An updated in-depth portrait of former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
John Roughan is a journalist who has been observing and writing on
New Zealand politics for the past 40 years. Born in Southland and
educated in Christchurch, he graduated from Canterbury University
with a degree in History and a diploma in Journalism. He began his
newspaper career on the former Auckland Star newspaper before
travelling extensively, working on newspapers in Japan and the
United Kingdom at the time of the election of Margaret
Thatcher.
On his return, he joined the New Zealand Herald and was posted to
the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Wellington in 1983. There he
covered the dramatic final years of the Muldoon era and the
beginning of the Lange-Douglas Government's rapid reforms of the
New Zealand economy. In 1988 he became the New Zealand Herald's
chief editorial writer and in 1996 he was invited to write a weekly
column which continues to appear in the Weekend Herald.
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