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Us and them

Four years have passed since the Christchurch terror attacks shattered our complacency about extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand. We were awakened to the reality that there are extremists who see our society as fundamentally corrupt and irredeemably polarised between “us” and “them”.

Since then, we have endured a global pandemic that has radicalised a small but vocal minority. For this hyper-vocal few, it was a “plandemic” – a deliberate

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