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Flat White

Free speech Kiwi roadkill

11 July 2018

9:35 PM

11 July 2018

9:35 PM

It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on Friday words to the effect that he would make sure people with political opinions he disagreed with would never be permitted to use the many council-owned, large venues available for commercial hire in Auckland.

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