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Speaker 1: Huge reaction to yesterday's politics Wednesday on homelessness and move

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Speaker 1: on orders. Labour argue homelessness is up dramatically and there

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Speaker 1: is nowhere for these people to go, while the numbers

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Speaker 1: out show that is simply not true. In Auckland anyway.

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Speaker 1: Advocates working in the area tell us numbers are down

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Speaker 1: twenty nine percent, down twenty nine percent. Part of that

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Speaker 1: drop is due to the government funding in October of

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Speaker 1: last year to improve outreach, as well as the provision

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Speaker 1: of two hundred and seven housing places in the Housing

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Speaker 1: First program. So, like a lot of other issues being

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Speaker 1: raised as being disaster as the truth tells a different story. Labour,

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Speaker 1: as I've said, is going to lose the election anyway.

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Speaker 1: But their growing problem is reality is smashing directly into

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Speaker 1: their ideology. Their plan to this point, and it was

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Speaker 1: reflected well in the Hipkin so called State of the

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Speaker 1: Nation speech is to tell you everything's a mess. It's

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Speaker 1: all broken, it's all been cocked up, and it's going backwards.

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Speaker 1: The theory is, if they set the mood right, what

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Speaker 1: they have to offer doesn't actually need to be a thing.

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Speaker 1: Hence they've got no policies outside their capital gains tax.

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Speaker 1: You're in a funk. You vote the government out because

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Speaker 1: they've convinced you that life sucks, except the evidence that

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Speaker 1: it is well, that it's starting to arrive in volume,

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Speaker 1: as we've just talked about this morning. Growth is up,

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Speaker 1: spendings up, confidence up, performance and schools is up. Kids

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Speaker 1: are actually turning up at school. Our large industrial relations

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Speaker 1: deals are being signed off, so strikes are off. Crime

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Speaker 1: is down, and now homelessness is down as well. By

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Speaker 1: November employment will have turned and the picture broadly will

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Speaker 1: be complete. See it's hard to compete against good economic news,

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Speaker 1: hard to compete against positive social news like the homelessness

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Speaker 1: nats and really hard. And this is where Labor and

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Speaker 1: the Greens are blowing it against the wider will and

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Speaker 1: view of the populace on move on orders like the

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Speaker 1: gang patches and like the ram raids crackdowns are popular.

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Speaker 1: Defending crooks and drug addicts and trouble makers is not

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