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Focus: Luxon speaks to the media at Fieldays
National party leader Christopher Luxon spoke to the media at Fieldays. Video / Mike Scott
'I haven’t met anyone who’s wet or whiny': Hipkins reacts to Luxon comments at Fieldays
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'Gang members used to take off at the sight of police': Mark Mitchell deplores Ōpōtiki lockdown
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Government finally delivering on 2020 forestry promise
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'Deceptive': 270 of promised 1800 new police won't have arrest powers
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Aukus may heighten great power tensions - French ambassador
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Luxon ordered, then cancelled, taxpayer-funded Tesla, while criticising Tesla subsidies
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Gore council meets today to discuss petition calling for chief exec to quit
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Senior Nat apologises for calling Education Minister a ‘good girl’
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'Coalition of colonisers': Ngarewa-Packer slams Māori MPs for climate inaction
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Simon Wilson: Brown gets his budget, AT staff get an apology
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Chris Hipkins pushes back against Luxon’s ‘negative, wet, and whiny’ comments
The Leader of the Opposition called New Zealand a negative, wet, whiny country.
Time for NZ to get creative on trade as FTAs reach limit: expert
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PM to visit China as it hits back over joint statement
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Changes to genetic modification rules would benefit the economy, says National
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