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    Toil and trouble

    Mar 21, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    It’s Wellington’s great new potboiler: why is the Government so remorselessly dark on travel bubbles when it’s not so secretly planning to introduce them very soon. Preparations are advanced for an April bubble with Australia, and possibly one or two other countries, but the Government is making the reasons this nevertheless probably can’t happen seem bigger than Ben-Hur.

    In Parliament, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins describes obstacles so maniacally complicated that anyone listening risks being put off the idea by sheer fatigue. The imponderables take so long to recite as to exceed normal adult attention spans – not to mention bladder thresholds. By

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