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Speaker 1: Bary so pre Senior political Correspondence with.

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Speaker 2: US Barry, Hello, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Has So those raids on the Mangra that happened yesterday

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Speaker 1: that come up in parliament today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were fantastic, weren't they. It just goes to

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Speaker 2: show that the police really are taking the gangs very seriously.

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Speaker 2: We had the common cero's all, most of them in

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Speaker 2: christ Church being arrested. Now we've got the monies, particularly

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Speaker 2: a polter key. They looked at it and they raided there.

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Speaker 2: And I mean there's almost a bloody wall zone out

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Speaker 2: there if you look at what they pack up in

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Speaker 2: these raids. Rifles, pistols, cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, eight hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars worth of property. I mean it's quite incredible. Well,

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Speaker 2: in Parliament this afternoon, the Maldi party leader I Well

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Speaker 2: rewaited tea. He wanted to know why Maldi weren't given

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Speaker 2: advance notice of the raids. I would have thought that

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Speaker 2: would have been obvious, because he says women and children

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Speaker 2: have been left traumatized by them. Policemanister Mark Mitchell, though,

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Speaker 2: was making no apollo us for them.

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Speaker 3: I've been to a potoque several times, and I've met

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Speaker 3: with local e We and Habou, the mayor, and counselors

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Speaker 3: and senior gang leadership. All of them expressed to me

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Speaker 3: a strong desire for the town to take a different

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Speaker 3: path than the one that it was on. And I

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Speaker 3: hope that yesterday will be the circuit breaker, a podoke needed.

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Speaker 4: If this government's objective is to crack down on gangs,

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Speaker 4: why then with Taminiqui comar to it, mother's best feeding

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Speaker 4: baby subjected to the police rage yesterday and no Portuguese

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Speaker 4: and now are fearful that police actions are targeted, calculated

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Speaker 4: and planned to create an unsafe environment.

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Speaker 3: Well, we don't want tom Riki being in a gang environment.

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Speaker 3: It's not the police officers that choose to keep weapons

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Speaker 3: and drugs in the houses. There's those gang members that

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Speaker 3: choose to do that.

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Speaker 2: I'd say, here here to that guy has deluded. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. If family members have to be around

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Speaker 2: when this sort of thing's happened.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think they're around. Like, let's be honest

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Speaker 1: about it. If you're living in a house with a

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Speaker 1: mongrel mob gang member.

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Speaker 2: And there's rifles and money.

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Speaker 1: I think the police rate is the least of your problems.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and if you were thinking about your kids, you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be in that.

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Speaker 1: No, and it is hardly the most violent thing that

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Speaker 1: you'll be subjected to it on a weekly basis. Okay, weird,

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Speaker 1: So whatever he's courting a weird vote here, isn't he?

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, I'm not quite sure what he is courting

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Speaker 2: because courting the gang vote. Well, you but gang members

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Speaker 2: are what about eight thousand gang members in the country.

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Speaker 2: That's not going to put you back into parliament, is it.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not big, But then again, the numbers and

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Speaker 1: the Marii electric is probably not that big.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine there wouldn't be a lot of sympathy

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Speaker 2: out there broadly in the Maldi community for these gangs.

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Speaker 1: Listen, what was there some protest about the anti worker

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Speaker 1: government about today?

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Speaker 2: Well, if you listen to the CTU from farg Array

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Speaker 2: down to Win for Cargo, around ten thousand people turned

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Speaker 2: out across the country basically saying that the government is

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Speaker 2: launching ongoing attacks against workers. There were a thousand people

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Speaker 2: gathered here in Auckland and the Ata Square this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Labour's Camilla Balich she made something of a misfire in

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Speaker 2: Parliament this afternoon when she asked the Minister of Workplace

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Speaker 2: Relations Brook van Balden whether she agreed with the protest

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Speaker 2: that that was the worst government in decades. Not surprisingly,

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Speaker 2: she didn't. Balich clearly got more than she bargained for, though, the.

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Speaker 5: Most anti worker government we've seen in decades is the

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Speaker 5: previous government. It was the previous government that ordered vaccine

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Speaker 5: mandates for workers. Never before have we seen the rights

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Speaker 5: of workers across this country be eroded so swiftly. Not

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Speaker 5: only did this a roague workers freedom of choice and

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Speaker 5: bodily autonomy, so many people were forced out of their

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Speaker 5: jobs because the government refused to look at other options

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Speaker 5: like rat tests. Rather than listen to those affected workers,

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Speaker 5: the previous government pushed them to the margins of society.

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Speaker 1: Not aboad argument. Remember when old Justinda and should be

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Speaker 1: loved to punch them down to the KFC worker as.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, we tend to forget those loved worker.

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Speaker 2: It reminded me when Brook vun Dalden stood up to

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Speaker 2: reply to that question, I thought, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Very very quickly, one fewer electric seats there will be

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Speaker 1: because of has this got to do with the fact

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Speaker 1: that the North Island has to have a certain number

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Speaker 1: compared to the South Island.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the census. It's basically numbers, that's where people

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Speaker 2: are living. So the sensors have shown that clearly the

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Speaker 2: North Island is overpopulated with seats, So there'll be one

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Speaker 2: fewer seat this coming election. Where it's going to be.

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Speaker 2: I tried to find out, of course, through the bureaucracy,

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Speaker 2: but I've got so many press secretaries in it it's

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Speaker 2: very hard to keep pin one down to find out

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Speaker 2: what's going on. But there will still be one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty seats.

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Speaker 1: Because it be replaced by list MP Barry, Thanks very much,

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Speaker 1: very so, Senior Political correspondent.

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