“..The penitent enters his office, head bowed and without the usual greetings, as the cameras and notebooks silently wait.
Then Rodney Hide delivers an apology near perfect for its lack of qualification and attempts to lay blame elsewhere.
Prompting his appearance is a series of news headlines focusing on the “former perkbuster” and his taxpayer-financed travels with his partner to Europe, mainland United States and Hawaii.
So yesterday, after a week of defending himself, he spoke slowly of his shame at his “casual use” of taxpayers’ money to holiday in Hawaii ..
.. and taking his partner, Louise Crome, on a ministerial trip to Britain and the US.
“That was wrong.”
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