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Speaker 1: Now have a listen to this. This has happened in

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Speaker 1: Thames this morning as the Prime Minister arrived to go

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Speaker 1: and check on the damage to the properties, to go

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Speaker 1: and check out the roads and to meet with the victims' families.

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Speaker 1: It's as you're doing with your kind of posy crimes,

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Speaker 1: an absolute disgrace and where's the free life? You're listening

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Speaker 1: to a bunch of protesters heckling the Prime minister. They're

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Speaker 1: yelling shame as he gets into his car. And yesterday

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Speaker 1: Chris Hipkins mentioned climate change and his message to victims' families.

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Speaker 1: Now everybody in this country knows how political climate change

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Speaker 1: has become. Well, not no, that's wrong, not so much

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Speaker 1: climate change, but how we respond to it. So to

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Speaker 1: waive banners and bring into the debate about climate change

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Speaker 1: absolutely their right, the protesters, they have the right to

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Speaker 1: do that. Also the right of the leader of the

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Speaker 1: opposition to mention it in his address as well. But

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Speaker 1: the question is whether it's in good taste, And I

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Speaker 1: reckon it's a bit off for a couple of reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: we still have teenagers trapped under a landslide at the mount.

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Speaker 1: They're families desperate emotional as you can well imagine banners

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Speaker 1: shouting anger through the news at a time like this,

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Speaker 1: I would have thought was a bit much. Number Two,

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Speaker 1: the idea that by closing a few farms and getting

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Speaker 1: rid of some cows in New Zealand you will somehow

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Speaker 1: stop the rain from falling and the landslides from slipping,

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Speaker 1: is just wrong. All the scientists agree it would take

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Speaker 1: unified global action, most importantly from the big four players

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Speaker 1: to move the dial even an inch. And right now,

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Speaker 1: as everybody well knows those players, especially the US, doing

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Speaker 1: the opposite, our dear friends across the Tasman have just

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Speaker 1: struck a deal to extend the life of their biggest

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Speaker 1: power plant. That plant, by the way, runs on coal.

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Speaker 1: As I say, I back everyone's right to protest and

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Speaker 1: say what they like. There is nothing illegal or even

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Speaker 1: really nasty about it. I just think it's probably a

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Speaker 1: bit in poor taste So soon after such a personal tragedy,

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Speaker 1: and one that people are feeling so deeply. You've also

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Speaker 1: got to wonder who's benefiting from all this. Are the

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Speaker 1: protesters going to be flooded with supporters after an outburst

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Speaker 1: like that while the families are still waiting to hear

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Speaker 1: news of their loved ones stuck under a landslide. For

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