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Speaker 1: Now if you watch the Parliament designed yesterday afternoon, you

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Speaker 1: could feel it building. Of course, question time focused largely

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Speaker 1: on the Treaty Bill that was growing angst Jerry Brownly,

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Speaker 1: the Speaker spent far too much time calling for order.

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Speaker 1: It was low rent, not unheard of, of course, but

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Speaker 1: full of needless agro. Then came the so called debate.

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Speaker 1: The Treaty Principle's Bill had arrived. Eleven speeches, led off

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Speaker 1: by the architect David Seymour, who spoke, as he has

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Speaker 1: through this whole shambolic process, very eloquently. It was followed

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Speaker 1: by Willie Jackson, who also spoke very passionately until he

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Speaker 1: called Seymour a liar and got booted out of the house.

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Speaker 1: Most of the rest of the speeches were boring and

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Speaker 1: said what you thought they might say, depending on what

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Speaker 1: side of the house the speaker came from. National were

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Speaker 1: in the invidious position of defending their position while not

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Speaker 1: defending the bill. They can claim Christopher Luxon or blame

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Speaker 1: Christopher Luxon for this, because how he let it find

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Speaker 1: its way to this place is beyond me. Either as

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Speaker 1: a coalition deal, let it ride or kill it before

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Speaker 1: you signed the deal in the first place. But this

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Speaker 1: halfway house is the worst of all possible worlds, and

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Speaker 1: it looked like it as he was on a plane

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Speaker 1: to South America, and the poor sods he left behind

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Speaker 1: had to do their best to defend it. The whole affair, sadly,

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Speaker 1: was not what you might want or expect from our

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives. Beyond anything else, we appear to have

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Speaker 1: lost the ability to debate cordially, to agree to disagree,

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Speaker 1: to listen to each other and have different views, to

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Speaker 1: be mature, to be adult, to accept that we don't

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Speaker 1: all have to be on the same page. And by

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Speaker 1: the time the Mari party burst into a harker and

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Speaker 1: wrecked it all, Jury rolled his eyes literally and suspended

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Speaker 1: proceedings for the day. I caught up with the fallout

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Speaker 1: on sky TV later. God knows what the Australians make

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Speaker 1: of it all. This sort of stuff goes global as well,

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Speaker 1: so more embarrassment there. We look ridiculous, We look like amateurs.

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Speaker 1: We look like petty little children bitching at each other.

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Speaker 1: We look like Karmela Harris supporters on TikTok. We are

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Speaker 1: I think, I hope better than this that lot yesterday

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Speaker 1: in the House of representatives is not us. It's not representative,

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Speaker 1: because if it is, we're all bugged. For more from

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