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An autumn of ordinariness?

In his first public speech of 2024, Christopher Luxon announced, “We’re looking ahead to deliver a set of deliverables that will help our vision of New Zealand take root and come to pass.”

John Key communicated in All Blacks analogies, Jacinda Ardern employed the therapeutic language of love, wellbeing and kindness. Our new CEO PM loves management jargon and he mixes metaphors like a needle in a long-tailed cat.

Every new administration begins with the assumption it can solve problems where its predecessors failed; it will fix what the last lot broke and Labour’s consistent failure was delivery –an

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