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Diary Australia

New Zealand Diary

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Someone spilled duty-free liquor by the baggage carousel. I am flying and then bang: I land at Auckland airport. My first impression is the locals are friendly. ‘Don’t worry,’ I tell two airport staff who have rushed over. I pump my left arm. ‘Could I do this if it really was broken?’ The answer, I discover after two days of what doctors airily call ‘discomfort’, is yes.

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Andrew Bolt is a columnist with News Limited papers and host of The Bolt Report on Network Ten.

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