Election 2017's personalities: The Minister of Everything and Labour's best performer
Grant Robertson v Steven Joyce.
Rob Hosking Mon, 31 Jul 2017
New Zealand has a tendency to make political heroes of its finance ministers, perhaps in ways not seen in other democracies.
The tendency goes back to Julius Vogel, treasurer and later prime minister, in the 1870s: since then there has been Joseph Ward, Walter Nash, Arnold Nordmeyer, Robert
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