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Speaker 1: The most uplifting part of the week for me anyway

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Speaker 1: in terms of news was the combination of Winston Peters

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Speaker 1: and as very wise words the other day on diet

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Speaker 1: and work and the release of the numbers from the

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Speaker 1: Stats Department of those who are working beyond sixty five

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Speaker 1: in fact, not just sixty five, but seventy eighty and ninety.

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Speaker 1: For Peters, who made the advice so useful, is you

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Speaker 1: can argue he's never been more relevant and more effective.

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Speaker 1: Age is one thing, but performance is another. Take politics

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Speaker 1: out of it. He would be the match for anyone

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Speaker 1: in the current political game. There would be few, if any,

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Speaker 1: that would question his work, ethic, the miles he's covering,

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Speaker 1: the effort he's making and putting us back on the

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Speaker 1: international map, and he's doing so at almost eighty. The

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Speaker 1: trouble with age, as we still focus on the numbers.

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Speaker 1: Say whatever you want about Trump, but he's a good

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Speaker 1: seventy eight while Biden was very poor eighty two. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised at sixty five is still a thing. It

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Speaker 1: only gets attention because, of course superannuation. There's an official

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Speaker 1: attachment to the age. You get money for a so

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Speaker 1: called life of work. You can retire year old, you

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Speaker 1: get a gold card for a ferry ride. The really

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Speaker 1: upbeat aspect of all of this is that it wasn't

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Speaker 1: so long ago that age and work was an issue.

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Speaker 1: But for negative reasons, older workers will let go. They

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Speaker 1: had trouble getting new jobs. Roles for women of a

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Speaker 1: certain age in Hollywood became a thing. It all seems

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Speaker 1: to have been reversed, and dare I suggest it it's

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Speaker 1: been helped by the reputation, whether real or imagined, that

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Speaker 1: the so called new generation aren't really that interested in working.

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Speaker 1: COVID ruined a lot of us work life balance became

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Speaker 1: a thing. Work from home became a thing. Quiet quitting

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Speaker 1: became a thing. As more and more younger people moaned

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Speaker 1: and complained and slacked off, the diligence, consistency, and institutional

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Speaker 1: knowledge of the older worker increased in value. The Winston

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Speaker 1: Peter's knowledge and experience in the Parliament is to be

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Speaker 1: seen any question time you want to look. He runs

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Speaker 1: rings around most of them, and he has purpose. And

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Speaker 1: as the Asian cultures in particular will tell you, age

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Speaker 1: is but a number and purpose is everything. For more

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