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Speaker 1: Right now to the juice the mood of the boardroom.

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Speaker 1: How did our executive fear? This is basically our business

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Speaker 1: leaders judging our politicians, and we all love a bit

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Speaker 1: of that, don't we. Erica Stanford came out on top

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Speaker 1: at number one of the choices here, four point zero

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Speaker 1: one out of five, Simon Brown, Nichola Willis, and Chris

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Speaker 1: Bishop up there too. Luxon came in sixth, Winston Peters seventh,

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Speaker 1: David Seymour He's done in twelve, sandwiched between Andrew Bailey

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Speaker 1: and Simon Watts. Overall, the sentiment seems to be quite

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Speaker 1: good from our business leaders for the direction that the

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Speaker 1: government is taking. And we're going now to Duncan Bridgman,

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Speaker 1: who is the managing editor of nz enmy Business, for

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Speaker 1: the mood of the boardroom. Dunkin, good morning, Oh, good morning, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being with me. What is the mood?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, as you said, they have ranked the politicians

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Speaker 2: and that's one thing, but they've also given us an

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Speaker 2: insight into their own thinking around the economy, how they

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Speaker 2: think we are businesses will fare themselves, and the general

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Speaker 2: kind of business environment. So there's one hundred and three

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Speaker 2: Chief executives and a couple of years involved in this,

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Speaker 2: and we go out to them in August and September

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Speaker 2: with a range of questions. Now, as you touched on,

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Speaker 2: we took they gave us feedback on the cabinet the

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Speaker 2: government's top ranked politicians, and number one was Eric of Stanford,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned that, with the score of four point

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Speaker 2: one out of five. Now that means that a very

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Speaker 2: impressive is five and not very impressive as well. So

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Speaker 2: she's obviously scoring well and the executives obviously liked what

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Speaker 2: she's doing in the education portfolio. Obviously back to basics

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Speaker 2: reform that's happening there. Christopher Luxen as Prime Minister, came

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Speaker 2: in at six with three points seven three, so above average,

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Speaker 2: but he is ranked six in the cabinet, so you

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Speaker 2: know we're looking at that. And as you mentioned, there's

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Speaker 2: some others in there, Chris Bishop Nicola Willis Judith Collins,

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Speaker 2: all scoring well. So it's a pretty positive look at

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Speaker 2: the at the top cabinet, right.

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Speaker 1: Interesting the comments surrounding this saying the message seeming to

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Speaker 1: be time to focus on the future, a positive future

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Speaker 1: rather than just bashing labor. Kind of put that behind you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely there was a theme that came through. We've

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Speaker 2: had a year now of the new government and yes

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Speaker 2: they've had to what they describe as unwind a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that were put in place. So the business

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Speaker 2: community is saying, right, you've done that. Now is time

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Speaker 2: to take some bold steps to really spurdy the economic

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Speaker 2: growth that's needed. So I think there's definitely some uncertainty

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Speaker 2: there around the delivery that Crystopher Lax and his team

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Speaker 2: can can pull through. They're obviously making good headway on

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Speaker 2: some things, but but then there's there's other constraints such

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Speaker 2: as the things like cost blowouts and infrastructure projects. You know,

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Speaker 2: the other big sort of issues with the Duneden Hospital

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Speaker 2: and of course the very's infrastructure problems. So yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: a bit of uncertainly whether whether that delivery will come

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Speaker 2: through there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Duncan thank you very much for that. Duncan Bridgeman,

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Speaker 1: who's the managing editor of NZ in me business, Go

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Speaker 1: and pick up your copy of the Herald this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's got the mood of the boardroom. If you are interested,

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Speaker 1: there's a huge well, it's quite fake. I could probably

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Speaker 1: make a sound if I dropped it on the desk.

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