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Speaker 1: Default too. Futility worries me at the moment. I mean

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Speaker 1: the same sort of thing. I think about this over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, you know, the No Kings march in America.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what actually is the point? Think about it

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Speaker 1: and tomorrow is going to be another one. What actually

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Speaker 1: is the point of waving placards or in the boom?

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Speaker 1: The bill case lighting fires on beaches. The bill they

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Speaker 1: want to burn, as we've just been discussing, is the

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Speaker 1: Marine and Coastalaria Amendment Bill. The amendment part is the

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Speaker 1: bit where it's being returned to what it was. It

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Speaker 1: got messed up with court, as you've just heard Paul explain,

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Speaker 1: Given the courts are increasingly interventionists and all that's happening

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Speaker 1: in the law, it's being returned to what it was.

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Speaker 1: And what it was is have you had ongoing access

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Speaker 1: to the bit of water or coastline since the eighteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: and if you haven't, you might not have an argument.

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Speaker 1: That's it. It is, of course all angsty because it's

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Speaker 1: all race based. David Seymour and yesterday called the lighting

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Speaker 1: of fires on the beach unenlightened and anti intellectual, and

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Speaker 1: I thought he's probably a mixture of being right and

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Speaker 1: I suspect slightly antagonistic. But here's my question, to what point,

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Speaker 1: to what end? I mean, I get it. There are

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Speaker 1: those who are exercised and don't like it. That fair enough,

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Speaker 1: But guess what Lighting a fire at a beach isn't

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Speaker 1: going to change it. Clearly, are the petition they had

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Speaker 1: one of those two twenty thousand signatures. It's not even

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Speaker 1: a big petition. Seventy six thousand people signed one to

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Speaker 1: stop me hosting the election debates on television back in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. If seventy six thousand doesn't stop a television host,

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand doesn't stop a law. Clearly, Trump won the

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Speaker 1: election in America easily. He's doing nothing he said he

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do. Now, yes, it's mad and unhinged if you

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Speaker 1: don't like him, but he's doing it because he's got

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Speaker 1: the support of enough people to do it. The same

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Speaker 1: way this government is amending law because they said they

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Speaker 1: would and they won the election. We must always, of course,

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Speaker 1: retain the right to protest, unless it's actually over the

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Speaker 1: Auckland Harbor Bridge. I hate that, but that's about geographics,

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Speaker 1: not right. But protest I think losers has lost a

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Speaker 1: lot of its impact because it's become a habit. It's

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Speaker 1: a default, it's the pastime of the board and the obsessed.

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Speaker 1: It's become a cottage industry. If we put the same

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Speaker 1: energy into productive outcomes, this country could be amazing. O.

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Speaker 1: You lit a fire on the beach last night. How'd

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