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Speaker 1: The stadium showdown for our national Stadium in Auckland. Auckland

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Speaker 1: Council staff have been looking into this. Do you jazz

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Speaker 1: up Eden Park? Do you go for the glitzy new

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Speaker 1: waterfront stadium with a fifty thousand capacity? Which one are

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Speaker 1: you going to go for? The council staff have come

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Speaker 1: back and said basically neither. Neither proponent has demonstrated that

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Speaker 1: their proposal is feasible without significant public funding. Now the

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Speaker 1: council will vote on this on Thursday. This on the

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Speaker 1: same day Brisbane announces a sixty thousand capacity brand spanking

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Speaker 1: new stadium that will open for the Olympics in twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty two. Shane Henderson is with me tonight. He's the

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Speaker 1: Auckland councilor and chair of the Stadium working Group.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, John, how's it going good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? So is that about right this? The staff

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Speaker 1: have said neither is going to work financially.

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Speaker 2: Yes, staff have said there's issues with both proposals, particularly financially.

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Speaker 2: What's the key park proposal is also kind of further

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Speaker 2: difficulties around kind of the technicality of what they're trying

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Speaker 2: to do down there. So yeah, both bids have some

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Speaker 2: issues exactly.

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Speaker 1: So what was the point in getting council staff to

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Speaker 1: look at them in the first place.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we've got to get the people in

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Speaker 2: the room that can kick the tires and the finances

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Speaker 2: and every other kind of aspect of it to give

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Speaker 2: us that advice. That's come back and advance a Thursday

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Speaker 2: and it said, look, they're both fighting to a draw. Well,

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Speaker 2: I think, honestly, Orpland is one of bit more certainty

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Speaker 2: than that, And I think it's still open to us

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Speaker 2: to endorse one of the two options.

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Speaker 1: So what do you expect will happen on Thursday, that

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Speaker 1: there'll be a stay of proceedings, Let's pause until we

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Speaker 1: can get more information.

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Speaker 2: I think that's an option, is to stay the proceedings

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Speaker 2: and let it sort of sit for a bit and

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Speaker 2: get more and so and let teams work on it.

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Speaker 2: But another option, honestly, is to put on the table

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Speaker 2: one of the two options and get counselors to vote

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Speaker 2: on it, and if it does pass, then we've got

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Speaker 2: some certainty for Auklaners and the team that is successful

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Speaker 2: can go ahead and work on those issues.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, which one would you vote for?

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Speaker 2: Look, honestly, I'm leading to Wunting Park two point one.

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Speaker 2: At the stage we can stage that development so that

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Speaker 2: it can the risk is a bit more manageable and honestly,

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Speaker 2: looking at the report and the advice, they've got a

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Speaker 2: few less issues of the two.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing with Eden Park that's going to cost

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Speaker 1: text players. They want one hundred million dollars to jazz

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Speaker 1: it up. You know. Yeah, that's all very well and

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Speaker 1: good for you to vote for. But what about the

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Speaker 1: rest of the country that I'm going to be happy

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Speaker 1: with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can understand that. And look, as part of

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Speaker 2: our process is organ Council. We've been very clear that

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Speaker 2: ratepayers money is not in the equation and so they

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Speaker 2: need to knock on some doors themselves, even Parker choosing

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Speaker 2: to knock on the government store. And I'd suggest that

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Speaker 2: if any kind of private funding they can attract would

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Speaker 2: be very appropriate as well. We don't know what the

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Speaker 2: f side is from the government.

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Speaker 1: All right, Shane, thanks very much for being with me.

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Speaker 1: Shane Henderson, who is the chair of the Stadium Working

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Speaker 1: Group or can counselor for more from hither Duplessy Allen

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