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Speaker 1: The way that some people get divorced is about to change.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Family Proceedings Amendment Bill that's passed with

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Speaker 1: rare unanimous support yesterday in the Parliament. It's called Ashley's

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Speaker 1: Law or the calling of Ashley's Law, because Ashley told

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Speaker 1: the story to a local MP and Ashley is Ashley

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Speaker 1: Jones is with us. Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning.

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Speaker 1: Make must be amazing for you because very rarely in

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Speaker 1: Parliament one do they all agree, and two they pass

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Speaker 1: something that will stand the test of time. They will

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Speaker 1: never go back on this. So you've profoundly changed the

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Speaker 1: way we do things in this country and that must

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Speaker 1: be amazing.

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Speaker 2: It's so crazy live. I did not expect yesterday to

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Speaker 2: pass unanimously, to be honest, I thought two unmos passes

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Speaker 2: was crazy enough. So I was very shocked very early

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Speaker 2: on the reading when I realized it would that. I

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Speaker 2: still kind of can't believe that I was fundamental in

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Speaker 2: changing a law and that's going to be around forever.

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Speaker 1: Isn't Isn't that excellent? Chris Bishop, As an exercise in

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Speaker 1: going along to a local MP and the culmination being

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Speaker 1: a law passed, what are you makeable with that.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a huge reminder to people that one

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Speaker 2: voice can make change and if you fight hard enough

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Speaker 2: it has taken four years. If you fight hard enough,

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Speaker 2: you can change things that you think are not right.

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Speaker 2: I think Chris Bishop said it right last night, that

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Speaker 2: they were just fixing something that wasn't right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, were you politically active in any way? Did you

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Speaker 1: know what was going on? Did you know Chris Bishop?

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Speaker 1: Were you active in a political scene before any of

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Speaker 1: this or not?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I was just a small town girl that

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Speaker 2: had moved up to Wellington and realized that I was

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Speaker 2: up against the system that was broken. And Chris Bishop

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Speaker 2: was the only MP locally that responded to my request

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Speaker 2: for a meeting. And yeah, no previous background dealing with politics.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be a politician? Do you want to

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Speaker 1: change the system? Some more of this was Ashley Jones's

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Speaker 1: day in the Sun.

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Speaker 2: I definitely have other things that I want to tackle.

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Speaker 2: Neck Chris has asked when I'm going to becoming end

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Speaker 2: that right now. I do love my day jobs, so

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Speaker 2: we will see that. Yes, after we break and some

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Speaker 2: recuperation after four years of fighting this one, we'll see

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Speaker 2: what's next.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic Ashley, nice to talk to you and congratulations Eshley

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Speaker 1: Jones Eshley's Law.

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