Prime Minister John Key got wide media coverage today for bringing us back Dames and Knights.
The story remains the NZ Herald's TOP NEWS STORY as late as 8 p.m. on Sunday http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10560600 which is a pretty good PR success story given some of the other news today!
While the Government was over recent days and weeks working really hard to get everything ready and prepared for its big annoucement, its big PR success for the day, New Zealand itself was apparently getting dealt a massive kick in the guts on the economic front according to the www.stuff.co.nz website.
Stuff is reporting that the United States has halted the talks with New Zealand started by the previous government aimed at lowering America's unfair barriers on our exports to the U.S.
If this Stuff news story is correct, and there has been a suspension of the Trans Pacific Partnership talks, then that raises some very serious questions about what is going in the offices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
If Stuff is correct, then that is a blow to our aspirations to raise our living standards in the years ahead. If Stuff is correct, that that raises the question of What on earth is going on with the Minister?
The Minister's his main public statements in recent weeks have been about the foreign aid budget and NZAid - a pet hobby of his.
But why wasn't he in America on the public offensive - appealing to American people's hearts and minds, via TV if necessary, defending the lowering of unfair trade barriers - particularly at a time of global economic recession or depression? It doesn't make any sense. Perhaps the Stuff story is wrong, and perhaps that's why NZ Herald isn't reporting it, let's hope so.
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