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Full Show Podcast: 15 July 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 ex pole insulation, Keeping Kimi Holmes warm
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  Speaker 1: and try this winter news talk said b there's talk.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you and welcome to you Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickens. Now coming
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  Speaker 2: up on earlier edition. More kids are passing their maths tests,
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  Speaker 2: but don't get too excited. The numbers still aren't great.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that story for you in ten. A new
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  Speaker 2: report messes the state of Auckland. So what is the
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  Speaker 2: queen city doing right and what are they doing wrong?
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that story in fifteen. New calor Donia is back, baby,
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  Speaker 2: but with a lot of work to do to clean
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  Speaker 2: up the mess. More details after five point thirty and
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the world of flip flop. Polytechs are going
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  Speaker 2: back to what they were before. Almost will this work.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that story for you just before six. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have correspondence from right around New Zealand. We'll have done
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  Speaker 2: on tomorrow from Australia. We'll have news as it breaks.
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  Speaker 2: You can have your say by texting me ninety two
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  Speaker 2: Co dot M said, it is seven after five.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, the fifteenth of July, and Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 2: been meeting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: So Donald Trump says he's very very unhappy with Russia
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  Speaker 2: and we'll introduce very severe secondary tariffs of one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent if he doesn't get a six fire deal with
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  Speaker 2: the Ukraine within fifty days.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horrible war and it should be so. And
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  Speaker 3: so if it's not done, if we don't have an
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  Speaker 3: agreement that fifty days, that's what we're doing secondary tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: And they're biting, and.
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  Speaker 3: I hope we don't get to the point where we do.
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  Speaker 3: But I've been hearing so much talk. It's all talk's
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  Speaker 3: all talk, and then missiles go in to Kiev and
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  Speaker 3: kill sixty people. It's it's better stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And this came after he confirmed that the United States
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  Speaker 2: will send air defense missiles to Ukraine, but NATO will
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  Speaker 2: have to pay for them first. Now to the UK
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  Speaker 2: where we've got a verdict in the high profile case
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  Speaker 2: of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. They have been found
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  Speaker 2: guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after their baby Victoria was
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  Speaker 2: found dead in a shopping bag in Brighton. So the
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  Speaker 2: couple spent two months on the run back in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, ditching their burnt out car after Martin gave
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  Speaker 2: birth in secret. They were hiding intense and were avoiding
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  Speaker 2: CCTV and police and it sparked a nationwide man hunt.
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  Speaker 4: Victoria's death was completely avoidable. The couple had plenty of
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  Speaker 4: opportunities to do the right thing and come forward to
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  Speaker 4: ask for help. They knew throughout the officers were looking
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  Speaker 4: for them and baby Victoria. They also ignored medical professionals
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  Speaker 4: who directly reached out to them to say that their
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  Speaker 4: actions were put in baby Victoria at risk.
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  Speaker 2: And the couple had already been convicted of concealing the
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  Speaker 2: birth and perverting justice. So this was the verdict on
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  Speaker 2: the manslaughter charge and staying with the UK and America.
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  Speaker 2: Buckingham Powers has confirmed that Donald Trump has accepted King
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  Speaker 2: Charles's invitation for a second state visit. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen in September, joined by First Lady Milania Trump, hosted
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  Speaker 2: at Windsor Castle. Donald Trump have informally accepted the invitation
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  Speaker 2: back when UKPM Secare Stamer visited the White House.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is yes, our wonderful First Lady Malania and myself.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is yes, and we look forward to being
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  Speaker 3: there and honoring the King and honoring early your country.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you.
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  Speaker 1: Ten after five the first word on the News of
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  Speaker 1: the Day Early edition with Andrew Dickens and x Fole
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  Speaker 1: Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news
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  Speaker 1: talks at me.
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  Speaker 2: Also, we've got an election. Yesterday the Prime Minister confirmed
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  Speaker 2: the by election date for the Tamaki Makoto Maori electorate
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  Speaker 2: and this will, I think be an acid test for
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  Speaker 2: the two major parties involved. So Labor and Tipati Mali
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  Speaker 2: are the only major parties posting candidates. But don't forget
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  Speaker 2: Hannah Tammock. She's standing again for Vision New Zealand. Last time, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Brian's wife got eight hundred and twenty nine votes. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I can see why New Zealand person act to boycotting
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  Speaker 2: the thing because of policy stuff. But it would have
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  Speaker 2: been interesting to see National or the Greens having a crack.
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  Speaker 2: But no matter. Last time the seat went to Tapati
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  Speaker 2: Mali by the smallest margin, just forty two votes, So
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  Speaker 2: Labor's standing. Penny Hanale he won it before, but he
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  Speaker 2: lost it last time. He is now a current list
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  Speaker 2: of MP and Tabati Maori is standing Rini Kaiperer, who's
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  Speaker 2: a former journalist who work with Brian Bridge. Apparently she's
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  Speaker 2: very good. I don't really actually care too much about
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  Speaker 2: the details of this because frankly, I'm not Malory, but
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  Speaker 2: Penny Hanore and Labor I think has a lot to prove.
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  Speaker 2: In their heart of hearts. They believe they are the
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  Speaker 2: ordained voice of Maori, the same way National believes they
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  Speaker 2: are the ordained voice of farmers. But Labor lost that
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  Speaker 2: mandate last time because they were too conservative. They were
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  Speaker 2: too patriarchal, perhaps so even too But Labor, if they
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  Speaker 2: ever got into government again, are capable of actually getting
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  Speaker 2: stuff done in the beehive. Unlike to Party Mari. They
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  Speaker 2: are the voice of protesting Mari. Some like to say radical.
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  Speaker 2: They don't work well with others. They will never get
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  Speaker 2: a bill passed, they never even turn up to the House,
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  Speaker 2: and they like to play stunts, and I don't get
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  Speaker 2: too exercise about those stunts and their funky clothes and
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  Speaker 2: their outrageous statements. However, that behavior is good for a
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  Speaker 2: protest rally, but not for the House, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: good for getting policy passed. And I wonder if Mardy
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  Speaker 2: know that their candidate Areni Kaipeer has a good head
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  Speaker 2: on her shoulders, but frankly her classmates are clowns. So
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  Speaker 2: Penny Hannaa has to prove to Maori that labor is
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  Speaker 2: good for Mari, a feeling they've lost, and he has
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  Speaker 2: to win it to show that labor is still capable
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  Speaker 2: of one day winning a general election and they actually
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  Speaker 2: value Maori rather than just the votes that they get
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  Speaker 2: from those people. It is twelve after five.
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  Speaker 1: Zied B.
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  Speaker 2: So all that worrying and angst about our education results,
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  Speaker 2: well we've got some news through. We've got some results.
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  Speaker 2: Some are good and some are unchanged. So what is
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  Speaker 2: what and are we heading in the right direction. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have that story for you next. Here are news talks ATB.
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  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and X Full Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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  Speaker 1: and dry. This winter news talk set BYES.
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  Speaker 2: It's DOW five point fifteen, so fair cop I said
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday at the beginning of the program, and then during
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  Speaker 2: the agenda I said it was Monday. It is in
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  Speaker 2: fact Tuesday. I can confirm that I blame the education system.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of which, we've got some good news on
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  Speaker 2: the education front. For once, the amount of kids passing
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  Speaker 2: NCEEA co requisite tests is slowly improving. Now these are
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  Speaker 2: the exam students must pass in order to pass the
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  Speaker 2: year level move on up. Fifty seven percent of students
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  Speaker 2: achieve maths up from forty five percent. Sixty one percent
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  Speaker 2: pass reading up from fifty eight percent, so just three
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  Speaker 2: percent there. Meanwhile, writing stayed unchanged at fifty five percent.
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  Speaker 2: So Kate Gainsford is the secretary principal's council chair. She's
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  Speaker 2: also a principal. She's the principal at college and she
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  Speaker 2: joins her now, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 5: Kate, good morning, how are you today?
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  Speaker 2: Very well, sour fifty eight morning, it is a Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, principal, and don't give me detention.
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  Speaker 2: So a fifty seven percent pass rate for maths is
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  Speaker 2: not great, but it is up, so I guess you'll
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  Speaker 2: take that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Yes, it's really happening to see that after all
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  Speaker 5: of the effort that has gone into it. So what
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  Speaker 5: we need to see, of course, is that effort continuing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's been some things that have come together
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  Speaker 5: very nicely around this. There's been cross party agreement on
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  Speaker 5: the need to focus on these things and we haven't
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  Speaker 5: seen that for some time, so that has lent some
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  Speaker 5: continuity to things. That's great. We've seen we've seen the
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  Speaker 5: government and other agencies really listening to teachers and schools
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  Speaker 5: and their feedback about some earlier poor performance of the
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  Speaker 5: digital platform and even some of the assessments themselves, and
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  Speaker 5: that's seen some improvements. And of course we've seen a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of extra resource in some schools to pay
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  Speaker 5: for some additional tutoring and support. But we've got a
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  Speaker 5: way to go yet to improve that.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing you say, cross party supports you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's supporting this, but reading, writing, and arithmetic was always
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  Speaker 2: the very basis of our education. Why do we let
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  Speaker 2: it slip?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it hasn't been resourced in this way, certainly in
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  Speaker 5: the primary schools with a common practice model, and then
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  Speaker 5: they've structured literacy and their approach to maths. It hasn't
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  Speaker 5: been resourced in anything like this way before with the
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  Speaker 5: and the all of the rest of the professional development
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  Speaker 5: that seaches have received. So it certainly has been a
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  Speaker 5: significant investment of money and that does make a difference.
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  Speaker 5: If you put more into a system, you get more
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  Speaker 5: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: So is it the resourcing or is it the government's
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  Speaker 2: new curriculum?
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  Speaker 5: Well it is it Iss said, this government and the
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  Speaker 5: previous government had reached agreement on some approaches to literacy
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  Speaker 5: that I think are proving to be fruitful. So the
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  Speaker 5: curriculum focus is useful. What we have to make sure
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  Speaker 5: we don't do is make sure that we neglect other
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  Speaker 5: parts of the curriculum. We have too much of a
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  Speaker 5: focus on it's narrow so that we because the focus
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  Speaker 5: has not been spread across other areas like science and
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  Speaker 5: technology and languages and so forth, and those are also important.
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  Speaker 5: Of course access to those is helped if you are
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  Speaker 5: illiterate and numerate. So looking at the basics as useful, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Well done to the teach because all the all the
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  Speaker 2: rates are over the fifty percent pass rate. But we
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  Speaker 2: can do better and we still got a long way
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  Speaker 2: to go, and that is Kate Gainsford, Secretary Principal's Council
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  Speaker 2: chair and principal at Artair College. It is eighteen after five,
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  Speaker 2: So there's a new report out about the state of Auckland.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a new report, they do this every year,
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  Speaker 2: but this one's interesting. It's got some good, got some bad.
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  Speaker 2: I see that. Larry's already sent me a text saying
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  Speaker 2: Auckland is a great place to live except for its
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  Speaker 2: lousy bus service, which sucks. So what is Auckland doing
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  Speaker 2: good and what is Auckland doing bad? That story for
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  Speaker 2: your next.
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  Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early dship with Andrew Dickins at Expol installation keeping Kiwi
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  Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk said be.
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  Speaker 2: Some dude took a gun to the MCG and we're
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: going to talk about that story with Donna DeMaio in
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  Speaker 2: about twenty minutes time. But right now we've got a
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  Speaker 2: new report out today comparing Auckland City's strengths and weaknesses
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  Speaker 2: compared to the rest of the world. So the Queen
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  Speaker 2: City is punching above its weight in diversity, sustainability and culture,
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  Speaker 2: but serious action is needed in economic opportunities, skill set
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  Speaker 2: and innovation. So Kate Sutton is the lead for the
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  Speaker 2: Future of Auckland at Deloitte and joins me. Now good
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  Speaker 2: mording to your.
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  Speaker 1: Ko Hi, how are you?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure. Aucland's a lovely place to live, but
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  Speaker 2: the economy is a bit stagnant. Is that fair? You
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  Speaker 2: know what jumps out at you from this report.
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  Speaker 6: We've been we've been doing this report for three years
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  Speaker 6: without partners, the Committee for Auckland and Auckland Council, and
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  Speaker 6: this is the third year we've been running. It's benchmarking.
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  Speaker 6: So what it does is that computers Auckland, as you said,
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  Speaker 6: not just to the rest of the world, but to
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  Speaker 6: comparable cities globally. So the whole thing is how are
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  Speaker 6: we doing compared to our sort of peer cities. And certainly,
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  Speaker 6: although it shows we've had some green shoots over the
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  Speaker 6: last year you talked about. You mentioned that the headline resilience, certainly,
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  Speaker 6: sustainability and culture where we do well, that's right, our
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  Speaker 6: kind of prosperity and economy pieces is particularly we've been
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  Speaker 6: focusing this year on productivity in Auckland.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why is the productivity down? Why is the productivity
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  Speaker 2: not good? How can we improve the city's business performance.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I mean for Auckland we're a forty percent
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  Speaker 6: of the GDP, which is pretty good comparably globally, it
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  Speaker 6: could be higher. However, our productivity per capita is lower
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  Speaker 6: by about twenty percent from our kind of peer cities Copenhagen,
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  Speaker 6: Vancouver often. So what does that mean. It means that
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  Speaker 6: we're doing more for left and there's kind of some
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  Speaker 6: structural reasons behind that kind of low capital investment, an
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  Speaker 6: efficient land use, which we know the council has been
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  Speaker 6: doing quite a lot of work on export intensity and
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  Speaker 6: unfortunately some of our kind of management capability, so there's
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  Speaker 6: a step up that needs to be done. The report
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  Speaker 6: does go into some recommendations around kind of structures that
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  Speaker 6: are required. A lot of this is around we've got
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  Speaker 6: this great opportunity with the city regional deal. I'm not
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  Speaker 6: sure if you've been following it. It's a bit wonky,
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  Speaker 6: but it is important. The government have signed an MoU
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  Speaker 6: with Auckland councils saying they're going to do a deal
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  Speaker 6: to try and you know, turbo charge Auckland in terms
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  Speaker 6: of it being supersific. Well, that is opportunities in.
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  Speaker 2: That deal that is the big question. I mean who
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  Speaker 2: is responsible for driving the change? Is it local government?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Mayor Brown or is it the central government?
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  Speaker 2: I mean who's in charge? Who should push this?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Very much so globally it shows that it has to
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  Speaker 6: be triparth a or multi part a. So I know
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  Speaker 6: that that can be a little bit inconvenient. We've got
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  Speaker 6: the Minister Watts today, We've got Mayor Brown today, and
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  Speaker 6: certainly we'll be saying to them what is the what
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  Speaker 6: are the drivers for you and what what does deliverability
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  Speaker 6: look like for you? But certainly the private sector play
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  Speaker 6: a key role. So many of your listeners will get that.
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  Speaker 6: You know, what are the things that the private sector
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  Speaker 6: needs to do, invest in in their businesses, invest in
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  Speaker 6: people to ensure that they stay in New Zealand and
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  Speaker 6: kind of reap the benefits from these great things, the
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  Speaker 6: resilience and the sustainability and the culture side about cities.
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  Speaker 2: Good South Kate Sutton, our future of Aucland lead at Deloitte,
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  Speaker 2: Luke Reckons at Auckland doing well in what doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: and failing and what does. What the Orcand's doing well
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  Speaker 2: is diversity, sustainability and culture. And you know the quality
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  Speaker 2: of life of living in the place, nice speeches, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all that sort of thing, but economic opportunities, skill set
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  Speaker 2: and innovation, and as Larry points out, the bus service
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  Speaker 2: needs some help. And you sometimes wonder whether Orkanders are
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  Speaker 2: their own worst enemy because they always rail against progress
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  Speaker 2: and change. It is five twenty five. It's News Talks
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  Speaker 2: News Talks at B five twenty seven. Here we go again.
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  Speaker 2: The politics that were centralized by the last government are
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  Speaker 2: going to be decentralized by the current mob. So we're
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  Speaker 2: not quite going back to the future, but because it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be quite the same as we had
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  Speaker 2: before the politicians started tinkering, there will now be ten
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  Speaker 2: polytechs run locally. Six others will have to prove their
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  Speaker 2: financial viability. But it still feels like we're going back
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  Speaker 2: to where we started from. And this ideological flip flop
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  Speaker 2: that we've been going through is not free. So the
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  Speaker 2: Labor government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several
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  Speaker 2: years to support the merger and transformation of the vocational
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  Speaker 2: education sector. They started doing this back in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: It's five years of it, hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Now Nashal has budgeted another two hundred million dollars to
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  Speaker 2: fund the reversal. The key cost drivers in this change
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  Speaker 2: include swapping out the IT and systems integration across multiple institutions.
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  Speaker 2: They centralize them, now they have to localize them. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: staff restructuring, which includes finding new staff for the polyteics
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  Speaker 2: and firing some staff created in the centralization that we're
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  Speaker 2: in Wellington. Then there's branding and communications, and there's legal
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  Speaker 2: and compliance costs. It ain't cheap. At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, we're back to square one. Who knows if
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  Speaker 2: the politics are going to be profitable. And the same
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  Speaker 2: thing's happening over at Health New Zealand. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 2: happening all over the country. As this government reverses the
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  Speaker 2: last government's changes, people are packing up their desks all
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  Speaker 2: over the country that they first packed up four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: So when you look at this, who's to blame well
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  Speaker 2: Labor for coming up with the new ideas in the
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  Speaker 2: first place, or is it national's dogged determination to reverse
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  Speaker 2: everything the last mob did because they've built their brand
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  Speaker 2: on not being labor. But I don't know about you.
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  Speaker 2: The whole thing feels like wasteful government spending and the
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  Speaker 2: question we have to ask ourselves, after this five years
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  Speaker 2: of change, are we substantially better off?
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  Speaker 1: Zidy.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of years ago I went to New Caledonia,
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  Speaker 2: not once in a year, but twice. I went once
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  Speaker 2: for work and then I went another time for fun.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I'd already booked the fun trip and then the work
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  Speaker 2: trip came in. Anyway, New Caledonia has had the most
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  Speaker 2: amazing Bastille Day and the most amazing weekend, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you more about that in a few moments time.
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  Speaker 2: We're going off to Donna Tomao in Australia. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the German back, you know how, the
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  Speaker 2: one that got lost for eleven days. While she's been
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  Speaker 2: talking and I reckon, she's got some awesome stories to tell.
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  Speaker 2: And before the whole hour is out, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this whole Politech monster created by Labor and
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the new semi monster recreated by National. It's all to
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  Speaker 2: come on earlier edition right here on News Talks NB.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens.
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  Speaker 7: Excise for.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with ex bowl insulation keeping
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news talks it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: B where you going, ladies and gentlemen, he is you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, I continue here.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: This is mister Justin Bieber. You've got miss so that
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: he grew up anyway. It's his single Daisies and comes
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: from a brand new album called Swag, which apparently is
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: very good according to Scooter Braun. Now, Scooter Braun used
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: to be Justin's manager, and he's posted saying this album
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Swagged by the guy I used to run. It is
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the most authentically Justin Bieber album to date. It's beautiful,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: raw and truly him. The interesting thing about Scooter Braun
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and Justin Bieber is that Scooter just got paid thirty
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: million dollars by Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber owed the money
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: after the cancelation of his Justice tour. And this is
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: because Justin, because Justin Bieber got singles singles back in
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and canceled the concert and now owed
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: thirty million to Scooter Braun. And then Scooter Braun says
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: his album's really sweet. Gee, I wonder if that's payover anyway,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: three years ago I went to New Caledonia, not once,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: but twice, once for we're once for fun. It was lovely,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: but after the troubles last year, I wondered how the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: place was faring because no one was going anymore, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: not well is the answer. Last year's violence claimed the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: lives of fourteen people, and it's estimated to have cost
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: New Caledonia two billion euros. That's four billion bucks. The
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: nickel production stopped, the tourism stopped, to shave ten percent
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: of its gross domestic product. It's two hundred and seventy
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: thousand people living there, about ten thousand miles from Paris.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: But New Caledonia was, of course run by Paris. It's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: been ruled by Paris since the eighteen hundreds. And of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: course many indigenous Cannects resented France's power over the islands
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and they wanted full autonomy and independence. Well, guess what,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: over the weekend they got it. They'll get a new
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: New Caledonia government which can do what it wants, but
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: it has to act in the interests of France. Citizens
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: are going to get dual citizenship. It took ten days
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: of talk, so they decided that New Caledonia will become
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: our state but will remain French. And they announced it
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: just time for Beastie All Day, which I thought was
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: nicely symbolic. And so the new New Caledonia is much
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: like New Zealand being declared a dominion within the Commonwealth
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: back in the day. And I don't know if this
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: is going to work or not, but I hope it
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: does because frankly, it's a lovely place to visit and
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I hope the bar is humming once again at La
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Maldien Hotel, which has a lovely lawn facing the perfect
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: sunset and has been empty for the last two years.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: News talks'ed B.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Twenty one to SIXSS go around the country of Lochland.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Ranny joins me from duneed and good morning to.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: Your Lockland morning.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: New hospital for Otago Central Lakes District.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Health New Zealand's developing a clinical services plan for
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: QUEENSTOWND Lakes in Central Otigo to keep up with the
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: booming population growth. The only emergency department in the region
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: is nearly forty years old and was built when the
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: population was at thirty thousand. Now it's closer to eighty thousand.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: The new facility could also become New Zealand's first largely
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: privately owned and publicly operated hospital. South Island MP Joseph
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: mooney'sys seventy percent of New Zealand's population live more than
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: a two hours drive from the base hospital live in
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: the area. He says this will bring public health care
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: closer to home and ease the pressure on hospital.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: It's got to jump Aroundlachlan. I mean, how's your weather today.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's partly clouded here with the chance of showers
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: late this evening. Northerly winds also turned a strong South
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Wesley in the evening. It's seven degrees here, so not
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: actually too bad for Dunedin in a high eleven degrees today.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Nice stuff, Thank you. Claire Shrewd joins this from Christis.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: Good morning.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: The good people of some are getting a bit worried
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: about climate change.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: They are, indeed, and look this is very timely, isn't it, Andrew.
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: The Environment Canterbury study recently shows that the seaside suburb
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: of christ Church, which is Sumner, as you said, is
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: one of the fastest subsiding areas we have. The local
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: residents Association is now working alongside Council's Coastal Adaptation Team
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: in order to open up some discussion around how to
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: prepare for the extreme weather events and ultimately sea level rise.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: The Association chair Andrea Davis says it's crucial to consider
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: how and where we're building homes. She says if Sumner
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: suffered the same ragin events at the top of the
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: South has had, for example, over the last couple of weeks,
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: there would most definitely be flooding. She says, they I'd
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: like to see adaptation measures like wetlands put in place
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: as well as ongoing and for the community discussion.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: All right, how's you weather?
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: Frosty and foggy to start, but otherwise clearing to mainly fine,
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: some light wins and a high of twelve degrees.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Max told Joy is you from Wellington?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Morning?
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: Max, Good morning.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: So the infamous ray Chung email about Tory Farno, the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister yesterday called it vile and now raised apologized.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he has an almighty storm at the moment around
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: mister ray Chung after this historic email he lost his
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: main backer as well. We should add Sir Mark Dnaiachik,
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: Prominence of Wellington philanthropist calls for him to drop out
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: of the mayoral race, but he says he won't. Instead
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: blaming dirty politics. He blames one of his council mates
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: for clearly forward affording this email onto the mayor, who
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: then sent it to a journalist who then published it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: The crow of the council's Crown Observer has raised the
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: issue with the local government Minister's office. The council's CEO
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: is investigating a possible code of conduct breach. The CEO
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: has received a few complaints. He says that he's reviewing.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Chun Chung had also posted a two a three minute
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: video on social media, clearly trying to front foot this
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: issue on the attack, but it has been revealed in
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: the post this morning that his first real apology has
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: come in the form of an email to Fano. He's
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: email Torri Fano. He's apologized to her directly, the whole
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: thing CD dirty. No one comes out looking clean. Chung
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: at this point, just hoping the cloud's clear.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, dirty politics to the left of us, dirty politics
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: to the right of us, dirty politics everywhere. How's you
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: with her?
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: That's right?
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: Cloud?
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: Increasing a few showers This afternoon fourteen, the High Central, and.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I thank you to or can we go and eve
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a written man A good morning morning an na shocking
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: development orcan train services are running at one hundred percent today.
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: Shock me to the court, right right, this is great
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: news because the back to full steam ahead. They've finished,
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: they have completed the winter upgrades, so now you know
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: the trains they reopened yesterday. This was after being partially
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: close for work over the school holidays and as we
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: all know, it was part of this ongoing prep for
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: the city rail link opening next to you now. Kiwi
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: Rail says the upgrades were successful. Teams were working at
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: more than a dozen sites to rebuild the foundations under
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: the rail lines and install new drainage.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And how's orcas weather?
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: Okay, not so great rain possibly heavy squarely thunderstorms turning
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: to showers by evening, strong westerlies, gales gusting ninety kilometers
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: per hour and exposed places until evening.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Batten down the hatches Auckland size sixteen.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And I thank you very much at seventeen to six
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: email sorry no texts reaction on ninety two ninety two
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: small charge suppliers and poor old Raycheng, writes my texture
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: castigator for being honest and telling the truth. I think
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: that was part of the problem of it. Some of
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: the truths he told had been unsubstantiated and so we're
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: not determined to be the truth. Whatever the Prime Minister
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: called it vile, it is sixteen to six. We're off
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: to Australia in a few moments time, and then we're
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: going to talk about this new Polytech d merger. After
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the big Polytech merger, we'll talk to Dr Sandra Gray
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: right here on News Talks AB.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, remember to Zeal Pettico, the French woman who was
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: drug by her husband and he then let the village raper,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: who then earned international praise and recognition after publicly testifying
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: at her rape trial last year. Well, yesterday she was
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: given France's top honor. She was named Knight of the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Lesion Donner on a list announced Sebastial Day, which is
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: a small reward for very big bravery. And now to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Donna DeMaio in Australia. Good morning to your Donna.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: So the German backpacker lost in the outback for eleven
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: days has been talking well.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: She's released a statement, so we have had words from her.
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: Carolina Wilga, that twenty six year old she was found
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: alive in wa outback after she crashed her van which
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: she lost control of it and rolled down a slope.
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: She hid her head and she started wandering away in
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: a confused state. She was found after eleven nights in
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: freezing conditions. She had a little bit of food and
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: the water she got was from the rain and from
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: puddles and so forth. But she was found limping and
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: barefoot by a farmer about thirty k's from her car.
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: Now what she's done is thanked her rescuers.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Of course, a.
• 26:30
  Speaker 13: Lot of people were looking for her, and she's written,
• 26:32
  Speaker 13: I am simply grateful to have survived. She's called her rescuer,
• 26:36
  Speaker 13: her angel. She was absolutely ravaged by mosquitos apparently as well.
• 26:42
  Speaker 13: But we have heard from a bush survival expert, Kelly Jackson,
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: who said that there's a number one rule, stay with
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: your car, but a lot of people don't do that
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: because they're go into shock and they do.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Act rationally, so that possibly what is what happened with you.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: You can't walk out in the car has a roof
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and that's quite handy and the burning out back. Now,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: some bloke brought a gun to the football at the MCG.
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: Yes, the twenty seven year old man has been sentenced
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: to twenty one months in prison for carrying a firearm
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: into the g early this year. His name is Mohammad Nouri.
• 27:17
  Speaker 13: Pleaded guilty to dozens of firearms and motor vehicle offenses
• 27:22
  Speaker 13: and the court was told he carried this loaded, unregistered
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: gun with an altered serial number into the stadium during
• 27:29
  Speaker 13: an AFL match. You know how footy mad we are.
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: It was between Collingwood and Carlton. Don't know if that
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: means anything to you, but eighty two thousand fans were
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: at the footy at the time and so we know
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: now that security systems at the sporting ground, yes, they
• 27:45
  Speaker 13: have been upgraded. He will serve twenty one months and
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: twelve months non parole.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I certainly know Collingwood. I was cursed with going on
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the Ottaga rail trail with a bunch of tourists from
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Australia who were all Collingwood supporters, and boy did I
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: get it in the ear all weekend long. And then
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: there's a big argument about what's better rugby or Australian football.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: With it, there we go, hey Donald, Oh.
• 28:07
  Speaker 13: That's a perennial argument, will never ever.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Go away, Donna. I thank you very much, Donna. Donald
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to my out of Australia. Now on US news on
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Ukraine and NATO, Donald Trump, after overnight has confirmed that
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: he has agreed to send weapons to Ukraine. And it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: quite an amazing piece of audio because he both surprised
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that the United States makes the greatest military equipment in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the world. So the new equipment will be made for
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: NATO and NATO will have to pay for it and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: then available to be sent onwards to Ukraine. Donald strikes
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: a deal, does he not? Meanwhile, of course he's promised
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a harsh tariff regime for Russia if Putin doesn't end
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the war within fifty days, one hundred percent tariffs. I
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: think Trump's finally realizing that that Vladimi is not as mate.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: It is ten after six. It's news talksb Now. The
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: big news today is the inflation's coming back. Grocery supplies,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: their supplies two supermarkets have increased by two point one
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: percent in June. Okay, so that's just up a little bit,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: but it was going down, so it's starting to go up,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: So it's increased slightly. It reflects underlying increases to a
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: number of key items. Higher international food and export prices
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: for items like dairy products are contributing to domestic costs.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: So the big thing here, frozen costs rows two percent
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: are from point six, driven by higher pastry and dessert costs,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and that is all related to the higher dairy costs.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And higher dairy is really at the core of a
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: lot of what is happening in our supermarkets. They push
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: up the costs of chilled foods. We're talking about a
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: four point three percent average annual increase.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: There.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: A number of produce items including cabbage, mandarins, and grapes
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: were higher in June belt that is seasonal, but then
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: again you got chocolate. Chocolate's going through the roof. Noodle
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Noodle's got higher in June as well, and all of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: this comes together to make our food shopping two point
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: one percent higher. And most gallingly, it's higher because of
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: one of the very very products that we make ourselves, dairy,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and that's because of higher international prices. Good for the farmers,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: not good for anyone going to the supermarket, so we'll
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: have more coverage of the grocery supplier index as the
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: day goes on. Right here on News TALKSB it is
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: now coming up eight minutes to six.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and x full
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: This winter News Talks in me they're going to text
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: through here that says all this Wellington mayor or Shenanigans
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: is making Andrew Little look fantastic. Andrew the man whose
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: weakness gave us to cinder Adourn took about out of
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the frying padded into the fire. Now, yeah, I get
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: your point. And here's the point about Andrew Little. He
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: is actually an experienced politician and he knows how to
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: play the game. Ray Chung is not an experienced politician,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and he doesn't know how to play the game. The
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: email went a bit too far, far enough that the
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister decided to call it vile. So Little ends
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: out looking good because he's barely proficient compared to everybody
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: else in the race who appeared to be clowns. But anyway,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the one thing about it is. It's good entertainment. Now
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: joining me is hither to per se Allen, just looking
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: at your schedule for your show today, and you're talking
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: to Andrew Hoare, who is the CEO of the Blues,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: And am I right in saying here that they're talking
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: possibly about moving from eden Park to Mount Smart?
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Do you go to the Blues at Mount Smart? At
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Eden Park?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I used to, but I don't anymore because I'm off
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Rugby and it's on the telly.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, why are you off Rugby?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Oh no no, I was off live Rugby because it
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: was cold and wet and you had to travel there.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: And Mount Smart is not going to change a single fing.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all. However, there's something about
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Mount Smart. There's a magic about Mount Smart right now,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: which was seen with orkand FC, We're seen it with
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the Warriors. It's a twenty five to thirty thousand seater.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: It can look full, it looks like it's got an
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: atmosph and it's got one big area where they put
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: slides and pubs and bars and it looks like fun,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: whereas Eden Park looks like a big concrete bob. But
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I love Eating Park. I love it. I love it
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: for concerts, I love it for tests. I love Eating Park.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It's actually a fine facility. Yeah, I mean, Sound Smart
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: is so crappy. So why is everybody leaving the Rolls
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Royce to go and travel in the Toyota Corolla.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I mean it's a very you ask a very good question,
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: and I just wonder. I wonder if actually what we
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: ought to be doing as a city, like there doesn't
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: seem to be proper coordination between you know, over things
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: like stadia. We've got a bunch of stadium Why don't
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: you make Mount Small. Oh, this is what I would do.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: I'm not an expert. I would make Mount Smart the
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: stadium that does all the kind of cruddy stuff, right,
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: you do all the regular season stuff, Just do the
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: normal games, and then you make make Eden Park the
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: glory place. You go there for the playoffs, you go
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: there to the finals. You have them in the concerts.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: The Warriors have disproved that because every time they go
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to Eden Park they don't get the same sorts of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: crowds that they get at Mount Smart.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And the other thing is Mount Smart. Mount Smart zonned
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: by the people of Auckland, and that's in the City
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Winding Park is owned by a trust that's actually a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: private enterprise, that's our own thing. So in a way,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the rate payers would be going, oh hurrah, Yeah, we're
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: actually using the stuff that we've paid for. Meanwhile, North
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Harbor Stadium is sitting in Albany not being used for anything.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Totally. We're going to talk about this on the show. Actually,
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: as you say, we're going to talk to Andrew Krorr
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: about it closer to eight o'clock. But also the NCAA.
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: Do you see the NCAA results have come through on
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: the pass rates for the exams. This is the corequisite.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: You have to pass the corequisite to get your NCAA qualification.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: I am shocked at how few kids can read and
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: write at year ten. I mean, I think it was
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: the reading. It was like fifty five percent pass rate.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I can tell you, I can I can tell.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: You forty five percent failure rate.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I know, people were saying we're doing so well. Fifty
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: seven percent of students achieved maths.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Wahoo.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's up from forty five, but it's still fifty seven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: forty didn't sixty one pass reading? I should hope, so
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  Speaker 2: up from fifty eight and meanwhile writing and changed at
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  Speaker 2: fifty five.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Jesu's a slog like, if this is the
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  Speaker 7: increase from year to year, it's going to take us
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  Speaker 7: a very long time to get like eighty five.
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  Speaker 2: A woman earlier in the program, so reading, writing, arithmetic,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how come suddenly this revelation that everybody has
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  Speaker 2: the same way of learning it, and they go, oh, well,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Hey, thank you, I'm back tomorrow. Enjoy
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: your day.
• 34:17
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