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  • Orewa Mark II (NZ's fmr Labour Minister calls for welfare reform: will Labour and US Dems listen?)

    02/05/2005 2:05:31 AM PST · by NZerFromHK · 4 replies · 315+ views
    Oscar Wilde's imperious Lady Bracknell would have told this Labour Government that losing the initiative once at Orewa was due to misfortune; twice looks like carelessness. Yet it¹s happened. Labour has again been caught looking foolish, frantically erecting straw men with the help of the media, deliberately misrepresenting Don Brash¹s views on adoption, and making contradictory statements of protest. One minute Steve Maharey calls Brash "an idiot", then wants credit for doing several things Brash recommends. It was the same last year. One standard of citizenship and an end to special privileges for Maori was ³racist². Until, that is, Labour...