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Speaker 1: So the question should just cinder Adourn return to the

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Speaker 1: country and face the COVID inquiry music The answer I

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Speaker 1: think must be yes. I confirmed this morning on our

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Speaker 1: Herald Now program that the Royal Commission has reached out

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Speaker 1: to just sinder Adourn and they have asked her to

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Speaker 1: attend in August. The case running the show basically clammed

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Speaker 1: up after that wouldn't give an answer about whether she

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Speaker 1: has even responded, whether she has lawyered up herself. But

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Speaker 1: he did say that the only way to get out

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Speaker 1: of attending is if you're not in the country. They

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Speaker 1: don't have jurisdiction. So the question is as a former

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Speaker 1: prime minister who wielded more power than Muldoon, more like

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Speaker 1: wartime executive powers she had, as somebody who's always claimed

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Speaker 1: their intentions were good, as somebody who's always claimed they

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Speaker 1: were in politics for the children. Remember that, surely the

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Speaker 1: good of our Tamadiki should be front and center of

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Speaker 1: the of one Just Cinda Adourn when deciding whether to

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Speaker 1: front up and be honest at an inquiry like this,

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Speaker 1: honest about what really went on behind closed doors, behind

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Speaker 1: those ppe masks. Boris Johnson appeared at his country's inquiry, inquiry,

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Speaker 1: twiddling his fingers and thumbs as he answered questions put

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Speaker 1: before him. Isn't there a moral obligation to the people

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Speaker 1: of New Zealand as well? Here they still live with

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Speaker 1: the consequences of decisions that she and her cabinet made.

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Speaker 1: She's making money off books of all sorts of things

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Speaker 1: at the moment, and all power to her, while many

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Speaker 1: businesses here have never recovered from the lockdowns. Isn't a

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Speaker 1: little truth telling in order? I was just one of

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Speaker 1: a handful of interviewers who basically got a go at

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Speaker 1: de Cinda Adourn on a weekly basis during this time period,

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Speaker 1: and I'm saving the best bits for a book one day,

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Speaker 1: of course. But suffice to say, there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of image and stage managing and controlling happening behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes that you just wouldn't believe. The problem for Jacinda

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Speaker 1: if she decides not to front is this. It's a

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Speaker 1: question kiwis will be asking themselves what has she got

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