Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:31 pm, March 22nd, 2016 - 32 comments
Key has appointed a new Governor General, Dame Patsy Reddy.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 1:46 pm, March 8th, 2011 - 77 comments
John Key has appointed Jerry Mataparae as the next Governor-General. That’s all well and good. I’m sure he’ll do a fine job. But Key says he can also stay on as head of the Government Communications Security Bureau. That’s not on.
Update: the Stuff article failed to mention the vital fact that Mateparae is stepping down from the GCSB before becoming G-G. Sorry. Fucken Stuff.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:00 am, October 5th, 2010 - 28 comments
John Key really does say some extraordinary things when he’s trying to placate the media, and often it works because journos are bamboozled into accepting what he says as fact. Yesterday, he defended the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act saying the Governor-General tests the appropriateness of each CERRA law. Dead wrong.
Written By: the sprout - Date published: 11:40 am, October 4th, 2010 - 195 comments
New Zealand’s most infamous anti-Ambassador Paul Henry has shamed us all once again. On TVNZ’s Breakfast this morning, Henry asked John Key (at 6’30” into the interview) of our Governor General “Is he even a New Zealander” (Satyanand was born in NZ) and could the next GG be someone who “looks and sounds a bit […]
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