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Kate Hawkesby: This Government still does not have a clue
I joked this time yesterday that I hoped the big day of announcements we were awaiting wouldn’t just be announcements of announcements. I mean I thought we were past that. Hence, I joked about it.
Sadly, clearly, we’re not past it.
This Government is still taking the piss at 1 o’clock. How much leeway do they actually want? How much rope? Are they joking? Yesterday’s press conference was one of the greater damp squibs of all time. They literally could not announce anything.
We were expecting MIQ changes, an update on school for Years 0-10, and the Waikato level change. What did we get? A…
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