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Speaker 1: Turns out that Wellington a super city is back on

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Speaker 1: the agenda again because four councils in the Wellington region

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Speaker 1: have been talking about amalgamation. Now, this is much smaller

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Speaker 1: than what was originally proposed years ago, which would have

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Speaker 1: included the wider upper councils. This time it would just

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Speaker 1: be ported to a Wellington Upper Hut and Hut city.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the Mayor's met back in May to talk her

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Speaker 1: through the planning to chat a chat again Anita Baker

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Speaker 1: as the mayor of Port to ours with us. Now, Hey, Anita, know,

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Speaker 1: how are you? And well? Thank you? Do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: This is a goer?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is, but we're not all on the same page.

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Speaker 2: And you can only be on the same page and

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Speaker 2: make it work of four of you agree and you

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Speaker 2: don't get it at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so who's not agreeing.

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Speaker 2: Wellington at the moment? Aren't on board for the discussion?

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Speaker 2: You know, don't think it's suitable right now, toy finals

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Speaker 2: you can't keep putting it off. Yeah, the last arogamation

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Speaker 2: you've just look up forward.

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Speaker 1: Why isn't Tory into it?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think she's you know, got troubles

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Speaker 2: at Wellington around her table. They've got other things going on.

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Speaker 2: We're all dealing with war. But actually it's a good

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Speaker 2: time to have those discussions.

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Speaker 1: I find it slightly ironic the Tories, the one who's

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Speaker 1: not into it, given that presumably, like their council, would

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Speaker 1: surely be the one that should be most grateful to

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Speaker 1: be sucked up into other councils, shouldn't they.

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Speaker 2: Well, you'd like to think so that they don't agree

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Speaker 2: on much, so I'm not sure how that will happen.

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Speaker 2: I'd just like to have the discussion and be able

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Speaker 2: to move on because I think we're all doing things,

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Speaker 2: you know, differently, when we should all be on the

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Speaker 2: same page.

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Speaker 1: So let me get this right, Anita. So you and

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Speaker 1: the mayors of Upper Hut and Hut City, you're all

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Speaker 1: quite keen on this.

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Speaker 2: Well, pay into the discussion. You know, we all do

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Speaker 2: rubbish recycling, all do it differently, all charge different things

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Speaker 2: for building consents, dogs. Yet we're in a very small

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Speaker 2: area where we're ten twenty minutes away from each other.

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Speaker 2: You know, it seems silly we could be up for blood.

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Speaker 2: The funding we fight each other, the funding and things

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Speaker 2: we should be working together We are a very small region.

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Speaker 2: Most of the people live and put your work in

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Speaker 2: Willington or the Hut.

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Speaker 1: So it's a little bit like Turkey's voting for an

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Speaker 1: early Christmas. Why do you want to do yourselves out

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Speaker 1: of jobs?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's gotten to sadow of jobs. We're not doing

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Speaker 2: a great job. We've all got huge rating.

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Speaker 1: Cressis.

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Speaker 2: We're all sailing with water, as you know. But actually

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Speaker 2: we are one region and instead of all fighting for things,

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Speaker 2: we should be looking together as a team. If Wellington's

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Speaker 2: doing bad, we're all doing bad. We need willing to

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Speaker 2: survive Anita.

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Speaker 1: The fact that this has come out into the media

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Speaker 1: suggests that you guys are trying to put pressure on

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Speaker 1: Toy to buckle and get on board. Is that what's up?

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't put it out there. But she needs

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Speaker 2: to turn to the table and talk to us. Yes,

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Speaker 2: but she needs to have an open mind and hopefully

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Speaker 2: just listen. I mean, we haven't got to the stage

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Speaker 2: where we're talking to residents yet. You know, you need

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Speaker 2: to have a discussion to see there is a discussion,

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Speaker 2: because it's not a thisism we can make. You know,

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Speaker 2: the residents in Pura might say, oh, I'm not a

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Speaker 2: great idea. I'm hearing lots of people saying get on

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Speaker 2: with it, but that doesn't mean everybody saying that.

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Speaker 1: Is Tory dismissing this out of hand.

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Speaker 2: No open for the discussion, but not really in the discussion.

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Speaker 2: So it's a matter of getting to the table. It's here,

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Speaker 2: let's stick to her and bet you come up. You

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Speaker 2: know this has just come out in the paper this morning.

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Speaker 1: When's your next meeting?

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Speaker 2: The Mirrle Forum meeting is in August, but we will

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Speaker 2: get together as a group of four meyors and trying

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Speaker 2: sap sooner. Haven't got a meeting set.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck with it, Anita, really appreciate you talking

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Speaker 1: to us. It's a need to baker put it or mare.

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Speaker 1: No surprise to absolutely anybody that the stick in the

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Speaker 1: mud there for the old spoke in the wheel, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is, what it is like a spanner in the

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Speaker 1: wheel is old Tory, isn't it? Of course it is anyway,

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Speaker 1: fly in the ointment. We wanted to talk. We did

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Speaker 1: ask for Tori, didn't we. We asked for Tory to

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Speaker 1: come on the show and have a chat to us

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Speaker 1: about it. But you will recall, of course that Tory

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Speaker 1: has got ADHD and significant levels of autism at the moment,

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Speaker 1: and therefore only really works in the morning and doesn't

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Speaker 1: really work in the afternoon because she's a little bit tired.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately for us, the show is in the afternoon,

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Speaker 1: so I think that probably counts the energy levels down,

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Speaker 1: like Biden level energy levels after four o'clock. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you realize that about Biden, but he only

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Speaker 1: works until four, Like he's good to go ten am

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Speaker 1: till four pm, and then it just flags like one

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Speaker 1: of those you know, one of those little things that

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Speaker 1: they have outside the car yards with a pump all

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Speaker 1: the air and then it's like a little man who's

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Speaker 1: like full of energy, and then the energy after four

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Speaker 1: o'clock just turn the the air off and he just

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Speaker 1: kind of wilts. It's like toys a bit like that.

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Speaker 1: So unfortunately we start at four, Tory ends at four.

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Speaker 1: It's not really compatible for us. So anyway, the days

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Speaker 1: of Tory on the show are probably over now that

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Speaker 1: she's been diagnosed. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

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