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Speaker 1: The Greens have released the executive summary of their report

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Speaker 1: into Darlne Tanner, and the question now is whether or

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Speaker 1: not she's going to decide to stay in parliament. Satana

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Speaker 1: said in her interview with One News as Mikey Sherman

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Speaker 1: this week that she would take a little bit more

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Speaker 1: time before deciding whether to remain in Parliament as an

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Speaker 1: independent MP. But if she does decide to stay around,

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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear the Greens have only one

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Speaker 1: real choice. If the party leaders believe in the integrity

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Speaker 1: of the report, a report which, let's not forget, took

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Speaker 1: the best part of four months to produce, then I

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Speaker 1: think they have little choice but to instigate the Waker

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Speaker 1: Jumping legislation which they so publicly despised, and expel Darlene

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Speaker 1: Tanner from Parliament. Let's not forget the main reason that

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Speaker 1: the Greens opposed the Waker Jumping legislation in the first

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Speaker 1: place is not for situations like this. The main reason

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Speaker 1: they opposed it was so that if an MP held

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Speaker 1: a different position on a really important policy or moral

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Speaker 1: issue to that which was being whipped by their party,

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Speaker 1: then they could take a moral stand and they could

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Speaker 1: dissent this ain't that this is not a dispute over policy.

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Speaker 1: This is an MP whose colleagues believe has not been

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Speaker 1: truthful to the party, an MP who's brought the party

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Speaker 1: in the caucus into disrepute. And while Darling Tana might

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Speaker 1: complain about the process of this investigation, in some of

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Speaker 1: the findings, her former party leader and caucus colleagues have

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Speaker 1: been blunt. They want her out. Look. This should have

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Speaker 1: been a week when the Greens were laser focused on

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Speaker 1: the government's climate plans. This week, of all weeks, with

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Speaker 1: the government's emissions reduction plans, should have been won where

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Speaker 1: they represented their constituents in opposition. Instead, they are still

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Speaker 1: answering questions about the character of MPs who were until

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Speaker 1: very recently part of their caucus. The Greens have swallowed

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Speaker 1: a rat in the past, after all, they voted to

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Speaker 1: pass the Walker Jumping Bill into law, but I actually

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Speaker 1: don't think many people would resent them if they swallowed

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Speaker 1: another in this case. If Darling Tana won't quit on

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Speaker 1: her own accord and they believe in the integrity of

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Speaker 1: the report, the Greens should copy a few days of

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Speaker 1: criticism for their hypocrisy, push her out and move on.

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