Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Should drug companies be able to own doctors’ clinics? Could the Darleen Tana saga finally be coming to an end? And what’s the best type of deer in New Zealand according to a deer hunter?
Anna Rawhiti-Connell: “Based on its recurrent use in headlines, six-figure anythings are seldom appropriate. Six-figure salaries are quite bad, but six-figure junkets are the absolute worst. The implication is just lounging around right there in the word itself – a junky waste of time where junky pigs have their junky snouts in the junky troughs. Based on the headline on the Taxpayers Union’s press release, “Film Commission living it up in the French Riviera”, you would be forgiven for assuming the OIA revealed that the four film commission staff spent their days rolling around Château Louis XIII, smashing bottles of Dom Perignon over the heads of locals paid to serve Fiordland moose steaks while dressed as New Zealand’s picturesque landscapes, while nights were spent bowling wheels of Beaufort d’été into 20-feet-high piles of croquembouche resembling the Two Towers. As revealed via an in-depth investigation by The Spinoff (reading the OIA response), the truth is far more boring but nonetheless shocking: Things, as it turns out, cost money.”
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Could the Darleen Tana saga finally be coming to an end? Canna-conflict: Should drug companies be able to own doctors’ clinics? Happy Niue language week: The Samoans are fighting again Victory declared in war against the ‘inflation beast’
‘I know this woman’: The Office Australia stars on gender-flipping the franchise Ahead of the release of The Office Australia this week, Alex Casey chats to stars Felicity Ward and Edith Poor about bringing the beloved franchise down under.
Celebrity Treasure Island Power Rankings: And the winner is… ‘It felt like the world stood still’: CTI’s latest winner on digging up the treasure The seven types of deer in New Zealand, ranked by a deer hunter Help Me Hera: I want to be the girl that everybody hates
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