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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hunter’s Corner
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Rio Tinto must take us for mugs

A request for government support for the Tiwai Point smelter is simple extortion.

Tim Hunter Fri, 01 Nov 2019

The phrase “too big to fail” is generally used for banks, who have made themselves so useful that the government is not keen to be left cleaning up the mess if one of them explodes.

Being indispensable does provide a certain leverage.

However, when it comes to wielding this form of soft

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Tim Hunter Fri, 01 Nov 2019
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