I picked up the Dominion-Post newspaper from the front step this morning to find this blaring back at me.
The second page was entirely green, with a little Kiwibank logo and the twee marketing line “Kiwis backing Kiwis”. (I guess advertising must have been more expensive in the Herald, where it is “just” wrapped round the sports section).
Rarely had I ever been more glad that I’d never been tempted to shift my banking business to the state-owned Kiwibank. The crude nationalism on display today was at possibly an even more inane level than the last such NZ-owned bank’s advertising campaign I wrote about
That one was on display at the heart of New Zealand’s “globalist-central” (if there were such a place), just over the road from the New Zealand Initiative, and a few hundred metres from places like MFAT, MBIE and The Treasury. If it had any merit…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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