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Speaker 1: Right, This debate about Animobra and Ali Williams's helicopter has

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Speaker 1: just got really, really silly. In the last day. There

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Speaker 1: is now a push for Auckland Council to ban private

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Speaker 1: choppers in residential areas altogether when they next review the

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Speaker 1: unitary plan for Auckland City, and at least two councilors

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Speaker 1: now back that, and one of the councilors backing it

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Speaker 1: is the councilor whose ward covers the Mobra property. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but helicopters are a legitimate form of travel

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Speaker 1: for people who can afford them. They are fast, they

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Speaker 1: avoid traffic jams, and if that is what the Mobra

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Speaker 1: Williams family want to make it want to use to

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Speaker 1: make their lives easier so they can get from A

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Speaker 1: to B as quickly as possible, all power to them

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Speaker 1: they can afford it. I feel sorry for the neighbors.

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Speaker 1: I do. I have empathy. I wouldn't want to live

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Speaker 1: next to a property with a chopper that was landing consistently,

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Speaker 1: but nor would I want to live next to a

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Speaker 1: property where the neighbor has a noisy motorbike. And yet

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Speaker 1: we're not banning noisy motorbikes. Are we Some noisy motorbikes,

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Speaker 1: by the way, are as noisy as choppers. They can

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Speaker 1: hit one hundred and sixteen decibels, which is pretty much

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Speaker 1: exactly the same as the one hundred and eighteen decibels

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Speaker 1: that you can get if you're standing right next to

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Speaker 1: a chopper landing. And there is no ban on those

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Speaker 1: noisy motorbikes as there there's no council limit on how

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Speaker 1: many times your neighbour can use one of them. There's

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Speaker 1: no council saying, oh, you could use it ten times

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Speaker 1: a month, but that's it no more So, why are

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Speaker 1: we doing the same with a chopper. I can't help

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Speaker 1: but feel that some of this anti chopper sentiment is

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Speaker 1: coming from an anti rich person place, and we need

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Speaker 1: to get over that because we are lucky actually that

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Speaker 1: the mobrays have chosen to live in New Zealand. These

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Speaker 1: people are gangster rich, right, they can live anywhere in

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Speaker 1: the world, and yet they're living here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: They're living in Auckland. They're providing work for the people

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Speaker 1: who work in their household. They are paying their mega

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Speaker 1: dollar taxes into our country. They are pumping money into

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Speaker 1: this economy. Let's not make it harder for people like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's not make it easier for people like that to

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Speaker 1: leave this country by getting weird about helicopters. For more

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