You can get away with being the first white bloke to win an electorate – but don’t try making a joke about it
No news to pass on from the Beehive website today, sorry. But we have noted how quickly political reporters can swarm – and inflict their sting – after one of them was alerted to something a newly elected MP had said on Election Day.
The result has been a spate of reports which have taken at least some of the media’s focus away from the coalition negotiations and on to happenings in the Upper Harbour Electorate several weeks ago.
