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Speaker 1: Very so senior political correspondence with US.

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Speaker 2: So Barry, good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 1: What a surprise Brian Roach.

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Speaker 2: Well, his name has been mentioned around so often that

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Speaker 2: for months, Brian Roach really has been the go to

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Speaker 2: person for successive governments, going right back to Jim Bolger's

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Speaker 2: so he's been around for time and memorial basically, and

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Speaker 2: you know he's been a senior public servant.

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Speaker 3: So I guess he's the right man for the job.

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Speaker 3: Only time will tell on that. But it's really the

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Speaker 3: role is I mean, it's not really public. The role

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Speaker 3: is more about appointing other chief executives in the public service.

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Speaker 3: So you know it's neither head nor there really.

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Speaker 1: Okay, one year on from the election, right, how do

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Speaker 1: you think this government is tracking well.

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Speaker 2: To year on today?

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Speaker 3: Which is interesting, isn't it was the fourteenth of October

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Speaker 3: last year that they had the general election. Well, if

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Speaker 3: you look at polls, I mean, this government is very

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Speaker 3: low polling. If you look at the the Courier expos

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Speaker 3: poll out last Friday, National drop four percent down to

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Speaker 3: thirty four percent or thirty five percent. Label went up

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Speaker 3: three point six percent to thirty percent, which is pretty

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Speaker 3: extraordinary and Christopher Luxen's own rating is very low, just

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Speaker 3: under twenty eight percent, and Hipkins on seventeen percent. So

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Speaker 3: this government, though, as I've said many times on this program, header,

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Speaker 3: has really had a baptism of fire. There's been no

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Speaker 3: let up for the government. They've taken over from the

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Speaker 3: Labor Party unbridled power and spending like drunken sailors, and

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Speaker 3: they have to come in and try and clean that up.

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Speaker 3: And you know, when you see all the media concentrating

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Speaker 3: on for example, yesterday at the New Zealand First Conference,

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Speaker 3: about four protester has turned out, they got all the publicity,

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Speaker 3: one hundred billion dollar Fund Investment Fund really got not

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Speaker 3: much play at all. Then you had Chris lux In

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Speaker 3: making a profit on his sale of his apartment in

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Speaker 3: Wellington before going to live in and Premiere House. Then

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Speaker 3: you've got the protest against the government's decision concerning the

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Speaker 3: redevelopment of Dunedin Hospital thirty five thousand people turned out then,

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Speaker 3: and the progression of the fast track legislation. So the

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Speaker 3: government's doing a lot, but it's getting hammered for it.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what though the Valerian poll it

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Speaker 3: came out this morning, and it's going to be capitalized on.

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Speaker 3: This was a taste for this morning Tvns'll have one

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Speaker 3: out at six o'clock that showed that thirty percent believe

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Speaker 3: the country is in better shape than a year ago.

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Speaker 3: Forty percent, however, believe it's heading in the wrong direction.

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Speaker 3: And just to put a positive spin on it, Chris

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Speaker 3: Luckson said, things are progressing the way they should.

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Speaker 4: When now seeing signs that our plan is working with

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Speaker 4: financial discipline in place, interestrates are falling, food and flotation

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Speaker 4: remains low, business confidence has risen significantly, and forecasts suggests

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Speaker 4: that inflation is set to keep falling when the latest

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Speaker 4: data is released this week. I know, however, it is

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Speaker 4: still tough for many Kiwis out there, and there is

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Speaker 4: so much more for us to do. We certainly aren't

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Speaker 4: out of the woods yet.

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Speaker 3: So you know, that's the positive spin on.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to lift in the polls until the

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Speaker 1: economy improves.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: And even when they lift in the polls, they will

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Speaker 1: never poll and certainly the National Party component of the

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Speaker 1: coalition government will never poll at the heights of John Key,

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Speaker 1: will they No?

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Speaker 3: Never?

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Speaker 2: I mean no.

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Speaker 3: Look to John Key's rating personal rating about this time

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Speaker 3: out from the two thousand and eight election is about

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Speaker 3: sixty five percent. Yeah, you know, I mean, you're never

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Speaker 3: going to see figures like that.

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Speaker 1: He's pretty extraordinary. Hey, who's the former mayor calling for

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Speaker 1: a Crown observer to be installed for Wellington City Country.

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Speaker 3: Kariprinda Gas? Does she?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Why?

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Speaker 3: Well, she's saying that, look, left unchecked, this council is

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Speaker 3: going to see rate rises like Wellington has probably never

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Speaker 3: experienced before. She said the typical Wellington residence rate bill

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Speaker 3: will be three thousand more expensive by twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: That's tweet three thousand per house.

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Speaker 1: But is she arguing that that is because of poor

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Speaker 1: financial decisions being made by the council, Because if it's inevitable,

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Speaker 1: like if you've got to pay for the pipes, you've

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Speaker 1: got to pay for the pipes.

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Speaker 3: But you've got a mayor hell bent on saying things publicly,

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Speaker 3: as she did on newstalk z' be and Wellington this morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, saying that non negotiable, which is

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Speaker 3: crap because she's got one vote council table. Non negotiable

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Speaker 3: is that golden mile? For goodness sake, all the businesses

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Speaker 3: there say it's going to put them out of business,

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Speaker 3: but no, she wants a legacy.

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Speaker 1: Barry herself, Kerry Prindergast. She's a woman with a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. She wouldn't say this kind of stuff unless

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Speaker 1: there's a reason for it. Is she a stalking horse

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Speaker 1: for the National Party? Well, you know, because you know

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Speaker 1: she's tight with Nikola Willis. Is some good So yes, so,

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Speaker 1: because the Nats have not said that, the government has

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Speaker 1: not said yet, it's not indicated absolutely that it's prepared

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Speaker 1: to put some intervention into Wellington City Council. But this

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Speaker 1: is how you roll something like this out. You send

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Speaker 1: somebody out as a stalking horse to say it's a

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Speaker 1: good idea, and then it starts starts to gathering.

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Speaker 3: That's always a possible, I hope. So yeah, well so,

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Speaker 3: I mean they do need an observer because to me,

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Speaker 3: Tory Fanale is actually driving that city into the ground.

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Speaker 3: I mean, who needs all the cycle ways that she's

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Speaker 3: hell bent on building Harry in the city for hundreds

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Speaker 3: of millions.

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Speaker 1: Like the bicycle she said, so as popular with people

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Speaker 1: who liked a bicycle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, in Wellington you could see a few

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Speaker 3: people like to bike, but certainly the majority I climb

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Speaker 3: on buses and get me cart.

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Speaker 1: Very thank you, very much, really appreciate it. Very Soper,

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Speaker 1: Senior political correspondent, Actually on Tory, let's deal with that neck.

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