Petra Bagust
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3,300 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Petra Bagust’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And some days it was a pretty tough wicket, but other days, well, actually it was a tough wicket every day, but we just had to go with it.
Some days you got a couple of sixes in, though.
You knew you were batting a six, perhaps, like if there was good news, like nobody dying or, you know, like there were days, I guess, when...
Yeah, and with the difficulty with something positive.
Yeah, I think that's something I reflect on, and especially now because there's a bit of looking back, and we've had the two inquiries sort of reviewing our response.
And often we're our own harshest critics, so we look back and say, oh, I could have done this differently.
We tend to have this running commentary with ourselves.
And
in this case I look back and I think actually I know what it was like at the time and in each moment we were doing the best we could and if you look at the overall you've got to look at the big picture and say we set out to kind of protect people and save people's lives and save our health professionals in our system and stop the virus getting to the Pacific and we more or less achieved that and we did well and the thing I'm most proud of and the thing I think of every day is
how it was a team effort everybody did their bit and that's the bit that gives me hope for Aotearoa is that when the chips were really down this is a one in 100 year pandemic this was the biggest global disruption since the second world war this country
sort of acted collectively in each other's interests and got as good a result as you can get when that sort of situation arises.
It was pretty amazing to see, wasn't it?
People acting collectively, like really rallying.
I remember being so distressed when I heard we were aiming for 90% vaccination.
Like personally was like, we'll never make it.
And obviously I was just a citizen sitting at home.
And I'm like, why so high?
Why so high?
And to, yeah, to get there, I...
I hear what you're saying about people doing their best.
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