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Decision time

The Opposition’s best attack in 2018 was lampooning the Government’s 182 working groups, which it claims are costing taxpayers over $250 million.

The Government denies both numbers, but even those totally uninterested in politics know why it is funny to say they’ll get a working group to clean the barbecue.

Like the Key regime, Jacinda Ardern’s government was elected without any clear programme other than half a dozen one-liners developed solely

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