Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Too little too late would be my assessment of yesterday's clear out of the protestors. And when I say clear out - there's still a few there, but the most obvious question is why on earth it took so long to get to this point? Surely what happened yesterday could’ve happened week one, before it grew, got infrastructure and spread around other cities. To let it get entrenched to the point where riot police with shields and pepper spray had to be called in to clear it out, is to have left it far too long. I wonder if Coster, in his quiet moments (of which there appear to be far too many), ponders the merits of faster action. By the time they’re plumbing showers into the city’s water mains, and setting up toilets and kitchens, it’s gone too far. But that first week, when all the rabid nutjobs were there, that was the time to go in.  Nip it in the bud. It was an illegal protest so shut it down within 48 hours. Instead, they poured fuel on the fire - everything from Mallard's macarena and sprinklers, to Ardern's con