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Speaker 1: The government are and trouble. As we've mentioned briefly this morning,

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Speaker 1: they're in trouble in a couple of areas. As far

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Speaker 1: as I can work out. One family boost what they

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Speaker 1: said would happen numbers wise didn't. Two the aforementioned police

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Speaker 1: recruits what they said would happen will not. Three are

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Speaker 1: the ban on foreign buyers for houses now looks, of

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Speaker 1: course farcical. Yesterday's attempt by the Herald to make some

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Speaker 1: Winston Peter's comments look like news was a beat up,

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Speaker 1: of course, because he said the same thing to us

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Speaker 1: two months ago, and saying the same thing with nothing

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Speaker 1: new or any change in between is not news. It's

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Speaker 1: the status quo. What makes the Peter's stance and therefore

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Speaker 1: the government damage unusual, is Peter's stance is inexplicable. Family boost,

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Speaker 1: you see, got messed up because the Ird gave the

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Speaker 1: government some poor advice. The police recruit issue, as we've

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Speaker 1: just discussed, as bad because being a cop is hard work.

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Speaker 1: A lot of cops leave and Australia off for sunshine

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Speaker 1: and beaches and they're actively making offers. But on the upside,

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Speaker 1: the Golden Visa that's working a treat people with money

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Speaker 1: have applied. There are hundreds of millions of dollars heading

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Speaker 1: well heading towards billions of dollars in play. But we

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Speaker 1: still want them to when they arrive here rent a

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Speaker 1: house apparently, or go AIRB and B. Level of stupidity

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Speaker 1: in that is inescapable and inexcusable. So the NATS had

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Speaker 1: a policy, if you remember, two million dollars a house,

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Speaker 1: anything over that a foreigner could buy that Peters didn't like.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't having it. Fine, So the NATS move that

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Speaker 1: to five or six million. Locals here aren't buying those houses.

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Speaker 1: So Peter still won't move, he says, though he told

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Speaker 1: us the deal's coming. But the critical question is why

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Speaker 1: would you burn goodwill inside a coalition, which is what

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Speaker 1: he's doing, And more importantly, why would your risk reputational

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Speaker 1: damage internationally? Remember this is the same bloke who's holding

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Speaker 1: us to ransom. That's the same bloke is also on

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Speaker 1: a plane traveling the world telling said world we're open,

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Speaker 1: and yet we're not. If this government is to survive

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Speaker 1: and possibly prosper, it's the simple stuff that you cannot

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Speaker 1: afford to make an issue. We need money, We need investment,

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Speaker 1: in the jobs and the growth that brings. It must

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Speaker 1: be part of a package, and the package comes with

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Speaker 1: a home. Peters gets that. I know he gets that.

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Speaker 1: And yet small word to the Nats, namely Luxon, how

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Speaker 1: about some hardball? How long do you want to look

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Speaker 1: like the weak guys? I mean the dog being wagged

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Speaker 1: by the tail. The next biggest problem apart from Peter's

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Speaker 1: is time. Of course, time next year the country makes

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Speaker 1: a decision on all of us. For more from the

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