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A government humiliated

Willis applied one of the many lashings that the government received in the House 'Today we have the grovelling back-down, but the stain on our democracy, the damage to our constitution, will remain.'

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As much as the government tried to maintain the line repeated by the Prime Minister yesterday that, “We voted for it as a team, we're fixing it as a team”, the cracks in a divided caucus and dysfunctional leadership team were all too evident.

When Minister Mahuta, the chief architect of the Three Waters reforms, stood …

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