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Speaker 1: For on the fringes of the Prime Minister's Japan trip.

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Speaker 1: Couple of stories for you. One the plane obviously that

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Speaker 1: needs replacing. In two Sea Listers. I very much doubt

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Speaker 1: whether anyone who matters in Japan really shifted their thinking

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Speaker 1: about New Zealand over such frippery. The plane is the

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Speaker 1: more serious story, obviously and needs addressing. And if any

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Speaker 1: good news comes out of a bad situation, it might

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Speaker 1: just be that things have got so comical so third

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Speaker 1: world we might actually get around to addressing the problem.

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Speaker 1: No government, clearly, obviously over the years, has had the

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Speaker 1: gonads to make the call, given the politics of all

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Speaker 1: of this, remembering, of course, the seven five sevens are

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Speaker 1: not about VIPs really, They're mainly about troop movement. But

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Speaker 1: our plight, the image of our plight is now so

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Speaker 1: pathetic we may as well just acquiesce, and except that

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Speaker 1: we need to actually show a better leadership and sort

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Speaker 1: it out once and for all, than while we're at it,

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Speaker 1: do the end of Islanders at the same time. But

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Speaker 1: to story two Sea Listers and tagalongs, the PM was

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Speaker 1: making a point that bypassed too many of those who

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Speaker 1: cover them, too many of those who cover them, don't

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Speaker 1: get it, or more importantly, I suspect don't want to

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Speaker 1: get it. You only had to watch his press conference

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Speaker 1: in full in Japan on Tuesday, which I did to

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Speaker 1: see it. There are some in the press gallery basically

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Speaker 1: that are children. Was luxem blunt? Yes? Was he wrong? No?

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Speaker 1: Was he indelicate? Maybe? And that's the price you pay

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Speaker 1: for unsophisticated coverage, of which there is far too much

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Speaker 1: these days. His point was specific in the sense, these

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Speaker 1: missions need people who have an interest in the market

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Speaker 1: you are in, can do business in the market you

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Speaker 1: are in, are already in the market you are in,

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Speaker 1: can convert into tangible results the trip they have just taken.

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Speaker 1: In other words, it's not a meet and greet. It's

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Speaker 1: not options and ideas. It's not blue sky, it's not

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Speaker 1: thought bubbles. It's cutting deals, doing business, banking the checks.

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Speaker 1: That was his point, and in fact, if you listened

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Speaker 1: to his words, he made that point. So therefore he

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Speaker 1: was right to double down when questioned by the clickbaits,

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Speaker 1: And it was based on experience because he had been

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Speaker 1: on these jaunts in another life. The credit he deserves

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Speaker 1: is based around his determination to do the miles hold

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Speaker 1: the meetings and put this country back on the map.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to business, he is a serious player

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Speaker 1: looking for results his punishment as he's followed about by

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Speaker 1: people who don't get that. For more from the Mic

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