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And there you have it. your average misogynist middle clas ignorant pakeha, is going to vote this country in the shits. Their cutting of their nose to spite their face. Mindboggling. National’s dominant lead in this month’s Herald-DigiPoll is the result of overwhelming support among men, coupled with the backing of almost half of the women who were polled.

Some thoughts on today’s crop of newspaper columns… Matt McCarten gives us a potted history of New Zealand/Aotearoa, in the vein of The Sixty-Minute Shakespeare. He sums up the period known to Maori as Te Riri Pakeha — white man’s anger: “The settlers set up provincial governments and passed laws to take the land without their consent.