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Speaker 1: I'm as interested as anyone about this mystery as to

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Speaker 1: where the David Seymour is in fact in trouble over

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Speaker 1: the letter that he sent to the UN. Whether the

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Speaker 1: media reporting is right that the Prime Minister gave David

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Speaker 1: a telling off, or whether David is right that it

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Speaker 1: was actually just a nice chat. Whether the media reporting

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Speaker 1: is right that Winston is crossed with David for sending

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Speaker 1: the letter, where the David's right that Winston is not

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Speaker 1: crossing is basically going to send the same letter again,

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Speaker 1: or where the Winston is right when he says that's

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Speaker 1: not true what David said. I'm as interested as you

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Speaker 1: are and what the truth actually is. But regardless of

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Speaker 1: whether David is in trouble, can we just agree amongst

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Speaker 1: ourselves that he was right when he gave the UN

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Speaker 1: a slap down and called the letter presumptive, condescending and

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Speaker 1: wholly misplaced. What they did was they piped up on

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Speaker 1: the Regulatory Standards Bill, this is the UN and they

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Speaker 1: sent a letter to us right which started the chain

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Speaker 1: of correspondence. And what the UN Special Rapperteur on the

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Speaker 1: Rights of Indigenous People got wrong, especially is his assertion

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Speaker 1: that the bill fails to uphold indigenous rights guaranteed in

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Speaker 1: the treaty, including partnership. There is no partnership guarantee in

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Speaker 1: the treaty. It was a judge's comment that was made

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Speaker 1: in the Midates. It was subsequently misinterpreted to now mean partnership.

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Speaker 1: He apparently this is the Rapperteur apparently also claims that

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Speaker 1: Maori have been excluded from consultation, which again is not

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Speaker 1: true because we've just had a full week of consultation

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Speaker 1: through Select Committee hearings and that included its submissions from

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Speaker 1: Yeah you guessed it, Mari. Both of these facts could

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Speaker 1: have been discovered with a simple Google search. Unfortunately for

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Speaker 1: the UN, they didn't do it, and it just makes

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Speaker 1: the case again for the thing, this being the UN

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Speaker 1: being scaled back to what it was originally set up for,

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Speaker 1: which was preventing World War three and getting out of

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Speaker 1: everything else, getting out of climate change, getting out of

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Speaker 1: indigenous rights, getting out of advocating for things like wealth taxes.

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Speaker 1: It has gone the UN way beyond its original remit.

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Speaker 1: It is now too political and frankly not very good

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Speaker 1: at what it's doing. Just look at the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's been harping on about climate change forever and have

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Speaker 1: we stopped it? No, climate change is just accelerating. So

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Speaker 1: thank you to David Seymour for giving the UN a

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Speaker 1: well overdue slap down, even if he wasn't supposed to.

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