Today on The Country, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Leon Samuels, who won the open shearing title at the Golden Shears. Samuels is a man of few words, so Mackay follows him up with the loquacious Jim Hopkins.
On with the show:
Nicola Willis:
In the absence of the PM (who eventually made his way to Australia), we talk to the Minister of Finance about New Zealand’s identity crisis, when we’re going to get back into surplus, and by what moniker will her first Budget (due May 30) be known as?
Leon Samuels: