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...other side of Auckland, Detective Sergeant James Watson has been won over by Key. In a year in which violent crime has risen by 12%, the would-be P.M. has played the tough guy to good effect, winning broad public approval for proposals including boot camp for young offenders and the scrapping of parole for hard-core criminals. "I'm not having, on my watch, people on the streets who've committed heinous crimes," Key told a national television audience. He's also made familiar right-of-center noises on education, foreshadowing national standards for literacy and numeracy, and plain...
...Friday afternoon at Key's alma mater, psychology student Michael Hempseed is rushing off to his part-time supermarket job, while elsewhere on campus a large portion of the student body has begun a raucous, migratory end-of-semester party. The days of universities as hotbeds of political dissent are over - in New Zealand, at least. Generally speaking, the main concerns of today's students are drinking and study - in that order, says Hempseed: "It feels like we're missing out on something." The 23-year-old will be voting Labour for two reasons. One, the economy will need special...
...Key's Springbok tour comments were a sign of political naïvety, then that's all right too, says Frank Williams, who owns an agricultural contracting and cartage business in Cambridge in the Waikato region of the North Island. "Helen Clark is a fantastic politician. You can never take that away from her," says Williams. "She's very good at the political game. But maybe we've had enough of that." Key's learning fast, though - or perhaps his memory's good. Asked in the debate what it meant to be rich, Clark waffled, while Key sounded genuine talking...
...balance is right as it is, says Anne Dickson, a Maori single mother of five in South Auckland. "He's too hard," she says of Key. "Some of us are struggling. Some of us haven't got any skills." Through a government Family Assistance package, Dickson, 26, gets the rent paid on a three-bedroom house and $NZ350 a week in the hand. The money tends to run out by Mondays, two days before she's paid again. But she makes do by cooking stews that can be stretched over a couple of nights. She's grateful for what...
...Some 200 kilometres to the north, in a roadside stall off State Highway 1, Adrianne Rochford contemplates the election while selling crayfish and mussels to passing tourists. "It's a tricky one," says Rochford, who's voted Labour most of her life. Yes, she's heard praise for Key and wouldn't mind seeing him in the Beehive. But she adds: "Who's it going to help?" New Zealanders would have a variety of answers to that question. But in many cases, it's not help exactly that they want. More than anything, come Nov. 8, they're looking...