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...Should New Zealanders decide to discard their 58-year-old Prime Minister, they will do so largely without relish. Aiming to gauge the nation's mood by traveling the country to speak to men and women from all walks of life, TIME found that while many are fed up with her government, nearly all concede a grudging respect for Clark. "She hasn't dropped a pass," says Stuart Wright, a sheep and potato farmer in Sheffield, west of Christchurch. Like Wright, Ken Arthur, a winegrower in Blenheim at the top of the South Island, wants Labour ousted. But he respects...
...they see as increasingly paternalistic. Something like public outrage erupted in early October over a draft plan requiring that low-pressure shower heads be installed in new homes over a specified size, a trifle in itself but part of a wider narrative broadcast by anti-Clark forces that New Zealand has become a nanny state. It's a perception strongest in rural areas, where many farmers feel suffocated by bureaucracy. Sometimes, their grievances sound more like longing for a bygone era, when farmhands weren't glued to their mobiles and trampers couldn't expect a payout for injuring themselves...
...turn bad news to her advantage: "I have the experience, the judgment and the skill set which can carry our country through what is the worst international financial crisis for more than 70 years," she said in a televised debate with Key on Oct. 14. But many New Zealanders are buying National's line that the Clark government squandered the boom times by granting only a single round of tax cuts in nine years. Consequently, New Zealand's best and brightest are fleeing the country in droves (1 in 4 of its university graduates lives overseas) for places like Australia...
...debate, a panel member explored the idea of Key as a Nowhere Man, the candidate having admitted in an interview that while he was a commerce student at the University of Canterbury, he'd had no strong feelings about the controversial 1981 South African rugby union tour of New Zealand. A radical in her student days, Clark would have enjoyed her opponent's discomfort. But it's hard to believe that voters would seek to punish Key for a bout of indifference nearly 30 years...
...invested heavily in it. They wanted Kingsmill as frontman for two reasons. One was his grasp of the surf industry. For three years from 1999, Kingsmill was general manager of beachculture, a retail chain that grew on his watch from eight to 21 stores in Australia and New Zealand. In 2005, he bought into former ironman Guy Leech's eyewear company Odyssey 20/20, which the pair sold the following year as a market leader...