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Speaker 1: A wild, bizarre and highly entertaining media scrum in Wellington yesterday,

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Speaker 1: culminating with an MP saying he didn't mind swimming in

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Speaker 1: other people's sewage. Yes, human waste. I'm talking here about

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Speaker 1: the chaotic caucus run of one labor MP for Ohard,

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Speaker 1: Greg O'Connor. He was asked, first of all, why Wellington's dying.

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Speaker 1: You know you've seeing that in the news, with the

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Speaker 1: cafes closing down, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Why when you walk along the waterfront there's not enough

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Speaker 2: to do along that waterfront. I mean there's been stopping

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Speaker 2: things from happening. I mean you can walk a long

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Speaker 2: way there. There's no cafe. There's no way to actually

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Speaker 2: get a coffee.

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Speaker 1: Greg, Greg, Greg, why don't they just put more cafes in?

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Speaker 1: He says, Well, these things require business investment and profit

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Speaker 1: to be had, don't they could? The reason that there

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Speaker 1: aren't enough flat whites down at Queen's Wharf be because

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Speaker 1: one labor height the minimum wage beyond affordability. Too, they

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Speaker 1: help drive up inflation with unrestrained government spending. And three

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Speaker 1: they told everyone to stay home and out of the CBD,

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Speaker 1: out of the office. So far, so normally I guess

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Speaker 1: and MP struggling to grasp the realities of running a

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Speaker 1: small business. Here's where it all gets a bit messy,

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Speaker 1: though literally, he says. The solution is to get more

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Speaker 1: people terroists, residents whoever, get them down to the waterfront.

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Speaker 1: Get them down to Queen's Wharf, he says, And a

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Speaker 1: reporter kindly points out that the water is often not

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Speaker 1: safe for swimming because of human waste. Are you talking

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Speaker 1: about the same harbor that gets polluted when there's heavy

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Speaker 1: rain due to the bed plash?

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Speaker 2: Doesn't stop people swimming? And there does. Hey, that's a typical.

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Speaker 2: So why you look at the where else can you

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Speaker 2: swim off or into bay Beach?

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Speaker 1: Well, they don't advise you to swim in there because

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Speaker 1: the sewage in the harbor, And we're.

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Speaker 2: Rising people not to do that for years, so people

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Speaker 2: have done it.

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Speaker 1: Look, would would you swim in the harbor of the

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Speaker 1: sewageon there? Don't worry about it, just jump in, don't

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Speaker 1: wry about the feces. Then here's the best part. Let's

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Speaker 1: blame the generalists for reporting on the waste water in

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Speaker 1: the first place.

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Speaker 2: Is there a warning at the moment? I don't know

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Speaker 2: you guys, is there a warning you are earlier? So

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Speaker 2: what bringing this up there? So it's Wellington positive? Is

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Speaker 2: that you can go swimming Wellington Harbor today? Is that

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Speaker 2: what I'm hearing from you? Good report? That gold on guys.

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Speaker 1: The world. According to Greg O'Connor, you can't beat Wellington

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Speaker 1: on a good day. A good day being one with

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Speaker 1: no wind and no rain, no pooh in your harbor,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps a coffee cart down at the waterfront. I

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Speaker 1: think there should be a new slogan, Wellington take a

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Speaker 1: chance on me For more from news talks, there'd be

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