Steve Braunias: The secret diary of Judith Collins

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date September 25, 2020

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I drove through rolling country on the election trail today and it reminded me that I was born in a state house on a dairy farm. The windows didn’t shut and neither did the farm gate …

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