(UPDATE) WELLINGTON: Former airline boss Christopher Luxon formally took office as New Zealand s prime minister on Monday, vowing to tame inflation and bring down interest rates.
: The importance of being silly - We can all probably use a bit of levity in our lives right now, and you can t get more absurdly silly than John Oliver in an elaborate bird costume, in his words interfering in an election: New Zealand s contest for Bird of the Century. YouTube Video His choice, the water bird p?teketeke, did in fact win, and in a landslide. After all, this is what democracy is all about, Oliver said about his campaign. America interfering in foreign elections.