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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Welcome to the program. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for choosing us today. Over the next sixty minutes, international

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Speaker 3: tourist spending has returned to pre COVID levels, but tourism

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Speaker 3: domestically has dipped. This is according to the latest figures

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Speaker 3: to the tourism industry next when Simpeter's has met with

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Speaker 3: high ranking officials in China. So what is in play?

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Speaker 3: Andrew Little will be talking to us in ten minutes

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Speaker 3: time to Matatini has going off and Nicola Willis thinks

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Speaker 3: it could go global. So how successful has this Kappahaka

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Speaker 3: We'll have correspondence from right around New Zealand and around

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Speaker 3: the world. We're going to America today and news as

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Speaker 3: whatever you want by giving me a text. The number

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Speaker 1: Five the agenda.

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Speaker 3: It's Thursday, the twenty seventh of February. Ukraine's President Voladimiya

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Speaker 3: Zelensky has confirmed the United States has given no security

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Speaker 4: I really asked for at least an understanding that we

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected calls for

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Speaker 3: that its profits and share price have been lower than

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Speaker 3: the country's women's football team they called the Matilda's. Marty

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Speaker 3: Schergeld said on air the players reminded him of Year

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Speaker 5: These comments reflect offensive and outdated ideas about women's football.

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Speaker 5: They are degrading and demeaning to every woman and girl

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Speaker 3: And finally, Donald Trump has shared his vision for the

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Speaker 3: includes skyscrapers, golden statues of Trump, and dollar bills raining

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Speaker 3: he used, shame Right, Golden Future, Life the Diner to one. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Be here's a truism about being a human. Human civilization

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Speaker 3: that international tourism expenditure was up fifty nine point nine percent.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Andrew.

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Speaker 3: So finally it's happened. What's causing the increase?

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Speaker 2: Ah, this was the way it's going to happen. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's in our DNA on a global basis that we

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Speaker 2: So people look at the opportunity and New Zealand to

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Speaker 3: So why is domestic tourism down?

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Speaker 2: it's the growth and outbound as well. So just like

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Speaker 3: So how is the tourism industry reacting because there's a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean there's something like a fifteen percent

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Speaker 2: account information that came out yesterday as well. That's great.

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Speaker 2: So we're actually attracting more employment. People are seeing as

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Speaker 3: They're unhappy that the country has moved from high wealth tourists,

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Speaker 3: everyone must go. They say that approach is unsustainable without

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Speaker 2: I think that it's a very small point that's relative

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Speaker 2: the year. Now, the reality is New Zealand's expensive. You know,

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Speaker 2: our total visitor numbers haven't got back to pre COVID,

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Speaker 2: to total spend, so we're in a spen of destination.

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Speaker 2: We're already getting high value tourists. That's who comes. People

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Speaker 2: And we've got plenty of infrastructure throughout the country that

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Speaker 2: to come. So maybe there's some places at peak times

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Speaker 3: That'll come, okay, So what is the industry doing to

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Speaker 2: So look, it's great to have any kind of campaign

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Speaker 2: We're out there and we're asking for business, and so

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Speaker 3: Grab we episode. I thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 3: Granted is the CEO of Tourism Holdings. G has just

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Speaker 3: supermarkets a lot. Thank you Sarah for your text. We're

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Speaker 3: News Talks at B. Good morning. I'm Andrew Dickinson for

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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge. Thank you for choosing us. It is five

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Speaker 3: twenty eight. So the power of citizens arrest was all

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Speaker 3: we'll figure out the rules better. No wonder. Many in

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Speaker 3: Andrew Dickens, So another artist has canceled their tours in

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Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make your Property

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Speaker 1: Search and symbol You talk SI me one got see

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Speaker 3: Idol?

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Speaker 3: Oh, good morning to you, Welcome back to the program.

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Speaker 3: The man mumbling the song is a man known as Drake.

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Speaker 3: Drake is the guy accused of being a pedophile by

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Speaker 3: I said it, hey and more entertainment news. All online

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Speaker 3: tickets for the final day of Tamatatini Festival have sold out.

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Speaker 9: Yes again, Andrew Look, Cantabrian's will have the opportunity to

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Speaker 9: That will mean that they can continue to host some

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Speaker 11: They're keeping pretty tight lived about it. So news talks,

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Speaker 11: he'd be asked every sitting counselor what are your plans?

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Speaker 11: What are you going to do this year?

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Speaker 2: So what we do know?

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Speaker 11: Morris Williamson, Julie Ferry, Andy Baker, Shane Henderson can turn

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Speaker 11: it now.

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Speaker 3: They're all having a go.

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Speaker 11: Angela Dalton, she's the only counselor who was ruled out

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Speaker 11: run Mike Lee Desley Simpson there yet to make a decision,

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Speaker 11: and as we well know, faux ward counselor that's Karen Leone.

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Speaker 11: She's focusing all her efforts. This is on her mirror run.

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Speaker 11: So the remaining councilors they didn't respond before deadline.

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Speaker 3: Right now, how's the weather?

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Speaker 11: The weather well partly cloudy, isolated, Charles clearing becoming fine,

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Speaker 11: another muggy one twenty five the high and.

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Speaker 3: No thank you, I thank you. It is now eighteen

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Speaker 3: minutes to six. Were off to America in just a

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Speaker 3: few moments time with our correspondent Mitch here's the story

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Speaker 3: out of America. They saw a bruise on Donald Trump's

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Speaker 3: hand and everyone said, ah, he might be unwell. Was

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Speaker 3: it an IV mark? This was all noticed during a

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Speaker 3: recent meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the French President. The White

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Speaker 3: House though, has said it's a result of handshaking, and

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Speaker 3: as spokespeople have taken on his habit of aggrandizing, and

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Speaker 3: they claim that President Trump has shaken more hands than

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Speaker 3: any other president in history, and that's probably true. So

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Speaker 3: Mitch mccanner's next, as we talk America here on News

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Speaker 3: Talks here b it's seventeen to.

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Speaker 1: Six international correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of

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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's probably true that President Trump has

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Speaker 3: shaken more hands than any other president in history in

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Speaker 3: that period of time, that initial time. Now the Texas

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Speaker 3: says President Trump has probably signed more documents than any

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Speaker 3: other president, and that might be true as well. Let's

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Speaker 3: go to America. Mitch McCann, good morning to you. Andrew,

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Speaker 3: Good morning, how are you good. We have a group

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Speaker 3: of civil servants who are rebelling against Elon Musk and Doge. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's right.

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Speaker 12: Elon Musk this morning is actually joining Donald Trump and

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Speaker 12: the White House Cabinet for the first photo op of

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Speaker 12: the year. That's despite Elon Musk not even being a

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Speaker 12: member of the cabinet. And it comes and been more

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Speaker 12: scrutiny over his role in the government and this Department

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Speaker 12: of Government Efficiency known as DOGE. Now, this is the

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Speaker 12: group spearheading the mass layoffs of tens of thousands of

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Speaker 12: government workers. Now twenty one government workers, mostly IT and

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Speaker 12: computer specialists have now resigned in protest started their jobs

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Speaker 12: were folded into the department. They'll pin this open letter

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Speaker 12: refusing to quote use the technical expertise to compromise core

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Speaker 12: government systems and jepandize American sensitive data. And right down

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Speaker 12: here in the US, a huge amount of scrutiny being

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Speaker 12: leveled at Elon Musk over what role he's actually playing

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Speaker 12: in the government, how much sensitive data he has access to,

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Speaker 12: and whether or not all these layoffs are actually justified.

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Speaker 3: All right, have we got measles in Texas?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right. This is the first death being reported

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Speaker 12: now after an outbreak of measles that started late last

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Speaker 12: month in rural Texas. The outbreak in West Texas has

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Speaker 12: grown to one hundred and twenty four cases across nine counties,

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Speaker 12: and there are nine cases in New Mexico as well.

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Speaker 12: And we found this interesting. One of the counties with

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Speaker 12: eighty cases has one of the highest rates of school

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Speaker 12: age children who have opted outs of one of the

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Speaker 12: required vaccines. So a story to watch there in Texas.

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Speaker 12: And just some breaking news I'm seeing now, Andrew. This

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Speaker 12: US Russia meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is

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Speaker 12: reportedly going to take place on the twenty seventh or

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Speaker 12: in the coming days in Istanbul. So that's somebody keep

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Speaker 12: an eye in as well, these negotiations to see how

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Speaker 12: this peace steal is going to happen in Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff mentioned, and I thank you so much at

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Speaker 3: stan Bull consent to Nople. This song just just leaped

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Speaker 3: into my head. Further US news, by the way, President

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Speaker 3: Trump has announced a gold card visa program. Sound familiar.

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Speaker 3: You'll get your gold card visa if you willing to

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Speaker 3: pay about five million dollars. He said, anyone can go

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Speaker 3: for it. As long as they're wealthy, they're going to

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Speaker 3: be welcomed. He was asked about Russian oligarchs, he said,

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Speaker 3: I know some very nice ones. It is twelve to

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Speaker 3: six Andrew Dickens, all Right, the big story yesterday was

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Speaker 3: the announcement of citizens arrests, and we thought retailers would

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Speaker 3: love them, but a lot of retailers came out and

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Speaker 3: they did not seem to be on board with the

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Speaker 3: government's proposed changes to the citizen arrest laws. You can

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Speaker 3: still do it now, but it's pretty pretty difficult. And

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Speaker 3: now the new proposal is to allow citizens to intervene

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Speaker 3: and stop any crimes act offense at any time of

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Speaker 3: the day and allowing them to detain alleged offenders and

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Speaker 3: to use restraints. So retailers that came out yesterday and

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Speaker 3: they we're concerned that this will end up actually increasing

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Speaker 3: crime and putting staff at risk. As I'm joined now

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Speaker 3: by Retail New Zealand chief executive Carolyn Young.

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Speaker 6: Hello, Carolyn, Well, Emma, how are you this morning?

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Speaker 3: I'm very well. What's your problem with it?

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Speaker 6: Look, the challenge with this is that retailers are not

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Speaker 6: trained to deal with law enforcement issues, which is what

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Speaker 6: we're talking about. When you've most well, any training that

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Speaker 6: you never see around retail from specialist training providers are

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Speaker 6: always talking about how you remain calm. You don't. You

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Speaker 6: don't engage in with inwardly with the alleged defenders in

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Speaker 6: your store. You don't physically engage with them. You keep

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Speaker 6: a safe distance. You try and get nails the store

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Speaker 6: as soon as possible. What retailers want to be able

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Speaker 6: to do is to be able to legally be able

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Speaker 6: to ask to get the stop back. All of our

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Speaker 6: members have told us they don't want to be able

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Speaker 6: to do that in a physical way. They want to

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Speaker 6: be able to get people out of their premises and

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Speaker 6: they want to be able to trespass them with the

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Speaker 6: law that's got some teeth in it, so that they

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Speaker 6: be able to return to their store again and create harm.

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Speaker 6: Actually physically engaging with something, it's not something that retailers do.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's an extremely dangerous thing. You don't know.

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Speaker 6: Is somebody on medication? Are they on drugs? Do they

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Speaker 6: have a hidden weapon. A lot of retail workers are

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Speaker 6: quite young. You know a lot of people that work

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Speaker 6: on shop floors. Many of us have had our first

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Speaker 6: jobs in retail. You don't have the life experience or

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Speaker 6: the knowledge around how you want to engage in that

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Speaker 6: sort of space, and we fear that it will create

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Speaker 6: a situation where if an offender thinks that they might

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Speaker 6: be a physically approached and restraint, that they will come

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Speaker 6: and armed with more expansive weapons. We'll see more knives

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Speaker 6: or their guns, all of those sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: But this is really actually I caught it an announcement

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Speaker 3: of an announcement, because this is an announcement of a proposal.

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Speaker 3: It was there needed to be a lot more clarification

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Speaker 3: about what is meant by detaining and what is meant

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Speaker 3: by using restraints, in fact, what is meant by the

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Speaker 3: entire law. So obviously it's going to Select Committee. Obviously

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Speaker 3: it's going to be debated, So you're going to have

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Speaker 3: the opportunity to go there and eyeball Justice Minister Paul

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Speaker 3: Goldsmith and make these changes, aren't you.

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Speaker 6: We'll certainly be making a strong submission about this, and

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Speaker 6: we know that in legislation and case or already there's

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Speaker 6: you know, it's already defined what reasonable force looks like.

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Speaker 6: And when you're talking about restraints, we know that they're

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Speaker 6: talking about mechanical restraints, so you're talking about handcuffs and

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Speaker 6: or something like cable ties and things like that. So

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Speaker 6: you know, we know a lot about what they're already

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Speaker 6: talking about, and you know, retail just isn't set up

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Speaker 6: to be detaining offenders in store.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and one of the parties that came out and

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Speaker 3: weren't full bore into it was supermarkets, which we everyone

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Speaker 3: was a bit surprised at because we've all seen people

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Speaker 3: waltz out of supermarkets with stuff. But as they said,

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Speaker 3: they've already got their security guards, they've already got all

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Speaker 3: the same concerns that you have about the whole process.

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Speaker 3: So you know, the point is, shouldn't retailers be working

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Speaker 3: together to actually sort themselves out without the help of

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Speaker 3: the government.

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Speaker 6: So we are absolutely working together around what we need

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Speaker 6: to do to prevent retail crime, and our focus is

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Speaker 6: on prevention and keeping people safe. Every business has to

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Speaker 6: comply to the health and safety regulations, and if you're

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Speaker 6: putting staff potentially in harm's way by having to engage

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Speaker 6: with an alleged defender in store, then you're not going

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Speaker 6: to be able to comply with health and safety regulation.

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Speaker 6: So you're going to be in lots of trouble with

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Speaker 6: the Labor Department. So, you know, preventive measures like facial

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Speaker 6: recognition technology where you can. You're identifying prior offenders in

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Speaker 6: your store and ensuring that they don't come in store.

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Speaker 6: Really ways to keep staff and customers safe. We know

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Speaker 6: that in retail and specifically if you're thinking about social markets,

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Speaker 6: between thirty five and fifty percenters offenders are recipibus offenders,

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Speaker 6: so they're coming back time and time again. Facial recognition

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Speaker 6: and stop them coming in the door. So the goose

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Speaker 6: of technology moving forward, it's really important.

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Speaker 3: Carolyn, I thank you so much. Carolyn Young is the

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Speaker 3: Retail New Zealand chief executive and yes she does have

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Speaker 3: a mandate to speak on behalf of retailers. And a

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Speaker 3: textas says, the minister clearly said yesterday the citizen arrest

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Speaker 3: law was for dairy owners. Yes, but there was no

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Speaker 3: detail on how it would actually work. And he said that,

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Speaker 3: he said we're about to talk about this, so we're

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Speaker 3: talking about it. It is now seven minutes to six.

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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens

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Speaker 1: and one Room to make your property search simple. News talks,

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Speaker 1: it'd be.

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Speaker 3: Five to six. Thank you for a text. Ninety two

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Speaker 3: ninety two small charge applies. Steve says, these new self

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Speaker 3: defense laws are great. This retail spokesperson is being hysterical.

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Speaker 3: Most shop listeners can be detained. I've seen it. I've

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Speaker 3: detained them myself. I'm trained in jiu jitsu and I

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Speaker 3: don't have a problem doing it. Well done, Steve, and

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Speaker 3: you're right you can make a citizen's arrest right now.

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Speaker 3: But it's legally fraught. And of course I'm glad that

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Speaker 3: you know that about the laws because as I understand

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Speaker 3: it as a proposal and the laws are well long

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Speaker 3: way from being fine. Eyes mean, while Liam Lawson's driving

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Speaker 3: quite fast. Make yeah it's spun, but most of them

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Speaker 3: have Antonelli. Interestingly enough, and there's the name you want

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Speaker 3: to watch this year. He's posted the fastest time so far.

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Speaker 3: The big news is they had a power cut so

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Speaker 3: they got an extended period of time. This is day

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Speaker 3: one to BEF one testing. So Aston Martin's got problems.

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Speaker 3: Lewis had some problems, but he seems he's got all

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Speaker 3: of tomorrow. He's going to be in the cow all

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Speaker 3: of tomorrow, so to get some laps. He's there or

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Speaker 3: there about. But that Antonelli feller, you know, they were

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Speaker 3: talking about him actually getting up into the big ranks

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Speaker 3: before Liam last year. So you know, this is all

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Speaker 3: very interesting. Hey, and the Herald reckons that the Warriors

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Speaker 3: are going to come second to last.

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Speaker 13: The well, that's the Morning Herald in Sydney and they've

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Speaker 13: got them with seven wins for the whole season and

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Speaker 13: they've gone through it's worth reading in the sense they've

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Speaker 13: gone through each and every round and said here is

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Speaker 13: where we're going to lose and why we're going to lose.

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Speaker 13: And so basically what they're saying is we know better

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Speaker 13: now than we were last year.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, no, no, no.

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Speaker 13: The good news is they're.

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Speaker 3: Wrong because it's our year. Because it is our year.

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Speaker 13: And funnily enough, we've got Andrew Webster on the program

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Speaker 13: in Vegas after eight o'clock this morning, who I'm pretty

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Speaker 13: sure is going to confirm indeed, why aren't you there?

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Speaker 10: It is our year?

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 13: Well, one, because I've got a job, but team more importantly,

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Speaker 13: I think it's a distraction.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't I will ask you for Vegas, baby. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 13: There's a lot If you're a young Warrior, you know

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Speaker 13: you're concentrating on the game, are you're having a good time?

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Speaker 13: And so that would be a real thing for a coach.

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Speaker 6: Anyway.

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Speaker 3: He's with this after a very good stuff. My name

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Speaker 3: is Andrew Dickons like to thank I might producer ken

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Speaker 3: Zy and they set up staff. He worked late last

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Speaker 3: night and I'll be back again tomorrow and have yourself

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Speaker 3: a great day.

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