Dim-Post on McCully
The satirical Dim-Post having fun: Foreign Minister Murray McCully has vowed to fight a decision by the Liquor Licensing Authority to ban his office from selling or serving alcohol for up to five days....
View ArticleMFAT
Two good articles on MFAT and NZ Aid. Fran O’Sullivan has a look at MFAT and what the (yet to be announced) appointment of John Allen means. Fran says: The commission’s panel was encouraged to look at...
View ArticleSpend aid money on aid
The Herald report: Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has been accused of acting vindictively towards overseas aid agencies which criticised his changes to the direction of the aid programme...
View ArticleA thaw with Fiji
The Dom-Post reports: New Zealand’s influence in the Pacific region country had been “chiselled away” to the point that “the viability of our operations was under threat”, Mr McCully said yesterday....
View ArticleAnonymous smears
One of the anonymous authors at The Standard tried yesterday to smear Murray McCully over, well doing the right thing. In a post they filed under the “corruption” category, they revealed that Murray...
View ArticleLabour on Burma
Labour seem to have multiple spokespersons and policies on engagement with Burma. The Dom Post reports: Three government officials from Myanmar’s repressive military regime are studying English in New...
View ArticleCouncil for International Development
No Right Turn blogs: The Council for International Development is an umbrella organisation for aid groups operating from New Zealand. Last year, it criticised the government’s disestablishment of NZAID...
View ArticleDim Post on McCully and China
Superb as usual: Foreign Minister Murray McCully has been severely reprimanded by Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin for exercising poor judgement when using his Ministerial credit card, the Chinese...
View ArticleBye Bye Andy
The Herald reports: Now, on the same programme, he has this week commented on historic sex allegations against former All Black Robin Brooke, made by two unnamed women, one of whom subsequently laid a...
View ArticleThe whining Bethune
Before I deal to the latest whines from Bethune, first I’ll share this document which a reader sent to me. SS Application Ady Gil Note Paragraph 11 which states: 11. The Ady Gill must not interfere...
View ArticleQuote of the Week
The NZ Herald reports on the Pacific Forum: McCully has been up to his elbows in the detail of organisation, making Helen Clarks’ micro-management style look like neglect. Heh that is such a great...
View ArticleGovt takes over Auckland waterfront
Stuff reports: The Government will use special powers under Rugby World Cup legislation to take control of the Auckland waterfront set aside for the celebrations during the tournament. Rugby World Cup...
View ArticleMcCully not the Supreme Commander
Dean Knight at Laws179 blogs on the legal situation around the waterfront: Much has been made of Murray McCully’s so-called “nationalisation” of the waterfront for RWC party central, through the...
View ArticleThe McCully e-mails exposed
Cactus Kate has an exclusive sampling of the hacked e-mails to and from Murray McCully. Tags: Humour, Murray McCully
View ArticleThe McCully e-mails on 3 News
3 News is fast becoming the place to go with secret or illegal material. The secret recordings in 2008, the secret taping in 2011 and now the McCully hacked e-mails. The e-mails that appeared on 3 News...
View ArticleDiplomatic appointments
Michael Field in the SST writes: Women are rapidly disappearing from the frontline of New Zealand’s diplomatic service, with Foreign Minister Murray McCully overseeing a halving in the number of...
View ArticleMeurant v McCully
Stuff reports: Controversial Kiwi businessman and former cop Ross Meurant has come out swinging at proposals by Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully to make it easier for New Zealand to ignore the...
View ArticleUnintentionally hilarious
John Armstrong writes in the NZ Herald: To the list of credibility-deficient statements like “the cheque is in the mail” and “your table will be ready in a few minutes” you can now add “Murray McCully...
View ArticleRidiculous criticism
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn blogs: Why are we paying for Murray McCully to stay in hotels in Auckland? According to his latest Ministerial credit card receipts [PDF, p. 12], we paid for McCully to...
View ArticleCaption contest
Captions below. As always, funny not nasty. Tags: caption contest, Murray McCully
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