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Speaker 1: Government is saying yes please to woolen insulation and carpets

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Speaker 1: and government buildings over synthetic materials. From July. All government

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Speaker 1: buildings worth more than nine million dollars and refurbishments with

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Speaker 1: the price tag of one hundred thousand dollars or more

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Speaker 1: must use KIWI will quote where possible. This is all

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Speaker 1: part of the New Zealand First coalition. Dear Winston, Peter's

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Speaker 1: proud as punch.

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Speaker 2: We are proud as a government as a party to

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Speaker 2: back our farmers and rural sectors and there many thousands

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Speaker 2: of workers. We are putting New Zealand wool first again.

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Speaker 1: Kara Biggs is with the campaign for wool here and

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Speaker 1: she's with me now.

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Speaker 2: Hikara, Hello, Ryan, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: You happy as Winston is?

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Speaker 2: I think maybe can we be happier, really ecstatic about this.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: What about the nine million dollars? You know they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to build buildings worth more than nine million dollars.

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Speaker 1: How many of those are they doing well?

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Speaker 2: It's hard to say at the moment, but what they

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Speaker 2: are doing is they are absolutely making sure that agencies

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Speaker 2: within the government are making sure that they prioritize wool

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Speaker 2: products within all of their builds. And not only that,

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Speaker 2: I mean Nicola Wallace also willis Sorry also said that

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Speaker 2: she is asking agencies to report against why they haven't

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Speaker 2: chosen wools, so they really they don't really have a

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Speaker 2: get out of jail free card. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, there is that language still

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Speaker 1: around you know where possible. I think it says or

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Speaker 1: as appropriate. Are you worried about that?

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Speaker 2: So honestly I was, But having heard the three of

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Speaker 2: them speak today, not so much. They will be asking

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Speaker 2: for reports. They say, wool stacks up. They say it's

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Speaker 2: a value conversation. Now it's not a cost conversation. And

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Speaker 2: it's a long term play. So it's not just about

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Speaker 2: how much this is going to cost now, it's what's

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Speaker 2: the value for money in the long term. So now

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Speaker 2: very much less worried about that.

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Speaker 1: Wool is so good for so many different reasons. And

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Speaker 1: I say this as the son in law of a

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Speaker 1: sheep and beef farmer who and so I've kind of

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Speaker 1: learned over the last few years. But can you just

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Speaker 1: tell us even the flammable qualities you put a match

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Speaker 1: up to a lighter up to this over the synthetic stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's day night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. So if you put a

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Speaker 2: match up to a synthetic product, it will basically melt,

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Speaker 2: and it melts in a big gooey mess. It can

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Speaker 2: melt onto skin. It causes all sorts of issues. If

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Speaker 2: you have a wool product, it will ignite at a

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Speaker 2: very high temperature, but to start with, it basically scorches.

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Speaker 2: And that's why as kids we were all given you know,

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Speaker 2: woolen back blankets on the end of our bed so

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Speaker 2: that we could wrap ourselves up at them and you know,

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Speaker 2: run out of a house fire will it will scorch,

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Speaker 2: but it will not burn until it is a very

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Speaker 2: very high ignition point.

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Speaker 1: How much do you reckon it might be worth kara

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Speaker 1: something like this.

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Speaker 2: Millions and millions. So basically it's not just what the

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Speaker 2: government has put in front of us. So I think

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Speaker 2: Minister Patterson said we could easily double exports with this.

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Speaker 2: Now obviously this isn't an export conversation, but what this

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Speaker 2: will do is it will start to create more and

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Speaker 2: more demand. So growers, manufacturers, brands, they will all read

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Speaker 2: the benefits, the financial benefits from this decision.

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Speaker 1: Today Cara, appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Carra

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Speaker 1: Biggs suits the general manager at the campaign.

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Speaker 2: Will for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

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