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Scoop Photo Essay: Parliament's Best Side
The following pictures show New Zealand's Parliamentary building complex, and the statue of former Prime Minister Richard Seddon whose populist spirit appears to live on inside. Parliament reopens for the new year today.
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The Beehive - Home Of The Executive
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Parliament
Buildings - With the Debating Chamber Within
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The
Top of Bowen House - Additional Parliamentary
Accommodation
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Statue
Of Former PM Richard Seddon - In Front Of Parliament
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Another
View of Richard
Seddon
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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