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Minister Jacinda Ardern's decision to have a child in office. He was criticised for saying previously that "being a mum is not a job".
642:'s (22.29), and a 50-50 record in the end-of-series running race." He scored 9,994 first-class runs during his career, remarked that the tally was "only different from Donald Bradman's Test batting average by a decimal point" (Bradman finished his career with an average of 99.94).
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