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Speaker 1: The Issues, US.

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Speaker 2: The interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new for twenty

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Speaker 2: Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store.

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Speaker 1: Ustorgs'd be good morning.

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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, Humpday Debate Day two. Former US Ambassador

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Speaker 3: Mark Gilbert joins us. Gilbert, I should say, joins us

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Speaker 3: on that before six population in some towns could have

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Speaker 3: after Winstone Pop's closure banning phones for kids, How will

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Speaker 3: you police it if you're a parent? Plus, after five

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Speaker 3: point thirty seventeen hundred prisoners are being released today. Don't worry.

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Speaker 3: It's in the UK, not here. It's to combat overcrowding

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Speaker 3: in prisons and we know how well that went for US.

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Speaker 3: Gavin Gray is our UK correspondent after the News the agenda.

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Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, the eleventh of September. Great to have

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Speaker 3: your company. Nineteen people have died following an Israeli strike

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Speaker 3: in southern gazas humanitarians. This is according to the Hamas

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Speaker 4: We have eyewitnesses who are saying that they walk up

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Speaker 3: Terrible at least one hundred and twenty seven people have

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Speaker 3: died in Vietnam after a typhoon struck northern regions of

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Speaker 3: the country. Fifty four people still missing. It had previously

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Speaker 3: struck China and the Philippines, leaving twenty four dead. It

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Speaker 3: is debate day today. Kamala Harris is bringing friends to

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Speaker 3: Philly with her. She's going to troll Trump, inviting some

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Speaker 3: Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci is going to be going. He served

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Speaker 3: is bringing two of those. Debate kicks off one pm.

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Speaker 3: You can watch on YouTube. Australia, Peter Dutton is channeling

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Speaker 3: Tony Abbott, going hard after Labor and Albanesi on a

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Speaker 3: carbon tax attack.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to destroy the economy and send families

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Speaker 5: bankrupt in the process of decarbonizing our economy.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like somebody's thinking practically. At least Dutton Montster

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Speaker 3: built six nuclear reactors to limit power outages. Eight after five.

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Speaker 2: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with

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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and

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Speaker 3: On News Talk z B, we'll get two cycle ways

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Speaker 3: in a second. Also, whether you could be going one

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty k's on a motorway in New Zealand. Well,

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Speaker 3: that's got you excited, hasn't it. First though, Wilworst is

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Speaker 3: fighting back. This is a really interesting business desk piece.

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Speaker 3: Wilwast is fighting back. So you had the ComCom come

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Speaker 3: out and the groceries are the grocery Commissioner coming out

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Speaker 3: and saying they're profiting, their margins are up, grocery guys

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Speaker 3: bad and there's no meaningful competition. And this is what

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Speaker 3: they said. They said there's no meaningful competition after the

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Speaker 3: introduction of the Grocery Industry Competition Act or GEEKER as

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Speaker 3: I'm calling it. So that was Labour's act that they introduced.

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Speaker 3: It was quite rushed, quite hurried. Anyway, they said no

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Speaker 3: meaningful competition after the introduction of GEEKER. They said that

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Speaker 3: evil supermarkets. Anyway, the supermarkets have come back. Warl worst

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Speaker 3: is saying the report used old data. All the data

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Speaker 3: can you say the law wasn't making meaningful differences to

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Speaker 3: According to wol Wis, I couched that with According to

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Speaker 2: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 1: News Talks, it'd be great.

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Speaker 3: To have you with me fourteen after five News Talks,

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Speaker 3: he'd be text me nine to nine two and I'll

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Speaker 3: We'd love to hear your thoughts this morning on how

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Speaker 3: Because it's obviously doing damage to them right now. Though

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Speaker 3: A big day in the US. The first presidential debate

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Speaker 3: Trump's second presidential debate of this election season, his first

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Speaker 3: against Kamala Harris, what is going to happen and does

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Speaker 3: it really matter? Mark Gilbert joins US. He's a former

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Speaker 3: US ambassador and Democrat Party member. He's joining us from

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Speaker 3: Park City, Utah. This morning. Mark, Good morning, thanks for

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Ryan Kiyota.

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Speaker 3: Tell me what's your read? Here? Is what happens today?

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Speaker 3: Going to move the dial make a difference?

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Speaker 6: I believe that it could. First of all, this is,

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Speaker 6: as you just mentioned, the vice president's first presidential debate,

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Speaker 6: this will be a great opportunity for her to be seen.

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Speaker 6: And the expectation is that this will exceed more than

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Speaker 3: Harris says Trump is not burdened by telling the truth.

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Speaker 3: Does that matter? I mean, he's been elected previously, we

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Speaker 6: I think she will, and I think this is different

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Speaker 6: But of course it will matter how the Vice president

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Speaker 3: How vulnerable is she on the border and inflation that

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Speaker 6: So the border probably would have been her largest negative

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Speaker 3: appreciate your time and enjoy the debate. Mark Gilbert, former

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Speaker 3: US Ambassador and Democrat Party member, joining us from Park City, Utah.

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Speaker 3: You can catch that debate on here in New Zone.

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Speaker 3: You can actually watch it on YouTube. I've discovered from

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Speaker 3: one o'clock this afternoon, seventeen after five coming up next,

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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.

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Speaker 3: I'll get to this idea of one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: They say, our Prime minister City is open to looking

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Speaker 3: at this. How do you police it? Nathan Wallace is

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Speaker 3: a parenting expert and he's with us this morning. Nathan,

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Speaker 3: good morning, Good morning, right, how are you mate, I'm

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Speaker 3: very well, thank you. Good idea bad idea for a ban.

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Speaker 7: I think it's a good idea. I mean, I know

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Speaker 7: it seems like the horses bolted already, but there's long

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Speaker 7: if we ban things like social media, that could be

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Speaker 7: one of the major causes of our our mental health

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Speaker 3: It Okay, these days, I'm like, who doesn't have ADHD?

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Speaker 1: Is is it possible?

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Speaker 3: Can phones call ADHD?

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Speaker 7: Not really ADHD. It's hard to diagnose ADHD because it's

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Speaker 7: So it's hard to say exactly what is ADHD.

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Speaker 3: Vaping, but yeah, vaping and drinking. Obviously kids can't do it,

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Speaker 3: but they still do. Do you see this as another

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Speaker 3: one that would fall into that category? Are you shouldn't

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Speaker 3: it's illegal? But actually they do.

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Speaker 7: Anyway, Absolutely, And I think lots of people are going

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Speaker 7: But when you make it illegal, you do send a

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Speaker 7: This is a cause of concern.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan, says Marie. I use an app on

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Speaker 3: Me a wild, bizarre and highly entertaining media scrum in

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Speaker 5: Why when you walk along the waterfront, there's not enough

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Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, just jump in. Don't worry about

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Speaker 5: Is that what I'm hearing from you? Good report that, guys?

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Speaker 3: chance on me. Twenty eight after five, Bryan Bridge, you

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Speaker 3: superannuation and senior citizens are losing their minds poor things.

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Speaker 3: Age Concerns says it's a fake story. It's designed to

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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early edition.

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Speaker 2: With Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture bids

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Speaker 3: Good Morning, New Zealand, twenty four away from Sex. Welcome

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Speaker 3: And do you want the good news all the bad news?

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Speaker 10: Much quicker we would get places?

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Speaker 3: However, the bad news, roads will be and how many

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Speaker 3: who's in Dunedan Calm. Good morning morning, Ryan, Good to

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Speaker 11: He says, for Queenstown this would solve some pretty significant

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Speaker 3: Well, and so it's just you and the gondola. There's

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Speaker 3: You'd have an app and you'd dial it up and

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Speaker 3: All right, how's it we there today, Callum.

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Speaker 11: You mainly find high cloud develops this afternoon and northerally

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Clear sherewards with us in christ

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Speaker 3: Church this morning. Good morning, Clear, good morning. Good to

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Speaker 9: Yes, Ryan, this is the construction of the city's Olympic

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Speaker 3: Good news clear you're weather today.

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Speaker 9: It's frosty to start in christ Jews, but should clear

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Max, Minji Max and Wellington Max.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, in fact you should front the new ad

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Speaker 12: You played on the program earlier. Some very odd comments

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Speaker 12: More cafes should just open. Everyone in Wellington needs to

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Speaker 12: That's along Courtley Place, Willis Street. Lambdon key. A little

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Speaker 3: Okay, well she was doing so well right un tilling

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Speaker 3: in here? Next weather today?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, almost listening fine with southerleast thirteen the high Central brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Neva any Man as an Auckland, Hey, Neva,

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Speaker 3: good morning, big giant Heymart habig.

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Speaker 8: Camart, Camart is coming, well, the biggest New Zealand's biggest kmart.

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Speaker 8: And where is it going? Auckland's Westgate. Everything goes to Westgate,

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Speaker 8: doesn't it. So the really big retail chain is building now.

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Speaker 8: This is six thousan seven hundred square meter store. So

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Speaker 8: that's going to go opposite Costco in a street yet

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Speaker 8: to be creative. But they've got a name for it.

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Speaker 8: Maukey Place. That's what it's going to be called.

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Speaker 8: This top's the almost five thousand square meter store and

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 8: Can you imagine the traffic though, That's what we were

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Speaker 3: Because you wouldn't go there on a Saturday, would you.

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Speaker 3: Interesting though, that's the same number of people who have

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Speaker 3: one shop in Auckland. Isn't that crazy?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but how long would you spend out there? You

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Speaker 3: drive out to Wisgate and you would just never leave.

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Speaker 8: Well, that's it, I mean, and some people do that,

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Speaker 8: you know. I mean, I love Camus.

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Speaker 3: People have gone miss.

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Speaker 8: People have gone missing in the stores. The good thing

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Speaker 8: was us is it? Because we finish early. I wouldn't

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Speaker 8: go on the weekend, but you know I would go

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Speaker 8: after nine thirty am. I'd have my nap, my daily

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Speaker 8: nap a little bit later, so you and I we

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Speaker 8: could go to the store. We could probably go there

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Speaker 8: for like two or three hours.

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Speaker 13: I'd lose you.

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Speaker 8: You'd go one end, I'd go the other end.

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Speaker 3: Well, no one would never see us again. As the

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Speaker 3: weather today never.

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Speaker 8: Cloudy, isolated showers becoming fine this morning Auckland's high sixteen degrees.

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Speaker 3: And then thank you our UK europe correspondent with us

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Speaker 3: next why they're letting seventeen hundred prisoners walk out of

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Speaker 3: jail today? It has just gone quarter to six on

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Speaker 3: news talk, said b. Since nineteen eighteen, Smith City has

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Speaker 3: served communities throughout New Zealand with quality furniture, beds, and

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Speaker 3: home appliances and great deals. Over one hundred years later,

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Speaker 3: the flagship store is still in its original location and

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Speaker 3: still one hundred percent New Zealand owned and operated. So

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Speaker 3: shopping with Smith City supports Kiwi businesses. They boast eighteen

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Speaker 3: stores across New Zealand, including the new Wideo Park outlet

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Speaker 3: store in Auckland, which is open now. They stop everything

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Speaker 3: Lazyboy and Sleepyhead, just to name a few and don't

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Speaker 3: with a price promise which they'll match any competitors price,

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Speaker 3: so why would you shop anywhere else? And they have

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Speaker 3: legendary install service or shop online smith City dot co

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Speaker 2: International correspondence with enz and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind

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Speaker 2: for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 3: They're living seventeen hundred prisoners out of prison in England

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Speaker 3: and Wales today. This is to try and reduce over

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Speaker 3: crowd and Gavin Gray's our UK and Europe correspondent.

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Speaker 14: Gavin indeed, yeah, Ryan, So all those prisoners been released

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Speaker 14: on a single day, which is raised a few eyebrows

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Speaker 14: because of course it'll be a real stretch to make

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Speaker 14: sure that there are just left out on the street

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Speaker 14: with nowhere to go and no help to try and

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Speaker 14: get back on their feet. But instead of people being

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Speaker 14: allowed at having served fifty percent of their sentence, the

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Speaker 14: government has now reduced that to forty percent of their sentences.

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Speaker 14: The government is pointing out the offenders jailed for violent

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Speaker 14: offenses with the sentences of at least four years, sex

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Speaker 14: offenders and domestic abusers are not eligible for early released.

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Speaker 14: So who are these people? Well, a mix of different

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Speaker 14: criminal offenders here. But being released on license means the

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Speaker 14: defenders must st adhere to well quite a few restrictions

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Speaker 14: for the rest of their sentence that could include a curfew,

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Speaker 14: could include being tagged and of course being supervised by

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Speaker 14: probation officers. However, some are saying that the victims of

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Speaker 14: those who have been released have not been warned early

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Speaker 14: enough that they were going to be released, which is

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Speaker 14: a concern for those who might have been stalked or

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Speaker 14: maybe potentially if you've been abused by a partner or

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Speaker 14: so forth. So there are concerns about the numbers being

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Speaker 14: released and guess what, Raan, They'll be doing it all

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Speaker 14: again next month. Why because the jails are full and

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Speaker 14: I'm afraid to say they are almost at capacity. Just

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Speaker 14: at the time when the government has been tough with

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Speaker 14: all those that took part in the rum.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like a real problem. We did the

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Speaker 3: same thing here and it didn't go very well for us.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you that. Given tell us about this fine,

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Speaker 3: the two billion pounds that Google's been fined what for.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so they were fined for abusing the market dominance

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Speaker 14: of its shopping comparison service by Europe's top court, so

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Speaker 14: roughly four point two four point three billion New Zealand

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Speaker 14: dollars in a fine. The original fine was levied back

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Speaker 14: in twenty seventeen, but Google appealed. However, today it learned

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Speaker 14: it has lost and so therefore it is going to

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Speaker 14: go through. And it incidentally was the biggest ever find

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Speaker 14: the meeted out by the Commission that that has been

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Speaker 14: overtaken by a bigger fine also against Google. Google says

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Speaker 14: it's disappointed with the ruling and this brends an end

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Speaker 14: though to a very long running case. At the heart

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Speaker 14: of this case was the contention that Google made its

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Speaker 14: own shopping recommendations appear much more prominently than its rivals

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Speaker 14: when somebody went into search results. So Google had argued

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Speaker 14: that the case had no legal or economic merit, but

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Speaker 14: the European Commission decided that was not the case and

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Speaker 14: dismissed their appeal. And incidentally, if you think that's it,

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Speaker 14: well believe it or not. Actually, I think it shows

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Speaker 14: perhaps a direction of travel because the search giant has

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Speaker 14: amassed about eight billion euros of fines from the Commission

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Speaker 14: and other things are still going through cases in America,

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Speaker 14: cases in the UK, and the EU is also currently

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Speaker 14: investigating the firm over whether its preferences its own goods

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Speaker 14: and services over others in search results. And if found guilty, Yep,

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Speaker 14: you guessed it, it could be another big fine on

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Speaker 14: the way.

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Speaker 3: Goodness me all right, Kevin. So criminals walk free and

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Speaker 3: Google gets a fine. That's how UK you're correspondent Gavin

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Speaker 3: Grade ten to six. Ryan Bridge sales for the electricity, gas,

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Speaker 3: waste and water services industry up thirty six percent in

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Speaker 3: the June quarter. That's on the same time last year.

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Speaker 3: This is from stats end Z. They put it down

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Speaker 3: to the energy crunch, So no rain for the lakes,

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Speaker 3: it's cold, we're using more electricity. The gas storage problem,

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Speaker 3: the gas issue. It comes on the back of the

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Speaker 3: Windstone Pulp international closures. Yesterday two hundred and thirty jobs

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Speaker 3: have been lost there. John Harvard is the Major Electricity

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Speaker 3: Users Group chair. He's with us this morning. John, Good morning,

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Speaker 3: Good morning. Just wanted to check with you. Are you

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Speaker 3: aware of any new mills or factories that are considering

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Speaker 3: closure because of this problem.

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Speaker 15: Look, I think it's there's a number of businesses that

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Speaker 15: are under enormous strain at the moment, and you know,

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Speaker 15: their ongoing operation is an matter of almost daily consideration.

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Speaker 15: And I think the other thing we need to bear

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Speaker 15: in mind with Windstone Pulp is there's a lot of

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Speaker 15: businesses in that area that make their living from supporting

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Speaker 15: Windstone Pulp, and so their future at the moment is

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Speaker 15: highly uncertain as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about essentially about the potential decimation of

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Speaker 3: entire towns. Here. You've got two hundred and thirty jobs,

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Speaker 3: but then you look at that that's probably one thousand

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Speaker 3: people in terms of family members, et cetera. You know,

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Speaker 3: Aura Kuni data Hei, these have a population of two

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Speaker 3: thy three hundred.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, it's absolutely devastating for that community, and I think

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Speaker 15: it really shines a light on how vulnerable that a

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Speaker 15: lot of our regional and provincial communities are too, things

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Speaker 15: like rapidly escalating wholesale electricity prices that undermine the viability

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Speaker 15: of the businesses that they depend on.

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Speaker 3: This thirty six six percent increase, this is for the

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Speaker 3: journ court on the same time last year for electricity, gas,

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Speaker 3: waste and wastewater services. Is that significant?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, it's absolutely significant. To put another sort of way

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Speaker 15: of looking at it, Ryan is for the period we're

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Speaker 15: looking at, starting in twenty sixteen. At that time, the

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Speaker 15: combined profits of the Ford gent Taylors was two hundred

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Speaker 15: and ninety seven million dollars. This year, the combined profits

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Speaker 15: of the for Gent Taylor's is one billion and eighty

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Speaker 15: five million dollars. So we've seen a massive increase in

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Speaker 15: the amount of profit these companies are making, and they're

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Speaker 15: not making any more electricity than they were eight years ago.

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Speaker 3: So we shouldn't have partially privatized them.

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Speaker 15: Well, I think we certainly had an argument that the

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Speaker 15: partial privatization has exacerbated a pre existing problem. The Commist

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Speaker 15: Commission back in two thousand and nine, so prior to

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Speaker 15: the partial float, found that New Zealanders were already paying

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Speaker 15: higher prices for electricity than they would if we had

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Speaker 15: a competitive market. And to give you a sense of

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Speaker 15: sort of what the scale of that is is sort

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Speaker 15: of between the electricity regulator, the electricity authority and private

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Speaker 15: investment companies that have sort of looked at this with

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Speaker 15: their modeling tools. As the estimate is New Zealand consumers

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Speaker 15: including households, are paying between one and two billion dollars

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Speaker 15: a year more than we should be for our electricity.

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Speaker 3: Goodness me, John, thank you very much for that. Of course,

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Speaker 3: there's a task force that is currently looking at options.

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Speaker 3: We'll see how that goes over in Australia. As a

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Speaker 3: report earlier in the show, they are looking at nuclear,

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Speaker 3: you know, because you cannot rely on wind, solar and

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Speaker 3: hydro its intermittent, so you either need coal or gas

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Speaker 3: or nuclear. So there you go. Mike's here next six

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Speaker 3: to six.

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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines.

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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition

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Speaker 2: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 1: News talks be four to six.

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Speaker 3: News talks said be on Windstone pulp closing and a

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Speaker 3: huge kmart set to open in Auckland. Steve says two

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty workers gone from production to consumption. Caroline says,

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Speaker 3: came out as a great employer. I have several Farno

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Speaker 3: who work there and they absolutely love it. Mike's with

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Speaker 3: us now, Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 13: Where's Mike Ryan, head of Winstone. Where's he? Well, so

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Speaker 13: he makes a big announcement.

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Speaker 16: One of the obligations you have, I think, is that

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Speaker 16: when you make the sort of and it's not about

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Speaker 16: just the business, it's about the region, it's about the country,

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Speaker 16: it's about the economy. It's a much wider story. Where

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Speaker 16: are the people who run this place explaining it? Because

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Speaker 16: here's my suspicion. As easy as it is to blame

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Speaker 16: the power and it is easy, I think it's got

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Speaker 16: as much to do with the price of wood and

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Speaker 16: pulp and paper and all the other problems in that industry,

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Speaker 16: and you can just go, oh, there's escape yard.

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Speaker 13: Don't blame the power companies. So we'll have a look

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Speaker 13: at that this morning.

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Speaker 3: I take it without Mike Ryhan, without Mike Ryan. See tomorrow.

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