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13 October 2026
'Constipated bureaucratic beast': Shane Jones says Otago fast-track mine going too slow
The New Zealand First deputy leader visited the mine site near Cromwell on Tuesday, and took aim at "woke, brittle, anti-mining mythology" as a group of local protesters rallied at the gate.
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