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Speaker 1: Tell you what, I got a sense this week. And

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Speaker 1: it's not because it's about to be spring, although that

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Speaker 1: will undoubtedly help. But I got a sense this week

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Speaker 1: that the tide on the New Zealand story is turning.

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Speaker 1: The ongoing stats like the size of the infrastructure pipeline,

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Speaker 1: more money this year, more money in projects for years

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Speaker 1: to come. Are the new visas and the visas that

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Speaker 1: are working better than we thought. Those gold visas, money,

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Speaker 1: jobs and culture are on their way. But the gold

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Speaker 1: medal goes to the dawning realization that we are about

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Speaker 1: to outgrow outperform Australia, and not just next year. For

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Speaker 1: a number of years. The stats have been there. I

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Speaker 1: mean the Reserve Bank Governor in Australia reduced to her GDP

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Speaker 1: forecast the other day and that number is below ours,

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Speaker 1: which is about two and a halfish percent, maybe more.

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Speaker 1: But put it together, as Westpac did, call it a report,

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Speaker 1: lay it out for all to see, and pennies start dropping.

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Speaker 1: And why it's so important is a lot of our

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Speaker 1: plight is as much mental as it is physical. Australia

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Speaker 1: has a myriad of real issues, believe me, from housing

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Speaker 1: to debt, to transport to race. We do too, but

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Speaker 1: they've never sunk like us. Part of what is and

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Speaker 1: has held us back is too many decided that we're stuffed,

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Speaker 1: so they left, but left for what? What is the

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Speaker 1: psychology of moving countries? Pay or pay? You say, well, yes,

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Speaker 1: can be, but not always, And I tell you this

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Speaker 1: for nothing. The pay gap does not bridge the house gap.

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Speaker 1: But do those leaving realize that, or they don't care,

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Speaker 1: or they don't even know. Obviously, what bogged it down

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Speaker 1: this year was the survived to twenty five. Thing started

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Speaker 1: well in January, never took off, so we were what

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Speaker 1: sold a lemon of false dawn. What this report this

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Speaker 1: week does, though, and it's not alone. There's plenty of

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Speaker 1: material out there if you hunt for it. But what

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Speaker 1: the report does is quantify our reality. Between the law changes,

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Speaker 1: the visas, the farmers, the currency, all the fixes and reforms.

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Speaker 1: It adds up to an irrefutable picture of change that

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Speaker 1: is about to pay dividends. The pieces seem to be

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Speaker 1: fitting together, but the prize is they paint a better

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Speaker 1: picture than our nearest neighbor, our greatest friends, our biggest opponent.

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Speaker 1: We're not just beating anyone. We are beating Australia and

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Speaker 1: when that comes to pass. Watch the Mood Then for

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