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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francesca Rudkins filling

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Speaker 2: in for Ryan Broache. He is hosting Mike Costing break

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Speaker 2: dot m Z. Coming up on the show, we look

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Speaker 2: at the impact of the government's restructure of its Crown

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Speaker 2: Research Institutes what it means for research and scientists in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. The Prime Minister Chris ba Luxon says the

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Speaker 2: government wants tourism turned on big time internationally. Can our

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Speaker 2: infrastructure handle it? Also this out will invest New Zealand

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Speaker 2: do the trick when it comes to attracting foreign investment

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Speaker 1: The agenda.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty fourth of January. Thirty one thou

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Speaker 2: people are under evacuation orders and a further twenty three

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Speaker 2: thousand under warnings as two new wildfires break out in

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Speaker 3: Feel these strong winds and that is the concern, is

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Speaker 3: that we're going to see these spot fires grow where

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Speaker 3: the ambers could spread. I mean, that's what some of

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Speaker 3: so that they're not really concerned that the fire itself,

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Speaker 3: They're most concerned about ambers blowing.

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Speaker 2: The Large Palisades fire is now sixty eight percent contained

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Speaker 2: Researchers say in the next twenty years, over half a

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Speaker 2: million Kiwis will have diabetes if current trends continue. The findings,

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Speaker 2: published this morning in the New Zealand Medical Journal are

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Speaker 2: and bold action needs to be taken to curve current

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Speaker 2: trends and prevent further burden on our health system. Red

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Speaker 2: weather warnings have been issued for parts of the UK

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Speaker 5: The storm system has been intensifying as we've been through

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Speaker 7: Storm is picking up intensity and will continue to do.

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Speaker 5: So as it approaches the Republic of Ireland.

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Speaker 2: Millions have been told to stay at home as damaging

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Speaker 2: schools in Northern Ireland have been advised to close and

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Speaker 2: OSCAR nominations have been released ahead of the ninety seventh

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Speaker 2: Academy Awards ceremony in March. Netflix film Amelia Peis is

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Speaker 2: leading with thirteen nominations, the most nominations ever for a

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Speaker 2: non English language film. Star Calis Sophia Garcon has made

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Speaker 2: history been the first openly transacted to be nominated. Films

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Speaker 2: Better Man, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and

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Speaker 2: Alien Romius Romulus are all at the best visual effects,

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Speaker 2: all worked on by Keu Company Wetter Infect. They probably

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Speaker 1: I could stay ahead of the curve Earl edition with

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Speaker 2: So what is going on at their Ossie open? The

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Speaker 2: crowds are doing abusive at times and according to some players,

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Speaker 2: The TV commentators are trying to do comedy or satire,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, and several players have been offended by

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Speaker 2: it all. The Australian Open, along with other members of

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Speaker 2: Semi finalist Ben Shelton has taken the Grand slams on

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you can't take yourself too seriously.

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Speaker 2: know the booing really gets to me. It is not

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Speaker 2: audiences love these days. Take the money, go on a

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Speaker 2: five star holiday and let it go. It is eleven

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Speaker 1: Separating the fact from the fiction. Can't spill edition with

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Speaker 2: News Dogs EV thirteen past five. The government's announced an

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Speaker 2: overhaul of seven Crown Research institutes. They'll be merged into

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Speaker 2: three public research organizations and a fourth PROS will be

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Speaker 2: established to focus on advanced technology. Government agency Callahan Innovation

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Speaker 2: thanks for your time, Lucy, good to be here. Is

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Speaker 4: So, broadly speaking, the idea of merging the SAIS is

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Speaker 4: with Dicchent on the Titanic. Given the state the science

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Speaker 2: Right, so potentially bit of value for money, but we're

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Speaker 4: Well done for anything, I want to focus on, because

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Speaker 4: that's something that came up a lot in the government's announcement.

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Speaker 4: But the reality is, and so Peter Blackman's report that

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Speaker 2: What were these seven institutes doing that was so valuable?

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Speaker 4: So these seven and students do a range of science.

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Speaker 4: So if you think particularly about stuff like natural disasters,

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Speaker 2: So, Lucy, you're concerned that there's too much of a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to have a balance, so I think

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Speaker 4: so Peter Glegman's report is that, you know, it's really

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Speaker 4: and that's science where we don't, you know, really know

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Speaker 4: that's four different areas of science, and this announcement focuses

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Speaker 4: report called it exploitable science, and it really feels like

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Speaker 4: it's at the expense of the other three. But they're

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Speaker 2: Okay, so will we still produce quality science this way?

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Speaker 4: We will produce quality science this way if we are

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of really surprised to see the government in

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Speaker 4: that would be a fantastic start.

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Speaker 2: we're going to amp up tourism, but is the country

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Speaker 2: It is eighteen past five.

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Speaker 1: First with News, First with Views. It's earlier this year

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Speaker 2: To have you with us. It's five twenty with tourism

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Speaker 2: starting to make a comeback, calls for the government to

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Speaker 2: one thousand tourists came to the country in November. That's

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Speaker 2: eighty six percent of pre pandemic figures from the same

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Speaker 2: and Nicola Willis, has set her sights on a wealthier economy,

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Speaker 2: saying attracting more tourists would help to make that happen.

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Speaker 2: Queenstown mag Lin Lewis joins me, now, good to have

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Speaker 1: Glynn, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Paid Tourism's bounced back in Queenstown pretty well, hasn't it.

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Speaker 8: It has it bounced back pretty hard and fast post pandemic.

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Speaker 8: And I think we've which new heights over the last

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Speaker 2: So would you welcome more.

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Speaker 8: Tourists, i'd Rocker Morris. There is a proviso that the

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Speaker 8: infrastructure to support and accommodate more tourists and visitors is

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Speaker 2: Your voting package gets thrown out a lot as being

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Speaker 2: the answer to everything. What else do you need.

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Speaker 8: Look that sustainable investment in actually providing that sed infrastructure

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Speaker 8: that both residents and visitors use. I think that needs

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Speaker 8: to be really well thought through. And if that can happen, Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I think we have the capacity to have more to us.

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Speaker 8: But even the simple things like making sure that we

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Speaker 2: Dan, thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. That was Queenstown Met Glenn.

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Speaker 2: morning team lux and speech was great. We need to

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Speaker 2: Alrighty? We're head around the country now and Callum Proctor

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Speaker 10: Morning you that's correct and they could be imposed as

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Speaker 10: early as next week if these hot dry conditions continue

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Speaker 2: Hard to complain about hot dry conditions. What's the weather

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Speaker 2: So much, cleishrewood as in christ Church and clear. Look,

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Speaker 11: That's right, Francesca. This is one of those stories we

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Speaker 11: Yesterday, Coastguards some the volunteers were called in very quickly.

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Speaker 11: And the weather today, Claire, pretty cloudy with some early

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claire and Max. Whole is in

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Speaker 2: Got a gorgeous day today.

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Speaker 6: Not so gorgeous, not as gorgeous as it has been,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Max and Neiva dotty Man, who

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday. We've reached this week, the week, first week back.

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Speaker 2: Well done, you feel I am.

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Speaker 7: I've walked to here and I thought, that's like Cheers city.

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Speaker 2: There's a taste. It's all my imaginary friends. They come

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Speaker 2: It's very very quiet, no mates, very quiet in the mornings. Hey,

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Speaker 2: have we got to the bottom of why thousands of

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Speaker 7: you know, the suburbs that are experiencing all these issues.

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Speaker 7: But there was about fifteen thousand last night, so that's

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Speaker 7: now down to three thousand, So that's pretty good. So

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Speaker 7: you've probably got no water or very very low pressure.

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Speaker 7: But I can tell you if you're waking up this

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Speaker 7: morning and that's you, you know. Pop on down because

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Speaker 7: the water tank is at Henderson Valley Road, at the

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Speaker 7: corner of actually Bought Road and Netherlands Avenue, also the

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Speaker 7: corner of Glengarry Road and Maywood Crescent.

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Speaker 2: Pop down your dogs, have a shower.

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Speaker 7: I'll get the morning. Yet does that be the worst

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Speaker 7: way you get up in the morning? You want to

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Speaker 7: brush your teeth and every shower.

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Speaker 2: And then you look at how much water's left in

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Speaker 2: that kettle and you go, well, that's all we've got

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 7: Until someone goes and see. If that was me, I

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Speaker 7: would just be all about me. Don't worry about anyone

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Speaker 7: else in your household.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you?

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Speaker 7: What are you saying?

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Speaker 2: What about the weather today?

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Speaker 7: Well there'll be no rain this morning? Unfortunately, that would

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Speaker 7: have been quite good. You could have put a barrel

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Speaker 7: or a plastic container out there. It's fine morning cloud

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Speaker 7: there will be as few spots of ways of lated

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Speaker 7: afternoon showers twenty five still miice and warm and moggy.

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Speaker 2: You neither as always a pleasure, I know.

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Speaker 7: Will you be here next week?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not. Oh sorry, it's just a one I'm

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Speaker 2: just a one week wonder. Me and my mentionary friends.

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Speaker 2: Next up after the UK Europe. Here on an early edition.

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Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: It is fourteen to six and I'm joined now by

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Speaker 2: Vincent macaviny, our UK and Europe correspondent. Good morning, Vincent,

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Speaker 2: Good morning. The Southport killer has been sentenced.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, in the past hour he's been sentenced. This is

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Speaker 12: Axel Ruda Cabana, who you might remember last July killed

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Speaker 12: three young girls and attempted to murder ten other people

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Speaker 12: and injured many when he attacked a tailors themed dance

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Speaker 12: class just at the start of the school summer holidays.

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Speaker 12: It was due to be a long trial, but when

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Speaker 12: he appeared in court for the first day earlier in

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Speaker 12: the week, he changed his plea to guilty and today

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Speaker 12: there has been the sentencing of this Now he himself

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Speaker 12: acted out in court this morning, yelling saying that he

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Speaker 12: was unwell and that he wasn't being looked after. He

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Speaker 12: was taken out of court for the disruption and it

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Speaker 12: was felt he couldn't be brought back in for the

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Speaker 12: reading of the sentences. But he is received. Because of

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Speaker 12: his age, he cannot be given a whole life sentence,

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Speaker 12: the most strict category in the UK, just under eighteen.

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Speaker 12: But he's been given a minimum of fifty two years

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Speaker 12: in jail, which is the longest jail sentence for someone

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Speaker 12: under the age of eighteen we think that has ever

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Speaker 12: been handed down. At that point, he would you know,

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Speaker 12: face potentially getting to a parole hearing, but the judge

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Speaker 12: has indicated it's incredibly unlikely he will ever be released.

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Speaker 2: Vincent. How is the US responding to President Trump suggesting

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Speaker 2: that Europe needs to focus on increasing its defense to

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Speaker 2: deal with Pusan well.

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Speaker 12: As we speak right now, Donald Trump is addressing the

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Speaker 12: World Economic Forum in Davas, and he has been reading

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Speaker 12: Europe somewhat of a riot act, saying that they're still

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Speaker 12: not contributing enough to NATO, that they've got too many tariffs,

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Speaker 12: that they need to start making their products in the

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Speaker 12: United States, and sort of saying that they've gone after

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Speaker 12: too many US companies too much regulation, particularly citing the

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Speaker 12: tech companies of course, which he has a close relationship with.

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Speaker 12: But the other thing that he's said is that he is,

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Speaker 12: you know, blaming He seems to accept that Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 12: is to blame for the war in Ukraine, that illegal invasion.

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Speaker 12: He's warned him that Russia could face more tariffs, and

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Speaker 12: it's Plutin to de escalate it. So it does seem

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Speaker 12: like some of the overtures that Vladimis Lensky has made

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Speaker 12: over the past couple of years to Donald Trump have

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Speaker 12: worked to secure his favor, and the Kremlin has responded

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Speaker 12: saying they're ready for a quote mutually respectful dialogue on

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Speaker 12: the issue of Ukraine. So we do believe that behind

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Speaker 12: the scenes, the White House and the Kremlin are working

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Speaker 12: on some sort of summit between Trump and Putin, But

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Speaker 12: we might say as well, we might as well also

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Speaker 12: expect some proper dialogue later this year, perhaps a conference

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Speaker 12: or meeting of the three leaders as they try to

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Speaker 12: negotiate a ceasefire settlement.

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Speaker 2: Vincent to makea any Thank you so much for your time,

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Speaker 2: zibby eleven to six. Now, during his State of the

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Speaker 2: Nation speech, Prime Minister Christopher Luckson announced a new foreign

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Speaker 2: investment agency with the aim of driving more overseas revenue

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Speaker 2: to our shores. It's a model based on Ireland in Singapore,

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Speaker 2: and we'll see invest New Zealand become part of New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Trade and Enterprise, which will become an autonomous Crown entity.

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Speaker 2: Oliver Hartwich is the executive director for the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Initiative and he joins me, now, thanks for your time, Oliver.

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Speaker 9: Very good morning.

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Speaker 8: You took.

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Speaker 2: I believe you took the Prime Minister on overseas trips

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Speaker 2: to see how a model like this could work. What

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Speaker 2: do you make of the announcement.

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Speaker 9: I think it's a wonderful announcement because it's exactly what

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Speaker 9: New Zealand needs. And you're right, we traveled with a

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Speaker 9: Prime minister. We traveled with him to Switzerland and Denmark

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Speaker 9: when he was a member of our group. But we

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Speaker 9: also took another group to Ireland and we encountered the

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Speaker 9: IDA Ireland agency, exactly the model on which invest New

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Speaker 9: Zealand is now based, and so we saw how it works.

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Speaker 9: We saw it in practice, and from that perspective, I

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Speaker 9: can tell you this is exactly the kind of investment

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Speaker 9: agency that really makes a different that attracts for investors

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Speaker 9: to the country, and that creates jobs and opportunities. So

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Speaker 9: I'm not surprised that Christopher Luxen is the enthusiastic about

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Speaker 9: this model because we were too.

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Speaker 2: What's going to be key to its success?

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Speaker 9: Oliver, Well, the really important thing is actually that it

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Speaker 9: goes hand in hand with liberalization of our foreign direct

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Speaker 9: investment rules, because they are really complicated. We have made

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Speaker 9: it extremely hard for international investors to navigate New Zealand.

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Speaker 9: And so when they look at potentially investing in New

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Speaker 9: Zealand currently, they will find all these rules and regulations

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Speaker 9: and in the end they will ask themselves, well, if

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Speaker 9: it really worth it, I should be really trying to

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Speaker 9: jump through all of these hoops and jump over all

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Speaker 9: of these hurdles, or should be rather take our money elsewhere?

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Speaker 9: And often the case is that they said, well, it's

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Speaker 9: really not worth it. It's a small market, it's a

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Speaker 9: small country. New Zealand is not and must have in

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Speaker 9: our portfolio. It's a nice to have, and so we

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Speaker 9: rather go go somewhere else. And if we change the rules,

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Speaker 9: if you make it easier, if you make it more

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Speaker 9: welcoming to be here and to be an investor in

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Speaker 9: New Zealand, then they would consider New Zealand more. And

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Speaker 9: then if they also encounter the invest New Zealand agency

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Speaker 9: which takes them by the hand guides them through the

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Speaker 9: system and tells them really how New Zealand works, how

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Speaker 9: the country takes them, really makes that lending in New

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Speaker 9: Zealand a little bit easier. Then I think we have

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Speaker 9: a good chance to get way more international investment than

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Speaker 9: we currently have.

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Speaker 2: Oliver, how long do you think it will take to

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Speaker 2: make those changes to the rules of legislature.

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Speaker 9: Oh, the legislative changes are easy. You could basically do

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Speaker 9: them almost overnight. But you have to create an agency,

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Speaker 9: and you have to create an agency with a right mindset.

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Speaker 9: We have New Zealand Trade and Investor of course right now,

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Speaker 9: and that is part of their role also right now

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Speaker 9: to attract international investors. But the mindset so far has

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Speaker 9: been to are always be a bit careful, really emphasize

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Speaker 9: the risks and really make sure that we are getting

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Speaker 9: the right kind of investors. We have to turn the

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Speaker 9: mindset into something that really wants investors. I mean that's

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Speaker 9: what Ireland's done. Ireland at one stage decided they no

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Speaker 9: longer wanted to be the poor house of Europe, and

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Speaker 9: then they had this mindset to really get cracking and

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Speaker 9: really change things and attract investors. And we have to

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Speaker 9: do exactly the same, so Oliver, how.

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Speaker 2: Soon do you expect it to start drawing in more

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Speaker 2: overseas investment.

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Speaker 9: I hope within the next month. I mean, the signal

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Speaker 9: that I'm going to sending out is positive. The signal

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Speaker 9: to the world is we are open for business. We

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Speaker 9: want you here. And that's quite a change of mindset,

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Speaker 9: and I think if we continued on that path, that

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Speaker 9: change could happen quite quickly.

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Speaker 2: And look, as you've been traveling to Singapore and Ireland,

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Speaker 2: anything did you pick up on anything we need to

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Speaker 2: be aware of to you know that potentially you know

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Speaker 2: might be wrong, or we addressed sort of any issues

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Speaker 2: that may arise.

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Speaker 9: No, I think what we have to do is actually

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Speaker 9: we just have to make the case. We have to

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Speaker 9: explain that this is worthwhile. I can tell you one

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Speaker 9: experience we had in Ireland. We have hosted the Irish

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Speaker 9: Economics Minister at the time, and he told us that

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Speaker 9: he could not travel to a single place in Ireland,

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Speaker 9: not even the smallest village, without being asked by the lawcus, hey, minister,

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Speaker 9: what can you do to get foreign and into our area?

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Speaker 9: And then we asked, successfull would that happen in New

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Speaker 9: Zealand and the answer was probably not because here we

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Speaker 9: haven't actually learned to actually appreciate the benefits of foreign investment.

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Speaker 9: We always think about them as risks. We think about

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Speaker 9: them as becoming tenants in our own country, boards selling

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Speaker 9: out about losing control. The Irish narrative was different. The

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Speaker 9: Irish narrative was always what can this investment do for us?

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Speaker 9: How many jobs can it create? How much opportunity do

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Speaker 9: we get out of it? How much growth do we

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Speaker 9: create out of this? So it was a growth mindset

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Speaker 9: and that's what the Primeinster talked about yesterday. He said

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Speaker 9: we should actually think about what can it do to

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Speaker 9: make the economy grow, what can it do to make

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Speaker 9: New Zealand a better place? And that should be our

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Speaker 9: mindset rather than thinking what are they any potential risks?

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Speaker 2: Oliver, thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you. Oliver hartwhich is the executive

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Speaker 2: director for the New Zealand Initiative. It is six to six.

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Speaker 1: The latest from around the country and around the world.

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Speaker 1: Earlier with one room, Make your Property Search Simple Stalks.

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Speaker 2: This is early edition in coming up at six this morning.

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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridges with you on the Mike Hosking breakfast, Good morning,

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Speaker 2: Good morn. We've got a lot of paper there.

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Speaker 5: I do have a lot of paper in front of me.

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Speaker 5: Now you've spoken about the Oscars and the nominations. I

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Speaker 5: have a problem with them. Why why is everyone making

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Speaker 5: movies that are three three and a half hours long

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Speaker 5: when people's attention spans have actually reduced, the movies have

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Speaker 5: gone increased in length that the Bruce list is apparently

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Speaker 5: three hours and forty minutes.

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Speaker 2: It's three hours and thirty five minutes. There is a

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Speaker 2: fifteen minute interval which is embedded in the film, so

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Speaker 2: you don't have a choice. It happens at about the

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Speaker 2: one forty mark. It is an extraordinary film. If you

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Speaker 2: love film, if.

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Speaker 5: You're extraordinary long, it's that too.

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Speaker 2: It's stunning. Look, if you're a discerning filmgoer, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: love it.

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Speaker 9: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is fantastic. But you do raise a very good point.

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Speaker 2: Why does Wicked a musical have to be two films?

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Speaker 5: We could annawl that and that's two and a half two

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Speaker 5: more than two and a half hours two films.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be five hours, right.

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Speaker 5: So two and a half hours and you don't even

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Speaker 5: get an ending, but.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm sure there's more important things to talk about,

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Speaker 2: and you'll be covering them off in the Mic Hosking

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Speaker 2: Breakfast at six. Thank you for having me this week.

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Speaker 2: I will see you on Sunday nine am on the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Session. Take Care.

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