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Speaker 1: Now could have been a coordinated knife to the government's heart, really,

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Speaker 1: couldn't it. On the day the unemployment rate went up,

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Speaker 1: the Warehouse offered a real world example of the problem

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Speaker 1: by announcing another two hundred and seventy would be added

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Speaker 1: to the pile as they look to save an outsource

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Speaker 1: and generally reorganize themselves. The irony well lost in the

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Speaker 1: throng of those who look to use the headline for

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Speaker 1: political gain was the fact that the number of people

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Speaker 1: employed is actually up. It's up by fifteen thousand. But

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Speaker 1: but the headlines the headline, and five point four is

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Speaker 1: not five point three or fire point two, And so

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Speaker 1: it makes Gareth Kennon that infametrics more right than any

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Speaker 1: government member would have hoped. Five point four is dejavus.

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Speaker 1: It's Feb twenty five all over again. A lot to

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Speaker 1: be pleased about, yes, but the big prize, the tale

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Speaker 1: at the end of the economic dog, jobs didn't wag,

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Speaker 1: and that old chestnut of Auckland back to haunt us

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Speaker 1: as well. Highest jobless rates to be found in the

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Speaker 1: big cities Auckland close to six percent, Wellington close to

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Speaker 1: six percent, Hamilton close to six percent. If the cities

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Speaker 1: don't fire, the country doesn't fire, it will of course.

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Speaker 1: I mean the vibe in Auckland's palpable in a variety

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Speaker 1: of different ways. Positive is well and truly back. But

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Speaker 1: it takes time, and in election year, time is of

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Speaker 1: the essence. Luxean's pitch so far this year is spot on.

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Speaker 1: Talking about recovery is one thing. You've got to feel it.

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Speaker 1: The real trouble in these numbers is not the headline.

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Speaker 1: It's one those who need more workwhiy cost of living.

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Speaker 1: There is a big uptack of women back in the workforce.

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Speaker 1: Ask yourself why too. The young people fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 1: four is over sixteen percent. Now it's always high, yes,

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Speaker 1: but this is too high. Anyone with offspring in this

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Speaker 1: age group knows the struggle. Our youngest has work just

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Speaker 1: but she hustled. And three Australia. Say what you want

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Speaker 1: about the price of a house and the inflation rate,

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Speaker 1: and they are real issues. And Australia is in trouble

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Speaker 1: over this period of the year economically speaking. That apples

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Speaker 1: and apples, jobs and jobs they kill us. This is

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Speaker 1: not a stat for nuance and subtlety. You can't pick

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Speaker 1: out some vague highlight like a regional, a sector or

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Speaker 1: an industry and try and milk it. Unemployment got worse,

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Speaker 1: full stop, with all the rest of it in place

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Speaker 1: looking so much better, and there is a recovery on

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Speaker 1: and it will come right right here, right now. Though

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Speaker 1: this week the job stat for a government relying on

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Speaker 1: economic credibility took a right hook and will be dazed

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