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Speaker 1: As we know, when he's pulled the pen on greyhound racing,

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Speaker 1: the industry's got twenty months to wind itself down and

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Speaker 1: then by July twenty twenty six is going to be gone.

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Speaker 1: Greyhound New Zealand CEO Edward Rennell is with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey Edward, Yeah, good morning, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: You see this coming.

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Speaker 2: No, we didn't, to be honest, clearly we knew we

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Speaker 2: were under review. But the progress we have made from

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Speaker 2: an animal wealthare perspective over the last two years, and

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Speaker 2: the last independent riv report we're actually was pretty positive.

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Speaker 2: So you know, we yesterday's announcement in the like a

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Speaker 2: notice of it certainly caused by surprise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you only get a forty five minute heads up,

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Speaker 1: is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Why do you think that is?

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, it's not for me to answer that, but

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Speaker 2: clearly we would have liked the opportunity to speak to

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Speaker 2: government and outline what we've done and the steps we're

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Speaker 2: doing in the commitment we've got too wellfare you know,

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Speaker 2: there's the last economic impact studied as a thousand and

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Speaker 2: fifty four people employed by the industry contribute one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty million perandum to the economy. I think it's

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Speaker 2: certainly a decision that shouldn't be made lightly. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: for the sake of those twenty and fifty four people,

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Speaker 2: I think the decision needs needs to be reviewed.

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Speaker 1: It was quite grim to have that legislation passed last

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Speaker 1: night to stop dog owners actually getting rid of their

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Speaker 1: dogs in some sort of a hurry. Was that I mean,

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Speaker 1: was that a real threat?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't believe it is, and that we have

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Speaker 2: our euth in Asia policy where that effectively encapsulates that policy.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's an offense for anyone in the industry

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Speaker 2: to use in as a dog without the only way

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Speaker 2: a dog can be uthinas is on welfare grounds and

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Speaker 2: by a veterinarian. So yeah, yeah, it was covered by

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Speaker 2: our euth in Asia policy.

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Speaker 1: Do you plan to fight this or are you just

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Speaker 1: going to take it?

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Speaker 2: No? Clearly, yeah, for the sake of those people, we

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Speaker 2: certainly are looking forward to engaging with government that will

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Speaker 2: require an amendment to the racing industry ex clearly, through

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Speaker 2: the select committee phase we will be outlining the case

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Speaker 2: for greyhound racing very strongly and in many ways I

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Speaker 2: believe greyhound racing is leading the way from a wealthier

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Speaker 2: perspective in the RACI industry in New.

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Speaker 1: Zualand do you reckon there's any point fighting it because

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Speaker 1: it feels like you might have lost your social license.

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Speaker 1: What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we That's not for me to decide,

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Speaker 2: but we will certainly be out I think this a

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Speaker 2: hell of a lot of misinformation out there in terms

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Speaker 2: of grayhand racing. Clearly we owe it to the one

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Speaker 2: thousand and fifty four people that we need to outline

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Speaker 2: exactly the steps we're taken. And we're not talking about

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Speaker 2: grayhand racing ten years ago. We're talking about the present.

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Speaker 2: And I believe the welfare standards we have in placed

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Speaker 2: appropriate to maintain a social license to race.

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Speaker 1: Edward, thanks for talking us through. A best of luck

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Speaker 1: with everything, edyone Ell, Greyhound New Zealand CEO. Yeah, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Here's a text from Hamish Heather two weeks

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Speaker 1: out from Christmas in Auckland and Auckland International Airport is

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Speaker 1: in chaos. The checken systems are down, the boarding systems

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Speaker 1: are down. It's all manual. The chicken areas crammed with

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