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Speaker 1: But I can help Steve Abel. Steve is the Greens

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Speaker 1: agriculture bloke, and he wants an urgent inquiry into what

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Speaker 1: is heinz Messenhawk's Bay. He's wasting his time, of course,

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Speaker 1: not because he shouldn't be concerned, because he should. We

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Speaker 1: should all be concerned. But the answers he seeks are

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Speaker 1: already readily available. He asks about four main things, the

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Speaker 1: regulatory environment, energy costs, foreign owner indifference, and anti competitive

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Speaker 1: behavior from the supermarkets Well newsroom as in the website,

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Speaker 1: they wrote a very solid piece about all of the

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Speaker 1: several weeks ago featured on the program, in which it

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Speaker 1: was broadly concluded the troubles in the bay have been

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Speaker 1: coming for basically a decade, so some late breaking alarmism

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Speaker 1: from Steve Via yet another committee addresses nothing. Costs in

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Speaker 1: this country, of course, are too high, and I refer

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Speaker 1: you to Paul Conway's speech last week to a bunch

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Speaker 1: of financial operators. We are unproductive, have been for years.

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Speaker 1: Supermarkets have indeed played a part the home brand scenario,

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Speaker 1: damaged the more premium brands and what etc. Have suffered

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Speaker 1: because of it. Now is that anti competitive or offering

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Speaker 1: more competition? See does the puart to want choice and

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Speaker 1: price range. I would have argued, yes, energy costs specifically,

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Speaker 1: well what is and Hinds have both spoken to this.

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Speaker 1: They are ruinous. Gas or lack of it has killed

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Speaker 1: a lot of manufacturing in this country. The Greens might

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Speaker 1: like to ask themselves why they got obsessed with solar

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Speaker 1: panels and band gas before there was enough solar panels

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Speaker 1: to cover the energy gaps. The old regulatory environment. Now

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Speaker 1: that's an interesting one because Labor and Nikola Willis have

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Speaker 1: both jawboned rules and REGs and watch dogs and ComCom investigations.

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Speaker 1: But to what avail, nothing has changed, which either means

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Speaker 1: there is nothing to change or they're useless. Foreign owner

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Speaker 1: indifference Now, I would suggest that sounds a little bit

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Speaker 1: xenophobic on old Stevie's part. Yes, I know what he means.

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Speaker 1: Could be a massive player in Detroit. Could they sit

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Speaker 1: in Detroit cut ties without losing sleep and little Old

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Speaker 1: New Zealand at the bottom of the world. Of course

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Speaker 1: they could. But no one invests and runs businesses or

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Speaker 1: does it with indifference. They're all invested now between the

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Speaker 1: dumping the cheap stuff. Consumers prefer the size of our

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Speaker 1: market and the ruinous cost of energy. You see, it's

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Speaker 1: all there as a combustible recipe to blow up a

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Speaker 1: lot of business models. Peas in a bag, Peaches in

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Speaker 1: a tin is one of the victims. The inquiry is

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