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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-234/
- Published: 2020-10-08T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-09T20:31:03.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Election 2020, Environment, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

> North Otago farmer **Jane Smith** says she likes to “play the ball, not the man,” but when it comes to Environment Minister David Parker and his freshwater reforms – she’s willing to make an exception.

> “David Parker’s actually made this very personal, he’s on a personal crusade,” she told The Country’s Jamie Mackay.

> Smith was unhappy with Parker’s controversial freshwater policy and she wanted to get the word out about the supposed “flawed process” behind the reforms.

> “An important thing for me now is to make urban New Zealand aware of this Parkergate lack of process … and skipping procedure … there’s a black box here that needs to be revealed.”

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