How Impressive the Sight the Other Night: A Politician, If A Local-Body One, With the Nous & Presence of Mind to Stay Cool, Calm & Collected - While Picked On, Pilloried & Persecuted by Protestors in the Octagon (Who've Been Steadfastly 'Holding the Fort' in Their Makeshift Tents There Opposing the Government's Vaccine Mandates): For Once - & Perhaps the One & Only Such Occasion - Hats (& Scarves) Off to Dunedin's Mayor Aaron Hawkins...

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