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Full Show Podcast: 07 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
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  Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof Make your Property Search Simple,
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  Speaker 1: News Talks B.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good morning to you and thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for choosing us. If you're working today, thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for keeping the economy moving. If you're not, go
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  Speaker 2: back to bed. So on the program today. If the
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  Speaker 2: government is going to demand farmers preserve special places on
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  Speaker 2: their farms, should they be funding farmers to look after them?
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  Speaker 2: That question with Federated Farmers In about five minutes time.
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  Speaker 2: The Coast to Coast kicks off today. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk to the organizer of the Longest Day and how
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  Speaker 2: deep is the current crisis between New Zealand and the Cocklands.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to an international relations expert just before six.
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  Speaker 2: Those stories plus corresponders from around New Zealand and around
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  Speaker 2: the world, and news as it breaks. You can text
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  Speaker 2: me on ninety two ninety two. A small charge does apply.
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  Speaker 2: You can email me Dickens at NEWSTALKSTB dot co dot nz.
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  Speaker 2: It's seven up to five.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It is Friday, the seventh of February and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has reaffirmed his Gaza Riviera plan insisting no US soldiers
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  Speaker 2: will be needed for taking over the Gaza strip. In
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  Speaker 2: his social media posts, Trump says Gaza will be turned
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  Speaker 2: over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion
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  Speaker 2: of fighting. He says Palestinians would have already been resettled
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  Speaker 2: in fast, safer, and more beautiful communities with new and
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  Speaker 2: modern homes in the region.
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  Speaker 3: He has opened up that question about how do you
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  Speaker 3: reconstruct Gaza. But remember this is a man who appealed
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  Speaker 3: to his supporters by saying he doesn't believe in nation building,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't believe in getting involved in conflicts overseas. So
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  Speaker 3: this is why it's really vague.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, it is decision day for millions of US federal employees.
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  Speaker 2: They must decide whether to take the government's deferred resignation offer.
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  Speaker 2: If they don't take the deal, the Office of Personnel
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  Speaker 2: Management has worn them that are at risk of losing
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  Speaker 2: that job. Now, the whole aim is to shrink and
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  Speaker 2: reshape the federal workforce.
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  Speaker 4: At least forty thousand people within the government have accepted this. That's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in comparison to the one hundred thousand target
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  Speaker 4: that the government has for who they want to accept
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  Speaker 4: this and.
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  Speaker 2: Still with the States, a new lawsuit alleging drugging and
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  Speaker 2: sexual assault has been filed against the US rapper Sewan
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  Speaker 2: Diddy Combs, and it comes as he awaits trial on
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  Speaker 2: charges of sex trafficking.
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  Speaker 5: We have cases where the allegations are that this happened
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  Speaker 5: at studios, that this happened at hotels, that this happened
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  Speaker 5: at bars, that this happened backstage, and of course we're
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  Speaker 5: still sifting through all that. We intend to file multiple
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  Speaker 5: more cases in the next two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And back at home, one of our police officers has
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  Speaker 2: been hit by a vehicle unbelievably. The attack took place
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  Speaker 2: in Huntley on Wednesday. It left the officer with moderate injuries.
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  Speaker 2: And remember it's only month since Senior Sergeant Lynn Fleming
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  Speaker 2: was actually killed in a similar fashion. It's nine after five.
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  Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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  Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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  Speaker 1: Your Property Search, Simple News Talk, sippy.
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  Speaker 2: So white tongue. He came and went at apart from
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  Speaker 2: full beaches. Frankly, nothing happened. All those division mongers spreading
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  Speaker 2: warnings of rancor and pushing and shoving and bad behaviors
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  Speaker 2: were woefully wrong. There was only one real headline, the
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  Speaker 2: turning of backs and the moving microphone for David Seymour,
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  Speaker 2: which was understandable because Mary met where Mary talked and
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  Speaker 2: told David Seymour of their concerns and David Seymour ignored
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  Speaker 2: them and kept to the script that David Seymour has
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  Speaker 2: spoken to for a year, so nothing to hear there,
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  Speaker 2: so they turned their back. And remember the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about Mary speechifying on the mara is the importance of
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  Speaker 2: listening for Maori. David wasn't listening, so the host decided
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  Speaker 2: end of speech and that was that. But is that
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  Speaker 2: that It wasn't a grand meeting of the tribes to
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  Speaker 2: debate civil war. In fact, numbers were weighed out of
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  Speaker 2: last year. I think maybe a year of debating the
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  Speaker 2: Treaty Principal's Bill meant that White Hangy was not going
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  Speaker 2: to be the hot spot of contention that people hyped
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  Speaker 2: it up to be. There was no violence, not like
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  Speaker 2: the old days with police barricades, but something did happen.
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  Speaker 2: Shane Jones said the Treaty Principal's Bill is not going ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Winston Peters said the Treaty Principal's Bill is not going ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And the Prime Minister, in a column in The Herald
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  Speaker 2: in black and white and in writing, said the Treaty
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  Speaker 2: Principal's Bill is not going ahead. So that's five out
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  Speaker 2: of the six parties in Parliament, our representatives, five of
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  Speaker 2: them out of six have said it's not going ahead.
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  Speaker 2: The only parliamentary supporters are ACT. That's not enough. It's
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  Speaker 2: not going ahead. So if you don't mind. After a
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  Speaker 2: lovely day's holiday and reflecting on how amazing New Zealand is,
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  Speaker 2: could we all just get back to work and fix
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  Speaker 2: the real problem, which is our economy now. For all
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  Speaker 2: the German gloom about our economy, apparently demand for New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand businesses is strong. According to a new report from
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  Speaker 2: ABC Business Sales, there is record demand for business ownership
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  Speaker 2: and this is driving business valuations higher and the reason
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  Speaker 2: for it is our record immigration. New arrivals are keen
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  Speaker 2: to find a business, to get their teeth into, to
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  Speaker 2: make their new home. These guys are from India, from
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  Speaker 2: the Philippines and China. They prefer business ownership over salaried employment.
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  Speaker 2: So buyer demand is up thirty nine percent year on year,
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  Speaker 2: which is great news for business owners exhausted by five
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  Speaker 2: years of COVID and financial downturn. But if you are
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  Speaker 2: a business owner and you're thinking of selling your baby
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  Speaker 2: and spending some more time at the beach or maybe
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  Speaker 2: at the gym, remember you might get a good price
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  Speaker 2: right now when you sell, but when it comes time
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  Speaker 2: to get back on the horse again, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be way more expensive. So think to yourself, is this
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  Speaker 2: the time for a cup of tea? Or should you
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  Speaker 2: just hang on for another year or two and hope
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  Speaker 2: that the good times return. It is five point thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: The Queen Elizabeth the second National Trust has a fund
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  Speaker 2: to look after special areas like bush and wetland, and
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  Speaker 2: they dole it out to farmers. This fund is not
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  Speaker 2: going up in any way, shape or form, and farmers
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  Speaker 2: are saying, if the government calls on us to look
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  Speaker 2: after these special pieces of land, shouldn't they give us
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  Speaker 2: some more money. We'll talk about this with Federated Farmers
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  Speaker 2: in a moment. It's five thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
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  Speaker 1: and One Room to make your property search simple. News dogs, it'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be it's a quarter past five on a Friday, and
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  Speaker 2: farmers are calling on the government to double the amount
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  Speaker 2: of funding land owners get to help protect special areas
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  Speaker 2: and species on private farming land. They get this money
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  Speaker 2: from the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust. It was
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  Speaker 2: set up to encourage people to look after things like
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  Speaker 2: special areas of bush and wetland and the animals and
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  Speaker 2: the critics that live there. But Federated Farmers says government
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  Speaker 2: funding has remained the same at four point three million
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  Speaker 2: dollars for a decade, despite costs and demand increasing. So
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  Speaker 2: we've got the vice president of Federated Farmers joining me
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  Speaker 2: right now, Colin Hurst. Good morning to you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: A decade. It hasn't changed for a decade.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, it's quite unbelievable. Inflation sort of gone
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  Speaker 6: up over the past of years. So we just think
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  Speaker 6: it's time for the country to get in and a
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  Speaker 6: step in and help farmers and lease special areas.
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  Speaker 2: And four point three million dollars seems like a drop
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  Speaker 2: in the bucket.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not much really on the on the face
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  Speaker 6: of it. You know, there's significant areas farmers particular. That's
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  Speaker 6: I think it's one hundred and eighty seven thousand hectears,
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  Speaker 6: which is a pretty big area.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say, you told me the
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  Speaker 2: hect is but how many actual farms need this funding?
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  Speaker 2: How many farmers are involved with looking for funding and
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  Speaker 2: then looking after special places.
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  Speaker 6: Well, so there's five two hundred areas protected, and there
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  Speaker 6: could be more than one on farm, So not exactly
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  Speaker 6: sure how many areas but of farms, but's a that's
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  Speaker 6: a pretty signetic area.
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  Speaker 2: Five two hundred is a big number. Don't you worry
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  Speaker 2: about that, mate, It's it's a big number. So over
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  Speaker 2: the ten years, while funding has stayed static, how has
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  Speaker 2: demand increased?
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  Speaker 6: Definitely? Here, Well it's so it's gone from four thousand
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  Speaker 6: to five two hundred over the last ten years, so
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  Speaker 6: there's twenty eight percent increased. So certainly the demand here
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  Speaker 6: and this farmer is lining up to protect these special areas.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have twenty eight percent more demand for funding,
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  Speaker 2: then surely the funding should have gone up twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: percent and that leans it would then be considered to
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  Speaker 2: have stayed static.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, definitely. Well yeah, well that's yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so that's why we're asking for an increase.
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  Speaker 2: So what what is this money specifically used for.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if a farmer has an area of land and
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  Speaker 6: want he voluntarily wants to protect it for the country,
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  Speaker 6: they need to identify the area, they need to fence
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  Speaker 6: it off, they need to take care of the peace
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  Speaker 6: and weeds and that type of thing, and then there's
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  Speaker 6: legal costs to get it because these special areas are
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  Speaker 6: protected on the title of their land, so it's there
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  Speaker 6: forever it cannot be taken off. So's it's sort of
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  Speaker 6: like a national park really that it's that well protected.
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  Speaker 2: And how expensive is that to protect these bits of
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  Speaker 2: land that the farmers have been told that they have
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  Speaker 2: to protect.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there was a study done in the Waiketta University
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  Speaker 6: and they're estimating it's between four hundred and forty million
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  Speaker 6: and six hundred and thirty million, and that was a
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  Speaker 6: decade ago those figures, so it's obviously be a whole
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  Speaker 6: lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Now, hold on, you're saying four to six hundred million
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  Speaker 2: and yet the funding is four point three.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's as you feel, the figures in significant really
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  Speaker 6: that we just need the government to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Really, well, what are you going to do next?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're starting to have a bit of a publicity
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  Speaker 6: campaign about it. Look, I think it's a no brainer.
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  Speaker 6: The other little part about this, there's the rules that
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  Speaker 6: like the significant natural areas. That's something the government are
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  Speaker 6: putty hot on. This is what district councils do. That's
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  Speaker 6: the stick approach. You know, farmers must do this, but
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  Speaker 6: we think the Quy two funding is a whole lot
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  Speaker 6: better way to do it. This is voluntarily tacking areas.
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  Speaker 6: And farmers just want to do this sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, if you've got the will, all you need
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  Speaker 2: is the money. And that's a good thing. And I
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much. Colin Hurst is the Federated Farmer's
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  Speaker 2: Vice President and this is news. Talk to the Coast
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  Speaker 2: to Coast kicks off today, an event I have absolutely
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  Speaker 2: no desire to do whatsoever, but I am in full
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  Speaker 2: respect of anyone who's mad enough to give it a crack.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to the director next on.
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  Speaker 2: It is five twenty one and the Coast to Coast
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  Speaker 2: kicks off today in the West Coast and organizers say
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  Speaker 2: they're expecting this year's elite longest daycad agree to be
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  Speaker 2: one of the most thrilling and competitive in the year's
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  Speaker 2: forty three year history. Coast to Coast Race director Glenn
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  Speaker 2: Curry is up early and joins you. Now, helly, Glenn,
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  Speaker 2: how are you?
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  Speaker 7: Andrew?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Sometimes when I do this show, I worry
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you guys, the talent isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: wake up in time. But you've got a big day.
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  Speaker 2: So you've been up for a while. I bet yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I know.
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  Speaker 7: We start pretty early over the next few days, so
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  Speaker 7: you know well and truly up, and a lot of
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  Speaker 7: the athletes are up to now and starting to roll
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  Speaker 7: into that first transition.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent. How many athletes have you got over.
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  Speaker 7: The two days. We've got total around seventeen hundred athletes
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  Speaker 7: and we're about six thousand support crews. So that's what's
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  Speaker 7: going to be moving across the South Island today.
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  Speaker 2: Paint a picture for those who have never heard about
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  Speaker 2: the Coast to Coast or even thought about the Coast
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  Speaker 2: to Coast. I mean, what are these poor athletes facing.
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  Speaker 7: The Coast to Coast is forty three years old. It
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  Speaker 7: starts on the west coast of the South Island, just
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  Speaker 7: south of Greymouth here on the beach on Serpentine Beach.
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  Speaker 7: The athletes basically from there they cycle fifty five kilometers
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  Speaker 7: into the base of the Southern Alps and then they
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  Speaker 7: across the Southern Alps through a pass known as Goat Pass.
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  Speaker 7: The two day athletes stay the night after that run
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  Speaker 7: at Klondike Corner on the East coast, and then they
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  Speaker 7: cycle eighteen k before kayaking seventy kilometers down the Wye
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  Speaker 7: Macerri River and then finishing with a seventy k cycle
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  Speaker 7: to New Brighton Beach and christ Church and the one
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  Speaker 7: day athlete starts to Moorrow into the entiredy of that
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  Speaker 7: in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Basically sounds awful.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of smiling people around here. We would
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  Speaker 7: argue it's a pretty special experience and if even coming
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  Speaker 7: to have a look at the whole event, it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 7: It's humanity at its best. Og.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. So there's the thing. You've got
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  Speaker 2: loads of athletes, how many spectators actually make the trek
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  Speaker 2: up to Goat Pass wherever you know in the hinterland
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  Speaker 2: to watch this thing.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So Klondoli Corner is one of our busiest areas.
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  Speaker 7: That's in the middle of the Arthurst Pass National Park
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  Speaker 7: and usually you'd see the odd odd trembrough whatever camped
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  Speaker 7: up there, but we'll have about seven thousand people camping
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  Speaker 7: there to night. We basically set up at village for
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  Speaker 7: all the competitors and supporters tonight, so we have a
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  Speaker 7: full village there and there's a lot of entertainment down
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  Speaker 7: there today. So yeah, and then on the finish line
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  Speaker 7: tomorrow at New Brighton, you know, we get up to
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  Speaker 7: over ten thousand people basically, yeah, down at New Brighton tomorrow,
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  Speaker 7: so the exciting.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds as big of th Mount Everest. So here's
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  Speaker 2: the question, who's going to win?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's yeah, and that is a great question this year.
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  Speaker 7: So we've got some incredible athletes, you know, probably some
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  Speaker 7: of the big names. We've got some mo Myo's actually
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  Speaker 7: going for the record of wins tomorrow of six total
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  Speaker 7: wins and that'll be the most wins of any female
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  Speaker 7: in the history of the event. And then we've got
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  Speaker 7: a guy by the name of Sam Clark who's back.
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  Speaker 7: He's won the event a number of times and he's
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  Speaker 7: fairly excited. But yeah, I know, we have an Australian
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  Speaker 7: and Australian hasn't won the event since nineteen ninety three.
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  Speaker 7: And there's a really really talent Australian and Alan Alex
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  Speaker 7: Hunter's just you know, he's champing at the bitt and
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  Speaker 7: you got seeking last year just so he'll he'll be
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  Speaker 7: you know, he'll be here. We going for it and
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  Speaker 7: then last year's wine Haemous Elliott the men. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 7: race is just going to be super close, very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: This has been a great interview and I thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much. You know, good luck and I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 2: going to go well. You sound like a good bloke
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  Speaker 2: and I thank you. And that is Glenn Curry who
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  Speaker 2: is the race It is the race director for the
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  Speaker 2: Coast to Coast which kicks off today. It's five twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday, Kieren mcinnulty had a warning for the government.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you more.
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  Speaker 1: Next the early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 2: News Talk Zibby. It is five twenty seven. I'm Andrew Dickens.
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  Speaker 2: So the last thing I did before the way Tigy
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  Speaker 2: Day holiday was talked to Kiera McNulty about the financial
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  Speaker 2: strife surrounding order, and that interview has bugged me ever since.
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  Speaker 2: The Labor Housing spokesperson denied the agency was in financial difficulty.
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  Speaker 2: He told me that Housing New Zealand's asset base was
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  Speaker 2: so large there was no problem borrowing more money to
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  Speaker 2: keep its construction schedule on track. And that response bugged
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you too. And the typical thing I
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  Speaker 2: got on the text machine was augh typical socialists, just
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  Speaker 2: borrow more and more to fund your ideological program. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what, it doesn't really have anything to do
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  Speaker 2: with your political bent, whether you're left or right. It's
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  Speaker 2: basic physical management. The world is full of people who
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  Speaker 2: have the assets to borrow whatever they like, but the
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  Speaker 2: devil in the detail is whether they have the capacity
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  Speaker 2: to pay it back, and increasingly, as a nation, we don't. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our debt is internationally insignificant and not at an extreme level.
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  Speaker 2: We're not like the UK or the United States, who
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  Speaker 2: have debt ratios over one hundred percent of GDP, and
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  Speaker 2: we certainly not like Japan, who has a yet of
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  Speaker 2: over two hundred and fifty percent of GDP. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a country that's stuck with stagflation and has been since
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  Speaker 2: the nineties, but still we are heavily indebted and our
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  Speaker 2: cash flow is poor because the economy is poor. And
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  Speaker 2: what Karin and the Labour Party don't realize is that
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  Speaker 2: is the principal reason they no longer control the Treasury benches.
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  Speaker 2: Sure at the last election there were side shows like
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  Speaker 2: the gender war, of Maori relations and benefit levels, but
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  Speaker 2: at the core of Labour's electoral collapse was the feeling
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  Speaker 2: that they were not fiscally prudent and that recklessness with
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  Speaker 2: debt was not the right direction for the country. So
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  Speaker 2: we voted them out. And I think this is a
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  Speaker 2: lesson for the current government, who, for all their posturing
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  Speaker 2: that they are the most prudent fiscal managers, are still
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  Speaker 2: running deficits, falling further into debt, and the timing of
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  Speaker 2: future surpluses is sliding ever further into the future. Always
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  Speaker 2: remember this deficits mean borrowing. And I know and you
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  Speaker 2: know that New Zealanders are not happy voting for anyone
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: who commits us to that sort of track.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Andrew dickens all Right.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Donald Trump came up with the idea
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of the Gaza River era, and the question that the
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: world had is is this a Trump fantasy or is
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: this a real way forward? So we'll look at the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: world's reaction to the plan in just a few months time.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: And also the other story is Santorini and Greece falling
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: into the sea. Vincent mcavenni coming up here on news
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: story said.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make your
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Property Search Simple news Talk said, be.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: All right, today after work, I'm going to the Coramandel
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: and tomorrow I'm going to see this band on their
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: farewell tour, that is Sheehard and Home Again. They're a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: former Wellington band who have brought New Zealand for thirty
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: years and they're calling it today. And so when I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: saw this is last year, when I saw they were
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: calling into Funko Matara, I thought, what a lovely place
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to go and see Sheehard play. So I went and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: booked it. It was about a week later that I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: realized that I hadn't just booked to go and see
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Sheehard and the d four and the Dudes for goodness
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Say and Cora, and also that I hadn't actually booked
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to go to Fungo Matar. I was going to a
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: place called Joe's farmin and Putuli. I had actually booked
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: tickets to attend the Kickdown Festival. This is New Zealand's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: biggest gathering of motorcycling and for sionados, it is a
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: veritable orgy of Harley's and Triumphs and Norton's and dirt bikes,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: featuring an army of hog riders and their girlfriends clad
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: in so much leather that they squeak when they walk.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. I'm not a motorcycle nut. I'd
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: be the furthest thing from a motorcycle nut. I am
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: going to stick out like the proverbial. This gig has
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: got the possibility of being the dirtiest and most fairal
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: rock and roll gig of the summer, being held in
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the Corimandel. It'll be under a blue haze, if you
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: know what. And when I start thinking about what I've
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: gone and done, I'm frankly both excited and quite apprehensive.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Hey go to textan and this is from Jamie who
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: reckons is a major on the Southern Motorway in Auckland,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: just north of the Monico northbound motorway closed for at
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: least the last hour, so we'll have more details and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: times savored traffic still to come. On the program, we'll
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: talk about the crisis between the Cook Islands and New Zealand.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: How deep is it. Steve has already written to me
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and said, let China have the Pacific Islands. They're just freeloaders.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Is that right, Steve. Well, we'll talk more about this
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: with an international expert. Just before six. It is twenty
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: one to six dickens around the country. We go and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: to Auckland. First, we're going to Sergle. Hello, Michael, good morning,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: So you're going to talk. Oh, sorry, you're from Dunedin.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I got that wrong. Welcome to Dunedin. Oh,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the oldest cinema in New Zealand's burnt.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is really sad news. The historic Roxburgh Town
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: Hall has been destroyed by fire or cerning that the
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: roof has been very badly damaged, home to the local cinema,
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: which has been showing movies since eighteen ninety seven, making
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: it possibly the longest continuously running cinema in the whole world.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: Locals calling the news devastating and very very sad and
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: local councilor telling us lots of work's gone into the
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: place recently, including earthquake, strengthening a firewall and even the
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: recent installation of a new sound system as well.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: Sad day.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It is a sad day. Yesterday I went to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: oldest cinema in Auckland, the Victoria in Devenport. I saw
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the Bob Dylan film Complete Unknown Can. I highly recommend it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: How's Aukland's weather Dunedian's weather fine apart from morning cloud?
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: The high in the city eighteen degrees.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm confused. Right we go to christ Us now,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I hope and Jamie Cunningham joins me. Now, good morning.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about the coast to coast Yes well.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: And for one North Canterbury teen, it's been a roller
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: coaster ride to get there. Just eighteen months on from
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: a serious motorbike accident, sixteen year old Riley Abbotts taking
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: on the three person relay with his mum and dad
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: and raising money for the Westpac Rescue helicopter. He's cycling
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: one hundred and forty kilometers even though he needs a
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: hip replacement following his twenty twenty three accident. Almost three
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: thousand dollars has been raised so far. He says he
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: always wanted to give back as they were the first
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: responders to his incident. He says it started with a
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: five dollar donation for every kilometer, which turned into ten
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: dollars before fundraising blew up.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: All right, how's christiach weather and particularly for tomorrow when
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: everyone arrives at New Brighton. Well today it's.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: A bit cloudy, which clears in the afternoon, then a
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: few fine spells southeasterly turning northeasterly in a high of
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: nineteen and I believe tomorrow is looking even warmer.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Great stuff, and I thank you. We go to Wellington now,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Thomas right, hello, good morning. Well we've had Ahuiyo mata.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: Yes, so a man's appearing in court today over the
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: fight and that left another man seriously injured. So officers
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: were called to a supermarket car park on the Strand
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: on Saturday night, but those involved left before officers who
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: had arrived.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Shortly after.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Emergency services were called to Riverside Drive, where a man
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: was found in his vehicle with serious injuries. Police say
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: they believe it followed a road rage incident on Winuiyomuta
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: Road between Rata Street and the Strand. Now a twenty
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: three year old will Man was facing a charge of
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in the
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: Lower Hut District Court today and police say that they're
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: still wanting to hear from witnesses as the supermarket was
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: open at the time of the alleged assault.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: How's well into his weather?
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: It's okay, partly cloudy, then clearing to find by midday
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: some southeasterlyes easing in the evening with a high of nineteen.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Great stuff and to or can we finally go for real?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Neva Retamano? Hello, Yes, come in Auckland. Yes, I'm definitely Northland.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You definitely are. So tell me about the Langwave fertival
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: featuring Charlie XC, which my my son went to. What
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: did he but there was some difficulties.
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: Did he get in there?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know yet. Oh okay.
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: So we're talking about this ticketing malfunction now a lot
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: of frustration for some of the attendees yesterday. So Ticketech
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: asked those who couldn't see this is about their ticket
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: barcode on its app. They had yeah, a bit of
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: trouble with that, so they said, look, if you can't
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: see your barcode, then go to the box office for assistance.
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: And getting into Western Springs yesterday, well you can imagine
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: what happened there, ques extending about four hundred meters, thousands
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: of fans waiting, and the extra forty five minutes in
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: the heat. So not good, not good. But apparently Laneway
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: posted on since to this is about quarter to three
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: that the issue had been resolved and email ticket holders
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: the tickets as a backup. But on the Herald website yesterday,
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: you know you had some of the ones, those young
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: people waiting there frustrated. A couple of them missed you
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: know the exit.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I can tell you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I can tell it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: At three o'clock in the afternoon, a woman called Olivia
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Dean's played and she's she was the big one. She
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: was a big up and comer than Charlie Exis, who
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: is the headliner. And of course that's at three, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: there's ticket tech saying all we sorted out by quarter
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: to three, but the cues were still going and people
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: missed Olivia.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: And if you missed it, I know I'd be crying
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: I'd be especially too, how much with the tailer about.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: To at quite a lot for the young people. Here's
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: my thing, because I'm going to dig this weekend. I'm
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: going to she had this weekend. Yeah, Joe's farm in
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the BUTTERI and that was Yeah, I know it's in
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the middle of nowhere. Anyway. The thing about that is
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you get you get the phone ticket and it's got
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the QR code on it or it's got a bark.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I never trust that, so you know what I do?
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: You printed out?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I always printed out. I do too.
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: I think it's because we're oldies.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think you've.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: Got to print it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Enough of that house.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Awker's with her fine Apart from warning Cloud twenty six
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: is the high here in Auckland.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I thank you. Vincent Macavenni is next. It is seventeen
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: minutes to six. He's going to talk about Trump's Gaza
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Riviera plan. What do you think of it? And also
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: is Santa Reni sinking into.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: The seat International correspondence with ends and eye insurance Peace
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: It is fourteen minutes to six and this is News
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Talks B and I am Andrew Dickens and Mike Hoskins
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: breakfast show is coming up at six o'clock this morning,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and Vincent McAvennie is in the United Kingdom but unable
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to be with us at this moment. He's wanting to
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: talk about the Gaza Riviera plan that was put forward
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: by Donald Trump. This was the idea that after fighting
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: has finished, that the United States of America would take
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: ownership of the Gaza Strip and then redevelop it. And
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: he says, I'm not trying to be smart, I'm not
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: trying to take the mickey, but this will be a
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: beautiful place to be, like the Riviera, the Gaza Riviera,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: of course, seemingly ignoring the fact that it always used
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: to be the rivi Era. It used to be like
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that back in the day. Beay Route was one of
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the hot spots of the entire world in Lebanon. But then,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: of course the conflict came, and then of course we've
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: had all the separation in the two different states. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: this is not something that people necessarily want or enjoy,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: particularly not the Garz And so Vincent mcaveni is with
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: us now, how a Vincent, Hello, good morning. Tell us
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: about the reaction to the Gaza rivieeroplane.
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: Well, there's been a huge reaction across Europe and the
• 26:10
  Speaker 12: Middle East to this plan, and I think it can
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: be said it is sort of universal condemnation of the
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: very idea. The terms ethnic cleansing are being used by leaders,
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: but they're all sort of having to be very careful
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: in how they come out and criticize what Donald Trump
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: has said, because Donald Trump's team tried to walk things
• 26:27
  Speaker 12: back yesterday, but this morning in Washington, DC, he's reiterated
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: he wants to clear the Palestinians out. He wants to
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: make this so called riviera of the Middle East. And
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: so what countries are doing is they're sort of not
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: trying to When leaders are like se Kirstarma, for instance
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: here in Britain, are being asked questions about this plan,
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: they're simply restating their own national posins. Pretty much universal
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: in Europe is that there is a two state solution.
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: That is the only solution on the table. The Palestinian
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: should be allowed to keep their land. So that is
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: the difficult dance that leaders are trying to make with Europe.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: Of course, very much on watch for what Donald Trump
• 27:01
  Speaker 12: is saying about Greenland, and his sort of expansionist ideas
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: in his second term.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, and then tell us about the Greek island of Centerini.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful place, famous for its blue roofs and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: its white buildings carved into rock faces. Apparently it's falling
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: into the sea.
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it is a picture perfect island, very popular with tourists,
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: so much so that it has become incredibly overcrowded in
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: recent years. But they've had tourists flocking off the island.
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: Eleven thousand have left by fairy and by air in
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: the past couple of days because they have had an
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: unprecedented continuous streak of earthquakes, one measuring five point two
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: and this is something that's been going on for several
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: days now, causing cracks and damage so far, with expectations
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: that this could continue for the foreseeable. So they've declared
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: a national an island state of emergency for the next
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: month because they're so worried about what could happen. As
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: you mentioned, those sort of famous houses and buildings sort
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: of carved right into the which of course might not
• 28:02
  Speaker 12: be able to withstand such tremors, which.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Will break my heart. I've never been vincent Macaveni, I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: thank you. It's eleven to six, all right. Cook Islands
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Mike Brown is traveling to Beijing today, where
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: he's expected to sign a major partnership deal between the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Cook Islands and China. Our government, of course, has been
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: completely blindsided by this, and there's still questions around whether
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: constitutional arrangements have been breached. And many of the residents
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: of the Cook Islands are also saying, what's in the deal,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: but Mike's not telling us. International relations expert Jeffrey Millard
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: joins me, Now, Hello, Jeffrey.
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: Good morning Andrew.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Do you know what's in the deal?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Well, we do know.
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: Some things that are in the deal. Mark Brown has
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: said in his interview with TV and Z that it
• 28:44
  Speaker 13: will be an economics focused to the deal that will
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: not contain defense and security. It seems likely it's going
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: to be a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement with China. New
• 28:53
  Speaker 13: Zealand has one of its own. It has its own
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: comprehensive Strategic Partnership China agreement that it's signed with China
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: way back in twenty fourteen.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: But is it acceptable that this deal has seemingly remained
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: mostly secret to both the Cork Islands people and the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: New Zealand government.
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: Well, look, Whens in Peters is not very happy about it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 13: You would have to say put it mildly. In fact,
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: they put out quite an extraordinary statement Virus fokesperson yesterday
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: saying that New Zealand and the Cork Islands are not
• 29:18
  Speaker 13: seeing eye to eye on a number of issues. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: normally these kinds of things that I've dealt with behind
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: the scenes, but this is now blown up in the media.
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: I think some of these problems really are homegrown though
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: in New Zealand. They go back over across success in
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: New Zealand governments. New Zealand signed and agreement back in
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: two thousand and one that said the Cork Islands was
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: a sovereign and independent state, but also should consult on
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: foreign affairs issues. I think Mark Brown's argument will be
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: that he has consulted, and certainly there have been regular
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: consultations between the Cork Islands and New Zealand. This agreement
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: is not about defense and security. There was a special
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: agreement last year signed between the Corklands and New Zealand
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: which required a consultation defense and security. This isn't about that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 13: It's going to be about fisheries, on an Into Ireland ferry,
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: on deep sea mining. In the end, the Cock Islands,
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: like a lot of Pacific states, simply want development.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And if it goes to beating and he signs on
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: the dotted line and he gets the fairies and he
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: gets the deep sea mining and all that sort of thing,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: is that a done deal or do we have the
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: ability to veto it?
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: No, I don't think New Zealand has any real ability
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: of veto Look. I think the simple message for New
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: Zealand here is that if New Zealand doesn't want Cock
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: Islands going off to China and signing agreements and Easter
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: front up was the cash itself. And that was very
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: much the message from Mark Brown that New Zealand's only
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: given sixty million dollars of grant money in the last
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: three years and really the onus is on New Zealand
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: to pay up. And I think we could actually have
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: a useful cooperation here. You remember New Zealand has good
• 30:51
  Speaker 13: friendly relations with China as well. New Zealand is cooperated
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: with China in the Corck Islands in the past on
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: building water infrastructure in Roatan, so There's no reason why
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: New Zealand can't get together with China and Cock Islands
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: and develop some projects together and work together. Because this
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: is all rather unedifying. And this is turning fast, turning
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: into a diplomatic debarcle. Who was meant to be a
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: celebration this year of sixty years of ties of the
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: Cook Islands and free association with New Zealand.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Well, said Jeffrey Miller, of course, international relations expert. There
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: are some that say, of course, that Mike Brown is
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: doing this because of the proposal of a separate Cook
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Island's passport, us taking away the New Zealand passport. Certainly,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I love the word unedifying. The whole thing is rather unedifying.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: It is seven to six.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: property surge, simple youth dog zibby.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: So why taking day Caine went And Shane Jones says
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the treaty principle this bill is not going ahead, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: when St. Peter said the Treaty principals bill is not
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: going ahead. And of course the Prime Minister Christopher luxA
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: was in an editorial in The Herald and Black and
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: White and Right saying the Treaty Principal's bill is not
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: going ahead. So that's now five out of the six
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: parties in Parliament that say it's not going ahead. So
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I guess it's not going ahead. But Paul Lean's just
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: written to me and said, you need to think again.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: There's so many hundreds of thousands of submissions enter for
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that bill to be put to the recipe of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: people in New Young it will not go away, she
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: writes in capitals. Democracy will went through in the end
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: for sure. Well, we'll let and see. I can tell
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: you for sure that Mike Hoskin's on after Sex. Good morning, dude.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: She's dreaming, but.
• 32:30
  Speaker 14: She's passionate, and she believes with being passionate time she's dreaming.
• 32:34
  Speaker 14: Having said that, the Winston Peter thing, I'm looking forward
• 32:36
  Speaker 14: to having Winston on the program this morning because of
• 32:38
  Speaker 14: all the people. You remember in twenty seventeen, one of
• 32:40
  Speaker 14: the first things he did after he anointed just to
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: run the place was write a check for a billion
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: dollars to the Pacific, And it came out of the
• 32:48
  Speaker 14: blue for most of us, and he argued that friendship counted,
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: but we hadn't done all we needed to do and
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: money would help et cetera, et cetera of China fast
• 32:57
  Speaker 14: and so he saw it coming. So so good on
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  Speaker 14: him for having the b But then what I argued
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  Speaker 14: at the time, and I remember talking to him about it,
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  Speaker 14: not that he'll like being reminded about it this morning,
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  Speaker 14: I said, Ultimately, what will happen as a check book
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  Speaker 14: wins every time? And if somebody can come to you
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  Speaker 14: with a checkbook the size of the Chinese and build
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  Speaker 14: yourself a presidential palace and a wharf, and you know,
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  Speaker 14: all that sort of stuff, and.
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  Speaker 2: We've ended up and some fairies, I mean, if China
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  Speaker 2: came to us and said one some fairies won a
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  Speaker 2: wharf that's earthquake proof, I mean, have they?
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  Speaker 14: And then we got the guy Brown who runs Rara
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  Speaker 14: Tongu is saying that they funnel a billion dollars our way.
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  Speaker 2: I can't work out where he got that night. Have
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  Speaker 2: you been to Rara Tongue. I've been to a billion.
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  Speaker 14: So anyway, so you've got the two things. You've got China,
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  Speaker 14: and then you've got this this seemingless angst now and
• 33:39
  Speaker 14: so we got big issues.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, he's on the program, Thank you, so much
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  Speaker 2: for working and keeping the economy rolling. It is a
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  Speaker 2: great pleasure. Thank you for your company this week. My
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  Speaker 2: thanks to Kinzie who has just taken over the job
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  Speaker 2: full time as producer. You're doing an author awesome job.
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  Speaker 2: I almost said awful tonight. You are doing an awesome,
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  Speaker 2: awesome job and I love working with you and thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much. I'll be back on Monday. See you then,
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  Speaker 2: have a great weekend.
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