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The birth of the Wests: How Outrageous Fortune came to be

Summary by The Spinoff
Twenty years ago this week, New Zealand television’s most famous family stormed onto our screens in a flurry of skin, sex and swearing. Tara Ward goes back to where it all began. Rachel Lang was listening to National Radio in the shower one morning in 2003 when a news report came over the airwaves that left her stunned. It revealed that the median income for women in Aotearoa was just over $14,000 a year, a figure so depressingly low that she fo…

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The Spinoff broke the news in New Zealand on Sunday, July 6, 2025.
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