1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Time now for politics Wednesday. Ginny Anderson, good morning to you, 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Good morning, and Mark Mitchell, good morning to you. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: Morning, Mike, morning, Jenny. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: Give me the you're growing your here long? 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 2: Mark, Well, I've had a lot of vistages about what here. 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 2: I have a chance to get to a barber, so 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: get that sort of. 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: I was just watching your skin. A couple of observations 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: from yesterday, as I've seen you several times obviously over 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: the last week, but a couple of observations from the 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: press conference yesterday. Your skin looks really good and and 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if you leave the here where it is. 13 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: I think I think it's got a a sort of 14 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: a certain whisperishness about it that that appeals. 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,639 Speaker 3: You know, that sort of wind swept Italian model lock. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 3: You can go for it. 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: I'll take that advisement. At the end of the day, Cyahl, 18 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: give me feedback. 19 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say, Cerahl saw they did 20 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 4: buy you a landscape of your birthday, Remember, I part 21 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 4: arrested from my mind. 22 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: As much as I tried, I did too, Mark. Now, 23 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: a couple of bit of a bit of inside skinny, 24 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: if we could, Jinny Damian O'Connor. When did he move 25 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: to Dunedin and why. 26 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 4: He moved there for personal reasons and he's been there 27 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 4: for every year I think. 28 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: Right, is he loving it? Because I was in the 29 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: need over the holidays. What an awesome place. 30 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, Dunedina is wonderful. 31 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 4: He sings you know well about how great it's great 32 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 4: down there, and he's pleased to be there. 33 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 1: So who's going to put up for the West Coast 34 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: because he was from your point of view, he was 35 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: the West Coast MP, wasn't he. 36 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? 37 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 4: He was, and he has been there for a long 38 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 4: time and his strong connections and their family connections too, 39 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it'll be a selection underway for 40 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 4: a good candidate to stand in that area, and as 41 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 4: Maureen Peugh is moving on as well and interesting one 42 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 4: to watch. 43 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: Well, that was my next question for you, Mark. Can 44 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: we now confirm Maureen Peugh was indeed ifing useless and 45 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: Simon Bridges was right? Or was Simon Bridges wrong? 46 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: I got a lot of time Mareen, and she's had 47 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: she's had a very she's had a lot of personal 48 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: treagedy in her life. In the last two years, she's 49 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 2: lost her husband and her daughter, and I think that 50 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: she is choosing to go and do some things for herself, 51 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 2: and so I just want to wish you all the best. 52 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: Re evaluate circumstances. 53 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I think with changed. So I mean, 54 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, this is nickname and 55 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: the and the Punish rugby team has changed. So I 56 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: don't know how he got that. But he's Damian O'Connor everywhere. 57 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's love. I think it's 58 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: love that's taken him to Dunedin. And you can't you 59 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: can't step in the way of love, you Mark, He. 60 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 3: Has an Italian one. 61 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: Just told Sam I was just to to see him engaged. 62 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: Sam's gone on, you know, mind you Sam? You realize 63 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: you realize Sam's not getting married on twenty seven, twenty eight. 64 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: He wants wants to get the election out of her way, 65 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: doesn't he? Yeah? And then yeah no? Now okay, polls 66 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: you guys, so Ginny two poles so far post the 67 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: announcement of the election date, both have you guys labor 68 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: about thirty five ish? Let me ask you this question. 69 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 1: Say the Maori Party don't win any seats and you 70 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't rule that out and or you go hard for 71 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: the marriage seats, which I think you're going to and 72 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: you win some. Anyway, you materially are no better off, 73 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: are you. 74 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 4: Well, that really depends on the overall outcome of the 75 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 4: election and what all parties get. 76 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 3: So it's really difficult to be able to say that. 77 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: But look, we're under no pretense it's going to be 78 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 4: a tough fight and we'll be working incredibly hard to 79 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 4: maximize that vote right across the country, whether it be 80 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 4: in the general seats or the Marty seats. 81 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get that, but you know what I'm 82 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: saying from a pure mathematical point of view. So say 83 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: you're on thirty five and thirty five on the nights 84 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: y number and the Marray Party disappear, that's you done for. 85 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: That's the election over, isn't it. You lose. 86 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 4: Well, that's why we strive for striving for more than 87 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 4: forty thirty five, will be striving for the highest percent possible, 88 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 4: because that's the best way to change the government. I 89 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 4: just don't think you can come about it thinking that way, 90 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 4: and we definitely don't do that. 91 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: As far as you're concerned. Mark, how much panic in 92 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: the party at the moment over you're thirty one to 93 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: thirty two men. You're behind labor, There's no question about that. 94 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: And of course if you look at both poles, I 95 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: think everyone's saying that we're tracking in the wrong direction, 96 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: wrong beats right. 97 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: Well, there's no panic and I just think that, Look, 98 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: every party's going to be out there working hard to 99 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: earn people's vote, and the party vote matters, and to 100 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 2: me personally, that's the last thing on my mind. We're 101 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: still working hard, We've still got people on the ground, 102 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: We've got families that are sitting there in the torturous 103 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: situation waiting for their loved ones to be recovered. So 104 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: that's where my focus is at the moment. 105 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: Fair enough to the poll, the Radio New Zealand pole 106 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,239 Speaker 1: Jinny has fifty percent of people wanting you to rule 107 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: out the Maori Party. Is that going to be a 108 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: conversation this year? And do you worry about those sort 109 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: of numbers? 110 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 4: We Chris Hopkins has been incredibly clear that he, as 111 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 4: he did last time, will make clear who we're more 112 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 4: likely to partner up with before the election, but we'll 113 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 4: do that much closer to the election and we won't 114 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 4: be doing it. 115 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: And what form will that take. Is it a we 116 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: would prefer but not rule out, or we are ruling out. 117 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 4: That's really up to him and it does just depend 118 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 4: on the circumstances. So I mean, let's be absolutely clear 119 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 4: that there are policies recent ones, such as you know, 120 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 4: abolishing prisons, there is absolutely no way that we would 121 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 4: have any part of from the Maldi party. So he's 122 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 4: been overly clear about that. And when it gets closer 123 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 4: to collection, we'll say who we're prepared to work with 124 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 4: and who we are not, and other parties often do 125 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 4: that as well. 126 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: Okay, brief break mana go make now. 127 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 2: All I was going to say on that is that 128 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 2: you know, we've sweated blood, sweat and tears for the 129 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: last two years to get ourselves back on the right 130 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,239 Speaker 2: trek as a country in terms of being the safest 131 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: country in the world. And so the track that we're 132 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: on with the previous government that was a messive increase 133 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: in violent crime, and the two potent partners, one of 134 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: them is saying abolish prisons, which is labor. That was 135 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 2: Labour's only target last time around was reduction of prison 136 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 2: population by thirty percent. We saw it appen there and the 137 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: other partner Colition Partner's to defund Our Police. 138 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: Ninety seven increase in methan fetamine. 139 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: Ginny, if you were in charge of Mark's job at 140 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: the moment in terms of what's happened about Monginuy, the 141 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: weather in general, you'll be aware that there's a tremendous 142 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: amount of online activities about Maori Council, trees planting, all 143 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff, and we've got an inquiry. 144 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: I take it you would hold an inquiry. Do we 145 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: hold an inquiry for an inquiry's sake or do you 146 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: think there's genuinely something to answer or is this just 147 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: sometimes stuff happens well? 148 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 4: Authors of all, I just want to acknowledge the loss 149 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 4: in Mount Mominui, in those families who who have gone 150 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 4: through such a tragedy. 151 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 3: It's been a really shocking start the year. 152 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 4: In terms of having an inquiry, supportive of having one, 153 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 4: we think, you know, it's important that people are able 154 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 4: to get those answers they need, and I think the 155 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 4: community definitely wants to that. So you know, we want 156 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 4: we support a full inquiry into this two event to 157 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 4: understand how we can better be prepared in the future. 158 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: But that's only applicable mark if there is an answer, 159 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: What if there isn't, what is it just rained a 160 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: lot and tragedy happened. 161 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that and I think I agree 162 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: with you, and I think that your comment highlights the 163 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: fact why we need to have an inquiry. And I 164 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: think that having spent a lot of time with the 165 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 2: families and listen very carefully to what they want and 166 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 2: also the community, and I think the country at large 167 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: is is that there's there's questions that they deserve to 168 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: have answers for and to do that we need to 169 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: have a run and inquiry. 170 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: Is it frustrating for you in your capacity? I'm sort of. 171 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: I've stayed out of it because it's everyone's got a view, 172 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: everyone's got a theory, everyone knows what they're talking about 173 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: until they don't. And you will have heard all this 174 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: chit chat. Does that make life frustrating? 175 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: No, I mean it's just the whole thing is heartbreaking, 176 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 2: of course in just an awful situation. I mean we've 177 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 2: noted we'd have the mount. We had a little ten 178 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: year old boy and his grandmother that we lost on it, 179 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 2: that we lost on the night as well at Welcome Bay, 180 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 2: and of course we had our Kitdabasi worker up in 181 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 2: Wartworth and the Kurubasi community a big part of Wartworth. 182 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: So it's hit everyone very very hard. My view on 183 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 2: this as I was on the ground a lot through 184 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 2: wire and Hawk's Bay and opposition. I was in opposition, 185 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 2: but I spent a lot of time down there. I 186 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: was down there where Mike King was down there at 187 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 2: the time too, and our civil defense workers and our 188 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: first responders. There's a high mental health toll that comes 189 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: with this stuff as well, and I think it's only 190 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 2: it's normal to have a very high level of public 191 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 2: interest in this. Sadly, there's misinformation and AI stuff out 192 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 2: there that is false and not correct. One of the 193 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 2: one of the husbands or one of the family members 194 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 2: that I spoke to the other day had been advised 195 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 2: not to even look at social media for that for 196 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 2: that reason. And so I'm very conscious that as elected representatives, 197 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: me supporting the council and the council doing the right 198 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: thing and stepping forward, and but we we need to 199 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 2: absorb that pressure and not our first responders, not our 200 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 2: CDM workers who just turn up, they don't ask to 201 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 2: be in the public eye. They just turn up. They 202 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: do an outstanding job. We have to do an inquiry, 203 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 2: We have to get the answers that is, that is, 204 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: that is the right thing to do. But I'm very 205 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 2: conscious of not forcing more mental health issues into a 206 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 2: community that we have in our inside our communities who 207 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 2: all they are driven by is a desire to help 208 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: and protect their communities. 209 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: Well, so, quick change of subject, Jinny, I don't expect 210 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: you to answer it definitively, but is there a broadly 211 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: speaking in your mind, any reason why the Labor Party 212 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't back the India Free Trade Association Because they'll need 213 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: your boat. 214 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 3: We have discussed it. 215 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 4: There will be a letter coming from Chriss Hopkins to 216 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 4: Christopher Luxen with the conditions on what what what we 217 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 4: want to see in order to support it. 218 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: Surface those conditions. You're not holding them to ransom or anything. 219 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: I mean, you guys broadly are in favor of free trade, 220 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: aren't you. 221 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 4: We're broadly supportive, you know, we believe you know. I 222 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 4: think it was when we were signing the free trade 223 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 4: agreement with China and it was we were in government 224 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 4: that national was supportive. Toe so on the on these 225 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 4: big issues that are important for our economy. You do 226 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 4: see the two major parties often working well together. 227 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: Tell you what Winston, I mean, who needs to Mark? 228 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: I mean, for goodness sake, I mean, if you can't 229 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: see a free trade deal, what's this problem? 230 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny. I don't know if you remember, Mike, 231 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: when we remember when we had the China Free Trade 232 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: Agreement or the ct PTT and everyone was out, not everyone, 233 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 2: but you had all these vocal people out the are 234 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: saying this is the worst possible thing that could happen. 235 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 2: It's been great for. 236 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: Us as a good right there. 237 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: These free trade agreements are important. 238 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,719 Speaker 1: Buying and selling as well. It's very important. Well done, 239 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: you too, catch up next week. 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