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Full Show Podcast: 26 January 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: News Talk, sa'd be good morning.
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Speaker 2: Great to be back with you, six after five on
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Speaker 2: your Monday. Sam Uffindel and todong A on the Landslide
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Speaker 2: for us before six were in the UK starmers going
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Speaker 2: to blockers rival from getting back into Parliament. Andrews he
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Speaker 2: was bought and that Glori of a Vale school that
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Speaker 2: we thought was going to close is actually going to
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Speaker 2: stay open. We'll tell you why. The agenda Monday, the
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Speaker 2: twenty sixth of January, starting in the US. It was
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Speaker 2: he holding a gun? Was he not holding a gun?
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Speaker 2: That's the question about this protester who was shot by
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Speaker 2: Ice in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 3: The suspect also had two loaded magazines and no accessible ID.
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Speaker 3: This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to
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Speaker 3: do maximum damage in massacre law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: Some are calling bs. They want a full joint federal
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Speaker 2: and the state investigation.
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Speaker 4: Call on all Americans to see the decency that this
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Speaker 4: stat is exding and the horrific, cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination
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Speaker 4: that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing
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Speaker 4: on our Street. They think they can provocus into abandoning
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Speaker 4: our values while they're dead wrong to the UK.
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Speaker 2: It's fascinating. Starma looks quite scared by this big news
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Speaker 2: this morning. The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Annie Burnham. We've
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Speaker 2: spoken about him a couple of times. He's been blocked
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Speaker 2: from standing as a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary by
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Speaker 2: election in Gordon and Denton. This is Labour's ruling body,
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Speaker 2: the hierarchy that's done this. He's widely seen as a
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Speaker 2: potential leadership challenger to Starmer.
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Speaker 5: Of course, any mayor who wants to sign in a
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Speaker 5: parliamentary by election under the Labor Policy's rules has to
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Speaker 5: see the permission of that committee. On this occasion, they've
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Speaker 5: decided against it because of the huge inconvenience to two
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Speaker 5: million voters across Greater Manchester of having a by election for.
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Speaker 2: A new mayor if he were to move forward.
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Speaker 5: So I know that's disappointing for Oun, but it's good
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Speaker 5: news for the people who greets to Manchester.
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Speaker 2: And for Starmer, no doubt. We'll talk to our Cory
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Speaker 2: about that at twenty to six this morning. Finally, Robbie
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Speaker 2: Williams has secured a major milestone on the UK album charts,
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Speaker 2: are passing the Beatles to become the artist with the
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Speaker 2: most number one albums in chart history. I know. Robbie Williams,
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Speaker 2: his album Britpop, released last Friday, is the sixteenth number
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Speaker 2: one of his solo career.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just sensational and unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: What I feel like the forest Gump of pop.
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Speaker 6: Right time is eight after five on your radio and
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Speaker 6: online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with Ryan Bridge and one
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Speaker 6: roof Love where you Live News.
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Speaker 2: Talk, sa'd be nine after five now. Phil Gof's war
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Speaker 2: with Winston over Trump continues. We have the sequel on this.
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Speaker 2: So Goff is criticizing Peter's if you didn't catch up
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Speaker 2: with it at the weekend, for not speaking out on
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Speaker 2: this Afghanistan troops scandal. If you didn't catch that Trump
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Speaker 2: saying basically they this is NATO troops. They didn't go
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Speaker 2: near the front line. I know four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: Brits alone died fighting, by the way, after they invoked
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Speaker 2: Article one of the NATO Treaty. To be fair to Winston,
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Speaker 2: Trump's comments were about NATO troops, not specifically ours. I'm
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Speaker 2: not defending Trump. As I said last week, the comments
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Speaker 2: that he made were disgraceful, but to be expected, aren't
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Speaker 2: they Is anyone actually surprised? Trump has his agenda and
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Speaker 2: he doesn't care if he's disliked. In fact, he enjoys it.
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Speaker 2: He salivates, He loves it. He loves stirring the pot,
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Speaker 2: racking everyone up, and then flying into Davos to the
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Speaker 2: eye of the storm. This is what he gets off on.
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Speaker 2: The more the establishment hates him, the more the megabased
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Speaker 2: loves him. The question for New Zealand, and more importantly
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Speaker 2: for Winston Peters, is when and to what extent you
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Speaker 2: call out this bad behavior? And actually, more importantly than that,
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Speaker 2: will calling out bad behavior actually change or achieve anything.
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Speaker 2: There are those that say we should be on the
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Speaker 2: quote right side of history and bark at every passing car,
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Speaker 2: ask Canada how that's going. The last thing we need
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Speaker 2: is tariffs on beef patties into our largest market. We
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Speaker 2: don't want kiw hamburgers costing more than the Aussie ones.
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Speaker 2: That would be very bad for business. Trump's annoying as hell,
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Speaker 2: let's be honest about it, but he's made very clear
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Speaker 2: that he's not there for us, he's there for America.
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Speaker 2: Calling out a personality of that particular type with an
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Speaker 2: agenda like that would not only become exhausting but probably counterproductive.
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Speaker 2: Like it or not, As most of Europe has realized
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Speaker 2: on defense and we do now on trade, the US
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Speaker 2: is still number one. Putting ones moral needs and beliefs
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Speaker 2: before the good of the country is silly, maybe even selfish.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, you on news Talk said being nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two is the number to text. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: Andrew Ortison. He's giving us a wrap of the weekend, Sport.
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Speaker 1: Next Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: where you live.
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Speaker 2: News talks'd be five point thirteen. Andrew will be with
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Speaker 2: us in about seven minutes time. On the weekend, I
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Speaker 2: had a text from a friend who said, you've got
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Speaker 2: to do something about the Auckland harbour Bridge. They keep
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Speaker 2: closing it. How annoying is this and traffic's piling up.
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Speaker 2: So Saturday, this is when the friend got in touch.
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Speaker 2: Harbor bridge was closed and it was open, then it
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Speaker 2: was closed and it was open again and not just
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Speaker 2: like the entire bridge. And then they also close certain
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Speaker 2: lanes and then they do speed restrictions as well. The
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Speaker 2: net result of this traffic backed up to Newmarket. Now,
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Speaker 2: I looked at the times. They closed it for nine
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Speaker 2: minutes twelve forty five to twelve fifty four, then they
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Speaker 2: closed it again at one forty six pm for sixteen minutes,
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Speaker 2: open again at two oh two pm. Is this overkilled?
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Speaker 2: The problem is And if you were in the car,
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Speaker 2: you would have thought this is overkilled. This is you know,
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Speaker 2: health and safety gone mad. Blah blah blah. The problem is.
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Speaker 2: And look no further than Toto on it. If they
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Speaker 2: don't close the bridge and something happens, then everyone goes
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Speaker 2: after them. NZTA cops it. So do we'r on the
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Speaker 2: side of caution or what do we do here? Nine
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Speaker 2: two nine two is the number to text fourteen after
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Speaker 2: five Ryan. Remember how Gloria Vale's school was meant to
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Speaker 2: close Friday. Well there's been a change of heart. The
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Speaker 2: school's remaining open for now. A July Aero report found
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Speaker 2: the school failed to meet three of eight registration criteria
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Speaker 2: that closed it down. The board, though has sought a
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Speaker 2: judicial review of the decision. It now remains open until
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Speaker 2: that is heard. Liz Gregory is the founder Gloria Vale
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Speaker 2: Leaders Trust. On the Secretary for Education joins us Now, Liz,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: You're obviously worried about this. You don't want the school
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Speaker 2: to be open. We're not quite sure at the stage
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Speaker 2: how long it might be.
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Speaker 7: No, that's right. The reality is the Ministry of Education
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Speaker 7: followed due process the safety of the children of Paramount.
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Speaker 7: That's one of the statue's embedded into New Zealand law.
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Speaker 7: It was under those reasons that the school was closed
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Speaker 7: and a Gloravale obviously feel that the process hasn't been followed.
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Speaker 7: So a judicial review doesn't mean that the court can
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Speaker 7: overturn the decision. It just means they examine the process
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Speaker 7: that the ministry went through to close it. So, yeah,
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Speaker 7: it does seem interesting to find a judge that would
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Speaker 7: be willing to keep it open in the meantime, given
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Speaker 7: it was around safety issues.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does seem a little odd. What are the
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Speaker 2: kids going to do? I mean, that's assumed that it
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Speaker 2: goes through and that the judicial review is over and
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Speaker 2: the school closes, where do all the kids go?
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Speaker 7: The Ministry of Education, we're obviously looking into a plan
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Speaker 7: to rehome or reach school the children. They had mentioned
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Speaker 7: publicly the idea of a hub, a Glora Our hub
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Speaker 7: that would involved. Initially it was going to be some Takura,
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Speaker 7: so that's our correspondence. School was going to just pick
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Speaker 7: up the slack making sure the children were enrolled legally
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Speaker 7: in a school that was going to be for the
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Speaker 7: first term at Gloriavale site with some supervision until they
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Speaker 7: had the ability I guess to put some prefabs or
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Speaker 7: make provision for buildings onto another local school, so they
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Speaker 7: have local schools in the gray Mouth region. They were
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Speaker 7: about forty minutes away, but that's not a distance that
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Speaker 7: a lot of other kids don't travel already to get
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Speaker 7: to school, so there was going to be an option there,
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Speaker 7: I guess for the children to go be legally educated
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Speaker 7: and then make decisions around their future. I mean, the
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Speaker 7: parents wouldn't be forced to send the children there like
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Speaker 7: anyone in New Zealand. They're welcome to take offers or
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Speaker 7: two who's educational provisions for their children and a variety
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Speaker 7: of see things.
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Speaker 2: Liz appreciate your update this morning. Thank you. Liz Gregory,
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Speaker 2: founder of the Glory of our leaders Trust with us Live.
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Speaker 2: The Score was meant to be closed from today but
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Speaker 2: will stay open for now. Five seventeen. Andrew Next with
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Speaker 2: Sport The.
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Speaker 1: News you Need this Morning and the in depth Analysis
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love Where
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Speaker 1: You Live, News Talks at be.
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Speaker 2: News Talks Abit. It's time for sport with Andrew. Who's
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Speaker 2: in with us this morning, Andrew, Good morning. Greeting's right,
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Speaker 2: Sam Ruth might as well have wings. The guy can fly.
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, he's the business, that's for sure. I mean,
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Speaker 8: it's going to be fascinating to see where his career
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Speaker 8: takes him. Given them the slatest mile record as a
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Speaker 8: sixteen year old, the fasts in the world. It's just
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Speaker 8: extraordinary circumstances. And I guess it depends on how his
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Speaker 8: manager and looks like his parents doing a great job
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Speaker 8: at the moment, just building them through things. But you're
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Speaker 8: delicate at that age. But yeah, he's just making Yeah,
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Speaker 8: every post winner on pretty much.
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Speaker 1: Joel.
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Speaker 8: It was really impressing me about him. No, it's not
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Speaker 8: so much the writing and that. It's when he went
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Speaker 8: and helped There was a story in the heroin Sunday
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Speaker 8: Christopher reeve that it's not so long ago where at
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Speaker 8: a moment's notice he was called in to help some
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Speaker 8: young kid who had a disability or something of that
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Speaker 8: nature to get around it. I think it was a
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Speaker 8: challenge with his eyesight and he was samurise Win helped
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Speaker 8: him out and I thought, you know that that speaks
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Speaker 8: volumes for me, over and above any world records.
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Speaker 2: Very cool game. Now, what's haading with the AUSSI Open?
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Speaker 8: What's heating up? As always, it's sort of fried egg
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Speaker 8: on courts sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Isn't the Aussie Open?
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Speaker 8: But well, the usual suspects are there. I think one
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Speaker 8: significant thing for me this but is and it's the
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Speaker 8: ASP Classic When a Yaka Menshic has pulled out with
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Speaker 8: an abdominal injury, but he's given basically Novak Djokovic a
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Speaker 8: walk over into the quarter finals. That's significant because it's
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Speaker 8: just the energy that Djokovic will save as a result
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Speaker 8: of that. Is he she ues this this what would
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Speaker 8: you call the twenty fifth Grand Slam singles title that's
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Speaker 8: eluded him for so long and that would take him
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Speaker 8: into the record books. No one's done more than that,
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Speaker 8: men or women. Margaret caught with twenty four, So that
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Speaker 8: is a significant turn of events. Do you know what's
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Speaker 8: been impressing about it? The Ryan is And it's one
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Speaker 8: I've always thought about tennis, the drop shot, the single,
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Speaker 8: but I just keep seeing more of the drop shot
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Speaker 8: this year, and that just just rather than just the
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Speaker 8: power game or anything like that.
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Speaker 9: And I love watching that.
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Speaker 8: That's the real skill from the baitsline.
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Speaker 2: Who's the woman who is dancing to the crowd? You know,
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Speaker 2: they are booing her and she's dancing and kind of
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Speaker 2: it's a kind of a middle finger to them. Do
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Speaker 2: you know coverage her over the week? I say, right, okay,
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Speaker 2: I need to have a lookout for this, which she
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Speaker 2: won whatever the game was, But I just thought, what
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Speaker 2: a you know, a backbone.
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Speaker 9: To the drama.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, be able to carry.
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Speaker 8: On then and back it up absolutely, And it's good
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Speaker 8: thing Jocovic has been doing that too. I see he
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Speaker 8: must be any bit of an earful out there time.
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Speaker 2: Popular campaigner now very quickly, but yerhaps, how are they
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Speaker 2: doing with India?
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Speaker 8: Oh jeez, it's been an absolute bath. They've been trounced
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Speaker 8: ten overs to spare in a twenty twenty India. I've
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Speaker 8: got to one hundred and fifty four. Abashik Shama the
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Speaker 8: name on everyone's looks at the moment, with crediting circles
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Speaker 8: heading into this World Cup in India and Sri Lanka
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Speaker 8: next month. Sixty eight off, twenty balls, unbeaten.
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Speaker 10: It was just just a war, just hammering it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: New Zealanders were bowling in the highlights pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good to see you, lovely, good to see
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Speaker 2: you back. First time we've seen each other this year.
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Speaker 2: That's right, yeah, yea, yeah, I always appreciate it. Twenty
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Speaker 2: two minutes after five on news Talk, said B the early.
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Speaker 2: Talk said B. It's five twenty five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company this morning. A question for you, who out
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Speaker 2: there wants a pay rise? Who out there deserves the
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Speaker 2: pay rise? Simple question, and I had an easy answer.
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Speaker 2: The answer is, of course, everybody, and who deserves one will.
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Speaker 2: Most of us do buy and large. We're hard workers
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Speaker 2: and we deserve more. Teachers, nurses, doctors, buy and large. Yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 2: At the weekend we had more reports of a doctor
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Speaker 2: shortage and fakatana. This time last week it was the
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Speaker 2: teacher shortage, and the union came out and said, what
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Speaker 2: unions say, throw some cash at it, higher salaries, more staff.
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Speaker 2: Problem solved. The problem is not what to do, but
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Speaker 2: how do you pay for it? Remember, our government is
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Speaker 2: borrowing money from overseas lenders to pay for everyday items
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Speaker 2: like teachers salaries, fixing roads, and paying welfare operational spending.
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Speaker 2: We're paying interest on that borrowing. That interest bill is
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Speaker 2: the highest it's ever been in our nation's history. Even
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Speaker 2: with a national Act and government who are meant to
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Speaker 2: be the right ones, we will keep borrowing for this
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Speaker 2: stuff and won't start paying it back until it least
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Speaker 2: twenty thirty Most know the uncomfortable truth about our situation.
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Speaker 2: We're no longer the wealthy, productive and plentiful country that
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Speaker 2: we used to be. So rather than simply saying we
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Speaker 2: need to be paid more we deserve to be paid more,
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Speaker 2: which nobody disagrees with, we need to ask how how
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Speaker 2: do we make this a wealthy, prosperous country which can
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Speaker 2: afford to do that? The Aussies are paying twenty five
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Speaker 2: thirty percent more, but they mind the but Jesus out
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Speaker 2: of the place. We sell tourism, but moan when there
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Speaker 2: are too many campavans on the road. We turn our
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Speaker 2: nose up at gold digging in Otago, a region founded
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Speaker 2: on doing exactly that. We put the boot into our farmers,
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Speaker 2: who are about the most productive on Earth and who
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Speaker 2: provide protein, nutrients and goodness to forty million people globally.
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Speaker 2: It's easy to demand things, but it's not so easy
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Speaker 2: to pay for them. That's the real challenge, not just
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Speaker 2: for a guff this government, the next one, whoever it
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Speaker 2: might be, but for every single one of us. In
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, on News Talks b Samuffindale, they're tolding
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Speaker 2: you MP he's on the show just before top of
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Speaker 2: the hour, and I'm you know, I've talked to a
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Speaker 2: lot of people about this in over the weekend and
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Speaker 2: there are two schools of thought. One is there was
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Speaker 2: a lot of rain and this is a sort of
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Speaker 2: disaster that happened that you couldn't have prevented in total
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Speaker 2: of the landslide. And then you've got other people who
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Speaker 2: say the council, you know, asleep at the wheel, plenty
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Speaker 2: of warning. In fact, you had this guy Alistair McCarty.
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Speaker 2: He came out at the weekend saying four hours before
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Speaker 2: the landslide, he calls police. He runs around shouting telling
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Speaker 2: people have listen. The dispatcher said that it was not
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Speaker 2: really their jurisdiction, that it was more of a council matter,
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Speaker 2: and that they were going to notify the council. So
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Speaker 2: what does sam Uffndale think about this? I mean, he's there,
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Speaker 2: he's the local MP. He must have an opinion, because
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Speaker 2: every local has an opinion. What does he think about it?
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Speaker 2: We'll ask him before the top of the hour. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you didn't catch this at the weekend, I find
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Speaker 2: this endlessly fascinating. This is the Pentagon. They do it
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Speaker 2: every four years. They put out a report National Defense Strategy,
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Speaker 2: and it says what are the big risks for the US.
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Speaker 2: And normally they say China number one, you know, militarily
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Speaker 2: China number one, and they'll throw Russia in there. All
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Speaker 2: the usual sort of suspects no longer the US homeland
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Speaker 2: and Western Hemisphere they are now the big concerns for
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Speaker 2: this report. When it comes to Russia, they're basically saying,
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Speaker 2: and this is my words, not their's, basically saying Europe,
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Speaker 2: that's yours to look after. They say it's a persistent
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Speaker 2: but manageable threat to NATO's Eastern members, i e. Not
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Speaker 2: US on China. They say they will contain via strength,
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Speaker 2: not confrontation. They don't even mention Taiwan. North Korea. They say, hey,
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Speaker 2: South Korea, that's over to you. It says South Korea
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Speaker 2: capable of taking primary responsibility for the task of containing it.
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Speaker 2: And the Pentagon, well, they've come out and said they'll
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Speaker 2: guarantee US military and commercial access to Panama Canal Gulf
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Speaker 2: of America as though calling it now in Greenland, News talksb.
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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 One Route Love where you
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Speaker 1: live News talks'd be need a came over a country.
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Speaker 2: All away from sixteens Talks. It'd be great to have
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Speaker 2: your company to be back with you bright and early
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty six. And if you are north of Topal,
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Speaker 2: you're probably still asleep, hopefully because you've got yourself a
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Speaker 2: long weekend for the rest of New Zealand. Lovely to
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Speaker 2: have you listening this morning. We'll get to Sam Uffindel,
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Speaker 2: who's the total on a mayor before top of the hour.
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Speaker 2: This text is interesting. It's from Roger. Roger says Ryan
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Speaker 2: about the landslide. There are eight cafes inside the cordon.
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Speaker 2: You know, they got the cordon around it that are closed.
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Speaker 2: They will be hurting financially right now, there's no reason
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Speaker 2: the cordon can't be moved back and the cafes opened
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Speaker 2: now that it's no longer a rescue operation, now that
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Speaker 2: it is into the recovery phase. Very good question. A
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Speaker 2: Roger will put it to Sam Uffndal when he's on
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Speaker 2: the show and on the harbor Bridge we're talking about
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Speaker 2: at the weekend in Auckland. You know this is Jeff
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Speaker 2: is winging about everything and anything. But the harbor Bridge
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Speaker 2: was open, then it was closed, then it was opened again,
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Speaker 2: then it was closed again, and when it was opened again,
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Speaker 2: the lanes were down and the speed was down. And
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Speaker 2: the Carroll says, Ryan, can you please explain why does
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Speaker 2: n ZTA think if I drive over the bridge fifty
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Speaker 2: k's I'm much safer than eighty case do they think
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Speaker 2: at eighty I will turn into a plane and fly
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Speaker 2: off it? How stupid are they? Carolyn? It's a good point.
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Speaker 2: I would have thought if look, if you're gonna do it,
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Speaker 2: you fang it. You guys, as quick as you can,
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Speaker 2: you try and beat the wind. I don't know. Maybe
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Speaker 2: someone can explain that why it would be safer if
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Speaker 2: you're going slower nine twenty two away from six Brian Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Our reporters around the country and Dnedan column is with
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Speaker 2: us Collum, Good morning morning Ryan and now Deaden City Council.
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Speaker 2: They're pausing formal business today. Why is that?
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Speaker 11: This is to honor the late Jules Raddick Ryan, our
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Speaker 11: former mayor, who died earlier this month after suffering a
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Speaker 11: heart attack. He was seventy one. Radick was elected to
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Speaker 11: council here first in twenty nineteen, then served as mayor
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Speaker 11: from twenty twenty two until last year's election, when he
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Speaker 11: was re elected as a counselor. So a special council
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Speaker 11: meeting will be held in his honor this afternoon, with
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Speaker 11: just that one item on the agenda, an opportunity for
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Speaker 11: his former colleagues to share memories of him on a
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Speaker 11: naw meea. Sophie Barker says it's a chance to grieve
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Speaker 11: but also celebrate Raddicks's significant contribution to Dunedin and the
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Speaker 11: public's able to attend today's meeting as well.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant calem thank you. How's your weather.
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Speaker 11: Still wet here showers strong south westeries the high sixteen today.
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Speaker 2: Claire is thank you, Clears and christ Church Clear good
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Speaker 2: morning to you. Good morning. Now you've got an update
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Speaker 2: on well, a big milestone actually for Rolston College.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is one.
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Speaker 13: Of the country's fastest growing schools here in the Salwyn
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Speaker 13: district and it's on track, in fact, days away from
20:42
Speaker 13: opening this second campus after years of delay. So what
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Speaker 13: it will do is separate the junior and senior students
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Speaker 13: across two sites. There are about two kilometers apart in Rolston.
20:53
Speaker 13: Stage one will feature science and tech labs, as well
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Speaker 13: as a gym and some modular classrooms. The principal, Rachel Skelton,
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Speaker 13: says the school has some plans to manage the transition,
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Speaker 13: but does expect there to be some challenges. There's the
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Speaker 13: expectation that students should only need to move between the
21:08
Speaker 13: two campuses for special events the likes of sports day, etc.
21:11
Speaker 13: But of course staff will need to when needed and
21:14
Speaker 13: that could be multiple times a day. Skelton says they'll
21:18
Speaker 13: now push for a performing arts theater and fuddy as well.
21:21
Speaker 13: And hope the Ministry of Education will be behind their
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Speaker 13: plans and able to help with the right infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your wear?
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Speaker 13: The clear, cloudy periods and more showers here today southwesterlies.
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Speaker 2: The high will be twenty Thank you, Max and Wellington.
21:34
Speaker 2: Good morning, Max, good morning, welcome back, Thank you, nice
21:37
Speaker 2: to be back. Tell me about the protest over this
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Speaker 2: funeral home.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, a new funeral home opening on Tenacre Road, which
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Speaker 12: is at the top of Thornder and the Botanic Gardens,
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Speaker 12: Premier House set alongside it, some lovely cafes and restaurants, townhouses.
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Speaker 12: Apparently this funeral home opening completely it came out of
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Speaker 12: the blue to locals. They've been protesting. They've had their
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Speaker 12: signs up along the road. Difficult to really nail down
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Speaker 12: though what their issue is, other than perhaps this funeral
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Speaker 12: home reminding them of their own mortality, lack of council consultations,
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Speaker 12: safety risks, cultural impact, is it appropriate for the area
22:12
Speaker 12: not in their back yard? I imagine it really boils
22:14
Speaker 12: down to the fact that they don't like the idea
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Speaker 12: of the dead coming and going along Tina Corey Road. Apparently,
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Speaker 12: though funerals won't even mostly take place at the homes.
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Speaker 12: It's more a site for family and friends to sit
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Speaker 12: with the dead or for funerals to be arranged. The
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Speaker 12: City Council only required a health certificate for Wellington City
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Speaker 12: Funerals to open.
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Speaker 2: So it's not a crematorium.
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Speaker 12: No, apparently, mostly funerals don't take place there. Embalming doesn't
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Speaker 12: even take a place.
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Speaker 2: There very often.
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Speaker 12: It's more of a I don't know, a shell office,
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Speaker 12: it seems.
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Speaker 2: Come on, that's a bit over the top. I remember
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Speaker 2: that they put a crematorium in where I lived and
22:52
Speaker 2: grew up. They put a crematorium in across the road
22:54
Speaker 2: from a retirement village and the well, which was very contribusial.
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Speaker 2: It's a bit on the nose, A little bit on
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Speaker 2: the nose. There, it goes, Wendy, how's the weather, bally cloudy,
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Speaker 2: party cloudy?
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Speaker 12: Southerly's twenty one?
23:05
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you and neivas and never good morning.
23:08
Speaker 14: Oh i've missed you those we chuckles.
23:10
Speaker 2: Great to see you again, Great to see you again.
23:14
Speaker 2: Now you've been here for a week already, so you're
23:16
Speaker 2: well and truly versed.
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Speaker 14: A I think, well, I don't know about that.
23:19
Speaker 2: Yes, Hey, what's so well? We'll do. We're doing the weather,
23:22
Speaker 2: but the wind will be very important for the Auckland
23:25
Speaker 2: Anniversary Regatta.
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Speaker 14: Yes, and that obviously is today now. Alongside the usual
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Speaker 14: boat races, this year's event it's going to feature the
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Speaker 14: first ever it's called the sail passed boats of every
23:36
Speaker 14: shape and size. This is from west Haven to north Head. Now,
23:40
Speaker 14: this event obviously is quite old, one hundred and eighty
23:42
Speaker 14: six years old now and it's going to feature all
23:44
Speaker 14: these different boats yachts, keelboats, togboats like Armor, the radio
23:48
Speaker 14: control boats and dragon boats. And you'll be able to
23:51
Speaker 14: watch all of the section from today from locations including
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Speaker 14: West Haven, the Viaduct, Mission Bay, Order ArKade, the Boat
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Speaker 14: Club's Nuts and Boom can Head in Tamaki. So everyone
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Speaker 14: will be out and about and you're quite right, Ryan,
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Speaker 14: Auckland looks to be turning on good weather for the regatta.
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Speaker 14: We've got cloudy periods, few showers, but that's mainly this morning.
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Speaker 14: Twenty two is the high so looking good for the regetto.
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Speaker 2: Brilliantly to thank you, and I did actually skip over
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Speaker 2: the weather with Max. You might have noticed, Oh I
24:19
Speaker 2: did it a little rusty for my Monday morning back.
24:22
Speaker 2: I apologize for that partly cloudy possible shower in the
24:25
Speaker 2: morning followed by a few showers in the afternoon. Twenty
24:28
Speaker 2: one is the high, thirteen is the low.
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Speaker 14: Well, good on you there you.
24:31
Speaker 2: Go, Wellington, seventeen away from Sexier on news talks ab
24:35
Speaker 2: we'll get to the UK. This news out of the
24:37
Speaker 2: UK fascinating, I think fascinating Starma. I mean it's not
24:40
Speaker 2: his decision as decision of the Labour Party hierarchy, but
24:43
Speaker 2: he looks like he's a bit scared of arrival for
24:46
Speaker 2: his job.
24:48
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance peace of mind
24:51
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business called to sex.
24:54
Speaker 2: News talks then be We've had talks between Ukraine, Russia
24:57
Speaker 2: and the US and the UAE. They have so far
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Speaker 2: failed joining US. Mike Pers, UK Europe correspondent, Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 10: Very good morning to you. And the start being that
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Speaker 10: story that continues to dominate in Europe, the war, as
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Speaker 10: you say, between Russia and Ukraine. Now, these, as you say,
25:11
Speaker 10: were the first talk since the war started in twenty
25:13
Speaker 10: twenty two. They were face to face in Abu Dhabi.
25:17
Speaker 10: They broke up over the weekend without agreement. Now, while
25:19
Speaker 10: progress was said to be made, it came as Russia
25:22
Speaker 10: carried out a massive bomb attack, leaving one person dead,
25:25
Speaker 10: many hurt, and over one million people without power. Now
25:28
Speaker 10: that is significant as the current temperature in Ukraine is
25:32
Speaker 10: thirteen degrees below zero, so really really cold there. The
25:36
Speaker 10: attack with hundreds of missiles and drones has been heavily
25:39
Speaker 10: criticized by political leaders across Europe as totally barbaric, as
25:43
Speaker 10: I'm sure you can imagine. Now those talks broke up
25:46
Speaker 10: with the prospect of more next week, we are told.
25:48
Speaker 10: The United States said a short time ago they expect
25:51
Speaker 10: they will resume on the first of February. The big
25:54
Speaker 10: sticking point, of.
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Speaker 2: Course, looks like we might have lost Mike's line there
26:01
Speaker 2: will come back to him. I think we might have
26:03
Speaker 2: just permanently. We'll come back to him as soon as
26:05
Speaker 2: we can the talks. By the way, I think the
26:07
Speaker 2: sticking point he was going to get to is the backstop.
26:11
Speaker 2: So the backstop, it looks like, according to Zolensky, Trump
26:15
Speaker 2: and Zelensky have agreed on a security guarantee of sorts,
26:19
Speaker 2: though we don't know anything about that. The real question
26:21
Speaker 2: is over the territory at this point, I think we
26:23
Speaker 2: have him back now. Mike, you were just saying about
26:26
Speaker 2: the territory sticking point.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the big sticking point is that Russia
26:30
Speaker 10: wants some of Ukraine's land to be to be honest Ukraine,
26:34
Speaker 10: so that can't happen.
26:34
Speaker 2: That won't happen. So while there is some.
26:36
Speaker 10: Hope, it will make a settlement difficult because Russia has
26:40
Speaker 10: so far refused to budge on its demand for more
26:43
Speaker 10: land from Ukraine. So I think, you know, a lots
26:45
Speaker 10: more talks, but I think a settlement probably some way
26:47
Speaker 10: off there.
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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate your time this morning. That's Mike psa
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. I will keep you up to date,
26:53
Speaker 2: by the way, with the situation with Andy Burnham, who
26:55
Speaker 2: wants to be, let's face it wants to be the
26:57
Speaker 2: British Prime Minister and Starma's Labour part the hierarchy blocking him.
27:01
Speaker 2: That's coming in just a few sex. It is twelve
27:04
Speaker 2: to six Brian Bridge. So at the Mount the recovery
27:08
Speaker 2: is on whole because of safety. They had a visually
27:10
Speaker 2: last night for the victims tying at MP. Sam Ufndelle's
27:13
Speaker 2: with me this morning. Sam, Good morning, good morning, right,
27:17
Speaker 2: how are you yet? Well? Think you? How's your community doing.
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 15: Community is doing a pretty tough mate. It's obviously an
27:26
Speaker 15: incredibly challenging time for everyone. There's a huge distress with
27:32
Speaker 15: the families. Of course, first responders have been incredible. But
27:37
Speaker 15: I will say about community that there's been a massive
27:40
Speaker 15: out pouring of love and support and it's come to
27:43
Speaker 15: get a really really strongly how we've seen a huge
27:47
Speaker 15: numbers of offers of food and accommodation and support coming
27:53
Speaker 15: and pouring through. But beyond that, I mean it's very
27:57
Speaker 15: airye down at the Mount. I mean you've spent a
28:01
Speaker 15: bit of time there before. A wonderful place, but it's
28:04
Speaker 15: very quiet and it's very somber and it's really right
28:08
Speaker 15: for the community.
28:09
Speaker 2: Yeah one hundred. You've also got good people in your
28:12
Speaker 2: community who were coming out and saying, you know, four
28:15
Speaker 2: hours before this tragedy happened, I was warning people about it.
28:18
Speaker 2: I told the council, rang the cops. What are you
28:21
Speaker 2: you're the local representative? What do you think about what
28:24
Speaker 2: they're saying?
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Speaker 15: Well? TCA Toting City Council has rightfully got on the
28:30
Speaker 15: front foot watch inquiry to look into what happened leading
28:34
Speaker 15: up to it, and that's the right thing to do.
28:37
Speaker 15: And they want to establish all of the facts and
28:39
Speaker 15: get them out there the very public, and I want
28:42
Speaker 15: it to be open and transparent, and once we've got
28:45
Speaker 15: all of that in front of us, then we can
28:48
Speaker 15: have a better look at it all. But there are
28:51
Speaker 15: there are people that we're saying that and those those
28:55
Speaker 15: opinions and comments or will definitely have to be factored
28:59
Speaker 15: into it. And you know, we need to take learnings
29:02
Speaker 15: out of this. If there are things that should have
29:04
Speaker 15: been or could have been done better, then that needs
29:07
Speaker 15: to be on the table. And we need to make
29:09
Speaker 15: sure that that things like this don't happen again where
29:12
Speaker 15: it can be prevented.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing from businesses this morning. There are eight cafes
29:18
Speaker 2: apparently inside the cordon at the moment that can't open.
29:21
Speaker 2: They'll be losing money. Is the cordon need to be
29:24
Speaker 2: that wide? Have you heard this concern from businesses?
29:30
Speaker 15: They have. I have had some businesses raising it with me,
29:32
Speaker 15: and and yes, there are a number of businesses inside
29:35
Speaker 15: the cordon. And the courden has been put in place
29:38
Speaker 15: by the place along with the emergency services. Look, I'm
29:41
Speaker 15: not going to pass judgment on where that cordon should
29:45
Speaker 15: be the best place to determine that, and that there
29:48
Speaker 15: is a lot of sensitivity down there, and they're dealing
29:51
Speaker 15: with a with what is still a pretty volatile site.
29:54
Speaker 15: There is a considerable amount of heavy machinery coming in
29:57
Speaker 15: and out of that cordon. But and saying that, yes,
30:01
Speaker 15: these businesses will be losing money, are losing money, and
30:07
Speaker 15: there needs to be a look at how that can
30:09
Speaker 15: be addressed as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, just finally, you know, there's two schools of thought.
30:14
Speaker 2: I've been speaking to friends who are in Totong of
30:16
Speaker 2: it also just around the traps, this is just a
30:20
Speaker 2: horrible accident, an act of God, whatever you want to
30:23
Speaker 2: call it. And you know, you would never have prevented
30:25
Speaker 2: this tragedy from happening. There's people who say that, and
30:28
Speaker 2: there's people who say, look, they should have done more,
30:30
Speaker 2: could have done more. What are your thoughts, Sam, I'm.
30:34
Speaker 15: Not going to dart to anything there, but I'll just
30:37
Speaker 15: say that it's a terrible, terrible tragedy. It's a horrifect
30:41
Speaker 15: time for Totong, it's a horrific time for the community,
30:44
Speaker 15: and in particular it's awful for those families. But I
30:48
Speaker 15: can make convention again of our first responders, how incredible
30:51
Speaker 15: they have been. I've never been more proud of them
30:54
Speaker 15: watching them at work. They are they are heroes and
30:57
Speaker 15: I want to say thank you for them.
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Speaker 2: And appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for being with
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Speaker 2: me and thoughts. Please pass on our thoughts to your community.
31:05
Speaker 2: Sam UFFNDL The todd On at MP It is eight
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on Billy edition with Ryan
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31:17
Speaker 2: News Talks at b six to six. Couple of quick
31:19
Speaker 2: updates from around the world for you this morning. You
31:21
Speaker 2: know the ding goes this poor Canadian tourist who has
31:24
Speaker 2: found dead on the beach in Australia, the old Fraser Island.
31:28
Speaker 2: The dingoes are going to be euthanized. Ten of them
31:30
Speaker 2: are locals there. Aren't happy about it. Also, Andy Burnham,
31:34
Speaker 2: this is his bid to become, let's face it, the
31:37
Speaker 2: British Prime Minister. First he has to become an MP.
31:39
Speaker 2: He's currently the mayor of Manchester, King of the North
31:42
Speaker 2: they call him. The Labour Party hierarchy has come out
31:46
Speaker 2: and said no, you cannot become an MP, which looks
31:49
Speaker 2: like they're protecting Starmer's job, but they say it's because
31:53
Speaker 2: it would be a very expensive by election in Manchester.
31:56
Speaker 2: Therefore you need to stay in your lane.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge five to six.
32:00
Speaker 2: And Andrew Dickens is here this morning for us for breakfast.
32:03
Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome back, Thank you. Nice a feeling, Oh
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Speaker 2: it feels good.
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Speaker 9: It's a good got the Telly show as well.
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Speaker 2: Today we do we do. That'll be kicking off at
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Speaker 2: seven o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 9: Being renamed now, well, it's going to be Ryan Bridge today.
32:17
Speaker 2: It is going to be renamed. I think they had
32:19
Speaker 2: to rename it because it's going on the well, it
32:21
Speaker 2: will go on the Telly. It's going to be on
32:22
Speaker 2: the three Now app from this morning as well if
32:24
Speaker 2: you want to tune in. But anyway, you know what
32:26
Speaker 2: they're going to have to do.
32:27
Speaker 9: I've been to your set this morning and it's still
32:29
Speaker 9: got big herald now on the on the front of
32:31
Speaker 9: your set.
32:31
Speaker 2: They're going to have to.
32:32
Speaker 8: Prize that off.
32:32
Speaker 9: They're going to have to put Ryan Bridge today.
32:35
Speaker 2: I'm not particularly fussed about that, to be honest with you.
32:38
Speaker 2: Give you a chose me about your show coming up today.
32:40
Speaker 9: Oh well, Martie Dreisdale obviously on the story of the moment,
32:43
Speaker 9: and he'll be talking about whether they will restart the
32:46
Speaker 9: digging today. They've stopped because of the danger that's there.
32:49
Speaker 9: I heard you talking to Utendell about the cordons as well.
32:52
Speaker 9: That's that's difficult for businesses, but it's a difficult time
32:56
Speaker 9: for everybody. But also a review has been announced. We
33:00
Speaker 9: don't know who's going to do the view, what the
33:01
Speaker 9: terms of references are, so we'll ask Mahi a bit
33:04
Speaker 9: about that. It is tragedy one oh one. You know,
33:07
Speaker 9: something happens, you do a review, the findings come out
33:10
Speaker 9: after the heat's gone out, and so it's sort of
33:14
Speaker 9: like just postponing the blame game. So we'll talk to
33:17
Speaker 9: Mahi about all that. Just after seven oh five.
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Speaker 2: It does feel a little bit like that, doesn't it
33:21
Speaker 2: When these things happen. You know, surely there's bits you
33:24
Speaker 2: can tell us now, yes.
33:26
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, And what happens if it range really heavily tomorrow?
33:30
Speaker 9: Have they learned the lesson from last week so that
33:33
Speaker 9: maybe tomorrow if there's another campground, another mountain, whatever, what
33:37
Speaker 9: are they going to do about that?
33:38
Speaker 2: So good question all right, we'll look forward to it today. Andrew,
33:41
Speaker 2: thank you and thank you for listening. Great to be
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