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Speaker 1: Right. So obviously the biggest political news of the day

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Speaker 1: is that Judith Collins has announced that she's retiring from

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Speaker 1: politics to take up a new job as the Boss

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Speaker 1: of the Law Commission midyear. I for one, am going

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Speaker 1: to miss Judith Collins being in politics because I think

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Speaker 1: she has one of those things. She has that thing

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Speaker 1: that very few politicians have. Winston Peters has it, John

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Speaker 1: Key had it, which is the ability to be a

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Speaker 1: bit cheeky and have a bit of a laugh but

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Speaker 1: then just get on and do the job. And too

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Speaker 1: many politicians have one or the other. They're either so

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Speaker 1: serious about their work that they're boring or they're having

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Speaker 1: so much fun that they're distracted from their work. Collins, though,

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Speaker 1: could crack a joke, she could smirk, she could raise

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Speaker 1: an eyebrow, she could giggle, enjoy firing off a handgun,

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Speaker 1: but still keep a lid on whatever portfolios she was

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Speaker 1: managing that day. It hasn't always worked for her, obviously,

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Speaker 1: to Loatha became a meme. Praying in church during the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty campaign was just probably one of the weirdest

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Speaker 1: things you've ever seen. She was probably, you would have

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Speaker 1: to say, a better National Party leader on paper than

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Speaker 1: in reality. But she has been the Minister of Justice,

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Speaker 1: the Miter of Police, of Corrections, acc Defense, the Spies,

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Speaker 1: the Public Service, Revenue, Ethnic Affairs, Energy Space, and the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General. And that's not even the comprehensive list. You

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Speaker 1: do not have that many portfolios across two different governments

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Speaker 1: without being capable, and prime ministers know that. But what

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Speaker 1: I think JODTHH. Collins was best at was the comeback.

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Speaker 1: There was the dirty Politics scandal a decade ago that

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Speaker 1: cost to her cabinet jobs, but she made it back

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Speaker 1: into cabinet. There was the failed twenty twenty election campaign

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Speaker 1: as leader. She somehow managed to come back from that

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Speaker 1: not everybody would have been able to. And she has

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Speaker 1: finally here in twenty twenty six, quit on her own terms.

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Speaker 1: There is a life lesson in this for all of us,

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Speaker 1: which is that politics will be just a little bit well.

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Speaker 1: There is a life lesson in this for all of

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Speaker 1: us which is weighed around. Long enough, do the things

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Speaker 1: the right way, you will make a comeback. And also

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Speaker 1: politics will be just a little less fun without duco

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