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Speaker 1: Right now as our hell's auri. Good afternoon, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So what the big announcement on energy sector? The Frontier

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Speaker 1: report finally coming? It is going to be next week.

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Speaker 1: What do we know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So Simon Bridges, who's the now the chief executive

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Speaker 2: of the Auckland Business Chamber, has released some details in

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Speaker 2: a survey on energy reform and it shows quite a

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Speaker 2: lot of people have an appetite for change. So really

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Speaker 2: crunching the numbers here, sixty two percent of respondents support

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Speaker 2: the government underwriting the cost of new electricity generation if

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Speaker 2: it helped to bring down prices. Twenty one percent of

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Speaker 2: respondents did not support such a move. But it does

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Speaker 2: come as tops cost of living rather is top of

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Speaker 2: mind for so many people. And another interesting question competition

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Speaker 2: in the sector. I mean people in the survey were

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Speaker 2: questioned whether competition may improve if the government broke up

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Speaker 2: the gent tailors that's those companies that generate and sell electricity.

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Speaker 2: Forty nine percent of people agreed with breaking that up,

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Speaker 2: essentially requiring them to separate generation and retail. And on

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Speaker 2: this one, twenty percent of people opposed to the idea,

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Speaker 2: thirty one percent unsure about this.

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Speaker 1: What about this elections situation, the Electoral Commission comes out

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Speaker 1: says no, well, PM says make it faster. They said no,

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Speaker 1: the changes won't make it faster. And then now he's

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Speaker 1: come out and responded to that. Zaria.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the PM has had a bit to say

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Speaker 2: just getting people up to speed this morning. It's clear

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Speaker 2: he's not happy. I mean, here's a little bit about

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Speaker 2: what he's had to say in terms of the Commission's

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Speaker 2: advice about those electoral changes.

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Speaker 3: We expect them to speed up the voting pretty simple.

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Speaker 3: You don't just move it back two weeks and then

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Speaker 3: say we're going to expect with the same deadline we're

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Speaker 3: living in twenty twenty five. And I just suggest that

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Speaker 3: vote can be counted a hell of a lot faster

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Speaker 3: than what we've experienced in New Zealand. So go look

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Speaker 3: at other Western economies around the world and how fast

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Speaker 3: they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk

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Speaker 3: on the planet.

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Speaker 2: And also worth pointing out here the regulatory impact Statement

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Speaker 2: on the policy says that Paul Goldsmith, who's the Minister

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Speaker 2: of Justice, expressed an expectation the vote count should be

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Speaker 2: depleted within fourteen days, so that is two weeks We've

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Speaker 2: also had an update from the Electoral Commission on the

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Speaker 2: Swan Ryan Chief Electoral Officer Carl Lacane has put out

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Speaker 2: a statement saying we understand how important it is to

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Speaker 2: deliver a timely election result. He says it's also critically

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Speaker 2: important that any result we deliver is correct and all

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Speaker 2: the necessary checks are undertaken so the public can trust that.

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Speaker 2: He says, a growing number of special votes is slowing

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Speaker 2: the process, but get this, we can give assurance that

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Speaker 2: we are working hard on strategies to deliver election results faster,

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Speaker 2: while Professor d Knight, who's an academic at Victoria University

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Speaker 2: in Wellington, says the Prime Minister needs to take much

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Speaker 2: more care here in terms of for obvious constitutional reasons.

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Speaker 2: He's saying, ministers cannot give formal directions to a body

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Speaker 2: like the Commission, and nor should ministers with these kind

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Speaker 2: of casual and pointed remarks about their wishes or their expectations.

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Speaker 2: And just now this a spokesperson for the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: has come back with a state saying the PM was

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Speaker 2: reflecting New Zealander's views on the core role of the

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Speaker 2: Electoral Commission.

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Speaker 1: There okay, and now Winston Peter's Foreign Minister announcement from

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Speaker 1: him at the Uien tomorrow morning our time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Foreign Minister Winston Peters, he's in New York.

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Speaker 2: He's been meeting with world leaders this week ahead of

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Speaker 2: confirmation of that final position on a Palestinian state. He's

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Speaker 2: previously told media he's been planning to listen and hear

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Speaker 2: all of those arguments on the matter ahead of sort

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Speaker 2: of finalizing the decision. We understand there will be one

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Speaker 2: single decision on behalf of the government. We're expecting that

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Speaker 2: speech to take place late tomorrow morning. Previously, the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister has said that recognition of a Palestinian state is

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Speaker 2: a matter of when, not if. In recent days, as

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Speaker 2: we will have seen, world leaders the likes of the UK, Canada,

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Speaker 2: France and Australia have put support behind a Palestinian state

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Speaker 2: and formal recognition of it. Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin

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Speaker 2: Netta Yahu says quote there will be no Palestinian states.

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Speaker 2: It does seem like a position from New Zealand will

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Speaker 2: be made clear tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: All right, Zari, thank you for that. Zara Howe Politics

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