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Speaker 1: Right, Darlene Tana as she continues her woe is me,

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Speaker 1: I've been wronged road show. We might like to look

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Speaker 1: to a little bit of history for advice or instruction

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Speaker 1: on this. We had been here before. I believe it

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Speaker 1: began with Alamin Kopa, remember the name, many years ago,

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Speaker 1: another woman with very similar grievances to Tanna. Is not fair?

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Speaker 1: Wo is me hard done by? She was part of

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Speaker 1: the alliance in the early days of MMP when these

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Speaker 1: new lists MPs rolled into Parliament on nothing more than

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Speaker 1: a party's women said about causing trouble. Isn't it remarkable? Ah?

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Speaker 1: Isn't it remarkable to think that three decades later we

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Speaker 1: still haven't learned how to run the system properly. It's

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Speaker 1: become embarrassingly obvious. The Greens aren't up to much when

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Speaker 1: it comes to candidate selection. Tana, who got voted for

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Speaker 1: specifically by no One scraped and scraped in twelve on

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Speaker 1: the list, now has the power to just hang about

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Speaker 1: the place and cause who knows how much trouble, and

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Speaker 1: of course paid for by us. Meantime, the party who

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Speaker 1: could do something aren't for reasons only they can try

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Speaker 1: and explain they can't contact her, they won't release the

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Speaker 1: report we paid for, they won't tell us how much

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Speaker 1: it costs, and they're twisting themselves into indigestion over the

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Speaker 1: walker jumping law that would solve their problems except for

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Speaker 1: the fact they've banged on so loudly about it being unfair.

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Speaker 1: Here's the most important part of this. Chloe Swarbrick has aspirations.

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Speaker 1: She openly states she can take the party and overtake

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Speaker 1: Labor as the major left player. But how can she

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Speaker 1: even begin to do that when she can't even run

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Speaker 1: the place the size it is. How do you appeal to, say,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine to thirty percent of New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: when at twelve or thirteen you look at shambles, a dysfunctional, indecisive,

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Speaker 1: dithering shambles. If all they aspire to be is a

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Speaker 1: minor noise maker yapping away on the sidelines of an

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Speaker 1: MMP system that allows increasingly fringe operators a seat or two,

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Speaker 1: then this would be just another amateurish mess. But when

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Speaker 1: you see yourself in the mainstream, you've got to act

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Speaker 1: like you belong there. And small clue, Chloe, this isn't it.

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