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Speaker 1: Barry so Per, senior political correspondent with US Hallo, Barry.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there's a Royal Morgan opinion poll out run us

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Speaker 1: through it.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, the National Party, it's increased three and a

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Speaker 2: half percent. It's up to thirty six percent, nowhere near,

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Speaker 2: of course, the forty five percent that Simon Bridges commanded

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Speaker 2: all through his leadership and opposition. Nevertheless, that you have it,

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Speaker 2: the support for Act that dropped one and a half percent,

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Speaker 2: down to nine and a half percent. And New Zealand

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Speaker 2: first it was up just one percent to seven and

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Speaker 2: a half. Support for Labor that was down two and

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Speaker 2: a half percent. Essentially, what it's heres is that the government,

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Speaker 2: the coalition government that got the treasury bentions at the

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Speaker 2: moment they would comfortably go back. But the thing that

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Speaker 2: interested me is the gender gap between the support for

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Speaker 2: the coalition government and for the other side. Well, if

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Speaker 2: you look at the coalition support, sixty three percent more

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Speaker 2: than men are behind.

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Speaker 3: So it's predominantly males. Males like the Coalition government and

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Speaker 3: females like the opposition.

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Speaker 2: Is that basically is oh totally. In fact, I said

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Speaker 2: sixty three sixty six percent of men aged over fifty

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Speaker 2: they support the coalition government. And if you look at

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Speaker 2: women of the same age, well, they're supporting the other

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Speaker 2: way under sixty percent, but they're supporting the other way.

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Speaker 2: What's the condition fifty seven fifty seven point five. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so really there is a big gender gap. But if

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Speaker 2: you look at younger men that's under fifty eighteen to

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Speaker 2: forty nine, the edge for the governing coalition is sixty

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Speaker 2: one percent in support of and thirty percent the other way,

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Speaker 2: which is a gap of what thirty one percent? So

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Speaker 2: you know how.

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Speaker 1: Many women in the general coalition government.

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Speaker 2: With women the stronger younger women eighteen to forty nine

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Speaker 2: are there on fifty seven point five percent supporting the

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Speaker 2: coalition as opposed to thirty nine point five supporting the

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Speaker 2: coalition government. So yeah, the gender gap runs all the

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Speaker 2: way through from the younger to the older. And I

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Speaker 2: guess now you'll you'll get the pundits looking at the

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Speaker 2: National Party and saying, how can we improve our image

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Speaker 2: for women?

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Speaker 3: Because yeah, and the thing is, women are actually more

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Speaker 3: important arguably than men in terms of no no, no, no, listen,

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Speaker 3: hear me out on this, in terms of voting intentions

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Speaker 3: because often the women in the house influence, what the influences,

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Speaker 3: what everybody else does.

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Speaker 1: This is a thing you go and have a look

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Speaker 1: at it.

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Speaker 3: This is why you'll see a lot of the campaigns

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Speaker 3: will actively target the female voter because she is an influencer.

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Speaker 2: So you reckon when it comes down to the vote

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Speaker 2: going into the ballot box, that things might change, that

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Speaker 2: these statistics won't be quite the same. No, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: But the only way that I think that you can

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Speaker 3: target the female voter if you're the coalition government is

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Speaker 3: by softening up your policies and by becoming less hard

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Speaker 3: and well then if you do that, then you just

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Speaker 3: become you become another government that does nothing right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because you're not prepared to be bold about it. So

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Speaker 3: I'm not really sure that they can take that risk anyway.

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Speaker 3: Grocery Commission is not happy with the supermarkets. I get

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Speaker 3: the feeling that he may actually be lining up to

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Speaker 3: do something here based on the retric.

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Speaker 2: Well absolutely well. I don't know whether the Grosser Commissioner will,

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Speaker 2: but certainly the government looks set to do something that

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Speaker 2: they found that all three major supermarket groups have increased

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Speaker 2: their margins over the past year and that profitability has

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Speaker 2: either been maintained or increased. Now the suppliers, it's not

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Speaker 2: increasing money to the suppliers as much as the costs

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Speaker 2: on the consumer, and that's the big concern. Now, that

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Speaker 2: was the first grocery report from the you're going to

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Speaker 2: be talking to the Grocery Commissioner, Peer van Herden. But

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Speaker 2: Andrew Bailey, the Commerce Minister, he says that essentially it's

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Speaker 2: a concerning picture and it's a twenty five billion dollar

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Speaker 2: industry you're talking about here, and most people, well everyone

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Speaker 2: has a dealing with the supermarket at some stage, and

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Speaker 2: he said clearly there needs to be stronger regulatory action

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Speaker 2: coupled with an ambitious and an economy wide meeting schedule

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Speaker 2: with these groups. But look, this comes at a time

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Speaker 2: when the Commerce Commissioners looking at the foodstuffs merging their

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Speaker 2: North Island operation with their South Island and the key

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Speaker 2: to the merger will be competition. Well, when you have

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Speaker 2: a merger, you don't have competition. So you know there's

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Speaker 2: two I guess too many groceries in the hands of

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Speaker 2: too few.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't see that they're going to wave that

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Speaker 1: one through. Look like it have very quickly.

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Speaker 3: Barry, the fact that Christopher Luxon hasn't raised the canceled

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Speaker 3: Fairy project while being in South Korea suggests the South

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Speaker 3: Koreans are annoyed with us.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they are annoyed, of course. Hyonda the

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Speaker 2: people that are carrying out well, we're carrying out the

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Speaker 2: contract was a big contract with New Zealand. They are

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Speaker 2: obviously very annoyed. And the Maritime Union here says it's

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Speaker 2: disgusted and angry that he had no plans to meet

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Speaker 2: with this company whilst he was there. But his spokespeople say, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's leading a trade mission and as such,

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Speaker 2: the trade mission, you know, it doesn't cover this sort

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Speaker 2: of thing. And they are at Philly critical stages. I

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Speaker 2: would imagine in the negotiations on how they haven't been

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Speaker 2: told yet how they're going to pay to get out

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Speaker 2: of this contract.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good point, Barry, Thank you very much. Barry Soper,

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Speaker 1: Senior Political Correspondence.

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