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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Thomas Colgrin with The Herald. He's

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Speaker 1: the political editor.

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Speaker 2: Thomas, Good afternoon, Ryan, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. So how did it go?

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Speaker 2: Look, it was a fine start the year. It definitely

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Speaker 2: wasn't your sort of barnstorming scenes here that you've seen

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Speaker 2: in the years past. Last year, Christoph Luxan had his

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Speaker 2: big going for growth to the State of the Nation's speech,

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Speaker 2: which obviously didn't quite come to pass, and that was

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Speaker 2: a wee bit embarrassing for the government. So they've sort

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Speaker 2: of dialed back the rhetoric this year. It probably will

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Speaker 2: mean slightly less edulatory headlines in the next couple of days.

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Speaker 2: I suppose it would also mean that people won't be

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Speaker 2: checking back in a few months time to see whether

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Speaker 2: we did or did not get the growth that was promised.

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Speaker 2: So probably a low risk glow reward strategy this year.

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Speaker 1: In a safe space, let's hear a little bit of

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Speaker 1: what he had to say.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a truly great year. The economy

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Speaker 3: is growing, the kids are almost back at school again

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Speaker 3: and after a great key summer break, and just like

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Speaker 3: kwi's up and down the country. I can tell you

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Speaker 3: the National Party is knuckling down and getting back to work,

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Speaker 3: and I guess I have one very very simple message

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Speaker 3: for you today, and that is that National is fixing

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Speaker 3: the basics and building the future right now.

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Speaker 1: November seven is my pick for the election date. However,

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Speaker 1: I think they should go early. Just do something bold,

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Speaker 1: do something big, capture people's attention and go early. Not

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Speaker 1: a popular opinion with our texts this afternoon to have

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Speaker 1: to say Thomas, what's your pick for because he's going

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Speaker 1: to announce it on Wednesday, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually I was talking to my granddad over the

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Speaker 2: break and my granddad was also of the opinion that

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Speaker 2: they should go early. He lives in rural South Island

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Speaker 2: and they're definitely feeling the economic recovery where he is.

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Speaker 2: He thinks that things are so good that they need

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Speaker 2: to go as soon as possible. Go Granddad, So that

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Speaker 2: is his opinion. So certainly it depends where you are,

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Speaker 2: but I would say no Vian miss seven. It seems

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Speaker 2: to be the likely date that that recovery is taking

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Speaker 2: a while, that felt through to everywhere, and I think

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Speaker 2: they'll want to give it as much time as possible.

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Speaker 2: I think another pick well for for the election is

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Speaker 2: obviously this is only a couple of days after I

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Speaker 2: Faalk's day. So I wonder whether fireworks could become not

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Speaker 2: a massive issue at the election, but I wonder whether

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Speaker 2: during one of the debates someone's going to say, you know,

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Speaker 2: is it time to ben a sort of home fireworks

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Speaker 2: as plays as the sail of fireworks? And I think

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Speaker 2: I think the parties might might decide to do that.

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Speaker 2: So that's a that's a sort of a sleeper issue

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Speaker 2: that I think said this year.

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Speaker 1: Because Winston's already said that. He said he was yeah, yeah, yep,

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Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, all right, very good. And finally, who

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Speaker 1: do you think we might see because Luckance sort of

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Speaker 1: foreshadowing a potential reshuffle of people retire who might be retiring?

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Speaker 2: I I think perhaps more in Pube she's been there

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Speaker 2: for a little while, although she does she does hold

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Speaker 2: that seat, and not whether she's been re selected. On

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Speaker 2: on the West Coast, maybe Barbara Kruger has been around

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Speaker 2: for a while, perhaps her, But but look, that's there

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Speaker 2: is idle speculation at the stage.

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Speaker 1: More Mooring's the iffing useless one, isn't she Well.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can ask something about her.

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Speaker 1: When will we notice she's gone. Thank you so much.

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