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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of time for some Simeon Brown.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I need to say that I

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Speaker 1: think he's a very good politician, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: Simeon Brown might want to take a little bit of

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Speaker 1: advice from Chris Hipkins of all people today, because he

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Speaker 1: was once the Health Minister as well, and Simeon might

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Speaker 1: just want to tone down the old fighting talk because

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Speaker 1: accusing the striking senior doctors of the worst kind of

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Speaker 1: politics at our etc. Is really not going to help anyone.

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Speaker 1: The one the only thing is going to help people

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Speaker 1: right now is actually throw some money at those senior doctors.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, but Simeon Brown, for everything that he

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Speaker 1: may feel about how upset he is that they're going

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Speaker 1: on strike, is simply going to have to pony up

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Speaker 1: the cash and pay these senior doctors a lot more. Look,

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Speaker 1: I know he's probably on the right side of public opinion.

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Speaker 1: This is simian. There's not going to be a lot

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Speaker 1: of public sympathy for doctors who are on the kind

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Speaker 1: of money that they are, whether it's three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars like he says, or two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. Like they say, it doesn't really matter

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Speaker 1: what they're on and it doesn't really matter whether we

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Speaker 1: think they paid enough or whether we think they paid

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Speaker 1: too much. What matters is what the rest of the

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Speaker 1: world pays, because that is who we are competing with

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Speaker 1: for these senior doctors. New South Wales, i've been told,

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Speaker 1: is the part of Australia that pays senior doctors the least,

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Speaker 1: and their starting pay for senior doctors in New South

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Speaker 1: Wales is apparently more than what our senior doctors get

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Speaker 1: when they are on the highest level in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: And they, by the way, who are paid more than

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Speaker 1: our doctors in New South Wales, have just had a

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Speaker 1: three day strike themselves. Now, we already have such a

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Speaker 1: shortage of senior doctors in this country that in Taupo

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Speaker 1: Hospital the news will tell you today not even a

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Speaker 1: third of their positions are filled. The roster is really

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they're running that place on the

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Speaker 1: number of senior doctors they've got. Now, while I appreciate

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Speaker 1: that Sami and Brown is a very good politician, could

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Speaker 1: well end up winning the pr battle against the doctors,

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Speaker 1: ultimately it's not the voters that he has to convince

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Speaker 1: with his good words. It's the doctors with his money.

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