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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

When the Prime Minister badly fluffed her lines last week on her Child Poverty portfolio she responded by throwing her press secretary under the bus and promising to invest in better statisticians.

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Philip Crump
Oct 23, 2022
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When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister in 2017 she announced that she would take on the newly created role of minister for child poverty reduction, underlining her lifelong commitment to the cause and reminding people that it was the reason that she entered politics at the age of 17.

Since taking office, domestic an…

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