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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
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Ah, you see, because it isn't. No more homemade bread. Once again, good tone, good reassurance. Lessons look like they might have been learned. Learned. Labor and India, three. I mean, this is why we can be grateful they're not in office for the war. I mean, they do little but stall and carp, and the day you're against free trade, for goodness sake, you're basically not a New Zealander. Booze, seven. Nice one, and nice one, Kieran, as the kid from the Waira Rapper brings the modern world to Easter, Todd Stevenson. Todd Stevenson. Eight. How about old Toddy? Silent for years and out of the blocks with a scrap over funding for the Spurs visit and a scrap with Crusher over Maori names. Has he been to an assertiveness course? Oh, the Warriors 6. Yeah, it was going to happen sooner or later, wasn't it? But the Tigers, that was a bit embarrassing. Shark Sunday will be right.
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political conflict over cultural representation
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