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Speaker 1: Allie Jones, Red pr good evening, Alie, gooday, how are

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Speaker 1: you right? Good? Thank you? And Nick Legget's with us

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Speaker 1: to Infrastruction New Zealand. Hey Nick, hello, So how do

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Speaker 1: we feel about taxpayer funding for a revamped a bit

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Speaker 1: of lipstick on Eden Park to the tune of one

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars? This is what they have proposed. Auckland

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Speaker 1: councils get to decide. They're going to decide on Thursday, Ali,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm stoked about our own what do you call it? Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? That's the word I'm looking for, which is

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Speaker 3: due to open next year. And I think one of

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Speaker 3: the things that a number of people have been saying

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Speaker 3: for a while is, because of course these things always

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Speaker 3: create conversations and arguments and disagreements, is that it's never

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Speaker 3: going to get me cheaper, right, So whatever the decision is,

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Speaker 3: I think it needs to be made. One of the

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Speaker 3: things that I've noticed just reading up a bit about this,

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Speaker 3: because you know, I don't really care about what's built

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Speaker 3: in Auckland, Ryan, is that the transport is a real

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Speaker 3: issue here. And you tell me this, but apparently there

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Speaker 3: are limited transport options and limited by the Kingsland station.

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Speaker 3: I do know where that is and I have used it,

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Speaker 3: and I would have thought that a stadium in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the city is the way to go. Isn't

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Speaker 3: that going to bring in many economic benefits?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, although we do have the supposedly we do have

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Speaker 1: the City rail Link coming which should help, which should

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Speaker 1: help with with that situation. But the other issue here

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Speaker 1: is the one hundred million dollars from the government that

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Speaker 1: they're wanting that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean these things are expensive.

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Speaker 4: I agree with Ali though, that make it a decision

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Speaker 4: and get it going.

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Speaker 2: But I do care about what goes on in Auckland.

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Speaker 4: Such a massive part of our economy and a massive

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Speaker 4: part of our country, so they do need to get

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Speaker 4: this right. And also I think it I think being

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Speaker 4: connected to public transport and other transport, you know, you

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Speaker 4: think about connection to the shore, new connection hopefully to

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Speaker 4: the North Shore, another harbor bridge option or tunnel, and also,

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Speaker 4: as you say, the city rail link.

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Speaker 2: It's really important this is central. It's also really important that.

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Speaker 4: We don't just see it as a stadium in isolation.

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Speaker 4: What can go around it, Places for people to work,

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Speaker 4: places for people to shop, places for people to live.

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Speaker 4: We've got to stop thinking about these things as sort

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Speaker 4: of singular pieces of infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: It's about what can you grow around it?

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Speaker 4: And yeah, look, I'm city center all the way, and

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Speaker 4: we've got to build the sort of connections that we

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Speaker 4: need so people can get to it and get around it.

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Speaker 3: You are so right, though, Nick, about changing the mindset

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Speaker 3: about it just being a stadium. That was a big

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Speaker 3: part of what we did in christ Church. So you know,

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Speaker 3: we didn't even use the words stadium. We use the

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Speaker 3: phrase multi use arena or multi use stadium. And now

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Speaker 3: they're calling it a multi functional arena. And you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: It cannot be a place that you know, lights up

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Speaker 3: when there's an event and then dies when there's nothing happening.

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Speaker 3: That's just not the way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I've seem to remember a figure of about six

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars for Takaha. Is that on budget? And

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Speaker 1: how far far how far away is it from opening?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, on budget, on time, six hundred and eighty three

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Speaker 3: million all up, and that was with government contribution as well.

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Speaker 3: So the council put four hundred and fifty three in

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Speaker 3: and government put in two hundred and thirty and that

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Speaker 3: came from a number of different funds and things after

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Speaker 3: the earthquakes. They started building it in April twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: April twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a steal to me right now. I'm

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Speaker 1: just reading about in Brisbane, they've announced today their Olympic

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Speaker 1: Stadium opening twenty thirty two. The cost is three point

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Speaker 1: eight billion Australian for a sixty thousand capacity.

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Speaker 3: But twenty twenty two it started, and you know how

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Speaker 3: construction costs have gone up, so you know, with those

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good point. Ellie Jones read pr nic leg Get

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Speaker 1: back in just a few moments and we're going to

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Speaker 1: pick Allie's brain about some quite controversial comments on disability

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Speaker 1: car parks. Allie Jones and Nick Leggett on the huddle tonight. Nick,

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Speaker 1: you were obviously former mayor of Puttidor and some big

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Speaker 1: boundary electric boundary changes have taken place which will affect Mana,

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Speaker 1: which is where Pottidor is. Give people a sense of

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Speaker 1: what the change means for you know, you your average voter.

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, I mean Mana was formed in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 4: six when MMP came on the scene, and it was

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Speaker 4: great because we finally had an electorate that covered the

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Speaker 4: whole of put into a city which is now a

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Speaker 4: city of approaching sixty thousand people. Not insignificant, and actually

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Speaker 4: I think it helped bring the city together because Mana,

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Speaker 4: well Putty door is very diverse, lots of different socioeconomic groups,

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Speaker 4: lots of different cultural and ethnic groups, and I think

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Speaker 4: we've been more together as a result of having one electra.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not wrapped at This takes us back to

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Speaker 4: first pass the post days when the northern part of

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Speaker 4: the city went up to Carpody Carpety Coast has its

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Speaker 4: own electric now with this new bit of put it on,

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Speaker 4: and obviously the or Hardy electorate really gets sort of.

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Speaker 2: Split three three ways.

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Speaker 4: But it goes to South, it goes to Wellington Central,

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Speaker 4: and then quite a big bit goes into Mana. So look,

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Speaker 4: I've got no problem with unifying North Wellington and put

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Speaker 4: it on. I mean, I'm a big fan of amalgamation

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Speaker 4: in the region. We only need one council here, so

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Speaker 4: you know, perhaps that might bring things along there.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so sad for me, but I sort of understand.

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Speaker 4: You know, Wellington of the region is not growing like

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Speaker 4: other parts of the country, so we've lost an electric seat.

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Speaker 4: That's the consequence people when when you don't grow your

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Speaker 4: population and you don't grow your economy and you don't

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Speaker 4: get it together as a region, you lose stuff.

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Speaker 2: And we've got to do better there.

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Speaker 1: Ellie, I want to talk to you about the disability

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Speaker 1: car parks thing. So is how's you?

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Speaker 3: It's been challenging. Thanks for asking. My god, the pearl

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Speaker 3: necklace clutching and outcry was just extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Ryan.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you understood from from what was reported?

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Speaker 3: Why was it even a story? What I said was,

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Speaker 3: does anyone ever see these five or so car parks

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Speaker 3: mobility car parks along Rolston av in christ Church? Does

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Speaker 3: anyone ever see them used? Because you know, I'm down

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Speaker 3: there a bit. I cycle down there just quietly and

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Speaker 3: go to the Loomier Cinema and the Art Center and

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Speaker 3: the gardens, and I never or very very rarely see

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Speaker 3: any vehicle in there at all. So I just posted it.

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Speaker 3: Does anyone ever see it? It's crazy if they're not used, well,

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Speaker 3: I've been told to resign. My behavior is appalling. I've

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Speaker 3: been despicable, behaved in an entitled and privileged way. And

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Speaker 3: the echo chamber pylon was what you'd expect on something

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Speaker 3: like Facebook. So what I did was engage with everyone.

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Speaker 3: I don't do the post and ghost things. So aged

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Speaker 3: and I repeated back what people were accusing me of.

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Speaker 3: So are you saying that elective members should not ask

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Speaker 3: questions about et cetera? Set do you know? I had

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Speaker 3: people just not even bother responding. So they have a poke,

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Speaker 3: they have a go, and then they just don't engage

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Speaker 3: and it's just cowardly.

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Speaker 1: Really, did you get an answer to your question? Did?

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Speaker 1: I mean? It has anyone's yes?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: So what is it?

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Speaker 3: And it was great and it was great. The answer

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Speaker 3: was yes. So I had one person come on and

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Speaker 3: I had about half a dozen to eight come on

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Speaker 3: and say yes I use them, or yes, my husband

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Speaker 3: and I use them when we go to the gardens.

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Speaker 3: Another woman said yes, and we need more at the

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Speaker 3: hospital because I can never find one there. And so

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Speaker 3: it was actually a really good conversation on my page

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Speaker 3: until we got these bloody pearl necklace handbag clutching, you know,

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Speaker 3: outraged people just turning it into a political storm that

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Speaker 3: it didn't need to. So yes, it was useful.

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Speaker 1: I think. I Look, I'm with you, Nick. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but I'm with Ali. You should be

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Speaker 1: able to ask questions like that. You know, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter how controversial it might seem. You need to be

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Speaker 1: able to ask some basic questions about whether a city

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Speaker 1: is functioning well or not.

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Speaker 4: I'm completely with Ali that the job of an elected representative.

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Speaker 2: We want to ask more questions in this country. There's

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Speaker 2: too much head nodding. Now.

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Speaker 4: I don't know whether what the answer to Ali's question is,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. The principle is that you're elected to

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Speaker 4: ask questions on half of your community, and there's no

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't assume any agenda from a question.

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Speaker 2: You should just take out at face value and answer it.

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Speaker 2: So Ali, congratulations. We need more people like you in

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Speaker 2: public office, and all power to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: How's that does work?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to yeah, I'm going to run for there now. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome, all right.

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Speaker 1: Ellie Jones Red pared Nicleiget Infrastructure New Zealand on the

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Speaker 1: huddle tonight. Thanks guys for more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive.

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