When asked if he would now consider local government and a run at the mayoralty, Smith said he enjoyed what could be achieved in politics.
“But there’s also a part of it, with the leaks and the secret recordings and that nasty stuff, that occurs in both Parliament and local elections that doesn’t make it very attractive, so I’m not giving any consideration to a further career in politics.”
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Winston Peter’s heckler voided his free speech rights the moment he put the company lanyard around his neck.
Dispatches from the edge of a temporarily unbalanced Aussie mind.
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Ricky Jefferies, whose business neighbours the MP’s office, heard a loud bang just after 3:30pm yesterday when Ms Haines was critically injured.
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
