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Speaker 1: I'm here actually, as it happens, this morning, to help

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Speaker 1: Chris Sipkins, the Chipster. The Chipster was in the building

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Speaker 1: this week. I said hello to him. He asked me

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Speaker 1: when I was dropping the blacklist that I have on

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Speaker 1: him appearing on this program. I said he had appeared

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Speaker 1: already once this year and that was plenty. We both laughed.

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Speaker 1: What I like about him is he doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: take any of this personally. He knows I think he's hopeless,

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Speaker 1: and he knows I think he wrecked the country, and

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Speaker 1: he's playing the long game, and he knows. I know.

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Speaker 1: He will be back next year in the election campaign,

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Speaker 1: and if he wins, he'll be back as a regular

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Speaker 1: on this program, which brings me to the help. In Australia,

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Speaker 1: this week their labor government approved the extension of a

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Speaker 1: massive gas project. Woodsite are Australia's largest gas producer, and

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Speaker 1: before the word came from the government, the company had

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Speaker 1: launched a fairly vigorous and as it turns out, effective

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Speaker 1: campaign reminding us all that if you want to look

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Speaker 1: at Spain the other day, and in the various parts

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Speaker 1: of Europe that have been spending increasing periods of time

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Speaker 1: in the dark, you will find they became obsessed with renewables,

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Speaker 1: and that obsession has led to blackouts. Continuity and consistency

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Speaker 1: of supply Woodside argued is just as important as where

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Speaker 1: you get your energy. Anyway, labour gave them the tick. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the conservationists are upset, but then again aren't they always.

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Speaker 1: The point for Hipkins is this is a labor government,

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Speaker 1: a labor government that romped home in an election just

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Speaker 1: the other day in Australia. A labor government with a

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Speaker 1: gargantuan majority. Why because it's what you would call an

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Speaker 1: old fashioned labor government, A labor government of old a

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Speaker 1: centrist labor government, not a woe hand wringing, ideologically obsessed

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Speaker 1: labor government of say twenty twenty through twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: in this particular country. Think of the great labour names Blair, Hawk, Longee.

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Speaker 1: They are labor governments of success. Hipkins is your labor

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Speaker 1: government of failure. Albanezi has clearly learned the lessons of

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Speaker 1: history and worked them nicely to his favor. Yes, he

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Speaker 1: can be sent a left, but the lights will always

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Speaker 1: be on. See last time the Chipster was in charge.

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Speaker 1: We stop looking for gas altogether, and as far as

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Speaker 1: I know, he wouldn't start looking again. That's the sort

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Speaker 1: of thinking that leads to blackouts and an electorate that

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Speaker 1: doesn't see you as viable. More or from the Mic

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