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Speaker 1: Massive change speaking, which is coming to the way we

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Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of stuff as part of a

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Speaker 1: wider RAMA reform. Now the guidelines, which I waded my

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Speaker 1: way through yesterday, God, it's complex. The guidelines deal with housing, mining,

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Speaker 1: and agriculture, the big ones for farmers being the removal

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Speaker 1: of restrictions on non invasive grazing and wetlands, removal of

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Speaker 1: land use capability. Basically, it's designed to make everything easier anyway.

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Speaker 1: Mark Hooper is the Federated Farmer's RAMA spokesperson. He's with

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Speaker 1: us Mark morning, Good morning. If I gave you a

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Speaker 1: spot quiz here from questions I asked myself yesterday, one

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Speaker 1: hundred questions. How many reckon you get out of one hundred?

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Speaker 2: Pretty low? Pretty low.

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Speaker 1: It's like mind bogglingly complex and detail.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it It is? Although the irony here is, of

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Speaker 2: course that the intention is to make it less complex,

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Speaker 2: less expensive, and more predictable. So there is a lot

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Speaker 2: to weighe through. There's a lot to work out in there,

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Speaker 2: but one hopes that what they the intent here is

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Speaker 2: very much to get a better outcome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did get the overarching view that they're trying

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Speaker 1: to make things simpler, and that what you had to

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Speaker 1: once apply for talk to someone about fill out some paperwork,

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Speaker 1: you can just go ahead and do. This's just what

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. There's a lot of this stuff changing,

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Speaker 1: isn't there?

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Speaker 2: There is a lot of this stuff changing. I think

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Speaker 2: I think it's probably in terms of understanding the bigger picture.

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Speaker 2: It's important to realize that this is another step in

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Speaker 2: a process that has been going on since the beginning

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Speaker 2: of this coalition government. You know, they repelled the Natural

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Speaker 2: Built Environment Act from the previous government. They introduced the

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Speaker 2: fast Track legislation, they did RMA Amendment Bill one, RMA

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Speaker 2: Amendment Bill two. They're still working on the rewrite of

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Speaker 2: the Resource Management Act, but that's not expected until next year,

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Speaker 2: and so in the meantime you have a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of secondary legislation in the form of national policy statements.

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Speaker 2: It's under that primary leedgeation and at the moment it's

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Speaker 2: even more confusing because local authorities and things are not

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Speaker 2: sure where those national policy statements and things sit until

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Speaker 2: we've got the new legislation. So the intent of this

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Speaker 2: release is to help you, hopefully provide is hopefully to

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Speaker 2: provide a little bit more guidance and certainty for local

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Speaker 2: authorities so that they can get on with some of

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Speaker 2: their planning responsibilities. In the meantime, where we're waiting for

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Speaker 2: that you Act to come through.

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Speaker 1: Broad A question for the weekend, Mark, how good is

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Speaker 1: being a farmer at the moment, whether you're in dairy

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Speaker 1: or beef or getting twenty percent off your tractor. I

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Speaker 1: mean you've got to be feeling good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, the positivities really increased. Obviously, Fonterra

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Speaker 2: came out with an announcement for next season, which is

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Speaker 2: still looking strong. Beef prices are still holding really well.

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Speaker 2: You know, most areas have kind of recovered from drought conditions,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the inflationary costs are under control a

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Speaker 2: little bit. And then yeah, as you say a little

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Speaker 2: bit around appreciation and stuff there, it's looking good for

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Speaker 2: further investment.

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Speaker 1: Good to hear well, I mate, you have a good weekend.

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Speaker 1: Mark Hooper, who's the Federated Farmer's RIMA spokesperson. I would

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Speaker 1: suggest you read it and what I found funny yesterday

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Speaker 1: is there it's open to public consultation. I got no

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Speaker 1: idea who's going to read it all? And be appraised

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Speaker 1: enough of what they're trying to do in terms of

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Speaker 1: detail to articulate and be knowledgeable enough to go in

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Speaker 1: there and go, here's what I think, because man, it's complex.

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