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So much noise and so little signal
TL;DR: It started with pomp, pageantry and a speech from the throne laying out the new National-ACT-NZ First Government’s plan to turn back much of the legislative clock to 2017 and beyond.
It ended with PM Christopher Luxon accusing former PM Chris Hipkins of being an arsonist and then Hipkins branding Luxon’s Government as having the most shambolic start in our political history. The first claim isn’t true and the second isn’t relevant. None of it mattered.
None of this noise from the gears grinding into action in our core institution of democracy and governance for the next three years had…
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