None so deaf - A central banker hit below the belt

FEATURE - When the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, is stuck in an awkward political corner she has taken to using a cheap rhetorical trick. She has borrowed it from Rob Muldoon. Unable to find anything substantive to say, she resorts to personal attack This article was first published in the Christchurch Press, New Zealand, 2 May.

She did it most recently when the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Don Brash, announced his resignation last week to run for Parliament for the National Party

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