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Speaker 1: As little in life, as far as I'm concerned, more

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Speaker 1: nauseating than a sick effect, people who do not what

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Speaker 1: they believe is right, but been to the whim, flavor

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Speaker 1: or mood of the day. The corporate world, of course,

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Speaker 1: is full of at the tech giants have seen have

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Speaker 1: been badly exposed. As they decide fact checking is for

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Speaker 1: losers now that Big Don's running the place. The battle

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Speaker 1: is being fought locally as well. There is word New

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Speaker 1: Zealand First are looking at a member's bill to make

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Speaker 1: banks do business properly? How's this possible? Currently? This is

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Speaker 1: also major debate in Australia. Banks have taken the stance

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Speaker 1: that there are some businesses that they don't like, those dabbling,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out in fossil fuels as one of them.

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Speaker 1: They've made getting money apparently hard work. They have not

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Speaker 1: done this because there isn't profit or because these business

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Speaker 1: is default. They have done this because fossil fuels are

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Speaker 1: out and climate change is in the coalition in Australia,

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Speaker 1: who are at the stage odds on to become the

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Speaker 1: government midyear, are going hard because fossil fuels are of

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Speaker 1: greater importance to them than they are here, but the

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Speaker 1: role of the banks once again is being called into

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Speaker 1: question in this country. The government is gunning for them

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Speaker 1: over margins and competition. Of course, the last thing they

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Speaker 1: need is another fight. I would have thought over their

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Speaker 1: right or predilection for doing business with some people and

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Speaker 1: not others. Banks, as former chair of our biggest bank,

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Speaker 1: John Key quite rightly pointed out on this program a

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Speaker 1: number of times, have a very large social license. They're

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Speaker 1: a backbone of an economy. It is not their job

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Speaker 1: to play politics or play trend set into the groovy

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Speaker 1: mood of the day. Fossil fuels remain vital for keeping

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Speaker 1: the lights on. Now. You might not like that, but

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Speaker 1: it's true. If it changes brilliant right now, it isn't

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Speaker 1: or hasn't enough. Morals are personal choices, not business ones,

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Speaker 1: and certainly not in businesses with the influenced banks. Have

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Speaker 1: the thought that a government and we'll talk to Shane

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Speaker 1: Jones about this after seven point thirty, The thought that

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Speaker 1: a government might have to legislate to make a business

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Speaker 1: behave itself shows you how badly these places are. Reading

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