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Speaker 1: Were standing by for the election date. Today apparently it's

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Speaker 1: not what it was of course, kind of like budget's

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Speaker 1: really the suspense, the scuttle, but the guessing game, it's

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Speaker 1: all gone. You might remember Elbin Easy, not having learned

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Speaker 1: our lesson, got himself in dreadful trouble last year. Remember

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Speaker 1: that failed to forecast the date, so the guest and

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Speaker 1: guest and second guest, and then that flooding and the

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Speaker 1: storms came, so it delayed what was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: an announcement. But that's what you get when you're a

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Speaker 1: power freak and you think holding the cards counts for something.

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Speaker 1: John Key put all that to bed some years ago,

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Speaker 1: your return from holiday, you announced the date. Latter part

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Speaker 1: of the year. It'll be basically you get on with life,

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Speaker 1: I mean, short of the government falling apart. Elections should

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Speaker 1: be scheduled at the end of a three year term.

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Speaker 1: Also soon apparently some policy and perhaps this business of

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Speaker 1: housing to be dealt with. Specifically. The thinking is the

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Speaker 1: Auckland issue needs to be sorted. Elections, rightly or wrongly,

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Speaker 1: are one and lost in Auckland, and the government's two

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Speaker 1: million house housing plan is one of those ideas that

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Speaker 1: won no one quite gets and two freaks people out.

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Speaker 1: When we had Counselor Morris Williamson on last year, he

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Speaker 1: suggested we are Minister Chris Bishop just where the two

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Speaker 1: million figure came from, because he could work it out.

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Speaker 1: What we do know is the council were forced into

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Speaker 1: agreeing to it. If they didn't, that three house, three

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Speaker 1: story on a regular plot plan was a goer, and

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Speaker 1: no one liked that either, and that, sadly is the

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Speaker 1: trouble with housing in big cities. No shortage of monas

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Speaker 1: and issues, big shortage of solutions and agreement around them.

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Speaker 1: What I do know from personal experience is having uncertainty

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Speaker 1: in the market, which is what we have kills enthusiasm

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Speaker 1: and demand, and that's what the government freaking out about.

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Speaker 1: And quite rightly, what's going up next door? You ask

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Speaker 1: the agent. The agent doesn't know, of course, no one knows.

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Speaker 1: Could be nothing, could be an eleven story headache in Sububia.

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Speaker 1: Who's buying a house next to that? Nightmare? And that

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Speaker 1: is what the Bishop plan has created, and that hopefully

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Speaker 1: is what gets fixed and fast. For more from the

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