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    Blaming season

    Jun 19, 2022 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    All around the world, pandemic and war are causing consumer crises, but they have starkly different tipping points.

    Wheat, fuel, gas, fertiliser and cooking oil were in the first wave of shortages causing rapid-onset inflation. Now things are becoming more culturally specific. Russia’s dominance of cod fisheries threatens Britain with a grave fish-and-chips shortage. In Australia, KFC is using cabbage instead of A$12 lettuces in its burgers.

    But who would have predicted New Zealand would literally hit the wall?

    “Wadda we want?” the next parliamentary protest encampment will chant up at the Beehive. “Gib! When do we wannit?” “Now!”

    The $20 block of cheese and

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