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Speaker 1: Barry Soper, Senior Political Correspondence with US.

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Speaker 2: Hey Barry, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Right, lots to talk about so POSTCAB today and lux

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Speaker 1: has been talking about the investment summit that's next month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that it is particularly exciting. I mean, the more

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Speaker 2: than one hundred of the world's high profile investors have

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Speaker 2: been invited to the country and believe me, they will

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Speaker 2: be coming, they say. If you listen to Chris Bishop,

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Speaker 2: he says they're over subscribed at the moment for the summit.

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Speaker 2: So people are interested in investing in this country. And

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Speaker 2: I've talked recently to some people that are in the know.

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Speaker 2: They say they want to have projects that they can

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Speaker 2: invest in, and presumably this summit will show where investment

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Speaker 2: can be attracted to this country. The fast track for projects,

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Speaker 2: infrastructure projects and the like that got underway essentially last Friday,

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Speaker 2: and Luxon says the March summit is aimed at showing

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Speaker 2: that this country is an easy place to do business area.

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Speaker 3: We want people from all corners of the globe to

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Speaker 3: know that there's now a culture of saying yes in

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Speaker 3: New Zealand, yes to investment, yes to innovation, and yes

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Speaker 3: to getting stuff done. International investment is absolutely critical to

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Speaker 3: this vision. Attracting our share of global capital and expertise

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Speaker 3: to our shores will help dig us out of the

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Speaker 3: infrastructure deficit this government inherited a lot faster and a

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Speaker 3: lot quicker. We want to lift our economic productivity, ensuring

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Speaker 3: that we obviously remain competitive on the world stage. And

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, kiwis will be the

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Speaker 3: winners because the more investment and more capital we can attract,

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Speaker 3: ultimately it leads to higher incomes and more jobs.

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Speaker 2: And they've loosened up migration for business people to come

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Speaker 2: here and invest in the country. The one thing that

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Speaker 2: they haven't done, and they have to do it at

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Speaker 2: some stage, Ryan, is to make it easier for overseas

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Speaker 2: investors to buy property in this country. We live, well,

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Speaker 2: that is a problem that really has to be overcome.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's something that voters need to think about at

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Speaker 1: the next election. Do you want to sort of unleash

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Speaker 1: national and act together, yes, and have them go whole hog?

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Speaker 1: Or do you want that handbrake still to stop stuff

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Speaker 1: like that? Seymour, speaking of handbrakes, he didn't really use

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Speaker 1: one today. Semour launches up the steps of Parliament and

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Speaker 1: an A land Rover.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you may have seen story by

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Speaker 2: Carolyn Menyi in The Herald on Sunday yesterday essentially saying

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Speaker 2: that Seymour wrote a more than thousand word letter in

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Speaker 2: defense of Polkinghorn, not defense but in support of him,

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Speaker 2: and Seymour says, look, he was a constituent and he

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Speaker 2: was writing as an MP, and that is fair enough.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't a minister. And I'll tell you what though,

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister is slightly embarrassed about that. He said

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Speaker 2: that certainly you may have you know, he wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: done it himself, and he's the sending the letter was

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Speaker 2: essentially ill advised and he wasn't too happy about it.

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Speaker 3: Personally. I thought sending the letter was ill advised. He's

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Speaker 3: aware of my views on that. But as you all know,

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Speaker 3: he wasn't a cabinet minister at the time. There's been

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Speaker 3: no breach to the cabinet manual. He didn't do this

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Speaker 3: as a minister. I just think our senior leader was

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Speaker 3: ill advised. That's my personal view on it. But ultimately

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Speaker 3: that questions fun and.

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Speaker 2: What it really shows is the impotency of the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister when it comes to ministers from another party. And

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Speaker 2: the fact is, though that David Seymour and May becomes

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Speaker 2: the Deputy Prime Minister, and that driving the jeep up

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Speaker 2: it was part of a stunt, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: And the television cameras were out, so they were advised

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Speaker 2: that he was about to do it. And you would

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Speaker 2: have thought that David Seamwil has been rounded long enough

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Speaker 2: to have at least sought the permission of the Speaker's

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Speaker 2: office or indeed talked to security about it. And they

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Speaker 2: were rather embarrassed that they had to say back.

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Speaker 1: Off, especially given chain and during the National Merchant charged

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Speaker 1: by police after that, Remember, so he was and if

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Speaker 1: you're about to be the deputy prime minister, that wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be a great lot would.

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Speaker 2: To start behaving yourself.

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Speaker 1: In his defense though he wasn't a minister when he

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Speaker 1: wrote that letter, hadn't been charged at that point, so

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Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't like he was going no.

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Speaker 2: And that's fair enough. But I think the question, the

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Speaker 2: pertinent question was, and it probably doesn't really matter, but

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Speaker 2: was old polky a bit? Was he a bitter factor

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Speaker 2: to David Semol's party?

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Speaker 1: And also just judgment, you know when you meet someone

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Speaker 1: and you look at them and you are anyway, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty serious and it is right now.

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Speaker 1: Another poll, this is from a Caurier Taxpayer Union poll

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Speaker 1: and the Left could govern.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, the Caurier Pole of course, that is the

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Speaker 2: National Party's pollsters. So the last one was the Talbot

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Speaker 2: Mills which is Labour's polster, telling the same story at

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Speaker 2: the moment, and it just really does show how hard

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Speaker 2: it is for Luxon and his coalition to make any

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Speaker 2: headway with the public when the economy is still swimming

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Speaker 2: around and not really producing the results. They're coming up

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Speaker 2: with some ideas now, there's no doubt about that, and

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Speaker 2: one would hope for their sake that if they really

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Speaker 2: want to win the treasury benches next year, now they

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Speaker 2: are really going to have to set about making some

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Speaker 2: pretty good policy announcements this year and basically affecting them,

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Speaker 2: putting them into effect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they need some runs on the board, they need

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Speaker 1: those treasury those rosy treasury predictions of three point three percent.

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Speaker 1: You just start coming to fruition.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you listen to the enthusiasm coming from Chris

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Speaker 2: Luxon today, you'd say, oh, they're home and host, but you.

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Speaker 1: Know, Barry Sober. Great to have you as always, Seni

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Speaker 1: your political correspondent here at news Talk sebb.

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