Category: Writing

Paid for by China – the SMH says it’s  “so expensive to run New Zealand would have problems maintaining it”. The report says China makes short-term loans so other countries will recognise Taiwan etc.

you couldn’t make it up.

He should be moved to another portfolio, pronto.

David Marr writes re: the book publishing industry stoush: “One side issue to emerge: the strange lack of confidence in both scrutiny and competition shown by the Productivity Commission’s decision to sit tight on its 240-page report all day yesterday until 3 o’clock. This, a spokesman told the Herald, was to achieve market neutrality between TV, radio and newspapers. He wasn’t joking.”

Earns the TULIP of the Week Award.

"If you threw rocks at Paul Keating, the only thing that got hurt were the rocks."