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Speaker 1: Barry Sooper, Senior political correspondence. Here, Hi, Barry, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Hither we don't have time to talk about it. But

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Speaker 2: I don't agree with what you said about Luxeon, which

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Speaker 2: part that he would be gone before the election.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well how much?

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Speaker 2: What I don't know? Nice bottle of whiskey would do.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good bottle of whiskey.

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Speaker 2: On that.

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Speaker 1: I say he's gone before the election, and you say

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Speaker 1: he's not. Answer, you're writing that down for me because

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Speaker 1: I always forget my bets and then I forget to pay.

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Speaker 3: All you do.

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Speaker 1: Blame like case, Thank you? All right? So what did

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Speaker 1: you make of Willis's press conference?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's interesting, isn't it that Chris Luxen

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Speaker 2: is overseas at the moment in Smoa and Nikola Willis

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Speaker 2: held a news conference at one o'clock reminded me of

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Speaker 2: the COVID days, although the last words she uttered at

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Speaker 2: the news conference that she wasn't speaking from the not

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Speaker 2: the pulpit I always called at the poll, which she said,

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Speaker 2: the podium of truth. You know, when we'll get regular updates.

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Speaker 2: She's doing another on Wednesday. But what she's saying essentially

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Speaker 2: is don't panic and you remember the head of their

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Rabishanka. He said, don't panic, but panic slowly.

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Speaker 2: So you know it's not a great situation at the moment,

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Speaker 2: because the longer this goes on in the Middle East,

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Speaker 2: the longer, the harder it's going to be for the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand economy. I don't think anybody doubts that with

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister being in Sama will have held that

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Speaker 2: news conference and had a message aimed at soothing those

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Speaker 2: of us who are worried about what she says. The

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Speaker 2: government is doing on our.

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Speaker 3: Behalf, mitigating the impact on the New Zealand economy, including

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Speaker 3: what could potentially be acute cost of living pressures for

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Speaker 3: some households. I've spoken to each of the chief executives

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Speaker 3: of the major commercial banks and they have assured me

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Speaker 3: that in the first instance, they will be providing an

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Speaker 3: umbrella to businesses that they already work to ensure that

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Speaker 3: they can take them through less challenging time. From the

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Speaker 3: government's point of view, we need to ensure that any

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Speaker 3: support we provide to households is temporary, is targeted, and

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Speaker 3: is timely. Officials have advised us explicitly that reducing fuel

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Speaker 3: ex size would send the wrong signal at this time

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Speaker 3: and it would not be sufficiently targeted.

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Speaker 2: There you go, So nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 1: Have you been speaking to Chris Hipkins's ex wife today.

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Speaker 2: I've been in a text conversation with her years she's

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Speaker 2: in Fiji at the moment with their two children. And

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Speaker 2: what she said to me simply was that she stood

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Speaker 2: by everything she said in her Facebook post. And what

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Speaker 2: she said in the Facebook post, of course, is for

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Speaker 2: Chris Hipkins is not complementary, to say the very least

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Speaker 2: at all. And I see you posing the question is

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Speaker 2: what should he do? Well, you know, the great difficulty

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Speaker 2: is remember it reminds me a bit of the David

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Speaker 2: Longie Naomi Longie fallout that a mate of mine was

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Speaker 2: sitting at a desk and the Sunday Star Times and

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Speaker 2: the phone went and it was Naomi on the phone.

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Speaker 2: This is after he had stepped down and she said

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Speaker 2: he was having an affair and suddenly all hell broke loose.

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Speaker 2: Not that he had to worry about it because he

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Speaker 2: was no longer the Prime minister, but he essentially did nothing.

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Speaker 2: And I think you know, when you have issues like this,

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Speaker 2: they are damning many of the public will know, and

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Speaker 2: the gossip machine will be working overtime. Who knows what

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Speaker 2: social media will do with it. But I think he's

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Speaker 2: probably right to keep storm about the whole.

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Speaker 1: Thing, is he because he's considering legal action? Should he

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Speaker 1: take it?

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Speaker 2: Well, if what his former wife Jade Paul said, and

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Speaker 2: she says it's true, you can imagine the dirty linen

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Speaker 2: that would come out. I know Jade Paul, she used

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Speaker 2: to work around Parliament, a very nice young woman. I

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Speaker 2: mean their marriage lasted a very short time. They had

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Speaker 2: two children in it and was only a couple of years,

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Speaker 2: and they got married at Premiere House in twenty twenty when,

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Speaker 2: of course Jasin Dardun was the Prime Minister's show. She

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Speaker 2: was there and Grant Robertson was Chippy's best man. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's one of those ghastly things because you

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Speaker 2: know a lot of people, and I heard you your

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Speaker 2: scenario about when people do split up, these terrible things

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Speaker 2: about said on either side, and that certainly does happen.

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Speaker 2: I've known it over the years. But yeah, if I

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Speaker 2: was him, there's no point in him because coming out

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Speaker 2: because he'll simply fuel it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he will. Although a good bit of legal actions

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Speaker 1: sometimes also does indicate that you're you feel fairly confident

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Speaker 1: that it's not true. Barry, thanks very much, appreciate it. Barry,

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