Golf Course Buy-Back

Afternoon to you. Welcome to the program. Thank you so much for choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Heather Dupacy Allen, who's doing the breakfast show at the moment while Mike's on holiday. Pegasus. Uh Texas says 450 community residents would need to contribute around $15,000 each to buy back that land. Uh the course was not profitable, hence, why was it sold last time? Well, they were in big debt, and the debt was from the setup, and they were in debt to the tune of $8.8 million. The liquidators were in fact the shareholders themselves, but that debt now, I guess liquidated, so to speak. So 450 times 15,000 is six point seven five million dollars. And I have a funny feeling Wolfbrook will want more than that. So that 15k per 450 residents, it's a big ask, unless you get some rich people here. Uh, someone else also thanks me for reporting the Roy Morgan poll because they doubt they'll see that on the telly. And also says the football was woeful, and reckon that in the second half we were using what they called a sieve uh foundation. Meanwhile, um Labor's getting very excited about the case of a lobbying document not being on public record, the document outlining Fonterra's concerns about a court case launched by Mike Smith on the legal liability companies companies could face from from climate litigation, okay? So the the the whole email, the whole document's not on public record, because the email was sent to a staff as private email address. Presumably he printed it off and then presented it for consideration because the changes to the legislation uh mirrors closely the lobbying presentation, but the hard copy hasn't made it to a file either, nor has an email, obviously. So obviously, in some way or another, the staff are definitely at fault. That guy's not there any longer. But he had to create a recoverable paper trail within the public system. But look, I uh the point I'd like to make is this is highlighting how naive we've been as a country about lobbying and corruption. We have no mandatory lobbying registrar. Most people do, most countries do. We have Have no requirement to disclose meetings between lobbyists and ministers and officials. We are working on a voluntary code of conduct, which is non-binding, does not impose legal obligations. It is widely widely considered all around the world that we are the loosest country in the OECD.