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Kate Hawkesby: Govt's denial of any looting in Hawke's Bay smacks of a Jacinda-type approach
There’s a big disconnect happening at the moment between government and locals in the Hawkes Bay area over what’s really going on.
The Police Commissioner and the PM were both on Mike’s show yesterday saying the reports of looting are just not true, that it’s all the stuff of rumour and gossip, and that it’s unsubstantiated.
But then you have the locals. They’re irate, arguably more irate after hearing the denial of it from government, and saying it is very real, it is definitely happening and they’re traumatized by it.
One Esk Valley local said if the Police Commissioner doesn’t think it’s…
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