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Kiwi notes

14 April 2018

9:00 AM

14 April 2018

9:00 AM

The Socialist Ardernative

New Zealand politics has thrown up some wonderful invective over the years. A favourite of mine originated with the Labour PM David Lange. Asked his reaction to the appointment of his own former Finance Minister, the creative Roger Douglas, as an economic advisor to Poland, emerging from the grip of the Soviet Bloc, Lange responded: ‘I would have thought that the Poles had suffered enough.’

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