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Exclusive Excerpts From Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work

Exclusive Excerpts From Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work

Mr Hager is known to be working on a follow up to both Dirty Politics and Dirty Work, entitled Dirty Jokes. A compendium of jokes scrawled on the parliamentary bathroom walls. The mothers of several well-known MPs are said to figure prominently.

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What Has Tikanga Got to Do With Real Estate?

What Has Tikanga Got to Do With Real Estate?

If you are at all worried about any of these protocols, feel free to consult a local kaumātua. A koha needs to be paid, which may translate as a ‘gift’, but in reality translates as $299 an hour, payable by cash, credit card or bitcoin.

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No Winston, This Is His Country Too

No Winston, This Is His Country Too

Radically reducing immigrant arrivals and visa restrictions is one thing, but rounding up people who may have been in the country for decades because they don’t ‘look like a Kiwi’ is quite another – and a much more horrifying – story.

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My Thoughts on the Opportunist Party

My Thoughts on the Opportunist Party

The Opportunity Party is like a new Whittaker’s chocolate bar on display near the check-out – for a week or so everyone will be putting it in their trolley. But pretty soon, when they realise how uninspiring the ingredients are, it will be in the bargain bin along with the expired crunchy bars.

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New Poll Shows Shocking Results

New Poll Shows Shocking Results

I did consider consulting David Farrar on my methodology but realised I would have to learn how to pronounce his last name and would probably have to do a six-month course in Nerd to understand any advice he gave. Anyway, here are the results of our inaugural poll.

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