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Speaker 1: Now listen. If the headline is right, and I hope

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Speaker 1: it isn't, the government is seeking advice on what to

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Speaker 1: do about run it straight. If the government is seeking

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Speaker 1: this advice, they've been sucked in, unless, of course they're

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Speaker 1: saying they're seeking advice. So everyone basically just shuts up

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Speaker 1: for a bit because the whole thing's got hopelessly out

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Speaker 1: of control. We need to break this ongoing grip too

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Speaker 1: many New Zealanders have with the government, or the ongoing

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Speaker 1: spell that too many are under, that governments run our

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Speaker 1: lives and it's only governments that do stuff. Ardi Savilla,

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Speaker 1: God bless them, got it spot on last week. He

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Speaker 1: spoke for all of us and trying to balance a

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Speaker 1: sensible observation about an activity while balancing the reason for

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Speaker 1: the angst, the tragedy that led to the heightened upset

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Speaker 1: around it in the first place. What happened was a tragedy.

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Speaker 1: Of course it was a tragedy. But accepting that we

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Speaker 1: seem unable to separate our tragedy from government, or accident

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Speaker 1: from rules, or mishap from common sense, we fail to

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Speaker 1: recognize the most obvious lack of connection. Run it straight.

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Speaker 1: The competition, the organized sport was not involved in the death.

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Speaker 1: The death happened at a twenty first no law, as

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister point it out, is stopping at twenty first.

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Speaker 1: We want desperately to stop stupidity. We would like to

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Speaker 1: find a way to prevent young men mainly doing dumb

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Speaker 1: stuff young men do. But has already quite rightly put it.

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Speaker 1: The athletic side of the activity is part of contact sport.

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Speaker 1: We have all in our own way, whether it be

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Speaker 1: bull rush, ll league or union or Mma, all done

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Speaker 1: something like it. Savilla and his brother did what many, many, many,

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Speaker 1: many many young men do in backyards, try to run

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Speaker 1: each other over. Wiser's brother called bus The heat I

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Speaker 1: took on this last week when I said similar things

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Speaker 1: was interesting. They seem a group who feel if they

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Speaker 1: spray or get agro with a person like me, that

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Speaker 1: makes them feel better. Maybe psychologically they can absolve themselves

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Speaker 1: for feeling helpless. Tragedy generally leaves us helpless, but looking

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Speaker 1: to a government is pointless, and a government looking for

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Speaker 1: advice is even more pointless. For more from the Mic

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