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Speaker 1: The government's Big Investment Summit kicks off today in Auckland.

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Speaker 1: There will be more than one hundred capital funds and

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Speaker 1: construction companies and infrastructure experts will be in town. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the purpose of the event is to highlight upcoming partnership

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Speaker 1: opportunities for overseas investment right across the New Zealand's economy

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Speaker 1: and we're praying and hoping and believing that will boost

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Speaker 1: growth and Auckland Business Chamber of CEO Simon Bridges will

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Speaker 1: be there and joins me. Now, hello, Simon, looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: It morning, Andrew. Yeah, Well, well I'm glad you're praying

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Speaker 2: for it, because that's important.

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Speaker 1: How big a deal is this? You know, is it

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Speaker 1: going to work? Is it going to live up to

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Speaker 1: the hype?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look I believe so. You've got the makings of

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Speaker 2: a strong event. Is the US today afternoon for the

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Speaker 2: Poephrey and the opening Prime Minister made a short I

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Speaker 2: think s extinct statements. I mean what he talked about

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Speaker 2: really was we're open the business of the world, and

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Speaker 2: you know it's very much and keeping what they've already said.

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Speaker 2: You know, they've started investing ZRE this year, they've they've

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Speaker 2: done their migrant visitors settings is doing the international set

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Speaker 2: piece is so it was very much in keeping with that.

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Speaker 2: I mean. The other thing I thought he said, which

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Speaker 2: was interesting and absolutely correct, is you know, a very volatile,

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Speaker 2: uncertain world, New Zealand's a safe haven for investment relatively.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're Western, we're English speaking, all of these things.

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Speaker 2: So what's been a disadvantage for us in the past

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Speaker 2: that were a long way away and they were a

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Speaker 2: bit irrelevant maybe I think is coming home for us.

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Speaker 2: The other thing that was interesting yesterday, I mean the

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Speaker 2: start of it. But you know, there's a strong bipartisanship.

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Speaker 2: I think you've got Barbara Edmonds and Karen McNulty from

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Speaker 2: the Labor Party there. So that's good because the international community,

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Speaker 2: you know, those one hundred something investors that you've talked about,

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Speaker 2: they want to see that this is in a flesh

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Speaker 2: in the pend, that this is something that's there for

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Speaker 2: a while.

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Speaker 1: What kind of companies will be there? I know the

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Speaker 1: future fun from Australia is not going to be there,

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Speaker 1: which is unfortunate, and only one from Singapore, But what

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Speaker 1: sort of companies will be there?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I mean it's you've got some very big investors,

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Speaker 2: you know. So, yes, I was talking to Brookfield. You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the numbers I remember the gentleman I was

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Speaker 2: talking to sathing one hundred billion investors just in Australia, right,

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Speaker 2: and that is literally just Australia had already quite significant

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Speaker 2: investments in New Zealand. You've also got the big constructors.

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Speaker 2: You've got guys like It's the owner from Spain, a

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Speaker 2: very significant infrastructure company, Capella Capital, many others. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I definitely think and in fact, you know some of

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Speaker 2: that the internationals there were saying to me is you know,

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Speaker 2: g you actually have compiled a very strong list of

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Speaker 2: people coming to it. So you know, no one suggesting

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Speaker 2: Rome was built in today. Walkland or Wellington for that matter,

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Speaker 2: won't be. But it's a really good start.

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Speaker 1: We know that the government has just opened up for

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Speaker 1: registrations of interest in the Northern Expressway, that twenty eight

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Speaker 1: plain extension of State Highway one. What other projects might

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Speaker 1: they be spooking at the conference?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's a good question. I mean, I think if

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Speaker 2: you just look at the agenda, what you see is

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Speaker 2: you're going to get a high level I think from

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Speaker 2: the Prime minister, the finance minister, you know, the leadership

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Speaker 2: of the government if you like. And then and then

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Speaker 2: you know, it gets a bit more and I don't

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Speaker 2: mean this in a bad one. I mean positively a

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Speaker 2: more specific and workmen like you know, we're hearing about immigration, Maori, economy, health, education,

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Speaker 2: justice resources. So I would expect and I have no

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Speaker 2: special information, but I would expect you'll see the sort

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Speaker 2: of opening up of public private opportunities in those areas.

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Speaker 2: And you know, of course that's in the end. They

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Speaker 2: want the sizzle, they want the vision, but that's in

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Speaker 2: the end what these investors are coming to see. And

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Speaker 2: we need their capital, you know, over one hundred billion

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Speaker 2: dollar deficit and infrastructure, and we also need to know

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Speaker 2: how their innovation and the competition that they bring.

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Speaker 1: Well, good stuff, Simon, enjoy yourself, enjoy the breakfast, and

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Speaker 1: have a great tirement and get out there and sell,

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Speaker 1: sell Sell. Simon Bridges, as the your con Chamber's CEO,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that they're going to concentrate the

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Speaker 1: Government's going to concentrate on four growth sectors. They are aquaculture,

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Speaker 1: renewable energy, clean technology, and advanced transportation, which includes.

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