1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Well, Transpower has given us a master class and how 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: to look guilty, hasn't it? How to look like it 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: was actually your fault? I mean, come on, who doesn't 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: now think that what happened to that powerpole or that 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: power pilon is that the crew that we're working there 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: took the bolts out of the leg which caused the 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: thing to fall over, which caused the entire region of 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: Northala to lose power. Who doesn't think that that is 9 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: exactly what happened? And why do we think that? Because 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: Alison Andrew, the chief executive, sounded as guilty as all 11 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: hell in her media interviews this morning, I didn't want 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: to talk about it. Really unhelpful to speculate at the moment. 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: Have to focus on the power restoration. I mean, come on, 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: no one in twenty twenty four, when modern communication is 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: in your pocket and you can literally call anyone you 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: want to if they're within your company, just access their 17 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: phone umber give them a phone. No one believes that 18 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: Alison Andrew does not already know what happened. Course she does. 19 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: If she doesn't know what already, if she doesn't already 20 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: know it, then she sucks at her job, because in 21 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: any decent organization. The first that happens when there is 22 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: a major snappho, and this is a major snappho, the 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,919 Speaker 1: first thing that happens is the boss calls the points 24 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: person who's on the ground and says what happened and 25 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: gets a preliminary idea of what happened. And the reason 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: they do that is because if there is a bigger 27 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: problem that can accelerate or repeat, they need to know 28 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: what happens so they can stop it from happening. Right, 29 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: so they will know, they will have called the person 30 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: there and been like, what happened, and they will know 31 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: what happened. And you cannot tell me that. Alis and Andrew, 32 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: the chief executive, was like, oh did you call them? 33 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Now don't tell me. Nah no, no, no, 34 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: just now, I'm gonna wait for that. No, it's not helpful. 35 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: I'll wait for the investigation. No one can tell me. 36 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: Alis and Andrew did not herself want to know what 37 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: happened for the same reason, to stop it from happening again. 38 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: If there was a problem going on, if she's all 39 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: any good at her job, she already knows, So why 40 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: didn't she just fess up? This morning? She multiple interviews, 41 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: and she pulled the same lines out every single time, 42 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: and it just looks so guilty. Why did she do that? 43 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: The reason I would guess is that transpower is trying 44 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: to bury the details until we've moved on and lost interest. 45 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: Because right now we, you and I are at peak 46 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: interest because it's just happened, and because not everyone's got 47 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: their power back yet. So we are all and we've 48 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: all seen the pictures on Reddit, haven't we, So we're 49 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: all super interested right now. But fast forward two weeks, 50 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: fast forward, two months, fast forward, God only knows how 51 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: long their investigation is going to take. Now, all of 52 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: a sudden, it's not so interesting, right, and that is 53 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: what they're banking on, But it's completely besfired as backfired 54 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: on them because instead of burying the info this morning, 55 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: Alison Andrew just completely left us with the impression that yep, 56 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: it was them. They just don't want to say it. 57 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: And look, there is always the chance that the investigations 58 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: will find that it wasn't them. Maybe you never know, 59 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: but we all think it was them, now, don't we. 60 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: For more from Heather Duplessy, Allen Drive, listen live to 61 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: News Talk said B from four pm weekdays, or follow 62 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio