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It is reversing a ban on oil and gas drilling, and is proposing a “fast-track” for big projects, including mines, that bypasses environmental checks. It has cut climate programs and jobs, scrapped electric vehicle subsidies, abandoned plans for one of the world’s largest marine sanctuaries and set aside a world-leading cow “burp” tax as it questions the science on methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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    5 months ago

    Our country is less than 200 years old

    Presence of Europeans in your country is less than 200 years old.

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      5 months ago

      I went of treaty of Waitangi, like how America was “founded” at the declaration of independence.

      Flipside, I cant exactly say us Maori were developing a strong road network, industrial base and civil structures now can I?