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Speaker 1: So the government seventy million dollars supercharged. The events and

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Speaker 1: tourism funded includes forty million that's ring fence to lure

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Speaker 1: the likes of Taylor Swift and Coldplays and Pearl Jams

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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty six. Nixt Saortner is Eden Park CEO.

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Speaker 1: To react, Nick, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning Ryan, Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 1: Could you put that money into context? How does it

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Speaker 1: compare with past funds and our competitors.

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Speaker 2: Well, we welcome the PM's announcement yesterday. This is great

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Speaker 2: news for business. Historically, music content hasn't been available to

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Speaker 2: attract funding from central government, so it hasn't been available

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Speaker 2: for us to go out and secure content. Globally, it's

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Speaker 2: been focused more on the sports and major event content

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Speaker 2: like World Cup. So this is a paradigm cheft for us.

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Speaker 2: It makes us competitive with the East Coast of Australia.

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Speaker 2: Similar funds are available in the likes of Britain and

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Speaker 2: Sydney and Melbourne, so and we Eden Park is uniquely

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Speaker 2: positioned now capitalize on this opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Nick, who's on your wish list?

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Speaker 2: Well, for me personally, any concert that we've seen at

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Speaker 2: Eden Park has been magnificent. When you look at Pink Billy, Joel, Coldplay,

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Speaker 2: Duns and Roses, they've all been phenomenal and already the

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Speaker 2: local businesses are pumped as you can imagine after COVID

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Speaker 2: there has been a challenge for the hospitality sector. Only

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Speaker 2: two weekends ago. You look at what we're able to

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Speaker 2: deliver with the likes of the sold out all Black

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Speaker 2: tests at the Fortress. Some of the local businesses said

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Speaker 2: it was their biggest day ever in terms of hospitality spend.

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Speaker 2: So this is a great announcement. Since the Rugby World

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Speaker 2: Cup at Eden Park, we've delivered over a billion dollars

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Speaker 2: of gendp benefit of Auckland and yeah, we're very excited

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Speaker 2: with the announcement.

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Speaker 1: Can we be realistic and just a really quick question

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Speaker 1: but if we had this fund, would it have been

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Speaker 1: enough to get the lights of Pearl Jam and Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 2: Well, Pearl Jam's previously come the likes of Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 2: It's a competitive market, but now we are a genuine

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Speaker 2: player against the East Coast of Australia. So promoters now

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Speaker 2: know and I can assure you I was in contact

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Speaker 2: with a number of promoters last night making them aware

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Speaker 2: that this is available and saying, get your application in,

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Speaker 2: tell us what you want. We want a city that

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Speaker 2: people want to live, stay, play and work and artists

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Speaker 2: can benefit now from this fund.

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Speaker 1: You've got any names you want to drop?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Well, how good would it be if Spice Gills reformed?

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