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Speaker 1: To Mikey Schuman, the political editor of tv ANDS, he

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Speaker 1: was very excited on the telly last night and released

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Speaker 1: the results of a poll that give a lean to

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Speaker 1: the left block and as she says or said, spells

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Speaker 1: trouble for the coalition. But there was another one as well,

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Speaker 1: the Taxpayer's Union Courier poll reflected the same thing. It

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Speaker 1: sees Labor, Greens and Tapatimali able to reach a sixty

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Speaker 1: one seat target. Both of the poles do support for

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Speaker 1: the coalition has foremen One News has New Zealand first

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Speaker 1: teetering in their parliamentary seat in the coalition there at

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Speaker 1: just five percent the threshold. Fifty percent of those polls

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Speaker 1: said the country's going in the wrong direction. So political

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Speaker 1: commentator Bridget Morton is my guest this morning. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Bridget, Good morning. So our labor pulling people

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Speaker 1: in or are National pushing people away?

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Speaker 2: I think it's the economy that's making everyone seemed a

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Speaker 2: little bit depressed about what's going forward. So I think

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Speaker 2: that's indoubtedly one of the biggest factors, particularly in the

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Speaker 2: right track wrong track. I think also for National that

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Speaker 2: there has been a lot of distracting issues over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of months was building the major one, and

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Speaker 2: they want to be really talking about the economy and

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Speaker 2: what they're doing there.

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Speaker 1: Well, they are, because I don't know if you've noticed,

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Speaker 1: so far this year it's been growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth.

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Speaker 1: There's been a couple of announcements. Could this be seen

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Speaker 1: as some sort of proof that their moves on the

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Speaker 1: economy so far in twenty twenty five have not been

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Speaker 1: motivating for voters.

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Speaker 2: I think you've got to be careful that some of these,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's just all these announcements are very very

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Speaker 2: new and perhaps are not flowing through. A lot of

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Speaker 2: them are also about signally that they're focusing on that

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Speaker 2: economic growth passage opposed to necessarily moves that are going

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Speaker 2: to affect households. So you know, people are thinking about

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Speaker 2: how much their mortgage costs, how much it's cost and

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Speaker 2: get food on the table, and none of those announcements

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Speaker 2: are quite touching those things. Yet they're about getting those

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Speaker 2: economic settings right. So I think you're going to see

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Speaker 2: probably more of that household cost of living message coming

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Speaker 2: through as well.

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Speaker 1: Not only that those they're not only very new numberso

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Speaker 1: miles away from the next election, So how important are

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Speaker 1: these numbers?

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Speaker 2: Well, with polls, it's always about trends, and I think

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Speaker 2: that's what is more concerning is the fact that the

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Speaker 2: actually more voters are heading towards that wrong track right track,

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Speaker 2: that's going to be a headline number. I think looking

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Speaker 2: at whether or not labor conformer government is probably premature,

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Speaker 2: particularly when you've got to party molor you're making quite

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Speaker 2: radical bottom lines about commissioners with veto powers that actually

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Speaker 2: makes at less block coalition that pretty impossible at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So it's definitely something about whether or not they're actually

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Speaker 2: getting the narrative right. And I think, as you pointed out,

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Speaker 2: they are going economic growth, growth, growth, and that's what

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Speaker 2: they're going to be pushing really harder at the next

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Speaker 2: couple of months.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bridget, thank you very much. And you're quite right,

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Speaker 1: Mikey Sherman. Just because you've got some software that can

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Speaker 1: actually do what a parliament might look like, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to start worrying about this two years out from

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Speaker 1: the election. That's just my own feeling on that. For

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