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Speaker 1: Welcome to the International Investment Day. I found it somewhat bewildering,

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Speaker 1: I must say, if not sad that Ginny Anderson on

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Speaker 1: the show yesterday said foreign investment wasn't the answer to

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Speaker 1: our problems, because actually it is. What we don't have

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Speaker 1: as a country is size and scale. If we want

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Speaker 1: to participate in the world, we need the world involved

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Speaker 1: in what we do. We're not like America, where you

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Speaker 1: can at least partially pretend you can produce everything you

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Speaker 1: need locally and whatever it is you do produce is

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Speaker 1: sold to a local market. In fact, Ginny's lack of

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Speaker 1: basic economic understanding may well give some insight and to

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Speaker 1: why we're having the event we are over the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days. Labour's view of the economy is so small,

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Speaker 1: so insular. It is why the borders were closed for

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Speaker 1: so long, why tourisms not bounce back while the world

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Speaker 1: has moved on without us, and how this new government

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Speaker 1: has had to travel so many miles to knock on

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Speaker 1: so many doors and say don't forget about us. It

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Speaker 1: could also be a clue if you've noticed, as to

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Speaker 1: why they're currently exercised in the Parliament over the idea

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Speaker 1: of the public health system using the private health system

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Speaker 1: to turn through some elective procedures forgetting of course, that

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Speaker 1: even they did the same thing, and that it has

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Speaker 1: in fact been common practice forever. Indeed, if you have

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Speaker 1: a bed and a team sitting there with capacity, do

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Speaker 1: you really care whether the place you get the need

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Speaker 1: done is public or private. Anyway, the Prime Minister, who

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Speaker 1: will be relishing this next week, given he is pitching

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Speaker 1: not just here but in India as well, we'll be

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Speaker 1: able to get back to doing what by all reports

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Speaker 1: he does best, hustle and sell. The polls might be

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Speaker 1: problematic for a variety of reasons, but you can't possibly

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Speaker 1: mark this lot down for not getting out into the

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Speaker 1: world and re engaging both trade and foreign policy. Wise,

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Speaker 1: between the Prime Minister, Peters and Maclay, many circuits of

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Speaker 1: the globe will have been completed. Is also right that

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Speaker 1: the world is a wash with cash looking for a

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Speaker 1: place to land. We once were that place to land,

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Speaker 1: We once were that rock star economy, We once well,

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Speaker 1: we once had our act together. Today and tomorrow hopefully

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Speaker 1: is about restoring our rightful place as progressive. Go get

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