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Speaker 1: Wow, we got there, it last died and't we. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Golden visa holder, that's a person who

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Speaker 1: puts five or ten million into the country, you can

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Speaker 1: buy a house. The idea that we expected you to

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Speaker 1: put that sort of money into a country but then

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Speaker 1: rent what was and is absurd. Not to get into

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Speaker 1: the weeds too deeply. The golden beza as different to

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and eighty three days rule the Golden

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Speaker 1: bees that means you can invest but not be here

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty three days, but now means

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Speaker 1: you do qualify for a five million dollar plus home.

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Speaker 1: None of this is complex. None of this needed to

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Speaker 1: be as hard as it turned out to be. You

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Speaker 1: will note from the Winston Peters comments he has preserved

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Speaker 1: his ongoing dislike for the so called foreigners coming here

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Speaker 1: and snapping up the countryside and locking the rest of

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Speaker 1: us out of the market, none of which happened, of course,

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Speaker 1: But the xenophobic streak runs deep in the party clearly.

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Speaker 1: But if you go back to National's original idea of

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Speaker 1: two million dollars, a lot of water has gone under

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Speaker 1: that bridge, A lot of banging of heads has clearly happened,

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Speaker 1: and some people have had to be drag kicking and

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Speaker 1: screaming to what I would have thought was a fairly

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Speaker 1: obvious finish line. The weird thing for me about Peter's

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Speaker 1: is this is the same bloke who's out in the world,

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Speaker 1: please reading with said world to come and invest and

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Speaker 1: come and do business. We are open. Is trying on

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Speaker 1: one hand to desperately rectify the damage of the Labour

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Speaker 1: government covid era, while at the same time doing the

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Speaker 1: old New Zealand first cake and eat at two trick.

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Speaker 1: Please come, please bring your money. But oh, given you

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Speaker 1: a foreigner, can you Airbnb? I mean it's nonsense. At

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Speaker 1: five million it changes little or nothing for you and me.

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Speaker 1: It's a tiny portion of homes, it's a couple of

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Speaker 1: million pounds at three million American bucks. For some global

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Speaker 1: citizens it's pocket change. But it all helps a man,

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Speaker 1: do we need help? The worry is the difficulty in

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Speaker 1: getting here easy. Obvious decisions should not be hard, they

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Speaker 1: should be quick and slick. But it all helps. It

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Speaker 1: was a good day for New Zealand Inc. For more

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