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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Gooda there, and welcome to the rewrap for Monday, all
the best bits from the MI casting Breakfast on Newstalks
EDB in a sillier package. I am Glenhart And today
the autopilot seems to be causing a few problems for
a few vessels. Speaking of transportation woes, we're going to
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dig down into the CRL as well and specified documents
that went mark classify health New Zealand. I think we've
fixed the health system, so that's good. We'll be able
to cover that off and never talk about it ever again.
And how many New Zealand cities make the top twenty
list of Lovable Cities not livable but lovable. Before any
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of that, we've got some questions about the labor leadership.
Chris Hopkins was on this morning talking about what a
successful conference they had over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
My favorite part of that was this, did you read
Peter Dunn's article over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Nothing's changed all the stuff I haven't read, by the way,
I did read Peter Dunn's piece over the weekend government
doing better than other global first term governments, and he
makes it, as he always does, a very good point.
The United States, Britain, Germany, ALBANIZI have all had difficulties.
The jury is still out on the influence current government
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policy is having on these settings. He refers to the economy.
There is a general, although unquantified and unsubstantial, assumption that
things are going to get better over the next couple
of years. However, the government is so far is doing
better and keeping the voting public largely on side than
other first term governments around the world. And I think
that that is probably accurate. But of course the Pillar
two thing was fascinating, and talking to Andrew a little
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earlier on and I just I assumed that Hipkins had
read some in depth secret report around Pillar two. Have
you though actually specifically looked at Pillar.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Two, well, only the details that are publicly available, so.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
He hasn't thought about that. It's just the same old
course of these days.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't get time to sit down and watch the news. Sorry,
what was that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I didn't read much of the news over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's just crowdhoad day it's like absolutely groud hold day.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It brings back Mike haunting memories, didn't answer a single question.
Mike Labor never met a taxi, didn't love Mike Hipkins
takes no responsibility for anything he and his government had
inflicted on New Zealand. Dead man walking Chippy wall is
he because as Kien macinnaughty was elevated to whatever the
job officially called, you know, to run the election. He
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sort of proved he doesn't want the leadership. He said
he doesn't want the leadership. Now hopefull you'll believe him.
I believed him all along. He's it with such conviction,
I have no doubt he doesn't want the leadership. Mike
Good start so then but who else? See this is
the point it was if not Chippy, who else Mike
Good start to Monday morning with a good laugh, poor
deluded Chippy, And so it goes. There's about several hundred others,
but you know how they go ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I just find it so triggering, and one part of
me goes, I can't believe that he's still so out
of touch with reality and has his finger.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So far away from the pulse after all this time,
and it has not learnt at all. And then another
part of me looks at things like, well, obviously, if
you aren't in touch with the reality, then how do
you find your way back? And you look at the
American election and see them repeating all the mistakes of
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twenty sixteen, eight years later, and yeah, hey, yeah, I
get it, your little unreality bubble. Lock yourself in there.
And I think that ideas the facts, truths, the rewrap.
Is it that kind of attitude that leads to people
not knowing how autopilot works?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Am I drawing too long a bow? Am I drawing
an unfair bow? I ask you this Monday morning. When
I try and link what happened to the Manua to
what is happening in this country, generally seems to me
a landlubber. Admittedly, the two major ships won. A faerry
won a navy vessel came to grief in exactly the
same way in the same year. Admittedly, the Manor was
vastly more serious, given it to the bottom of the ocean,
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and the Fairy backed up and went back to work.
Auto pilot is not, I would have thought, a hard
concept to understand. And yet as I watched the head
of the Navy on Friday, in front of a picture
board with an almost comical extendable pointer. He was explaining
it was though, it was the stuff of rocket science.
As they adjusted the thrusters, they didn't respond because the
autopilot was on. Hmm, not really that surprising. When the thrusters,
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he went on, didn't respond, they adjusted the thrusters again.
It's time backwards once again. As he pointed to the
photos of the thrusters, they didn't respond. That is right,
because the autopilot was still on. The message I received
from his labored, pointy explanation was if the auto pilot
is on, the thrusters aren't in operation. Now call me
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a smarty pants, but that is essentially what autopilot is.
It is the pilot for the ship in an automatic mode.
No real point in it if you can just muck
around with levers and knobs, and so she ran aground
listed they all bailed, and here we are. It is
of course inexcusable. I would have thought beyond any explanation
and will require I assume some people to leave the
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service having been booted out the connection to the country. Well,
we are wayward. We are real disciplined. We are disheveled.
We lack vigor and determination and a desire to be better.
We have lost our way, not all orbus, but enough
of us to provide an increasingly comprehensive picture of a
country of averageness, of laxadaisical complacency, a country that produces
too many people asleep at the wheel on autopilot if
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you like, which suits us fine, until, of course, we
need to wake up and change direction. I haven't even
got to the bit where the ship is worth a
hundred million bucks. We undoubtedly Osamo a lot of money,
given it was caused by idiots, and we are presumably
the laughing stock of the entire military world. But what
other excuses there? How else do you explain the inexplicable?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Should it be like your own cars, where you've got
your lane assist and your radar detection and your cruise control,
and at that point the car is basically driving itself.
But if you take your hands off the steering wheel
for more than ten seconds, then all the alarms go off,
and intelligent to put your hands back on. Should that
be heather way that auto pilot works for large seafaring
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vessels It's very strange, mind you. It's hard to push
the right buttons at the right time because otherwise you'd
tack the box mac confidential, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And then we come to the CRL the press release
and all the French are flying in for the special
meetings and the alarm bells have been rung. The press
release made public was a quote complete mistake. This comes
to us from the Auckland Council Chief Executive Phil Wilson
at once again, I quote it was a cock up.
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It was intended for was not intended for the public agenda.
So the French construction executives they're winging their way into
the country. I think they arrived today for a meeting
tomorrow while quote unquote the horse had bolted. The appropriate
thing to do was to move the report to the
confidential section of the Council's Order and Risk Committee, and
they're going to do that tomorrow. They're not going to
do it today because they probably it is probably a
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work from home day, but they'll get back to the
office tomorrow and when they get back to the office
they'll slip it to the appropriate department. It's a seven
page report now in the confidential section under the Local
Government Official Information of Meetings Act. Quote again, it was
a human error situation where somebody didn't tick the confidential box.
That's correct. There is a box marked confidential, sort of
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like there's a button marked auto pilot. Nobody hits the
right button, and when they do, they don't know what
to do. I think, on the business of this country
being a bit waywood and laxadaisical, I think I can
probably rest my case the account.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I ah, I wish you wouldn't write off the entire
country like that. It seems a little bit mean, But
mind Jack will just see how many lovable cities we've
got shortly the rewrap in the meantime, at least the
health systems working perfectly like a well oil machine.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Now it's the National Public Health Service are exactly what's
wrong with this country. The Health Minister, who shouldn't have
had to intervene over the weekend and their submission to
the district council looking at the application for McDonald's and Wontaka.
Now why was the Health service offering the submission because
the council asked them to. So who's more at fault?
The answer, of course is both of them. But who's
more at fault the Council for creating work and waste
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or the Service for creating work and waste. The Health Service,
among other things, talked of health. They talked of health
and the widest possible context, the World Health Organization context,
which essentially means anything can be dragged into the health
sphere if you are determined, in my word, where they
determined they won't be in future because Shane Retty told
them to stop wasting everybody's time. And the ironing of
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the outcome is the submission wasn't even correct, hinting perhaps
that these people have little of any knowledge of what
they're actually doing and simply fill their days with pointless exercises.
They cited tatiity. Of course, what tatidity has to do
with fries and a chocolate shake? Are got no idea,
and I suspect they don't either. But that is why
this is also criminal. Tatiity is everywhere for no particular purpose.
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Its over reach is reached well the point of absurdity.
So hundreds of submissions, days of hearings and the treaty
and a government department admolished by the minister. That's why
nothing gets done. And that is why this country is
in the state it's said. These people want to sell
a hamburger, they want to employ locals, they want to
contribute to the growth of the community, they want to
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pay their tax. They simply want to do business. Why
is the industry and the apparatus in not doing business
so vast, so complicated, so expensive and so wasteful. And
who's blowing it up?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And when I mean, if you let health have a
say about any fast food outlet opening anywhere, none.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Never would would they?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Is that what they want to happen?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't think. So it's the rewrap all right, here
we go. Lovable cities. That's the thing I've never even
heard of before today. But I can't wait to see
where Auckland comes in in Wellington and christ Church.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I have for you this morning the twenty twenty five
World's Best Cities Report Resonance in collaboration with Lipsos talk
to a lot of people, twenty two thousand people around
the world in thirty countries. They looked at liverability, lovability,
and prosperity, which are very broad category. So I'm deeply
suspicious of the whole thing. But it's Christmas, so let's
have some fun. So Singapore tenth most lovable city in
the world, mainly because of the food seen in the shopping.
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Berlin because it's igy call that is true. Do buy
at number eight because basically they are the world's playground
now and I think that's probably fair as well. Madrid
it's seven. You don't want to be defined as a
tourist because they'll squit you with a water pistol. But
apart from that, they got a lot of parks and
they got a lot of outdoor spaces, which, as far
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as I can work out's the same things. An outdoor
space is a park in a park as an outdoor space.
But if you're happy in Madrid, there you go. Seventh
most lovable city in the world. That Hellna is number six.
Once again, don't identify yourself as a tourist because I'll
run you out of town. But it's got good night
life's got good beaches, got good sunshine. So that's the
sixth most lovable city in the world. Number five Rome
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because of its history, so that's useful. Tokyo restaurants and shopping.
I'm sure there's more to Tokyo I mean, having been Tokyo,
there's more than that, mind you. All I did was
eating shops, so I spoke, what do I want to
So that's the fourth most lovable city in New York,
New York cultural, really New York cultural. I suppose, top
tier dining. Second most lovable city Paris for the shopping
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and the sight seeing and the way the French welcome
you so openly and kindly to their city. In London,
there you go museums and nightlife in London, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Quite contrast museums. It's quite a contrast museums and nightlife.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Because they're not open late, so you're obviously doing something
after the museums are closed. All the museums close at
the fire if not four, certainly not open on a Friday.
I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I guess if you've got both museums and nightlife, you
might be lovable to two completely different markets there, I suppose. Yeah,
so I didn't hear any New Zealands, not even Hamilton.
That it's really weird thing. I mean, I was obviously
expecting the City of Love to come in there as
the number one most Maybe they're just outside the top ten.
I'm assuming I was in Wellington over the weekend. I
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didn't go to the middle bit of it, though I'd
happily nominate to Tahi Bay actually as one of my
love and most lovable cities. I had the best brunch
I've had in a long time at t Bay Cafa.
Have you to give them a free shout out the turkishigs.
I thoroughly recommend that those. If you like a slight
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better spice to your breakfast, which I do. I thought
it was a lovely place to Daki Bay. I think
it's up and coming. It's the place to watch. It'll
be our next year's Lovable List. You mark my words.
I am Glenn Hart. That's what I loved today. I'll
see you back with more love tomorrow.
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