Commentary
Who is John Key?
29 July, 2008
On Saturday July 26th July the NZ Herald published the second part of an in depth study of John Key. Buried towards the end of the main article in this coverage we find what the three journalists assigned to research and write these stories concluded about the central question of who the man is and what he would like to do if he became prime minister.
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Controversial figure gets top Nats list spot
28 July, 2008
Steven Joyce: The campaigner named as the key go-between in meetings between the Exclusive Brethren and former leader Don Brash during the 2005 election campaign has been given a plum national list spot.
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"From the Left" by Chris Trotter
4 July, 2008
Why Crosby/Textor? That's the question I'd like John Key to answer.
There are plenty of public relations firms and advertising agencies right here in New Zealand, Mr Key, to which you could have turned to for political advice. Plenty of former politicians and conservative academics who would quite happily have donated their best thinking to you free, gratis and for nothing. And the people employed by your own party, and in you own office, what are they - chopped liver?
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The master of the dog whistle
27 April, 2008
Lynton Crosby's negative tactics for the Tory campaign represent a serious threat to British democracy
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