Wizard of New Zealand

The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM (born Ian Brackenbury Channell; 4 December 1932) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.

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    The fabulous Wizard of Oz
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    What with up-to-date science,
    To most of his clients
    He wasn’t the Wizard he was.
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    Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.
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