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Wrapping the Week: Second languages, dodginess online and Naomi Osaka

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Fri, 4 Jun 2021, 10:50AM
Serena Williams, right, at the trophy presentations after her controversial loss to Naomi Osaka in the 2018 US Open. (Photo / Getty)
Serena Williams, right, at the trophy presentations after her controversial loss to Naomi Osaka in the 2018 US Open. (Photo / Getty)

Wrapping the Week: Second languages, dodginess online and Naomi Osaka

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 4 Jun 2021, 10:50AM

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson join Mike Hosking to wrap the week that was.

A bill that would have required all primary and intermediate schools to offer second language tuition from among 10 priority languages has been torpedoed by Labour despite the party originally supporting the bill.

The three debate whether they made any mistakes when they were younger that would come back to bite them, as was the case with Jake Bezzant.

And finally, they rounded the conversation off debating the merits of Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open over media pressure.

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