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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Don't make Mahuta the spending spree scapegoat
Description: Nanaia Mahuta won’t say it - so I’m going to say it for her. All this noise about her husband getting government contracts wouldn't be happening if she wasn’t Māori . She won’t say that, because, as well as being accused of letting her family milk the public purse, she’d also be accused of trying to defend the undefendable. But I bet - as she probably would privately too - that we wouldn’t have the same amount of huffing and puffing if it involved a family member of an MP who...