New Zealand Listener

Spit and politics

What a time to be alive. Some cosmic Jerry Seinfeld seems to be writing the script of our lives.

New Zealand is being widely mocked for declaring an Auckland lockdown for just three new cases of Covid, where other countries haven’t blinked before six-figure infections.

In the growing Anzac spirit of “Here’s one we prepared earlier!”, Australia is now remitting not just gang heavies to New Zealand, but also its alleged latest Islamic State terrorist, though she wouldn’t have been able to spell “terrorism” at the age she left here.

And thanks again to Australia, which also gave us Bunnings Warehouse, we risked

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