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Speaker 1: So as you've heard, we've got our first degree to

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Speaker 1: disagree clause of this new coalition first point to make.

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Speaker 1: I think it's important how mature does this look? I

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Speaker 1: mean New Zealand first has invoked the clause, which is

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Speaker 1: probably not a surprise if anyone was going to invoke it,

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Speaker 1: to be them the surprise. As in previous coalitions this

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Speaker 1: would have been described as a crack. Cracks are forming

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Speaker 1: in the government, angst would be growing, headlines would increase

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Speaker 1: in frequency. And yet in twenty twenty four, if it

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Speaker 1: is as it seems, it's a clause, that's life. We'll

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Speaker 1: move on. That is to the credit by the way

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Speaker 1: of Christo de Luxen, who stitched the thing together with

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Speaker 1: the view of it holding long term. So far so

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Speaker 1: good as regards who is right. It is to do

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Speaker 1: with the Act led decision. As you've just heard that

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Speaker 1: the COVID inquiry will now be in two parts. Part

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Speaker 1: one is the bit that's on now headed by Tony Blakeley.

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Speaker 1: They will finish their work and report in November. Then

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Speaker 1: Part two new chaired new commissioners, wider terms of reference

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Speaker 1: now it Bruk van Velden argues, and I think she did.

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Speaker 1: It's worth keeping the current inquiry because their underway and

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Speaker 1: stopping it would be wasteful. I've got an element of

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Speaker 1: sympathy for that. Although it is a jack up from labor.

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Speaker 1: It will some things that are of value. But as

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Speaker 1: much sympathy as I have for the waste to chargument,

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Speaker 1: I have more sympathy for New Zealand first, who on

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Speaker 1: this question are more right than actors. Blakely should never

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Speaker 1: have been appointed, and the terms of reference are a joke.

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Speaker 1: It was classical labour stack the deck can pretend it's

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Speaker 1: a proper game. The stuff we desperately want investigated isn't

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Speaker 1: part of the inquiry, vaccine procurement and efficacy, all the

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Speaker 1: wider economic and social issues. We are still wading through

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Speaker 1: that as we speak, with this crippled old economy of ours. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see people called and compelled to turn up,

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Speaker 1: but that's wishful thinking. The other bit is the second

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Speaker 1: part won't report back until twenty twenty six election year.

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Speaker 1: COVID started in twenty nineteen. The reporters do seven years later.

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Speaker 1: That's not pace or progress. Act will have their reasons,

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Speaker 1: some of which you just heard, but Peter's on this

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Speaker 1: has read the mood better and I think ultimately is

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Speaker 1: on the right side of it. But the fact he

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Speaker 1: can invoke a clause and not spit a dummy his

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Speaker 1: massive progress in the collegiality of a multi party arrangement

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Speaker 1: running the country, and the success of that is not

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