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Speaker 1: Barry So for senior political correspondence with US High Baring.

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, right, what's the update out of postcab Well the.

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Speaker 2: Three ministers or Prime Minister and two ministers on stage

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Speaker 2: Shane Jones and Nikola Willis. Essentially, the government is telling

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Speaker 2: us they're taking the initiative on a number of fronts,

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Speaker 2: even though our fuel supply is well and truly in hand.

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Speaker 2: I heard a person today in the fuel industry saying

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Speaker 2: there were eight tankers on the way to New Zealand

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Speaker 2: literally not far off our shores. So the government taking

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Speaker 2: the initiative and looking at other fuel suppliers and storage

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Speaker 2: facilities overseas, they said they want to be absolutely sure.

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Speaker 2: The point that Shane Jones made was that if you

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Speaker 2: get fuel from the United States, for example, it takes

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Speaker 2: about forty five days to get here, so you've really

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Speaker 2: got to be proactive now. And it was a point

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Speaker 2: picked up Chris Luckson. He said that supplies are larger

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Speaker 2: than we've been told around fifty days now. But Chris

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Speaker 2: Lackson says we can't be too careful.

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Speaker 3: We are doing what we said we would do, which

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Speaker 3: is a secure fuel supply. We have ample stocks on hand,

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Speaker 3: we are meeting our minimum stock holding obligations. We have

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Speaker 3: seen no signs yet from our oil importers that actually

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Speaker 3: there are any challenges or issues with that. That's great.

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Speaker 3: I would sooner be in a place where we are

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Speaker 3: on the front foot securing supplies, much sooner than we

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Speaker 3: think we may even need them. I soon have the

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Speaker 3: embarrassment of an abundance of fuel than I would be

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Speaker 3: so undersoughted.

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Speaker 2: I've been through fuel crisis.

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Speaker 3: Before in my former life, and I can tell you

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Speaker 3: at a pleasant trying to run an airline with thirty

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Speaker 3: percent of the fuel you need for several months.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So in one way, it's good that Lackson is

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Speaker 2: there because he does understand the fuel industry, probably more

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Speaker 2: than many ministers in his cabinet, being the former CEO

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Speaker 2: of there. In New Zealand, they're also looking at the

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Speaker 2: rural areas that you know they've been Some are saying

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Speaker 2: now they're getting starved of fuel because people have been

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Speaker 2: stocking up, so some farmers are missing out. While they've

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Speaker 2: talked to the fuel suppliers about that, and apparently they're

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Speaker 2: going to be taking some action along those lines as well.

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Speaker 2: So New Zealand it would seem even though we're so

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Speaker 2: remote in the world, we seem to be quite comfortable

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Speaker 2: at the moment and there's no need to stock our

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Speaker 2: or in fact go out and rush at petrol pumps.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of the young green Tamotha Paul

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Speaker 1: from Wellington supporting Pork the graffiti artist.

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Speaker 2: Well, I found it incredible, really, I mean this for

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Speaker 2: a politician. This man was appearing in court. He's a

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Speaker 2: thirty seven year old. They faced multiple charges of intentionally

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Speaker 2: damaging property. He was sent in in the Auckland District

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Speaker 2: Court today for eighteen months and intensive supervision and one

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Speaker 2: hundred hours of community this paying two thousand bucks and reparations.

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Speaker 2: But the reparations are of course nowhere near the amount

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Speaker 2: that the graffiti talked to remove several figures. We're told

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Speaker 2: Judge Durrell said that he read the letter from Tamotha

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Speaker 2: Paul and basically disregarded it, so it made no difference

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Speaker 2: at all, which is quite incredible that an MP would

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Speaker 2: go out and defend somebody who is deliberately damaging property.

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Speaker 2: But hither you'll be pleased to hear from the man

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Speaker 2: himself that he's finally going straight.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be like I don't want to

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Speaker 4: be at the age I am still in an out

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Speaker 4: of court for scribbling on is not a life of

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Speaker 4: that and should have stopped ten years to now make

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Speaker 4: the most of the work I have done.

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Speaker 2: So that's true. I think his name is Carl true.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon he would regret having such a stink

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Speaker 1: tagging name?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: It's pork?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pork?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen pork around the place all over Wellington?

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Speaker 2: I probably don't read the pork is everywhere?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well he and apparently it's all through it's in Australia

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Speaker 2: as well. It's cool done, a bit of travel.

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Speaker 1: Cool, So you've got you've got basically a product, a

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Speaker 1: primary sector product. Is your tagging name? You're not cool?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Obviously he thinks it's pretty cool and he sees himself

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Speaker 2: as a banksy. But I'm afraid I don't think he's

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Speaker 2: quite up.

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Speaker 1: If you've seen Pork's work, you know that it's night

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Speaker 1: and day between him and I think we can all

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Speaker 1: get up on a warnger hawk. All right, Barry, thanks

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Speaker 1: very much to appreciate it. It's very so for senior

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