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Full Show Podcast: 20 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 2: Welcome morning to you and thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 2: My name is Andrew Dickins and coming up over the
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Speaker 2: next hour will keep you in touch with the cricket.
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Speaker 2: When some pieces calls for a reset on our relationship
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Speaker 2: with the Cook Islands, our political editor is just five
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Speaker 2: minutes away. Rubbish is being dumped on the Desert Road
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Speaker 2: detour and a rue pay who counselor is not happy.
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Speaker 2: Our interest rates yesterday cut much to the relief of everybody.
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Speaker 2: Will figure out what the Reserve Bank is hoping for
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Speaker 2: this year, and Finance Minister Nicola Willis joins us just
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Speaker 2: before six on the state of play. We'll have correspondence
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Speaker 2: from around New Zealand and around the world and news
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Speaker 2: as it breaks. Plus you can have your say by
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Speaker 2: giving me a text and the text number is ninety
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Speaker 2: two to ninety two, and there is a small charge
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Speaker 2: that applies. News Talks at Bion is now seven after five.
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Speaker 2: The agenda the twentieth of February and first of the
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Speaker 2: Ukraine War where pleasured into Zelenski says Donald Trump is
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Speaker 2: living in a disinformation space. He says it's created by Russia.
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Speaker 2: It comes after Donald Trump said he's disappointed with Zelensky's
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Speaker 2: complaints about being frozen out of the US talks with
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Speaker 2: Russia that have been happening in Saudi Arabia.
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Speaker 3: I think I have the power to end this war,
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Speaker 3: and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, oh,
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Speaker 3: we weren't invaded. Well, you've been there for three years.
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Speaker 3: You should have ended it three years. You should have
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Speaker 3: never started it. You could have made a deal. I
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Speaker 3: could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have
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Speaker 3: given him almost all of the land everything, almost all
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Speaker 3: of the land, and no people would have been killed,
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Speaker 3: and no city would have been demolished, and not one
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Speaker 3: dome would have been knocked down.
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Speaker 4: But what about the minerals?
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Speaker 2: Donald Meanwhile, Donald Trump also suggested Zelensky's approval rating was
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Speaker 2: down at four percent.
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Speaker 4: Now, Zelensky denies this.
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Speaker 5: We have seen this disinformation. We understand that it comes
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Speaker 5: from Russia. We understand that, and we have evidence that
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Speaker 5: these numbers are being discussed between America and Russia. So, unfortunately,
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Speaker 5: President Trump, who we have great respect for as the
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Speaker 5: leader of the American people unfortunately lives in this disinformation space.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, The Guardian has just reported that Donald Trump has
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Speaker 2: now called Zelenski a dictator who should move fast or
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Speaker 2: lose country. After the ukrain leader. Excuse me, after the
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Speaker 2: Ukraine leaders. Is the US prison is in a Russian
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Speaker 2: disinformation bubble. Right to the Middle East, we go in Harmasius.
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Speaker 2: It's ready to release in one go all the hostages
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Speaker 2: that were due to be released in Phase two of
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Speaker 2: the ceasefire agreement with Israel. The offer, involving more than
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Speaker 2: sixty people, will be dependent on the full withdrawal of
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Speaker 2: Israeli forces from Gaza and an agreement to a permanent
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Speaker 2: end to the war.
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Speaker 6: The negotiations on Phase two, which were meant to begin
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Speaker 6: more than two weeks ago as part of Phase one
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Speaker 6: as part of this process, hadn't started. The is Ready
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Speaker 6: Foreign Minister Gideon T. Sar said just a day ago
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Speaker 6: that they would start this week, but he didn't give
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Speaker 6: a set date.
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Speaker 2: And finally, to Los Angeles, we're the US rapper and
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to say this name. I think
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Speaker 2: it's asap rocky asap rocky, But the s is a
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Speaker 2: dollar stone anyway, acep Rocky is a rapper and he's
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Speaker 2: been found not guilty of firing a gun at a
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Speaker 2: former friend, and jury acquitted the musician on two fell
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Speaker 2: in the assault charges that carried up to twenty four
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Speaker 2: years in prison. As the first not guilty verdict was read,
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Speaker 2: the rapper dived over the court barrier to Hugger's family,
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Speaker 2: including his partner, the popstar Rihanna.
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Speaker 1: Jeridy ondentitled find a defendent Rocky Mayers, I'm guilty.
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Speaker 7: Nonetheless, I'm thankful and we're blessed to be here right
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Speaker 7: now to be a free man, talking guy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you all.
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Speaker 4: Praised doing God. Rihanna, you can do better.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 2: Which Peters is making all the news right now. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about his attu towards Cook Islands in just a
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Speaker 2: few moments time. But he also yesterday caught out Riccardo
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Speaker 2: men Ender's march for calling New Zealand alteroror in parliament
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Speaker 2: yesterday he said, why was a guy who arrived in
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Speaker 2: two thousand and six calling New Zealand another name when
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Speaker 2: the official name was New Zealand, and fair enough it is,
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Speaker 2: but you have to ask yourself why is New Zealand
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Speaker 2: New Zealand in the first place. We're named after some
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Speaker 2: Dutch regent and we claim a britt James Cook as
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Speaker 2: a guy who found us why New Zealand names? Names
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Speaker 2: are very arbitrary and often based on common usage, and
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Speaker 2: if you think about it, they just don't make sense.
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Speaker 4: I mean, why am I Andrew? Ask your mother? I did?
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Speaker 2: She said, I just like the shape of it. It's
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Speaker 2: defined me ever since. And that's the thing about names.
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Speaker 2: They position you so me. New Zealand is New Zealand
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Speaker 2: to me because I've grown up with it, not because
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Speaker 2: I'm a Dutch sympathizer. I find Altai Roya to be
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Speaker 2: an affectation. I also hate the way foreigners butcher it.
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Speaker 2: If we're going to change the name, it needs to
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Speaker 2: be a name that everyone can say. But to Ricardo
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Speaker 2: it's Terror or New Zealand, and that's his thing. It's
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Speaker 2: not official and currently it will never become official without
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Speaker 2: an uproar. His use positions him and we all know where,
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Speaker 2: so it's nothing to lose sleep about. I'm not like Winston.
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Speaker 2: I don't get conniptions about this sort of thing. Winston
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Speaker 2: is just describing the difference between him and the Greens,
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Speaker 2: and if you agree, vote for Winston. If you like
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Speaker 2: the Greens, vote for them. It's a free speaking country,
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Speaker 2: so it's all no biggie. But maybe in another generation
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Speaker 2: things might change. But will I be around to care.
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. So we waked up this morning
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Speaker 2: with one eye on the champion's trophy. We're playing Pakistan,
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Speaker 2: who we've beaten twice in the past week. We batted first,
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Speaker 2: we got three twenty for the last of just five,
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Speaker 2: and the big thing here was two centuries. Will Young
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Speaker 2: Open scored one hundred and seven and one hundred and
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Speaker 2: thirteen balls. Tom Latham later scored one hundred and eighteen
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Speaker 2: and one hundred and four balls, all this while some
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Speaker 2: of the stars failed. Williamson got one, Conway and Mitchell
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Speaker 2: both got ten. And what was said before the tournament
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Speaker 2: was that New Zealand's strength is that everyone can make
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Speaker 2: a contribution, and that is true to no. So the
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Speaker 2: win probability meter for US right now sits at ninety percent. Currently,
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Speaker 2: Pakistan needs one hundred and thirty three runs and sixty
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Speaker 2: five balls to win. I can't see that happening. That's
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Speaker 2: a run rate of twelve point three. And one last
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Speaker 2: little sports story from the Herald today. Chris Wood is
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Speaker 2: the most cost effective striker in the Premier League. For
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Speaker 2: what the cub paid for him, each Chris Wood goal
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Speaker 2: costs half a million each. Compare that to most seller
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Speaker 2: the Superstar he comes in at one point seven million
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Speaker 2: a goal, or Early Harling who comes in at two
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Speaker 2: point five million a pop. Chris Wood is standout value
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Speaker 2: in the Premier League. And the real trick is that
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Speaker 2: he does a game after game. And the real thing
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Speaker 2: is he is a New Zealander. He's our captain. He
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Speaker 2: didn't win a Halberg, but you know he deserves to.
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Speaker 8: So.
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Speaker 2: Winston causing all the ruckers yesterday and he caused some
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Speaker 2: ruckers about the cock Islands. Jason Walls was listening. Jason's
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Speaker 2: next It is thirteen after five.
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Speaker 2: It's just gone five point fifteen and all as well
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Speaker 2: now last night and Wellington, Winston Peters delivered a speech
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Speaker 2: that showed he's not missing around with the Cook Islands.
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Speaker 2: He said, we need to reset the government to government relationship.
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Speaker 2: We need to formally restate responsibilities, obligations and the overall
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Speaker 2: parameters of the free association model. All this no small task,
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Speaker 2: so does it be political? Editor Jason Walls was listening
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Speaker 2: to the speech enjoins me, now, good morning to.
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Speaker 4: You, Jason, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Does Winston want an apology for Mark Brown or does
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Speaker 2: he just want a conversation?
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Speaker 9: Oh, listen, I think he probably wants a bit of both.
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Speaker 9: It's clear that Winston is well passed fed up at
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Speaker 9: this stage. I mean the fact that Mark Brown went
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Speaker 9: to China, he signed this agreement with that practically no
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Speaker 9: oversight from New Zealand, no consultation or anything of the
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Speaker 9: sort has obviously, so I think of grave concern in
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Speaker 9: Winston has been quite upset about this for our number
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Speaker 9: of weeks now, and I can underste I can understand
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Speaker 9: why it's no small feat to completely snub New Zealand
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Speaker 9: in a sense and sign such a major agreement with
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Speaker 9: China without giving New Zealand much of a heads up.
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Speaker 9: And the government is still in the dark about the
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Speaker 9: details of this agreement. I mean they've released essentially what
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Speaker 9: can be described as the executive summary to New Zealand,
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Speaker 9: but Winston Peters his officials in the Prime Minister for
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Speaker 9: that matter, are still waiting for some more information on
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Speaker 9: this one. So quite worrying times between the relationship between
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Speaker 9: the two countries and why the reset is occurring.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a real telling off, but it's some
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Speaker 2: diplomatic language.
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Speaker 4: But that's the way you do it.
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Speaker 2: So that's the big thing, the restating the parameters of
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Speaker 2: our free association model.
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Speaker 4: What could that look like?
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Speaker 9: Well, that's the thing. We need to wait and see
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Speaker 9: what that is. We've had about sixty years of this
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Speaker 9: model and it's quite fitting that the that the Winston
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Speaker 9: is looking to reset it now in terms of what
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Speaker 9: it looks I mean, that's exactly the question that we're
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Speaker 9: asking at this stage. And with New Zealand and the
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Speaker 9: Cooks are extremely close. We've got same passports, same currency,
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Speaker 9: various different things like that. So what it actually looks
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Speaker 9: like we'll be asking win Pete is that very question today?
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Speaker 9: I mean, I'm quite interested to see is are we
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Speaker 9: actually at this situation? Is this is sort of almost
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Speaker 9: a block that he could make to say, if they
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Speaker 9: actually give us the details of what they signed with China,
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Speaker 9: can he go back on this? And is using this
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Speaker 9: as just a bit of a trump card to say,
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Speaker 9: if you don't play by our rules, where we're going
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Speaker 9: to drop you.
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Speaker 2: Yes, if New Zealand's two hash, there is a real
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Speaker 2: risk that the Cook Islands will go okay, Well, China's that.
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Speaker 9: Mate, Well, there is that risk, and there is the
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Speaker 9: sort of the trade off here because China have been
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Speaker 9: sort of muscling their way into the Pacific with their
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Speaker 9: seemingly limitless amounts of money. New Zealand, what we do
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Speaker 9: have with the Cook Islands is a long history of
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Speaker 9: cultural connection with the country. I mean there are one
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Speaker 9: hundred thousand Cook Islanders in New Zealand for example. So
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Speaker 9: that is our real trump card in this situation. But
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Speaker 9: you know, is it enough when China come calling with
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Speaker 9: just bottomless pockets?
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Speaker 2: Jason Walls, thank you so much for getting up early
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Speaker 2: for us. That is Jason Wall's, our political editor at
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Speaker 2: the time, is now minutes after five. The Desert Road detour,
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Speaker 2: of course, people are then going along what they call
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Speaker 2: the Adventure Holiday Highway, which goes past the mountains, past
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Speaker 2: the chateaueareto through what was formerly called National Park, through
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Speaker 2: or Hakunian. Apparently everyone's chucking their rubbish out the window.
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Speaker 2: So there's a counsel who's got a big beef about this.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to him shortly. And I got a text
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Speaker 2: yesterday from a woman called Kristin who was listening to
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Speaker 2: Sharon Zolner the Economists, and she went, I get fit
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Speaker 2: up with all the gobbledygook from economists economists, and so
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Speaker 2: I'll try and talk about the Reserve Bank in a
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Speaker 2: moment like a real person.
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Speaker 4: It's five nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on a early edition with one roof to
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Speaker 4: It is five twenty two.
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Speaker 2: More wickets have fallen Pakistan now two hundred and one
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Speaker 2: for seven. They need one hundred and twenty runs and
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Speaker 2: fifty two balls, and the run rates creepy up towards fourteen.
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Speaker 2: It's all looking good, but it's not looking good and
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Speaker 2: pay who. Roadside dumping is an increasing problem along the
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Speaker 2: desert Road. Deep tour in Zta have received backlash for
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Speaker 2: the handling of the rubbish and it's clean up. So
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Speaker 2: the real pay who di just a council that David
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Speaker 2: Notage has now taken to collecting the rubbish in his
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Speaker 2: personal truck and David joins you now, Hello, David, good
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Speaker 2: on you man.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, good morning. Yeah, it's bit of a I
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Speaker 10: don't know if it's just bad timing for when I
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Speaker 10: go driving out on the State hallway, ball both. It
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Speaker 10: just seems that every time I'm out there and well
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Speaker 10: I've got trucks in and my youth, there's always seems
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Speaker 10: to be a lot of rubbish out there.
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Speaker 2: Well, good on you on your dedication to public service, mate.
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Speaker 2: So here's the thing. Is this rubbish directly correlating to
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Speaker 2: the detour being in place? Or have the people of
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Speaker 2: Rupey who just suddenly got messy?
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Speaker 10: Well it's hard to well, the last rest here I
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Speaker 10: cleaned up. It's hard to believe that travelers would carry
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Speaker 10: that much rubbish with them. And yes, people might be
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Speaker 10: taking advantage of the you know, the detour, but yeah,
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Speaker 10: the last one nearly has lots of lots of recyclable
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Speaker 10: stuff on their cans, bottles, plastic bottles, and I just
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Speaker 10: just general household rubbishpin dumpy as well. It's all on
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Speaker 10: black bags, so I tried to see if you actually
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Speaker 10: you know, being black bags as well.
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Speaker 4: So it's tourists not truckings.
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Speaker 10: Uh well no, we don't know, you know, unless we
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Speaker 10: you know, you know, I don't see anyone doing it,
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Speaker 10: but it just seems to appear.
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Speaker 4: Should should it ends it? Here's the thing?
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Speaker 2: Should ends it ta be stepping up his rubbis rubbish
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Speaker 2: collection frequency so you can step down.
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Speaker 10: I yeah, it would be nice, but but also it'd
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Speaker 10: be nice if tivys didn't throw their rubbish out. You know,
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Speaker 10: they pack it in. They should pack it out, you know,
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Speaker 10: take it home and you know, dispose of it how
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Speaker 10: they should dispose of it. But yeah, it has been disappointing.
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Speaker 10: That may be a contingency for the amount of rubbish
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Speaker 10: that could appear on our road. You know, it could
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Speaker 10: have been mitigated, I think.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And how is this detour affecting the local economy?
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Speaker 2: I know that Johnny Nation's bakery and Akuny's doing roaring business?
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Speaker 4: Is it? Are there wins and losses? Yeah?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely. I think from what we've been told that
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Speaker 10: you know, it's not just Oakuni that's having a bit
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Speaker 10: of a windfall National Park rather he Wanganui. Yeah, I
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Speaker 10: know it's tay happy and bulls maybe in Wau might
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Speaker 10: be striking a little bit. But you know, once a
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Speaker 10: detour comes off, I'm pretty sure that you know, their
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Speaker 10: economy will will go back to how it normally is.
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Speaker 10: But we're hoping that more people use State Hallway four
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Speaker 10: once the desert road and you know see that it's
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Speaker 10: just as pretty as the desert road.
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Speaker 4: It's not pretty absolutely as.
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Speaker 10: Long as they keep you aber from your car.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good call David, and thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for what you've been doing. David Notedge's the councilor at
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Speaker 2: the rual Pe Hood District Council that I do. Now
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Speaker 2: a lot of people are going around that other side
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Speaker 2: when they go in south and then they go, look
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Speaker 2: there's a pair of pair of highways going down to
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Speaker 2: wang and aw oh look the Sergeant gallery is just
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Speaker 2: open this go and have a trip. I've got friends
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Speaker 2: who have done that and the only reason they did
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Speaker 2: that was because of the detour. So it's changing things.
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Speaker 2: It's News talks it B. It's five twenty seven. I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens. Thank you for your company today. So yesterday
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Speaker 2: on the show, I outlined the reasons why the Reserve
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Speaker 2: Bank might not cut interest rates or lower them by
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Speaker 2: zero point two five percent, and I got that wrong
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Speaker 2: because they chopped the rate by the expected half a
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Speaker 2: percent with immediate relief for mortgage holders. While we try
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Speaker 2: to to do with the Reserve Bank is now read
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Speaker 2: behind the lines and figure out what they really mean
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Speaker 2: for us in our day to day life. And we'd
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Speaker 2: like to hear that in real language. So this is
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Speaker 2: what I think they're saying. They're saying, times have been tough,
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Speaker 2: but you've been sitting on that couch for fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: You wanted to replace that couch five years ago, but
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Speaker 2: everything went so crazy that you called ty hoe until
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Speaker 2: times were better. The Reserve Bank then says, well, times
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Speaker 2: are better. Well, times actually are as good as you're
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Speaker 2: going to get anytime soon, So buy that couch and
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Speaker 2: please buy a New Zealand one. In this statement, they
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Speaker 2: admit there are future risks, but they promise to keep
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Speaker 2: a close iron it. But we can't just sit in
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Speaker 2: our hands. So we've got a bit of a furlough,
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Speaker 2: so let's get cracking. We can wait for us someone
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Speaker 2: to tell us what to do, like a government, but
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Speaker 2: that's not the New Zealand way. We just need to
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Speaker 2: get out there and do it. We need to work
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Speaker 2: for every dollar we can find. We also need to
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Speaker 2: realize that the dollars we've got need to be in
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Speaker 2: the washing machine that is our monetary system. It helps
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Speaker 2: no one if you sit there cautiously, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's what the Reserve Bank is hoping for. That we
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Speaker 2: will loosen the strings around our purse book and spending
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Speaker 2: will increase as the year goes on, but not by
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Speaker 2: too much. Don't go crazy, just keep it all balanced. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: everyone's going to hope and pray that global conditions treat
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Speaker 2: us kindly. And we're going to talk about this with
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Speaker 2: Nikola Willis and she's joining us just before six this morning.
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Speaker 4: It's five twenty nine, Andrew Dickens, So what's still to come? Well,
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Speaker 4: still to come? We're off to America.
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Speaker 2: Mintb can very bad whether in New York he is
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Speaker 2: absolutely freezing. We'll talk to him about the big storms
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Speaker 2: that are hitting. We're going to talk about christ Church
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Speaker 2: water and more options on the table, and as I
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Speaker 2: mentioned before, we are going to be talking to Nicola
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Speaker 2: Willis about the interest rate rises. Is this because of
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Speaker 2: her policies or was this going to happen because the
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Speaker 2: Reserve Bank wanted it to happen anyway? And what does
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Speaker 2: she think we need to do going forward? We know
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Speaker 2: already that she's got the banks on warning saying, you
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Speaker 2: know there's an interest rate cut with a reserve bank,
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Speaker 2: you should be doing it too. They source their money
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Speaker 2: from different places. Can they do it, should they do it?
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Speaker 2: Will they do it? These are all questions that will
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Speaker 2: ask Nickol the Worse in about.
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Speaker 4: Twenty minutes time.
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Speaker 2: Here on News Talks at b I'm Adrew Dickens, gone
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Speaker 2: again for Ryan Bridge. Back after News and Sport.
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Speaker 4: Be Welcome morning, back to your Thursday. I'm Edrew Diggins.
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Speaker 2: After my comments about the word I'll tell at the
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Speaker 2: beginning of the show, I'm starting to get a few
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Speaker 2: texts coming in saying, well, really, if we go back
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Speaker 2: to eighteen forty and you look at the Treaty of
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Speaker 2: White Taking, we should be really called New Tehranni, and
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Speaker 2: they go, come off it. We've had one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty five years a branding of New Zealand. It sticks,
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Speaker 2: It's known around the world. It's easy to say, you know,
18:23
Speaker 2: go to New Tehranni. Everyone be going, what the hell
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Speaker 2: is happening down in New Zealand. Hey, here's a weird
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Speaker 2: news story I heard yesterday. It's the placement of the
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Speaker 2: mosque massacred date in a video game. And this video
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Speaker 2: game is a shoot him up and someone put it
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Speaker 2: in there, and you can, in fact, just imagine some
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Speaker 2: sweaty little coda placing the date and snickering away all
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Speaker 2: the mischiefy thinks he's causing when that hidden depth charge
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Speaker 2: went off, Well it went off yesterday. Some have argued, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's just a coincidence, it's just charged.
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Speaker 4: That's by the bye.
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Speaker 2: The date and the context of the game makes me
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Speaker 2: believe that it was a deliberate sight.
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Speaker 4: Coders, well, you know coders.
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Speaker 2: You know coders, codas are coders, So should they change
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Speaker 2: the day. Of course, it's causing a pretty big offense.
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Speaker 2: I think the real problem is that so many will
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Speaker 2: actually be laughing along with the cheap shop while they
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Speaker 2: sit behind their terminals and they do their shoot them
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Speaker 2: up going. It's not funny, it's not clever, it's mean,
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Speaker 2: it's heartless. And the guy who put it in the game,
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Speaker 2: he's a dick.
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Speaker 4: And I'm Dickens.
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Speaker 2: Callum prock To joins every film to need and hello, Callum.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Callum.
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Speaker 11: Hello, good morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 4: We are we found her. Doc wants a beach vehicle ban.
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Speaker 7: Here they do.
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Speaker 11: This is after more poor behavior around wildlife here in
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Speaker 11: the South. There's been numerous animal attacks on beaches around
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Speaker 11: the South people on vehicles. Cases include the discovery of
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Speaker 11: a dead sea lion on Totuku Beach after cars were
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Speaker 11: spotted there aggressively driving towards it and around it. So
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Speaker 11: the the district council wants to do something about it.
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Speaker 11: They'll decide today whether to go ahead with a by
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Speaker 11: law review which will ban vehicles. The mayor, Brian Kadogan's
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Speaker 11: told us that currently a council stretch to capacity. He
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Speaker 11: says it will be a balancing act in deciding whether
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Speaker 11: the spile or needs a review and if they have
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Speaker 11: the capacity and in fact financial ability to do so.
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Speaker 4: How's your weather? Rain clears this morning and.
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Speaker 11: Then fine, but then showers return this afternoon on a
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Speaker 11: high of twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Go for a walk on Tomahawk, but keep away from
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Speaker 2: the animals. Claire Surewood joins me right now from Crosser
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Speaker 2: Telly Claire. Hello, good morning, and there you're talking about
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Speaker 2: the management of water.
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Speaker 12: Yes, well, there are three options here for the management
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Speaker 12: of water in the future. Class Church City Councils agreed
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Speaker 12: to seek some feedback. The options include whether two maintain
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Speaker 12: this status quo with an in house delivery model or
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Speaker 12: potentially create an independent council owned entity. There's also a
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Speaker 12: hybrid approach, which is another option that's about balancing independent
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Speaker 12: management of water supply and waste water with council having
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Speaker 12: over site of our storm water. It's also formed what
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Speaker 12: they're describing as a collaboration with Duneden City Council. Now
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Speaker 12: Chief Executive Mary Richardson says she's very clear that neither
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Speaker 12: are considering considering a joint water entity, but rather to
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Speaker 12: sheer expertise. She says both christ Church and Duneden have
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Speaker 12: been clear that'd extend the collaboration with other councils when
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Speaker 12: in a position to do so.
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Speaker 4: And how's your weather today?
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Speaker 12: A bit of morning cloud clearing to fine northeasterlies a
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Speaker 12: bit later. We're on the way to twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Max told joins us from Wellington Hallimax. Good morning rates
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Speaker 2: blunder in Palmestan North.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, we've had people calling us at zby from across
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Speaker 13: mano or two this week, texting into the programs pointing
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Speaker 13: out that they has somehow been charged their rates bill
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Speaker 13: twice or double. Some that they'd been charged their rates
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Speaker 13: bill fire earlier than they should have been. We got
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Speaker 13: in touch with the Palmerston North City Council to ask
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Speaker 13: what was going on. They are now apologizing for what
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Speaker 13: they call technical issues and they're assuring us and everyone
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Speaker 13: affected that they have now been re funded. The council's
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Speaker 13: chief financial officer apologizing again to us and rate payers
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Speaker 13: for any concern or worry caused, and they are reviewing
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Speaker 13: their processes to make sure this does not happen again.
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Speaker 4: How's Wellington's weather today?
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Speaker 13: Party cloudy, the odd shower early and then clearing to
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Speaker 13: find twenty two the high central.
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Speaker 4: And never read a man who joins us from walking
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Speaker 4: to the temperature.
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Speaker 8: Okay, greetings, Yes, it's lovely good corners on, thank you, Andrew.
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Speaker 4: Wayne Brown is back for a second crack.
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Speaker 8: He is back for a second crack, quite right. He's
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Speaker 8: announced he's running for a second term this October. So
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Speaker 8: the early sign showed that his campaign's going to be
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Speaker 8: similar to the last one, focused on cutting spending, getting
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Speaker 8: projects done, returning CCO decisions back to the Auckland Council.
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Speaker 8: Brown says he's also going to get Central government to
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Speaker 8: allow this midnight visitor levy to pay for the large
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Speaker 8: events coming to the city as well.
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Speaker 4: Okay, and Orkand's weather today a bit.
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Speaker 14: Of a mixed bag.
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Speaker 8: Cloudy conditions, a few shouts from the afternoon, some possibly
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Speaker 8: heavy auto walk worth still warm though twenty six is
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Speaker 8: the high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: And I thank you and I'm my comments about the
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Speaker 2: game ant has come back at me on the text
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Speaker 2: ninety two to ninety two small charts does apply. Guess
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Speaker 2: what if the media hadn't reported the gamer's date, nobody
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Speaker 2: apart from a few gamers would have known. Now the
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Speaker 2: guys favours have as and laughing so who's the dick then,
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Speaker 2: mister media, Well yes, but at the same time, this
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Speaker 2: is a warning to anybody who thinking about it in
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Speaker 2: the future, and we need an opprobrium to pour down
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Speaker 2: on the gamer's head, so no one thinks it's a
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Speaker 2: good idea next time. Anyway, it's now eighteen minutes to six.
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Speaker 2: We're off to New York where the weather is atrocious,
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Speaker 2: with Mitch McCann in a few minutes time. In before six,
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Speaker 2: Nicola Willis is here to talk about our economy after
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Speaker 2: the good news yesterday that interest rates have fallen. It
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Speaker 2: is now seventeen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance. Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: It's accorded to six overseas Pakistan now two fifty four
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Speaker 2: for eight. They need sixty seven runs and twenty balls
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Speaker 2: to win. Run rates now over twenty. Will O Rourke
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Speaker 2: three wickets for forty seven. It's all looking good for
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Speaker 2: a New Zealand victory. Meanwhile, it's off to the United
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Speaker 2: States we go, and it's good morning to Mitch McCann.
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Speaker 4: How I much, Good morning, Andrew, how are you very well?
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Speaker 2: President Zelenski calls out President Trump on truth and disinformation.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Zelensky has been walking this awkward tightrope,
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Speaker 7: I think in recent weeks, wanting to defend Ukraine's sovereignty
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Speaker 7: head of these negotiations that might happen, but not wanting
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Speaker 7: to criticize Donald Trump openly for some of the comments
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Speaker 7: he's made that seem rather favorable to Russia. But it
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Speaker 7: seems his patience may have run out. Now here's the context.
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Speaker 7: Last night, at a press conference, Donald Trump appeared to
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Speaker 7: be almost blaming Ukraine for the war. He told reporters,
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Speaker 7: referring to Ukrainian leaders, you should have never started it.
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Speaker 7: You could have made a deal. At the same time,
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Speaker 7: he was not at all critical of Russia, the country
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Speaker 7: nearly the entire international community agrees did actually start it.
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Speaker 7: Now in the last few hours, Zelensky has shot back
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Speaker 7: reasonably defiant. He said, unfortunately he's living in in this
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Speaker 7: disinformation space speaking about Donald Trump, and he added, I
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Speaker 7: want there to be some well, I want there to
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Speaker 7: be more truths in Trump's team. He also said the
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Speaker 7: White House suggested that he signed this agreement to give
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Speaker 7: America half of its rich mineral resources in exchange for defense,
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Speaker 7: which he refused. So this is coming out a delicate
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Speaker 7: time where the US is looking to negotiate with Russia
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Speaker 7: without Ukraine at the table, and you can see now
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Speaker 7: Ukraine's getting a little bit impatient with what's going on here.
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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, you're in New York and you're freezing.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I am, I'm sick of complaining about the weather,
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Speaker 7: but this is really so cold. It's about minus five
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Speaker 7: degrees celsius at lunchtime as I speak to you. But
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Speaker 7: it's far from over, and there's a series of winter
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Speaker 7: storms about to hit the US. Virginia, North Carolina, and
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Speaker 7: Delaware are set to receive between fifteen to thirty centimeters
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Speaker 7: of snow in the coming days. North Carolina and Arkansas
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Speaker 7: have already declared states of emergency. And just finally, Andrew,
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Speaker 7: I'll leave you with this. The National Weather Service has
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Speaker 7: seen temperatures in the set. The O Bismarck, North Dakota,
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Speaker 7: reached negative thirty seven degrees celsius this week, breaking a
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Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty year record.
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Speaker 4: It's cold.
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Speaker 2: Are you a fahrenheit boy yet or are you still
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Speaker 2: keeping with the celsius?
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Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 2: I'm on Google every five minutes trying to work it out.
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Speaker 2: Stay warm and I thank you for your time today.
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Speaker 7: Thanks Andrew all the best.
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Speaker 4: Mitch McCann for the United States of America at the
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Speaker 4: time is now twelve to six Coundrew Dickens.
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Speaker 2: So good news for mortgage holders. The official cash rate
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Speaker 2: yesterday dropped by fifty basis points. It's down to three
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Speaker 2: point seventy five percent. The question is will the banks
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Speaker 2: pass it on? Well, banks have already started doing that.
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Speaker 2: And for NaN's Minister Nichola Willis joins me. Now, Hello, Nicola, Hi,
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Speaker 2: how are you. I'm good good news for us, good
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Speaker 2: news with mortgage holders. What does it say about our economy?
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Speaker 14: Well, it says that things are going to get better
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Speaker 14: for New Zealanders who are worried about the cost of
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Speaker 14: learning because their mortgages are going to get cheaper. And
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Speaker 14: the Reserve Bank is confirming the view that the economy
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Speaker 14: is going to grow this year, which means more people
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Speaker 14: on jobs, more businesses doing well, and more wealth in
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Speaker 14: our economy.
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Speaker 4: This is true.
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Speaker 2: The Reserve Bank has made it clear that there will
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Speaker 2: be more cuts. Do you believe that because there is
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Speaker 2: an argument that we shouldn't be going to heart right now,
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Speaker 2: considering the global situation considering the baked in non tradable
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Speaker 2: inflation that we've got. You know, we see rate rises
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Speaker 2: the whole time, we see water rises the whole time.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe that there will be more cuts?
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Speaker 14: Well, the Reserve Bank is forecasting more cuts, that's very clear.
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Speaker 14: They see that interrast rate reductions will continue for the
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Speaker 14: year ahead, and that's based on their view that New
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Speaker 14: Zealand has inflation under control, which is very good news
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Speaker 14: for all New Zealanders. It means less price rises and
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Speaker 14: it also means that interst rates can keep coming down.
27:47
Speaker 14: So if you've got a mortgage or your a small business,
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Speaker 14: interest rates are going to keep dropping.
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Speaker 2: So is the fact that inflation is now under control.
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Speaker 2: Who should get the credit? Is it because of your
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Speaker 2: policies and your fiscal manner or is it just the
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Speaker 2: consequence of the Reserve bank squeeze of money supply over
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Speaker 2: the past two years.
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Speaker 14: Well, the Reserve Bank has the decision making power when
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Speaker 14: it comes to reducing interest rates. All we can do
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Speaker 14: is the government is make it easier for them, and
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Speaker 14: we have since coming to government, we have been disciplined
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Speaker 14: about government spending. We went through a period as a
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Speaker 14: country where the government was spending more than it ever had,
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Speaker 14: even while inflation was driving to generational high as it
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Speaker 14: was up at more than seven percent, and the government
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Speaker 14: kept on spending and that makes it hard for the
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Speaker 14: Reserve Bank reduced infrastrates. So now it's in a different
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Speaker 14: point of the cycle where it can look at a
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Speaker 14: government that's saying, well, be restrained, please just drop interest rates, and.
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Speaker 2: They are yes, Well, there's good spending and there's bad spending.
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Speaker 14: And I know.
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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Engineering New Zealand and Philip Templar wrote
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Speaker 2: a piece complaining about the lack of spending on any
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Speaker 2: infrastructure and the fact that because there is no investment
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Speaker 2: from the government in our infrastructure, we are losing our
28:59
Speaker 2: best and brightest a engineers to Australia and the rebuild
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Speaker 2: in America. So the question is when will you start
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Speaker 2: spending Well, one of.
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Speaker 14: The things that drives me in politics is wanting new,
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Speaker 14: skilled New Zealanders to stay here in this great country.
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Speaker 14: The fact is that we are spending more on infrastructure
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Speaker 14: than the previous government was forecasting to do. We are
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Speaker 14: continuing to invest in building hospitals and building skills and
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Speaker 14: building roads and we will keep doing so, we need
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Speaker 14: to also paint a better future for New Zealanders, and
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Speaker 14: that is why we are so focused on growing the
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Speaker 14: economy so that we can create better opportunities in the
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Speaker 14: years ahead.
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Speaker 4: Are we building roads, Yes, we are.
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Speaker 14: I mean we just last week opened the new road
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Speaker 14: in the Hawk's Bay. We've got new roads happening in
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Speaker 14: christ Church. We've got new roads of national significance happening
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Speaker 14: across the country. We've got a record investment in the
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Speaker 14: National Land Transport Fund so that we can build roads
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Speaker 14: that will make a difference to New Zealander who can
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Speaker 14: meet from one region to another.
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Speaker 2: Those roads were ordered by another regime. What I'm asking is,
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Speaker 2: what are you going to do.
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Speaker 14: Now we have announced new projects? Andrew, Yes, yeah, but.
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm just doing the light rail thing with you,
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Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. You know, we have
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Speaker 2: announcements of projects, but it's not a project until a
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Speaker 2: side has turned.
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Speaker 14: Well, you are making a very good point, which is
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Speaker 14: we did cancel fantasy projects. I don't think anyone in
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Speaker 14: Auckland thought light rail was actually going to happen. Yes,
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Speaker 14: there are a lot of people involved in designing it,
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Speaker 14: but it wasn't ever going to happen, and similarly with
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Speaker 14: the Lake Onslow hydro project that was never going to
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Speaker 14: happen either. We're focusing our resources on projects we will
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Speaker 14: actually open, and that's roads of national significance, that's big hospitals,
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Speaker 14: that schools. We're doing things where we invest the resources
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Speaker 14: and projects we will fund and we will dolether.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, you're cutting the spending, but you're still having
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Speaker 2: to continue the borrowing because we have so we have
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Speaker 2: huge payments. Our dollar has had a year long slide
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Speaker 2: downward and I want to know what's that doing to
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Speaker 2: our debt at its repayment and our economy.
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Speaker 14: Well, we have a flexible exchange rate, and the plus
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Speaker 14: side of that is it means that when our dollar
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Speaker 14: is coming down, our exporters get more for they're exporting.
31:20
Speaker 14: And so if you're a dairy farmer or you're a
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Speaker 14: sheep farmer right now, there is a plus side to that. Overall,
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Speaker 14: it means that our exchange rate is adjusting to the
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Speaker 14: circumstances that are happening around the world. New Zealand just
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Speaker 14: needs to keep doing what it's always done well, which
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Speaker 14: is selling our beautiful, amazing products around the world. For
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Speaker 14: good prices and we will keep doing that.
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Speaker 2: Nikola Willis Finance Minister. I think you for your time today.
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Speaker 2: It is now seven minutes to six.
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Speaker 1: It's Talks the first word on the News of the
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Speaker 1: Day earlier edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room to
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Speaker 1: Make Your Property Surgeon Simple Youth.
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Speaker 2: Talksv Yes, it's now five to say so Andrew Dickins
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Speaker 2: saying good news.
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Speaker 4: We won.
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Speaker 2: We beat Pakistan. We won by sixty runs. They were
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Speaker 2: all out for two sixty. We got three twenty for five.
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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of centuries and there well. O
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Speaker 2: Rourke had a good crack. This was the first game
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Speaker 2: of fifteen. This was the host nation getting trolet by us.
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Speaker 2: We've now beat in them three times in a row
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Speaker 2: in a week. Things are looking good. The thing about
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand cricket side is that either awesome or awful,
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Speaker 2: and I can never get used to which one is which.
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Speaker 2: Mike cost can good morning to you.
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Speaker 15: A psychology of the game as what it boils down
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Speaker 15: to absolute it's all in the head.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, Pakistan's head's gone, Our head's back. Maybe it's
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Speaker 2: because they finally put satin there as the captain, and
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Speaker 2: he seems to be a drenk ride down the night.
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Speaker 2: Your you, cricket trajects are all the same. You look,
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Speaker 2: you look for things that aren't there. Some days a
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Speaker 2: good days, some days aren't good days.
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Speaker 4: You're the abstract man. Say it's all on the head.
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Speaker 4: It's all in the bat.
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Speaker 15: It's all in the bat. But it's only in the
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Speaker 15: bat and the ball. If it's in your head, it
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Speaker 15: all starts. It all starts in the head. Hadrian all
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Speaker 15: this morning, I'll tell you what was interesting yesterday about
32:55
Speaker 15: watching his press conference, and you should always watch that
32:58
Speaker 15: because what you get by way of headlines tells the
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Speaker 15: full story. So he, broadly speaking, is very bullish about
33:03
Speaker 15: where we are at the moment. All things being considered,
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Speaker 15: by the end of the year will get a little
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Speaker 15: bit of growth. But we're at what he calls neutral,
33:09
Speaker 15: where we're back to where we should be. And the
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Speaker 15: worrying thing about that, and Nicholas should be worried about it,
33:15
Speaker 15: is that that is his fair value is what he
33:18
Speaker 15: called it. So the currency is fair value, the interest
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Speaker 15: rates a fair value, everything's fair value. So the currency
33:22
Speaker 15: is at forty five p and about mid fifties US,
33:27
Speaker 15: and that tells you how shockingly poor that we are
33:30
Speaker 15: as a country.
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Speaker 2: I looked at the dollar side over this year. It's
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Speaker 2: a line like that all the way down. And every
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Speaker 2: time the dollar goes down, that means our repayments of
33:37
Speaker 2: our debt.
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Speaker 15: Goes up, and so he calls that fee.
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Speaker 4: I asked Nicola about that, and you know it's no problem.
33:42
Speaker 15: Well, it sys a problem because we pay ten billion
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Speaker 15: dollars a year on interest on our debt.
33:48
Speaker 4: So it might not be spending on public servance, but
33:50
Speaker 4: we are spending on debt.
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Speaker 15: We are certainly spending on deb where it's two times
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Speaker 15: the police budget on the interest on debt each and
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Speaker 15: every year. Anyway, Adrian Or will explain more after seven
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Speaker 15: thirty when he's with us.
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Speaker 2: Great the Mike hosting Breakfast is here. I'm Andrew Dickins.
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Speaker 4: I'm gone.
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Speaker 2: My thanks to producer Kenzie and Libby for doing the setup,
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Speaker 2: and I'll see you tomorrow.
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