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Edwards on Politics
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Love them or loathe them - we need politicians

ANALYSIS: Politics is not for the faint hearted. It is often a bruising and brutal profession.

Brent Edwards Thu, 17 Mar 2022

This is not an unabashed defence of politicians. But love them or loathe them, politicians are essential to the political system that underpins New Zealand’s democracy.

Business criticism of politics – or more specifically of government – is that governments do not face failure in the way

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Brent Edwards Thu, 17 Mar 2022
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