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Speaker 1: Winston's in trouble the opposition again, isn't he. He's in

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Speaker 1: trouble with the opposition again. Yes, again, someone in the

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Speaker 1: opposition's gone crying to Daddy, calling on the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: to sort Winston Peter's out. I mean, last time this happened,

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Speaker 1: it was because he was mean to old Bossy Galore.

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Speaker 1: This time it's because he's threatened to defund Radio New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Now he did this this morning and what I'd consider

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Speaker 1: to be a highly entertaining tantrum actually because he got

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Speaker 1: cross at aarn Z for getting cross at him, because

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Speaker 1: he wants to define what a woman is in law. Now,

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Speaker 1: this crying to daddy business is going on about Winston

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Speaker 1: is utterly pointless, and I bet you Labour knows it,

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Speaker 1: but they're doing it anyway. And it's pointless because number one,

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Speaker 1: you and I both know that Luxon is not going

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Speaker 1: to sort out Winston Peter's. Luxon needs Winston more than

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Speaker 1: Winston needs Luxon right now. And number two, Winston is

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Speaker 1: not wrong. Radio New Zealand looks like it is going

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Speaker 1: to lose funding in the upcoming budget. At least that's

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Speaker 1: the rumor doing the rounds at the moment, and if

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Speaker 1: aarn Z doesn't lose funding, it should lose funding because

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Speaker 1: it got a funding boost that was enormous under Labor.

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Speaker 1: It got a twenty five million dollar a year injection

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Speaker 1: under Labor. That was a boost of sixty percent. That's huge.

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Speaker 1: I do not know of any other major media organization

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Speaker 1: in this country that has had a revenue increase during

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Speaker 1: this prolonged recession. And what's more, despite all of that money. Objectively,

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Speaker 1: they're doing a cruddy job, right because I have a

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Speaker 1: look at what's going on with their audience numbers. They

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Speaker 1: have an enormous decline in the people listening to them

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Speaker 1: in the last five years. When Winston accused Radio New

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Speaker 1: Zealand of having a woke left bias, there will be

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Speaker 1: plenty of people around this country who perhaps used to

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Speaker 1: listen and don't do anymore, or don't listen for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: But there will be plenty of people who would have

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Speaker 1: been nodding their head in agreement with Winston once they

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Speaker 1: heard that he'd said that. Now, look, I know this

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Speaker 1: is politics. So maybe Labour sees an opportunity here to

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Speaker 1: play the hero for Radio New Zealand's audience who are

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Speaker 1: horrified at what Winston said, and fair play to labor.

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Speaker 1: They can do what they want. It's politics. But I

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Speaker 1: doubt this is going to be a big vote winner

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Speaker 1: because frankly, the number of voters who nowadays care very

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Speaker 1: deeply about protecting the media seems to be at an

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Speaker 1: all time low. And also, don't get this. It's hardly

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Speaker 1: a shock, is it. Winston Peters attacks the media. I

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Speaker 1: mean that could have been a headline every year for

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Speaker 1: the last forty years, couldn't it. For more from Hither

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