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Speaker 1: So Peter Dutton right in Australia, it is suggested, will

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Speaker 1: never truly know, but it is suggested lost the election

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Speaker 1: because of his new clear issue and work from home policies.

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Speaker 1: Now I personally think he lost because they ran a

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Speaker 1: hopeless campaign, but it is more than possible that he

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Speaker 1: floated a couple of ideas that the voter simply would

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Speaker 1: not stomach. And I'm wondering if Christopher Luxen is heading

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Speaker 1: in a similar direction here with the superannuation ideas, nuclear

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Speaker 1: makes sense. You can argue that nuclear makes sense, working

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Speaker 1: from home headens productivity. You can argue cogently about that

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Speaker 1: as well, But the voter's always right, and being a

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Speaker 1: voter beats logic sometimes will the voter be right here?

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Speaker 1: On superannuation? Are there enough New Zealanders who have landed

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Speaker 1: on the very simple truth that sixty five as a

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Speaker 1: pension age is no longer sensible nor affordable. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be twenty eight billion dollars a year before you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight billion dollars a year and growing, which seems

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Speaker 1: worse now because we're broke, of course, but even in

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Speaker 1: the best of times, it's a stunning amount of money.

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Speaker 1: National are going to take it to the vote next year.

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Speaker 1: They may be saved from themselves, of course by New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: First of they're still in the mix, because that'll be

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Speaker 1: a bottom line for them I'm imagining. But we reach

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Speaker 1: the interesting point where logic and emotion collide. Super for

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Speaker 1: many of us untouchable, it's a lifetime's worth of work.

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Speaker 1: I paid my taxes, even though that line isn't actually real.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we spent your taxes years ago and then

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Speaker 1: borrowed a bit more to keep the lights on. Sixty

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Speaker 1: five is the new fifty, and post COVID old older

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Speaker 1: workers have never been in more demand. The days are

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Speaker 1: being out to pasture are increasingly gone. Sixty five is

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Speaker 1: not old. Imagine a day where you enter the workforce

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Speaker 1: knowing you need to take care of yourself because the

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Speaker 1: rules have changed. I mean, yes, if you strike trouble,

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Speaker 1: the pigion is a welfare payment, not an entitlement. But

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Speaker 1: we either have to change the narrative and mindset from

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Speaker 1: entitlement to welfare, or we need to up the age.

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Speaker 1: Even in upping the age over time, even giving years

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Speaker 1: worth of notice, it's still a very very big core politically.

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Speaker 1: It underlines our desire for free stuff basically or perceived

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Speaker 1: free stuff. Once you set a precedent with money, it

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Speaker 1: is fantastically hard to undo. But Luxon apparently is super

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Speaker 1: again to give it a crack. He calls it a

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Speaker 1: no brainer. First clue, there aren't many who think it's

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Speaker 1: a no brainer. I mean, labour learned the hard way

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Speaker 1: over the capital gains tax. For goodness sake, it took

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Speaker 1: them three times to learn that. Lesson, Luxon may be

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Speaker 1: about to learn something similar. For more from the Mic

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