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Speaker 1: Heaver do for Celo.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it is significant that David Seymour has

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Speaker 2: walked away from supporting his own bill to bring in

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Speaker 2: four year terms for the government. Now he was the

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Speaker 2: one who introduced the spill. He's now pulled ACT support.

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Speaker 2: Every other party in Parliament appears to still back it,

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Speaker 2: but he's pulled ACT support because the safeguards that he

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Speaker 2: wanted are gone now. His idea was that we increase

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Speaker 2: the terms from three to four years. He vote the

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Speaker 2: government and yet three years and now he wants to

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Speaker 2: make it four years, which basically means giving the government

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Speaker 2: more power. But he was only okay with that if

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Speaker 2: we balance it out by taking away some power then

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Speaker 2: and his idea was to allow the opposition parties to

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Speaker 2: control every single Select committee, giving them the power. But

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Speaker 2: that part of the plan, the select committee part of

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Speaker 2: the plan, has been removed, so David Seymour doesn't support

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Speaker 2: his own idea anymore, which frankly I think is a

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Speaker 2: good idea because he has ended up exactly where I

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Speaker 2: have been this entire time. No to four year terms

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Speaker 2: unless there are new limits, because as it is, governments

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Speaker 2: in this country do not have much in the way

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Speaker 2: of limits. If they want to pass the law, they can.

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Speaker 2: They can do it under urgency. If they want to,

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Speaker 2: they can announce and pass it in literally the same day.

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Speaker 2: That is what happened with the pay equity law. Did

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Speaker 2: you like that? You want some more of that, because

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Speaker 2: that would would happen, but just for four years. This

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Speaker 2: is why Jeffrey Palmer said that we have the fastest

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Speaker 2: law in the West. Other countries have ways to limit

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Speaker 2: or control or check the power of the executive. They

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Speaker 2: have upper houses, they have senates. Whatever, we've got nothing. Now,

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Speaker 2: given that everyone else in Parliament seems to support this,

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Speaker 2: it seems to me a fair chance this is going

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Speaker 2: to go to referendum for us to decide, perhaps at

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Speaker 2: the next election. And people who want four years will

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Speaker 2: tell you that you must say yes because governments don't

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Speaker 2: have enough time to do what they want, which is

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Speaker 2: utter bollocks, because they do have enough time. I've realized

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Speaker 2: in the last couple of years it's not because a

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Speaker 2: lack of time they don't get things done. It's because

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Speaker 2: of a lack of will. This government had enough time

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Speaker 2: to make changes to the supermarkets and take make changes

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Speaker 2: to the banks, and make changes to the energy sector.

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Speaker 2: They've talked about it enough. They haven't done it because

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Speaker 2: they don't want to do it, because you know it

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Speaker 2: takes balls. Now, I don't want four years because two

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Speaker 2: blocks of three years of Jacinda Adirn's lunatic labor administration

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Speaker 2: was enough. Can you imagine how broke the country would

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Speaker 2: be after two blocks of four years? No, unless there

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Speaker 2: are new safeguards brought in, and there are no safeguards proposed,

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Speaker 2: So it's a hard no.

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