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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, host of the Countries of that Alo, Jamie

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Speaker 1: good A, Heather, you're on the road again. Where you're

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Speaker 1: going now, Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 2: Of a life of a traveling salesmen. I'm on the

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Speaker 2: way down to Southland. They're the old home patch of

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Speaker 2: Riversdale to Glenary Station, one of the most beautiful farms

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, and it's the venue tomorrow for the

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Speaker 2: High Country of Federated Farmers High Country Field Day. But

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Speaker 2: I've got a whole lot of politicians and I'm a

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Speaker 2: bit betwixt and between on this one here because I

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Speaker 2: just did a we headcount and there's eleven of them

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Speaker 2: turning up. Now. While it's great to have politicians turning

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Speaker 2: up to Federated Farmers Field Days and mixing and getting

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Speaker 2: the story from rural New Zealand, that's one part of

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Speaker 2: the argument. The Scottish part of my nature would suggest,

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Speaker 2: do we need to spend money sending the whole lot

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Speaker 2: of them down? You know, I don't know. Andrew Hogard,

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Speaker 2: Mark Patterson, their Minister's Penny Simmons, Joseph Mooney, local MPs

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Speaker 2: give member past Mark Joe Luxton's Labour's agriculture spokesperson. But

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Speaker 2: there's four or five others who haven't got specific rural.

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Speaker 1: Let's judge them. Let's judge them.

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Speaker 2: Go. Well, no, I'm not going to name and shame

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Speaker 2: here shaming.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you whether it's warranted that they're

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Speaker 1: there or not.

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Speaker 2: What you want me to name them? Gone? Then? Well,

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Speaker 2: I feel a bit guilty. Now, what's that, Heather.

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Speaker 1: We're in the business of sharing information, not withholding information.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but not all shows are as hard edged as yours.

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Speaker 2: The only soft thing about you is your teeth. Here,

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Speaker 2: I'm more understanding and compassionate.

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Speaker 1: Let me start the list off. Let me guess Catherine

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Speaker 1: Wedder is there?

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Speaker 2: Yes, he is gone?

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Speaker 1: Then who else? Now, don't leave Catherine by herself. That's

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Speaker 1: not fair, But well I won't.

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Speaker 2: Well, catherinees are Hawks Bay MP, Mike Butterick's there, Awira

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Speaker 2: rat the MP, James Meagher, he's the South Island or

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Speaker 2: the Minister of the South Island. Deborah Russell Labor.

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Speaker 1: What's she doing there?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I'll ask her tomorrow. Preancea Rather

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Speaker 2: Krishnan Labor MP. I've never heard of, I apologized. Joe Luxton.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Joe was the spokesperson, the interesting one who

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Speaker 2: isn't there, And I'm surprised he's not because he loves

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Speaker 2: nothing more than getting off peace on his trail bike

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Speaker 2: and blatting all over the country claiming he's saving petrol.

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Speaker 2: My old mate Damien O'Connor, who is of course Labour's

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Speaker 2: trade spokesperson. No sign of the Greens or to party

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Speaker 2: Maurri Ether. So what that.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean apart from apart from Prianta and

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Speaker 1: Deborah Russell, I think they're probably all legit to be there.

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Speaker 2: But what didn't I didn't want to pick on the

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Speaker 2: labor ones because there was lots of Nats there as well. Look,

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Speaker 2: I absolutely endorsed them being there. But we are hearing

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Speaker 2: from the pulport of truth on a daily basis how

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Speaker 2: we need to economize and save money. It's long been

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Speaker 2: a bugbear of mine, but politicians will literally jump on

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Speaker 2: a plane to fly at the other end of the

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Speaker 2: country to open water cut a revenue. Seriously, I think

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Speaker 2: for the question, I say this to people on the

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Speaker 2: radio industry. If it was your own company and you

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Speaker 2: were paying, what'd you make the trip? That's the litmus

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Speaker 2: test for you.

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Speaker 1: THAT'SO right, Jamie Well said. Jamie mckaye hosts the Country

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