Before Wellywood, before New Zealand First, before there were even 4 million of us living here, there were the early years of the Bolger administration.
Jim Bolger did not campaign as a revolutionary. He did not govern as one. And yet he lofted revolutionary thoughts into the air.
He invited people to think of New Zealand as part of Asia. Or rather, he breezily asserted that New Zealand was a part of Asia and we ought to wake up to that. Middle New Zealand choked on its Weetbix and said what now come on Spud have you been on the sauce etc.
