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Speaker 1: Three prizes for three good calls this week by the government.

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Speaker 1: One Financial literacy coming to a school near you in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, not a day too soon, and in

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Speaker 1: many respects it's the more valuable end of the education spectrum.

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Speaker 1: Education you can actually use. Two Nikola Willis and her

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Speaker 1: cutting of the operating allowance from two point four to

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Speaker 1: one point three. Two point four already had headlines for

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Speaker 1: being skinny and unrealistic. One point three is rabbit out

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Speaker 1: of a hat material. I assume she's telling the truth

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Speaker 1: when she says she's found billions in savings, because you

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Speaker 1: can't run a country on thin air. And then three

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Speaker 1: David Seymour with more reality checked reminders that we've got

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Speaker 1: too much government. In a speech yesterday, he alerts us

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Speaker 1: to just how much government eighty two portfolios, forty one departments,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight ministers. If you ever wanted an example of bloat,

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Speaker 1: there it is. The portfolio joke is about appeasing people.

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Speaker 1: Of course, there isn't an issue or pressure group you

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Speaker 1: can't appease by inventing a label. The real issue is ministers.

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Speaker 1: The good news currently, as Audrey Young and The Herald

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Speaker 1: this week pointed out in her famous marking of minister's

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Speaker 1: annual out. Most of them are getting good scores, most

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Speaker 1: of them are decent operators. But it's not always the case,

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Speaker 1: and too often the last government was your classic example.

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Speaker 1: Portfolios are used and or invented to reward loyalty and

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Speaker 1: or give people pay rises. Whether you can do the

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Speaker 1: job is secondary. Good governments are run by a handful

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Speaker 1: of talent. Of course, go back to David Longe. It

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Speaker 1: was David Longe, Douglas Prebble, Kagil Clark, it was Clark, Cullen, Goff,

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Speaker 1: King Key, it was Key, English Joys. This time it's

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Speaker 1: luxem Bishop Willison Brown. Multiple portfolios at the heavyweighting end

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Speaker 1: of the index. Unlike the real world, though, you will note,

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Speaker 1: cabinets and government never downsize. I mean, the public service

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Speaker 1: gets downsized all the time, but the government never is.

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Speaker 1: Lots of departments, lots of portfolios, lots of busy, busy busy. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: for Seymour, unlike the other two ideas this week, his

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Speaker 1: isn't real financial literacy will materially improve our kid's future,

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Speaker 1: willis and her austerity austerity will materially improve our economy.

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Speaker 1: If Seymour. Somehow trimp's a single minister or ministry. It

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Speaker 1: won't be an idea, It'll be a mirror. For more

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