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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on

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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof Love where You Live,

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Speaker 1: News Talk Sibbi.

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Speaker 2: Good morning at six after five. Great to have your

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Speaker 2: company coming up on the show. Andrew Little on this

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Speaker 2: town meeting in Wellington last night. Things got a bit

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Speaker 2: Argie Barji there Donald demo in Australia for us the

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Speaker 2: one billion dollar industry that might surprise you, and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about Contact Energy and that capital raise they announced

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Speaker 2: yesterday the agenda Tuesday of seventeenth of February. Great to

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Speaker 2: have your company this morning. Star has had to do

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Speaker 2: a bit of a U turn on canceling those council

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Speaker 2: elections and that has been forced by some legal advice.

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Speaker 3: The government in this has been bounced into this position

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Speaker 3: by Nigel Farage and Reform. It is astonishing. It is

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Speaker 3: the fifteenth U turn we have had and the government

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Speaker 3: has lost a huge amount of political capital defending the

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Speaker 3: postponement of these council elections for months and months and months.

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Speaker 2: Staying in Europe, but of an update from Rubio on

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Speaker 2: the Ukraine talks tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: The only nation on Earth that apparently can get both

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Speaker 4: sides to the table to talk. I'm not here to

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Speaker 4: insult anybody, but the United Nations hasn't been able to

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Speaker 4: do it, and there's no other country in Europe that's

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Speaker 4: been able to do it. The United States has been

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Speaker 4: successful at being able to get both sides to talk.

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Speaker 4: I mean, for the first time, you know, in a

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Speaker 4: of military officials from both sides sat down last week

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Speaker 4: in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in the Ue, Savannah Guthrie's trying to get a

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Speaker 2: mum back again.

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Speaker 5: To whoever has her or knows where she is.

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Speaker 6: It's never too late, and you're not lost or alone.

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Speaker 2: That glove By is saying that they've found the investigators.

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Speaker 2: They're testing it the DNA as we speak, five after seven.

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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's

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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof love where

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Speaker 1: you live used to a.

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Speaker 2: Little more like seven after five, but great to have

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Speaker 2: you here either way. Nine two nine two is the

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Speaker 2: number to text. You're gonna hear a lot today. Later

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Speaker 2: on this afternoon, you're gonna hear a lot about the

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Speaker 2: cost of fixing roads and pipes and all the really

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Speaker 2: basic stuff that we all use and that we all

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Speaker 2: pay for through rates and taxes. Chris Bishop's going to

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Speaker 2: give a speech apparently releasing his strategy. And you don't

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Speaker 2: need to look far to know why we need to

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Speaker 2: keep on top of these things. Look at Bromley, look

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Speaker 2: at more Point, Pick a North Island town on the map,

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Speaker 2: dot a pin. If we don't want the rain to

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Speaker 2: wash away that bridge or that railway line, then we're

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Speaker 2: going to need to invest in it, aren't we. And

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Speaker 2: you don't just spray and walk away with infrastructure, do

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Speaker 2: you. You don't just build it and then leave it. You

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Speaker 2: actually need to maintain it, and that costs a lot

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Speaker 2: of money to do. This is not rocket science this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's fixing, boring, basic stuff. Now, who does that sound

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Speaker 2: like Luxon? And you know, despite what some people say

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Speaker 2: one pretty much focused on the boring stuff. Bishop reckons

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Speaker 2: the cost to repair, wait for this, and modernize the

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Speaker 2: I mean, how much money even is that? I was

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Speaker 2: question is, once we all find out this afternoon just

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Speaker 2: Africa money for non essential items? Do we even know

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Speaker 2: the meaning of essential anymore? Bryan Bread nine two ninety

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Speaker 2: catch it this afternoon. Next we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: contact and the capital rays that they're looking at and

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Speaker 2: what exactly that money will be spent. On ten after five.

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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth

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Speaker 1: analysis edition with Ryan French and one Roote Love where

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Speaker 2: Be twelve after five. It's not just Trump calling out

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Speaker 2: Europe on military spending, it's Europe calling out Europe on

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Speaker 2: France and saying you're not actually going to meet the targets.

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Speaker 2: this morning, NATO. And this is the target that the

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Speaker 2: New France, Poland four point eight percent. Obviously that you

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Speaker 2: spending more. Germany three and a half percent. Good on,

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Speaker 2: Germany has said basically, you need to up your game

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Speaker 2: Prayan Bridge. It is thirteen minutes half to five now,

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Speaker 2: so reporting season underway. Contact Energy posting a half yar

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Speaker 2: net profit increase of forty four percent to about two

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Speaker 2: a surprise capital raise half a billion dollars they want

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Speaker 2: renewable energy investment. Oliver Amanda is shareholders Association's CEO with

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Speaker 2: me now, Oliver, good morning, Good to have you on

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Speaker 2: the program. Was this a surprise for you.

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Speaker 7: All honesty, it probably probably wasn't. A yes, I'm out

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Speaker 7: also driven by Contact owned strategy as to invest more

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Speaker 7: I think where and I don't think Contact will be

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Speaker 7: investments out of its own cash flow. But obviously the

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Speaker 7: to look to raise capital.

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Speaker 2: And the if you're an existing shareholder, what do you

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Speaker 2: do with this information because it kind of dilutes your equity,

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Speaker 7: It does look I think the important thing is that

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Speaker 7: you make an active decision. It is a share purchase plan,

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Speaker 7: so there's no value to be gain as a shareholder.

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Speaker 7: But by simply doing nothing, you actually have to look

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Speaker 7: this something that I want to invest further in the

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Speaker 7: nature of the raise means that the and there is

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Speaker 7: some dilution attach that You're quite right. I think it's

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Speaker 7: actual final placement price will be. But there's an offset

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Speaker 7: going to not put money out now and obviously reduce

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Speaker 7: a slightly reduced dividendslow in the future. Actual value the

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Speaker 7: Zealand market has seen for quite some time. All those

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Speaker 7: recent capital raises have really been around with storing companies

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Speaker 7: It's if you're focused on value recreasive or gross investment,

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Speaker 7: which is quite a slightly different equation for shareholder.

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Speaker 2: Which is kind of nice too, Oliver. It means they've

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Speaker 2: got their eyes up looking at the horizon. At least,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning, Oliver Amanda from the

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Speaker 2: Shareholders Association. It's five sixteen and bread half of that money.

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Speaker 2: By the way, two hundred and thirty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: of the funds is going to go towards a giant

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Speaker 2: Tesler battery bank near Glenbrook. You know the steel mill

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Speaker 2: They're going to dump it next to it and that'll

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Speaker 2: smooth out the peaks and troughs and elec patricity supply

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Speaker 2: that's two hundred and thirty five million of your five

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five million dollar capital raised. Event seventeen

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Speaker 2: after five News Talks they'd be next, we'll speak to

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Speaker 2: Business New Zealand. You know when people go they say

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Speaker 2: all who we know Dewey, because Business New Zealand's come

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Speaker 2: Five nineteen on news Talk said B. We had the

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Speaker 2: pside the performance of services in dicks out yesterday. Remember

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Speaker 2: this accounts for three quarters of our economy, the services sector,

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Speaker 2: and it was it was down point eight points, but

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Speaker 2: the long term average, but we are an expansion negative

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Speaker 2: low co confidence, holiday shutdowns, and high operating costs, which

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Speaker 2: are the middle of those three. I find most interesting

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Speaker 2: because perhaps there was a point to this argument that

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Speaker 2: we take too long a summer break. In New Zealand

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Speaker 2: twenty after Ryan Bridge, you report out this morning Show's

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Speaker 2: business conference has contributed nearly a billion bucks to the

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Speaker 2: Kebe economy last year. That's about one and a half

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Speaker 2: million visitor nights with an average daily spend of six

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty five dollars. Katherine bed Is, Business Ends

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Speaker 2: Advocacy Director, joining us this morning. Catherine, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: So this is from the ICs, the International Conventions end

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Speaker 2: of the newly opened and conjunction with business events industry

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Speaker 2: out here at OH So is this all just hype

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Speaker 2: or is this real and tangible and a growing industry?

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Speaker 8: Oh? Look, I think it's absolutely real and tangible. And

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Speaker 8: Auckland's been waiting a long time for the convention Center,

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Speaker 8: but it's predicted to add another three thirty three thousand

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Speaker 8: got to have them big enough to take actually quite

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Speaker 8: big conferences. So it's a little bit like stadium shows

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Speaker 8: for big music acts. If you don't have the events

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Speaker 2: Five twenty six on newstalks. Beware the insatiable beast that

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Speaker 1: I'd been no, it's.

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Speaker 2: Away from six news talks they've been coming up. It's

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Speaker 2: good morning. All right, Milford sound a bit of a

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Speaker 2: March the third fantastic news. How's your weather.

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Speaker 11: It's time for us to get the rain. That heavy

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Speaker 2: good morning. So you've got finally got to the source

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Speaker 12: Finally, look. The boil water notice has lifted for thousands

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Speaker 2: Right, and everyone's saying you're going to get whacked by

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Speaker 12: How bad it'll be pouring down this morning, already flooding

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Speaker 2: Thank you clear mex and Wellington mechs you weren't lying yesterday.

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Speaker 2: How's the clean up? And people still got without power

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Speaker 13: Wellington region. Winds of up to one thirty around the city,

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Speaker 13: two hundred at Mount Coco, gusts of two forty killing

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Speaker 13: meters per hour at the Cape. Strongest southerly is in

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Speaker 13: well Over, a decade. Apparently a lot of property damage

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Speaker 13: as well that we're probably still counting the toll on roofs, fences, trees,

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Speaker 13: debris flooding as well. In Lower Hut around the way

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Speaker 13: Fettou Stream some properties flooded there. Pretty much every school

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Speaker 13: was closed yesterday, and of course, as you mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 13: raw sewage once again flowing in the waters. That's going

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Speaker 13: to happen every time there's some rain. Apparently, the good

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Speaker 13: news is most forms of public transport resumed today. The

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Speaker 13: weather as well should be a great improvement through the

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Speaker 13: rest of the week.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like it's much needed. Max, that's good news. And

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Speaker 2: today with no woman.

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Speaker 13: Partly cloudy with the odds shower northerly is certainly a

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Speaker 13: more still twenty the high Nice one.

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Speaker 2: Cheers, Max, morning, good morning. We've got a facelift coming

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Speaker 2: for some shopping site.

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Speaker 14: Jo.

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Speaker 15: Now, this is exciting because five million dollars is going

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Speaker 15: to be injected. This is to revitalize one of Auckland's

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Speaker 15: longest standing shopping locations. Now, this private capital is going

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Speaker 15: to be used to overhaul this is the historic Queen's

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Speaker 15: Arcade and it's going to be tuned into a boutique

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Speaker 15: luxury retail precinct. So lots of construction's going to happen.

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Speaker 15: This is at the lower Queen Street site. It's going

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Speaker 15: to start in April and due for completion by November.

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Speaker 15: Apparently the Queen's Arcade property manager. That's in right, He says. Look,

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Speaker 15: it's going to retain that heritage element because that building

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Speaker 15: is you know, quite old, like century old building. So

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Speaker 15: they're going to replace the floor, they're going to get

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Speaker 15: rid of the escalators, and they're got to replace it

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Speaker 15: with an elevator.

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Speaker 2: Oh big an age. Okay, Hey, it's all happening in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: It's all starting to happen. How's that weather, Neva.

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Speaker 15: Partly cloudy or chow mainly from the afternoon light wins today.

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Speaker 15: Thank goodness, Hi have twenty four brilliant.

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Speaker 2: You have a fantastic bit morning, Neva, and I will

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Speaker 2: see you back here very shortly. It's seventeen minutes away

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Speaker 2: from six. We'll head to donn a demo in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends an eye insurance peace of

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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: God to the six. We'll get to Andrew Lilan wellingon

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Speaker 2: shortly first, the alleged bond Iterra gunman has had his

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Speaker 2: first court appearance done in Demo's our Australia correspondent on

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Speaker 2: a good morning.

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Speaker 16: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: So what happened?

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Speaker 6: Well, twenty four year old Navid Akram has appeared in

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Speaker 6: court for the first time. He's charged with fifty nine offenses,

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Speaker 6: including fifteen counts of murder and on of committing a

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Speaker 6: terrorist attack.

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Speaker 16: Mister Akram's lawyer says it's too early to say how

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Speaker 16: his client will plead. He appeared via a video.

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Speaker 9: Link in a Sydney court and a senior magistrate was

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Speaker 9: well has extended existing suppression orders in the case.

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Speaker 16: Let me explain.

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Speaker 9: So Akram spoke only when Deputy Chief Magistrates Sharon Freud

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Speaker 9: asked if he had heard the discussion about an extension

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Speaker 9: of these suppression orders and he said yeah. The court

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Speaker 9: orders were made just before Christmas and it means that

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Speaker 9: it covers the identities of dozens of the survivors of

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Speaker 9: the shooting and the orders do allow survivors to self

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Speaker 9: identify if they do wish to tell their story publicly.

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Speaker 9: So Akram obviously remains in custody in goldn Supermac's prison and.

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Speaker 16: The case is set to return to court in April.

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Speaker 2: All right, and moving to the supermarket chain. That's getting

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Speaker 2: a bit of slap on the rest, but it could

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Speaker 2: actually be worse than that.

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Speaker 16: M This is interesting. The Federal court has just begun

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Speaker 16: the A Triple C has accused supermarket giant Coals the

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Speaker 16: planned campaign to mislead customers. So the A Trible C

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Speaker 16: is actually suing the supermarket. And we've heard from a

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Speaker 16: former A Triple C boss who's called it the case

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Speaker 16: of the century. So lawyers say, well, lawyer's representing the

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Speaker 16: consumer watchdog, I should say, claim that Cole's price discounts

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Speaker 16: are utterly misleading. And a legal counsel for the A

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Speaker 16: Triable C has told the court that Coles what they

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Speaker 16: did was they jacked up prices of hundreds of household

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Speaker 16: products for a short period, and then they discounted them

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Speaker 16: to a price that was actually more than or the

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Speaker 16: same as the regular price. So Coal's customers, according to

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Speaker 16: legal counsel, had repeatedly well, Coal's customers had been deceived

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Speaker 16: basically by Coals and the pricing was just not fair. Dicome,

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Speaker 16: as he put it, to the court. Of course, Colser

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Speaker 16: has rejected these allegations and will continue its opening remarks today.

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Speaker 2: All right, don appreciate that update, Thank you, Donald, our

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Speaker 2: Australia correspondent. Time is twelve away from.

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Speaker 1: Six Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: So we had that big meeting in Wellington last night,

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Speaker 2: the town meeting over the sewage and the water business

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Speaker 2: got quite heated at times. People will you not want

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Speaker 2: to hear about and we don't.

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Speaker 10: Want to hear things.

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Speaker 2: We want the true We have an independent review coming apparently,

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Speaker 2: does that give you confidence find out what went wrong,

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Speaker 2: spell out exactly what happens next. Andrew Little is willing

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Speaker 2: to meet with us live Andrew, Good morning, Good morning. Right,

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Speaker 2: So last night's meeting, Fearsoe people were pretty brassed off.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, but I think that's pretty obvious, and I've been

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Speaker 17: picking that up as I've been out and about in

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Speaker 17: the South Coast areas in the last week or so.

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Speaker 17: People justifiably angry. This is not something that would happen.

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Speaker 17: It's affecting businesses, households are suffering the odors that goes

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Speaker 17: with trying to get the plants sorted out and all

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Speaker 17: those sorts of things. So, yeah, I think people are

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Speaker 17: genuinely concerned and wanted to hear some explanations and.

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Speaker 2: In terms of the actual sewage, because we know when

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Speaker 2: it rains is coming out, how long before people can

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Speaker 2: go back to swimming in that area.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I think that's the big question. So we've had

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Speaker 17: ever since the plant failed, all the seas around all

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Speaker 17: the bays have been monitored just to see what's happening

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Speaker 17: with the contamination. It's shown pretty stable that the low,

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Speaker 17: very low levels of contamination ifen at all. Then we

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Speaker 17: had the storm coming through and that's change it all

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Speaker 17: up a bit. So we'll see what the monitoring shows

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Speaker 17: of the next two or three days. And the idea

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Speaker 17: is of vision we get to a point where we

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Speaker 17: can say, actually, you know what the risk is X amount.

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Speaker 17: It's actually pretty low and it could be sad to

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Speaker 17: go back to the beach and possibly into the sea

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Speaker 17: in certain places, But we want we just want to

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Speaker 17: get a good profile, get good data to build up

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Speaker 17: that picture, and then on a day to day basis,

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Speaker 17: give people advice on you know, what the risk factors

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Speaker 17: might be, what might be a good day to go

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Speaker 17: to the best of what might not be. But we're

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Speaker 17: a few days away from that yet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we got you could be back swimming in

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Speaker 2: wigs potentially.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: If the if the monitoring shows but actually the contamination

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Speaker 17: of various beaches as low and the risk factors are

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Speaker 17: simply you're not going to add to it, then it

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Speaker 17: may well be okay to do that.

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Speaker 2: All right. What about people actually not believing what the

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Speaker 2: Wellington Water is telling them and also the testing that's

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Speaker 2: been done. I've heard from people who live there who say, actually,

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Speaker 2: we don't trust we don't actually believe them anymore. Is

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Speaker 2: that a problem?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, well, obviously there's a problem with people that don't

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Speaker 17: trust it, don't have any credibility. I mean, that's the

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Speaker 17: reason the reason why I wanted an independent review of

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Speaker 17: everything that's happened is executive that you can't have whether

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Speaker 17: it's willing to city Council or well Into Water or

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Speaker 17: if the older or anybody else involved in the whole

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Speaker 17: thing marking their own homework. You've got to have somebody

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Speaker 17: completely independent. So that's now in the hands of the

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Speaker 17: minister that there will be a review and it's up

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Speaker 17: to the ministers to our points and qualified expert independent

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Speaker 17: people to tell ay tell us what went wrong and

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Speaker 17: then b tell us what needs to happen to prevent

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Speaker 17: this happening again.

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Speaker 2: But sorry Andrew, not minister, mister Mayor. We've had loads

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Speaker 2: of people texting in this morning. Can we find the

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Speaker 2: hell out of this French company for operating it? If

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Speaker 2: it's found that they didn't keep up with the maintenance

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Speaker 2: and all the stuff that they should have been doing,

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Speaker 2: what do you do with them?

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Speaker 17: Yeah? I think I think that's part of what the

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Speaker 17: river is to tell us about the causes. Because of

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Speaker 17: the causes and we know there'll be a mechanical something

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Speaker 17: didn't work in the whole thing. Further than cleft the

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Speaker 17: systems CPS, the other thing is what was the oversight

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Speaker 17: and governance, Like did people get information, did people know

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Speaker 17: that there were problems and did they fail to act

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Speaker 17: on them? And that could be the oliot that could

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Speaker 17: be willing to water, it could be well into city council.

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Speaker 17: So they're all in the frame until we kind of

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Speaker 17: know what exactly has gone on.

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Speaker 2: All right, And as for the pet projects and that

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Speaker 2: you know your Wellington miles, your Golden miles and all that

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Speaker 2: stuff is your message to Wellington. All of that stuff

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Speaker 2: is on hold until we get our basics, literally what

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Speaker 2: we do in the morning, first thing when we wake up.

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Speaker 2: So the doubt.

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Speaker 17: Yeah. In fact, I've been saying that even before this happened,

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Speaker 17: just because a bunch of other challenges we faced anywhere

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Speaker 17: that that just adds to it. The priority has got

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Speaker 17: to be a functioning searge treatment plant, and frankly, nothing

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Speaker 17: else meant it until we sort out and so we've

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Speaker 17: got to get our priorities right.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. Andrew little Wellington Mere eight

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Speaker 2: to six News Talk sad B.

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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where You Live News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Hed B six away from Sex News Talks said b

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama's done a podcast interview and he was asked

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Speaker 2: where he's declared really that aliens are real?

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Speaker 14: Are aliens real?

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Speaker 17: They're real, but I haven't seen them and they're not

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Speaker 17: being kept in uh.

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Speaker 9: Fifty one.

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Speaker 8: There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and

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Speaker 8: they head it from the President of the United States.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's all real, but he just can't prove it.

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Speaker 2: Five away from six, Mike's in the studio. Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 14: Do you take that seriously realized it's a joke.

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Speaker 2: No, he's been serious. He thinks they're real. He just

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Speaker 2: can't he's not been shown any evidence of you listen

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Speaker 2: to the whole thing.

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Speaker 14: Yes, They goes on to about area fifty one. Yeah,

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Speaker 14: and then they said to him, what's the first thing

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Speaker 14: you want to know when your president? He goes where

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Speaker 14: the aliens are?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was it was a joke. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: he but that's this is separate. This is him saying

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Speaker 2: he believes that they're real. You reckon? Yeah, Okay, I

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Speaker 2: mean I sort of think you'd be stupid not to

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Speaker 2: think there's something out there.

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Speaker 14: I've always been opened the idea if like one landed

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Speaker 14: out there.

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Speaker 2: Now, would you be surprised?

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Speaker 14: No, well, I'd be surprised, obviously, but because parking's a

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Speaker 14: nightmare down the street. But but I'd go, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 14: there's aliens. But if no one believed me, I'd go

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Speaker 14: that's fine.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, you wouldn't need to be a conspiracy banging

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Speaker 2: on the radio. Precisely, Mike, And is aliens again?

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Speaker 14: Have you ever been to a public meeting, by the way, Yeah,

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Speaker 14: what'd you go?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: When I was a teenager, I was part of the

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Speaker 2: youth group you see here, I was on the youth council.

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Speaker 2: In fact, were so I actually in carpety?

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Speaker 14: Okay, so the Capital Youth Council.

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Speaker 2: Tell us?

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Speaker 1: More right?

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Speaker 2: What have I done?

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Speaker 10: So?

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Speaker 2: I was on the I may have shared the odd meeting?

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Speaker 14: You shared a public meeting?

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Speaker 2: How excited? I'm about twelve people when you were thirteen?

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Speaker 14: Were you given a gaffl for you present?

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Speaker 2: When I was thirteen, I was a bit of a loser.

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Speaker 2: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 14: So okay, outside of you being a youth counselor have

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Speaker 14: you have you ever been to a public meeting?

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Speaker 17: No?

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Speaker 2: Not as an adult?

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Speaker 14: Does anything ever get done?

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Speaker 2: I think I think boils get lanced?

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Speaker 14: Do they? So a bit of frustration? Yeah, I see

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Speaker 14: you and I don't like you, and you need to

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Speaker 14: do better and stuff like that. Do people see you

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Speaker 14: like that?

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Speaker 2: And I hope not? We weren't doing anything significant or meaningful.

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Speaker 14: Well, put an address up later for old photos of

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Speaker 14: you on the council from years ago.

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Speaker 2: Have a great show, Mike, have a great morning. Everyone.

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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow.

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