi Court specific galleries in
22:55
Speaker 5: the grand foyer are still closed. This was for remediation work.
22:59
Speaker 5: But apparently only two sources are saying that this could
23:02
Speaker 5: last for four years, that these you know ones here
23:06
Speaker 5: could be closed for four years, which is like wow.
23:09
Speaker 5: And I think the museum that back when you know,
23:12
Speaker 5: the asbestos was there, that it lost more than four
23:14
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand in potential revenue in May. So
23:18
Speaker 5: if this is true that you know these other ones
23:21
Speaker 5: exhibitions are closed for four years. But if our money
23:26
Speaker 5: will be lost there, I suspect absolutely.
23:29
Speaker 3: How's our weather today?
23:30
Speaker 5: Many showers mainly this evening. Those showers. Nineteen is the
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Speaker 5: high year in Auckland.
23:34
Speaker 3: Brilliant, Thank you very much Neiva. It's eighteen minutes away
23:37
Speaker 3: from six. Very quickly.
23:38
Speaker 2: This was a story from overnight. South Korean government banned
23:43
Speaker 2: and you might remember they did this a couple of
23:45
Speaker 2: years ago, banned the sale of dog meat for consumption.
23:48
Speaker 2: And now the wait for it, Korean Association of Edible Dogs,
23:53
Speaker 2: this is the dog farmers have come out and said
23:56
Speaker 2: that there are half a million dogs in Korea that
24:00
Speaker 2: they will basically, what do you do with them? You
24:02
Speaker 2: can't rehome them all, you can no longer sell them,
24:05
Speaker 2: so half a million dogs they reckon might need to
24:08
Speaker 2: be euthanized as a result of that. I mean, is
24:09
Speaker 2: that the outcome you want?
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Speaker 5: It?
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Speaker 2: Probably not, but that's what happens when you banned stuff.
24:13
Speaker 2: Eighteen away from six news talks b will get to.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann stateside.
24:17
Speaker 3: Next, we've got.
24:19
Speaker 2: Businesses here in New Zealand who, when they say they
24:21
Speaker 2: care about the environment and the planet, are actually doing
24:25
Speaker 2: something real about it, and who is leading the way.
24:28
Speaker 3: It's ex Pole, the warmest feet in the world. People,
24:31
Speaker 3: you'll know them.
24:32
Speaker 2: They've got something called the Expole Earth Initiative and it's
24:36
Speaker 2: quite impressive. All seven of their factories across the country
24:39
Speaker 2: fitted with recycling machines, not just for their own offcuts,
24:42
Speaker 2: but for waste collected from building sites and even households
24:45
Speaker 2: around the country. They're recycling more than five hundred tons
24:49
Speaker 2: of polysty ring every year, five hundred tons, and they've
24:52
Speaker 2: set up recycling bins through building merchants nationwide taking back
24:56
Speaker 2: packaging waste as well. That's one thousand cubic of waste
25:01
Speaker 2: each month, roughly ten truck and trailer loads. Even better,
25:05
Speaker 2: seventy five percent of their products now contain recycled content.
25:09
Speaker 2: So if you're building or renovating and you want to
25:11
Speaker 2: be a bit kinder on the planet, go to expole
25:13
Speaker 2: dot co dot NZ your home and the environment will thank.
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Speaker 6: You for it.
25:18
Speaker 1: International correspondence with enzed Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for
25:22
Speaker 1: New Zealand Business.
25:25
Speaker 2: Fourteen away from six News Talk ZVB and Mitch McCann
25:29
Speaker 2: is stateside for US this morning. Mitch Trump pushing back.
25:32
Speaker 2: This is at NATO pushing back on that report, early
25:35
Speaker 2: report on Iran and bombing the nukes.
25:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. I think Donald Trump
25:41
Speaker 7: was hoping to take a bit of a victory lap
25:43
Speaker 7: at the Hague for this conference at the moment. At
25:46
Speaker 7: the NATO conference, of course, yesterday it came out that
25:49
Speaker 7: a preliminary report show that maybe these nuclear science in
25:52
Speaker 7: Iran hadn't been completely obliterated as Donald Trump claimed they had,
25:56
Speaker 7: and he's not happy about that early reporting. He's going
25:59
Speaker 7: the press about it. He says, these reports are demeaning
26:02
Speaker 7: to the bomber pilots that flew to Iran.
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Speaker 3: He sees the report was.
26:06
Speaker 7: Something that wasn't finished. He sees it since then, they've
26:08
Speaker 7: collected additional intelligence, he says. He's also spoken to people
26:12
Speaker 7: who have seen the site and it's obliterated, and he thinks,
26:15
Speaker 7: doubt everything down there was the nuclear the nuclear content
26:20
Speaker 7: that Iran has. So Donald Trump thinks it was a
26:22
Speaker 7: very successful bombing, but some of the intelligence may suggest otherwise.
26:27
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in New York City, the mayoral candidate the Democrats
26:30
Speaker 2: have elected were voted on. They haven't confirmed that the vote,
26:33
Speaker 2: but this thirty three year old they've gone quite hard
26:36
Speaker 2: left with this candidate.
26:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have very progressive.
26:39
Speaker 7: A man named Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, the former
26:44
Speaker 7: governor of New York who was governor for about six years,
26:46
Speaker 7: before he had to resign over sexual harassment claims. Now
26:50
Speaker 7: ma'mdani is leading the vote. It's almost completely counted, by
26:53
Speaker 7: forty three percent to thirty six percent. He ran on
26:57
Speaker 7: a campaign promising to freeze rent, the attacks the red Which,
27:00
Speaker 7: and create city.
27:01
Speaker 3: Owned grocery stores.
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Speaker 7: He is very far left of the Democratic Party here
27:06
Speaker 7: and he will likely be the nominee. But it is
27:09
Speaker 7: important for many reasons for the fact that the Democratic
27:11
Speaker 7: Party more nationally could be impacted by this. It may
27:14
Speaker 7: signal that they're ready for a group of younger candidates
27:17
Speaker 7: away from some of those older candidates, like we've seen
27:20
Speaker 7: people like Joe Biden.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate you time thisawning, Mitch. Thank you very much much.
27:24
Speaker 2: McCann, our US correspondent. It is twelve minutes away from
27:28
Speaker 2: six ran. We're not getting banged for our buck when
27:30
Speaker 2: it comes to spending on infrastructure. I mean, tell us
27:33
Speaker 2: something we don't know. This is according to the Infrastructure
27:35
Speaker 2: Commission's first draft for the first National Infrastructure Plan. It
27:42
Speaker 2: reckons we're spending and the spending we are doing at
27:45
Speaker 2: the moment puts US in the top ten percent of
27:47
Speaker 2: developed countries. But what we're getting for it puts us
27:50
Speaker 2: in the bottom ten percent. Nick Leggett is Infrastrucure New
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Speaker 2: Zealand CEO with us this morning. Hey Nick, Hi Ryan,
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Speaker 2: are you getting sick of hearing reports and list of
27:59
Speaker 2: things we need to be doing?
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Speaker 3: I mean, why don't we just do something?
28:02
Speaker 10: I think that is a bloody good point, Brian. Look,
28:06
Speaker 10: this is a good report. There's a lot in here,
28:09
Speaker 10: and what we've got to do is act on it,
28:11
Speaker 10: as you say, because if plans and reports were the answer,
28:15
Speaker 10: New Zealand would have solved all its problems. Right, we
28:19
Speaker 10: have to as a as a nation, I think, grab
28:23
Speaker 10: the ball by the horns. You know, we don't look
28:24
Speaker 10: after what we've got, and you know we will often
28:27
Speaker 10: talk about that infrastructure New Zealand, this infrastructure deficit. Not
28:31
Speaker 10: this report plainly points out is that the majority of
28:35
Speaker 10: that deficit is actually were the assets that we have
28:38
Speaker 10: that we already own and that we don't look after
28:41
Speaker 10: and we don't invest in their maintenance and renewals. And
28:44
Speaker 10: you know, I think New Zealanders know that because they
28:46
Speaker 10: fell in roads and rail and water and schools and hospitals.
28:51
Speaker 10: The plan also notes quite prominently that big parts of
28:57
Speaker 10: government don't actually even have a record of what they own,
29:01
Speaker 10: and therefore they don't have a plan about how they're
29:03
Speaker 10: going to maintain it. So we build stuff. We're very
29:05
Speaker 10: good at that, and then we don't fix up. And
29:09
Speaker 10: then then then then you go to the questions, well
29:11
Speaker 10: what do you do about all this? To be conscious?
29:13
Speaker 3: Do we not build stuff? Then? I mean, do we
29:15
Speaker 3: just stick with what we've got and fix it up?
29:17
Speaker 10: Well, that's a big there's a big part. That's a
29:20
Speaker 10: big part of it. I think it's we're always onto
29:22
Speaker 10: the next thing, right, which is not bad, but if
29:25
Speaker 10: you want to get the best value out of what
29:28
Speaker 10: you build, maintaining it is a good start. So we
29:34
Speaker 10: we're not we're not good at that, and part of
29:37
Speaker 10: it is because we just lack of focus and we
29:39
Speaker 10: move on to the next thing. So we've got to
29:40
Speaker 10: change that, and we've got to get into asset management planning,
29:44
Speaker 10: which is a term that obviously those people that do
29:48
Speaker 10: assets are interested in. Most of us don't know what
29:51
Speaker 10: that means, but it is about knowing what you own,
29:53
Speaker 10: investing in it, and then putting the money aside and
29:57
Speaker 10: not spending the money. Because it is what we do.
29:59
Speaker 10: We raid the piggy bank. Every time something comes along,
30:02
Speaker 10: it's more exciting, and we spend it on that. We
30:06
Speaker 10: don't spend it back on the assets that you often
30:08
Speaker 10: can't see a big part of what the country's got
30:11
Speaker 10: to do is get beyond political cycles and build the
30:15
Speaker 10: system that supports of the structure, you know, planning it,
30:19
Speaker 10: making the decisions, sticking to the decision. What we do
30:22
Speaker 10: very well is, you know, there's an election, there's a
30:25
Speaker 10: change of government, and everything stops or gets canceled. But
30:28
Speaker 10: the money that we spend on stuff that never happens
30:32
Speaker 10: costs us dearly. You talk about that bottom we get
30:35
Speaker 10: the bottom ten percent of value in the OECD. A
30:38
Speaker 10: big part of it, not all of it, is because
30:40
Speaker 10: we don't stick to things, and so we do have
30:42
Speaker 10: to build more cross part and support for the system
30:45
Speaker 10: and the plan into the future about what we've got
30:48
Speaker 10: to stick to that.
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Speaker 2: And we've been saying honestly, like I appreciate what you're
30:54
Speaker 2: saying and for you coming on the show, but honestly,
30:57
Speaker 2: I feel like I've.
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Speaker 3: Heard this a thousand times, you know, yeah, and a
31:03
Speaker 3: thousand times I know, But.
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Speaker 10: But Ryan, do you know where the changes it's not
31:06
Speaker 10: with politicians, although they do have to change. It's it's
31:09
Speaker 10: us as members of the public citizens demanding that politicians
31:14
Speaker 10: behave differently and that we build a proper system and
31:17
Speaker 10: we take a much more long term view about what
31:20
Speaker 10: we own and what we need to build on how
31:22
Speaker 10: we get how we get there.
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Speaker 3: Nick, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you for coming on.
31:26
Speaker 2: Nick Leggett, Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive. It's eight to
31:28
Speaker 2: six news Talk, said B. And Mike is in the studio.
31:31
Speaker 1: Next get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
31:36
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi, Holmes, Warm
31:40
Speaker 1: and Drey.
31:41
Speaker 3: This winter news Talk, said B.
31:43
Speaker 2: It is six minutes away from six news Talk, said B.
31:46
Speaker 2: People have been really mean to Chris lux In this morning.
31:48
Speaker 2: Someone says he would be more popular on the world
31:50
Speaker 2: stage if he had.
31:50
Speaker 3: A hair piece. Honestly, who cares what whether.
31:53
Speaker 2: He's got here or not. Half of them don't have
31:55
Speaker 2: here at NATO, do they. Mike's got lots of here
31:58
Speaker 2: and he's in the studio. Hey Mike, nice to see
32:00
Speaker 2: Nice to see you.
32:01
Speaker 9: So there's two scandals here. One scandal is the business
32:04
Speaker 9: of Farna Aura and the electioneering. The other scandal is
32:08
Speaker 9: the business of Farna Aura and Moana Pacifica.
32:11
Speaker 3: Did you know that they were funded, of course, not
32:13
Speaker 3: the million dollars. No one does.
32:15
Speaker 9: And that's the other scandal associated with the scandal though,
32:18
Speaker 9: And we've got a couple of people who can well
32:20
Speaker 9: they should be sacked. One of them is Nikola Willis.
32:23
Speaker 9: Is the fact that this government, rightly or wrongly, but
32:27
Speaker 9: this government campaigned on getting rid of race based policy.
32:32
Speaker 9: That's what they campaigned on and they're failing miserably. So
32:35
Speaker 9: to watch Tama Potarka yesterday to go oh, well, we'll
32:39
Speaker 9: need to investigate this electioneering nonsense. A thirty minute add
32:43
Speaker 9: we never heard of a thirty minute.
32:44
Speaker 2: And the goal that when they were asked how much
32:47
Speaker 2: did it cost, the response was well we're not you'll
32:50
Speaker 2: find out in a year when we publish our financials.
32:53
Speaker 9: And so that's what they promised to get rid of. Now,
32:55
Speaker 9: the I think the biggest scandal is the Moana Pacifica thing.
33:00
Speaker 9: Money goes from feigner or to an agency who's.
33:03
Speaker 3: Meant to be doing health work.
33:05
Speaker 9: Uplift the community in some way. So you uplift your
33:10
Speaker 9: community by sponsoring a professional rugby team. Are you serious?
33:13
Speaker 3: It's pretty outrageous.
33:14
Speaker 9: And then because that agency has now lost the contract,
33:18
Speaker 9: they don't have any money. They owe money to the state,
33:21
Speaker 9: which they've alreadyd some of it's already been ritre one.
33:23
Speaker 3: Hundred thousand dollars rushing off already.
33:25
Speaker 9: Team goes west because they're going to need to find
33:27
Speaker 9: money from somewhere, and suddenly super Rugby is affected. One
33:31
Speaker 9: of the most talked about sides in the competition is gone,
33:34
Speaker 9: potentially because the money from the state that you didn't
33:37
Speaker 9: even know was being funded into professional rugby in the
33:39
Speaker 9: first place. The whole things are scandal.
33:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is quite scandalous because no other team would
33:45
Speaker 2: be getting money from the state.
33:46
Speaker 9: Right well, well please don't say that, because we'll probably
33:49
Speaker 9: find they are. And this against the backdrop of the
33:52
Speaker 9: fact we have no money in the first place. So anyway,
33:54
Speaker 9: this disint brilliant. Looking forward to it, Mike, have a
33:57
Speaker 9: great morning everyone.
33:58
Speaker 3: It's three to six you tomorrow Friday night.
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