Archive for July 30th, 2005

A momentum shift

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

John Armstrong’s column in the Herald this morning brings home that the political landscape has changed markedly in the last few days. He writes of Labour’s student loan p0licy:
Labour has made a king hit. It has clinically killed off National’s far less generous offer of a tax rebate on interest payments, and it is bound […]

Adam drops a catch

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Great sportsmen rarely make great sports writers. Adam Parore offers a prime example of this in today’s Herald, with a column about the Zimbabwe cricket tour. He writes:
The other part of the issue that took me by surprise was the degree of confusion surrounding our country’s politicians, who seemed to have a very tenuous understanding […]

An overhang hangover

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

The prospects of an overhang in the new Parliament have probably been grossly exaggerated. Pundits have long supposed that the Maori Party will win almost all of the seven Maori electorate seats but not win enough party votes to justify these seats, on a strictly proportional basis. However, my gut instinct at the moment is […]