Judith Collins calls for new housing laws.
EDITORIAL: Sir John Key had only been leader of the opposition for two months when he delivered his “A fair go for all” speech at the Burnside Rugby Clubrooms in Christchurch. That was in January 2007, when National under Key was setting a kinder, gentler course after the ideologically pure Don Brash era.
As for Brash, he had been in the job for only three months when he put the sleepy north Auckland suburb of Ōrewa on the map with a speech about “nationhood” in January 2004 that alleged Māori separatism and privilege. It set the tone for the rest of his leadership and, for better or worse, forever shifted his public image from dry economics wonk to incendiary racial commentator.