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    Stink eye

    May 02, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    It would be a foolish person who agreed to a game of poker with Nanaia Mahuta.

    She may be the first foreign affairs minister to intuitively get the old David Frost definition of diplomacy: the art of letting someone else have your way.

    Such a consummate stealth fighter is the Hauraki-Waikato MP that when she strikes, her victims can spend months unaware they’ve been hit, though with the dawning realisation that their legs are not where they used to be. There are local bodies the length of the country that still haven’t figured out that her Three Waters Reform Programme, announced last year, will mean their inevitable

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