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Speaker 1: Thirteen away from five Barries. So for seeing your political

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Speaker 1: correspondence with us.

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Speaker 2: Barry, Hello, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Here's the Public Service Commission, the right agency to do

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Speaker 1: this inquiry into the allegations around the Marti Party.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, I think from a government perspective it is

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Speaker 2: don't forget. You've got the Police, the Privacy Commissioner, other

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Speaker 2: agencies like Stats New Zealand, the MSD and even more

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Speaker 2: looking at this issue now, both concerning the censors and

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Speaker 2: the immunization for COVID. So the Prime Minister says the

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Speaker 2: public has got to have confidence in the electoral system

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Speaker 2: and the information they provide in confidence areas.

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Speaker 3: The inquiry will cover all relevant government agencies, including Crown entities,

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Speaker 3: and this inquiry will run concurrently to the investigations run

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Speaker 3: by the agencies and will not compromise the processes or

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Speaker 3: the investigations that the Police and Privacy Commissioner already have underway.

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Speaker 4: Here'll be further.

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Speaker 3: Announcements this week on the terms of reference, the timing

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Speaker 3: for the inquiry as well as the independent reviewer who

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Speaker 3: will lead the process. I just say New Zealanders must

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Speaker 3: have confidence that the data they provide to government agencies

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Speaker 3: or others acting on their behalf is used appropriately in

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Speaker 3: a subject to adequate protections.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know he wasted no time in getting back,

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Speaker 2: didn't he. He said, we'll wait to see when he

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Speaker 2: was in the Pacific, He'll wait to see what happens

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Speaker 2: with these other inquiries. But he's decided that, Look, the

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Speaker 2: issue is big, It's an enormous issue, and so it

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Speaker 2: really has to be put.

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Speaker 5: Tois allegations like this cut to the heart of our confidency. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: cuts to the heart of our confidence in elected members

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Speaker 5: as well. Right, So, lest interests also to clear this up,

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Speaker 5: what do you make of the Chinese premiere arriving here

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Speaker 5: on Thursday?

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Speaker 4: Well, can we blame is.

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Speaker 1: The little period where they didn't turn up and visit

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Speaker 1: us at all between twenty seventeen and now. Is that

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Speaker 1: because of their attitude towards Labor or is that more

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Speaker 1: because of the relationship that they had with Australia.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 2: I think it probably had a lot to do with

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Speaker 2: the relationship they had with the government.

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Speaker 4: Because there were very little visits.

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Speaker 2: On a trade mission perspective to China when Labor was

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Speaker 2: in power, and they see that New Zealand is now

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Speaker 2: serious We've had a few ministers up there with trade missions.

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Speaker 2: Todd McLay was standing alongside Chris Luxen and basically he's

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Speaker 2: the Premier. Lee is coming here. But he said there

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Speaker 2: will be a number of announcements on Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 2: So clearly the announcements have already been worked out between

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Speaker 2: the Chinese and the New Zealand government. Well, of course

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Speaker 2: it always works that way, so expect that on Thursday

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Speaker 2: and Friday, and then at the weekend the Prime Minister's

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Speaker 2: off to Japan. Everyone's traveling at the moment pretty expensive

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Speaker 2: on the old tax bar, but we've got to get

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Speaker 2: out there or a tiny country.

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Speaker 4: At the bottom of the Pacific.

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Speaker 2: So he's leading a thirty five member trade mission to

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Speaker 2: Tokyo and he'll be there next week. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's a good thing for New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: A bit of a coup for the ACTS Party to

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Speaker 1: get Paul Henry speak, don't you think.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it came at you know what they call

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Speaker 2: a change maker's rally. Those that attended it paid fifty

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Speaker 2: bucks ahead to go to it here in Auckland and

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Speaker 2: they got a pretty good turnout. Of course, no ACT

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Speaker 2: event now would be complete without a poke at National

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Speaker 2: because they want to see themselves as being totally independent

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Speaker 2: of the National led government. What David Seymour said that

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Speaker 2: our allies and government have said they get that'd get

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Speaker 2: faster decisions if they didn't need to consult ACT. But

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Speaker 2: he said they don't only need fast decisions, they need

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Speaker 2: better decisions. So there's your poke at National. Well, if

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Speaker 2: you listen to their guests, guest speaker Paul Henry, he

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Speaker 2: left them no doubt as to where his loyalties lay,

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Speaker 2: not that National, not that we had any confusion because

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Speaker 2: he once stood for the National Party. But with ACT,

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Speaker 2: he says, they're not afraid of change, even if it

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Speaker 2: means upsetting a few voters.

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Speaker 6: I think this country is deeply in the shit, and

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Speaker 6: I think the options to leverage ourselves out of the

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Speaker 6: shit are becoming increasingly limited, largely because the people willing

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Speaker 6: and capable of doing it are few, and most importantly

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Speaker 6: because so many good people just cringe inside and say

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Speaker 6: nothing as matches are lit to incinerate more of New Zealand,

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Speaker 6: which we used to stand for, which used to be

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Speaker 6: important when people globally used to look at this country

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Speaker 6: in envy. I believe act could be the last cab

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Speaker 6: on the ramp heading in the right direction.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well the you.

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Speaker 2: Go his hand up.

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Speaker 5: Jeez, I missed that man from our stories and our

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Speaker 5: air waves, don't you.

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Speaker 2: I think he got carried away with the Indian minister

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Speaker 2: dick shit because now that you.

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Speaker 1: Don't need to revisit that because on that actually and

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Speaker 1: it would largely exonerate Paul Henry. He just really quickly

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Speaker 1: is and I don't need it in great detail because

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Speaker 1: I have just outlaid the case right. But it's not

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Speaker 1: a crime for him if he lives in carpety. And

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Speaker 1: why can I to have a flat in Wellington? Is it?

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Speaker 4: No? No, of course it's not.

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Speaker 2: He owned the flat in Wellington seven hundred bucks a week.

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Speaker 6: Ye.

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Speaker 2: The taxpayer is paying for it because he's letting it

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Speaker 2: to himself.

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Speaker 1: Which everybody does.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 2: This is though he's in commuting distance. If you look

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Speaker 2: at the inland revenue, no, inland revenue defines.

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Speaker 4: Well, can I just say what the official.

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Speaker 1: Mine is before anything that's reasonable?

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Speaker 2: Can I just say what the official line is? Inland revenue?

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Speaker 2: The charges our tax as they say, between fifty and

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Speaker 2: eighty kilometers for.

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Speaker 4: Each leg of the journey.

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Speaker 2: Is commuting distant, and many people in the carpety commute

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Speaker 2: to Wellington, so he's if you're like double dipping it away.

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Speaker 2: He's got a house and why can I a very

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Speaker 2: nice one apparent in a nice flat and Wellington. Now

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Speaker 2: he's getting.

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Speaker 1: Star at night.

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Speaker 2: Oh hither, I mean a lot of backbenches. And I

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Speaker 2: heard you say that. Start drive after seven and eight

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Speaker 2: in the.

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Speaker 1: Morning when they have meetings. Oh, for goodness, I'm tunning

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