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Speaker 1: Bary so Per, senior political correspondence with US Now hy Berry, Good.

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Speaker 2: Afternoon, Heather. Do you know you know when you were

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Speaker 2: mentioning lollies that you remembered as a kid. I remember Lolli's,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure some of your listeners may, and it

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Speaker 2: probably shows my age called smokers. They were little pink.

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Speaker 1: Lollies, yes, and we used to aniseed flavor.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, they were more sweet than aniseed, don't they reckon?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon they were an nineteen about I reckon

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Speaker 3: they were hard out aniseed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They's sort of like like I don't really know

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Speaker 1: how you said like that. They weren't that biggay.

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Speaker 3: They were like the size of a tiny little lollies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Did you see that the Maori party is

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Speaker 1: boycotting the Herald?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, a party that commands about one point

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Speaker 2: three or one point five percent of the vote, I

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Speaker 2: would think would corner all the publicity than it can

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Speaker 2: possibly do. But their Herald two days ago ran a

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Speaker 2: full front page advertisement from Hobson's pledge talking about the

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Speaker 2: foreshot on seabed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, much of it is.

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Speaker 2: Being challenged at the moment. In the courts. So the

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Speaker 2: Maldi party because they ran because the Herald ran. What

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Speaker 2: you'd say, in a democracy, you should be able to

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Speaker 2: run an ad. They've decided, no, we're going to turn

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Speaker 2: our backs on their herald. They've already done that with

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Speaker 2: News talk z be Anyway, this party is going to

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Speaker 2: end up not being able to talk to anyone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but doesn't matter because they are able to go

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Speaker 3: over the heads of all the media and talk to

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Speaker 3: social media and that's where their strength lies.

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Speaker 2: Well, they haven't got a lot of strength out there

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Speaker 2: in the electorate other than the Maldy seats. So if

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Speaker 2: they can maintain their presence in the Maldi seats, good luck.

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Speaker 1: To And they're being reasonable as per usual, demanding aid

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Speaker 1: written apology to Tongue to Fenever in all publications and

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Speaker 1: voice it on all radio frequencies. Reason as per what

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Speaker 1: are the politicians saying about the energy crist.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know it's interesting that it was led by

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Speaker 2: Shane Jones of course this week Regional Development him issuing

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Speaker 2: a warning to the electricity generators saying if they didn't

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Speaker 2: sort it out, then the government would step in and

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Speaker 2: do so. Well, I'm not quite sure what the government

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Speaker 2: would do. But Nikola Willis she followed up. She said

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Speaker 2: inquiries were being made. Simmy and Brown, Well, he says

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Speaker 2: the electricity generators. He met with them this week and

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Speaker 2: he left us saying that we need to have assurances

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Speaker 2: that we're going to see a competitive market. Now, Winston

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Speaker 2: Peters went as he's wont to do a step further,

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Speaker 2: essentially accusing the generators of anti competitive behavior. I'm not

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Speaker 2: quite sure what they expect the generators to do other

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Speaker 2: than I guess cut their profits. So he said they're

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Speaker 2: profiteering on the backs of people that have to pay

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Speaker 2: their power bills. The end of this should result, and

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Speaker 2: it won't in Labor coming to the table and saying, look,

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Speaker 2: we banned gas exploration, oil exploration. We should allow the

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Speaker 2: government and support it in lifting that pan, because you know,

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Speaker 2: these are areas that New Zealand should be exploring for.

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Speaker 2: But it was interesting and I went back to have

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Speaker 2: a look at when that band was announced, and I

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Speaker 2: remember it was announced without any consultation with the sector itself.

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Speaker 2: Meghan Woods and Jason durn simply came out standing on

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Speaker 2: the stage with them at the time. And I've got

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Speaker 2: to say in fairness looking rather uncomfortable. There was Jason

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Speaker 2: Derned taking the microphone, Meghan Wood standing looking satisfied off

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Speaker 2: to the side, and James Sure on the other side.

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Speaker 2: And in the back was Shane Joe.

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Speaker 1: His hand across his face, though he still got up.

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Speaker 2: There and still was part of that announcement.

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Speaker 1: Barry, you are right. The smoker's lollies were then aniseed.

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Speaker 1: They were in fact a musk flavor according to a

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Speaker 1: lot of textures. And you'll be pleased to know that

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Speaker 1: according to this texter, they've still got them in their

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Speaker 1: car permanently. They stock them at the local countdown all Worths.

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness, I must go and buy some now. I

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Speaker 2: didn't think they are. They still caught smokers.

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Speaker 1: Big weekend ahead for Barry. Thank you, Barry, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We'll wrap the political week where it was with you.

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