No Punches Pulled

Last week I was shown a copy of the Listener from last year. The reason was a four page article in it on a Korean based Kiwi, Adam Ballin, who along with two colleagues has apparently built a very successful international renewable energy business and in the process became wealthy. All credit to him for that.

Recently a New Zealand Herald correspondent, an Andrew Tichborn of Green Bay wrote, “Way back in the 1970s Wellington property owner Bob Jones made the comment that he loved Labour governments because they generated so many new government and quasi-government departments. It was a golden time for owners of commercial property to provide work space for them all”.

A couple of weeks back impassioned and possibly drunk, Green MP Julie-Anne Genter, stormed across Parliament, leapt up on a typically non-descript National MP’s desk, lifted her skirt, pulled down her pants and peed on his head.

In recent weeks the traditional news media themselves have become a major news story. With fast fading audiences in the face of alternative options, they’ve become a sunset industry and of necessity are undergoing constant staff layoffs, just as occurs in other once seemingly safe activities confronted by new technology making them redundant.

Recently someone sent me a faded photo of my standard four class in Lower Hutt, 75 years ago.