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Speaker 1: Friend of ours opened a new business last week, soft opening,

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Speaker 1: full steam ahead by the score holidays. He tells us,

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Speaker 1: so far he's going gangbusters. A lot of local support.

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Speaker 1: Looks a good news story to my eye. He is. However,

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Speaker 1: if you believe the headlines, the headlines that have been

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Speaker 1: supplied by his industry association in very dark and difficult days,

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Speaker 1: they don't look difficult at his place. I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that for nothing. The GDP figures came out as

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Speaker 1: we're away for the long weekend. Of course you missed

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Speaker 1: that zero point eight for Q one. Reserve Bank thought

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Speaker 1: it would be zero point four. Most banks thought it

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Speaker 1: would be zero point seven. The reality was better than

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Speaker 1: everybody thought. Nick Toughly, asb's headman on economics, he was

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Speaker 1: also on the show Thursday, told us he still had

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Speaker 1: growth for the second quarter April May June, so just gone.

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Speaker 1: He edited at zero point three zero point four. So

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Speaker 1: other commentary last week, though from the Manufacturing and Services

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Speaker 1: said Wo'd hit a brick wall. If Nick is right,

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Speaker 1: there's no brick wall. The same way. Q one was

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Speaker 1: not zero point four, it was zero point eight. The

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Speaker 1: point is this, is it possible we're in such a funk.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to see reality. You know what else

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Speaker 1: I read? Australia, the repository of so many disillusion New

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Speaker 1: Zealanders is now losing more people than it has since COVID.

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Speaker 1: A mass exodus is on in Australia. What people are

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Speaker 1: bailing out of Australia healthcare is crike. You can't get seen.

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Speaker 1: Government's sinking in debt. House prices have spiked past an

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Speaker 1: average of a million dollars everywhere. More people than ever

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Speaker 1: since records began are working multiple jobs just to make ends.

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Speaker 1: Make This is Australia, the golden answer for the miserable

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Speaker 1: key were looking for better. Maybe better is here. Maybe

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Speaker 1: in a turbulent, troubled world, the land of the long

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Speaker 1: white cloud is actually coming right, And people like our

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Speaker 1: mate and his new business sees it. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of what's in front of us is attitude. Is there

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Speaker 1: trouble in some areas well? Of course there is? Are

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Speaker 1: their issues still unresolval, of course? But do we have

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Speaker 1: growth and prospect? Yes we do. Do the numbers back

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Speaker 1: that up? And do they do? Maybe the grass is

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Speaker 1: in fact nice and just as green. You just gotta

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Speaker 1: want to see it. For more from the microsk Breakfast,

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