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    Get thee to the ICU

    Feb 06, 2022 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    It’s parent-teacher night for the economy. Once a year, the Finance Minister has to front up to the OECD, homeworkmarker and tutor to the world’s developed economies, and hear how well plucky little New Zealand has been doing.

    Or not.

    Teacher always has something positive to say about a country’s homeschooling – “New Zealand has applied itself diligently to the pandemic again this year” – before tactfully traversing the “could-try-harder” subjects.

    In a week of unprecedented angst about the closed border and a prime ministerial brush with Omicron, the last thing the Government had an appetite for was a lecture from Paris about why it

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