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    Arrested development

    Jan 31, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    The new year has ushered in frightening times in which even Covid-19 is having to take a number. New Zealand’s capital city CBD is frightened to flush its toilets for fear its crumbling wastewater system will continue to pollute the streets, summoning forth more plagues. Judith Collins has promised to take up kindness and bipartisanship – which, coming from the Opposition leader known as “Crusher”, sounds very like a “Take cover!” notice.

    And there’s no knowing what the hundreds of thousands of aggrieved children with void Wiggles tickets will do if the Government continues to refuse their idols preferential quarantine access.

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