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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-19T02:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Former PM Sir Geoffrey Palmer has written a column disagreeing with my call for New Zealand to become the seventh state of Australia. It is a very reasonable column, and I’ll use the blog to respond to some of the points here. There is no respect in which Australia differs more from New Zealand than […]\n\nThe post Responding to Sir Geoffrey first appeared on Kiwiblog.",
  "title": "Responding to Sir Geoffrey"
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