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Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about doing stuff that matters?

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Speaker 1: This week will produce one of the great ones. Repealing

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Speaker 1: the oil and gas ban, as the government are about

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Speaker 1: to do, puts right an egregious wrong, possibly the most

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Speaker 1: egregious wrong of the last government. What gives us current government,

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Speaker 1: I would argue, are better than even chance of a

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Speaker 1: second term, is the fact the damage done to the

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Speaker 1: economy was done by the very same people who are

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Speaker 1: still in labor, still running labor. Presumably we'll still argue

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Speaker 1: for the same recipe for destruction next year. Megan Woods

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Speaker 1: still here, drove the oil and gas ban under the

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Speaker 1: instruction of you know who. There was no warning, no consultation,

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Speaker 1: just a fateful announcement in Taranaki. It was idealism at

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Speaker 1: its very very worst. If we had all the windmills

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Speaker 1: and solar panels and batteries in place, might have made

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Speaker 1: more sense. But as we have seen and felt for

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Speaker 1: the past handful of winters, we didn't. We don't not

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Speaker 1: even close. What's made of particularly galling is that Australia

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Speaker 1: has doubled down on gas. It understands gas is the

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Speaker 1: transition fuel, while the so called renewable transformation takes place

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Speaker 1: an Australia's gas industry is run out of Westerners, Australia

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Speaker 1: which is run by a labor government fed to the

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Speaker 1: rest of Australia, which is run by a labor government.

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Speaker 1: And that, as I have said before, is what can

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Speaker 1: make labor palatable. A centrist labor style party is electable

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Speaker 1: like elbows, like Bob Hawk's. The adourn Hipkins version looks

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of wonks who never met an economy

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Speaker 1: that couldn't wreck Now. The repeal won't solve everything overnight.

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Speaker 1: How reputation is so badly damaged, a lot of FaceTime

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Speaker 1: and explaining has to be undertaken with potential investors. Hence

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Speaker 1: the government's two hundred million dollars steak in the Game fund.

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Speaker 1: If you ever wanted a living, breathing, tangible example of

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Speaker 1: a government that simply didn't get it, think back to

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Speaker 1: your last couple of winters, where the coal pile has

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Speaker 1: never been higher, the rain may or may not have come,

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Speaker 1: the gas reports keep getting worse, the spot price heads

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Speaker 1: into the stratosphere, and your power bill continues to head

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Speaker 1: to the roof. That is Labour's energy policy for you.

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Speaker 1: That is the labor government idea of a fun winter

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Speaker 1: getting that repealed is rectifying a shockingly shallow, ill conceived idea,

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Speaker 1: and monu me to mistake. For more from the mic

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