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OPINION Can you feel it? It’s the early stages of something called momentum. We’re starting to get things done. And it feels like we have some direction...

Cabinet door closed on key portfolios Having shown triple crims, gangs and under-performing ministers who’s the boss, PM/CEO Christopher Luxon could do more...

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Graeme Edgeler wrote in 2017: In the first five years after three strikes came into effect 5248 offenders received a ‘first strike’ (that is, a “stage-1 conviction” under the three strikes sentencing regime), and 68 offenders received a ‘second strike’. In the five years prior to three strikes, 5517 people were convicted of an offence

“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.”

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As predicted 10 days ago the first Ministerial goneburger has occurred and it is Melissa Lee.

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