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July 25, 2023 11:00am by David Farrar

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The Herald has a lengthy profile of Christopher Luxon. Well worth taking the time to read.

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Grumpy Silver Haired Female

I agree, about time.
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July 25, 2023 11:02am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Media release they were sold a pup, sucking up for funding that maybe shut right after the election
  
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  July 25, 2023 2:19pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    One can only hope that ACT/National don’t get sucked in to keeping the troughs filled by a bit of belated favorable press and some wining and dining later in the year.
    
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    July 25, 2023 3:17pm
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Note: pay walled
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July 25, 2023 11:21am
- fredonas
  
  [Mod – the herald have chosen to paywall this article, we do not allow posts showing how to bypass that]
  
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  July 25, 2023 12:55pm
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Then why bother posting the link if we can’t read it, and you don’t even mention it’s pay-walled? Talk about click-bait, is DPF under contract to boost Horrid revenue?
    
    I’ll never give them a penny!
    
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    July 25, 2023 10:21pm
- kiwi_chileno
  
  [Mod – the herald have chosen to paywall this article, we do not allow posts showing how to bypass that]
  
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  July 25, 2023 12:59pm
Captain Mainwaring

Not going to pay the Harold to read it.
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July 25, 2023 11:24am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Good decision Captain. I salute you.
  
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  July 25, 2023 11:32am
Jack5

…Well worth taking the time to read …

But is it worth subscribing to the Herald?
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July 25, 2023 11:41am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Jack5 – NO.
  
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  July 25, 2023 1:27pm
The Redbaiter

Here are some excerpts from the article that I thought were significant. Some are comments by wife Amanda-

“Luxon devours biographies of world leaders, looking for insights on developing his leadership skills and personal productivity. He is an avid consumer of self-help books.”

“They have a genuine commitment to social justice, she (Amanda) says, that stems from a recognition they have been “really lucky in life” and should use their advantages to “improve the lives of other people with it”. ”

“Would he have worked for, say, a tobacco or mining company? A Wall Street bank? A private equity firm?

“No, no, no, I could never do that, no. I think businesses have a role to play in society to strengthen the society they’re part of. They can’t just be extractive and take from society. They have to be able to give something back.” ”

“By now, Luxon was nearly 40 and had been out of New Zealand for about 15 years. William and Olivia were approaching secondary school age. Luxon and Amanda wanted them to know what it was like to live Down Under. They were uneasy about sending them to high schools in New York.

“A lot of our values didn’t necessarily align with the American values,” Amanda says. “We wanted our children to be less self-centred, basically, than what the American culture produces. And we could see that secondary school was going to take them in a very different route than what we wanted them to go in.” ”

“She describes his thought process: “‘I’ve got this really unique set of skills and abilities which I’ve spent years developing and crafting. I understand the world. I understand problems. I’m really good at problem-solving, sorting things out. I’m really good at leadership. I’m really good at all of these things. So, the best thing for me to do with that is use them to help solve problems for other people.” “
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July 25, 2023 12:04pm
- fredonas
  
  Also
  “It’s great. It’s good. It’s really good,” he says when the journalist asks if he’s enjoying being on the road. “I’m loving it. Absolutely loving it.”
  This gave me a chill as that’s what Judith said before she cratered on election day.
  Luxon’s main problem is that his good qualities might not resonate with voters especially given the leftist and MSM smear tactics on his wealth and religious views.
  
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  July 25, 2023 12:58pm
- Matt Long
  
  “Would he have worked for, say, a tobacco or mining company? A Wall Street bank? A private equity firm?
  
  “No, no, no, I could never do that, no. I think businesses have a role to play in society to strengthen the society they’re part of. They can’t just be extractive and take from society. They have to be able to give something back.” ”
  Mining is exploiting society? Mining enables society to function at a high level instead of a stone age level. Assuming you are ok with mining rocks, if you’re not, you belong in a society that doesn’t use stones either. Modern virtue signalling is so stupid it defies belief.
  
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  July 25, 2023 1:21pm
  - Spam
    
    Agreed. Nothing wrong with mining – and that includes mining for oil & gas.
    
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    July 25, 2023 1:41pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      And includes mining for cobalt, lithium and all other rare earth mineral used in all aspects of “Green” energy – (which is a crock of shit BTW)
      Without steel how are we going to make electric cars & trucks? Without aluminium & titanium how are we going to make aircraft? Without oil, how can we make carbon fibre?
      All this nonsense is hugely exaggerated, and will plunge us back into the stone age.
      
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      July 25, 2023 1:56pm
  - Sir Henry Morgan
    
    Indeed. Also not quite sure what is wrong with banks? Or with firms that invest?
    
    Luxon is either completely moronic or a massive hypocrite, or likely both – he does seem a high achieving type.
    
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    July 25, 2023 2:19pm
- Grunter
  
  “They have a genuine commitment to social justice, she (Amanda) says, that stems from a recognition they have been “really lucky in life” and should use their advantages to “improve the lives of other people with it”. ”
  = Patronising, self righteous, virtue signalling
  
  “Would he have worked for, say, a tobacco or mining company? A Wall Street bank? A private equity firm?” – “No, no, no,…..”
  = WFT? Maybe he should be leading The Greens? What’s wrong with mining, banking and private equity….? Tabacco vs some of the Unilever products…?
  
  “‘I’ve got this really unique set of skills and abilities which I’ve spent years developing and crafting. I understand the world. I understand problems. I’m really good at problem-solving, sorting things out.”
  – So please explain, rationally, with actual data your crappy climate change views/beliefs!!
  
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  July 25, 2023 1:48pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Luxon doesn’t impress me in the least…and all this SJW shit just makes him less impressive.
    
    How the fuck can we on the right favour or even approve of someone whose biggest achievement – or at least one of them – was employing more gays at Air NZ? Don’t get me wrong – it doesn’t worry me in the least that some Air NZ cabin crew are camp as a row of tents…but why boast of employing more of them?
    
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    July 25, 2023 2:28pm
    - KiwiSapper
      
      I have no problem as regards him “employing them”…not that he would have, the H.R. Department would have done that.
      It’s the “boasting” which I find offensive and to me, it just shows how woke saturated he actually is. So, as we need less wokism , not more my decision not to have anything to do with him just becomes more entrenched.
      
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      July 25, 2023 3:02pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Kiwi: Well said – of course it was HR that did the hiring…but as CEO Luxon would have been “across” as the current vernacular has it, all major Air NZ policies….including increasing “diversity”…
        Fuck how I hate that utterly stupid word!
        
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        July 25, 2023 3:23pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Let me guess, you hav a problem with that, and would rather the complete opposite that is the train n smash Hipkins
  
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  July 25, 2023 2:22pm
  - plc
    
    “Would he have worked for, say, a tobacco or mining company? A Wall Street bank? A private equity firm?
    
    “No, no, no, I could never do that, no. I think businesses have a role to play in society to strengthen the society they’re part of. They can’t just be extractive and take from society. They have to be able to give something back.” ”
    
    Yes, I have real problems with that view.
    
    It shows an underlying absence of understanding civilisation’s progress.
    
    The value of resources, the value of capital etc.
    
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    July 25, 2023 2:55pm
- ISeeRed
  
  Thanks. That brought up my lunch. Luxon is no leader, just a timid follower of the latest woke trends and official narratives. A truly sickening lack of balls and backbone.
  
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  July 25, 2023 3:32pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Sounds like it was actually an interview with Luxon’s wife, based on these excerpts. I’m interested to know about Luxon, not what his wife thinks of him.
  
  However, the quote below shows he doesn’t understand business at all, and will struggle to get votes from those swinging between National and ACT. I’ve voted ACT the last two elections and will do so again.
  
  When asked if he could ever work for big tobacco or a mining company, say, he said:
  
  “No, no, no, I could never do that, no. I think businesses have a role to play in society to strengthen the society they’re part of. They can’t just be extractive and take from society. They have to be able to give something back.” ”
  
  Big tobacco makes a product that is legal, and attracts massive revenue for the government through excise and duty, as well as GST. Big tobacco employs thousands of people, who earn wages and salaries to pay for things, and pay tax and ACC. How is that “extractive”?
  
  Similarly with mines, he’s basically saying he’d shut down what remains of our mining industry, and would no doubt continue to import thousands of tons of dirty Indonesian coal to keep the lights on. Anything dug up out of the ground is “extractive” but it doesn’t mean the business enterprise itself is extractive. Every business contributes to the economy, both on a macro and micro level.
  
  Luxon really is a useless corporate shill, desperate to be liked by everyone and with values and principles that change with the wind. Labour, but less incompetent. No thank you.
  
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  July 25, 2023 10:29pm
Che Guava

“Luxon devours biographies of world leaders, looking for insights on developing his leadership skills and personal productivity. He is an avid consumer of self-help books.”

Which world leaders, I wonder? The likes of Obama, Teresa May and Trudeau, probably. On the level of a All Black’s biography in terms of valuable insight and philosophical illumination.

And why on earth is a supposed Christian an avid consumer of self-help books? Hasn’t he heard about the Bible? Self-help books are generally read by atheists and materialists who think that difficulties and personal struggles are a bug not a feature of the human condition.
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July 25, 2023 12:58pm
- Ghost
  
  Well Barry recommends Jacinda’s upcoming book, I’d agree with him
  
  Dame Jacinda Ardern was perplexed, after quitting the Prime Minister’s job in January, when she was asked to write a book, which will probably be worth more to her than her five years as leader.…
  
  Someone suggested to her she should write it about leadership and she liked the idea and that’s what we’re going to get in the bookstores some time in the future.
  
  It should be compulsory reading for all aspiring MPs, essentially so they can avoid the sort of leadership she’ll be writing about. Her five years at the top were a disaster, showing how ill-equipped she was for the job.
  
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  July 25, 2023 1:14pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I have heard him mention world leaders he has studied before, most were righties, Clinton I think was the only leftie president, all the British were righties, and a mature of European left and right, and a mainly right side in Aussie
  
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  July 25, 2023 2:25pm
  - Che Guava
    
    Well, yeah, a “righty” to me is more Julius Caesar or Bismarck, rather than the Bushes or Thatcher.
    
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    July 25, 2023 3:15pm
    - The Redbaiter
      
      Che Guava- “Which world leaders, I wonder?”
      
      When Maureen Pugh went off the plantation and demanded James Shaw produce evidence to prove mankind was having a serious effect on the climate, Luxon recommended that “she do some reading”.
      
      On TV One’s Breakfast show he listed the authors of the books he had recommended she should read. Here is the list of those authors-
      
      Sir Robert Fenwick- started the Progressive Green Party, a splinter group of the NZ Green Party in 1996. In 1998, founded the BlueGreens, a green/left policy group within the National party.
      
      Sir Jonathon Porritt- is a British environmentalist and was chair of The UK Green Party from 1979 to 1980, and from 1982 to 1984.
      
      Simon Upton- Life long UN trougher & initiator of the Resource Management Act, a regulation that has caused untold damage to NZ’s economy and cost us billions in overseas investment
      
      He also suggested she read the IPPC report.
      
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      July 25, 2023 6:12pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Interesting selection. And when I say interesting, I mean not interesting at all.
        
        I had in mind titles like Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments or Blood and Iron: The Origin of German Empire as Revealed by the Character of Its Founder, Bismarck and these sorts of titles.
        
        If you’re a politician, I would have thought you would want to find out as much as possible about what makes a great statesman a great statesman.
        
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        July 25, 2023 7:08pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

I am sure none of us are missing Cindy’s 90 degree face tilts, frowning face and the dumb looks when complex questions were asked…..
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July 25, 2023 1:28pm
Agricola

Dpf please stop linking to paywalled items in the Herald. As a former employee and now irritable apostate of the fourth estate I have no wish to reward these scoundrels, and you really shouldn’t be acting as go-between.
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July 25, 2023 1:34pm
crikey

Please, DPF and others, if you’re posting a link to a paywalled article do the decent thing and say it is paywalled so that those of us who don’t (want to) subscribe don’t waste our time.
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July 25, 2023 1:43pm
KH

I quite like Mr Luxon. National Party policy less so.
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July 25, 2023 2:11pm
- David Garrett
  
  KH: Do tell us what you “quite like” about him…Nothing about him impresses me, quite the contrary.
  
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  July 25, 2023 2:35pm
  - KH
    
    Good communicator. You can see what he thinks. And smart.
    And have you noticed? – he has hardened up in just months as he learns the realities of politics. So a learner.
    
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    July 25, 2023 2:40pm
  - KH
    
    As for Nat policy it ‘seems’ disappointing. But but, maybe they are trying not to scare the slightly lefty away, and they probably need those votes.
    I (and we?) would like them to be more hard line, but perhaps the softly approach is wiser with the voter realities.
    
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    July 25, 2023 2:44pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      I’ve heard all this before. “Don’t worry” they said, “John Key is a free market capitalist right winger who is just saying what needs to be said to win the election.” 9 years later and aside from some red-tape busting in the first few months what did we have to show for it? – an expanded WFF scheme!
      
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      July 25, 2023 3:28pm
  - The Veteran
    
    Each to his own Mr Garrett. I see that St Roger of Douglas is so disillusioned with ACT’s drive towards populism that he now self describes himself as a ‘floating voter’.
    
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    July 25, 2023 3:28pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Veteran: Is that so? I count Roger among my friends…but sadly back in the day I often found myself questioning his political judgment – most notably his Macchiavelian scheme to replace Rodney Hide as leader, first with Heather Roy – who would have been a disaster – and then with Boscawen, who for quite different reasons would also have been a disaster.
      
      For myself, I don’t see ACT as being particularly “populist”…I know Roger always saw Seymour’s assisted dying law as nothing more than a gimmick…and I disagree with him on that; on the contrary I see it as one of Seymour’s best achievements.
      
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      July 25, 2023 3:56pm
- stewmar
  
  I quite like Mr Luxon and National Party policies.
  
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  July 25, 2023 2:38pm
CAKE FACE1

“Would he have worked for, say, a tobacco or mining company? A Wall Street bank?
“No, no, no, I could never do that, no. I think businesses have a role to play in society to strengthen the society they’re part of. They can’t just be extractive and take from society. They have to be able to give something back.”

Under communism, Chairman Mao or Joseph Stalin allocate resources. e.g. Great Leap Forward China. Mao sends one billion peasants to collectivised farms. 50 million die of starvation.

Under liberal democracy and capitalism, banks facilitate resource allocation. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics for his paper that proved – ”No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.”

To describe banks as “extractive and take from society” is so stupid, it simply defies belief. The alternative to banks is totalitarian regimes allocating resources, which leads to mass death.

I think I have now lost all respect for Mr Luxon. He is obviously completely clueless about basic economics.
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July 25, 2023 4:03pm
- Matt Long
  
  His words may have been misrepresented by the journalist, I certainly hope so.
  
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  July 25, 2023 4:22pm
  - kevn
    
    Matt… Every chance of that, a slanted interview/edited result by msm superiors. That would be their end game, being sort of/mostly accurate.
    
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    July 25, 2023 6:53pm
coge

No no no. I’d never do that!! When Luxon was totally happy with supporting Ardern’s 2022 covid doctrine. Of state enforced dehumanisation, general segregation, and economic persecution. None of which belongs here in NZ.
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July 25, 2023 6:24pm
JimBobJoe

Wouldn’t work for Big Tabacco.

What an idiot Chris Luxon.

Who is your campaign manager? Why I think that is Mr Bishop from Hutt South.

Who did Mister Bishop work for at one time? Why that would be Big Tabacco!!! …… “he worked as a lobbyist for the tobacco company Philip Morris” as per Wikipedia work history…

Seriously. It was a setup question and Luxon walked right in and gave them the sound bite they wanted.

Labour and Greens supporters only prod at Bishop with this old job all.the.effing.time…..

Dear Chris Luxon. Think then speak. Recognise trap questions and dont provide fodder for an imploding enemy.
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