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You can’t spend other people’s money if they leave and take it with them.
An election-year address that only works if New Zealanders have collective amnesia.
Companies such as Stuff and NZME (publisher of the Herald) can make their own rules, as long as they’re willing to risk consequences such as loss of trust and declining readership. RNZ (and TVNZ, but let’s not go there) has no such latitude.