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Speaker 1: Shane Jones, fast becoming my favorite politician, might have summed

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Speaker 1: up the government's issues with one of his increasingly famous quips.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he said. The Ruth Richardson Baar austerity approach

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Speaker 1: is not delivering the economic growth we need. Is he right?

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Speaker 1: I think he's right? Isn't he? Classic liberal politics? Trim

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Speaker 1: and cut not the mess of bomb we need. So

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Speaker 1: as Chris Bishop yesterday was offering more detail on these

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Speaker 1: ruck charges and a move away from petrol taxes, all

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Speaker 1: which is fine. Shane has mate Winston, we're wandering around

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Speaker 1: Marsden Point and talking about making it a special economic zone,

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Speaker 1: tax treatment incentives to get people to invest do things.

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Speaker 1: Marsden's got land, they got a port close to the

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Speaker 1: shipping lands, et cetera. Ireland have made these things famous,

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Speaker 1: So cut a deal on rates or tax bring them

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Speaker 1: on and stoke them on up watch the growth explode

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Speaker 1: image might be a problem. Shane and Winston both of

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Speaker 1: course come from well Marsden, so it's a bit nepotistic,

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Speaker 1: but the idea is sound. Shane is also this week,

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Speaker 1: if you've missed it, announced a massive up evil and fishing,

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Speaker 1: biggest in decades. So it's the big stuff that we

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Speaker 1: need because the regular size stuff clearly hasn't provided the

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Speaker 1: heft we'd hoped for. Yes, yes, yes, they inherited a mess.

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Speaker 1: I get all that, but the results are what count.

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Speaker 1: And as Zack changed the laws this week on round

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Speaker 1: garden sheds and Nicola talks about supermarkets, yet again, it

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Speaker 1: might just be ideas beyond our normal comprehension. Are what

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Speaker 1: are actually needed? For the irony of the Jones idea

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Speaker 1: is it's not part of the coalition deal? You could

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Speaker 1: ask the question, and indeed, I am why not? Is

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Speaker 1: the Ruth Richardson line an acceptance that what they thought

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Speaker 1: would work hasn't and isn't another irony. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: how Shane and Winston can wander around Marsden by the

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Speaker 1: way Blues skying their way out of recession when it's

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Speaker 1: them that's holding up the foreigners from buying a house

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Speaker 1: after they invested tens of millions of dollars into the country.

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Speaker 1: But credit where credit is due. Jones seems to have

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Speaker 1: taken on the mantle of the Garskcker. Here is where

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Speaker 1: a lot of us are at the moment. This is

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Speaker 1: not a bad government, far from it. It's perhaps just

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Speaker 1: a timid government, and with October twenty six and a

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Speaker 1: ballot box getting closer, maybe we need to shift it

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