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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Do we all really need the pension at 65?
Description: It was very clever of the Government announcing that it was going to pump $12 billion into defence before saying anything about where the money’s coming from. A lot of us got all excited about the defence money because, even if you’re a pacifist, you would have to agree that our defence force has been running on the smell of an oily rag for a very long time. That’s just a fact. And we kind of accepted that there would have to be trade-offs. We just didn’t know, and we still don’t know, what...