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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 the early edition with Smith City,

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

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Speaker 2: That'd be good Morning New Zealand. It is six after five.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on a Wednesday morning. Coming up

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Speaker 2: on this show, the seven hundred million dollar question why

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Speaker 2: is Wellington using rates not debt to fund its water?

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Speaker 2: The eight hundred million dollar question why did we not

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Speaker 2: get cheapest school lunches sooner? Gavin Gray is in the

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Speaker 2: UK and new retail numbers out this morning. Good news

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Speaker 2: coming your way shortly.

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Speaker 1: The agenda.

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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the twenty third of October. A new

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Speaker 2: Reuters poll has Karmela Harris just three percent ahead of

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump with two weeks until polling day. It's forty

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Speaker 2: six forty three, within the margin of era.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that really stood out to us

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Speaker 3: was that the electorate's mood is quite dour. We asked

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Speaker 3: do you think the the nations on the right track

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Speaker 3: or the wrong track? And across a slew of issues,

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Speaker 3: Americans said the nations on the wrong.

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Speaker 2: Track, and that is always the biggest indicator of who's

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Speaker 2: going to win an election? This week's Biggest Waste of

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Speaker 2: Time Award, Parliament's Select Committee into Banking Competition aka Banking

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Speaker 2: Profits gets underway today. It'll be all sizzle, no sausage.

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Speaker 2: A and Z bosses are going to front up today.

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Speaker 2: Chloe Swarbrick and Deborah Russell will froth at the mouth.

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Speaker 2: But nothing will change for a small country with little influence,

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Speaker 2: and the last thing we want is politicians defining excess profits.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of sauces, the twenty twenty four Sausage Awards were

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Speaker 2: held last night and the winner is Westmere Butchery. The

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Speaker 2: pork and leak beat eight hundred other bangers and just

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Speaker 2: the thought of tasting eight hundred sausages quite a disgusting one.

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Speaker 2: Judges acknowledged the classic combination of flavors. Perfectly cooked the

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Speaker 2: leak gave the sausage an exceptional texture, declaring it a

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Speaker 2: truly delicious sausage. A woman has been rescued after being

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Speaker 2: stuck upside down between two rocks for seven hours in

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Speaker 2: Australia's Hunter Valley. She had been out taking photos when

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Speaker 2: she dropped her phone tried to retrieve it, prompting a

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Speaker 4: We're all like, how did you get down there? And

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Speaker 4: how are we going to get her out? I've never

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Speaker 4: been to one in ten years like that. The VRA

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Speaker 4: haven't seen one like that. Please rescue, haven't seen one

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Speaker 4: like that. It was out of the box.

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Speaker 2: Rescue for us. Seven boulders had to be removed to

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Speaker 2: get the woman out, some weighing up to five hundred kilos.

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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 talk.

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Speaker 2: Zaid be what a contrast in political paintings yesterday. On

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Speaker 2: the one hand, you had Chloe's Swarbrick flanked by the

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Speaker 2: only two MPs left in her caucus whose names we

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Speaker 2: actually know anymore and have lasted longer than five minutes

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Speaker 2: holding her one hundred and fifty fifth Darlene Tana stand up.

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Speaker 2: Of course, according to Chloe Swawbrick, it's all over now,

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Speaker 2: nothing to see here, move on.

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Speaker 3: It's be in a.

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Speaker 5: Position now we can draw a line under this issue,

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Speaker 5: and that focus can squarely be on the facts that

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Speaker 5: our people are hungry and the planet's on fire.

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Speaker 2: Yes, people are hungry, and over at the banquet hall.

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Speaker 2: David Seymour, the evil right wing, cold hearted tyrant, is

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Speaker 2: feeding starving children.

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Speaker 6: I'd give us a solid nine and a half only

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Speaker 6: because if you always want to improve, But.

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Speaker 2: This is seriously good for oh the contrast, one party

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Speaker 2: leader mopping up the mess of an incompetent caucus appointed

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Speaker 2: by a clearly incompetent party process, the other dishing out

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Speaker 2: hidden veggie buttered chicken to needy kids. Here's the ironic

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Speaker 2: thing about yesterday. Neither will gain or lose votes either

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Speaker 2: way the Greens and the ACT Party over these two issues.

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Speaker 2: Green supporters are loyal, very loyal, loyal to a fault. Actually,

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Speaker 2: they're like, you know, church goers. They're like Christians going

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Speaker 2: what did Trump say? Shoot someone in the middle of

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Speaker 2: Times Square, and they'd still vote for me. On the

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Speaker 2: other hand, is Seymour's Libertarian Party going to pick up

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Speaker 2: votes from taxpayer funded free lunches. Probably not, but I

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Speaker 2: suppose if we're going to have them, they might as

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Speaker 2: well cost us three bucks instead of eight ten after five.

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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Guess he's getting out of his beach chair this morning

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Speaker 2: and actually getting out on the campaign. It's Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: Apparently he's going to turn up to New Hampshire perhaps

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Speaker 2: they have to do. Donald Trump, he is heading to

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Speaker 2: a round table with Latino leaders in Florida, and Eminem

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Speaker 2: former President Barack Obama. We've got the Pole results. More

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Speaker 2: detail on them coming your way shortly eleven after five,

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Speaker 2: You're on news Talk, said be on we Snesday morning.

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Speaker 2: We're gone, We're two games.

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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 Talks it b thirteen after five. Quarter three earnings

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Speaker 2: reports are coming out of the United States this morning,

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Speaker 2: Thick and Fast and General Motors. Despite the softening prices.

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Speaker 2: We've spoken about this over the last couple of months,

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Speaker 2: the ev challenge in China. General Motors is apparently within

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Speaker 2: striking distance of posting its record operating income. This is

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four they expect fourteen to fifteen billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: That compares with the record fourteen and a half billion

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Speaker 2: booked in twenty twenty two. How did they do it?

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Speaker 2: Apparently cost cutting and sticking to their knitting, which is

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Speaker 2: basically petrol and diesel trucks and suv So there you go.

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Speaker 2: Good news for General Motors. This morning, fourteen after five

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Speaker 2: in Bridge brig the government's teaming up with private companies

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Speaker 2: to deliver the new school lunches at just three bucks

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Speaker 2: a pop. They reckon seventeen Kiwi supplies and manufacturers are involved.

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Speaker 2: Savings for the taxpayer one hundred and thirty million dollars

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Speaker 2: a year. Will it works? Samantha Mortimer is the Graymouth

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Speaker 2: High School principal and she's with me this morning. Samantha,

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Speaker 2: good morning.

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Speaker 7: Well Donna, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks having with me. Does this sounds like a win

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Speaker 7: Well, we're obviously happy that we still have something to

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Speaker 7: lot of concerns as well around what the food's going

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Speaker 7: We have we're going to our local supplier who's been

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Speaker 7: I think it's it depends on the age of the student,

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Speaker 2: It does sound ambitious. It does sound ambitious, But if

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Speaker 2: right because that money, the savings that they're making, they're

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to agree that is a good thing

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Speaker 2: It is sad. It is a shame you mentioned the

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Speaker 2: hot cold thing to kids care. I mean, if you're hungry,

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Speaker 2: like the idea is feeding hungry kids. If you're hungry,

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, if you're hungry, you eat anything. But

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Speaker 7: Just because you're poor doesn't mean that you should just

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Speaker 2: Samantha, thank you very much for your time. Great to

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Speaker 2: School principal A little skeptical. I think it's fair to

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Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis 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 2: News talk said be yesterday nineteen after five. Yesterday I

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Speaker 2: mentioned that North Korean troops fighting with Russia is upsetting Soul,

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Speaker 2: on developments. Twenty after five, Ryan Bridge retailers this is

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Speaker 2: good news this morning. Retailers are saying they're seeing some

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Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel as the economic

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Speaker 2: time begin to change. The latest quarterly survey from retail

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Speaker 2: ends Ed shows sixty five percent of retailers are confident

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Speaker 2: twelve months. Still doesn't sound great, but it's better than

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Speaker 2: the fifty eight percent last quarter. Meanwhile, fifty seven percent

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Speaker 2: That is up from just thirty two percent in the

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Speaker 2: last survey, so a big jump there. Liz Whedon is

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Speaker 2: a general manager of Normanby Fine Wines, a new retail

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Speaker 2: business that's starting up in February next year. Liz, welcome

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Speaker 2: to the show. Thank you, good morning, good morning. Brave

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Speaker 2: time to be starting a business.

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Speaker 9: I think you know, as either said, of those numbers,

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Speaker 9: there's some positive scientis in the market. I don't you know.

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Speaker 9: This year has been tough for retail, but started to

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Speaker 9: see some positive fines and we see it is a

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Speaker 9: good good time to look at starting a new business.

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Speaker 2: Have you done this before, been in business before, been

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Speaker 2: in the fine wine business before? Is this a completely

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Speaker 9: For you, so career career retailer, and I've worked in

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Speaker 9: slightly longer, but last thirty years, so very familiar with

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Speaker 9: whilst you know, those steps are shown that there's signs

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Speaker 2: Best of luck to you, Liz, and as I say this,

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Speaker 2: IV twenty five after five News Talks ZB. Nothing is

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Speaker 7: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? You've got to center right government just committing hundreds

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Speaker 5: Amount of food that they're having and supplying a more processed,

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Speaker 2: There is some bold claims being made by David Seymour

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Speaker 2: a smart guy. We're going to ask him about the

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Speaker 2: appointment of an observer to Wellington City Council. Nine two

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Speaker 2: by their caregivers. Ryan, peanut butters, sandwiches and as zapp

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Speaker 2: of those milk like chocolate milks. I think that's what

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Speaker 2: you're talking about, Ryan, We one step up from a

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Speaker 2: be celebrated. I was, Oh, there's this person was involved

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Speaker 2: with providing some lunches. Hi, Ryan, we own a rural

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Speaker 2: Tell them they're dreaming and you know we'll give David

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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early

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

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Speaker 1: beds and a play at store News Talk SIPP.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six

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Speaker 2: year on news Talk to you big Welcome to your

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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. If you're just joining us, great to have you.

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Speaker 2: We're live to reporters around the country. Shortly we are

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Speaker 2: going to Wellington. Tony Randall the Counselor on the appointment

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Speaker 2: of an observer There also Gavin Gray out of the

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Speaker 2: UK the Government releasing eleven hundred more prisoners early because

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Speaker 2: it went so well for them last time yesterday in

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Speaker 2: whole loser fiesco have a listen?

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Speaker 4: And he had any alcohol at the beer garden or

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Speaker 4: the winery he visited that day?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 2: Is he saying that he did.

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Speaker 10: Not tell the worker to f off?

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Speaker 2: I do not believe I said that.

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Speaker 10: Did he call the worker a loser?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 10: Did he hold up the shape of an L on

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 9: I did.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like one of those games of guess who

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Do you have ginger here? Yes? I wonder if you're

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Speaker 2: not drunk and you can't remember if you swore, then

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Speaker 2: you swear all the times. We're like a sailor, right,

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Speaker 2: So that squares that part off of it. The other

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Speaker 2: he was at a brewery. He was at a winery.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't be stupid enough to lie about that, would you.

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Speaker 2: You know, just in the modern age with cell phones

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't lie about that, would you. Probably, Well, unless

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Speaker 2: So if that is the case, and no other evidence emerges,

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Speaker 2: then surely this is case closed. Twenty two away from

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Speaker 2: Proctor and Toned and Collen. Good morning morning, Ryan. Do

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Speaker 2: your dog control laws? The by law looks set to

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Speaker 2: get the green light.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: A number of changes to these bylaws, Ryan that council

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Speaker 11: staff have recommended it, including allowing dogs back into the city.

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Speaker 11: They'll be allowed on leashes in the central Seabetdy area,

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Speaker 11: among other alterations. So that's area is like our Octagon

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Speaker 11: This follows public consultation and hearings over the last month.

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Speaker 11: Staff have also proposed enabling exemptions to the proposed limit

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Speaker 11: the rule could hurt dog walking businesses. The hearings committee

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Speaker 11: will consider these recommendations next Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today, Coleen?

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Speaker 11: A cloud increasing occasion arraund this afternoon. Northerly wins today.

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Speaker 11: The heighs today twenty five for Dunedin.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire. She would is in christ Church with

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Speaker 2: us this morning. Clear, good morning to do the murder

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Speaker 2: trial of Tinjun Chow continuing today. Yes, Ryan, that's right.

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Speaker 12: A lot of interest in this one down here. Tinjun

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Speaker 12: Chow is accused of killing Jan Feibao, who disappeared in

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Speaker 12: who was showing someone through a property when she was

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Speaker 12: never seen again. Her body was found buried in a

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Speaker 12: shallow grave more than a year later. Trial good underway

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Speaker 12: on Monday. The prosecutors say this man Chow attacked Boo

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Speaker 12: as she showed him through that property. Her partner, Paul Gooch,

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Speaker 12: that morning. He called her disappearance completely out of character.

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Speaker 12: He described her as beautiful, and then things got a

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Speaker 12: she's not missing, she's dead. Real estate agents and friends

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Speaker 12: of Bao are expected on the stand this morning when

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Speaker 12: court resumes at ten.

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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather today, clear?

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Speaker 12: Nicer woman chrished at today too, Some low cloud will

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Speaker 12: clear to find northeasterly's turning northwest at a high of

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Speaker 2: Brilliant, have a good one. Max is in Malling and Haymax.

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Speaker 2: The Council's responded, We've got Tony Randall on actually just

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Speaker 13: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Tony says. An

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Speaker 13: important announcement obviously that will have ripple effects for some

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Speaker 13: time made. Torifano believes this appointment of a Crown Observer

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Speaker 13: is not a reflection of her leadership. She won't resign,

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Speaker 13: government figures over the past few weeks shambles, I imagine

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Speaker 13: the main term of dissatisfaction. Councilor Diane Calvert says she's

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Speaker 13: long wanted intervention now feels validated. Similarly, Ray Chung Nicolie

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Speaker 13: Young has often agreed with the government's criticism. Independent Tim

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Speaker 13: Brown says this is unnecessary in not going to automatically

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Speaker 13: mean better decisions have made it. Counsel better or decisions

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Speaker 13: preferable to the government. Lefty Rebecca Matthews points out bad

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Speaker 13: behavior from others around the council has led to this,

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Speaker 13: not from her and her allies, quite a few left

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Speaker 13: leaning counselors trying to see the positives of this labour.

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Speaker 13: Taking the position that Simeon Brown should release the advice

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Speaker 13: that led to this decision.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon he should too, just in the interest

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Speaker 2: of trans And see a lot of people saying this

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Speaker 2: will end in a commissioner, do you I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's the case. I think they've kind of reverse engineered

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Speaker 2: this just to do something. What's your take, Max.

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Speaker 13: Well, it's it's difficult to put an observer in and

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Speaker 13: the observer come back and say all is well, and

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Speaker 13: then you don't put a commissioner in. I could see

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Speaker 13: a commissioner happening to be honest, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we've got a year to the election.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 13: It's not not long, is it.

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 13: Anyway, it's a long way back from here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. How's your weather, Max?

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Speaker 13: The odd shower this morning, clearing this afternoon, strong northerlyies

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Speaker 13: later eighteen the high.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant Thank you Neva's and Aukland this morning. Good morning, Neva,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 10: I'm sitting in a different seat here they come, you know,

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Speaker 10: afternoon team those new boys met in Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Someone mentioned there was a new computer which I can't see.

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Speaker 13: Is this one here?

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Speaker 2: Everything is?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's different. I don't know whether I like that.

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Speaker 10: I'm a creature of hebit when it comes to coming

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Speaker 10: here in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these boys shuffle along, the shuffle along.

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Speaker 10: I've only been here what four minutes?

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Speaker 2: They have been here for minutes, But they're doing good job.

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Speaker 2: They are doing a very okay.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, be nice about them.

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Speaker 2: Come well. I mean, you know they can't decide where

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Speaker 2: they said, can they? Surely not unless they're divas.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Hey, the teacher at the North Auckland Primary school who's

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Speaker 2: been accused of some pretty nasty stuff.

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Speaker 10: Yes, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a young child

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Speaker 10: now facing criminal charges before the court. So the teacher,

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Speaker 10: who held a senior position, was charged by police last month.

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Speaker 10: Now police told The Herald the woman in her thirties

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Speaker 10: has been charged with the decent assault of a boy

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Speaker 10: under twelve and grooming for sexual conduct with a young person.

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Speaker 10: The investigation was launched and this is after the matter

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Speaker 10: was reported to police last month. What we do know

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Speaker 10: is that the woman has been reminded on bail due

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Speaker 10: to reappear. This is in the north Shore District Court

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Speaker 10: on November fifteen. So the names of the teacher obviously

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Speaker 10: and the school is suppressed.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how's the weather today.

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Speaker 10: Cloudy, fine spells developing?

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Speaker 2: Nineteen is the high brilliant You get to do something

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Speaker 2: or what to their chair or nice well to break

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Speaker 2: the chair, break the chair and leave it for them

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Speaker 2: to clean up. Seventeen away from six news Talk said

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Speaker 2: Bee coming up next, we're live to the UK with

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Speaker 2: It's a really interesting update on Andrew Bailey, which we'll

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Speaker 2: get to in. Just to sicken from one of our

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Speaker 2: listeners this morning, Devin Gray's in the UK, Gavin. The

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Speaker 2: UK government releasing eleven hundred more prisoners early because they

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Speaker 2: went so well last time.

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Speaker 8: The first ranch was in September. This is the second

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Speaker 8: one and by it is following also a major review

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Speaker 8: of sentencing. Why are we doing this well? Because these

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Speaker 8: one hundred prisoners are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Speaker 8: We are fast running out of spaces in our prisons,

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Speaker 8: and this government has said that we have to release

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Speaker 8: people early or else quite simply, the justice system will

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Speaker 8: come to a complete hold with nowhere to place prisoners.

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Speaker 8: So instead of the usual considered for release after fifty

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Speaker 8: percent of serving our sentence and good behavior, they've reduced

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Speaker 8: the forty percent. But to be clear, those convicted of

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Speaker 8: serious violent sex crimes and terrorism are not allowed. However,

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Speaker 8: you will remember back in September that Ryan somebody was

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Speaker 8: released and committed a sexual assault allegedly within hours of

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Speaker 8: having been released, and was put back behind bars within minutes.

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Speaker 8: And then they realized there weren't enough tags to go around,

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Speaker 8: electronic tags, and some of those who had been released

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Speaker 8: shouldn't have been eligible for that early release. So hopefully

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Speaker 8: they've got things a little more organized this time around.

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Speaker 8: But yeah, I'm afraid that that capacity or near capacity

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Speaker 8: of our prisons is a major headache.

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Speaker 2: The initial toxicology report for Liam Payne foundly head drugs

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Speaker 2: in his body. I don't think there'll be any great

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Speaker 2: surprise to hear that, Gevin, but these calls to increase

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Speaker 2: the protection for musicians. How's that going down?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean at the moment it's every one's sort

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Speaker 8: of handbringing. I think there are going to have to

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Speaker 8: be more definitive things for those who reach fame very

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Speaker 8: early in life, as he did at the age of sixteen.

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Speaker 8: But we're going to have to see, you know, exactly

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Speaker 8: what they were able to implement on this the record companies,

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Speaker 8: the talent shows themselves. But I'm afraid the initial autopsy,

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Speaker 8: the initial postmartem examination, has revealed that his body concluded

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Speaker 8: traces of cocaine, pink cocaine and benzodiazepine. Now pink cocaine,

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Speaker 8: if you're wondering, is a mix of methamphetamine, ketamine and

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Speaker 8: MDMA and also pink food coloring. Plenty of people rather suspected,

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Speaker 8: as you suggested there, that Liam Payne had had some

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Speaker 8: substance abuse early in the day, and I'm afraid that

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Speaker 8: does appear to be ringing true in this particular autopsy report.

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Speaker 2: All right, Devin, thank you very much for that up.

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Speaker 2: So that great to have you as always. Kevin Gray

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Speaker 2: at UK Europe correspondent in his team to six Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: So they're getting an observer This is Wellington City Council.

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Speaker 2: Following the council's decision to make big changes to its

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Speaker 2: long term plan and a fail vote to sell a

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Speaker 2: stake in its airport shares, the Local Government Minister Simon

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Speaker 2: Brown will appoint a Crown observer to the local Council

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Speaker 2: following advice from the Department of Internal Affairs. The council

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Speaker 2: has ten working days to respond. Tony Randall's and Wellington

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Speaker 2: City Council. He's with us this morning, Tony.

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Speaker 14: Good morning, good morning, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thank you. Any rumors on who this observer.

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Speaker 14: Might be, well, I own look, just random rumors and

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Speaker 14: Tolly was the name that was thrown at me, just randomly.

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Speaker 14: But I've got no reason to think that it was

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Speaker 14: that it would be her, and I think in fact

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Speaker 14: it may there may not be anyone at the moment,

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Speaker 14: because an observer can't be appointed until after we've responded

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Speaker 14: back to the minister.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're obviously going to respond favorably.

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Speaker 14: Yes, oh, yes, that's right. I think I think the

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Speaker 14: Council accepts the Minister's decision and while we might give

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Speaker 14: some feedback on attemps of reference, the whole principle of

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Speaker 14: having a Crown observer is accepted I think by the

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Speaker 14: majority of the councilors, and we're going to go from here.

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Speaker 2: Is Wellington going to elect Tory Faro again?

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Speaker 14: No, that's a big decision. I'm not a fan, but

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Speaker 14: you know, election times, who knows. I think she's I

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Speaker 14: think she's had some challenging times and it's you know,

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Speaker 14: her record isn't necessarily the best record, but also depends

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Speaker 14: who else stands against her. Of course, the.

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Speaker 2: Argument that we will go from observer to commissioner I

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Speaker 2: don't think holds much weight. What's your feeling. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we've got a year till the election.

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Speaker 14: I agree, I absolutely agree. I think the threshold for

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Speaker 14: a commissioner is that we literally have breached the Local

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Speaker 14: Government Act. We haven't done that yet. And the minister's

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Speaker 14: outline though that we're obviously having trouble getting our finances

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Speaker 14: in order, and so he's kindly come along and said

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Speaker 14: he's going to help us out.

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Speaker 2: Why are you funding water infrastructure through rates not debt?

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Speaker 14: Well, that's an interesting claim and I don't I can't

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Speaker 14: get my head around exactly what he's saying. I do

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Speaker 14: know though, that we need to cut some of our

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Speaker 14: projects and that we aren't forty funding all the money

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Speaker 14: that Wellings and Warter would wind us to fund. Water

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Speaker 14: is not the top priority and it should be and

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Speaker 14: we're going to get there. I think through this long

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Speaker 14: term and amendment.

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Speaker 2: Tony, thank you very much for being on the show

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Speaker 2: this morning. Great to have you. Tony Randall. Wee I

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Speaker 2: told you he was good Wellington City councilor they do exist,

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Speaker 2: good Wellington City Councilors. Eight minutes away from Sex News talks, ab.

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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: furniture bids and a playing store News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Zi'd be five away from six on news Talks. It'd

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Speaker 2: be one of our listeners, lovely listeners this morning. Has

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Speaker 2: said just before ten pm last night, I would have

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Speaker 2: been fast asleep. Mike's here, Mike, good morning. You would

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Speaker 2: have been far to sleep in Parliament. Apparently Bailey stood

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Speaker 2: up to amend his answer to Question Time yesterday. He

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Speaker 2: thought he was asked a question about being drunk. He says,

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Speaker 2: actually he did have a drink before he left the

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Speaker 2: Now this is just from a texture. I haven't confirmed.

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Speaker 6: We can confirm that because I watched question Time yesterday

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Speaker 6: and they the Labor Party clearly had something because Hipkins

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Speaker 6: led off with the questions and you played Arena Williams.

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Speaker 6: But they clearly have something by way of a beer

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Speaker 6: garden slash. And then when he stood up yesterday and

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Speaker 6: said I didn't drink at all, I thought that's fair enough.

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Speaker 2: That settles out, because you wouldn't mislead the house. And

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Speaker 2: surely in this day and age, if you're at a

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Speaker 2: brewery or you're at a winery and you're having a

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Speaker 2: beer or a wine and you're a minister, you'd expect

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Speaker 2: someone would get you on a photo or a you know.

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Speaker 2: So that to me put it to rest.

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Speaker 6: If he amended that, then you're opening the door again

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Speaker 6: and they've handled it badly. It shouldn't even be a story.

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Speaker 6: What he did was stupid and we'll probably never know

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Speaker 6: what actually unfolded, and it's a shame that we sort

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Speaker 6: of obsess about these kind of incidents. But at the

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Speaker 6: moment you start going down the track and was leaving

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Speaker 6: the house or having to correct what you said, Now.

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Speaker 2: That's scrubby, grubby, sackable offense.

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Speaker 6: This morning, David Seymour will celebrate the three dollar lunch

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Speaker 6: that actually look good. Yeah, I'd been more than happy

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Speaker 6: to have that for lunch.

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Speaker 2: And what did you have for lunch growing up? I

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Speaker 2: mean weird sandwiches. Yes it was cold. And this idea

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Speaker 2: that can need a hot lunch.

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Speaker 6: These nutritionists who've come out of nowhere and going, it's

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Speaker 6: not filling me on anymore. And what are we going

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Speaker 6: to do?

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Speaker 2: I mean, wake up board children.

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Speaker 6: All we ever had at best was a cold sausage

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Speaker 6: from the late from the left overs, but a breast.

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Speaker 6: It was lunch and sausage sandwich.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't it? Lunch and sausage with a bit of tomato sauce.

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Speaker 6: There we go and were and look at us.

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