

The inside story of a National Party election campaign
July 7, 2008
1h 36m
EN
Alister Barry
The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.

Nick Blake
Narrator (voice)

Donald Brash
Self

John Key
Self

Bill English


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Vaughan Slinn
Bryan Sinclair (voice)

Julie Thorns
Diane Foreman (voice)

Sam Snedden
Matthew Hooton (voice)

Bruce Phillips
Peter Keenan (voice)

Russell Campbell
Don Brash (voice)

Mick Rose
Murray McCully (voice)

Vanguard Films
US