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The Country Full Show: Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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It's World Iron Awareness Week. Photo / Nicola Topping
It's World Iron Awareness Week. Photo / Nicola Topping

It's World Iron Awareness Week. Photo / Nicola Topping

Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay catches up with world champion rugby player Stacey Waaka, to find out why she went head-to-head with world record-holding shearer Sacha Bond, in a series of athletic tests.

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Chris Hipkins:

On the eve of the National Party tax cut announcement, we ask the Prime Minister if he’s going to repay Nicola Willis by leaking her tax plan. Plus, we question his $4 billion public service bonfire and why it hadn’t happened earlier. We also challenged his “tone deaf” ag emissions policy announcement. And then of course there’s Winston ...

Stacey Waaka:

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We catch up with the world-champion New Zealand rugby player, and Beef + Lamb Ambassador, who went up against world-record-holding sheep shearer Sacha Bond in a series of athletic tests to promote World Iron Awareness Week.

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Nathan Penny:

Westpac’s rural economist is famous for his eternal optimism. So we ask “Pollyanna” Penny how he’s going sugar-coat the current economic downturn for rural New Zealand.

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Hunter McGregor:

Our Shanghai-based correspondent has little by way of good news about the current Chinese economy but says the ban on Japanese seafood could have an upside for NZ food exporters.

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  • Rugby v shearing: Stacey Waaka goes head to head with Sacha Bond in athletics tests for World Iron Awareness Week
  • Election 2023: National unveils $14.6b tax cut plan, foreign homebuyers to foot bill for tax cuts
  • ANZ Agri Focus report warns of falling farmgate returns
  • Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Farming’s future positive, despite confusing predictions

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