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Speaker 1: Those opposing our FTA with India, I think have got

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Speaker 1: to be guilty of something quite serious economic treason to

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. We're a small trading nation. Everyone knows that

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Speaker 1: we've got lots of food and we need to feed

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Speaker 1: other people. And we've got red meat. We need to

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Speaker 1: get that to market. We got milk, we need to

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Speaker 1: get that to market. We got milk powder, we need

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Speaker 1: to get it to market. The closer the country, the better.

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Speaker 1: The higher value add the better and the sugar. On

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Speaker 1: top of all of all, the top of all of

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Speaker 1: this is tariff free access, so that our competitive advantage,

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Speaker 1: of which we do have one producing the world's best

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Speaker 1: dairy and sheep and beef and kiwi fruit can all

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Speaker 1: be admired and loved by the world at a reasonable price.

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Speaker 1: Now Helen Clark knew this well, so did Phil GoF

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Speaker 1: and they signed a deal to in Beijing in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Two way trade then was eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's now forty one billion dollars. It's now our largest

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Speaker 1: trading partner. We are on the cuss of another bonanza,

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Speaker 1: just with a country much bigger and a middle class

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Speaker 1: that's about to crack open. It's the third going to

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Speaker 1: be the third largest economy in the world. It's very close. However,

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Speaker 1: some Kiwi politicians believe this is somehow a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: That's selling our best produce to other countries at cheaper prices,

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Speaker 1: unencumbered by another tax regime. How is that not a

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Speaker 1: good idea because we have to take an extra seventeen

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Speaker 1: hundred Indians on working visas to come here. So what

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Speaker 1: they work hard? Guess what they hustle. Guess what they

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Speaker 1: don't piss around fishing at the beach or sitting on

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Speaker 1: the couch when they should be working. Migrants do the

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Speaker 1: jobs that we Kiwis feel that they're too posh to

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Speaker 1: do in society, don't they. It's hard work, it's on

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Speaker 1: us work and it needs to be done. Why not

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Speaker 1: let the people who want to work work. This country

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Speaker 1: should be filled with ambitious people who want to make

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Speaker 1: the most of it, and that's what FDAs do and

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Speaker 1: I can't understand people who don't. For more from early

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