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John Armstrong: Timing is everything in asset sales plan
The many critics of National's troubled privatisation programme may be more than a little premature in celebrating a possible delay in the first share float.
The many critics of National's troubled privatisation programme may be more than a little premature in celebrating a possible delay in the first share float.
The PM is out prove National is more liberal than those on the left think it is.
If Labour thinks National's new five-year targets for improvements in some of New Zealand's ugliest and most depressing statistics are little more than a political gimmick, the party should think again.
John Armstrong looks at why National will hang in there with its asset sales legislation, despite the pain it's endured to make the bill into law.
No more compromises; just capitulation - complete and utter.
Hekia Parata came hurtling back down to Earth, suffering the indignity of Key trampling all over her portfolio.
Thanks largely to some adroit politics on its part, National has yet to cop any substantial public reaction to its various austerity measures.