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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Inevitably, the Assies have now picked up on the slur

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Speaker 2: from Chris Luxen where he said when talking to OSSI's

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Speaker 2: it pays to be incredibly simple. And you know, good

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Speaker 2: thing is they seem to be taking it largely in

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Speaker 2: the spirit that it's intended, which is just a bit

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Speaker 2: of humor. And it also means Luxeon's play has worked,

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Speaker 2: which is that by having a crack at the Assis,

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Speaker 2: what he was doing was distracting us from the actual issue,

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Speaker 2: which is Paul Goldsmith taking Marty words out of the

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Speaker 2: Matitki invitation. And as I say, it's largely worked. But look,

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Speaker 2: let's get to the heart of this actual issue, right.

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Speaker 2: This actually was a dumb thing for Paul Goldsmith to do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I guess why he might have done it.

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Speaker 2: I get he might want an invitation from him to

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Speaker 2: be authentic to him. And if he doesn't make a

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Speaker 2: habit of going around using Mary words in a tokenistic

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Speaker 2: fashion to show off his inclusivity credentials, then sure he

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Speaker 2: might want to take Terrell out of the invitation and

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Speaker 2: replace it with English. And that's fair enough. But Paul

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Speaker 2: Goldsmith is not an individual. He's a government minister and

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Speaker 2: he's going to have to start being a little smarter

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Speaker 2: and more strategic about this, because this government doesn't need

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Speaker 2: a petty issue like this on race relations to deal with,

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Speaker 2: because it's got enough going on as it is. A

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Speaker 2: lot of what the government is doing on race relations

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Speaker 2: is worthy and does need to be done. Repealing the

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Speaker 2: Maori wards, tidying up the Treaty principles, halting the co governance,

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Speaker 2: putting an end to certain ethnicities getting priority surgery and

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Speaker 2: this stuff they can defend really easily on democratic and

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Speaker 2: equal rights grounds, right, But when Paul Goldsmith does something

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Speaker 2: like taking Marty words out of an invitation, although it

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Speaker 2: may be true to his way of speaking, what he

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Speaker 2: does is he makes this democratic and equal rights reset

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Speaker 2: for some people just look like an anti Maori thing. Now,

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Speaker 2: to be fair to him, he's not the only minister

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Speaker 2: who's been caught fighting petty battles over language like this.

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Speaker 2: He is just the latest minister to be busted doing it.

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Speaker 2: But it would pay for these guys next time they

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Speaker 2: want to do something like take Marty words out of

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Speaker 2: a document, to really think about whether that, if leaked,

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Speaker 2: is something that they want to add to the government's

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Speaker 2: race relations agenda, because there is a very fine line

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Speaker 2: between appearing to be four equal rights and appearing to

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Speaker 2: be just anti everything Mardi and frankly, there are much

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Speaker 2: more important things going on in this country right now.

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Speaker 2: An energy crisis, a possible recession, a massive problem in health,

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Speaker 2: just to give you a few. But what are we

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Speaker 2: talking about? What are we going to remember from this week?

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Speaker 2: Paul Goldsmith's invitation.

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