NZ's handbrake
OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.
Your old mate is dubious about whether they are approaching this in truly neutral fashion.
Their first article gets a bit excited about the fact that Feds leader-turned-MP Andrew Hoggard knows other farm industry leaders well and gets along with them.
It then allows Greenpeace director Russell 'give me back my flag' Norman to frame the relationship as sinister: "Basically the lobby groups are in the executive now. Hoggard's there - he is the agribusiness lobby group chief - he's now in Cabinet."
Rusty fails to mention that Steve Abel, a former Greenpeace staffer, is now a Green Party MP, and Eugenie Sage, also of the Greens, was ex Forest & Bird.
Okay, Newsroom, now do the green lobby!
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