Our farmers are possibly the last Kiwis who still have the gumption to stand up for their rights, get out on the streets, and say: “This isn’t fair. This will not be tolerated.”

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...