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Learning to debate like grown-ups

OPINION: The greatest threat to democracy is not extreme political ideology but how we negotiate our way around it.

NBR senior journalist Maria Slade speaks with Dita De Boni.

Maria Slade Wed, 29 Mar 2023

It was bound to happen.

Throw a load of people who don’t generally see that much of each other together into protracted proximity at a time of heightened emotion, and bam.

So it was during a recent gathering of extended family for a funeral.

When the discussion came round to ‘Maoris’ (plural and

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