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    Orr else

    Nov 29, 2020 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    Here’s a novelty Christmas gift idea: a weather house barometer with a tiny Ashley Bloomfield that comes out when it’s fine and safe and a wee Adrian Orr that pops out when it’s wild and stormy.

    The smile/frown alternation of the Director-General of Health and the Reserve Bank Governor pretty much sums up our politics these days. Bloomfield tells us most days how our pandemic containment is going, which is generally a sunny outlook, and Orr tells us what he’s doing to protect the economy from Covid’s ravages, which is more a “brace for tornadoes” theme.

    With every economist and taxi driver pelting

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