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EDITORIAL: A Shaw thing

Friday 25 Oct 19 12:00pm

National's Bill English tractors up the steps of Parliament Buildings in 2003. Presumably, the 'mad cow' was Prime Minister Helen Clark.

By publisher ADELIA HALLETT

CLIMATE MINISTER James Shaw, take a bow - you deserve five minutes in the sun for doing what none of your seven predecessors did.

The significance of finally getting farmers to agree to a price on agricultural emissions nearly two decades after the “fart tax” debacle is not to be sniffed at.

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