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Speaker 1: Now listen, I hope that this ACC business is a

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Speaker 1: Scotsimson problem and not a national problem. But I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to get a little worried about it because this is

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Speaker 1: at least the third case of race based stuff still

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Speaker 1: happening under National when we thought National was going to

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Speaker 1: put a stop to it. I mean, at least with

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Speaker 1: the free GP visits in Hawkes Bay for Maori and

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Speaker 1: Pacifica kids and no one else. At least that stuff

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Speaker 1: could be blamed on rogue public health stuff and it

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Speaker 1: was kelled as soon as we discovered it was happening.

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Speaker 1: And at least with the co governance stuff that's going

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Speaker 1: on in the way Tuckety rangers at a stretch. We

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Speaker 1: may believe that the government didn't know about it, maybe,

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Speaker 1: but this ACC stuff the Minister knows about, and even

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Speaker 1: though he was told about it, he's not going to

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Speaker 1: stop it because, as I told you in the newsroom article,

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Speaker 1: he stands by ACC. He thinks it's okay. Now, I

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Speaker 1: reckon this is going to be just a little disappointing

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Speaker 1: to a whole bunch of voters who put this government

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Speaker 1: in power to stop this race based stuff that Willie

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Speaker 1: Jackson and the Labor Party were pushing and who would

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Speaker 1: have thought that that directive to the public service that

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Speaker 1: went out last year telling the public servants to stop

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Speaker 1: the race based stuff was actually going to stop the

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Speaker 1: race base. National needs to cut the stuff out. They

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Speaker 1: need to stop this. So they either need to stop

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Speaker 1: it themselves or they need to go along to Scottsimson

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Speaker 1: and tell him to stop it, because otherwise a lot

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Speaker 1: of voters are going to wise up to exactly what

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Speaker 1: Act was warning us at the election, which is a

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Speaker 1: National is not actually going to change anything. National is

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Speaker 1: just Labour in blue clothes. And if you think I'm

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Speaker 1: going too far saying that, just take a look at

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Speaker 1: what is going on. I will remind you Nikola Willis

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Speaker 1: has spent more in her last budget than Grant Robertson

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Speaker 1: ever spent. Scott Simpson clearly loves himself a little race

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Speaker 1: based target. Now, what did we complain about at nauseum

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Speaker 1: with Labor We complained about too much spending. We've still

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Speaker 1: got that going on, too much racial division, still got

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Speaker 1: that going on. So how is this any different currently?

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Speaker 1: As I say, National needs to cut this out or

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Speaker 1: it needs to risk losing voters to its coalition partners,

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Speaker 1: because the coalition partners at this stage are actually taking

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Speaker 1: a tougher line on this stuff. For more from Heather

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