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    Water into whine

    Jan 23, 2022 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    New Zealand’s political new years are never a time for embarking on resolutions, because there’s still so much work to be done mordantly unpacking all last year’s irresolutions.

    There’s always a slew of unsolved problems and unanswered questions that get parked for the silly season and don’t look any better after a nice holiday. Some, notably Auckland’s light-rail decision, have languished in the inbox for years. Other imponderables – rising inflation, goods and labour shortages, growing misery in social housing – are more recent arrivals, all nigh on irremediable and set to make absolutely everything else that much worse.

    All the while, the

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