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Andrew Williams – North Shore Mayor
Andrew Williams appeared with Mike Hosking tonight on Close Up defending his position over the rumoured late night texts. It’s one of those situations of either you believe him, or you don’t. Each side seemed to have evidence that supported their own claims. Everyone except John Key. Interviewed on Breakfast he appeared as vague as […]
National, All Blacks, Labour, France
Image via Wikipedia I’m half way through reading Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner‘s book Freakonomics. The book is tagged with the line “A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything”. Levitt poses the weirdest questions, which he already knows the answers to, such as: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How […]
Push Play stopped
The Sunday Star Times reported on May 3 that John Key and the National Government are following through on overhauling the sporting sector. This includes cutting budgets at SPARC, the agency that gave us Push Play and Mission On. The jury is out on Mission On and whether it has provided impetus to young people […]
Rodney Hide and a National Government
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 […]
New Zealand Election Results 2008
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 […]