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Speaker 1: And Barry Sooper, Senior political correspondence with US High Barring

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. You know how Mark Carney's in Australia at

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Speaker 1: the minute.

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Speaker 2: Yes, which is.

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Speaker 1: It's been speak Well, it's because he doesn't know that

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Speaker 1: we exist, and I preced my evidence, I present my evidence.

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Speaker 1: He's speaking to the Australian Parliament in Canberra today and said,

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Speaker 1: let us remember that Australia was the first nation in

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Speaker 1: the world to give women the right to vote and

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Speaker 1: to stand for parliament.

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Speaker 2: For goodness, take apparently.

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Speaker 1: They don't have Chat, GPT or Google in Canada.

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Speaker 2: We've got more speech, right.

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Speaker 1: David Seymour in for the Prime Minister today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really interesting because, as you'll be well aware that

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Speaker 2: Thursdays the Philly Tame days when it comes to questions

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Speaker 2: in Parliament because the Prime Minister is not there. But

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Speaker 2: I thought David Seymour has been quite cunning today using

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Speaker 2: the absence of Chris Luckson to get patsy questions fired

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Speaker 2: of him by his own colleague Cameron Luxton. It was

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Speaker 2: seamo's way of showing how ACT supports some contentious issues

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Speaker 2: like liberalizing overseas investment. Of course, with a golden visa scheme,

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Speaker 2: which is very successful. Already three point five billion bucks

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Speaker 2: has flowed into the country and that overseas investors will

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Speaker 2: be able to buy houses worth more than five million

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Speaker 2: bucks from tomorrow. So tomorrow's the kickoff date. I think

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Speaker 2: I'll put the full sale sign outside the house tonight.

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Speaker 2: But look, there were some other issues that seem or

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Speaker 2: reveled in while facing his colleague obviously pre rehearse questions.

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Speaker 2: Here they are.

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Speaker 3: Does he stand by removing the dual landate of the

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Speaker 3: Reserve Bank Mister Speaker on behalf of the Prime Minister, yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Our government has told the Reserve Bank to focus exclusively

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Speaker 3: on controlling inflation.

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Speaker 4: Does he stand by reforming interest deductibility for landlords.

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Speaker 3: Mister Speaker on behalf of the Prime Minister absolutely. Stand

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Speaker 3: by our policy of treating people and the property business

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Speaker 3: exactly the same as every other business in the country.

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Speaker 4: Does he stand by changes to pay equity.

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Speaker 3: Mister Speaker on behalf of the Prime Minister. Absolutely. It

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Speaker 3: is still possible to take an appeal if you suffer

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Speaker 3: from sex based discrimination. And I say to the people

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Speaker 3: on the other side, if they don't like it, and

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Speaker 3: they're going to bring pay equity back show us the money.

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Speaker 2: That was quite a shrewd use. Though I'm not to

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Speaker 2: because he's got all the issues that really act will

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Speaker 2: be out. It's not. It's not like pretty boring questions.

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Speaker 1: So what I'm interested in though, were they facing questions

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Speaker 1: on TV.

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Speaker 2: And Z Yes they were today or Goldsmith? Was that's

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Speaker 2: over the alleged buyers that we had a fairly vociferous

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Speaker 2: discussion on last week about the story that basically on

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Speaker 2: the very day that the crime rate serious assaults came

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Speaker 2: down by forty nine thousand, they simply ignored that and

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Speaker 2: Rana's story about gang membership rising by three over cops

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Speaker 2: and you know, just ignoring the obvious. Some labors Reuben Davison,

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Speaker 2: though he suggested Minister Paul Goldsmith had broken the law

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Speaker 2: by discussing the issue with the board chair over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Here he is firing questions which obviously tended to explode

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Speaker 2: in my view before they hit the target. Have a listen.

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Speaker 5: Would it be appropriate for the chair of TV and

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Speaker 5: ZEN to raise the issue of one news media coverage

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Speaker 5: with the minister.

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Speaker 4: In the context of a board focusing on improving levels

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Speaker 4: of trust and the issue that's been raised. I don't

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Speaker 4: have a particularly strong view. He probably shouldn't have, but

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Speaker 4: it's certainly not a major issue.

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Speaker 5: Does he still have confidence in the man he appointed

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Speaker 5: his chair of TVNZ, Andrew Barklay, after he discussed just

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Speaker 5: one news editorial coverage with the minister contrary to the law.

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Speaker 4: I do have confidence in the chair. I think he's

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Speaker 4: doing a great job now. As everybody's conscious all around

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Speaker 4: the world, particularly since COVID, there have been drops in

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Speaker 4: trust in media generally, we would expect the board to

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Speaker 4: be focused on the overall effort to improve those levels

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Speaker 4: of trust.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. I mean, it's ridiculous to suggest

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Speaker 2: that a board chairman can't wring his minister and so look,

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Speaker 2: I saw a story on television tonight. The Minister's not

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Speaker 2: going to take any action as a result of that

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Speaker 2: that would be.

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Speaker 1: Here that we don't know the content of the conversation.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Does it really matter?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it does. Because it's not appropriate for the board

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Speaker 1: to be involved in editorial decision.

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Speaker 2: Then the Minister won't become involved in editorial decisions anyway

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Speaker 2: as a result of them being told.

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Speaker 1: So you know, to me, but I guess what the

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Speaker 1: problem with it is that you don't know what why

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Speaker 1: did the board raise it with the minister who had

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Speaker 1: already complained to TV and zed what was the board's

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Speaker 1: interest in raising it? That's it just opens up too

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Speaker 1: many questions. Having said that, though, can I say it's

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Speaker 1: very hard to feel upset about all of this when

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Speaker 1: actually the worst thing that's happened here is not the

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Speaker 1: phone call. It's the bloody story, which was a chos.

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Speaker 2: The story was a shock, and I think if I

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Speaker 2: was sitting on the board at TV in Z I'd

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Speaker 2: be pretty hosed off. I wouldn't though I'd stop. Sure, yeah, because.

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Speaker 1: The law is so if it was awesome journalist, if

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Speaker 1: it was awesome journalism, that the board was suddenly involving itself,

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Speaker 1: and I think we'd all be a little bit more

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Speaker 1: upset about it. But the boards itself and involving itself

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Speaker 1: and some apparently some pretty cruddy journalism, right, Okay, Arry Listen,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much, appreciate it, very so for senior political correspondent.

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