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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, finally Chris Bishop has done the right thing

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Speaker 1: and done the U turn on the two million new

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Speaker 1: houses that he had planned for Auckland. Now it's not

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Speaker 1: altogether a surprise that he did this and announced this

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Speaker 1: this afternoon, because this has been rumored to be coming

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Speaker 1: for months because of the obvious problem, which is that

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Speaker 1: it's election year. Auckland is a key battleground. Aucklanders are

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Speaker 1: obsessed with houses. Auckland voters who own their houses are

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Speaker 1: already stressed out about this plan, and if it turned

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Speaker 1: into an election issue and got proper media coverage, more

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Speaker 1: would have become stressed out, and that would mean that

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Speaker 1: Blue Auckland voters would go straight to New Zealand First

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Speaker 1: Act and Labor. So it was a problem for National

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Speaker 1: so Bishop had to back down. But in reality, it's

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Speaker 1: not just politics, is it. It's actually reality too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it is fair that an Aucklander who has

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Speaker 1: sunk one to two million dollars, maybe more, maybe slightly less,

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Speaker 1: but it's a lot of money. An Aucklander who sunk

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Speaker 1: that much money into their home, it is fair for

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Speaker 1: them to be stressed out at the thought of a

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Speaker 1: multi story apartment popping up next to your next door,

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Speaker 1: blocking the view, blocking the light, ruining the privacy whatever.

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Speaker 1: We mock these people as nimbi's but actually I think

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Speaker 1: it is fair for them to want to protect the

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Speaker 1: place that they live in. Don't you want to protect

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Speaker 1: the place you live in. This battle, though, is far

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Speaker 1: from one. So anybody looking at this and thinking that

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Speaker 1: was a close call, thank god that's over, it's not.

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Speaker 1: All Bishop has done is to reduce the number of

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Speaker 1: new houses to the point that it shouldn't impact on suburbs.

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Speaker 1: But whether it does impact on suburbs is a decision

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Speaker 1: for Auckland Council and that is a decision yet to

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Speaker 1: be taken. So while it should on balance be okay

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Speaker 1: until the Auckland maps are seen, it is not a certainty.

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Speaker 1: So what this is is one you turn down and

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Speaker 1: one more to go.

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