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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business Australia correspondent Murray Alders with us. Murray,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon to.

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Speaker 2: You, Hi, Ryan, afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Our mother and daughter who were caught up in that

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Speaker 1: suspected poisoning at the Fiji resort back home now.

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Speaker 2: Out of intensive care and where they were briefly in Fiji.

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Speaker 2: One Australian and one Fijian national remain in hospital in Fiji.

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Speaker 2: Mum and daughter have come home apparently along with a

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Speaker 2: number of pinaklotta's. Who and these drinks if I said

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Speaker 2: that right colada, Yeah, pina colatta, hideous drink you talk

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Speaker 2: about diabetes and a glass anyway, they're going to be

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Speaker 2: analyzing it scientists here from the Health Department, because it

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Speaker 2: looks like well, according to Fiji and authorities, their same

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Speaker 2: drinks were served pre made drinks and they're made up

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Speaker 2: at the bar, so you're not getting you know, whatever

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Speaker 2: goes into a pinacolada, you're not getting it fresh as

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Speaker 2: the barman or bar person makes it. These were so

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Speaker 2: at one of five bars on that night in question.

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Speaker 2: These people became unwell. Now it's to the hotel. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Warrick Hotell is very smart as we know anyway,

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Speaker 2: you know, and the barman involved he's been there for

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Speaker 2: sixteen years so he wasn't a newbie. So it's look,

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Speaker 2: it's apparently was just bloody terrifying. You had people bleeding

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Speaker 2: from the ears, foaming at the mouth, according to the

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Speaker 2: Murdoch Press over here, So of course everyone was particularly frightened.

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Speaker 2: But look, no one's died, thank goodness. And you know

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Speaker 2: they want to get to the bottom of us as

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Speaker 2: quickly as they can. Tourism for Fiji enormously important, just

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Speaker 2: like New Zealand and Australia.

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Speaker 1: So they've got some of the bottles taking them home

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Speaker 1: testing That is good news. And as you say, the staff,

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Speaker 1: they're fantastic, so be surprised if they were involved in anyway.

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Speaker 1: The federal government giving Peter Dutton's a nuclear plan a

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Speaker 1: bit of a backhander. What's happening to them?

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, this is bare knuckle political fighting over here.

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Speaker 2: Is it going to be the main election issue? I

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Speaker 2: don't think so. Just simple dollars and cents the cost

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Speaker 2: of living will be the biggie. But Peter Dutton, he's

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Speaker 2: come straight out of a Tony Abbott playbook from a

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Speaker 2: decade ago. Takes no prisoners, stands up there, takes all

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Speaker 2: the shots from everyone around the place, and then just

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Speaker 2: goes bang and drops people all around him. And this

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Speaker 2: is kind of like it's a bare knuckle fight. Dutton

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Speaker 2: came out last week presented his alternative energy plan for

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Speaker 2: mid century. Nowhere near as much renewable energy as Labor

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Speaker 2: is proposing. Labor is going to have almost one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent renewables by the middle of the century. Now, Peter

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Speaker 2: Dutton says, no, no, no, no, no, it's going to be about

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Speaker 2: forty percent. We're going to have nuclear at about eight percent,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to have the balance on gas, and

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Speaker 2: we're going to extend the life of coal. So look,

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Speaker 2: it is a it's a very divisive debate. You listen

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Speaker 2: to talk pack radio over here. You've got people who

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Speaker 2: are probably I don't know, might be journalists or school teachers,

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Speaker 2: or who might be the bloke down the street who's

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Speaker 2: retired and waters the garden. All of a sudden they're

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Speaker 2: experts and nuclear energy. No, that's right, No, Alban Easy

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Speaker 2: is right. And it's just like this foaming sort of

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Speaker 2: weird debate over here with bugger all facts. I mean,

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Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, the elite scientists of this country,

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Speaker 2: you said, no, it's not a goer. It'll be too expensive,

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Speaker 2: it'll take too long and won't deliver what we need.

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Speaker 2: And that's you know, but everybody wants the second guest

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Speaker 2: to see us a ro Murray.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Mario Old's are Australia correspondent.

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