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Cartoon: a giant Winston Peters looms over a TV studio boxing ring holding a bell and a scorecard while tiny Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins square off below.

Neither Chris Gets to Decide

Winston Peters says Luxon and Hipkins will not decide this election and the media is still running it like first past the post. Two more Chris-on-Chris debates are booked. The kingmaker is the story nobody is billing.

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“I’m going to be blunt with you, Chris Hipkins said no,” Nicola Willis said, adding she hoped to work together on a solution in the next term.

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The Good Oil Word of the Day

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… alliteration (noun) - : the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, thrifty and thriving) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In alliteration, consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables are repeated. The repeated

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