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Speaker 1: Right now, Jason Walls from Parliament. Hey Jason, good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Jasindrad. And she's willing to provide evidence to the

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Speaker 1: COVID committee. Does that mean at ten? Does that mean zoomed?

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Speaker 1: Does that? What does it mean? Do we know?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the exact question that we have. There was

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Speaker 2: two interesting parts to the statement that she gave to

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Speaker 2: the Post. The first was if asked to, So we

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Speaker 2: know this from Thomas Coglin's reporting that Dern hasn't been

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Speaker 2: formally asked to appear before the inquiry. There there is

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Speaker 2: hearings this week, but there's a more sort of in

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Speaker 2: August where there's a part where they're expected to sort

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Speaker 2: of bring in the key decision makers and senior public

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Speaker 2: civil servants and that's where she were to would appear

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Speaker 2: if she were if she was going to so the

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Speaker 2: commission said in a statement, no decisions have been made

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Speaker 2: by the Commissioner about who will be appearing, so we

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Speaker 2: will have to wait and see if they actually do

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Speaker 2: ask her, and now I'm with you here, I think

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Speaker 2: that they probably should. The second part of her statement

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Speaker 2: is that she has every intention of providing evidence, and

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Speaker 2: you quite rightly latch onto that because what we know

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Speaker 2: for Chris Hopkins, as what he told Kerry Woodham yesterday,

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Speaker 2: is that you would be providing responses to questions that

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Speaker 2: the committee has and that could be written responses. So

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Speaker 2: the question is, you know, if she were to apply,

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Speaker 2: say that she is fronting up, would she be doing

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Speaker 2: it in person or via zoom or would she just

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Speaker 2: be answering these questions. And I'll tell you one person

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Speaker 2: who has made their opinion clear on this, and that's

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Speaker 2: Nicola Willis.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, it'll be up to the Royal Commission to

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Speaker 3: decide whether to invite her. But if she were invited,

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Speaker 3: I can't see why she wouldn't want to put her

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Speaker 3: side of the story to calling on them to ask her,

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Speaker 3: And no, I wouldn't be appropriate for me to make

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Speaker 3: that call on them. That will be their decision to make.

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Speaker 3: I'm simply observing that I can't see why you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: front up to tell your side of the story if

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Speaker 3: you were given that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: And I agree with it. I think she's bang on.

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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't she want a front up to tell her

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Speaker 2: side of the story.

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Speaker 1: Mikola Willis says she's going to sit down with Miles

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Speaker 1: Harold why it was an.

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Speaker 2: Interesting It was an interesting throwaway in a press conference

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Speaker 2: that she gave earlier this afternoon, have a listener.

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Speaker 3: I will be meeting with the front TIRA chief executive

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Speaker 3: in the next little while to talk to him about

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Speaker 3: what we can do to make sure that New Zealanders

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Speaker 3: have affordable cheese, milk and butter.

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Speaker 2: And I thought this was quite fascinating, given the price

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Speaker 2: of milk is determined by the GDT auction and other

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Speaker 2: international factors. So I actually put this to Willis and

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Speaker 2: here's what she said.

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Speaker 3: Look, I accept at a high level that that's the

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Speaker 3: case when there's a lot of demand for dairy products,

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Speaker 3: the price internationally goes up, and that's reflected here at home.

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Speaker 3: My question is about why sometimes we're seeing cheaper prices

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Speaker 3: in British or Australian supermarkets, and I'm interested to understand

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Speaker 3: how much of that is about the lack of supermarket

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Speaker 3: competition here and how much of that is about the

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Speaker 3: prices that Fonterra is passing through. So those are discussions

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Speaker 3: that I'm continuing because I know it bothers. Kiwi's you know,

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Speaker 3: the cheese gone, the butter on your toast. These are

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Speaker 3: Kiwi essentials.

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Speaker 2: So it really sounds like she's yet again having another

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Speaker 2: crack at the supermarkets here and getting some information on that,

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Speaker 2: and you know she's she's gonna after the supermarkets quite

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Speaker 2: a lot during her tenure as Finance Minister. She ruled

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Speaker 2: out any subsidies. But David Seymour meanwhile was on the

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Speaker 2: country seeing this.

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Speaker 1: And thank god for Millcote nearly ten bucks and you know,

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Speaker 1: sheep and beef prices where they are, because otherwise would

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Speaker 1: have a very different story.

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Speaker 2: Which kind of highlights the double edged sword here. Higher

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Speaker 2: dairy prices maybe hard for Kimi consumers, but you know

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Speaker 2: the farmers aren't complaining.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not right. Finally, the Regulatory Standards Bill's Select Committee hearings,

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Speaker 1: You've got a quote of the day for us, Jason, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: There's been so many submissions and I've listened into a few,

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Speaker 2: and this one comes from the Wolke Lesbian Symposium. So

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Speaker 2: again that's not me being facetious. That is actually the

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Speaker 2: name of the group. Here's how Cameron Brewer introduced them

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 4: Now that brings us to the Woke Lisbo Symposium. This

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Speaker 4: I have to say this You were my nomination and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure others nominated you as well to speak out

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Speaker 4: for me. It was purely out of intrigue, so please

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Speaker 4: don't disappoint it.

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Speaker 2: And they didn't disappoint. Listen to what they had to say.

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Speaker 5: Trickle down is like pissing on people and telling them

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Speaker 5: it's rain. As the woke Lisbo Symposium, we recommend that

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Speaker 5: you tell Parliament to ditch this monstrosity.

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Speaker 2: I just love New Zealand's democracy. Anyone can submit apparently

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Speaker 2: so and then they are the woke Lesbos. Good on

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Speaker 2: your walke Lesbos.

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Speaker 1: Great fun. Thanks Jason, Jason Walls of Parliament. For more

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