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Speaker 1: Prime Minister's speech yesterday afternoon to what I assume was

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Speaker 1: a business audience. I couldn't see it as I watched

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Speaker 1: it live. It was well received. As my point, another

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Speaker 1: piece of tangible evidence that we are at last trying

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Speaker 1: to get this place moving economically again. The Nomad visa

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Speaker 1: Digital nomad announcement the other day was of a similar vein,

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Speaker 1: but a mile too late. Sixty plus countries, of course

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Speaker 1: have a similar scheme already. And to be honest, if

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Speaker 1: you're on holiday, think about this. I mean you open

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Speaker 1: your laptop right. Are you a visitor or are you

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Speaker 1: a digital nomad? Yesterday's Golden Visa is not a minute

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Speaker 1: too soon for a couple of reasons. One, the settings

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Speaker 1: from the last government bordering on an economic crime. Prior

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Speaker 1: to COVID, investors brought in money to the value of billions.

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Speaker 1: Post the changes made by Labor. The Prime Minister told

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Speaker 1: us it was about seventy million. It's a joke. It's

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Speaker 1: almost as though they hated being successful. Two simplified categories

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Speaker 1: if you've missed it, five million over three years for

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Speaker 1: a risk of your investment, ten million over five for

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Speaker 1: a safer one and two the other reason we needed

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Speaker 1: to move is it's likely Peter Dutton in Australia is

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Speaker 1: going to reintroduce the Golden visa. There little of any

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Speaker 1: requirements outside the money he stands, of course, AHAs decent

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Speaker 1: chance on being the Prime Minister in a couple of

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Speaker 1: months time. We simply have to be competitive, which is

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Speaker 1: why we have also dropped the language test, not as

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister point it out, because no one can

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Speaker 1: speak English because they can. It's because we look arrogant

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Speaker 1: and childlike in making people who want to improve the

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Speaker 1: country sit a test. This isn't school, it's real world business.

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Speaker 1: The next move and given our talk with Winston Peters

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Speaker 1: on the program Friday, I am convinced the speculation that

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Speaker 1: is rife is right. The next step is housing. Not

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Speaker 1: everyone who invests wants or needs to live here, But

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's speech contained the thought that once you

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Speaker 1: take the plunge, opportunities arise. It might be you like

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Speaker 1: the place. It might be you have more money, more ideas.

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Speaker 1: It might be you want to hang around for a while.

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Speaker 1: To do that, you need to buy a house. The

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Speaker 1: foreign band then becomes absurd. Stand by for the change

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Speaker 1: to that policy. And like these other moves, not a

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Speaker 1: moment too soon. For more from the mic Asking Breakfast,

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