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Speaker 1: The census. These release of figures this week, Some of

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Speaker 1: those numbers released really are a treasure trove of not

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Speaker 1: just fact and stats. But I would have thought of

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Speaker 1: hope if you think about it, that astonishing moves south,

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Speaker 1: the tens of thousands who have headed to the South Island,

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Speaker 1: particularly christ Church. Is that not a framework if you

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Speaker 1: think about it, for what the whole country could be

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Speaker 1: a few choice decisions, a bit of get up and go,

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Speaker 1: a bit of cooperation, a little bit of vision. There

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Speaker 1: are parts of this country that clearly have done it

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Speaker 1: right and are clearly magnets in their own right. And

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Speaker 1: then stats around work this week as well, that very

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Speaker 1: word work seems to be a problem. It's reported as

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Speaker 1: a negative. The headline was more and more people are

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Speaker 1: working longer, indicating you want to stop? You want to stop?

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Speaker 1: Of course, because of the pension, you can stop any

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Speaker 1: time you like. I mean, there's no law around when

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Speaker 1: you work and when you don't work. But the stats

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Speaker 1: and the reportage of work and age are increasingly out

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Speaker 1: of date. As we live longer, of course, we're going

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Speaker 1: to work longer. Why wouldn't we Work is actually good

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Speaker 1: for us? Work is fun, Workers rewarding financially and emotionally.

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Speaker 1: We're challenged by work. Work should not be a thing

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Speaker 1: that you expect to end. It's the same as health

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Speaker 1: or fitness, or diet or leisure. Now the stats one

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Speaker 1: and two. These days, fifty percent are working between ages

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Speaker 1: sixty five and sixty nine. A quarter are still working

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Speaker 1: between seventy and seventy four. Even ten percent of people

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Speaker 1: are working over seventy five. And why not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you resent it and you've got to work fair enough,

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Speaker 1: I guess if physically you're naked, sure, go play balls.

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Speaker 1: But the days of Grandad and the gold watch in

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Speaker 1: one company for life, they're gone. We need to break

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Speaker 1: this psychological hold that super has over us. It's not

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Speaker 1: even a lot of money, Super. I mean, if it

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Speaker 1: was lotto, i'd understand it, but it's a bare minimum.

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Speaker 1: It'd speaks sadly to this country's productivity or lack of it,

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Speaker 1: and work ethic that too many people are too reliant

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Speaker 1: on it. Working longer will actually lead to better health outcomes,

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Speaker 1: hopefully the kids who the census, by the way tells us,

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Speaker 1: are working more as well. Teenagers have never been more

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Speaker 1: employed than they are these days. They will enter the

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Speaker 1: workforce with a view that work is for life, because

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Speaker 1: we see work for the good, not work for the drudgery.

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Speaker 1: And I guess if you happen to be working into

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Speaker 1: your old age and doing it in the South Island,

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Speaker 1: that's not a bad life at all. For more from

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