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INSIDE CHILD POVERTY REVISITED, Three, Tuesday, November 29, 8.30pm

landed like a bomb in the week of the 2011 general election and not everyone was happy about it. Official Information Act requests later revealed an internal panic at its funder, NZ On Air, at such a political programme, verging on polemic, airing so close to an election. But

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