Sniffing the breeze on the next four months

Sniffing the breeze on the next four months
Christopher Luxon at a welcoming ceremony in Bangkok this week amid his ASEAN tour. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
If a week is a long time in politics, then four months – the span between this column and the next from me – is a minor eternity.While swanning about in my first-ever European summer – I never did the big OE – a lot will happen in New Zealand that I will miss.It gets a chap thinking: what will have changed by then? And by how much?Five months into this coalition government, it’s clear that even if setting a Christopher Luxon-style cracking pace, “laddering up” at 4am every day etc, it takes time to impl...

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