<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>13:00 right to er the prime minister charles good morning to you oh good morning tim and good morning mister bolger good morning charles er there's no doubt about it is there mister bolger that at the present time the um government of the day with two parties scoring hits against the tough <.>em economic stance that had to be taken um it reminds me to some extent of the nineteen fifty one national government's tough stand against the jock barnes economic stranglehold the water front i remember that <{><[>too <[>yet er they finally won public support didn't they <{><[>and swept back into power with increased majority <[>yep indeed the fifty one water front strike yes <{><[>well <[>cost the country a hell of a lot of money yes well there's some parallel too although in a different country of course of um of your situation i'm talking about er with harry truman u s president after roosevelt you might remember <{><[>the personal polls predicted a massive defeat for him <[>i remember harry mm and new york times went ahead and printed the front page early truman out <{><[>word after that er and after winning the election truman framed the front page and put it in his office <[>that's right that's absolutely right yes they ran the front page so convinced that harry truman couldn't win and er they were proven wrong mister bolger are you confident that the significant upturn in business optimism NOW will be translated into jobs enough to satisfy november voters it'll certainly be translated into jobs charles and that's already evident er we're now seeing jobs coming through the system er well i would hope that new zealanders will say look we're now seeing benefits er it's not just politicians and economists and commentators saying it's coming right we can see the benefits unemployment went down a little bit er in the statistics released yesterday two thousand fewer registered unemployed er there'll be far more jobs coming through as long as we just keep a sensible balance common sense policy which we've put in place business has the confidence now to inVEST and that came <&>15:00 out in another survey yesterday and that'll what that's what produced the jobs jobs are not created other than by people determining to expand their business and employ more people it's as simple as that not complex but now that they've got the confidence to do that because they BELIEVE new zealand is a good place to do business which it IS then we'll see the jobs coming through peter good morning yes good morning er good morning prime minister peter good morning um i take it that you're a defender of democracy very much so yes well then as a defender of democracy may i ask um as one of the ninety two percent of the people in this country who do not want you as prime minister how quickly can we expect you to resign and if possible take your despised and detested government with you don't intend at all peter <{><[>sorry to <.>up sorry to upset your morning i was elected for three years and as part of the democratic structures <&>16:00 of new zealand i will come up for reelection in er the end of next year er and that's how we do it actually if not we'd actually have an election every few months when the polls change now we don't run the country by POLLS peter you see you MUST understand the difference we run the country by democratically elected governments and we'll continue to do that as long as i draw breath <[>no i didn't think you would phil good morning good morning er good morning mister bolger phil um i agree with you that it's good that we won a <.>b a medal um for board sailing but if sport was an indication of the state of the nation then the former soviet union must have been utopia <{><[>um now word <[>no they did it all with drugs laughs what pardon i said they did it all with drugs oh well <.>th er that hasn't <.>g got much to do with it has it <{><[>um if you're going to claim that <[>laughs i think it had a lot to do with their medals if you're going to claim that sporting prowess is an indication of um of how well we're doing then you'd have to say that um well you know you don't you don't see um <,,> um president bush getting up and saying <&>17:00 um well don't worry about the state of the nation because we just won the basketball you know but i didn't say that um no but <{><[>anyway anyway i have a question here um it is clear that the vast majority of electors does not want the power board sold um as our electorate representative what right do you have to try to go against the will of the public and force the sale of these viable profitable public assets <[>no tut well we're not forcing them to sell we're not <.>s forcing viable <,> profitable public assets to be sold to quote you phil at all we're saying the um power boards as they're <.>now they're not power authorities as they now are have to make a decision on the future ownership we inherited a half completed situation er from the outgoing labour government they had appointed boards they had appointed trustees there was no certainty as to the ownership of the asset that was disputed and you might say it's not dispute i have to <&>18:00 tell you in legal terms it was disputed and er what we've said look you have to now determine the structure for the future you can either privatise if that is your wish PART privatise have it held in a trust <,> it's really a determination that will be made by the local representatives determining what they believe is BEST for their region now that's what we've said you can't be fairer than that the crown is not saying you must do this this this and this we're saying these are the options now you go away as a as a community as a region and determine which of those options you believe is in your best interests <&>18:30