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The Flip Side
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Right wing try dog-whistles to excite the wet and whiny ones

OPINION: Call it race baiting, call it stupidity – at its heart, it’s a wrecking ball to our society.

NBR senior journalist Dita De Boni speaks with Nicholas Pointon.

Dita De Boni Wed, 21 Jun 2023

Dog-whistling, race baiting – call it what you will, but National and Act’s premeditated, strategic, and specific targeting of anxious white voters in the lead-up to election 2023 suggests these parties will do anything to win, even it means stoking an unstoppable race war. 

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Dita De Boni Wed, 21 Jun 2023
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