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Kate Hawkesby: Watch for the PR spin in response to the Government's bad publicity
In the corporate world, they call it avoiding death by a thousand cuts. It’s a smart marketing strategy and one I think the Government's currently employing. Get all your bad news out at once - more crudely referred to in some sectors as “flushing all the turds in one go”.
When Steven Joyce wrote at the weekend about the wheels coming off this Government, he wasn’t wrong.
Ramming through Three Waters, announcing a fanciful $15 billion light rail project, keeping Auckland locked down, butchering the MIQ messaging and changes. The wheels are well and truly off.
And you’ll note, fronting all…
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