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Full Show Podcast: 12 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
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Speaker 1: New Stalks, it'd be thanks.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, welcome to the program. Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for choosing us today. In the next hour,
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Speaker 2: first the food got criticized. Now a provider has gone bust.
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Speaker 2: What's right and what's wrong about our school lunch program
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Speaker 2: will have a principle for you in five minutes time.
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Speaker 2: Quantus is changing its auty scheme. It's going to be
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Speaker 2: a change is if you're in air New Zealand loyal flyer,
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Speaker 2: you can properly get the Quantus Loyal Fliers. We'll explain
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Speaker 2: the details and what it will mean for travelers in
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Speaker 2: about ten minutes time. And if you want a bid
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Speaker 2: for government work, then the hoops you need to jump
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Speaker 2: through are going to be reduced. So how much of
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Speaker 2: a difference will that make to New Zealand companies and
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Speaker 2: international tenders. We'll have that story just before six. We'll
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Speaker 2: have correspondence from right around the world and all around
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and news as it breaks, and you can
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Speaker 2: text anytime you like. And the number is ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two as small charge does apply. It's seven AUF
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Speaker 2: to five. The agenda Judge Wednesday, the twelfth of March,
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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump is hit back at the Canadians, saying
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Speaker 2: he will double tariffs on Canadian steel and the iminium
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Speaker 2: from twenty five percent now up to fifty percent. Trump
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Speaker 2: says the tariffs will begin on Wednesday, and it's in
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Speaker 2: retaliation for a twenty five percent of tariffs that Ontario
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Speaker 2: placed on electricity, the electricity it sends to northern US States.
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Speaker 2: So here is Ontario's Premier, Doug Ford.
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Speaker 3: Let me be clear. I will not hesitate to increase
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Speaker 3: this charge if necessary if the United States escalates, I
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Speaker 3: will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely. Believe
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Speaker 3: me when I say I do not want to do this.
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Speaker 3: I feel terrible for the American people because it's not
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Speaker 3: the American people who started this trade war. It's one
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Speaker 3: person who's responsible. That's President Trump.
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Speaker 2: Doug Ford in Make County. They're up for a finaln't
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Speaker 2: they a right to America? And US Secretary of State
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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio has been meeting with Ukrainian officials. This is
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Speaker 2: happening in Saudi Arabia, talks on ending the Russian Ukraine War.
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Speaker 2: Atop Zelenski aids, here's the talks have been very constructive
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Speaker 2: so far.
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Speaker 4: The Americans want to assess whether or not they think
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Speaker 4: the Ukrainians in their view, are serious. But of course,
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Speaker 4: from the Ukrainian perspective, they've always seen that they're serious
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Speaker 4: about wanting the war to stop. They want to do
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Speaker 4: it with a mechanism in place to guarantee and police
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Speaker 4: a cease fire, i e. You know, a promise of
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Speaker 4: UAX security systems if push came to shop. So that's
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Speaker 4: the first kind of you know, fundamental roadblock that still
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Speaker 4: exists between these two sides.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, of course people are fighting and people are dying.
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Speaker 2: In fact, three people have been killed in an overnight
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Speaker 2: drone attack in Russia. This was on the Moscow region,
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Speaker 2: and Russia says it's the largest such attack of the war.
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Speaker 2: And the former President of the Philippines, Rodrigo de Tete,
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Speaker 2: has been arrested at Mina's International Airport on order of
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Speaker 2: the inter National Criminal Court in connection with the case
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Speaker 2: of crime against humanity which has been filed against him.
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Speaker 2: He's seventy nine years old these days. He was arrested
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Speaker 2: after arriving from Hong Kong. Police took him into custody
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Speaker 2: on the orders of the ICC. They've been investigating the
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Speaker 2: massive killings that happened under the former president's crackdown against
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Speaker 2: illegal drugs. This is President Fernando Marcus, officers said in
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Speaker 2: this statement. A Meanwhile, Rodrigo de Tete questions his arrest.
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Speaker 5: But this is a good crime that I comite me
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Speaker 5: now the legal paces for my being here, I say,
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Speaker 5: apparently I was brought here, not of.
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Speaker 3: My own mollie coat.
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Speaker 2: There we go, names and stories from the past. It
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Speaker 2: is ten out of five.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 1: Your Property Search Simple or sibby.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, they are messing with rugby again and this
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Speaker 2: time it's junior rugby as the kids rugby that they're
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Speaker 2: falling with biggest shake up in decades. Under a new proposal,
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Speaker 2: kids won't play fifteen a side footy until they reach
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Speaker 2: high school. It will be ten a side up to
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Speaker 2: year seven thirteen a side. There's at number thirteen a
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Speaker 2: side and year eight and the changes are aimed at
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Speaker 2: improving enjoyment and confidence levels, and children and their final
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Speaker 2: year at intermediate school. This is year eight will play
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Speaker 2: thirteen a side rugby on a slightly narrower field by
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Speaker 2: about ten meters five meters each side. It's proposed that
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Speaker 2: there will be five forwards and eight backs. There will
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Speaker 2: be no flankers. There will be no flankers, and intermediate
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Speaker 2: rugby Year seven children will play tennis side rugby on
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Speaker 2: a half sized adult field. New Zealand Rugby is also
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Speaker 2: stressing the requirement for coaches and parents not to pigeonhole
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Speaker 2: players into positions too early, which I can see appointed
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Speaker 2: that change designed to focus children's progression towards tackling properly.
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Speaker 2: Players will be taught to place the ball when tackled,
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Speaker 2: with the half back directed to immediately pass the ball.
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Speaker 2: And that was the final straw for many people in
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Speaker 2: the rugby community, because, as one said, oh are we
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Speaker 2: just rugby league now. However, there are supporters of the changes.
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Speaker 2: They say the over competitive nature of boys rugby leading
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Speaker 2: into secondary school age and beyond was precisely why the
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Speaker 2: changes would need. But I'd say to them that the
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Speaker 2: competitiveness of our secondary rugby is exactly why our rugby
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Speaker 2: is todayed so competitive internationally in the men's game. Look,
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Speaker 2: this is going to cause a lot of talkback and
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Speaker 2: a lot of talk and I can see where the
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Speaker 2: Union are coming from. It could make for a faster
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Speaker 2: fits a game and it could mean that finally all
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Speaker 2: players learned to tackle correctly. But you know, participation numbers
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Speaker 2: in rugby are remaining high, and so you have to ask,
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Speaker 2: if it ain't broke, why go out and fix it?
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens, Mike Mike Heester from the NCIA is going
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Speaker 2: to be talking to Mike Hosking later on in the
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Speaker 2: show about ten to eight this morning. Hey, whatever the
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Speaker 2: government says about the economy being our number one concern,
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Speaker 2: that's not the way that voters, voters are thinking. A
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Speaker 2: poll published by Horizon Research found that the health system
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Speaker 2: is our most important worry. It's ranked above all else
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Speaker 2: including the economy and the cost of living. And as
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Speaker 2: a worrying thing for Chris Luxon as well, is that
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Speaker 2: it is the number one priority amongst national act at
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Speaker 2: New Zealand First voters, health has always been our main
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Speaker 2: concern and it's still our main concern, and it's particularly
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Speaker 2: the main concern of older voters. So yesterday Simon Brown
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Speaker 2: called ty Hoe on the culling of Health New Zealand's
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Speaker 2: IT sector. Two thousand workers could have lost their job.
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Speaker 2: This is a good thing because I think it realizes
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Speaker 2: how critical it is in the provision of health services,
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Speaker 2: and it shows that the public service cuts have not
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Speaker 2: been as forensic as we thought they might be. And
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Speaker 2: I've long had the suspicion that public service bosses were
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Speaker 2: told to cut their costs by a percentage and then
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Speaker 2: they just went out and chose the low lying fruit,
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Speaker 2: and that didn't make a lot of sense to me.
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Speaker 2: So public service costs are essential, despite some seeming to
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Speaker 2: be expensive. And the new Health Minister, in calling Tyhoe
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Speaker 2: on the cut to the staff, seems to recognize this,
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Speaker 2: and I think he's doing a good job of it,
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Speaker 2: and he's using logic and analysis instead of knee jerk reactions.
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Speaker 2: Well done, Simeon. It's five fourteen, So to the schools
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Speaker 2: we go. The food's been getting it and now our
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Speaker 2: company's gone bust. Now what does this mean for the program?
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk to a principle in a few moments time,
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Speaker 2: someone who's tasted the food. And that's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: This is news talk here b it is five fourteen.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: it be after five.
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Speaker 2: Roy likes the changes to rugby. He says rugby's been
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Speaker 2: doing some thinking that kids like to keep the ball alive,
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Speaker 2: so that is he reconsists a good idea. What do
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Speaker 2: you think you can text me on ninety ninety two,
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Speaker 2: but you know, not playing on the full game until
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Speaker 2: secondary school. That seems a little late, don't you think anyway?
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Speaker 2: Overheated late bland, beige, melted plastic covered food. We've heard
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Speaker 2: all the headlines about the school lunch program and now
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Speaker 2: we hear the major school lunch provider, La Belle, has
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Speaker 2: been placed into liquidation. The Belle has contracted to deliver
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five thousand meals a day. This
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Speaker 2: responsibility will now fall on Compass, who are the only
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Speaker 2: other school lunch provider. They're also helping out the bell
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Speaker 2: with their liquidation and their workers. It's a good on
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Speaker 2: your Compass. A Catol Intermediate Principal Phil Palfrey was on
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Speaker 2: the working committee to set up the lunch program and
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Speaker 2: he joins me.
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Speaker 6: Now, good morning to you film, good morning, how are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm good. How worried should we be about this liquidation?
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. For me, it's it just seems
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Speaker 6: to be a one aspect that just shows how bad
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Speaker 6: the whole thing was. It just shows that well. In fact,
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Speaker 6: we interviewed LaBelle about when the program first began, when
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Speaker 6: this into a journal, government bought it in, and we
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Speaker 6: just felt that they went up to the scratch up
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Speaker 6: to scratch them and and we appointed at that time
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Speaker 6: we were allowed to appoint our own provider, and we
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Speaker 6: appointed a local person who ended up doing it for
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Speaker 6: us for the for all the time until last year
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Speaker 6: when they were cut and they did a fantastic job,
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Speaker 6: and when you heard from LeBell again until this whole
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Speaker 6: new arrangement began, and you know, we didn't really know
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Speaker 6: them that well, it just didn't work.
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Speaker 2: It hasn't worked, and I didn't going forward with what
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Speaker 2: we have, it seems to me that you think the
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Speaker 2: Bell was the company causing problem. So the question and
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Speaker 2: we now have we're talking about lunches next week, is
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Speaker 2: can Compass meet the demand on its own?
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Speaker 6: I have no idea. I have no idea. I don't
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Speaker 6: really have great faith in it, and I just, well,
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Speaker 6: my only worship that would just go back to what
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Speaker 6: it was before. It apparently is a saving at one
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Speaker 6: hundred million dollars, but I don't know if that's We
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Speaker 6: don't know if that's going to work out to be
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Speaker 6: that saving in the first place. But I do know
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Speaker 6: that three dollars a meal is just ridiculous and it
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Speaker 6: hasn't worked, and I just would love to go back
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Speaker 6: to the old system, and I think our country should
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Speaker 6: afford it and could afford it.
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Speaker 2: You were on the working committee that set up the
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Speaker 2: lunch program in the first place, So are you just
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Speaker 2: resistant to change?
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Speaker 6: Oh no, I'm not. I'm an older principle, but I'm
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Speaker 6: not resistant to change. I was assured that the program
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Speaker 6: would be very similar to what we have now, so
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Speaker 6: I was prepared to see how panned out. But right
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Speaker 6: from the very start, I saw the quality of the food,
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Speaker 6: and I saw the reaction from my students and my kids.
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Speaker 6: We're a load sol low equity school, a high equity school,
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Speaker 6: and we our kids need the food, There's no doubt
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Speaker 6: about that, but they just I just it haven't worked.
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Speaker 6: The too of them don't like it actually, and yeah,
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Speaker 6: that's just a good program.
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Speaker 2: Phil, thank you so much for getting up early to
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Speaker 2: it for us. Phil is the Cotal Intermediate Principle up
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Speaker 2: North and was on the program that set up the
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Speaker 2: lunches in the first place back in the day. It
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Speaker 2: is five twenty. It's News Talks B.
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Speaker 2: It's FY twenty two.
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Speaker 7: Look.
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Speaker 2: The government is bringing in new procurement rules for tenders
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Speaker 2: for government works and they're simplifying the bidding process and
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Speaker 2: they're reducing the regulatory framework. This is about fifty billion
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Speaker 2: dollars worth of work. They're making it easier and they're
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Speaker 2: getting rid of some of the rules. Some of the
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Speaker 2: rules they're getting rid of. If you're going to build
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Speaker 2: a government building, you don't necessarily have to go to
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Speaker 2: five star rating, if it's non residential, you don't have
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Speaker 2: to have electric or hybrid electric vehicles, you don't have
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Speaker 2: to have office supplies that are recyclable, and you do
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Speaker 2: not need to pay the living wage and contracts. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be replaced by a new economic benefit rule.
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Speaker 2: It's fifty billion dollars worth of work. We'll talk about
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Speaker 2: this just before six o'clock today. So we have changes
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Speaker 2: to Quantus's loyalty scheme. It's taking off today. They're raiding
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Speaker 2: the competition as part of it. I mean it's a
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Speaker 2: good deal for Quantus people, but also they're raiding the
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Speaker 2: competition with frequent flyers of other airlines at gold status
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Speaker 2: or hire able to get Quantus Gold by earning just
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Speaker 2: one hundred credits just buy a ticket and where you go,
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Speaker 2: rather than the usual seven hundred air New Zealand also
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Speaker 2: updated its airpoints system last year. So I'm joined by
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Speaker 2: aviation commentator Irene King. Hello, Irene, good morning. Is this
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Speaker 2: a big deal?
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Speaker 8: I think it's hugely technical and you know we're starting
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Speaker 8: to see more and more sales in the market and
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Speaker 8: this is just a different form of a sale.
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Speaker 2: Well, will this attract any New Zealand's frequent flyer? Did
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Speaker 2: suddenly switch allegiance to quantas Oh?
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Speaker 8: I think people now are pretty smart. They have allegiances
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Speaker 8: all over the place and you know you just go
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Speaker 8: for the best stale.
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Speaker 2: Is there a New Zealand competitive we see Quantus making
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Speaker 2: these changes. Their New Zealan made some changes last year.
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Speaker 2: Are we keeping up?
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Speaker 8: Look? I think there's two things. This Quantus announcement is
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Speaker 8: hugely technical. It's about Keshlo and getting law engagement from
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Speaker 8: high spending, high ball customers. A New Zealands is more about,
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Speaker 8: you know, brand refresh. It's not as technical. It's about
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Speaker 8: setting a simple, smart response of for and that's what
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Speaker 8: in New Zealand does well. You know, it does things
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Speaker 8: generally very simply, very smart and can respond very quickly.
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Speaker 2: For those people who do like the Quantus and are
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Speaker 2: frequent flyers and going through the teas, this new scheme
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Speaker 2: offers frequent fires. It has to step through those tears
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Speaker 2: faster and so you can then access better service or
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Speaker 2: you can use your points to buy flights. So what
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Speaker 2: do travelers prefer? Better lounges or bonus flights?
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Speaker 9: Bonus flights?
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Speaker 8: You know, I think the lounges are all pretty much
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Speaker 8: of a muchness now, but you get this and centers
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Speaker 8: around bonus slights or you know, the ability to secure
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Speaker 8: your status for a longer period of time. You know,
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Speaker 8: those are the things that customers really respond to.
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Speaker 2: Irene I thank you once again for waking up for
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Speaker 2: us Irene and King the aviation commentator. So check out
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Speaker 2: your point scheme, particularly for your quantus, so you can
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Speaker 2: really double your points very very quickly. Indeed, now it
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Speaker 2: is five twenty five us.
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Speaker 1: B looking the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2: News Talks hit B. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: It's five twenty seven. These days, we're always looking for
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Speaker 2: any little clue that the old normal is coming back.
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Speaker 2: It was the fifth anniversary of the pandemic yesterday. I
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Speaker 2: don't think the new normal is coming back. So let's
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Speaker 2: look at houses. ASB lowered its house price inflation forecast
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Speaker 2: for this year, it's chief economist Nick Toughly, reckons the
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Speaker 2: pickup in sales has been sluggish. He says there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of stock on the market. They believe prices will
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Speaker 2: fall to the first half of this year. Therefore, the
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Speaker 2: bank has more than halved its house price growth forecast
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five from just or to just three
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Speaker 2: point four percent when it used to be nine three
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Speaker 2: point four percent. That's the capital growth you can expect.
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Speaker 2: That's more in line with inflation than for a long time.
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Speaker 2: In other words, buying a house at the moment is
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Speaker 2: no longer the path to automatic capital gain. Question is
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Speaker 2: how long will it last? Anyway, faced with the fact
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Speaker 2: that it's just three point four percent of house inflation,
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Speaker 2: house owners are more likely to stay put. And you remember,
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Speaker 2: back in the old normal, churn was the name of
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Speaker 2: the game. You'd often buy and sell a lot to
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Speaker 2: climb up through the property ladder. I went through five
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Speaker 2: houses in five years to get to a better place.
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Speaker 2: In today's climate, you're more likely to stay in any
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Speaker 2: house you own because a bird in the hand is
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Speaker 2: with two in the bush, and you want some stability,
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Speaker 2: because stability and security is now the new normal. So
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Speaker 2: this is why we've got more stock. And this, you
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Speaker 2: have to say, is more in line with overseas models
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Speaker 2: where people stay in their houses for longer, accepting the
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Speaker 2: limitations of the market and building a day to day
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Speaker 2: life that they can count on. Now in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: we've been through boom and bust periods before and prices
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Speaker 2: have always come back. It's sort of like, oh that
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Speaker 2: they always come back. It'll come back, mate, But what
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Speaker 2: if they don't is that such a bad thing. People
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Speaker 2: have often said that our property fixation has been at
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Speaker 2: the expense of real productivity growth. Anyway, what will happen
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Speaker 2: next is anyone's guest. But I'll tell you something else.
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Speaker 2: The bank pointed out something that I got worried about.
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Speaker 2: Immigration levels are staying stubbornly low after booming right after
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Speaker 2: the pandemic. We are not an attractive destination. And maybe
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Speaker 2: that's because of the image we're presented of ourselves as
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Speaker 2: a basket place economy. So look, anyway, maybe the housing
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Speaker 2: crisis is over, maybe we're going to have a stable economy.
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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you one thing. It's not a get
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Speaker 2: rich quick paradise anymore right now, but it is a
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Speaker 2: nice place to live. Andrew Dickens all right, okay, it's
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Speaker 2: Girl Scout Day today. By the way, congratulations and all
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Speaker 2: the girl scouts. We're back in a moment with Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray from the UK. This is News Talks, Set bat.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof. Make your
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Speaker 1: property surge simple?
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Speaker 2: Can you talks it be? We believe all this.
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Speaker 10: Arkins.
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Speaker 6: Anything you honor to the Morning Player in my life.
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Speaker 2: There's good warning to you. Welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge, and that's old Harry Styles,
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Speaker 2: who's negotiations to do a thirty five day run at
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Speaker 2: the Sphere in Las Vegas like you two did. There
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Speaker 2: we go. Yes, I mentioned as a Girl Scout Day.
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Speaker 2: It is Girl Scout Day. The very first Girl Scout group,
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Speaker 2: originally the Girl Guides, was on this day in nineteen
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Speaker 2: twelve in Savannah and Georgia. And there Juliet who was
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Speaker 2: the head the Akla, gathered together a troop of eighteen
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Speaker 2: girls and taught them how to milk a cow, tie
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Speaker 2: up a burglar, and how to boil water. What a
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Speaker 2: great day that was. Now, look there's a bit of well, look,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you something. The President of America, the man
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Speaker 2: whose name I'm trying not to mention for one morning
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Speaker 2: might start with tea. The President of America is refusing
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Speaker 2: to rule out a recession for the United States this year.
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Speaker 2: He's been asked all the time. He said, there's going
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Speaker 2: to be some pain, but that's because there's going to
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Speaker 2: be again to everyone saying we will there be a
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Speaker 2: recession this year. The markets are all over the place,
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Speaker 2: so we're going to check the stock turmoil all over
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Speaker 2: Europe with Gavin Gray in a few moments. Time is
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Speaker 2: now twenty two to two six trying to go around
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Callum Productor joins me from Otago. Hello, Gallum,
19:19
Speaker 2: you good morning. Life's getting better for people living in Queenstown.
19:23
Speaker 2: Well it is.
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Speaker 10: According to this Quality of Life survey, the annual survey
19:27
Speaker 10: that council has put out. The district Council there has
19:30
Speaker 10: issued THEIRS and it shows a seventy six percent rise
19:34
Speaker 10: and people rating or seventy six percent of people at
19:37
Speaker 10: least rating their quality of life as good or better
19:40
Speaker 10: despite all of the cost of living pressures. So that
19:43
Speaker 10: is a rise of four percent increase on the year prior.
19:46
Speaker 10: The biggest negatives though housing, access to medical professionals and
19:49
Speaker 10: public transport.
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Speaker 2: The mayor there is Glenn Lewis.
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Speaker 10: He says it's pleasing to see the quality of life
19:54
Speaker 10: overall remains high as there are challenging times with affordability
19:58
Speaker 10: issues and rapid growth.
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Speaker 2: And how's did Eden's weather.
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Speaker 10: Rainy this morning that it's meant to clear this afternoon
20:05
Speaker 10: shows this evening strong southerly. H I have only fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Very good stuff, Claire Shore, It joins us fro Chrastia Telly.
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Speaker 11: Claire, good morning.
20:12
Speaker 2: So the Scott Watson saga continues.
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Speaker 11: I know this has just gone on and on and on,
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Speaker 11: hasn't it? Andrew he is making another bid for freedom today.
20:20
Speaker 11: Of course. Scott Watson was jailed for life for a
20:23
Speaker 11: minimum seventeen years non parole for the nineteen ninety eight
20:27
Speaker 11: murders of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart, The seventeen and
20:30
Speaker 11: twenty one year olds, disappeared after boarding a yacht early
20:33
Speaker 11: on New Year's Day in the Marlboro Sounds Endeavor Inlet.
20:37
Speaker 11: Their bodies have never been found. This morning, Scott Watson,
20:40
Speaker 11: who's always denied ever meeting the pair, we'll have another
20:43
Speaker 11: shot at freedom with a parole board hearing now. His
20:46
Speaker 11: previous parole hearing, which was in November, was adjourned because
20:50
Speaker 11: of what was described at the time as a confusing
20:53
Speaker 11: array of psychologist risk reports. The writers of those reports
20:57
Speaker 11: will be appearing before the board today.
20:59
Speaker 2: How's such weather?
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Speaker 11: A bit miserable today, rain easing to showers, strong southwesterlies
21:04
Speaker 11: developing a high of sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Welcome the rain, Claire, because it's been pretty dry. The
21:09
Speaker 2: rain is good for farmers. Adam Cooper joins me from Wellington. Hello, Adam, hey, Andrew.
21:13
Speaker 2: We used to Aukham Council in the Beehive having a battle,
21:16
Speaker 2: but now it's Wellington Council in the beehive.
21:18
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right. It's between the Prime Minister, other ministers
21:21
Speaker 12: and the mayor. Tory Faro here. It emerged yesterday that
21:24
Speaker 12: the collection of councils from the Wellington region aren't applying
21:27
Speaker 12: for a regional infrastructure deal with the government. That's because
21:29
Speaker 12: they weren't ready by the deadline. So PM Chris Luxon
21:33
Speaker 12: and Labor leader Chris Hipkins both criticized the area's mayors
21:36
Speaker 12: for fightling to agree on some joint projects to apply for.
21:40
Speaker 12: Luxon says it didn't make sense to him. He called
21:42
Speaker 12: the decision lame. Tory Farno's hit back, saying his comments
21:46
Speaker 12: a pretty poor form from the country's leader. She says
21:49
Speaker 12: the Department of Internal Affairs told her counsel's Crown Observer
21:52
Speaker 12: that Wellington wouldn't meet the criteria anyway as its primary
21:56
Speaker 12: focus right now is water reform, and Tory Fano now
21:59
Speaker 12: says she wants the minister to walk back those comments. Lovely, Okay.
22:02
Speaker 12: How's Wellington's weather cloudy today? A few showers from the
22:05
Speaker 12: afternoon and eighteen's the high.
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Speaker 2: Neva let Timan who joins me from Auklandhaller and Neva greetings.
22:10
Speaker 2: So there are innovation hubs. It's one of the CBD,
22:12
Speaker 2: but now the council wants who expand them?
22:15
Speaker 13: Correct, Now what that is. It's called grid AKL and
22:18
Speaker 13: it's across two locations in the Wyndham Quarter, housing about
22:21
Speaker 13: one hundred and forty businesses. So this is the Tartuki
22:25
Speaker 13: Auckland Unlimited Commission to report and it found that last
22:28
Speaker 13: year it contributed four hundred and twenty four million dollars
22:31
Speaker 13: into the local economy. Pam Ford, she's the Economic development director,
22:34
Speaker 13: she says lot recently, that's right, they're opening up similar hubs.
22:38
Speaker 13: This is in Monaco, Glenn and a Seavondale offering the
22:41
Speaker 13: same opportunities. So what they do provide is working space,
22:45
Speaker 13: access to business advisors, investors and an entrepreneur network.
22:50
Speaker 2: Good well, actually I went to the opening of that building.
22:52
Speaker 2: That building is fabulous and it connects and it connects
22:55
Speaker 2: South Auckland entrepreneurs with central city entrepreneurs and they're all
22:58
Speaker 2: doing their offices and they're all networking.
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Speaker 13: It's wherever are were you wait too, Gosh, get around, Andrew.
23:03
Speaker 2: I'm an interested man.
23:06
Speaker 13: How's Walkin's weather showers but it's only a sprinkling around
23:10
Speaker 13: midday then clearing. This afternoon twenty three is a high
23:13
Speaker 13: here in Auckland. No, you know, like huge deluges that
23:17
Speaker 13: we need, Thank you so much.
23:19
Speaker 2: It is now eighteen minutes to six. Gavin Gray out
23:21
Speaker 2: of the UK. Those boats that had their terrible collision,
23:23
Speaker 2: they're still burning and there's now someone who's been confirmed dead.
23:26
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the markets as well, and
23:28
Speaker 2: these new procurement rules. It involves fifty billion dollars worth
23:33
Speaker 2: of government tenders. And when you go and tender for
23:37
Speaker 2: government work. In the old days there were over seventy
23:40
Speaker 2: rules and one of them was you have to buy evs,
23:42
Speaker 2: whether you like it or not. One of them was
23:44
Speaker 2: you have to pay the living wage, whether you like
23:46
Speaker 2: it or not. One of them was, oh you're building
23:49
Speaker 2: an office building, it has to be five star, whether
23:51
Speaker 2: it's necessary or not. These are gone. Is this going
23:54
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Speaker 2: It's fourteen six to the UK. We go and Kevin
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Speaker 2: greg good morney to you either Andrew. So we've got
25:13
Speaker 2: the collision between the oil tanker and the cargo vessel
25:16
Speaker 2: and they're still on fire.
25:19
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm afraid. So one of the vessels still on fire.
25:21
Speaker 7: The other has now been put out. But the latest
25:23
Speaker 7: is a fifty nine year old man has now been
25:26
Speaker 7: arrested and that is in connection on suspicion of gross
25:31
Speaker 7: negligence manslaughter. And that is because one person is missing,
25:34
Speaker 7: presumed dead, and also of course because one of the
25:37
Speaker 7: ships was actually stationary, was moored up at the time
25:42
Speaker 7: and appears to have been just struck by another one.
25:44
Speaker 7: And this happened in daylight hours. The conditions had were
25:48
Speaker 7: really pretty good. It was daylight, as I said, the
25:50
Speaker 7: fog that was overnight and early morning had predominantly cleared.
25:54
Speaker 7: And people just can't understand how this accident could have happened.
25:57
Speaker 7: Both ships absolutely massive. On a more positive note, there
26:02
Speaker 7: was talk about a cyanide compound on board one of
26:05
Speaker 7: the ships. The owner of that ship has in the
26:07
Speaker 7: last few hours said no, no, no, the containers had
26:11
Speaker 7: stored that, but at the time of this accident and fire,
26:14
Speaker 7: there was none of that compound on board.
26:17
Speaker 2: Okay, Now we've got the President of America refusing to
26:20
Speaker 2: rule out the fact that there may be a recession
26:21
Speaker 2: for the US this year. We've had the US stocks
26:23
Speaker 2: go down overnight, and we've had turmoil in Europe so
26:27
Speaker 2: far this week.
26:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have, and that looked to have been halted
26:32
Speaker 7: earlier our time this morning, a few hours ago when
26:34
Speaker 7: I logged on, actually the CAC that's the French indusicy
26:38
Speaker 7: had climb point two of a percent, Germany's dacks had
26:41
Speaker 7: risen point four percent, and the foot seat was by
26:44
Speaker 7: and large pretty flat. Here in the UK, I've just
26:47
Speaker 7: looked again and the last couple of hours have been
26:49
Speaker 7: pretty rough. The foot seat now down one point two percent,
26:53
Speaker 7: the CACK down almost one and a half and the
26:55
Speaker 7: dacks down one and a third percent. So significant disruption,
27:00
Speaker 7: still significant uncertainty in the markets as Donald Trump's very
27:05
Speaker 7: very flip flop on ideas and tariffs and embargoes all
27:10
Speaker 7: the time seems to cause a great deal of uncertainty,
27:13
Speaker 7: and that is one thing, Andrew, as you know that
27:15
Speaker 7: the markets absolutely can't stand.
27:17
Speaker 2: Yes and they can't predict what's going to happen next,
27:19
Speaker 2: and they like to do that. And I thank you
27:20
Speaker 2: so much. Gavin Gray from the UK. It is now
27:22
Speaker 2: twelve to six. Andrew Dickens, all right, this sounds like
27:26
Speaker 2: a dry old story, but it's not. The Government's proposing
27:29
Speaker 2: changes to procurement rules. This is to make it easier
27:33
Speaker 2: for New Zealand businesses to win government contracts. Currently, there
27:36
Speaker 2: are seventy one rules that agencies have to follow when
27:40
Speaker 2: tendering contracts and the government wants to reduce it to
27:43
Speaker 2: forty seven. The Economic Growth of Minister Nichola Willis, who
27:46
Speaker 2: is on with Mike later tonight. Later this morning, she
27:49
Speaker 2: says the contracts are collectively worth more than fifty billion
27:52
Speaker 2: dollars a year. We've got the Wellington Chamber of Commons
27:55
Speaker 2: CEO Simon Arkis will be this morning. Good on it
27:57
Speaker 2: to assignment.
27:58
Speaker 9: Good morning here you are you?
28:00
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm fine. This is a good idea where those
28:02
Speaker 2: rules ridiculous.
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Speaker 9: Well, it's really good for New Zealand business. And part
28:07
Speaker 9: of the reason for that is because we now recognize
28:10
Speaker 9: the extra contribution that New Zealand businesses make. For example,
28:14
Speaker 9: they employ people that pay tax versus another you know,
28:19
Speaker 9: international entity which might not.
28:22
Speaker 2: This is true, and this is why the cutting of
28:24
Speaker 2: government spending on all sorts of contracts around them place
28:26
Speaker 2: has actually had a ripple effect that's gone through our
28:28
Speaker 2: entire economy because these people pay tax in New Zealand.
28:32
Speaker 2: So there we go. How big of a difference in
28:34
Speaker 2: cutting wed take will this make?
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Speaker 9: Look it's a big change, and I think it's also
28:41
Speaker 9: what we're really getting from that is the theme. This
28:43
Speaker 9: is what we want to see. You want to see
28:44
Speaker 9: it easier to do these sorts of things, and I
28:47
Speaker 9: don't think it overly advantages of New Zealand business in
28:51
Speaker 9: any way. So it's actually very sensible move.
28:54
Speaker 2: A good idea, I hope, well for things like you know,
28:56
Speaker 2: the the living waves cutting that and the evs and
28:58
Speaker 2: all that sort of thing. What they've done is introduce
29:00
Speaker 2: what's called an economic benefit test to the regime, so
29:04
Speaker 2: everything has to be looked at to see whether the
29:06
Speaker 2: bid is economically beneficial to New Zealand. Should this have
29:10
Speaker 2: been happening with government processes and procurement from the get.
29:13
Speaker 9: Go, well, I think it should and I think in
29:16
Speaker 9: some ways perhaps it was read in their times when
29:19
Speaker 9: decisions were made. But it's really good to see it explicit.
29:21
Speaker 9: And I agree with Andrew from a get go we
29:24
Speaker 9: should have had these kind of rules.
29:26
Speaker 2: Okay, are the New Zealand businesses who want contract? Is
29:29
Speaker 2: there a demand for it?
29:32
Speaker 9: Very much so. And I'll tell you what. The other
29:34
Speaker 9: thing that's quite exciting about it is that you end
29:36
Speaker 9: up being able to perhaps a ward a contract to
29:39
Speaker 9: a business that can scale up, so they say, you know,
29:42
Speaker 9: we can do this. We just go have to get
29:45
Speaker 9: a few few extra people and we'll make it work.
29:47
Speaker 9: And that's great if there are opportunities like that created
29:51
Speaker 9: along the way, but.
29:51
Speaker 2: It could advantage New Zealand business right at the time
29:54
Speaker 2: when we're trying to attract international investment. We've got a
29:57
Speaker 2: conference coming up this week for instance. You know, if
30:00
Speaker 2: we're advantaging New Zealand businesses, are we actually turning our
30:03
Speaker 2: back on international opportunities?
30:05
Speaker 9: I don't think so, because you'll find these sorts of
30:08
Speaker 9: rules that quite explicit in lots of jurisdiction. They're not
30:11
Speaker 9: They're not unusual at all. And when you think about
30:13
Speaker 9: you know the way that some businesses employee, you know,
30:16
Speaker 9: almost whole communities, and they are involved in philanthropic work
30:21
Speaker 9: and other things you do, you do need to, I think,
30:24
Speaker 9: recognize the extra value giving here and why not why
30:28
Speaker 9: not give New Zealanders using business a little bit of
30:31
Speaker 9: a you know, consideration, very good stuff.
30:35
Speaker 2: Simon Arkass and I thank you for your time today.
30:36
Speaker 2: And Simon is the Wellington Chamber of Commerce a CEO.
30:40
Speaker 2: And it is coming up what eight minutes to six, Andrew,
30:44
Speaker 2: it's your job to report the news. By not saying
30:47
Speaker 2: President Trump's name this morning, it's pathetic. He's not a criminal.
30:50
Speaker 2: Grow up man.
30:51
Speaker 3: Thank you.
30:51
Speaker 2: AJ. The reason I don't say Trump's name right now
30:54
Speaker 2: is how I don't know if you've noticed this. Everybody
30:56
Speaker 2: says Trump's name all the time. It's not whether I
30:59
Speaker 2: like dislike the man. In fact, I don't mind the
31:01
Speaker 2: man at all, but the name he just he has
31:04
Speaker 2: dominated the news cycle and occasionally people go, oh, here
31:06
Speaker 2: we go again talking about America again. I've tried to
31:10
Speaker 2: talk about New Zealand all morning long, and I'm happy
31:14
Speaker 2: about that. It's coming up seven minutes to six. It's
31:16
Speaker 2: news talk to he be.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on Afili edition with one roof Make your
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Speaker 2: Briefly, if you're a fan of Spinal Tap, you love this.
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Speaker 2: very very very funny, and it featured a six neck guitar,
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Speaker 2: six necks like Jimmy Page's two neck guitar which he
31:36
Speaker 2: used on Sea Way to Heaven. So this was the joke.
31:38
Speaker 2: This one has six necks. It's up for sale. It's
31:40
Speaker 2: called the Beast. It'll be about two to three thousand quid.
31:44
Speaker 2: The designer of it says it is the guitar that
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31:49
Speaker 14: Morning to you, very good morning. Let me ask you
31:52
Speaker 14: this question. If the company that's in liquidation doesn't affect
31:57
Speaker 14: the flow of school lunches.
31:59
Speaker 2: Yes, is it a story?
32:02
Speaker 6: No?
32:02
Speaker 9: Correct?
32:03
Speaker 2: Because Compass has said that they're going to cover the
32:05
Speaker 2: bells workers and that they're going to cover the lunches, and.
32:08
Speaker 14: So why we exercised about it if it's not a pylon.
32:11
Speaker 14: So you feel sorry for the company obviously, and the
32:13
Speaker 14: people lose their job.
32:14
Speaker 3: That's badened.
32:14
Speaker 14: But but there are companies going under every day in
32:16
Speaker 14: this country and we don't cover them. Why do we
32:18
Speaker 14: cover this one? Because we've got a pile on going
32:21
Speaker 14: with school lunches. So the school lunches still turn up.
32:23
Speaker 14: And then before did you see the news last night?
32:24
Speaker 14: You see TV one last night? No, they've reached a
32:26
Speaker 14: new low. So they had their regional reporter filming the
32:30
Speaker 14: lunches that were being loaded into the big bucket to
32:33
Speaker 14: be fed to the pigs. Right, this was spag bowl.
32:36
Speaker 14: You cannot you cannot make spag bowl inedible. It's impossible
32:43
Speaker 14: to make spag bowl inedible. So at the same time
32:46
Speaker 14: they're going the kids come to school hungry. Are they
32:48
Speaker 14: really so hungry that they're unloading their lunch into a
32:52
Speaker 14: bucket and took over the pigs because they can't allegedly
32:55
Speaker 14: eat spag bowl?
32:56
Speaker 2: I come on, the peg is what makes it symbolic?
33:00
Speaker 2: Just throwing it into a rubbish bin. Might have chosen
33:02
Speaker 2: a peg, they found a peg, They've driven to the peg,
33:04
Speaker 2: They've got to the peg. They do this and they're
33:06
Speaker 2: something there to film it.
33:07
Speaker 14: And do you think that they found out about the
33:09
Speaker 14: school because the school rang them up and said, hey,
33:11
Speaker 14: we put it in a big bucket every day, come
33:13
Speaker 14: and film. That's I mean, it's there's something not right
33:16
Speaker 14: about this and it's a massive pile on and and
33:20
Speaker 14: I mean, yes, the delivery is an issue and all
33:22
Speaker 14: of that. I get all of that, and they've got
33:23
Speaker 14: a liver it. But yesterday's number is ninety nine point
33:25
Speaker 14: whatever percent it was. So that problem's now solved. So
33:28
Speaker 14: if that problem solved, all you're left with is a
33:30
Speaker 14: bunch of whiners for this to not be an issue.
33:33
Speaker 14: You've talked it awful lot about it, No, but the case.
33:35
Speaker 14: But the whole thing is, I mean, when do we
33:37
Speaker 14: draw the line on this? So the whole world is
33:39
Speaker 14: genuflecting at the moment on its access because it's going
33:43
Speaker 14: and yet we little old New Zealand steering at our
33:46
Speaker 14: navel talking about you know, it's it's pathetic. Anyway, bavids
33:50
Speaker 14: Emos on the program and we'll talk about procurement.
33:53
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the new procure I'm quite interested. That's
33:56
Speaker 2: a good idea.
33:56
Speaker 14: It's patriotism versus the bottom line, and so that that
34:00
Speaker 14: interests me because I thought we're into the bottom line,
34:02
Speaker 14: but now we're into patriotism.
34:03
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