In search of John Key – One day around 1971, John Key arrived home from school, flopped down his bag and made an announcement: “I’m going to learn to play golf.”
He was about 10, a cheerful but unremarkable pupil at Cobham Intermediate. His family – mother… [NZ Politics]
The Herald has spent months interviewing people about John Key and this week is the first installment. There isn’t anything there in the piece that is bad in fact he strikes me as exactly the type of real Kiwi that we want as a Prime Minister rather than the photo manipulated and hiiden creature we have now.
Next weeks installment should feature a bit from the old man. The Herald interviewed him at length about how Johm Key joined the party and then became a candidate and MP. I look forward to it.
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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