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Speaker 1: Made of my and sorry, I'll start that again. A

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Speaker 1: mate and I have a little joke whenever we screw up,

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Speaker 1: either big or small, we'll look at each other and

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Speaker 1: go It only took one goat. If you know, you know.

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Speaker 1: But it acknowledges that it takes forever to build up

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Speaker 1: a good reputation, and all it takes is one misstep

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Speaker 1: to immediately undo all that good work. So New Zealand

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Speaker 1: recently was told that it had slipped to place in

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Speaker 1: the world reputational survey around fraud and corruption. We're now

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Speaker 1: fourth in the world. We used to be higher. That's

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Speaker 1: still pretty good, but it's not as good as we

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Speaker 1: were before. The news that confidential data held by a

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Speaker 1: government agency was inappropriately given to a third party as

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Speaker 1: a very serious one. Maybe it was a misuse, but

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Speaker 1: that's not the point. It should never have been released.

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Speaker 1: It should not have been released without safeguards. Maybe this

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Speaker 1: was not as dodgy as it seems, but if we

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Speaker 1: let standard slide, then the next time could be even worse.

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Speaker 1: This is not the right time to be seen as

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Speaker 1: a wink nudge nudge sort of country. There's more than

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Speaker 1: enough third world antics in play in this country as

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Speaker 1: it is already. And when you combine that finding along

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Speaker 1: with Brian Roach's report into the Civil Service that shows

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Speaker 1: us to be over governed and shows our governance our

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Speaker 1: civil service to be below standard, then the slow degradation

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Speaker 1: of New Zealand's reputation is certainly underway. We have too

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Speaker 1: many public servants and the ones that are there are

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Speaker 1: making either stupid mistakes or dodgy decisions. So New Zealand

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Speaker 1: can do better. That's the report card. For more from

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