Satire - Don's Diary
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April 12 11.30pm
Helen welcomes Tamihere back into Labour caucus. And I'm the one who flip-flops? Murray says Tamihere must have planned it from the outset, conspiring with Wishart who would be only too eager for an opportunity to damage the frontbums (whatever they are!).
April 14 8.00am
Helen survives dangerous emergency when door opens on her chartered plane. Murray says it was clearly a jack-up to ruin coverage of my big education policy announcment, proposing takeover code for schools and compulsory military training for seven-year-olds.
April 16 8.30am
Good and bad news in Dom-Post. Deborah Coddington is leaving politics to return to journalism. Richard says she was a great pair but I will miss her searing insights in debate. Speaking without notes on Wednesday, she was the only one to observe that the $17 million credit limits that casinos offer to some of their customers are not available to ordinary folk at their local hardware stores. We will not see her like again for many years.
April 17 9.00pm
Carmen called today seeking meeting tomorrow. Something about Donelda but didn’t want to talk about it on the phone. Also a call from a Jack Sanders, said Murray sent him and he can "do me a nice little air accident, no real danger but lots of publicity". Said I’d think it over and get back to him.
April 18 3.15pm
Just returned from coffee with Carmen. She is convinced I am the father of Donelda. But although I can remember being in Peru in the 1930s, I have no memory at all of anything that might or might not have happened off the dance floor.