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Luxon’s Half-Hearted Slap at Bishop Changes Nothing
National needs to lift its game fast if it wants to avoid becoming a one-term government. So far the signs are not encouraging. The Easter poll will tell us more, but voters have seen enough half-arsed fixes to be sceptical.
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Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.
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The word for today is… valuable (adjective, noun) - adjective 1a: having monetary value b: worth a good price 2a: having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities b: of great use or service noun : a usually personal possession (such as jewelry) of relatively great monetary value — usually used in plural