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Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First Yesterday's news, I am Glen Heart. We're looking back
at Wednesday and it's kind of cluster. It's cluster Wednesday
Yesterday a lot of clusters to sort out, like the
cluster that.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Is New Zealand netball.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Is there any close to being unclustered? This whole ets
thing seems.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
To be a bit of a cluster.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
There's a fine line between doing business if you're Golden
Baseerment and others, and.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Saving the planet.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So we're going to keep wringing our hands over that,
the changes that have been made to the way we
vote and the way we register to vote, and Carrie
wants to touch on that, and then of course the
big story of the day dog acupuncture. But before any
of that, another cluster, the christ Church Cathedral cluster, the
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CCCS I like to think of it. It turns out
that hardly anybody in christ Each actually wants a cathedral,
well not they don't want the council to paper it.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Anyway, the council's got a forty four million dollar surpas.
I'm not quite sure how because there's been a rates increase,
but anyway, I think I put fifteen million or fifteen
million towards the rebold of the cathedral as long as
the government and the Alican Church do the same. But
there's a petition calling for that not to happen, and
it's had eighteen thousand and six hundred people have signed
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it ow so they want the petition by local James
Posters calling for the city council is to be revoked
and the seven point three five percent rate rise to
be revisited. I can't quite work why they've got a
fifteen million dollar surpus plus a rate increase. That makes
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no sense to me, He says. The decision to allocate
fifteen million of rate payers money to a project that
should argue to be funded by the Anican Church sends
the wrong message to the people of Christ Church who
are directly affected by this rates increase.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You might be from christ Church.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
You might want to comment on that. From me where
I sit, I'm kind of punch drunk by the discussions
about the cathedral because it's gone on for so long.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What I do know.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Is that there's no real hurry. It seems as though
after World War II, places in Germany and England have
been repaired gradually over the last eighty years, and that
has been okay. But christ Church is the city everyone's
talking about, and they might want it. I think it's
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up for the people of christ Church to decide that.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, it's It's a interesting one because at the end
of the day, it is just about an imaginary guy
in the sky that building, isn't it. And some people
are into that imaginary guy, some people aren't.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And the people who aren't I can't imagine they're.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Wildly excited about their rates going to build a building
to celebrate the imaginery guy in the sky.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
It is tricky.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I went to Italy recently and they've got a lot
of buildings that are all to do with the imaginery
guy to the sky there, and a lot of people
pay a lot of money to go there, stay there,
see them, climb up.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Them blow queuing. I'll say that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And there were a few tis where I thought, wow,
this is all to do with the imaginary guy and
the sky.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
News talk been.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
For those people praying for a solution to New Zealand netball,
which seems to be an ongoing problem that still hasn't
been solved.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I don't think those prayers have.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Been Worst case scenario scenario the A and Z Premiership
is not happening next year. Best case scenario is that
the competition is happening, but Netbull New Zealand right now
cannot be one hundred percent sure. Maybe they're eighty percent
su or may the seventy five percent sure, but that's
not enough to offer contracts because you can't afford to
carry the labor costs across three teams for a competition
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that has it like a twenty twenty five percent chance
that it doesn't happen either way. We're guessing. Do you
know why we're guessing? Because once again the Netball New
Zealand bosses are a wall. They are apparently, at least
at this stage, not doing interviews. The CEO is currently
in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games. The chair Alistair Caruthers,
is not in Glasgow. He's in New Zealand. That's what
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we've been told. Anyway, he's not doing interviews either because
Alistair Carruthers does not do interviews when the interviews are
going to be a little bit hard now look up
to this point, because this has been going on for
a number of months now. Up to this point, I
think we have given netbul New Zealand fair amount of
grace because we know that this is a tough situation
for them. We know that this has gone on for
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a while, that the game has been bleeding talent, that
the game has been bleeding money, that they needed some
time to turn the things around, that they needed some
time to make decisions. They had a new board, that
had a new CEO. They needed time. But I think
they have run out of time. I think this has
probably gone on too long now. When you're essentially telling
administration staff running half the teams in the competition that
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they do not have jobs in ten days, then I
think it will cause the public and the players and
the administration and the fans to speculate that there will
be no competition next year. And I think it requires
Netball New Zealand bosses to come on and explain to
us what the hell is happening next year, because right
now this doesn't look good for Netball and New Zealand
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will be the.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
End of the world if we just stopped having netball.
I'm not against netball. Both my girls played netball?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Did they? Maybe the younger one didn't actually know that
I think of it. The old one did. She was
quite quick around.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The middle of the court, not really tall enough to
have much of an impact at either the shooting end
or the defending end. I'm just would she have played
something else if there was no netball?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I mean she did. She played touch for a bit
as well. She's gone on.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
To be a very successful classical musician.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I don't know if netbull really helped with that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It'd be weird if we just suddenly didn't have it.
But would we miss it that much?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Talk side right?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
This Golden Bay payout, it's connection with trying to save
the planet and climate.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
It's all got very messy, hasn't it. It is messy
making concrete, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
When you build it goes to lay cement, for example,
they might just go and buy important stuff because it'll
be cheaper, no carbon costs included. So how do you
around it? This is the question for our politicians. You
could change the ETS system. You could exempt cement safe steel,
as we'd largely do with agriculture, but then you undermine
the etes. You could delete the ETS altogether, just get
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rid of it, which would mean ditching the Paris Agreement
of course. Or you could do as the EU does
and go with a carbon border adjustment mechanism, which is
basically a carbon tariff. So you go and slap a
tariff on the importers to level the playing field with
your local producers.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
What the Europeans argument is that they're treating those importing
products the same as they are treating domestic producers, and
so their argument there is actually it is about treating
people equally, treating companies equally, rather than having different standards
based on whether a product's produced within your zone or
outside of it.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
It was hip cons yest today now he's saying this
is an idea labor would consider, national won't because they
say it'll mess with our free trade agreements. So we're
a bit boxed in here, aren't we. If we want
to be a country of free trade and a climate warrior,
then we've seem destined to lose a bunch of local
production and industry. Sure will do better in some areas,
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but manufacturing anything involving carbon emissions lookout and in the
meantime it looks like taxpayer funded corporate welfare to the rescue.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, I've got the vibe from Ryan on these sorts
of issues that he's just you know, keep building, go hard,
do business. Drill baby, drill. He's that kind of he's not.
I don't think he's too worried about future generations and
whether they'll be able to you know, breathe, go outside
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that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think a lot of people feel that way.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I think a lot of people don't really think.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
About it too much because it won't really affect them,
and that's understandable. Right, are you going to be able
to vote in the upcoming election? I mean it's not
till November, so you've got a bit of time to
get yourself all. But yeah, if you hadn't noticed, you
can't just turn up on the day and say, hey,
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can I have a vote anymore?
Speaker 9 (09:15):
It's up to you, not the Electoral Commission, to make
sure you can vote. Voting is a precious, precious rate,
and when you've had it for so long, you probably
take it for granted. But there are people dying right now.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
For the right to vote.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
If you don't take it seriously and you don't treasure
the right to vote. You shouldn't bloody have it if
you're just going to be bundled into a van with
the wholt, the layman, the dispossessed, and taken down to
put a tech next to the pretty color. Should you
be voting? No, not at all. You can enroll, you
can check, You can update your details online at vote
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dot in z. Even the website couldn't be simpler. Vote
dot en viewed. Or you can call a free phone
number and ask for an enrollment form to be sent
to you. That should be all anyone needs writing to
three point six million New Zealanders. If you're voting details
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are up to date, you don't need the letter. If
you vote, if your enrollment details aren't up to date,
you're not going to get the letter. It seems utterly
pointless and futile and hopeless. Vote dot n Z. If
you can't manage to enroll and it's beyond you to
check your details are correct, you know what, stay home.
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We don't want your vote.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I've always found this one a bit strange because I
don't ever remember registering to vote, and I certainly have
never de registered. I mean I keep getting things from
Orange Man in the mail. He seems to know where
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I am, who I am. He certainly thinks that I'm registered,
and I've been able to vote I think ever since
I was.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Old enough to.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't actually remember having to do actively do anything
to make that happen.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I suppose I did.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I don't even really know how that part works. Am
I one of these useless people that carry was.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Just talking about there? Anyway, I'm registered sometimes I vote.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
News talk z been.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Right, so you know, as I said at the beginning
of the podcast, obviously the thing that we're most concerned
about is dog acupuncture, are we well. I'm not quite
sure why the Afternoon show was talking about this, but
they ended up talking about it.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
This one says, gooday, guys, my dog. My dogs get
a fifty dollars allowance each every week at the end
of each month if they haven't spent it on food
or the vet I invested in Cheersy's. One day they're
going to own more property than I do.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Who's a good boy, Zach.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Who's a good boy?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
What a good boy, Zachi? What a good little investor?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Zachi is dogs likelogy works dog psychology, so dog psychology
is a thing, so like a therapist for a dog.
So there's probably dog psychiatrist as well.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
Then yeah, if you've been to a dog psychiatrist, by
all means, give us a call.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I mean, it's whatever works, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I'm pretty sure if I threatened to stick needles in
my dog every time it goes out and barks at
night at the cat next door, it would probably stop
doing it eventually.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So what we're talking about. I don't mean to call
him it. He's a he.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's actually his birthday on Saturday. Obviously I won't be
getting in one of those things from Bunnings that's been
poisoning all the dogs.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
That was a bit of a heads up, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Maybe there's a Matcher shop I walked past yesterday and
they were advertising papcakes. Maybe I'll get them acake and
they match a flavored pupcakes. Can you give Matcher to
a dog? I've been a research there.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I suppose.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Maybe the afternoon sho'll probably be listening to this and
they'll be going, oh, heck you dog at a bunch
of yesterday, we can do the dog matcher today and
we have a bought matcher for your dog. I'm Green
hat Wicky Old podcast. It turned out to be at
the end, just for a change. I'm sure it'll be
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completely normal and straight down the.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Middle of the road tomorrow. Let's reconvene then and find.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
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