Central-bank watchers from all around the world were stunned to hear Adrian Orr, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, regale his fellow state bankers with a lengthy account of how the RBNZ came to embrace Te Ao Maori.

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 Zealand, Chris Trotter lives in Auckland with his wife and daughter. He has created the Bowalley Road blog as an outlet for his more ruminative and elegiac impulses and named it after the country road that leads to the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life.
Central-bank watchers from all around the world were stunned to hear Adrian Orr, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, regale his fellow state bankers with a lengthy account of how the RBNZ came to embrace Te Ao Maori.