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Ali Mau
In the late 2000s, broadcaster Ali Mau couldn't kee
With Prison Break due to be released in August, Taylor was concerned Corrections might try to interfere with its release because of a few sentences from a doctor’s evidence about how he was injured in 2017.
The auction of hundreds of images of the royals in Aotearoa "could end up the biggest sale of photography in New Zealand’s history", one expert says.
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Merv Norrish in later life. Norrish had a lengthy career as a diplomat. Lange said no such undertaking had ever been given, and the fallout led to a policy rift between New Zealand and its superpower ally. There was one problem with the claim that Lange had lied – and that was Norrish. He was the other person at the meeting, and he would later back Lange’s version of events. In 2013, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who succeeded Lange as prime minister, published his memoir, in which he confirmed that Norrish had backed Lange’s account. During a diplomatic career that began in 1949, Norrish was ambassador to Brussels when Britain was attempting to join the European Economic Community (EEC), witnessed the opening of New Zealand’s first embassies in the Middle East, the decolonisation of Western Samoa, the Cuban missile crisis, the cancellation of the 1973 Springbok tour to New Zealand, the ban on nuclear ships, which led to the demise of the Anzus alliance, and t
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