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Speaker 1: Bread now David Parker speaking of Laboring peace. David Parker,

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Speaker 1: who's a stalward of the party after twenty three years

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Speaker 1: in parliament, is out. He's announced it today. Got in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, said as Attorney General, Associate Finance

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Speaker 1: Deputy leader. In twenty fourteen, of course ran for the leadership.

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Speaker 1: David park is with me now, Hi, David, Hi, good

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Speaker 1: to have you on. What's the what's prompted the decision?

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Speaker 1: Why now?

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, you never finished in this job, but it

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Speaker 2: felt the right time. I've just sort of reset Labor

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Speaker 2: Party policy around foreign affairs. You seen me parroenting on,

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Speaker 2: rabbiting on about that recently, and it's good to go

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Speaker 2: out on a positive note rather than stay till you're

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Speaker 2: not wanted. Actually it was partly I'd been over season.

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Speaker 2: I came back with jet lag. If you get up

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Speaker 2: at fourth ety am to leave the house at five

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Speaker 2: to catch you nearly plane, and I thought, God, fifty

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Speaker 2: years ago I did a miok run getting up at

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Speaker 2: five am every morning in nineteen seventy five, and it

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Speaker 2: felt a bit n't fear to be doing it years later.

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Speaker 2: So lots of.

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Speaker 1: Reasons, nothing to do with the tax you didn't get that.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know you wanted.

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Speaker 2: No. No, I know I wouldn't put it down to that,

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Speaker 2: especially one of the reasons I stayed to push those

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Speaker 2: things along. Interestingly, you know, I remember you covering that

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Speaker 2: on TV three when that report came out showing that,

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Speaker 2: you know, wealthy people in New Zealand pay between a

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Speaker 2: half and a third of the rate of text of

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Speaker 2: people who earned their income through their Layloran salary. And

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Speaker 2: you sent it off to Thomas Piketty and Paris and

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Speaker 2: he's that guy that wrote Capital in the twenty first

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Speaker 2: century and blow me down. He replied to you and said,

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Speaker 2: gat work.

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Speaker 1: We actually very nearly had because I know you were

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Speaker 1: a big fan of his. We actually very nearly had

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Speaker 1: him on the show, you know, to talk to you,

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Speaker 1: but it just didn't quite work out. He was a

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Speaker 1: busy man, unfortunately. David, do you we're looking back, what

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Speaker 1: is your you know, give us your highlight, your lowlight?

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Speaker 1: Who were you know? What was your best moment? Well?

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Speaker 2: Look, I had three threads to my policy. One as

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Speaker 2: a galitarian prosperous economic economic outcomes. I was an entrepreneur

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Speaker 2: before as a MP, and on that front, I think

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Speaker 2: some of the work that I did to stimulate venture

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Speaker 2: capital as good. Some of the work I did as

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Speaker 2: a revenue ministers also helped push the economy towards productive outcomes.

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Speaker 2: On the environmental front, I did the administrating scheme, which

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Speaker 2: is the pricing mechanism which encourages the economy to move

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Speaker 2: to lower emissions. That that's been a successful and important

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Speaker 2: and important thing, and I sat there with ninety renewable

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Speaker 2: electricity target on the On the civil liberties front, I

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Speaker 2: did both what's called the halfway House under the Bill

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Speaker 2: of Rights to give Parliament a route to fixing mistakes

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Speaker 2: that are noticed by the courts as to put legislation

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Speaker 2: breaching civil liberties.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, hey David, because we are running

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Speaker 1: out time and we don't have time for all of

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Speaker 1: your achievements. Although I do acknowledge there have been many,

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Speaker 1: was there was what was the hardest time in Parliament?

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Speaker 2: I actually, you know, you suffer some dirty politics at times.

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Speaker 2: There were clips taken of me that had me saying

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Speaker 2: I hate farmers, which wasn't true. It's a misrepresentation of

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Speaker 2: what I said. I was followed around by private investigators

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Speaker 2: hired by the Exclusive brethren under the Hell and Clark government.

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Speaker 2: So and my partner at the time had to put

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Speaker 2: up with, you know, shared to put up with possums

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Speaker 2: being chapter dead, possums being chapped across the fence. So

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Speaker 2: I think the things that affect you worse of the

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Speaker 2: things that are taken out on your families, even though

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Speaker 2: they shouldn't be well.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the Sleeping David. It's been great to have you

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Speaker 1: on the show. Appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks very much. See you David.

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Speaker 1: Parker, who's the outgoing labor and been in there since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two. For more from Hither Duplassy Allen Drive,

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