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Full Show Podcast: 27 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: EARLIERII with one roof love where you live, News talks'd
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Speaker 1: be and a very good morning.
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Speaker 2: Just gone six after five, will before six look at
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand result what it might mean for some
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Speaker 2: regional routes. The Danes are going to the polls are
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Speaker 2: correspondent on that electric avenue in christ Church this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Why they need barbed wire fences sounds pretty intense. And
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Speaker 2: Ruth Money on those crime stats out yesterday.
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Speaker 1: The agenda frid.
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Speaker 2: Out of twenty seventh to February Krishner and Witcoff and Geneva.
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Speaker 2: Another rounded talk still mo deal with the Iranians.
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Speaker 3: Here's what the President's positions are, and I believe that
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Speaker 3: the positions of the United States are to remove completely.
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Speaker 3: He runs military nuclear capability, and if not, I think
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Speaker 3: there'll be serious consequences. And President Trump is a man
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Speaker 3: whose word should be taken very seriously.
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Speaker 2: To Cuba and the Cubans who shot that speedboat yesterday
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Speaker 2: was a US speedboat apparently had four people on it,
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Speaker 2: and they were planned some kind of infiltration or plot.
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Speaker 2: Rubio is pretty open minded about what they were actually
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Speaker 2: doing there. We're going to find out. We're not going
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Speaker 2: to base our conclusions on what they've told us.
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Speaker 3: And I'm very very confident that we will know the
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Speaker 3: full story of what happened here, and we will know
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Speaker 3: it soon.
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Speaker 2: And Denmark is going to head to the polls March
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Speaker 2: twenty four. The prime minister, they're met Frederickson. She's going
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Speaker 2: to capitalize on the whole Greenland situation with Trump.
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Speaker 4: I think the pressure on Greenland is totally unacceptable. We
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Speaker 4: will try to see if we can find a.
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Speaker 2: Solution, and you can you can.
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Speaker 5: Rely on us, you can trust us. We will do
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Speaker 5: whatever we can.
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Speaker 2: News talk said be Hillary Clinton. By the way, seven
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Speaker 2: after five nine nine, the number six Hillary Clinton is
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Speaker 2: going to appear. Well, she's not going to go to
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Speaker 2: Washington because you know, they kicked up a big stink.
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Speaker 2: They didn't want to go and to this House Oversight
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Speaker 2: Committee and talk to the committee members on Capitol Hill.
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Speaker 2: So all the committee members are having to go to
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Speaker 2: the Clinton's house in New York and they're going to
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Speaker 2: do it there, apparently. So Hillary is today, Bill is tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: All over Epstein. She says she never met him, She's
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Speaker 2: never met the guy, but I did meet Gilaine at
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Speaker 2: least twice, so we'll find more find out more about that.
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Speaker 2: Weally you can't live stream it for anyone who is
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Speaker 2: desperately eager, but we'll get some video in a couple
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Speaker 2: of days. Apparently back home the coward punch situation, you
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Speaker 2: will remember the story. I'm sure the MMA fighter faux Vak,
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Speaker 2: now he's an MMA fighter. He didn't even get a
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Speaker 2: chance to throw a punch in this situation that happened
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Speaker 2: in Auckland because they came from behind they you know,
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Speaker 2: that's the point of a coward punch. Anyway, the guy
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Speaker 2: that did this gets less than a yet walks out
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Speaker 2: of jail in less than a year. Now, faux Vak
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Speaker 2: hads a young daughter and she is without a father.
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Speaker 2: So yesterday I spoke to Eugene Beerman, who's the MMA
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Speaker 2: head trainer at City Kickbox where he was fighting, and
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Speaker 2: he was quite interesting because normally you expect people to
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Speaker 2: say when it comes to crime and to victims and dessentencing,
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Speaker 2: you expect people to say, oh, well, if someone's had
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Speaker 2: a tough upbringing, you know this is what the courts safe.
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Speaker 2: Someone's had a tough fupbringing, then they deserve to have
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Speaker 2: a discount on their sentence. We have many of those,
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Speaker 2: plenty of those when it comes to sentencing in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: But this is what he said yesterday about that idea.
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Speaker 6: This is the thing that we're really advocating against. We
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Speaker 6: were all naughty kids when we were young, you know
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Speaker 6: what I mean, and we all went through hardship. But
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Speaker 6: whether that should have any reflection later in life on
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Speaker 6: what you've done. We also become adults and we also
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Speaker 6: become responsible and I think you know, to apply those
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Speaker 6: discounts because there's some of these young fellows, they've had
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Speaker 6: a hard life, it doesn't truly affect how they're acting
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Speaker 6: later on as an adult.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, isn't it? Now before Parliament at the moment, through
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Speaker 2: let committee stage as we speak, is a bill that
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Speaker 2: would toughen up the penalties for card punchers, but he
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Speaker 2: says doesn't go far far enough. Eugene wants a minimum
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Speaker 2: eight year non parole for that offense. Brian Bridge, speaking
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Speaker 2: of crime and punishment and victims, there's the survey stats
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Speaker 2: out yesterday. People, I don't know. There's two schools of thought.
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Speaker 2: Are these numbers worth the paper? They're written? On or
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Speaker 2: not Ruth Money on that.
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Speaker 1: Next Views and Views You Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 2: Twelve after five. I mentioned the other day we would
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Speaker 2: get this this week. So the an z Business Outlook Survey,
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Speaker 2: this is the monthly one for February and it shows
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Speaker 2: that overall confidence is down five points, but the Sharon's Olner,
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Speaker 2: who's the chief economist there, says, don't worry too much
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Speaker 2: about that's still very strong at fifty nine. Overall activity
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Speaker 2: indicators across the survey solid facturing did very well, by
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Speaker 2: the way, and inflation price expectations. While you can read
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Speaker 2: into that two ways. Some people say, oh the slightly elevated,
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Speaker 2: other people say nothing to worry about. So the consensus,
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Speaker 2: at least from Sharon is that they're mixed. Bread Brech
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Speaker 2: So forty nine thousand and fewer victims of violent crime
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Speaker 2: in the year to October compared to two years prior.
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Speaker 2: This has come from the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey.
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Speaker 2: So what of these numbers. Let's go to Ruth Money,
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Speaker 2: who's the government's chief victim's advisor. Ruth good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: First of all, are these numbers solid and sound?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they are solid and sound. The New Zealand Crime
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Speaker 4: and Victims Survey is the benchmark. I guess it's not
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Speaker 4: just disclosed crime, so it's just not what's reported to
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Speaker 4: the police, but it's also undisclosed crime or unreported crime.
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Speaker 4: So the survey surveys people who have perhaps experienced a
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Speaker 4: burglary at home or sexual violence but for whatever reason,
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Speaker 4: decided not to report it to the police. So it
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Speaker 4: is our benchmark measure.
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Speaker 2: And when we say violent crime, what would your class
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Speaker 2: is violent?
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Speaker 7: Sexual assault?
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Speaker 4: Non sexual assault that's physical so you know you're outside
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Speaker 4: a bar and someone punctures you, for example, a common assault,
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Speaker 4: which is what the Crimes Act would call it.
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Speaker 8: All robbery.
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Speaker 4: Family violence is also included, so sexual stuff and or
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Speaker 4: physical stuff. In terms of interpersonal relationships.
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Speaker 2: And what do you put the drop down to m it's.
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Speaker 4: The magic thing. Hey, if we knew that, we'd do
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Speaker 4: more of it. Look, I think it is a mix
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Speaker 4: of all sorts of things. When I speak with survivors,
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Speaker 4: when I speak with the sector who are helping survivors,
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Speaker 4: a lot of it is that there is a lot
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Speaker 4: more of police presence, so they feel safer, and we
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Speaker 4: do know that that deters crime people, you know, police
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Speaker 4: being present. But I also think there may be some
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Speaker 4: kind of sentencing effect where we've got people who are
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Speaker 4: resider as defenders. We don't want to put everybody in prison,
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Speaker 4: but we do want to keep the community safe. So
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Speaker 4: if people are in prison, they can't hurt other people.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's a mix, I think from what I
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Speaker 4: from what I hear from the front line, and what
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Speaker 4: I experienced talking to people.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting you're hearing you say that, Ruth, because it's
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Speaker 2: not a revelation. You know, if you are somebody who
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Speaker 2: repeatedly violently assaults people and you're in jail, then it
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Speaker 2: stands to reason you won't be able to do that anymore.
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Speaker 4: That's it. That's exactly right. It is exactly right. You
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Speaker 4: are in the safest place for you and more importantly
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Speaker 4: for us, until you know we can hopefully rehabilitate your behavior,
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Speaker 4: but at least keep us safe. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 4: In the meantime, I.
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Speaker 2: Spoke to Eugene Berman yesterday from City Kickboxing about faux Vark,
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Speaker 2: who was coward punched, and he was saying we want
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Speaker 2: some minimum non parole for a coward punch offense. Do
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Speaker 2: we need more minimum non parole periods in your view?
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Speaker 4: Well, that's an interesting call because I know that the
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Speaker 4: judiciary doesn't like them, and they will do anything to
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Speaker 4: kind of avoid a charge that will be linked to
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Speaker 4: a minimum non parole period in my experience, so it
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Speaker 4: makes it very difficult when they come across. I'm sorry
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Speaker 4: when that happens, there's a normal often a negotiation between
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Speaker 4: prosecution and defense, and the charges can change. So I'm
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Speaker 4: really conscious that you could become or you could end
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Speaker 4: up with an unintended consequence by putting a mandatory minimum
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Speaker 4: non parole period. The judiciary really don't like it, and
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Speaker 4: I understand that to a level because everybody's circumstances different. However,
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Speaker 4: the coward punches are a horrific crime and they do
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Speaker 4: need to be sentenced appropriately, which I don't believe they
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Speaker 4: are in most cases.
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Speaker 2: When you say that the judiciary doesn't like the non
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Speaker 2: parole period offenses and tries to almost rig aloud them,
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Speaker 2: why is that.
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Speaker 4: Well, ultimately, you know, the judiciary is independent and it's
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Speaker 4: their court, and so it's their job to assess everything
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Speaker 4: that is in front of them and make the best
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Speaker 4: decision for the community and the offender. But the offender
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Speaker 4: is obviously the party to the preceding. The victim isn't.
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Speaker 4: And this is something that you and I have spoken
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Speaker 4: about for over ten years. The victim is not considered, right,
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Speaker 4: their outcome is not considered because that's not what the
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Speaker 4: justice system's job is to do. Unfortunately, it's something I
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Speaker 4: want to change, but that's not the system we have
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Speaker 4: right now. So the judiciary can only do what's in
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Speaker 4: front of them, which is to consider all of the material,
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Speaker 4: which is about the person who did the violent crimes
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Speaker 4: rather than about the community and about us. So I'm
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Speaker 4: trying to get the weights right. But at the end
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Speaker 4: of the day, the judiciary goes, well, you know, we
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Speaker 4: need to try and rehabilitate this person. And the Sentencing
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Speaker 4: Act does say that they need to look at the
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Speaker 4: least sentence possible in that in their occurrence. So it's
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Speaker 4: a different They walk a tight a tight rope, and
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Speaker 4: it is a difficult thing to get everybody, make everybody happy.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm with Eugene. I'm not happy Ruth comes.
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Speaker 2: The victims. I'm not happy Ruth, I really appreciate your
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Speaker 2: time so early this morning on a Friday. Thank you
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Speaker 2: very much for being with me. Ruth Money, Chief Victims Advisor.
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Speaker 2: Time is nineteen minutes after five. Speaking of prisons, they're
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Speaker 2: basically having to make and christ And at prison this
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Speaker 2: weekend to keep people out. This is for Electric Avenue.
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Speaker 2: We are live there next the.
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Speaker 1: News you Need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 2: One after five. If you're in christ Church this weekend
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Speaker 2: or heading to christ Church this weekend, it's probably for
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Speaker 2: Electric Avenue. Bucking the trend of festival's going bust gets
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Speaker 2: underway today. You've got split ends, You've got Kesher, You've
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Speaker 2: got Dom Dollar headlining acts for this weekend. The festival
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Speaker 2: generates more than ten million bucks for the city's economy
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Speaker 2: and Newman is christ Church in z that's the economic
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Speaker 2: development CCO with us this morning and good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning Ryan, how are you doing good?
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Speaker 2: Thank you sir? How many I understand you had two
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand people chasing ninety thousand tickets? Am I right?
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Speaker 7: Let's preach up people across two days and I think
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Speaker 7: there's currently twenty five thousand people on the waiting list
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Speaker 7: to get tickets, but he's given any of them up.
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Speaker 2: Where are they coming from? An it's a.
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Speaker 7: Mixture across both the local economy. But we've got about
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Speaker 7: twenty three thousand people coming into christ Church. We had
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Speaker 7: about eighteen thousand of them coming in last night after
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Speaker 7: sort of five o'clock last night, so a huge kind
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Speaker 7: of across New Zealand. And we've got some Australians coming in.
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Speaker 7: It is New Zealand's in Australasia's largest music festival.
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Speaker 2: How does it compare for you to other events you hold?
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Speaker 7: Oh, look, electricav is a pretty good caliber and high
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Speaker 7: level event. You know, it brings thousands of people into
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Speaker 7: the city and it just creates such an amazing vibe
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Speaker 7: in the city. The place is going off right now.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty intense. They need barbed why to keep people out.
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Speaker 2: Apparently they're worried, they're that worried about people running it
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Speaker 2: straight into the fences.
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Speaker 7: I did see that. I guess that just goes to
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Speaker 7: show the caliber of the content and the exit they've
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Speaker 7: got on at Electric Avenue that people want to get in.
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Speaker 2: Do you guys pay to have the festival there.
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Speaker 7: The festival is supported obviously by Live Nation, who are
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Speaker 7: a big American company and so they predominantly do all
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Speaker 7: of it. But if the additional support required, we will
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Speaker 7: support them.
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Speaker 2: Right. But it's not like you have to pay to
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Speaker 2: host it. No, okay, well that's good. So ten million
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Speaker 2: bucks is net. That's great. Appreciate your time, Man and
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Speaker 2: newman who is with Christ churchen Z this morning twenty
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Speaker 2: News Talks Are Big twenty six minutes after five in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's interim results for the half year. Certainly didn't
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Speaker 2: fill you with confidence yesterday? Did they are? So little confidence
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Speaker 2: did David Seymour have in them that he suggested we
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Speaker 2: just sell the whole bloody thing. There are the costs, sure,
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Speaker 2: but then Qantas mentioned the same cost pressures and their
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Speaker 2: results yesterday still managed to make a buck, didn't they demand?
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Speaker 2: Domestic demand stills subpar. Kiwis aren't traveling as much in
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Speaker 2: our own backyard, both in general and on our own airline.
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Speaker 2: The reason, partly this is a simple economy story. We
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Speaker 2: haven't been performing as well as the Australians have we
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Speaker 2: so it stands to reason that demand hasn't been firing.
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Speaker 2: But there's also choice in the market. You know this.
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Speaker 2: There are alternatives, at least on the main trunk lines,
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Speaker 2: and of late, Air New Zealanders hasn't been affordable for
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Speaker 2: most people. What's more, the results mention this specifically as well.
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Speaker 2: Business travel has been slow to recover, and we have
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Speaker 2: a lot of business owners business leaders listening to this
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Speaker 2: show in the morning. They're up early, up and adam
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Speaker 2: and they text in time and time Again. Whenever we
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Speaker 2: mention Air New Zealand, the complaint is the same. They
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Speaker 2: cancel too many flights, There too many delays. Don't mind
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Speaker 2: paying through the nose for the last minute flight, Don't
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, but the flights have to leave on
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Speaker 2: time and arrive on time. If you've got a meeting
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Speaker 2: in christ Church at midday, you book a ten am
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Speaker 2: from Wellington. Say you need that product to do what
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Speaker 2: it says on the packet. If it fails you you
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Speaker 2: lose trust. If you lose trust, you stop using the product. Now,
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Speaker 2: airlines always tell us that they've got great on time performance,
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Speaker 2: but most people don't have a lot of faith in
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Speaker 2: those numbers. I don't think it's like Wellingtonian's trusting the
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Speaker 2: water sampling at Lyle Bay. If they did, poor old
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Speaker 2: Andrew Little wouldn't have needed as little lunchtime photo op
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Speaker 2: this week, would he? The question now is what are
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Speaker 2: they going to do about it in New Zealand. That is,
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Speaker 2: they should start by fixing the trust issue. If it's
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Speaker 2: in fact a perception issue, and where wrong, then fix
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Speaker 2: the perception issue. Twenty eight minutes after five. We're going
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Speaker 2: to speak to the mayor of Topor just before six
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Speaker 2: this morning. Because the other thing they could do, of
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Speaker 2: courses start cutting costs and whether they start cutting well,
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Speaker 2: potentially regional roots could Tope will be one of them
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Speaker 2: because Topor lost origin here last year they had a
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Speaker 2: Topaul Wellington flight gone and before that and they were
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Speaker 2: only operating for a couple of months and before that
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Speaker 2: it was sounds there Topaul Wellington gone. So they currently
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Speaker 2: have topau Auckland with their New Zealand could that be
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Speaker 2: up for review or under threat. We'll talk to them
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Speaker 2: mere about that just before six this morning. Now, do
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Speaker 2: you have a smart devices in your home. I'm not
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Speaker 2: big on the whole smart home thing. I just find
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Speaker 2: it's probably more work than it's worth for me. But
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Speaker 2: people have front doors, they have cameras, they have locks,
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Speaker 2: they have heating TVs, I mean the TV. I have
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Speaker 2: the vacuum cleaner, you know, the robot vacuum cleaners. So
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Speaker 2: there's a French programmer who managed to hack well he
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Speaker 2: didn't mean to, but he inadvertently hacked into seven thousand
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Speaker 2: people's robots, vacuum cleaners in their homes. What's scary about
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Speaker 2: this is he did it exit and he got all
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Speaker 2: of that because they've got cameras and microphones on these
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Speaker 2: vacuum cleaners, so he gets in the back end. Somehow
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Speaker 2: he's able to know the location of these vacuum cleaners,
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Speaker 2: and then it gives you a map of people's homes
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Speaker 2: because the vacuum cleaners need to know where to go. Anyway.
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Speaker 2: Emails the Chinese company that brought it from no reply
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Speaker 2: goes to the media. Here we are Apparently they're going
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Speaker 2: to get onto fixing it. So just watch out for
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Speaker 2: you your little robots roaming around the house. It is
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Speaker 2: coming up to twenty nine after five Newstalks.
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Speaker 2: on your Friday morning. Denmark's heading to the polls early.
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Speaker 2: This is the Greenland election. Gavin Gray with us shortly
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Speaker 2: on that. How Hillary Clinton, by the way, has just
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Speaker 2: said I don't recall ever encountering Epstein. When people say
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Speaker 2: they don't recall things, you do start to wonder, don't you. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: she has previously said this is happening in the House
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Speaker 2: Oversight Committee situation, that's happening in New York because they
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Speaker 2: don't want to travel to Capitol Hill. So you just said,
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Speaker 2: I do not recall meeting or talking to him. Bill
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Speaker 2: of course did know Epstein. Hillary says didn't never knew him,
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Speaker 2: never talk to him. Don't recall talking to him now
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Speaker 2: is the word that she's using. So anyway, you'll see
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Speaker 2: and hear about that a lot today and we'll get
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Speaker 2: to our reporters in a second. I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: quickly raise with you, and we spoke about this yesterday,
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Speaker 2: the refund for the tariffs for importers. So if you're
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Speaker 2: in the US, you're an importer, You've paid the tariffs,
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Speaker 2: and now the Supreme Court says the tariffs are illegal,
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Speaker 2: so you want to call back some of that money.
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Speaker 2: So they're going after In fact, some big companies are
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Speaker 2: suing the government trying to get them money back, sewing
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Speaker 2: Trump's administration. There's also businesses that are going that's too hard,
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Speaker 2: I can't be bothered. So you can buy the right
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Speaker 2: to claw it back. And there's a whole market that's
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Speaker 2: set up to do this, so you sell the rights
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Speaker 2: to any refunds that might be due. Prices were around
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Speaker 2: twenty cents on the dollar before the ruling. They've now
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Speaker 2: jumped up to forty cents in the dollar afterwards. Time
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Speaker 9: that pay a public transport rate will see a slight
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Speaker 9: increase due to new services being introduced, but councilors have
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Speaker 9: decided not to go to the expense of consulting the
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Speaker 9: community on the plan, which will be adopted in April.
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Speaker 2: How's the weather, Rosie.
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Speaker 9: It's mainly fine today with some evening cloud and southwesterlies
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Speaker 9: which are dying out in late afternoon at a high
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Speaker 9: fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you Claires and christ this morning. Claire,
20:23
Speaker 2: good morning. We've just been talking about Electric Avenue. Are
20:25
Speaker 2: you going?
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Speaker 10: I'm not, but everyone is. And it seems that we
20:29
Speaker 10: have a packed newsroom down here at the moment, Ryan,
20:32
Speaker 10: because everyone from Auckland is also down here to go
20:35
Speaker 10: to Electric Avenue. Of course, it's the two day festival
20:38
Speaker 10: at Hagley Park from today. Forty five thousand will be
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Speaker 10: there each day. Operating costs have sawed to twenty million dollars.
20:45
Speaker 10: There'll be two thousand staff on site. Of course. A
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Speaker 10: Kiwi band split Ends will headline the event, joined by
20:52
Speaker 10: Australian DJ Dom Dollar. The managing director, Callum Mitchell, says
20:56
Speaker 10: it's impossible to pick one highlight from the event because
20:58
Speaker 10: there's just so many, the lapse of artists throughout the days,
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Speaker 10: but the overall sight is thirty percent bigger than last year.
21:05
Speaker 10: Good news is there'll be six hundred toilets. Will that
21:07
Speaker 10: be enough? We're not sure. There's five stages, three hundred
21:10
Speaker 10: thousand beverage units and five kilometers of fencing with barbed
21:14
Speaker 10: wire to keep those jumpers out. Hospitality end Zed also
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Speaker 10: very excited about it. Festival goalers can also jump on
21:21
Speaker 10: the tram today and head to Hagley Park via the
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Speaker 10: historic route with Drummond based duo Lee Matthews on board. GG.
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Speaker 2: Do you know this sounds like a really cool weekend.
21:31
Speaker 2: I'm very happy for christ Church. How's the weather cloudy?
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Speaker 10: There is a few showers and fine breaks from this afternoon.
21:37
Speaker 10: Southerly's dying out at a high sixteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, you enjoyed the atmosphere even if you're not
21:41
Speaker 2: going clear. Max and Wellington, Hey Max, good morning. So
21:44
Speaker 2: those power outages you saw could have been avoided.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, so after last Monday's gale winds three hundred odd,
21:52
Speaker 11: A few hundred odd homes I should rather say in
21:54
Speaker 11: the region without power for the whole week. There were
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Speaker 11: twenty one thousand initially on that Monday Tuesday, but three
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Speaker 11: hundred basically a week without power. Wellington Electricity here uses
22:05
Speaker 11: the contractor Amexim to do its work. You've now got
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Speaker 11: lines workers coming forward saying the Wellington operation is disorganized,
22:12
Speaker 11: it's slow, it's understaffed, and the situation could have been
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Speaker 11: rectified so much faster for those few hundred homes if
22:19
Speaker 11: things were run better. Echoes of Wellington Water. These line
22:22
Speaker 11: workers have also apparently been screaming out for the company
22:25
Speaker 11: to hire more staff. Apparently people who worked at previous
22:28
Speaker 11: contractor North Power were offered less money to work at
22:31
Speaker 11: a Maxim. Many are also moving to Australia. A Maxim
22:35
Speaker 11: in a response, says it's staff get generous benefits and allowances.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Early showers, gradually clearing, Southerly's a higher fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Max. You have a great weekend.
22:48
Speaker 2: Neve A good morning. Good morning. Now you've got community laughing.
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Speaker 12: Sorry no, no, I'm not laughing.
22:54
Speaker 5: I'm just Hippy's Friday.
22:56
Speaker 2: Are you I can see that big smile on your face.
22:58
Speaker 2: But what we'll hang on, let's go to aur What
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Speaker 2: are we going to do for our weather this week?
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Speaker 1: Oh we want to go.
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Speaker 12: To weather first, mainly fine isolated childs in the afternoon.
23:06
Speaker 12: Twenty six is the high. So the weekend here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's just going to be great. Yeah, it's great
23:11
Speaker 2: weekend all right. Now you can tell me about the
23:14
Speaker 2: National boarding House Register right now.
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Speaker 12: Look, this is all about the homeless.
23:18
Speaker 4: Now.
23:19
Speaker 12: The Auckland community advocates they are reigniting this plea because
23:23
Speaker 12: you know, they want this National boarding House Register. So
23:26
Speaker 12: this is all because obviously we all know that the
23:28
Speaker 12: government's working to give police the powers to push the
23:30
Speaker 12: rough sleepers and beggars out of public spaces. The Members
23:34
Speaker 12: Bills also making its way through Parliament and if enacted,
23:37
Speaker 12: this could give more transparency around boarding houses and the operators.
23:42
Speaker 12: So in November twenty twenty four, the Housing Minister said
23:45
Speaker 12: such a register was not was not was not a priority.
23:49
Speaker 12: But Alex Bottom, now he's the White Matar local board chair,
23:52
Speaker 12: he says, oh this is no joined up thinking and
23:54
Speaker 12: not supporting a register short sighted so yes, more on
23:58
Speaker 12: that all these different angles are coming through war and
24:00
Speaker 12: you know, like we know that Mark Mitchell, you know,
24:02
Speaker 12: said that the City Mission has been around a long time,
24:05
Speaker 12: but you know.
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Speaker 2: Haven't really done their job correct. Yeah, which is I
24:09
Speaker 2: mean it's a bit brutal because they do really good work.
24:11
Speaker 2: But I mean it's true. It's not like we have
24:14
Speaker 2: solved homelessness. It's but then who has Yeah, not that
24:19
Speaker 2: you shouldn't try and guess neither, Thank you.
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Speaker 12: Okay, oh yes, I was gonna say, but other weather,
24:23
Speaker 12: I'm going to go right back to front.
24:25
Speaker 2: During the rest of your day. Eighteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six now, SIMB. So you know we were talking earlier
24:32
Speaker 2: about in New Zealand, we're going to talk to the
24:34
Speaker 2: mayor of Topaul before six o'clock. And there's an interesting
24:37
Speaker 2: tech well, loads of interesting text on in New Zealand,
24:39
Speaker 2: mainly complaining about the service. But Sean says Topul is
24:43
Speaker 2: well serviced out of Los to do a much cheaper
24:45
Speaker 2: more flights and the Jets service direct to christ Church
24:48
Speaker 2: out of Hamilton, so you have options. So do you
24:51
Speaker 2: need the Topaul route? I don't think the mayor is
24:53
Speaker 2: going to like you saying that Sean, but we'll put
24:55
Speaker 2: it to him next. Also Gavin Gray, UK Europe Correspondent,
24:59
Speaker 2: News Talks ZB.
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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with insign Eye Insurance, peace of Mind for
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Speaker 1: New Zealand, business.
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Speaker 2: Sporting away from Sex in New Zealand and a sick
25:08
Speaker 2: in Denmark hitting to the polls. Early March twenty four
25:11
Speaker 2: is the date joining us as Gevin Gray are UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent. Given this is all Trump related, isn't it?
25:18
Speaker 5: Well, I think it is actually Ryan Yes, I mean
25:20
Speaker 5: they didn't have to go for an election until the
25:22
Speaker 5: end of October. But Meta Frederickson, the forty eight year
25:26
Speaker 5: old Prime minister, has called this early. Why well, because
25:30
Speaker 5: the opinion polls hadn't been very kind to her over
25:33
Speaker 5: the last few months. There's been pressure about rising cost
25:36
Speaker 5: of living and also welfare pressures. It appears she may
25:40
Speaker 5: have called the staff election because at the moment she's
25:43
Speaker 5: now riding high in the opinion polls. Why well, because
25:46
Speaker 5: of the row over Greenland, which is part of the
25:48
Speaker 5: Kingdom of Denmark, But of course is something that Donald
25:51
Speaker 5: Trump covets, and not just that. Of course, we are
25:54
Speaker 5: due to hear in the next week if Donald Trump
25:56
Speaker 5: has sent this so called hospital ship over to Greenland.
26:00
Speaker 5: He says, very poor healthcare over there. The Greenland leader
26:04
Speaker 5: hit back and said, well, actually, we have good health
26:07
Speaker 5: care here and what's more, it's free to all our public,
26:09
Speaker 5: unlike America. Of course, we don't know what this ship is.
26:12
Speaker 5: They've not actually i'd really given any details about it.
26:15
Speaker 5: But it does come amid this rising tension between the
26:18
Speaker 5: US and Europe, and this election that she's called for
26:22
Speaker 5: the end of March looks like something. At the moment
26:25
Speaker 5: the opinion pols are suggesting she's going to win. At
26:27
Speaker 5: the moment she's in a three way coalition. She may
26:31
Speaker 5: just have enough to get a bit less in need
26:34
Speaker 5: of a bit less agreement.
26:35
Speaker 2: It's interesting, isn't it, Because the same thing kind of
26:38
Speaker 2: happened with Canada, didn't that, Karne? You know, Trump and
26:41
Speaker 2: his trade war and the threats, and then actually he
26:43
Speaker 2: changes the course of an election, probably to his detriment.
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Speaker 5: Yes, very much. And often I think this is the
26:50
Speaker 5: way things happen, that you know, you have one intention
26:53
Speaker 5: at the outset, and then all of a sudden, actually
26:56
Speaker 5: you find the opposite has happened. It certainly did happen
26:59
Speaker 5: with Mark Carne in Canada when he swept a Paris
27:02
Speaker 5: prime minister and here I think we're going to see
27:04
Speaker 5: that with Matta Frederickson as well. If these opinion polls
27:07
Speaker 5: are right, she is taking a gamble, but it looks
27:10
Speaker 5: like at the moment it's a gamble that she considers
27:13
Speaker 5: to be confident of winning.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thanks so much, Kevin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent.
27:18
Speaker 2: Time as twelve to six did be we could have
27:23
Speaker 2: some turbulence on regional roots regional flights in New Zealand,
27:26
Speaker 2: says cost cutting is going to be a focus after
27:28
Speaker 2: losing well forty million dollars before in the six months
27:32
Speaker 2: to December, and they're expecting to continue that track in
27:36
Speaker 2: the six months following Revis Schenk. This is the CEO
27:39
Speaker 2: prepared to cut roots that aren't profitable for the airline.
27:43
Speaker 2: Have a listened to what he had to say about
27:45
Speaker 2: the idea yesterday.
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Speaker 13: We do that as general course of business all the
27:48
Speaker 13: time and we'll continue to keep doing that.
27:50
Speaker 2: As any l I need to do. That is reviewing
27:53
Speaker 2: those routes. The mirror of Tope or John Finnil is
27:55
Speaker 2: with me this morning John, good morning, Good morning, you
27:59
Speaker 2: worried about to.
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Speaker 8: Well it's of concern, but we're fortunately we've got a
28:05
Speaker 8: very good relationship with the New Zealand and TAPO is
28:09
Speaker 8: quite a popular place. We've got high loadings when the
28:13
Speaker 8: flights come in and out of Topo the full close
28:18
Speaker 8: to full every time. So we'd be surprised to be
28:23
Speaker 8: in New Zealand cut off Tapau because we're getting a
28:25
Speaker 8: high number of both international and domestic visitors into Toapo currently.
28:30
Speaker 2: And this is obviously for that Auckland because i know
28:33
Speaker 2: last year you lost the originy of flights to Wellington,
28:36
Speaker 2: didn't you, And then before that sounds here pulled out.
28:38
Speaker 2: Is that Wellington route just not just a bit seems
28:41
Speaker 2: to be a bit of a waste of time, but
28:42
Speaker 2: Auckland doing well.
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Speaker 8: Auckland is doing very well and it was a shame.
28:48
Speaker 8: The Wellington route is a bit of a challenge because
28:52
Speaker 8: of the mountains we've got across to get there. It
28:55
Speaker 8: means this it's a challenging sector.
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Speaker 2: Service John, I've I'm getting loads of texts on this
29:04
Speaker 2: as you can imagine this one says from Sean Tope
29:08
Speaker 2: or Wealth Service out of dots to do a much
29:10
Speaker 2: cheaper more flights in the jet service director christ Church
29:12
Speaker 2: outter Hamilton as well. Do we need it?
29:17
Speaker 8: Yeah, there are other options of course, both MAFE Hamilton.
29:23
Speaker 2: Okay, but you just take them all And what about
29:26
Speaker 2: the price too expensive? About writer? I had a look
29:28
Speaker 2: this morning. It was looked to be about two hundred
29:31
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks return for a weekend in April from Auckland,
29:34
Speaker 2: which I didn't think was too bad. I don't know
29:36
Speaker 2: if there's a sale on.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess it's always difficult and it costs myself.
29:45
Speaker 8: Coming from the aviation industry, I do understand that costs
29:49
Speaker 8: a rising for operators of aircraft. You know, we've seen
29:53
Speaker 8: unprecedented increases in operational costs of not only fuel but
29:58
Speaker 8: engine components, and so I understand that the airlines does
30:04
Speaker 8: have to trade probably and the cost is the cost,
30:09
Speaker 8: and there are some economics that are available by going
30:13
Speaker 8: to other airports. But the TAPO sector to Auckland has
30:18
Speaker 8: got a high load factor on it, and we have
30:21
Speaker 8: a good relationship with the New Zealand and I'm not
30:24
Speaker 8: expecting any change in near fure. There's a lot of
30:27
Speaker 8: activities in TAPO with the Supercars, iron Man and most
30:33
Speaker 8: weekends there's a lot of activity and then during the
30:36
Speaker 8: week with the business travelers, people wanting to go to
30:39
Speaker 8: and from Auckland.
30:40
Speaker 2: John, appreciate your time this morning, John Fanel, who's the
30:42
Speaker 2: tape of Men nine Away from six. We were talking
30:45
Speaker 2: earlier this week about somebody just texting to say the
30:48
Speaker 2: Queen Mary the cruise ship coming into Auckland right now,
30:51
Speaker 2: looks amazing. You go go, how can you see it?
30:53
Speaker 2: It's still dark. So in Australia we've to keep comparing
30:58
Speaker 2: ourselves with the Aussies, which we like to do. Wage
31:00
Speaker 2: growth there is slowing and you'll probably not like the
31:03
Speaker 2: numbers anyway, but three point eight percent this is the
31:06
Speaker 2: latest number from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is
31:09
Speaker 2: the annual growth rate. But it is lower than the
31:12
Speaker 2: growth rate of four and a half percent in the
31:14
Speaker 2: year to May and the four point six percent in
31:17
Speaker 2: the year to November of twenty twenty four. So now
31:21
Speaker 2: basically their wages are just matching inflation. News Talks in
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Speaker 2: Six to six. Great to have your company. Mike's in
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Speaker 2: the studio as you always is at this time.
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Speaker 13: Mic, good morning, and not even reluctantly, Ryan and I
31:41
Speaker 13: look forward to this little segment that we do every
31:43
Speaker 13: day every day. I reckon, get look at the numbers
31:46
Speaker 13: on this program and it peaks at this point. If
31:48
Speaker 13: you notice that, yeah, what what the hang on? Slowly
31:52
Speaker 13: start slow builds slowly.
31:53
Speaker 2: It starts to drop off. I think about six yours
31:56
Speaker 2: truly leaves the builds.
31:57
Speaker 13: Not all the analytics. They can argue with it.
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Speaker 2: One says, you can see the Queen Mary coming into
32:02
Speaker 2: the white and matar because she's got her lights on. Duh,
32:09
Speaker 2: I see the Queen Mary. Even I was disappointed.
32:14
Speaker 13: Funnily enough, it was a while ago, and I think
32:16
Speaker 13: it may even have been back in the days before
32:18
Speaker 13: the mega ships.
32:20
Speaker 2: But when they were doing throwing coal on her, well, no.
32:22
Speaker 13: One that long ago. But but I got on board
32:26
Speaker 13: and I thought, is this it? You know, because you
32:28
Speaker 13: pay a lot of money to be on the Queen
32:29
Speaker 13: Mary still to this day, and it's one of those
32:31
Speaker 13: beautiful old ships.
32:32
Speaker 2: And you know, I've been on a cruise ship once
32:35
Speaker 2: for a junket in Singapore. Was it a p and O? No,
32:38
Speaker 2: it wasn't a p and o. But is it?
32:41
Speaker 1: No?
32:41
Speaker 2: It was a Was it a rich Carlton? No? One
32:44
Speaker 2: was lower brow than that. It was not a celebrity cruisers.
32:47
Speaker 2: What's the other brand? Though? You're not giving away? Yeah?
32:50
Speaker 2: Is that how bad it's got for you? So any
32:52
Speaker 2: cruise with Ryan Bridge Arouse straight to Malacca? But no,
32:59
Speaker 2: it was terrible because they have hand sanitizer everywhere so
33:03
Speaker 2: that you don't get neuro It's a petri dish. It's awful.
33:06
Speaker 13: That's why I've never got I will never go on
33:08
Speaker 13: a I mean, people who love it love it. But
33:10
Speaker 13: I'm telling you what. You'll never catch me dead on
33:12
Speaker 13: a cruise ship, you know, for reasons one everyone's one
33:15
Speaker 13: hundred and three.
33:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, and well you're getting there also, Yeah, so they
33:22
Speaker 2: they apparently this is a bit gross. You don't like it,
33:25
Speaker 2: But apparently the food is very oily because the pipe
33:30
Speaker 2: so that the pipes can handle all the business that
33:32
Speaker 2: comes out at the other end. Isn't that horrific to think?
33:35
Speaker 2: Told you that?
33:36
Speaker 14: Now, I got told that by a passenger on board.
33:38
Speaker 14: That's a great story. I didn't realize that. But that's
33:41
Speaker 14: that's even more disgusting than I thought. Do you know
33:44
Speaker 14: Nicol Rabershanka's with us, you know, the New Zealand boss.
33:47
Speaker 14: So if you add that, so he claims in his
33:49
Speaker 14: report that the engines have cost them ninety million, right,
33:52
Speaker 14: so you stick the ninety million on.
33:53
Speaker 13: Top of what they lost. They're still barely making money,
33:56
Speaker 13: so all their excuses are a problem. And it also
33:59
Speaker 13: those costs, you know, landing costs all the every year line.
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Speaker 2: Place Aussie is about exactly quantus to see the.
34:04
Speaker 13: Same thing that they make a fortune. So quantus are
34:06
Speaker 13: making fortune. It Y Hard's making a fortune, guitars making
34:10
Speaker 13: for why aren't we No, No, he's.
34:14
Speaker 2: With us, all right, brilliant look forward to have a
34:16
Speaker 2: great Friday everyone. We'll see you next week.
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