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Politics: Purple Haze over SkyCity deal

SkyCity executives have badly misread the politics of their deal with the government.

Rob Hosking
Thu, 12 Feb 2015

For a while, it looked as if the lead musos in New Zealand’s fabled "rock star economy" were playing air guitar to Jim Hendrix.

"Scuse me, while I kiss this Sky" chorused out of Prime Minister John Key and Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce’s offices.

Finance Minister Bill English,

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Rob Hosking
Thu, 12 Feb 2015
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