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Speaker 1: Seams. We've ended up with three stories basically, doesn't it

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Speaker 1: same outworkings. We looked like a basket case of a country,

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Speaker 1: but we got there three different ways. One the plane

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Speaker 1: that's on the government. Various governments who failed to take

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Speaker 1: defense expended too seriously and it's caught us out. Like

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Speaker 1: NATO member countries promised to spend two percent of their

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Speaker 1: GDP on it, but they don't until put putin rolls

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Speaker 1: into Ukraine and then suddenly they panic. We talked military

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Speaker 1: up here as well. We see it as vital, but

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Speaker 1: we make the same mistake until it gets too embarrassing

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Speaker 1: to ignore. Two. The fairies that seems on Kiwi Rail

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Speaker 1: Keiwirail don't seem to be up to much. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: they've been mucked around over the years by various governments

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Speaker 1: as well, but as I said yesterday, read the paperwork

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Speaker 1: between them and Grant Robertson over what they were looking

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Speaker 1: to do and what it was costing, and how clearly

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Speaker 1: they had no control over what was going on and

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Speaker 1: blowing out. Governments can't run literally everything on a daily basis,

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Speaker 1: and it is Kiwi Rail who have let the government

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Speaker 1: down on this one. And badly three the power tower.

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Speaker 1: Inconceivable was the word, given it took us about well

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Speaker 1: three and a half minutes to work out out, and

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Speaker 1: given it only took them less than a weekend to

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Speaker 1: join a few dots, they really shouldn't have been so

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Speaker 1: defensive that the way they were on this program Friday,

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Speaker 1: idiots were in charge of spanners. I mean, why they've

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Speaker 1: launched a further inquiry baffles me. Once you've worked out

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Speaker 1: thick people don't follow instructions, what else is there to investigate?

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Speaker 1: So basically a shocking week for a country that's having

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Speaker 1: a tough time of it. Anyway, all of it was avoidable,

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Speaker 1: but we arrived here through different channels. Indifference, politics and

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Speaker 1: lack of vision for a plane, laziness and contempt over

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Speaker 1: other people's money and lack of discipline for a ferry,

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Speaker 1: and people you wouldn't hire a walk your dog over

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Speaker 1: a tower. All of it avoidable, all of it more

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Speaker 1: expensive now because of the action's not taking at other time.

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Speaker 1: So the trick is, have we learned anything? And if

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Speaker 1: we have, do we put it into action? Do we

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Speaker 1: get better? Do we work harder? Do we try harder?

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