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...Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe. The net, accompanied by a faint scowl, made Clark seem severe; the hard hat, by comparison, gives...
...neck and neck in the polls in a two-horse race with a revitalized National, under the leadership of political novice Don Brash, a former governor of the country's Reserve Bank. Are people ungrateful, or has Labour reached its use-by date? It may simply be that New Zealand politics is becoming a more unpredictable game or, as Deputy P.M. and Finance Minister Michael Cullen argues, that Kiwis now expect a larger pay-off after the hard years of restructuring: "'Where's my dividend?' people say. Well, we need to move along a steady path and not blow...
...board, with a plan that would see 85% of taxpayers charged a marginal rate of 19? in the dollar or less. Despite the output and jobs growth, real earnings have remained flat for the past five years. It's opened up a 30% income gap between Australia and New Zealand - and sent a large number of skilled Kiwis across the Tasman for good in search of career opportunities and higher earnings...
...Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child," says Kightley. "If you look at the statistics, the saddest kids in New Zealand are the brown ones. They are at the wrong end of too many indicators. That tells me we need to improve things from the bottom up. Doesn't that lift everyone?" Despite strong job growth, unemployment rates for Maori and Pacific Islanders are way above national averages; one-third of Maori children...
...National Finance spokesman. The millionaire Key, a former financial markets wizard, grew up in public housing in Christchurch, went to university, found a place as a money trader and made a pile as he jumped from job to job and city to city. He returned to New Zealand to take a shot at winning the seat of Helensville, west of Auckland, in 2002. Behind the wheel of a musty camper van emblazoned with his smiling face, the personable Key is talking about the quirks of his rural electorate by the sea, with its mix of farmers, retirees, Auckland workers...