Kate Hawkesby

Why wouldn't you want to balance that ledger?

You made my Friday, Murray.

Well done.

Appreciate it very much.

Murray Edrich, who's the Wellington City Missioner and clearly a good bloke.

You'll note the usual laziness on the television news last night.

They found one advocate.

who was standing on the footpath with the same person just wandering seemingly aimlessly around the footpath, talking about how miserable it was, how it was broken, how it wouldn't work, how it was a disaster.

And that, if you don't know how this thing works, is newsrooms ring up a union and they go, we want somebody to comment.

When they ring up a union to say we want somebody to comment, what they want is somebody to comment negatively.

And so the same woman stood on the same corner and got filmed by two different television networks to say the same thing twice because they couldn't be bothered finding their own people.

Ten minutes past seven.

Very good week for New Zealand Inc.

Export numbers last month.

You ready for those?

We sold the world $8.6 billion worth of stuff in April alone, which is up $943 million, 12% year-on-year.

Meat's up 26%.

The US has taken a big chunk of that $344 million worth of beef, which is up 54%, for goodness sake.

Anyway, Nathan Guy is our special agricultural trade envoy.

He's on the road.