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Speaker 1: Jason Walls's with our Sidby's political editor in Wellington, Jason,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Oh hello, Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the battle lines for the next election already been drawn.

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Speaker 1: This is over asset sales.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, well, it was kind of hinted at yesterday with

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Speaker 2: Nikola Willis, who said that the Treasury had undertaken a

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Speaker 2: body of work to draw up a proposed statement for

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Speaker 2: state owned enterprises essentially almost company like things that are

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Speaker 2: owed by the Crown. Now essentially it's assessing their viability

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Speaker 2: to remain state owned. She did not elaborate too much

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Speaker 2: in terms of the various assets that they were looking at.

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Speaker 2: But today Chris Hipke Chris Luxon was forced to elaborate

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Speaker 2: a little bit more because he had previously ruled out

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Speaker 2: the sale of state assets. So we naturally asked them

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Speaker 2: questions about that this morning.

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Speaker 3: That's not something that we've been talking about this term.

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Speaker 3: We won't be talking about this term. I'm open to

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Speaker 3: talking about it in the longer term and at the

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Speaker 3: next election, but that's something for the selection for this term.

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Speaker 2: It's not on so not this term of government. But

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Speaker 2: it's definitely not a no. We will never be selling

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Speaker 2: state assets. In fact, it sounds like it is going

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Speaker 2: to be an issue for the election.

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Speaker 3: Well, well, just as I said, we just take it

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Speaker 3: to the election, and we would obviously seek to get

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Speaker 3: a bit part of our program that we want to

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Speaker 3: talk about it be upfront with new something else.

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Speaker 2: So like Nikola Willis, you won't say what assets he's

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Speaker 2: talking about, but he's really moved away from any sort

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Speaker 2: of suggestion that it's going to be our areas of

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Speaker 2: healthcare or the bigger METEA parts of education. David Seymiller meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: is on board and wants asset sales to always be

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Speaker 2: on the agenda.

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Speaker 1: Do we own the right things for the debt we've

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Speaker 1: taken on to ownland? We need to be asking that

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Speaker 1: question every day, not just you know, at some point

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Speaker 1: worth a binary debate.

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Speaker 2: So hang on a second. It doesn't sound like Winston

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Speaker 2: Peters is that ken.

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Speaker 3: I spent my whole career ensuring that our actually has

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Speaker 3: stay on our position.

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Speaker 2: So all three of them seem to be on different

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Speaker 2: pages on this issue. However, the good thing about elections

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Speaker 2: are you don't need agreement with your coalition partners to

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Speaker 2: make promises.

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Speaker 1: No, it's interesting one, doesn't it? I did it a

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Speaker 1: toil about this the other day, Jason, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like for voters in twenty twenty six, we're going to

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Speaker 1: have to make a choice what direction do we want

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Speaker 1: New Zealand to go into and do we want to

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Speaker 1: put national back in a strait jacket between the sort

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Speaker 1: of economic protectionism of New Zealand first versus that you know,

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Speaker 1: let's sell the assets, flog the family silver kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff from Act Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there is a middle ground there because

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can do privatization without selling off hospitals

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Speaker 2: and schools, whereas looking at cultable value and saying, well,

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Speaker 2: why the heck does the government own a property valuation company?

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Speaker 1: You know they won't go flog the schools off. Well

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Speaker 1: they no one will let that happen. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the House today, but firey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well they did away with question time today because

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister had a statement in the House and

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Speaker 2: all other parties could respond to that. There was nothing

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Speaker 2: too specific. It was just sort of like a speech

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Speaker 2: from all parties about whatever the Prime Minister said and

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Speaker 2: their response to that. So Chris Luxen coined a new

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Speaker 2: name for the opposition.

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Speaker 3: Got to say, we are a coalition on this side.

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Speaker 3: They are a noalition on that side. That's what they're about.

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Speaker 2: He took aim at Chris Hopkins's dress sense.

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Speaker 1: And mister speaker.

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Speaker 3: While we have been back at work four weeks pushing

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Speaker 3: through changes to make Kiwis so much better off, Chris

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Speaker 3: Hipkins is barely out of his jendles. We had signed

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Speaker 3: a trade deal before it even grabbed the workshirt out

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Speaker 3: of the laundry basket, and.

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Speaker 2: He brought together his two great loves, Taylor Swift and

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Speaker 2: Sledging the Labor Party.

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Speaker 3: But I think all this talk about Eden Park Concerts

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Speaker 3: has got in his head because he got it mixed

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Speaker 3: up because people wanted the Era's tour. What they didn't

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Speaker 3: want was the tour that he was proposing era Iss.

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Speaker 3: That's not what they wanted.

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Speaker 2: I think that one's a little bit better when it's

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Speaker 2: written down. Chris Hopkins, meanwhile, was ready to return fire.

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Speaker 4: This House has no confidence in this coalition government because

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Speaker 4: under its incompetent, arrogant, shambollock and divisive leadership, New Zealand

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Speaker 4: is going backwards.

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Speaker 2: Jeez, Jippy, tell us how you really feel. And Winston

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Speaker 2: was as per ready to attack anyone and everyone here

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Speaker 2: he is yelling at somebody at the Greens or Tie party. Marty.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't work out who let the wind blow your

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Speaker 2: stupid tongue around? Why what?

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Speaker 4: Sunshine?

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Speaker 3: And I know I've got the microphone and I'll be

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Speaker 3: here long after you're gone.

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Speaker 2: Parliament is well and truly back. Ladies and gentlemen, strap

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Speaker 2: yourselves in.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jason, Thank you for that, Jason Walls, News

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