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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: This is a good news story out of today. What

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Speaker 2: are some of the fantastic attractions that we'll be able

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Speaker 2: to see in New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think this is an example of where

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Speaker 3: everyone's hard work in Australia and New Zealand is paid off,

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Speaker 3: because I don't know of anywhere in the world that

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Speaker 3: is opening up in the way that we now are,

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Speaker 3: but also doing it safely. So my message to Australians

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Speaker 3: would be, look, you can come to New Zealand be

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Speaker 3: reassured that you're going to be as safe here as

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Speaker 3: you are at home.

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Speaker 1: But what we can offer is.

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Speaker 3: Just that break, that break that I think everyone's craving,

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Speaker 3: the chance to be somewhere else for a moment, to

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Speaker 3: break away from the routine of life and feel normal again.

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Speaker 1: You know, I encourage people to come.

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Speaker 3: Many would be coming, and obviously via our cities, you

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Speaker 3: can have a city escape with a bit of shopping

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Speaker 3: and experience of our amazing food and beverage, and then

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Speaker 3: perhaps if you like, head out into nature and we

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Speaker 3: have so many beautiful spots to just give you that

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Speaker 3: sense of space and openness along side these incredible experiences

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Speaker 3: that you can have with your family and your friends, and.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for a stampede of Australians on your doorstep?

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Speaker 1: More than ready.

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Speaker 3: I mean you used to make up forty percent of

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Speaker 3: our tourism, so that you were significant for us, but

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Speaker 3: it was much more, much more than a number. You know, Australians.

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Speaker 3: You know we always call you loosely our cousins, but

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Speaker 3: it's very true. We literally have a lot of cousins

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Speaker 3: on both sides and we've missed those family connections. And

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Speaker 3: so I think what you'll experience if you come and

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Speaker 3: visit us will just be that sense of gratitude to

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Speaker 3: be able to welcome you again, to be able to

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Speaker 3: show our hospitality which we pride ourselves on, and just

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Speaker 3: give you the time of your lives.

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Speaker 2: And New Zealand is significant to us as well. When

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Speaker 2: it comes to the lockdowns. One thing that Australia and

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Speaker 2: New Zealand have in common is the way that we've

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Speaker 2: responded to COVID clusters. We've reacted swiftly and put lockdowns

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Speaker 2: in place in specific areas. So if we asking in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, what will be the protocol if there is

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Speaker 2: an obreak?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so just I think the best way for me

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Speaker 3: to describe it for Australians is just think of us,

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Speaker 3: you know, on this one occasion, like an extra state

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Speaker 3: of Australia, in the sense that if there is an

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Speaker 3: outbreak in Australia and it's a hot spot, we would

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Speaker 3: like we would.

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Speaker 1: Treat you as that.

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Speaker 3: And so it means that either you know, either if

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Speaker 3: it's a scenario wh there's a lockdown, we may reflect

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Speaker 3: that by pausing or suspending flights for a time until

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Speaker 3: we consider it safe to open those up again. So

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Speaker 3: it'll be fairly predictable. It'll be much like what your

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Speaker 3: experience at the moment, where you know. It would be

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Speaker 3: no different to if you're traveling from one state to

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Speaker 3: another and while you're traveling there's an outbreak.

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Speaker 1: It'd be very similar. But I imagine that you wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Be that unhappy if you're over here in New Zealand skiing,

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Speaker 3: for instance, and you have to call a boss and

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Speaker 3: say I'm sorry, I'm stuck for seventy two hours.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's true. When I go on a holiday, I

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Speaker 2: like to do something different. The last time I was

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, I went to the bubbling mud pools

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Speaker 2: in row to Arua.

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Speaker 1: What would you recommend? How many people who.

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Speaker 2: Like something outside the box?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean you've started with a really great spot

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Speaker 1: there to do.

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Speaker 3: It is an amazing place to have a completely unique experience,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 1: Whether or not, Yeah, it's whether or not. It's a

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Speaker 1: health and wellbeing experience.

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Speaker 3: And you're at the you know, the Polynesian spas there,

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Speaker 3: or having a cultural experience there, or you know, as

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Speaker 3: you can see behind me heating to the likes of

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Speaker 3: the West Coast, we're hitting into ski season. But don't

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Speaker 3: forget our cities as well, you know, I know a

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Speaker 3: city break is what many people enjoy too, and we

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Speaker 3: have incredible shopping, food and beverage and wine experiences here,

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Speaker 3: all of which would rival what.

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Speaker 1: You'd experience in your cities as well.

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Speaker 3: So no matter what your tastes are, we've got something

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Speaker 3: for you, and we've got your family and friends here

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Speaker 2: Now they do sound all like amazing experiences. I don't

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Speaker 2: want to brag here, but I do want you to

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Speaker 2: tell the good people of New Zealand that we have

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Speaker 2: Nomesville in Western Australia, which is basically ten thousand garden

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Speaker 2: gnomes in the one place.

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Speaker 3: Well could I mean, look, I can't think of anything

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand that's identical to that. That does sound unique,

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Speaker 3: but we do have a small town called Moronsville. We

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Speaker 3: will find uniquely painted sculptures of cows and alongside the

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Speaker 3: slogan have you heard of Moronsville?

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Speaker 1: So I'll match you on that. That sounds like I

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Speaker 1: kind of have been my hometown as well.

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Speaker 2: So now can you tell me how much has gone

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Speaker 2: into this, because there's been talk about this for months.

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Speaker 3: A lot of work, and that's because we wanted to

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Speaker 3: assure people that, given New Zealand and Australia have done

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Speaker 3: so much, we want you to feel safe when you

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Speaker 3: come and so we can assure people of that. We

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Speaker 3: also want to make sure that we can manage any

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Speaker 3: potential disruption and we can assure people of that as well,

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Speaker 3: and so that's why it's been kept important for us

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Speaker 3: to do this carefully, and that's why we are amongst

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Speaker 3: some of the only countries in the world doing this.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time. The West Coast

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Speaker 2: behind you looks incredible. I really appreciate your time today.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to welcoming you soon.

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