Luxon’s Woman Woes: National Sinks Below 30 Per Cent and the PM Cannot Charm the Ladies
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The cabinet reshuffle on Thursday will be spun as business as usual. Do not believe it for one second. The meetings, the leaks, the grumpiness in Auckland and the raw numbers in caucus tell their own story.
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Of Fuel and Fury
How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.
National MPs meet, rumours fly, and Luxon starts sounding like Sir Humphrey
The cabinet reshuffle on Thursday will be spun as business as usual. Do not believe it for one second. The meetings, the leaks, the grumpiness in Auckland and the raw numbers in caucus tell their own story.
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