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Speaker 1: Barry, so Per, senior political correspondent, is with US High Barry. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: run me through what it is that Erica has announced today.

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Speaker 2: Well, to me, if you're a parent, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be in my view anyway, excellent because you'll know the

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Speaker 2: progress that your child's making. You get two report cards

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Speaker 2: a year, and you know it'll allow you to talk

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Speaker 2: to the school much more about progress, help your child

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Speaker 2: in an area where they are finding difficulty. It's just

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Speaker 2: a more transparency.

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Speaker 1: But what is new?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, there'll be a report twice a year that'll

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Speaker 2: be sent home to the parents.

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Speaker 1: Assuming that report cards if we got report report cards

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Speaker 1: can't be the new thing? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Because? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Because they're standardized across the country. They look the same

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Speaker 1: for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, five hundred schools have already signed up to it,

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Speaker 2: and school's going back this week, of course. But I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what. If there's one thing Erica Stanford's read

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Speaker 2: you good at, it's making the right noises about education

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Speaker 2: with the full Prime ministerial backing, which is what she

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Speaker 2: did today. Here she is on the report cards.

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Speaker 3: Parents will get a really good idea of the progress

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Speaker 3: and reading, writing and maths, and the individual strands within

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Speaker 3: reading and writing and maths, so that they know how

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Speaker 3: their children are doing and how they can help at home,

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Speaker 3: and it will be clearly laid out on their report cards.

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Speaker 3: This really is a partnership between schools and parents so

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Speaker 3: that together we can all raise student achievement.

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Speaker 2: First thing that sprang to my mind was that will

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Speaker 2: teachers be happy about this, because presumably it'll mean much

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Speaker 2: more work for them, although she says that under their

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Speaker 2: system they have I think eight hundred thousand teacher eight

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Speaker 2: hours being allocated to the system, and this will be

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Speaker 2: all digitized, so it won't be that difficult. It won't

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Speaker 2: be the old report card writing that teachers had to

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Speaker 2: doing the old days. But I like the old days

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Speaker 2: because it gave you. I do like the old days

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Speaker 2: in class, second in class. That don't do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: You know how many times were you in first in class?

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Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what I heard you say. There's

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Speaker 2: no lineage in our.

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Speaker 1: Champion at my school, Fosbury flop that you introduced, yes high.

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Speaker 2: School, little boy. I'll be teaching him as I did

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Speaker 2: learning to swim over the past week.

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Speaker 1: Real drop off on athletic ability obviously, as you go

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Speaker 1: along why Tonguey day Prime Minister made the right call.

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Speaker 2: Yes he has. But it's really interesting, isn't it when

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Speaker 2: you think this time last year Kappa Kinghi was basically

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Speaker 2: talking about coalitions and coalition partners and how you know

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Speaker 2: they were looking forward to this year and a year on,

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Speaker 2: here she is in court fighting against her expulsion from

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Speaker 2: the party. They've been I guess given some encouragement by

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Speaker 2: the fact that you remember there was a preliminary hearing

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Speaker 2: and the judge in that last December came down and said, look,

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Speaker 2: the party was wrong in that, and what's the bed

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Speaker 2: If the decision is made and announced that the court

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Speaker 2: parents they're doing today is announced by say, Wednesday, and

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Speaker 2: that's the expectation, then surely this will overshadow so much

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Speaker 2: of what's going on at why Tongy this weekend, because

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Speaker 2: you're going to have the Maldi party there in full

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Speaker 2: force and they're battling like nobody's business with each other,

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Speaker 2: and here we are commemorating the threat great ironies and.

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Speaker 1: All getting distracted. Hey, so tell me what happened to

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Speaker 1: Nick Smith in his bottom?

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Speaker 2: Poor old Nick. So he goes along to a concert

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Speaker 2: the Newdolph Vineyards and he's the mayor of Nelson of course,

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Speaker 2: and his electorate. There were basically groups like Stellar, the

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Speaker 2: Mockers and the Dudes. I've heard of the Dudes, but

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Speaker 2: the other very please Stella is Stella.

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Speaker 1: The lead singer of Stella is the sister of Oh.

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Speaker 2: I think she was there as well, so that cool.

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Speaker 1: She was there because Steller was there. That's how a

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Speaker 1: band works.

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Speaker 2: Was there you might know?

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Speaker 1: Anyway? Get on with the wine.

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Speaker 2: Well, poor old Nick was there and he was with

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Speaker 2: his mates, no doubt, and decided he was at a vineyard,

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Speaker 2: there was a concert going. Why wouldn't he be able

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Speaker 2: to go out and buy a bottle of wine? No,

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Speaker 2: the rules said that they went allowed to buy bottles

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Speaker 2: of wine. They had to buy plastic cups of wine individually.

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Speaker 2: About being treated?

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Speaker 1: Now, whose rules with this was this nudof wine? Wine?

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Speaker 2: The Tasman District Council. It says it was a goal

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Speaker 2: standard event and that's the labels design where you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't sell bottles of wine. I mean the point

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Speaker 2: that Nick Smith made was look Nowdorf employed sorry exports

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Speaker 2: overseas hundreds of thousands of bottles of wine a year,

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Speaker 2: and yet they can't even sell a bottle of wine

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Speaker 2: to their own people in the Rossingeriod.

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Speaker 1: All right, Barry, thanks very much, appreciate it. That's Arry Sober,

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