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Speaker 1: More immigration used. Yesterday, this time Erica Stanford was giving

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Speaker 1: us details of the RC program. This morning we got

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Speaker 1: a new subcategory to the specific purpose work visa and

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Speaker 1: New Zeawine Chief Executive Philip Rerigan's with us on all

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Speaker 1: of this. Philip, morning to you, good morning, good idea

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Speaker 1: and does it solve a problem?

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Speaker 2: A good idea? Yes, practically it solves the problem a

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Speaker 2: challenge that we've had. So we're very pleased, very pleased.

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Speaker 1: Good what's it do that it didn't do or you

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Speaker 1: couldn't do before?

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Speaker 2: Well that there were changes to visa settings last year

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Speaker 2: which were aimed at controlling the level of immigration into

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Speaker 2: New Zealand that also impacted short term seasonal workers. What

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Speaker 2: the government's done is fixed that issue as it were.

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Speaker 2: We approached the minister a few months ago, had a

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Speaker 2: good conversation there and she's done what she said she'd

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Speaker 2: do and provided an avenue for us to get our

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Speaker 2: short term vintage workers into.

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Speaker 1: The She seems on top of a brief Is that

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Speaker 1: your assessment?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes. When we spoke to her, she was very

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Speaker 2: aware of the situation we faced and we're very pleased

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Speaker 2: with the outcome. We couldn't have asked for more frankly.

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Speaker 1: Good, Is it common sense? What needed fixing? In other words,

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Speaker 1: do you look at and go this is silly, let's

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Speaker 1: fix it. Is it that simple?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Look, it's just a practical, real world solution to

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Speaker 2: a problem. And it doesn't endanger the government's overall goals

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Speaker 2: around immigration or the migration settings that the government has

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Speaker 2: in place. But it just fixes a real world problem

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Speaker 2: and we're delighted. Good.

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Speaker 1: We were talking to her yesterday about the RC side

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Speaker 1: of the equation and I asked about the unemployed. Do

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Speaker 1: you have that issue? I mean, there are plenty of

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Speaker 1: people unemployed in this country who could allegedly pick grapes.

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Speaker 1: Is that part of the conversation or the issue or

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Speaker 1: the angst in the industry or not.

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Speaker 2: Look, we employ over seven thousand full time in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: have seven thousand New Zealanders full time in the industry.

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Speaker 2: But there are some seasonal peaks. As a regionally based industry,

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Speaker 2: we just can't source New Zealand and New Zealanders don't

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Speaker 2: really want to move town, move their family for six

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Speaker 2: weeks work during vintage. But there are overseas workers who

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Speaker 2: are experienced in our industry. That's what they do and

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Speaker 2: the are the people we're targeting here.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Philip, appreciate it. You have a good weekend,

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Speaker 1: Philip Gregor news in a one gross chief executive. Isn't

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Speaker 1: it good to have somebody when you go to and

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Speaker 1: say there's the problem and she goes, yep, I understand

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Speaker 1: that and this needs fixing. She goes, yep, I'll do that,

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