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Today on The Spinoff: The big and obvious questions the Kāinga Ora review avoids, food recalls explained and the story of a missing police pistol.
But first: Joel MacManus reports from an anti-trans conference held in Wellington on Saturday.
“NZ First MP Tanya Unkovich wasn’t originally on the speaker’s list, but takes the stage with some notes scribbled on the back of a boarding pass. ‘My journey into politics was very quick. I saw the country going in a direction that I found really distressing, and I said to God: If you want me in politics, you will show me and you will open the doors,’ she says. ‘And the doors all flung open for me. Now that I am here, everyday I say: Now you show me why. Today, hearing these stories is why. I truly believe we will be taken care of on this path. I have no doubt in my mind about that.’”
The Kāinga Ora review avoids the big and obvious questions
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