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Speaker 1: This one's a bit weird. Associate Sport Minister Chris Bishop

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Speaker 1: has unveiled a new sport diplomacy strategy which would see

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Speaker 1: our athletes used to strengthen global ties and boost trade.

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Speaker 1: The new initiative will first focused on India, the Pacific

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Speaker 1: and the US. The minister with US, now, good evening,

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Speaker 1: Good evening, So do we send Bob Charles to do

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Speaker 1: the tariff negotiations with Trump?

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Speaker 2: No? Look, it's just about the fact that sport is

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Speaker 2: an area where New Zealand has true global reach, where

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Speaker 2: it might on the world stage for not only our pros,

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Speaker 2: but also our integrity, our professionalism, our sportsmanship. And it's

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Speaker 2: about tying trade and our economic and tourism linkages together

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Speaker 2: with sports so we can make sure we get best

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Speaker 2: banged for buck. You know, we haven't probably put our

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Speaker 2: best foot forward when it comes to linking and sport

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Speaker 2: to those other really important areas of our foreign and

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Speaker 2: trade policy.

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Speaker 1: So more of a tourism thing than a diplomatic thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's about all of the above, right, So it

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Speaker 2: will depend on the market you're going into. But if

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Speaker 2: you think about America, for example, which the US, which

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Speaker 2: is one of our first focused markets. You know, we're

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Speaker 2: trying very hard to get foreign investment from the US

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Speaker 2: into New Zealand. You know, Eric Stanford was up in

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Speaker 2: the US a couple of weeks ago meeting with foreign

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Speaker 2: investors and promoting our Golden visa. Now the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: are playing a game in Chicago against Ireland at the

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Speaker 2: end of October, and so we're just making sure that

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Speaker 2: you know, around that event, we're leveraging off that event

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Speaker 2: because the All Blacks are a global brand globally inmbassas

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Speaker 2: for New Zealand and the US. So there's a whole

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Speaker 2: range of things we'll be doing around that game to

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Speaker 2: attract investment. A lot of investors going to the game,

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Speaker 2: for example, New Zealand is arranging a series of events

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Speaker 2: around that to try and drum up interest in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the sky is literally a lot of

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Speaker 2: it when it comes to these sort of things.

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Speaker 1: Does it need a strategy? I mean, if you do,

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Speaker 1: can you not just invite some investors to a corporate box.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I don't understand? It sounds about

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Speaker 1: eerie Ferry Minister.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's only a ten page strategy. I think people

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Speaker 2: who are ten Pa. Well, if people listening will know

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Speaker 2: that I'm not someone who is into kind of every

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Speaker 2: fairy fluff. You know, I'm the opposite of fluff. I'm

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Speaker 2: about actual results and actual things to do. So it's

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Speaker 2: a strategy to make sure we've got all working together.

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Speaker 1: What's your miserable then what is the outcome that if

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Speaker 1: you can get an investor to an all blacks game,

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Speaker 1: is that a win?

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Speaker 2: That is a win. If you think about India for example,

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Speaker 2: where we're negotiating a free trade deal next year, is

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Speaker 2: one hundred years caps India and New Zealand sporting. That's right,

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Speaker 2: hundred years of New Zealand India sport. So we today

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Speaker 2: again announced today that we'll be celebrating one hundred years

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Speaker 2: of that relationship and doing a whole series of events

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Speaker 2: around that next year and looking to invite Indian ministers

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Speaker 2: and Indian officials down to New Zealand to celebrate one

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Speaker 2: hundred years of sporting ties. And of course that makes

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Speaker 2: total sense because we're trying to deepen our relationship with India,

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Speaker 2: a very important market for New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Hey, a bit of a bruising week for the government

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Speaker 1: this week. The mood of the board. Well, for some anyway,

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Speaker 1: you've been Prime Minister, been looking as wounds, what's the

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Speaker 1: plan next week?

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's that's the case at all. I

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Speaker 2: think actually it's been a really exciting week. I mean

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Speaker 2: I was up with the PM on Tuesday we launched

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Speaker 2: launch the o Teching and North of In two billion

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Speaker 2: dollar twenty four kilometer expressway north of Levin, and then

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Speaker 2: of course this morning we turned the side on the

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Speaker 2: first fast track project down at the Port of Auckland,

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Speaker 2: which is going to add hundreds of millions of dollars

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Speaker 2: to GDP. So you know, it's been Actually think I

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Speaker 2: think have been a really exciting week. Now, obviously we'd

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Speaker 2: want to see better mood of the boardroom results, we

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Speaker 2: take that on board. We'll listen to the feedback that's

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Speaker 2: come through there. But actually reading the commentary, some of

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Speaker 2: the things that the business leaders were saying we should

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Speaker 2: be doing, we are doing. You know, when it comes

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Speaker 2: to RMA reform.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the problem? Isn't it the problem? You are

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Speaker 1: doing what they want you to do, but it's just

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Speaker 1: they don't like Luxon.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's the case. I think Actually, the

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Speaker 2: government has a broad agenda, a reform agenda across a

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Speaker 2: range of areas that you know we're really proud of

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Speaker 2: and you know we're always working hard to make sure

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Speaker 2: the public's are aware of that and we need to keep

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Speaker 2: working harder.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, fair enough, Minister, appreciate your time, look forward to

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Speaker 1: the deliverables on your sport diplomacy strategy that is Chris Bishop,

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Speaker 1: who is Associate Minister of Sport. For more from Heather

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