Over the weekend, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key agreed a sweetheart deal - unwanted refugees for unwanted debt collectors.

 Hey, John Key, David Shearer, et al, three years is enough!

The OEMs [Original Equipment Manufacturers] know about your ego.

 National will make hay out of the new unemployment figures released today showing that unemployment has dropped by 0.4 percent on last quarter's figures.

"…the plan to recruit 1,800 volunteers to work at Gleneagles has been branded ‘unacceptable’ by the Scottish TUC [Trades Union Congress}, whose representative Stephen Boyd says he’s sceptical about government claims for £100m economic benefits."

I used to spend time in the historic South Island town of Oamaru when my parents lived there. It's wonderful heritage buildings, coastal views and small town friendliness endeared me to it, even though I was not born there.

Novopay has had it's day!

Government should not review the need to get rid of it - this failed system needs to be scrapped now!

I was wondering what to write in regard to Sir Paul Holmes especially in the wake of his expected passing.

"What is it, this mysterious spray? Human Growth Hormone is converted in the liver to something called IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor. “We have deer that we harvest out in New Zealand,” Key [By the way that's not John Key NZ's Prime Minister] says.

“I was so much in the zone I didn’t feel the rain,” said Josh Munn after scoring a scintillating final round of six-under par 66 and in doing so won the Lake Macquarie international amateur golf championship at Belmont in New South Wales by three shots.