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Speaker 1: It is the last day of the Investment conference, where

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Speaker 1: the government has been trying to impress foreign investors. At

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Speaker 1: the summit. We had some announcements already doing up Christ

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Speaker 1: Jorge Men's prison, maybe building some new courthouses, the Northern Expressway.

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Speaker 1: They're asking for registrations of interests. There's the Italians are

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Speaker 1: quite interested. It all wraps up today and Jason Walls

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Speaker 1: is covering it. Are you there?

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Speaker 2: I am indeed. Good morning, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you there at the conference?

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Speaker 2: Oh right, not quite yet. I'm heading along later this morning,

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Speaker 2: but yes, I'll be there today.

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Speaker 1: How do you think it's going?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's hot. I'll tell you what. It's hard

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Speaker 2: for us to kind of say. We're locked in a

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Speaker 2: little media room. I think little media room. It's actually

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Speaker 2: quite a nice media room, but we're locked in there, nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: and we can't actually get access to the delegates or

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Speaker 2: anybody on the floor of the actual venue. We have

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Speaker 2: this little TV screen that we watch everything going in from,

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Speaker 2: but we get ministers coming in fairly regularly to give

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Speaker 2: us little updates of how things are going. And you know,

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Speaker 2: it does seem to be going well. We've had a

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Speaker 2: couple of investors come in and tell us how keen

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Speaker 2: they are to invest in New Zealand assets. We had

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Speaker 2: the Italians come in, for example, and say that they're

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Speaker 2: keen on the Northern Expressway. So you know, it's looking

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Speaker 2: good for the government in terms of the amount of

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Speaker 2: investment they're going to receive. Chris lux And telling us

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Speaker 2: yesterday he's expecting all he's hoping for tens of billions

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Speaker 2: of dollars worth of investment. So we'll just have to

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Speaker 2: wait to see if the proof is in the pudding.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and the one thing that came out of yesterday

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Speaker 1: is that all foreign investors are worried about the pipeline

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Speaker 1: of work. They don't want to set up shop here

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Speaker 1: and then run out of work and then have to

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Speaker 1: retrench and leave the place again. And so the big

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Speaker 1: question about that is what Barbara Edmund, the Labor for

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Speaker 1: that spokesperson, is going to say today and whether she

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Speaker 1: supports a pipeline of work.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be interesting to see what Labour

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Speaker 2: say because they've already come out and said that they

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Speaker 2: don't support public private partnerships and places like prisons. And

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Speaker 2: that's a big deal because obviously the government wants work

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Speaker 2: to be done in those areas, and one of the

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Speaker 2: big themes in the summit is bipartisanship. In the past,

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Speaker 2: we've had so much shopping and changing of governments and

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Speaker 2: it means that key infrastructure projects are being green lit

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Speaker 2: and then cut, and then green lit again and then

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Speaker 2: cut and that's just not very good for business consistency.

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Speaker 2: So having labor there is good because it means that

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Speaker 2: there is some sort of semblance of consistency to say

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Speaker 2: that that both parties are going to be working together

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Speaker 2: for the long term to get these in infrastructure pipeline developed.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Jason, we look forward to your coverage today.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to hearing what Barbara Edmon has to say,

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Speaker 1: and let's hope something works for all of this and.

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