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Speaker 1: Well, here's some good news. If you don't like the

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Speaker 1: idea of people free loading on other tax payers. The

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Speaker 1: ID has finally, it would appear, started cracking down properly

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Speaker 1: on people who don't want to pay back their student loans. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's happened is they've doubled this is the ID. They've

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Speaker 1: doubled the size of the team that chases Kiwi's living

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Speaker 1: overseas to pay the money back. They've got debt collectors

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Speaker 1: in Australia in and when any of these people with

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Speaker 1: a debt of more than one thousand dollars comes back

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Speaker 1: to New Zealand, one hundred percent of them, not twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent anymore, one hundred percent of them can expect

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Speaker 1: to hear from the ID. And it's but I particularly

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Speaker 1: like if the debt is big enough, and these people

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Speaker 1: are really showing they've got a habit of not wanting

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Speaker 1: to pay the money back, or they don't get to

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Speaker 1: leave the country again, so they might think they're coming

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Speaker 1: here for a little Hollybob, come to visit the family.

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Speaker 1: Get stuck now, aren't ye? Because you owe us some money.

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Speaker 1: It looks like this crackdown is actually starting to work,

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Speaker 1: because seven thousand names have been given to the debt

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Speaker 1: collectors a nussy and about a thousand of these dudes

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Speaker 1: starting to pay the money back already. Now. I do

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Speaker 1: not have any sympathy for these people whatsoever, and for

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Speaker 1: the crackdown they're about to experience, because we are talking

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Speaker 1: about a lot of money here, two point two billion

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Speaker 1: dollars that will go a hell of a long way

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Speaker 1: in this country right now, because we're broke. And these

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Speaker 1: are not kids that we're talking about, right These aren't

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Speaker 1: predominantly twenty one year old graduates, graduates just off onto

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Speaker 1: a little oe, just forgot, whoops, forgot to pay the

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Speaker 1: money back. Most of the debt is owed by people

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Speaker 1: in their forties and their fifties. I mean, come on,

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Speaker 1: you haven't paid your debt back for thirty years. That's deliberate,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. How many how many times you just whoops

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Speaker 1: forget to pay your money back? These guys, I reckon

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Speaker 1: are the ultimate and free loaders because they can't. They

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Speaker 1: live in New Zealand, they get a really nice little

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Speaker 1: education for free, and while the rest of us are

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Speaker 1: paying our money back, staying to contribute to the country,

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Speaker 1: paying our taxes. This lot with their little free education

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Speaker 1: to skip the joint and went and lived somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: paid the taxes to somebody else, didn't pay any of

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Speaker 1: the money back. Seventy percent of them living overseas are

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Speaker 1: not paying anything towards their loads. And if anybody to

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Speaker 1: their loans, and if any of anybody should be paying up,

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Speaker 1: it's actually not the people in the country who are

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Speaker 1: busy working and helping the country and paying their taxes back.

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Speaker 1: It's the freeloaders living overseas. Very pleased to see ideas

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Speaker 1: finally going to get our money back so we can

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Speaker 1: actually use it to build this place back up again

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