Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with the Brain Drink, Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, Dan Taipua presents the case against saving Auckland’s St James theatre, Chris Schulz visits the chaotic set of TVNZ comedy Educators and Gemma Gracewood remembers Hamish Kilgour as a generous, sensitive friend to many. But first, Toby Manhire says the prime minister may have just offered a clue as to the fate of the RNZ-TVNZ merger.
“Like an Air New Zealand jet eyeing up the big trip from New York to Auckland, the Labour government knows that you sometimes have to take drastic and unusual measures to make it home. When the fuel is limited and the headwinds are unfriendly, it’s time to start offloading luggage. Jacinda Ardern acknowledged as much in an interview this week with Jo Moir of Newsroom. Asked about the opportunities afforded by the summer break, the prime minister said: ‘To just pause, stand back and say, in the next 12 months what are the things we really need to prioritise, and by prioritising does it mean there are things that you then just say we don’t have the capacity within government to pursue those issues, and they’re just not the most important things for us.’ What then are those less important things that lose out in that trade-off? What baggage might get left on the tarmac?”
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Hamish Kilgour wasn’t just a creative genius and musical legend. He was a generous, sensitive friend to a great many, writes Gemma Gracewood: “People don’t just drop round for tea in New York. Arrangements are made weeks in advance, mostly to meet somewhere outside our small apartments, to escape the cramp and have someone else do the dishes. So whenever the doorbell rang unexpectedly in Windsor Terrace, we knew it was either the postman, or Hamish.”
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