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Speaker 1: So Barbara Edmunds from the Labor Party, the Finance spokesperson,

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Speaker 1: is in front of the Investment Conference today representing the

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Speaker 1: Labor Party who may or may not be in charge

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Speaker 1: of Treasury benches in the future. Now the conference will

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Speaker 1: be waiting to see if Labor is on the infrastructure bus,

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Speaker 1: if they will support the projects the National League government

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Speaker 1: are into and proposing right now, and if they are

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Speaker 1: on board with foreign investments in our infrastructure plans. Barbara's

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Speaker 1: is actually the critical address of the weekend because yesterday

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Speaker 1: we heard the big concern is pipelines, the pipelines of

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Speaker 1: work overseas. Investors don't want to set up shop in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand for a project only to find that we

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Speaker 1: back out later and there's no more work for them,

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Speaker 1: leaving them with a big investment and nowhere to go.

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Speaker 1: And to be fair, National has done that with the

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Speaker 1: cancelation of big projects like the ferries. Labor also did

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Speaker 1: it with a moratorium on road development. So look, it

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Speaker 1: is time for a bipartisan accord on what we need

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Speaker 1: to do in this country. But that will be hard

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Speaker 1: to find as our parties have used infrastructure as a

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Speaker 1: way to differentiate between themselves and that's done. For instance,

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Speaker 1: roads are neither left wing nor right wing. Labour's anti

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Speaker 1: road sentiment has been based on faulty logic. Somehow they

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Speaker 1: think that building roads means more missions, which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It means the same emissions but on bad roads. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it means more emissions as traffic gets stalled. A good

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Speaker 1: road is an efficient road, and an efficient road helps

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Speaker 1: with both emissions and productivity. And I wonder whether the

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Speaker 1: Labor Party sees this. So today all eyes on Barbara

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Speaker 1: to see if she's logical or ideological. For more fam

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