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Whale Songs: For $4M You’d Think It’d Be On Spotify

Because it is Māori-related wasteful spending, newsrooms fall over themselves not to cover it. We get individual journalists contacting us about some of our stories saying they’d love to pick them up but their colleagues and editors would go berserk.

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