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Speaker 1: That's my ongoing advice to the government is don't make

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Speaker 1: big announcements on Friday. So I watched the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: from the Waikato on Friday at the Ruakura super Hub. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is what the government lives for. Of course, this stuff,

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Speaker 1: it's what they dream of, it's what they preach at

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Speaker 1: this Hooper Hub, which by the way, is one of

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Speaker 1: the great visions for this country services forty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the population, fifty five percent of GDP. It's part

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Speaker 1: of what they call the Golden Triangle when it comes

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Speaker 1: to business. Hamilton Tower on at Auckland. Anyway, at the

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Speaker 1: press conference, there's a rep from the company Brookfields with

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars in assets under management, the local tribe Taianui,

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Speaker 1: and the Prime Minister took who Morgan is from the tribe,

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Speaker 1: who had another life, of course, became famous for expensive

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Speaker 1: taxpayer funded underwear in his current life, spoke very eloquently

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Speaker 1: about what the superhub means, how big it is, how

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Speaker 1: massive the vision is, how transformational it all could be.

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Speaker 1: So not just amiss for the government in terms of

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Speaker 1: coverage for exactly what this country needs vision, risk taking

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Speaker 1: and growth, but also the chance for us to see

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Speaker 1: a part of the so called Maori economy that we

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Speaker 1: don't often see. See Taynui are a wonderful, wonderful success.

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Speaker 1: The sadness for me is I don't actually see them

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Speaker 1: as Maori per se. I see them as a business,

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Speaker 1: and a good one. Race should not be part of business.

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Speaker 1: Performance is the key to business, not race. But there

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Speaker 1: is no denying their money came out of the treaty

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Speaker 1: settlement process and they've taken it and they've run with it.

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Speaker 1: And not only don't we get to see the successful

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Speaker 1: side of the Marie economy, we don't ask often enough

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Speaker 1: how is it you can have that much success and

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Speaker 1: yet still have so much Mara deprivation? That's the news.

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Speaker 1: We do hear a lot about poverty, addiction, violence, health

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Speaker 1: issue it's all bad news. Why if Maury can do well,

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Speaker 1: why are we so obsessed with why they aren't? And

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Speaker 1: if there is a way out for those who need

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Speaker 1: it and Murray have provided the blueprint, why is it

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Speaker 1: still an issue? Maria held back? We are told, are they?

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Speaker 1: Why haven't Tyyo even held back? Or na Tahu? And

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Speaker 1: if you listen to the Willie Jacksons, he'll tell you

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Speaker 1: colonialism has ruined the Mari dream. I didn't see that

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Speaker 1: on Friday, quite the opposite. For more from The Mica

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