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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,

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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture vans and a play at store.

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Speaker 2: US Talks B.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, it is six after five news Talk, SAIDB

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Speaker 3: on Ryan Bridge, coming to you live from our crazy

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Speaker 3: little capital, Wellington this morning.

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Speaker 2: Acc and the red seven point two billion dollars?

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Speaker 3: Are they going to cut your subsidized physio visits?

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Speaker 2: Will ask the Minister Matt Doosey just before six.

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Speaker 3: Inflation under control, so why do we still feel so poor?

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Speaker 3: Nick Tuffley on that Wellington, the chamazzle city, the councilor

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Speaker 3: who wants an early election, plus the link between house

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Speaker 3: prices and babies, plus Mitch McCann in the US All

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Speaker 3: ahead on this morning show.

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Speaker 1: The agenda.

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Speaker 3: It is Thursday, the seventeenth of October. An explosion has

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Speaker 3: killed ninety four people in Nigeria. It's understood a tanker

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Speaker 3: driver lost control and crashed, causing fuel to leak onto

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Speaker 4: Locals and villagers came to scoop to fuel that's spilled

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Speaker 4: out on the streets on the gotteras and that sparked

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Speaker 4: a very quick conferno which I witness it to say

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Speaker 4: was very massive.

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Speaker 2: Under many people could notice scape it. At least fifty

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Speaker 2: injured as well.

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Speaker 3: A seven year old has died and six others have

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Speaker 3: been injured after an explosion destroyed three houses.

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Speaker 2: This is a newcastle in the UK.

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Speaker 5: The boys loved ones are being supported by specialist officers.

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Speaker 3: An investigation is ongoing to establish how the explosion occurred.

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Speaker 3: It's ready, They've got a plan and it's only a

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Speaker 3: matter of time now before Israel executes it. According to CNN,

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Speaker 3: retaliation against Iran will target military sites only, not oil

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Speaker 3: or nuclear facilities. Trump to the United States, We go now.

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Speaker 3: Trump's calling back in the Poles. So Carmel is changing

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Speaker 3: up his strategy. Forget the machhallow barma, they go low,

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Speaker 3: we go high. Speech Harris has labeled Trump erratic, unstable,

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Speaker 3: unhinged and now a fascist.

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Speaker 6: And the other Donald Trump is about taking us backward.

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Speaker 2: Oh there's muf fascism. Why can we just see it? Yes,

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Speaker 2: we can say that.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge new for twenty twenty four on early edition

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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 2: News talk Zidby and we'll.

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Speaker 3: Ask Mitch mcckenn about that later on in the show too.

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Speaker 3: This morning, though, should we be worried about this?

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Speaker 2: That'll do for any old Scritannia's day or so had

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Speaker 2: fucking it and it's four two? You heard us? They're

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Speaker 3: Yeah all right, so they've come back. They're doing a

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Speaker 3: little bit better. Adam Cooper's with us, said, be sport

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Speaker 3: here in Wellington. Hey Adam, Hey Ron welcome, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Should we be worried about this? Or was this just

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Speaker 7: And we thought, come on, this is we don't want

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Speaker 2: Z'B Brian Bridge. Now, this was not my song choice.

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Speaker 3: This is Donald Trump's song choice in case you have

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Speaker 3: missed it, and I implore you to please go and

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Speaker 3: just google this. Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania yesterday,

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Speaker 2: People enjoyed it. This is the thing about campaigning.

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Speaker 3: what it's all about in just a sec News Talk said,

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Speaker 1: Time the first word on the News of the Day

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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: Furniture Beds and a Planet Store News Talk.

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Speaker 3: ZIB fourteen after five News Talks ZB. So all you

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Speaker 3: need to do to bring down an airline, to bring

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Speaker 2: It was a hoax.

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Speaker 3: Nothing true about it. It's not funny, it's quite serious.

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Speaker 3: But how do you manage this when it's happened three

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Speaker 3: Meor Torri Farno will meet with Local Government Minister Simeon

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Speaker 3: Brown this morning at eight point thirty in a bid

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Speaker 3: to stop the government from intervening in our capital's council.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday they held an emergency meeting to try and fix

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Speaker 3: Ray Chung is the Wonnington City Councilor. He's with me

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Speaker 2: There we go. Ray, are you with me.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I've got you just fine, tell me what happens.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think she's going that we've we've set the direction,

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Speaker 9: We've got general agreement from the council. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: We didn't get those numbers, and then so there's there's

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Speaker 3: You've just agreed to basically be a bit more agreeable.

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Speaker 2: So you do you still want do you still want

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Speaker 9: What I said that my preference would be for an

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Speaker 9: So it's not having a commissioner and isn't the answer

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Speaker 2: I don't believe. Do you want to be may or? Ray?

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Speaker 2: I am going to have a.

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Speaker 9: Go at it, yep, to certainly have to go with it.

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Speaker 3: That's why you're won an early election, right, get in there,

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Speaker 9: No, not really. I'm usually not enjoying council and certainly

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Speaker 9: don't think I've got a natural fit for it. But well,

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Speaker 9: I do think that something needs to happened. I run

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Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, and I mean you heard it that

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Speaker 3: it just needs to be done.

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Speaker 2: Something needs to be done. It needs to be sorted.

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Speaker 3: Rayshang with us, potentially future mayor of Wellington, Wellington City councilor.

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Speaker 2: Get ahead of the headlines.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition

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Speaker 1: Smith City, New Zealand's fourniture beds and a playing store.

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Speaker 2: News Talk z'd be good morning.

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Speaker 3: Twenty one minutes after five on News Talk said be

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Speaker 3: how big will Adrian or go on rate cuts next month?

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Speaker 2: That is the question on everybody's lips.

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Speaker 3: He's away on business at the IMF currently, apparently, But

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Speaker 3: after yesterday's lowest annual inflation figure in three and a

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Speaker 3: half years, back in the safe zone at two point

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Speaker 3: two percent, could we see a seventy five basis point

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Speaker 3: cut by Christmas? Gosh, we're all excited, aren't we. Nick touughley'

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Speaker 3: is the asbchief economist. He's with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Nick, morning, Hey, So I mean this, first of.

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Speaker 3: All, this is great news, isn't it that we're back

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Speaker 3: in a safe zone?

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Speaker 2: But how how safe are we? How precurious is that.

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Speaker 8: We do think that inflation will be remaining very close

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Speaker 8: to two percent now over the next couple of years.

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Speaker 8: So if anything needs a chance that inflation could each

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Speaker 8: of it below two percent at some point as we're

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Speaker 8: heading towards the end of twenty twenty five twenty twenty six. Look,

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Speaker 8: we're really back in the zone now.

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Speaker 3: And it would take something quite dramatic to get us out,

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Speaker 3: because I mean, you look at the insurance, the rents,

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Speaker 3: the rates that will expected to keep going up, right,

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Speaker 3: But the international story is a different one. What about

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Speaker 3: if oil spiked because of the Middle East or something

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Speaker 8: Well, we still have that mixture where some of that

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Speaker 8: domestic inflation is still pretty high, and that will need

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Speaker 8: a little bit going forward, and that will help keep

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Speaker 8: things down. We have had things like oil prices pulling

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Speaker 8: back at times over the last quarter, which helped keep

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Speaker 8: inflation low at the moment. But yes, there's always the Wattes.

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Speaker 8: It will take a pretty significant spike in the price

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Speaker 8: of oil to push things up, and the Reserve Bank

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Speaker 8: won't necessarily rush to turn around and start putting rates

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Speaker 8: up or slow the pace down because oil prices are

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Speaker 8: something that can't control. They tend to have a short

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Speaker 8: term impact. But the Reserve Bank would worry about so

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Speaker 8: sizeable and lifting oil prices, whether there are some lingering

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Speaker 8: impacts created by just the impacts of it has on

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll stop worrying about the oil thing now

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Speaker 3: and then Nick, thank you. Well, what's up with the

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Speaker 3: domestic air travel? The price is down by eleven percent?

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Speaker 3: I was reading that going really eleven percent?

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Speaker 8: Well, you do find that air travels it's quite seasonal,

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Speaker 8: so it does go up and down from one quarter

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Speaker 8: immediate post COVID period, but we have now started to

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Speaker 8: see some settling down in that area and you can

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Speaker 8: has been that things have started to ease back after

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Speaker 8: that initial nudge that we saw.

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Speaker 3: Nick, Thanks very much for you update this morning. Really

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Speaker 3: appreciate it. Nick Tuffley, chief economist at ASB Bank. We're

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Speaker 3: in the zone and it sounds like we're going to

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Speaker 3: stay there for the full seable, which is great news.

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Speaker 2: Just gone twenty four after five News Talks. That'd be the.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year full show podcast on iHeartRadio. How it

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Speaker 3: It me it is twenty six alf to five year

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Speaker 3: on News Talks. It be a timely reminder, an important

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Speaker 3: one too for me. Last night, I'm in Wellington, as

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Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier, flew into the shammozzel storm yesterday for

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Speaker 3: an event last night. It's easily one of the most

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Speaker 3: beautiful cities in New Zealand, is it not?

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Speaker 2: Can we all agree on that?

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Speaker 3: With the Hills jutting out of the harbor, all of

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Speaker 3: the bush surrounding it. It is stunning and the weather

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Speaker 3: was good, so that helped. It was absolutely beautiful flying

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Speaker 3: in and then you land and there's the road cones

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Speaker 3: and there's the uber driver not happy, and the Mayor's

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Speaker 3: is all over the place, shambles, shamozl all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: But then this event last night featured and honored a

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Speaker 3: couple of Wellington business people, among them Brian McGuinness, whose

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Speaker 3: family have either built or refurbished basically half of Wellington,

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Speaker 3: including Government House by the way, which I found fascinating

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Speaker 3: being in business for decades, you know, more than fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Doug Hodak was a name you will know. He was

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Speaker 2: on there as well, great Wellingtonian. Many were honored there.

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Speaker 3: But the speech has particularly got me last night, got

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Speaker 3: me right in the guts. Actually, these are guys who

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Speaker 3: have seen it all, Wellington at its best, Wellington at

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Speaker 3: its absolute worst, but when it's the crown on the jewel,

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Speaker 3: when it's the butt of our jokes. And their message

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Speaker 3: essentially was politics is temporary, like any city.

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Speaker 2: The real pulse.

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Speaker 3: The real engine room is private enterprise, always has been,

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Speaker 3: always will be. And there was a tech guru, John

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Speaker 3: Daniel Trask who spoke last night. He said we shouldn't

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Speaker 3: always look to the council, to the government to fix

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Speaker 3: our problems or to make things better, because for the

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Speaker 3: most part we can actually do it on our own.

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Speaker 3: We can solve problems on our own. Sure, there are

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Speaker 3: some issues that only government can and counsel can look

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Speaker 3: after that only government and council have.

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Speaker 2: A purview over.

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Speaker 3: But for most things we can actually do it ourselves.

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Speaker 3: And so that is true of Wellington. Wellington is no exception.

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Speaker 3: Wellington will come back and probably doesn't help that people

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Speaker 3: like me sit in front of microphones in Auckland and bleat.

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Speaker 2: About the place.

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Speaker 3: But you know, it's fun from a distance, quite different

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Speaker 3: up close. Twenty eight after five Crying Bridge. Matt Doocey's

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Speaker 3: on the show. He's the acc Minister. Because the deficits

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Speaker 3: We will ask him what does that mean for your levies?

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Speaker 3: Does that mean they'll cut back on some of your

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Speaker 3: physio services? You have taxis to work. Apparently it's taking

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Speaker 3: us longer to recover from injuries? Does that sound suspicious

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Speaker 3: to you? I mean, with all the medical advancements, with

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Speaker 3: all of the physio treatments we have now, why is

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Speaker 3: it taking us longer to recover from in Is someone

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Speaker 3: taking the piss? Twenty nine after five News Talks by.

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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and

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Speaker 1: a Playing Store. News Talks A B.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, twenty four away from six News Talks B.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a great day. Welcome to your Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Mitch McCann is stateside for us. The political race now

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Speaker 3: in a dead heat. And what is Karmala Harris going

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Speaker 3: to do? Where she's going on the attack is what

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Speaker 3: she's doing. Mitch McCann with us a little later, Matt Doocy,

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Speaker 3: the ACC Minister, A lot of concern from you this

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Speaker 3: morning about the books. Our ACC books a seven point

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Speaker 3: two billion dollar deficit. We'll ask the minister about that.

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Speaker 1: Ryan.

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Speaker 3: Something doesn't add up, says David, with the losses incurred

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Speaker 3: by ACC going from a billion dollar profit to a

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Speaker 3: seven billion dollar loss in one year, and they're making

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Speaker 3: it sound like it's all client costs. However, it would

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Speaker 3: be interesting to know if they have lost money through

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Speaker 3: bad investments, they actually made money on their investments, David.

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Speaker 3: But I will ask Matt Doocy about that. What it

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Speaker 3: says here is the largely driven by an eight point

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Speaker 3: seven billion dollar increase in the outstanding claims liability, which

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Speaker 3: is basically how much they expect injuries that have already

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Speaker 3: happened to cost them into the future. That has increased substantially.

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Speaker 3: So I'm assuming that is inflation related.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We'll ask Matt Doocy about that when he's on the show.

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Speaker 3: Just before six it is twenty three away.

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Speaker 2: Ran the Bridge.

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Speaker 3: We're going to our reporters around the country, starting in

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Speaker 3: Dunedin with Callen Proctor.

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Speaker 2: Cullen, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Ryan, fresh push from Dunedin about the health system there.

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Speaker 10: Yes, the mayor and the and councilors here have unveiled

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Speaker 10: officially unveiled this ambulance, this protest ambulance, Ryan, and its

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Speaker 10: name is Cliff as in the ambulance at the bottom

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Speaker 10: of and that's what they want to avoid here with

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Speaker 10: our health system and this hospital process campaign. It's being

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Speaker 10: used to help spread the campaign's new slogan around the

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Speaker 10: South and potentially up to Wellington. This ambulance the new

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Speaker 10: slogan Save our Southern Hospital. The councilor has also purchased

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Speaker 10: digital billboards in Wellington, they say, at a heavily discounted price,

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Speaker 10: with the save our Southern Hospital message clearly aimed at

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Speaker 10: the politicians.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 10: There's campaign badges, a website and Instagram page being launched

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Speaker 10: as well. The mayor says, look that the such a

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Speaker 10: for purpose now and for decades to come.

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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today? Come fine? And sixteen today? Brilliant?

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Claire Schubert is in christ Church with well almost the

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Speaker 3: opposite story there, Claire, Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Well we're celebrating up here that we've got some more

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Speaker 11: surgical theater space coming to christ Church.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 11: Of course, normally I'm talking about how bad our health

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Speaker 11: system in christ Church is, but at the moment this

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Speaker 11: is good news. There is an increase to the capacity,

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Speaker 11: with eighteen hundred surgeries to be on offer annually come

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Speaker 11: Forte Health Hospital. That is, of course a private hospital here,

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Speaker 11: but it's used by the public system too. The chief executive,

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Speaker 11: Michael Woodhouse, says this has been running at capacity for

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Speaker 11: the last five years. Construction of the fifth operating theatre

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Speaker 11: He says, as I just mentioned that opening. It will

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Speaker 11: also increase use for the public health system to access

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Speaker 11: the theater capacity when needed.

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Speaker 2: Very good. How's your weather today?

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Speaker 11: Clad will clear to find this morning northeast of east

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Speaker 11: developing and be fresh for a time this afternoon a high.

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Speaker 6: Of fourteen brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Max Hoole is with me in Wellington this morning. Max,

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Speaker 3: good morning, what a pleasure do you know? You look

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Speaker 3: a lot happier than you sound. Comes in with a

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Speaker 12: Take that as a compliment.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's happening with the council.

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Speaker 3: We've got this meeting at eight thirty with Simmon Brown

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Speaker 3: and the mere right yeaheah.

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Speaker 12: Let's start with yesterday a bit of a media circus

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Speaker 12: at the City Council. Our reporter was there, other reporters

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Speaker 12: that were their councilors. The councilors all sidled out one

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Speaker 12: by one. They got their five minutes. Let's start with

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Speaker 12: the mayor. She's resolute. She says the meeting was productive.

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Speaker 12: Nothing to see here, even though nothing's actually been determined yet.

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Speaker 12: Called this urgent meeting, of course, to discuss this financial

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Speaker 12: hole in the budget worth up to six hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 12: she's insisting they're getting on with it. The thing is,

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Speaker 12: we're about a year out from local body elections, and

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Speaker 12: I can tell you quite a few people in that

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Speaker 12: room yesterday are weighing up running for mayor. Right now,

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Speaker 12: let's start with Ray Chung. He's confirmed, the only one

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Speaker 12: who is confirmed actually is running for mayor. He says,

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Speaker 12: Hid do virtually everything different to Tori Fano, And yet

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Speaker 12: the majority obviously against crown intervention. As you say, Fanos

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Speaker 12: meeting the Simeon Brown, the local government minister today are

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Speaker 12: united fronts. Not really intervention still possible, perhaps even likely.

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Speaker 12: I think the council is going to remain a circus

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Speaker 12: for some time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. But I said to we

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Speaker 3: head Rychang on this morning, I said, what did you

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Speaker 3: actually decide yesterday? I mean, they didn't decide anything, just

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Speaker 3: to be a bit more agreeable with each other into

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Speaker 3: the future.

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Speaker 12: Well yeah, almost like advice behind the scenes. Can we

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Speaker 12: please you know, present at least this United Front.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, thank you Max. Great to see you, Max.

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Speaker 3: Hole in Wellington. How we're the today?

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Speaker 12: I should say it should be mostly fine once it

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Speaker 12: starts to warm up, getting up to sixteen in the city.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thank you navers in Auckland this morning, every good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning.

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Speaker 13: I am sitting in your seat today because obviously you're

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Speaker 13: in Wellington and this seat is amazing.

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Speaker 3: It is quite comfortable, isn't it very No, you probably

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Speaker 3: shouldn't call it my seat because you know who will

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Speaker 3: get upset by that.

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Speaker 2: The the hosk will get upset.

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Speaker 13: I'm going to wheel it out before he starts at

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Speaker 13: six a year.

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Speaker 2: No, but pull it out just as he's sitting down.

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Speaker 3: Hey, the popular Aucland walkway being reopened after a year

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Speaker 3: long closure.

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Speaker 2: Which one is this?

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Speaker 13: Well, look, this is really really good news. This is

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Speaker 13: the one on the north shore, that Tuckapoon and Melford

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Speaker 13: Beach walkway. So I mean the locals here will remember

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Speaker 13: in September last year. This is the owners of the

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Speaker 13: first cottage they fenced off the section this is of

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Speaker 13: that walkway, that Takapoon and Milford Beach walkway because it

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Speaker 13: cuts across their property. So the Ann and Paul further

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Speaker 13: State say, now, great news, are going to restore the walkway.

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Speaker 13: This is a gesture of goodwill because there was you know,

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Speaker 13: like this huge you know, arguments of the organd Council

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Speaker 13: refusing requests to remove the cottage's heritage status. So the

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Speaker 13: estate says, no, we're going to do it. We're going

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Speaker 13: to restore the walkway. Good news for locals. It's going

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Speaker 13: to be open and time for summer.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. How's the weather today?

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Speaker 13: Fine weather today and our high eighteen degrees and I'm

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Speaker 13: just going to spin around in this chair a couple

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Speaker 13: more times.

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Speaker 3: You enjoy that you get comfortable in there. Nev never

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Speaker 3: it all can for us this morning and our reporters

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Speaker 3: right around the country. Matt, do see the acc Minister

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Speaker 3: coming up just before six. Should you be worried about

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Speaker 3: Levy's Should you be worried about coverage with.

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Speaker 2: Our no fault insurance game? Plus Mitch McCann out of.

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Speaker 1: The States international correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance. Peace

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Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen away from six News Talk Sai'd be great to

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Speaker 3: have your company this morning. The US election race is

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Speaker 3: toyter than a toyger, you'd have to say. And so

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Speaker 3: Karmala Harris is going into the lions. Dan Mitch McCann

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Speaker 3: is a US correspondent. Mitch is going on Fox News.

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Speaker 3: Is this a completely unscripted interview situation?

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Speaker 5: Well, it is, and it's an opportunity to peel to

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Speaker 5: more voters because this election is so close, Ryan, it

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Speaker 5: could come down to just a few hundred votes in

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Speaker 5: one of these red states in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 5: In fact, there are only nineteen days, twelve hours, in

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Speaker 5: about thirteen minutes to go. And there are a number

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Speaker 5: of areas that Kamala Harris is doing well.

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Speaker 14: Here.

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Speaker 5: She's doing well with women and seniors. Donald Trump is

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Speaker 5: doing well with young men. But there's one demographic that

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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris would probably like to improve on, and that

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Speaker 5: is the African American community, which I might add has

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Speaker 5: always been such a strong source of votes for the Democrats.

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Speaker 5: So while Kamala Harris is on track to win an

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Speaker 5: overwhelming number of Black votes, she may need more than

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Speaker 5: she is forecast. Get this in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty,

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Speaker 5: the Democrats won the black vote with ninety two and

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Speaker 5: ninety percent margins. But according to the New York Times,

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Speaker 5: forecasts show that seventy eight percent support Harris this time around.

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Speaker 5: So it's a lot of votes, but it's quite a

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Speaker 5: bit less than what Biden received in twenty twenty. So

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Speaker 5: this might seem like a lot of votes, but it

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Speaker 5: could come down to just a feud. Tamalaharas is going

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Speaker 5: to need that community.

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Speaker 3: Especially in places like Georgia, right where the proportion is

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Speaker 3: a lot higher, it.

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Speaker 2: Can swing a state. Let's talk about Biden.

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Speaker 3: The administration has sent a letter to Israeli leaders demanding

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Speaker 3: what exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the US has written this letter.

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Speaker 5: It's been signed by the US Defense Secretary and the

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Speaker 5: Secretary of State, which tells Israel it has thirty days

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Speaker 5: to boost humanitarian aid to the people in war torn

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Speaker 5: Gaza or there is a risk of policy consequences, which

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Speaker 5: most people assume means that the US may stop shipping

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Speaker 5: US weapons to Israel. And the four page letter, which

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Speaker 5: complains about the lack of aid being allowed into Gaza,

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Speaker 5: points out that the flow of eight has dropped by

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Speaker 5: more than fifty percent since Benjamin Ettner, who promised to

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Speaker 5: allow more deliveries. Now the White House says it's not

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Speaker 5: a threat, but it's just intended to reiterate this sense

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Speaker 5: of urgency in the region.

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Speaker 2: Mitch, thank you for that, Mitch mccannal Man.

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Speaker 3: In the States, it is twelve minutes away from six

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Speaker 3: News Bryant Bridge. ACC's announced to seven point two billion

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Speaker 3: dollar deficit for the year to journe This just after

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Speaker 3: a year after reporting a surplace of nine hundred and

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Speaker 3: eleven million, and it's got everyone on the text machine saying,

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Speaker 3: what how does that happen? It comes as the ACC

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Speaker 3: is looking to raise levies for twenty twenty five to

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight. This is to help pay for increasing costs.

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Speaker 3: Matt Doucy is the ACC minister. He's with me this morning,

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Speaker 3: Minister Morna, good morning.

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Speaker 14: Morlene to mother a Ryan, good to have you.

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Speaker 2: On the show.

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Speaker 3: Tell me, first of all, how bad is this on

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Speaker 3: a scale of one to ten, How worried are you?

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Speaker 14: Oh? Look, I think it's hugely concerning. I think ACC

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Speaker 14: quite frankly needs to lift its game. But I think

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Speaker 14: we do need to take a step back. I mean

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Speaker 14: ACC celebrated its fiftieth birthday recently. It's a big institution

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Speaker 14: in New Zealand. In the last financial year it's settled

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Speaker 14: about seven billion dollars worth of claims, four billion for

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Speaker 14: treatment costs, about three billion for a weekly compensation. We're

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Speaker 14: not talking about any financial sustainability risks in the short

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Speaker 14: to medium term. It's more about when you look at

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Speaker 14: what's called the OCL the outstanding claims liability for long

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Speaker 14: term and what we've seen through some factors like inflation,

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Speaker 14: treatment costs, population growth, we've seen significant rise in the

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Speaker 14: outstanding claims liability. But on saying that, there's two areas

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Speaker 14: ryan One is factors that are inside accs controls stuff

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Speaker 14: that's outside, like sometimes inflation and treatment costs. But I

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Speaker 14: think they've really got to focus on their rehabilitation rates.

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Speaker 14: We've seen them continue to decline and that's a big

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Speaker 14: area that I think that they can focus on to

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Speaker 14: improve their position.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the population growth. I mean, if the population

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Speaker 3: is growing, there should be more people paying into the

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Speaker 3: system too, right, So can't we cancel that one out.

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Speaker 14: Potentially, But when you look at some times the exponential

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Speaker 14: factor in the claims and that's what they've actually seen

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Speaker 14: this year. Specifically, they've seen people claiming. They have seen

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Speaker 14: more people claiming. But like I say, there is levers

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Speaker 14: inside their control injury prevention. Does that rehabilitation rates.

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Speaker 3: When more people are is that over and above population growth?

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Speaker 3: Are we having more accidents when?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 14: I think quite crudely, when you look at those statistics,

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Speaker 14: you could draw that conclusion. I don't have the details

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Speaker 14: on why that is, but like I say, there's an

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Speaker 14: ability for acc to focus on the levers that they

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Speaker 14: have in their control. Our rehabilitation rates have been declining

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Speaker 14: over a number of years. So I've made it very

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Speaker 14: clear that is to be the primary focus. But also

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Speaker 14: want to touch on another area, which is about a

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Speaker 14: third of that significant increase, And what that is is

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Speaker 14: court rulings that have changed some of the entitlements and

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Speaker 14: what we call boundary issues.

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Speaker 2: One of them two generals. Is it too general?

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Speaker 14: What the court has ruled in one area has significantly

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Speaker 14: increased the OCL by three point six billion dollars alone.

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Speaker 14: So those are areas that we need to look at all.

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Speaker 3: Right, well, very quickly, we literally have ten seconds left.

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Speaker 3: Will this mean levees will have to go up substantially.

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Speaker 3: What will it mean for us they're actually paying into it,

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Speaker 3: almillst things be cut.

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Speaker 14: I won't get ahead of cabinet decisions, but what I

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Speaker 14: would say is that levees are only one lever and

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Speaker 14: I don't expect levees to be used by default. I

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Speaker 14: expect ACC to lift their game around rehabilitation rates because

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Speaker 14: they should be ensuring that they are utilizing the income

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Speaker 14: they're getting from New Zealanders at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Fairly, Matt Doc ACC minister, thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Eight to six News Talk CV.

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Speaker 2: News and Views.

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Speaker 1: You trust to start your day's early edition with Ryan Bridge,

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Speaker 1: Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Flying Store

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Speaker 1: US Talk Zidvy.

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Speaker 3: ACC is one of those issues where people just go

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Speaker 3: nuts and unload. Good morning, Ryan, ACC minister, who is

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Speaker 3: just on the show. What a crop of rubbish They

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Speaker 3: need to stop using. Inflation is the excuse for everything

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Speaker 3: right about ACC. Time to look at the providers as well.

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Speaker 3: I've been under care for a hand injury. Unbelievable clipping

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Speaker 3: the ticket by doctors with little benefits. So lots of

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Speaker 3: people have an opinion on this. The deficit seven point

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Speaker 3: two billion dollars. It is five away from six and

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Speaker 3: I'm in Willington, but Mike is in Auckland and he

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Speaker 3: is with you next.

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Speaker 2: Mike, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 6: You any good as an MC?

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Speaker 2: No? I wouldn't rate myself for it.

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Speaker 6: Do they pay you? Did they pay you any money

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Speaker 6: for that last night?

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Speaker 2: Or yeah?

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Speaker 6: They of course bit of money? And you know you

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Speaker 6: think goodness so.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've been doing that for what sixteen years now? Mike?

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Speaker 2: What the show? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: But I'm good at the show. I'm not good as

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Speaker 6: an MC.

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Speaker 2: Do you not do MC gigs? I don't like it.

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Speaker 15: Gigs because I'm like you, I'm no good. I just

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Speaker 15: don't go out to the marketplace and charge people for

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Speaker 15: it because I've worked out I'm no good at it.

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Speaker 6: Stick to what you're good at.

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Speaker 15: Ryan, don't come on the program and go oh bluddy, hell,

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Speaker 15: I charged twenty thousand dollars last night to be an MC,

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Speaker 15: and I'm no good at it.

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Speaker 2: At the time that I took the gig, Oh you

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Speaker 2: needed to. I was unemployed. Did that?

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Speaker 15: That would have been nice to start with last night?

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Speaker 15: Say look what you're about to get is not that good.

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Speaker 15: I'm not that good. But I was unemployed at the time.

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Speaker 15: See that's a good laugh to start the show. People

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Speaker 15: would have immediately thought, oh, he's a nice guy.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what was interesting? Obviously the mayor was there,

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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister was there, and I was, you know,

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Speaker 3: sort of looking for any interactive There was no interaction

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Speaker 3: between them.

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Speaker 2: Well did you rack it up?

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Speaker 3: I would have yeah, Well, do you know I planned

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Speaker 3: to go in there and really shite stir Yes, and

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Speaker 3: then I sort of I felt bad when I was there,

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Speaker 3: you know, I really sort.

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Speaker 6: Of when you say that, you say, Tory, I'm feeling

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Speaker 6: sorry for you. I would have laughed nervously.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 15: Do you want to work with the primisse? See, I

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Speaker 15: would have racked it up. I would have gone big time.

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Speaker 15: That's why I'm charging so much money. I should get

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Speaker 15: back into the mc gig. I'm actually quite good. I've

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Speaker 15: talked to myself into it.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's on your show today?

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Speaker 15: We'll talk to the finance minister who the thing about

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Speaker 15: the inflation and I think we need to read that.

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Speaker 6: You know, we're all a bit excited. We go, oh,

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Speaker 6: thank god, it's gone down. I think it's entirely.

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Speaker 15: Possible they've overcooked it and they've gone too low. In

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Speaker 15: other words, yesterday's number was lower than they thought it would.

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Speaker 15: That indicates that things need to be boosted once again.

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Speaker 15: So we go back to the whole. Is it fifty

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Speaker 15: or is at seventy five? But anyway, Nikola will lissay

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Speaker 15: up to seven.

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Speaker 3: All right, Mike is within next Thanks for having me Wellington,

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Speaker 3: it probably won't have me back as an MC by

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Speaker 3: the sounds of that three away from Sex.

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