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Royal Commission into Pike River tragedy
The Royal Commission of Inquiry is the most prestigious instrument of investigation available in New Zealand and is reserved for the most serious or complex issues: the Erebus crash (1979), the move to proportional representation (1986), social policy (1988), the ‘Wine Box’ (1994), the Cave Creek disaster (1995), genetic modification (2000), the ‘Super City’ (2007) and – now – the Pike River mining tragedy.
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