A 747 was damaged while being towed along the tarmac at Avalon Airport in Melbourne yesterday. That’s not such a big concern – at least it wasn’t in the air and full of passengers. Today though a Qantas Dash 8 aircraft was forced back to Brisbane Airport after smoke filled the cabin. Are Qantas management […]
I wrote sometime back about the woes of flying Qantas – can you ever be guaranteed to arrive at your destination? A Qantas flight on route to Shanghai had to return to Sydney after a radar malfunction. This is on the back of a similar problem that forced “QF12 to “piggyback” behind an Air New […]
A colleague told me to look at this photo tribute to Helen Clark on Stuff. We were all laughing at an unlikely Prime Minister being introduced on The David Letterman show – a woman bearing absolutely no resemblance to helen Clark – at about 0:56 seconds. But even more surprising (unspotted by my colleague) was […]
Is anyone worried about Rodney Hide? I watched him on Sunday tonight – what an arrogant and demanding man. No grace, no poise – this is what we want and this is what we’ll get. John Key stared blankly back. I’d live to know what was going on in his mind… Compare Rodney’s performance to […]
10.20pm: The election result is panning out as the media has been predicting – a victory for National. Winston Peters is delivering his concession speech – beaten resoundingly by the young Simon Bridges (majority of 10,862 to national with 89.5% of the vote counted). Winston delivered a gracious speech congratulating Tauranga for voting in a […]
Bloody hell – what a bore watching John Key and Helen Clark talk about nothing. But, how fantastic listening to the commentators afterwards discuss the debate. Jenni McManus in particular stood out. Here are a few choice quotes from her. On Trust: I think particularly after last Friday night with his redundancy package I don’t […]