A holiday reading list for Luxon

A holiday reading list for Luxon
This year's reading list is all about making sense out of a disrupted world. (Image: Getty)
Dileepa Fonseka
This year’s summer holiday reading list for the new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, does not exactly make for light reading.  But with major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, infrastructure projects blowing out in cost by the billions, and racial tensions ratcheting up domestically, perhaps there are just far too many serious issues for the new PM to spend too much time on casual reading. Making sense of a disrupted world is the running theme of this year’s suggested reading list for the PM, which is a project of...

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