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Speaker 1: Now to something else. SALEGP has pulled the plug on

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Speaker 1: next year's event in Littleton. The New Zealand Herald understands

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Speaker 1: there will still be a New Zealand event included in

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Speaker 1: the sale GP schedule next year, but as of yet

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Speaker 1: nothing's been confirmed. Sale GP boss Sir Russell Coots made

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Speaker 1: it clear during this year's event in Littleton that he

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Speaker 1: wasn't happy that racing was stopped because of Hector's dolphins.

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Speaker 2: With any decision like this, there needs to be a balance.

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Speaker 2: For example, one could say that because there's a chance

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Speaker 2: of a road death, that we shouldn't be allowed to

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Speaker 2: drive on the roads. I suspect most people would conclude

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Speaker 2: that such a stance would be far too extreme and

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Speaker 2: not practical.

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Speaker 1: Lauren Aberhart is christ Church, New Zealand, General Manager of

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Speaker 1: Destination and Attraction and is with us now.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Lauren, Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well? Thank you? Are you guzzit? Or did

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Speaker 1: you see this coming?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: We're incredibly disappointed. And we've been working for years with

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Speaker 3: SALGP and worked very hard on securing and retaining the

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five events, so of course we disappointed.

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Speaker 1: How much money are you guys? Are going to lose

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Speaker 1: as a result.

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Speaker 3: So the economic compared or the visitors end was three

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Speaker 3: point three million for the last event, So that's disappointing.

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Speaker 3: But we do have a huge partline of major events

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Speaker 3: this summer that will okay continue.

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Speaker 1: Just Deloitte has priced at about twenty one million US

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Speaker 1: dollars for the area just from this event. Are they wrong?

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Speaker 3: No, So that's a different methodology which takes into account

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Speaker 3: economic impact. So that's also right. We consider three point

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Speaker 3: three million of new visitors beend money. On top of

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Speaker 3: that is the event delivery cost which takes it up

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Speaker 3: to twenty one million.

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Speaker 1: What could you guys have changed to keep it?

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Speaker 3: So? The Marine Memal Protection Acts nineteen seventy eight is

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Speaker 3: a national piece of legislation. It's was passed in Parliament

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Speaker 3: many many years ago and has been something that has

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Speaker 3: restricted the ability to race in Littleton because it's a

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Speaker 3: marine menmal sanctuary. So complying with that piece of legislation

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Speaker 3: is largely what has created some of the operational challenges.

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Speaker 1: Was there a little bit Lauren? Was there a little

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Speaker 1: bit of discretion though that could have been used by

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Speaker 1: key players to maybe just make it a little easier or

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Speaker 1: was that not even available under the legislation? No discretion whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: So we explored what the options were with the Department

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Speaker 3: of Conservation. They were very actively involved and gave us

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Speaker 3: the grant to run the event on the harbor. We

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Speaker 3: wanted to work through options for that. For the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five event that sal GP deemed that the time

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Speaker 3: frames and the potential to make changes were probably insurmountable

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Speaker 3: in that short time frame. So was from twenty four

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Speaker 3: We had twelve weeks, so we couldn't overturn legislation in

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Speaker 3: that time.

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Speaker 1: Was it possible? Was it possible that under the existing legislation,

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Speaker 1: Doc would have been able to change things enough potentially

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Speaker 1: for sale GP to be okay with it.

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Speaker 3: It's incredibly dependent on the day where the dolphins are.

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Speaker 3: I think from Doc's perspective, because we all had twelve

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Speaker 3: weeks to turn around this most recent event, there was

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Speaker 3: no way to change the legislation. Potentially for twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 3: with a little bit more time and working with the minister,

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Speaker 3: we may have been able to look at what options were.

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Speaker 3: Agent deemed that too great a risk and if we.

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Speaker 1: Change the legislation, Lauren would we have been. Would it

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Speaker 1: have been like a free for all slice the dolphins

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Speaker 1: up or would it have been just at the edges.

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Speaker 3: Look, this is probably where I'm outside of my scope.

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Speaker 3: The legislation, as far as we understand it means that

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Speaker 3: we need to comply with it. The Department of Conservation

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Speaker 3: have been fantastic and working with us. From their perspective,

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Speaker 3: there's also an opportunity here where we have raised the

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Speaker 3: flight attectors dolphins through sale GP and we're just disappointed

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Speaker 3: we weren't able to continue that partnership for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Lauren, thanks very much, really appreciate it. Lauren Aberhart

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Speaker 1: christ Ut Musie On, General Manager of Destination and Attraction.

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