Luxon’s smooth landing in Queenstown

Luxon’s smooth landing in Queenstown
Familiar territory: Christopher Luxon went down well with Queenstown business leaders. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
Queenstown’s Chamber of Commerce was the perfect audience for shiny new National Party leader Christopher Luxon to show off his wares.He knew these people from his time as a high-flyer at Air New Zealand, feeding them an increasingly diverse diet of international visitors through the better part of the 2010s to help tourism become the country’s biggest sector, and reminisced on working with them in his old role when it didn’t matter which government was in power: “We were all marching together.”From the get-go, Lux...

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