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Speaker 1: Barriosoper seen your political correspondence with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey Barry, good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So this new police station, it's on Federal Street

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Speaker 1: in Auckland. It does it sound like it's like road

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Speaker 1: frontage or is it upstairs?

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Speaker 3: No, it's going to be they're going to have a

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Speaker 3: street frontage.

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Speaker 2: This isn't that way at the moment.

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Speaker 3: But at the moment they occupy two floors in this

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Speaker 3: building and non negotiating with the tenants by the sounds

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Speaker 3: of things, to get off the other two floors and

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Speaker 3: then they'll occupy the whole building. That'll cost the taxpayer,

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Speaker 3: of course, quite a lot of money. And I thought

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Speaker 3: they may go back to but it's probably too late

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Speaker 3: because it would have been sold on a mural drive.

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Speaker 3: That was they moved out of that in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: They went to Freeman's Bay to College Street and that's

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Speaker 3: the main Central Auckland police station. There's been a campaign

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Speaker 3: to get a police station in Central Auckland for some time,

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Speaker 3: but some of the critics would say, well, look to

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Speaker 3: get from College Hill to Federal Street takes no time

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Speaker 3: at all. Why are we wasting our money to get

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Speaker 3: into the city.

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Speaker 1: But about people being able.

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Speaker 2: To go the presence, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's about you're in trouble, somebody's having a somebody smashed

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Speaker 1: you in the face. You need to go see a copper.

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Speaker 1: You know where to find them. Why they shut down

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Speaker 1: the Meryl Street one, by the way.

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Speaker 3: Well presumably because they'd built this new one on College Hill,

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Speaker 3: which is a pretty flash police station. The nice aspect

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Speaker 3: of it today was it's the first day of the

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Speaker 3: new police Commissioner, Richard Chambers job in the job, so

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Speaker 3: it's his first day on duty and they the Prime

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Speaker 3: Minister and he were downstairs talking to the beat cops.

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Speaker 3: They found a cop that was his first day on

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Speaker 3: the job, so they all got a photo together and

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Speaker 3: I thought that would have been rather nice. Wayne Brown's

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Speaker 3: really happy because this police station he lives in the city.

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Speaker 3: He said it's great for him because he'll feel much

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Speaker 3: safer now that the cops have established themselves. There'll be

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Speaker 3: fifty one police at the new station.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll tell you what. When I was at university,

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Speaker 1: it was perfectly fine to wander around that part of

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Speaker 1: town where that cop shop was on meryorl Drive, so

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Speaker 1: you'd wander up grays have.

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Speaker 2: No problem at all.

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Speaker 1: You'd go to the local theater there and stuff because

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Speaker 1: there was you know, downtown food and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Cop shop's gone that place. I would not

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Speaker 1: walk down it now. So it says a lot about

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Speaker 1: the importance of a police presence.

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Speaker 3: I think it does. And it was the funny at

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Speaker 3: the parade, the Christmas parade the other day here in Auckland.

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Speaker 3: I was down there and I got one of the

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Speaker 3: cops to take a photograph of me and my little boy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I said, I know it's not your job description,

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Speaker 3: but I've got to say so. I saw a lot

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Speaker 3: of cops around there and I thought, you know, it

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Speaker 3: was good to see.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. They will have their work cut

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Speaker 2: out though, because one of.

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Speaker 3: Them left the Police Commissioner the Prime Minister's itinerary when

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Speaker 3: he was in when he was in Queenstown yesterday on

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Speaker 3: the desk board or the car.

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Speaker 2: So they may have culprit over that one.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's probably fair enough that it's one

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Speaker 3: of the those things that you probably don't think about

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Speaker 3: when you're jumping out of the car to open the

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Speaker 3: door for the Prime Minister and you leave it on the.

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Speaker 1: Dashboard probably as somebody made the point, not so bad

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Speaker 1: with Luxon would have been terrible with Jacinda because of

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Speaker 1: the feels around it totally and yeah yeah, So what

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Speaker 1: do you make of the first year of the coalition government.

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Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you what that police station launch. The

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister is enthusiastic about ending his first year. He

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Speaker 3: said the government has performed well.

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Speaker 4: Have listen, We've made some tremendous progress over the last

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Speaker 4: twelve months. We know there's a lot more for us

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Speaker 4: to do. I have to say, twelve months into this job,

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Speaker 4: I feel incredibly optimistic about the future for New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: I think there is no reason why together we can't

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Speaker 4: build the best small country on planet Earth, period. And

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Speaker 4: we know we've got work to do economically, socially, environmentally,

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Speaker 4: but we're working our way through that. We certainly for

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Speaker 4: now are in a turnaround job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah they are, and it's going to be really interesting.

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Speaker 3: They had a baptism afar. Let's face, it had a

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Speaker 3: hell of a time when they took the treasury benches.

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Speaker 3: But it's interesting to me the dynamics, I mean, the leadership,

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Speaker 3: because that shared deputy prime ministership that's never been done before.

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Speaker 3: So in main X year, you're going to have David

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Speaker 3: Seymour sit alongside the Prime Minister in the House and

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Speaker 3: Winston Peters will no doubt be relegated, but he'd be

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Speaker 3: pretty close by, I would imagine.

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Speaker 2: But look, you only have to look down.

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Speaker 3: As I did last week on the Prime Minister and

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Speaker 3: Winston Peters to see that the rapport between these two

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Speaker 3: is very good and certainly they obviously get on well.

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Speaker 3: We saw in an interview with the Prime Minister that

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Speaker 3: he and his wife and Winston and his partner have

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Speaker 3: dinner from time to time.

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Speaker 2: Not the same with David Seymour.

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Speaker 3: But David Seymour was a much more difficult character to

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Speaker 3: work with than what Winston Peters would be.

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Speaker 1: It's not allowed on the double dates, no okay. Now,

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Speaker 1: as a rugby fan, did TJ make you angry?

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Speaker 2: I yelled at the screen.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what he was doing and there was a

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Speaker 3: lot of grunting and stuff before the harker started. And

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Speaker 3: to learn that he was involving himself in politics in

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Speaker 3: the way he did with what is our national sport?

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Speaker 3: I thought was, you know, call me old fashioned, but

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Speaker 3: I really don't believe there's a place for politics on

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Speaker 3: the field, on the rugby field when you're at an

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Speaker 3: international test fixture. And I thought it was not unforgivable,

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Speaker 3: but it was unacceptable. The thing that worries me, Heather,

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Speaker 3: that we've heard Debbie beating her gums about. Look, the

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Speaker 3: Harker is our way of expressing ourselves. So in the

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Speaker 3: house when we saw that hakker a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: you can probably bet your bottom dollar there'll be more

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Speaker 3: of that sort of behavior in the House of the

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Speaker 3: Speaker doesn't do something.

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Speaker 1: About Garry, were you not proud of the All Blacks

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Speaker 1: when they said that they were not going to go

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Speaker 1: to South Africa in opposition to the Apartics?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: So why is okay for politics?

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Speaker 3: No? No, that was a totally different situation. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: an internal New Zealand problem, although the country was divided

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Speaker 3: on the apart eid issue, but that's a totally different

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Speaker 3: scenario to what this is. And the Treaty of Wye.

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Speaker 1: Tonguey okay, thank you Berry, appreciate it, Barry so for

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