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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... positive and a drag on growth, as in Japan's lost decade. And it increases the real burden of debt.Don Brash, speaking in the late 1990s, described the danger in this way:"Falling prices that locked economies into a downward spiral in which shrinking demand and deepening pessimism led to sharply increased unemployment and serious banking difficulties. This could be associated with a sharp...
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whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
“..Key has never pretended to put personal feelings above political management decisions. When ousting former leader Don Brash, he wouldn’t consent to Brash’s request to remain with the financial portfolio. Brash doubled the number of National MPs and came within a seat of becoming Prime Minister at the previous election.. ..and would have expected the request to [...]
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... he suspended Mr Williamson from caucus.That lonely life on the back benches continued until Don Brash took over the leadership from Mr English, and Mr Williamson was reinstated.He was given back his old stamping ground and became National's transport spokesman with a front bench ranking.But he was in hot water again during the campaign, when he talked about road tolls under National that...
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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
A National-ACT coalition? Are you kidding me? Who would’ve thought there were so many angry white people in NZ? I can not believe so many of my fellow citizens were conned with the ‘change’ mantra, compare Key’s shadow cabinet with Brash’s shadow cabinet and the only ‘change’ is that Don Brash and Katherine Rich aren’t in it, that’s not change, it’s the same shit sandwich wrapped up in...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Ms Collins refused to give examples of politicisation yesterday, but former National leader Don Brash was critical of cases not being pursued against outgoing Prime Minister Helen Clark for forgery over Paintergate, former Minister David Benson-Pope over allegations of assaulting students and Labour for paying for its pledge card with taxpayer money.
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... not be using the deepening recession as a reason for rekindling the Ruth Richardson-Jenny Shipley-Don Brash brand of orthodox economic policy - even though Act is on board to give a helping hand. Even if he was interested - which he isn't - Key will have enough on his plate simply dealing with the impact of economic crisis.
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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Has it struck anyone else as odd that John Key has been singing that he is ‘Change! Change! Change!’ – Let’s think about that, compare Don Brash’s last National Party Shadow Cabinet, and the ONLY difference between that one and John Key’s Shadow Cabinet is that Don Brash and Katherine Rich isn’t in this one, other than that they are the exact same bloody Shadow Cabinet – isn’t John Key...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... my doubts many voters would have cared.Indeed, but for the extremism of National's former leader, Don Brash, National might well be celebrating a second-term victory this week. It's easy to forget that back in 2005, Labour only narrowly pipped National to become the single largest party.It was the Herald-DigiPoll survey of August 2006 which first signalled the fickleness of the voters. It...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... credit crisis hit after Prefu was prepared, and former National leader and Reserve Bank governor Don Brash said he had long held the view that the numbers were going to be bad. Key did not have the option of doing nothing.There was some expectation that things would have to be done to respond to the financial crisis, and possibly this side of Christmas."This is not the time to drastically...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... close election against the National Party Opposition that was then led by former central banker Don Brash. Since then the National Party has jettisoned the straight-talking, and perhaps too blunt, Brash for former investment banker John Key. In many ways Key is something of a David Cameron clone, though with bits of Malcolm Turnbull thrown in. Key is notably to the left of Brash...
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Mulholland Drive (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... after the Palin Biden debate. The media want you to believe she has been a terrible choice (it's Don Brash all over again), but I maintain that, while a little green, she was the best choice McCain could make. What is obvious, however, is that her lack of foreign policy nous is much more than a hostile media's spin, but a glaring handicap to her aspirations. When your staff don't even know...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... progress borne out of both conflict and co-operation. Following the incredible support for Don Brash after his "Orewa speech", many Maori came to the conclusion that they could not put their trust in "Pakeha" vehicles. Galvanised by the Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi on Parliament, the Maori Party was born.Tariana Turia and her colleagues have conducted themselves with dignity while staying...
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Bill Ralston interviewed Don Brash a couple of nights ago on the back of news that the US Federal Reserve has essentially given NZ's Reserve bank a 'letter of credit' for up to US$15 billion , apparently to help America's " liquidity trap " by distributing credit more widely to so called "emerging countries" like ours to assuage our potential inability to draw down foreign currency reserves...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
History repeats - but not quite. John Key has been blindsided by something from his past. It has happened at the exact same stage of the election campaign that Don Brash came a cropper in 2005 - nine days out from polling day when...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... in failing to land a really damaging hit on Key in the way it could on true free marketeers like Don Brash and Jenny Shipley.The centrist Key is a far more difficult political animal to demonise.And even more so when he out-Labour's Labour as he did yesterday with National's transitional relief package for those laid off in the deepening recession. By giving extra assistance to those getting...
