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Speaker 1: Former All Blacks Legends Mills mully Aena is now playing

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Speaker 1: a different game, which is business. He's just been hired

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Speaker 1: by the Auckland Business Chamber Board as the first pacifica

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Speaker 1: director and there are one hundred and sixty nine year

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Speaker 1: history and he's with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hoy Mels, hey here there, how are you?

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Speaker 1: And very well? Thank you, congrats on the role.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much. Yeah, it's coming a bit

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Speaker 2: of a surprise, but I've known for a wee while,

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Speaker 2: so it's yeah, I'm look for as it's just it is.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's a significant opportunity for me. I suppose

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Speaker 2: to provide a voice for the communities and especially the

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Speaker 2: Pacific community, and you know, on finance, insurance and I

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Speaker 2: suppose economic matters. So I'm pretty toughed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it might surprise a few people to

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Speaker 1: hear that you've you've popped up in business, but you

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Speaker 1: are you a mortgage advisor in real life?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. I'm coming up eight years being a

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Speaker 2: qualified financial advisor. So most people have want to have

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Speaker 2: seen me on the screens, probably thinking I'm just a

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Speaker 2: has been an X rugby player that's sort of bitching

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Speaker 2: and maining about the about the orbleex But no, I've

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Speaker 2: been in business. I've got a small he see me,

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Speaker 2: uh that I've that I started in twenty nineteen and

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Speaker 2: we do mortgages, insurance sets in our investment I'm almost

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Speaker 2: qualified in the investment space. It's just taking me a

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Speaker 2: bit longer to do this last paper.

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Speaker 1: Oh brilliant stuff. So so what's your job here in

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Speaker 1: terms of the Pacific economy.

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Speaker 2: I just think it's just that it's just, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's being their voice. You know what we what

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Speaker 2: what Treasuries sort of mentioned it's and it's it's it's

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Speaker 2: awesome the fact that you know, the largest population population

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Speaker 2: is in Auckland, in the driest majority of the Pacific activities,

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Speaker 2: you know where it's in business, social enterprise, employment, in

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Speaker 2: an even you know, in formal volunteering, the volunteering sector.

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Speaker 2: So my role really is to be their voice. You know.

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Speaker 2: Josury mentioned the fact that the Pacific communities you contribute

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Speaker 2: eight billion annually towards the economy, so that's pretty significant.

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Speaker 2: And being a voice on on and having a seat

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Speaker 2: on that chamber really just you know, working through that

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Speaker 2: sort of sort of stuff and I suppose working through

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Speaker 2: the challenges, but also you know, it is a very

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Speaker 2: challenging time, but also you know, celebrating also the success

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Speaker 2: that it brings with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get the feeling that the PACIFICA economy, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe overlooked, Like I suspect many people will not realize

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Speaker 1: how big it is and therefore it will not actually

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Speaker 1: have been developed as much as we could.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean that's the thing that there's not a

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Speaker 2: lot has known about the Pacific business sector, and more

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Speaker 2: work does need to be to be done, not only

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Speaker 2: just a celebrator, but to bring awareness to it, you know,

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Speaker 2: but you know, a comprehensive you know collective sort of

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Speaker 2: collect you know, data on Pacific businesses and activities that

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Speaker 2: that needs to happen and it hasn't. And I suppose

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Speaker 2: it's finding out more and more about that and sort

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Speaker 2: of how we can sort of grow that in sort

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Speaker 2: of some of the areas. I mean, we are resilient,

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Speaker 2: that the PACIFICA community is resilient, but they tend to

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Speaker 2: also stay within them themselves and not sort of you

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Speaker 2: know hype up effect that they're doing really well. You know,

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Speaker 2: what's not widely known as there's a high proportion of

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Speaker 2: business businesses that are owned by Pacific women, and that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And even in sectors like you know, agriculture and also aquaculture,

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Speaker 2: you know, and that's that's something that's sort of unheard of,

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Speaker 2: but they don't celebrate it and they keep to themselves,

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Speaker 2: you know, small to medium enterprises with you know, wonder

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Speaker 2: five sort of staff. Then there's a lot of that

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Speaker 2: going around. But you know, eight billion a year that

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Speaker 2: they contribute. Will Pacific people contribute to the to the

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Speaker 2: economy is it's quite significant. It should be celebrated.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me what do you reckon is the best

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Speaker 1: rate to lock in at the moment?

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Speaker 2: Well, the ocr's out tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty five or fifty.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's I'm hoping it's well, it's everyone. We're

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Speaker 2: hoping it's fifty. But another drop will be fantastic. One

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Speaker 2: thing we've got to consider as the banks already have moved,

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Speaker 2: and sometimes when they move early, it gives them the

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Speaker 2: reason to say, hey, we'll we've already moved. But there's

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Speaker 2: no doubt there is a little bit of consumer confidence

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Speaker 2: now with the rates coming down, hopefully in another push

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Speaker 2: we've got to and you know, especially to the end

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Speaker 2: of the year when people tend to spend a lot,

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Speaker 2: you know, during that Christmas period. But I'm hoping for

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Speaker 2: a fifty, but I'll be more than happy for a

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Speaker 2: twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, what are you looking in? What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: One year? Well, mine's coming up, so I'll definitely be

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Speaker 2: looking at one year. I think it's four point four

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Speaker 2: to nine at the moment, and hopefully another drop, but

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Speaker 2: they won't tend to happen till hopefully next week. But

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Speaker 2: the one year is looking pretty good. Eighteen months as similar,

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Speaker 2: and it's great. It's great for you know, it gives

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Speaker 2: people a little bit of hope but also, as I

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Speaker 2: mentioned before, a little bit of consumer confidence leading into

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Speaker 2: the summer break good stuff bills.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much man, and good luck with the Auckland

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Speaker 1: Business Chamber. That's Mills, Millainas and New pacifica director on

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Speaker 1: the ABC. Isn't that nice? I always love it when

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Speaker 1: a rugby player turns out to be not only awesome

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Speaker 1: at running and passing a ball, which is like a

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Speaker 1: thing to be awesome at obviously, but also has brains.

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Speaker 1: That's just fantastic. I love that.

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