Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The Audacity of Hype: John Key and the new National Socialism https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47414#post47414 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47414#post47414 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:05:07 +1200 Tony Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47404#post47404 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47404#post47404

All drugs are bad but some are badder than others.

Puh-lease...

When a person ingests a "drug" they do it to induce a change in brain chemistry.
Are you saying it is always BAD to change brain chemistry by ingesting some sort of substance?
Or only if the effect is…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:09:54 +1200 stephen walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47402#post47402 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47402#post47402 of course!
THC, MDMA and psilocybin are MUCH badderer than alcohol, nicotine and refined sugar because, well, because they're illegal!

and because they can kill you!
and because they can get you addicted!
and because they can wreck your family!

unlike alcohol, et al, which never cause anything like that.…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:57:17 +1200 Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47399#post47399 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47399#post47399 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:02 +1200 stephen walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47392#post47392 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47392#post47392 that's right!
all drugs are BAD!
except, of course, if they happen to be nicotine, alcohol, caffeine or refined sugar.
in which case they are not an issue at all.

Are you all looking forward to your kids starting to engage in this rite of passage?

eh? i'm looking forward…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:16:16 +1200 insider outsider https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47391#post47391 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47391#post47391 I do know plenty who would look askance at someone so naïve and incurious as to have never even been tempted.

This is so lame it reflects more on Finlay that he can;t envisage anyone as being complete with out having tried some form of narcotic. Some of us have…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:48:43 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47331#post47331 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47331#post47331

And now the elite is smarting not just from the loss of its flagship, but also from their ideologies being rendered a politico-economic Maralinga. Just like General Tojo when he appeared before the Far East Military Tribunal in 1946 – both in denial of the undeniable.

Wow... you don't do…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:11:31 +1200 Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47330#post47330 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47330#post47330

I do know plenty who would look askance at someone so naïve and incurious as to have never even been tempted.

My point is, he's either being disingenuous, or he's inviting the obvious question: can we trust the country to a man so patently unworldly?

Call me naive, disingenuous and…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:26:35 +1200 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47307#post47307 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47307#post47307

Which they would be entitled to do, of course, if that were the business they were set up to do.

Not the first entity it has happened to. Sky City started buying up Aussie casino's and
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_Energy|Contact Energy owns 25% of the Oakey power station, a 280 MW gas turbine (near…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:02:06 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47305#post47305 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47305#post47305 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53:48 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47304#post47304 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47304#post47304 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:24:20 +1200 daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47299#post47299 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47299#post47299 Up to a point, I/O – given that AA members' subscriptions underwrite the entire publication, the advertising argument doesn't really fly with this particular mag. And in any case, so many of Directions' current ads are for their own products – travel, insurance etc.

The lifestyle emphasis was a deliberate…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:00:31 +1200 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47290#post47290 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47290#post47290 Instead there's a bucketload of lightweight "lifestyle" crapola aimed at encouraging New Zealanders to use more fossil fuel.Where the advertiser dollar goes, so goes the magazine. Media buyers can be quite blatant: __We'd love to give you more ads but your editorial doesn't reflect the environment our clients want to… ]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:24:36 +1200 daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47281#post47281 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47281#post47281 What annoys me about the Listener's direction are the excess of "opinion" columnists. Ralston in particular is superfluous. If they want irritable-Auckland-greybeard they've already got Hamish Keith.

The Listener's Auckland focus overall is same ole same ole for any Auckland-based rag (that seems to be another "given", Steve – that…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:05:51 +1200 Steve Withers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47187#post47187 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47187#post47187 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:52:16 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47184#post47184 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47184#post47184

"Mama's got a brand new bag – yeah..."

Thank you – a thousand thank yous for this one Gabor. Peter Cook was always peerless but here Dudley matches him to the point that it seems just for a flicker Cook nearly cracks up.

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:36:43 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47182#post47182 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47182#post47182

If there really is a culture of spin and hype, it is really unreasonable to expect the likes of Macdonald to engage in a little honest self-examination around whether they're perpetrators more than victims?

So your argument is 'first remove the mote from your own eye' and all that, right?…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:22:14 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47181#post47181 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47181#post47181

the real level of income of the poor is staying well ahead of inflation and improves in real terms

Really? I'd be most interested in seeing some relevant data to back up this assertion.

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:07:30 +1200 ali bramwell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47180#post47180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47180#post47180

I wish we could have a Government that encourages and celebrates achievement at all levels, including financial achievement, without taking the majority of this achievement by force to give it to those who feel entitled by right of mere existence.

que? taking by force from a sense of entitlement? you…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:03:01 +1200 Belt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47170#post47170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47170#post47170 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:01:14 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47168#post47168 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47168#post47168 Jackie Clark wrote:

I'm just here to ask Mr F McDonald if he'd please come back to the Listener...

Hear hear, Jackie.

Your comment also raises the question: could John Key be viewed as the Pamela Stirling of New Zealand politics?

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:24:50 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47166#post47166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47166#post47166 I see him very much as the prisoner of a media and business elite that is curiously out of step with New Zealand in 2008 and seem stuck in the last century. The ideological isolation of our business and financial elites from the mainstream realities of the consequences of… ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:42:03 +1200 Pietro --- https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47160#post47160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47160#post47160 Godwin's Law has immunised me against such antics. ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:01:10 +1200 Gabor Toth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47158#post47158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47158#post47158

Now, the etymological dynamics of the verb “to groove” are more complex than might be assumed at first glance....

Which segways nicely to Pete and Dud and one of their greatest skits of all time.

"Mama's got a brand new bag – yeah..."

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:51:46 +1200 Steve Reeves https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47156#post47156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47156#post47156 This from Polly Toynbee in The Guardian seems to have some resonances with this discussion---I don't think Labour are (yet?) at the relevant point, but the wolf tactics for National seem familiar. ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:02:10 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47152#post47152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47152#post47152 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:07:38 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47148#post47148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47148#post47148 journalism isn't two-minute noodles,I think there is a bumper sticker in that. Craig.Yet again, poetry! ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:53:54 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47146#post47146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47146#post47146

I can't argue with what you've said but I offer the following prediction:
The Global Economy will sink further into the mire (another crisis?) by election time and the NZ electorate will get cold feet. "Better not to switch horses mid stream" they say (no Yoda jokes please). Labour will…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:49:31 +1200 Quardle Oodle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47144#post47144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47144#post47144 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:46:48 +1200 ali bramwell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47139#post47139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47139#post47139 vacuous is a good descriptor.

adopting a political persona who is as inoffensive as possible, mouthing populist platitudes or 'genial waffle' as someone put is earlier seems to be part of a strategy of hanging back and hoping Labour will hang itself. All opposition parties have the luxury of waiting…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:59:14 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47136#post47136 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47136#post47136 But to be fair, I Macdonald wrote a column a few months back containing a modest proposal that would lift the quality of political journalism in this country by a considerable margin.

Finlay's prescription for recruiting and retaining skilled and experienced journos was elegantly simple: **Better pay and conditions that…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:31:00 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47133#post47133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47133#post47133

Craig: Funny to hear you spending so much energy shooting the messenger and so little on debating the possibility that the vacuous nature of John Key's image should be considered.

Ian: I think there's plenty of vacuity, egregious spin and outright deception to go round. In a weird way, I…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:04:38 +1200 InternationalObserver https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47132#post47132 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47132#post47132 More than anything Key's political star has risen at the expense of Helen Clark's. Rightly or wrongly, she is perceived by enough voters now as the figurehead not only of a certain party, but of a style of politics – interfering, overbearing, feminist, socialist, politically correct, the nanny state embodied.… ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:58:40 +1200 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47129#post47129 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47129#post47129 Craig: Funny to hear you spending so much energy shooting the messenger and so little on debating the possibility that the vacuous nature of John Key's image should be considered.
Some interesting stuff thankyou Finlay, and not really tongue in cheek.

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:39:39 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47108#post47108 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47108#post47108

There will come a time soon when he needs to stop being 'all things to all men' and actually believe in something that people can grab hold of.

Well, wait a mo' Andrew — both Clark and Key gave speeches at the start of the political year. I wasn't excessively…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:38:22 +1200 Andrew Smith https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47106#post47106 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47106#post47106 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:24:38 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47098#post47098 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47098#post47098

Much of National's support derives from anger at Labour, not support for National. For the past two years various right wing third parties have conducted campaigns straight from the Republican Party handbook designed to wedge blue-collar voters from the parties that represent their best interests.

And perhaps the plebs and…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:41:49 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47096#post47096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47096#post47096 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:11:59 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47094#post47094 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47094#post47094

I'd imagine his only option would be, if he found them abhorrent enough, would be to not write for the newspaper at all.

Well, far be it from me to suggest that Finlay become a kept man. I just think there's a little intellectual dishonesty in the room when anyone…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:04:31 +1200 Eric Olthwaite https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47091#post47091 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47091#post47091

I look forward to the day when he likens them to the Israelites escaping captivity in a latter-day Egypt – with the subtle implication that he might be just the modern Moses to lead them home, parting the Tasman’s waters in the process.

Moses didn't lead the Israelites home, he…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:22 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47090#post47090 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47090#post47090 I've never been a columnist for a newspaper, but I'd imagine that MacDonald has no control over what other people write for that newspaper, or what they write in it.

I'd imagine his only option would be, if he found them abhorrent enough, would be to not write for the…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:47:30 +1200 Gareth Ward https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47088#post47088 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47088#post47088 I'm a pro-market business person. I like capitalism, and I think it can do a lot of good. I'd be prepared to vote for the Nats if they were to simplify tax and employment paperwork so it was easier to run a business, improve the quality of schools and universities… ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:40:06 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47087#post47087 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47087#post47087 It's not really confusing at all. If anyone wants to point at the elevation of style over substance – and the consequent degradation of political discourse — perhaps Mr. Macdonald could go light on the crass Nazi dog-whistling and turn a little of his bile on his employer.

I'd personally…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:38:55 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47084#post47084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47084#post47084 Paul: I fully agree. If you can't extract the simple numbers needed to pay your taxes, then your business is financially out of control.

The US is supposed to be a land of fiscal freedom, but their system is far more complicated – city, state and federal government all have…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:33:36 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47083#post47083 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47083#post47083 groove is a term of art in music. You can adjust it in some sequencers – though us trance heads leave that stuff alone, mostly. ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:30:22 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47081#post47081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47081#post47081 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:17:59 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47072#post47072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47072#post47072

It's become a spooge rag for the National Party

Thanks for that vivid image, Nat. Perhaps Russell and Fiona can give us some housekeeping tips on how they prevent Tory semen staining their pristine prose.

Meanwhile, I was fascinated to read "It is based on a series of columns written…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:04:35 +1200 Steve Withers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47071#post47071 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47071#post47071 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:00:50 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47068#post47068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47068#post47068 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:41:06 +1200 Annabel McAleer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47066#post47066 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47066#post47066 Paraphrasing John Key speaking at the launch of Green Carbon: "Climate change isn't a political issue. Its up to individuals to change. If we all changed our lightbulbs to CFLs we would never need to fire up the Huntly power station."

For one, that's not actually true. And if that's…

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:33:11 +1200 Nat Torkington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47058#post47058 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47058#post47058 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:03:24 +1200 Nat Torkington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47053#post47053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47053#post47053 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:01:00 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47049#post47049 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47049#post47049 This is bollix, has nothing whatsoever to do with science communication and is just an example of how low even our science centres will go to be patsies for the government in order to keep the grant dollars flowing. It does you no credit to report it when it is… ]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:55:53 +1200 KevinHicks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47043#post47043 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47043#post47043 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:30:54 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47025#post47025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47025#post47025

In case you hadn't picked up on this already, the title of my speech tonight is firmly tongue in cheek.

National Socialism, Finlay? Oh dear...

]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:36:54 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47024#post47024 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-audacity-of-hype-john-key-and/?p=47024#post47024 Discussion from blog post.

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