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Just Acting up

Just when you thought the election campaign couldn’t get even more bonkers, it got even more bonkers at Act’s campaign launch at Auckland’s Civic Theatre.

They’d already had what everyone thought was their campaign launch back in June at the SkyCity Theatre, where Act leader David Seymour, also known as the Entertainer, drove on stage in a little yellow car. But, hey, who couldn’t use a little more spectacle in this dreary election campaign?

So, how do you top the deathdefying act of driving a little car on stage? Poof! By making Seymour – perhaps we should call him Mr Magic – magically disappear in a puff of Barbie pink smoke. More than a few people

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