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Speaker 1: So here's the real problem with the ferry running aground.

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Speaker 1: It comes in the same week as the plane not working,

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Speaker 1: and it came in the same week as a transmission

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Speaker 1: tower fell over. It's pathetic. This country is on its knees.

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Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. As we said last week, the upside is

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Speaker 1: it might just be so embarrassing we actually now get

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Speaker 1: around to doing something about it. Kiwi Rail need an

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Speaker 1: investigation into how they've run the business. I note sadly

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Speaker 1: Helen Clark yet again weighed in via social media with

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Speaker 1: another of a petty barbs about canceling the ferry contract.

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Speaker 1: What we need at this point in time are adults

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Speaker 1: read the papers that have been released publicly between Kiwi

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Speaker 1: Rail and Grant Robertson. Even he was aghast at the

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Speaker 1: blowout and the ferry budget, despite Kwi Rail over and

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Speaker 1: over again reassuring him their latest estimate was the final

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Speaker 1: figure until it wasn't. When Grant Robertson is aghast at

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Speaker 1: a blowout, you know it's gargantuan. So this is as

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Speaker 1: much on Kiwi Rail as it is on any government.

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Speaker 1: But you can only embarrass yourself so much and so

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Speaker 1: often before that becomes part of the country's psyche. A

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Speaker 1: recession is one thing, and it's outworking has effect on

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Speaker 1: us all, both physically and psychologically. But you want to,

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Speaker 1: in some way, at all times, feel there's something about

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Speaker 1: this place that is decent and proper and rewarding. You

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Speaker 1: want to feel good about your country. The Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: can't travel the world promoting business and saying we're open

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Speaker 1: when the plans don't fly and the ferry runs into

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Speaker 1: stuff and the powers out because the towers fall labor

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Speaker 1: we must do better. We have to wake up to

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Speaker 1: the fact this country has in many respects been run

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Speaker 1: into the ground. It looks increasingly third world. The fear

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Speaker 1: is the battle between the size of those who care

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Speaker 1: and those who don't. Is not that obvious to me

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Speaker 1: at the moment. The fact we can be in this

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Speaker 1: mess and all former MPs can do is snipe is

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Speaker 1: an increasing worry. We are reaping what we sowed. If

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Speaker 1: this doesn't strike you as an emergency, we are in

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Speaker 1: deeper trouble than I thought. For more from the Mic

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