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Speaker 1: Darling, Tana is fighting for her political life at the moment.

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Speaker 1: The former Green MP has filed an injunction trying to

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Speaker 1: stop her former party, the Greens, from convening a special

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Speaker 1: general meeting this weekend. Now, this meeting was where delegates

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Speaker 1: were supposed to decide whether to invoke the Wacker jumping

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Speaker 1: law against Darlene Tanner. Jason Walls as News Talk zb's

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Speaker 1: political letter to Jason.

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Speaker 2: Hellow Afternoon Heather, the Greens.

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Speaker 1: Made it sound like they were surprised, but they must

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Speaker 1: have seen this coming from that letter just a few

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Speaker 1: weeks back.

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Speaker 2: You know, honestly, I don't think that they did. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's a pretty unprecedented move. I mean it's the sort

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Speaker 2: of move that somebody with their back against the wall makes,

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Speaker 2: just really fighting for their political life. Looking at this

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Speaker 2: really holistically, it's a really hard legal stretch to make.

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Speaker 2: Do you're basically saying that you're putting an injunction on

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Speaker 2: a asking the courts to prevent a political party from meeting. Now,

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Speaker 2: we don't know the details of what's happening, but I

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Speaker 2: actually we talked to Chloe Swarbeck. I will give her

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Speaker 2: that she didn't seem too worried about this. I mean,

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Speaker 2: her lawyer is working for free, and here's why our

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Speaker 2: lawyer is operating on a pro bono basis. I haven't

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Speaker 2: got into the details of the motivations behind that. I'm

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Speaker 2: assuming that this is a pretty interesting case. So if

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Speaker 2: your lawyer's working because it's an interesting case, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: exactly scream like you're really worried about what's happening. But

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Speaker 2: I would say yes, I would say that they probably

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Speaker 2: didn't see this aspect of this coming. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think that they're particularly worried.

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Speaker 1: Well they should have. I mean, it was obvious to

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Speaker 1: everybody that there was legal action coming after that letter

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Speaker 1: in the way it was set out. So surprise by

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Speaker 1: that is the meeting at the weekend still honor If

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Speaker 1: they canceled it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's at this stage. It's a bit of Schrodinger's

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Speaker 2: meeting because it's not on or off. At this stage.

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Speaker 2: They're just waiting to see what happens. I mean, they

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Speaker 2: haven't canceled it or they haven't postponed it. They're just

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Speaker 2: simply waiting to see what happens tomorrow. And just back

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Speaker 2: on your point there, I mean, listen, we all knew

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Speaker 2: that more legal action was coming, but I was thinking

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Speaker 2: the legal action would be around the actual legislation to

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Speaker 2: do with the walker jumping and how that actually physically

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Speaker 2: worked in terms of an employee or somebody in a

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Speaker 2: political party, and how that worked. Because we haven't tested

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Speaker 2: this rule yet. I think everybody was pretty surprised that

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Speaker 2: the next step on this on Tana's radar was essentially

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Speaker 2: asking the courts to prevent members from meeting. I think

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Speaker 2: that is quite unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now who's paying? I mean, if the Greens are

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Speaker 1: getting their legal representation for free, who's paying Darleene's bills.

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Speaker 2: Well, we haven't been able to get in contact with

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Speaker 2: darleyn Tana yet. I have texted her, so Darleene, if

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Speaker 2: you're listening, please text me back so I can get

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Speaker 2: some information. But essentially we don't know. We would assume

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Speaker 2: that she has access to her the fund in Parliament

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Speaker 2: to pay for this. I asked her directly before when

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Speaker 2: she sent the letter to the Green Party fighting for

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Speaker 2: her case against the walker jumping bill. She said that

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Speaker 2: had been paid for using the parliamentary fund. You can

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Speaker 2: make the logical assumption that it's the same thing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: she could have somebody that's also quite interested in this

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Speaker 2: doing it pro bono as well, So we just don't

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Speaker 2: know at this stage. But I'd say I don't think

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Speaker 2: it would be with outside the realms of possibility that

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Speaker 2: it's us picking up the tab here as tax pays.

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Speaker 1: And have they indicated how long they think this is

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Speaker 1: going to take?

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Speaker 2: Decision will be coming out tomorrow afternoon, as I understand it.

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Speaker 2: It's just for the for a judge to just look

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Speaker 2: at the facts and make a decision, so we should

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Speaker 2: know around about ten, I would say tomorrow. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure if they would drag on. But this isn't going

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Speaker 2: to be the end of this saga. I mean, if

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Speaker 2: the injunction fails, which you know you're looking at the

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Speaker 2: balance of probability, it looks like it may. She still

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Speaker 2: will probably fight in courts the actual the meat and

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Speaker 2: bones of the legislation, which hasn't been tested yet, and

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Speaker 2: so you would expect that it's an interesting legal argument

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Speaker 2: for anyone to get into.

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Speaker 1: No, totally, thank you very much. Jason really appreciated Jesson

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