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Speaker 1: Very good victory On Friday for common sense, the Solicitor

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Speaker 1: General fell on her sword over the instructions to the

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Speaker 1: Prosecution Service promoting race So Monday on this program this

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Speaker 1: time last week we raised it. It seemed to us scandalous.

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Speaker 1: How did this happen? How does the government so explicitly

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Speaker 1: state the race card is no longer being played in

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Speaker 1: policy settings? And yet the SG the Solicitor General is

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Speaker 1: saying what she is to the police, having been advised

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Speaker 1: by this radical sounding Mayory group drummed up out of

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Speaker 1: Andrew Little's famously well catered just as gab Fest a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. By Tuesday, the media is still

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Speaker 1: asleep at the wheel and no one has touched it.

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Speaker 1: We raise it with the Prime Minister who forgot his backbone,

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Speaker 1: played the independence card and couldn't really do what he

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Speaker 1: needed to do, which was to close it down. By Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: David Seymour wonders allowed on the tiles at Parliament why

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Speaker 1: when surrounded by the press gallery as he was, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't being asked about it, and given the questions he

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Speaker 1: was being asked about involved to he billboards. By late

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Speaker 1: Wednesday into Thursday, the media god blessed them have finally

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Speaker 1: been stirred or embarrassed into some sort of action. The

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Speaker 1: Herald tries an op edish sort of peace, quite rightly,

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Speaker 1: asking a few questions around how the SG got herself

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Speaker 1: in this mess given her experience, Radio New Zealand bumbles

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Speaker 1: out of its slumber and gives it a bit of coverage.

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Speaker 1: Even TV three finally slaps together a little something for

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Speaker 1: their six o'clock effort. Friday. Judith Collins AG turns up

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Speaker 1: on ZB says what the PM should have said? It's

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Speaker 1: not on by Friday afternoon, very good time for a

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Speaker 1: press release. The SG says it came out all wrong.

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Speaker 1: It shouldn't have happened, soz about it. So a win.

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Speaker 1: But here is the issue for the government. One, you

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Speaker 1: can't promise policy and approach it and if you can't

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Speaker 1: deliver it. Two, they clearly have a major issue with

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Speaker 1: the public service and pushback, so they need to do

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Speaker 1: something about that. Rightly or wrongly. The government are the

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Speaker 1: government and they make the rules. They won the election

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Speaker 1: rightly or wrongly, in no small part because of their

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Speaker 1: race direction policies. There is an expectation from voters that

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Speaker 1: they get delivered. But although this has been a win,

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Speaker 1: it should not have had to have been the fight.

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