Jane Clifton: Note to self – fewer lists - Politics

Jane Clifton: Note to self – fewer lists

This Government’s many goals make Fifty Shades of Grey look meagre.

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7th July, 2012

There’s beginning to be an air of Bridget Jones’s Diary in the Government’s approach to self-improvement. “Note to self: must lose 5kg, stop wearing nana-pants and ring Mum every week.” John Key’s list of 10 goals released this week – ever “ambitious for New Zealand” – is just the latest outburst of jolly-hockey-sticks must-do-better self-talk. It’s possible most people have forgotten that the Prime Minister has already laid out a six-point Brighter Future plan with 41 “actions” and a 120- point Action Plan; that in the Governor-General’s speech from ...

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