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Speaker 1: So the government's launching an inquiry, its own inquiry into

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Speaker 1: the events leading up to the landslide at the Mound.

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Speaker 2: There's potentially an inherent conflict between the council and the

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Speaker 2: Council and campground and importantly the families deserve answers.

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Speaker 1: Mahe Drysdale says the Council is still going to go

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Speaker 1: ahead with its own.

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Speaker 2: Won't be looking to have those answers in a maximum

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Speaker 2: of six months, which I think will be well before

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Speaker 2: any other investigation or inquiry is concluded.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now, Bryce Edwards, political commentator Bryce, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: morning Ryan. Do we need two like when it's not

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Speaker 1: two for the price of one presumably? Do we need

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Speaker 1: to or would just the government one suffice?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think it's you know, this is such

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Speaker 2: an important issue that we probably do need different inquiries

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Speaker 2: coming to different angles. The Council one will probably be

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Speaker 2: quite limited in a sense it can't look at all

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Speaker 2: the different issues that a government inquiry could look at,

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Speaker 2: but it's still given the scale of things, I think

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Speaker 2: the family, the public do need lots of things answered.

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Speaker 2: They have to be careful not to duplicate themselves. But no,

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any harm in having more than

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Speaker 2: one inquiry.

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Speaker 1: What would a government one actually look at that would

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Speaker 1: be different.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course the government one can look more at

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Speaker 2: what the police did, what the fire satters did or

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Speaker 2: didn't do. Issues of council resourcing, it can probably take

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Speaker 2: a more sort of bird's eye view of everything involved here,

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Speaker 2: connecting up all the systems failures, whereas the council view

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Speaker 2: might just look at it from a real council perspective.

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Speaker 2: Whereas there's things that can be learned here for the

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Speaker 2: rest of the country, possibly from what his tragedy. And

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Speaker 2: you know the way landslips are going to be part

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Speaker 2: of New Zealand's future. You know, we do have to

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Speaker 2: make changes throughout the whole country, not just in twa.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well this is the problem though, isn't it like this?

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Speaker 1: There was warnings about landslides in this area, slips going

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Speaker 1: back to the seventies earlier. Even there will be whole

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Speaker 1: swathes of the country and especially up North Corimandel, that

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Speaker 1: are at risk of this stuff. And do we just

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Speaker 1: abandon them? Are people ready for that? You know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean New Zealand hasn't really taken seriously the

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Speaker 2: volatility of our soils enough. You know, we're pretty big

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Speaker 2: on earthquakes. We're becoming more sensitive to the risks of

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Speaker 2: our tsunamis. But you know, landslades are actually the biggest

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Speaker 2: killer in New Zealand And because they impact property as well,

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Speaker 2: you know, and with increasing extreme weather, we need to

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Speaker 2: know where to build. We then where not to build,

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Speaker 2: how to have a proper emergency response to when these

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Speaker 2: situations arise. So yeah, I think it is appropriate that

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Speaker 2: we look at everything involved here.

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Speaker 1: But I appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Nine

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