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Speaker 1: The government also this week Big International Investment Summer opens Thursday,

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Speaker 1: rolls out the red cap and the big picture. Basically,

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Speaker 1: our doors are open and we want your money and

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Speaker 1: to report out in the lead up to that show's

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Speaker 1: investors are hungry for opportunities, so investment companies and funds

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Speaker 1: across Australasia this has took part in this particular study.

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Speaker 1: Northern Infrastructure Forum Executive Director Barney irvines with us on this. Barney,

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Speaker 1: very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: What do you specifically ask.

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Speaker 2: We asked primarily about the levels of interest in the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand news in the market and just to clarify

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Speaker 2: these there are some New Zealand in Australia based investors

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Speaker 2: and bunds, but a number of them were also very

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Speaker 2: much international players. Good.

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Speaker 1: So one of the problems though this coming weekend is

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Speaker 1: I understand it Thursday and Friday, is there's only four

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Speaker 1: PPPs up from the government's point of view, and one

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Speaker 1: of which is a road and there's a school and

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Speaker 1: a prisoner. There are we offering enough up to invest in?

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Speaker 2: Look, that is really the big challenge. And so coming

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Speaker 2: back to what you were saying before, Yes, there is

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Speaker 2: there is interest in the New Zealand market. This is

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Speaker 2: sort of a positive glow around the news in the

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Speaker 2: market and investors really like the signals. But the bottom

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Speaker 2: line is that they need to see a pipeline of

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Speaker 2: high quality funded projects and if they don't see that,

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Speaker 2: that that glow will will very likely fade pretty pretty

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Speaker 2: pretty steadily. And so yes, we would need to see

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Speaker 2: more than more than four four projects and we are

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Speaker 2: going to have to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, having said that, then so you've got twofold to

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Speaker 1: two things. You've got one are they going to spend?

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Speaker 1: But the other one is we're open for business. What

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Speaker 1: your report suggests is they know we are open for business.

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Speaker 2: Is that there absolutely they've got that. They've certainly got

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Speaker 2: that message. And you know that the efforts at building

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Speaker 2: building sort of bipartisan support and the focus on that

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Speaker 2: has been received very well as well.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff Barney, good insight, Barney Irvine, who's with the

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Speaker 1: Northern Infrastructure Forum Executive director christ Bishop, who I alluded

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Speaker 1: to a moment ago, also happens to be a big

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Speaker 1: player in this big investment conference coming this weekend. And

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Speaker 1: there are only I can't remember them all. It's not

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Speaker 1: that many to remember, so it's my fault. But there's

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Speaker 1: a road, there's a prison. I think there's a school

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Speaker 1: or some school project, but it's hardly like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: look at the stuff we've rolled out. For more from

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