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    Keall-hauled

    Dec 06, 2020 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    A former MP, Judy Keall, was renowned for her beadiness at select committees. When given explanations of the finer points of high policy by legal or accounting luminaries, she’d give them a stare of the purist scepticism through her industrial-strength specs and grudge, “Well, I suppose you’d know.”

    At the risk of doing a Keall on the Audit Office, it appears to have missed a trick. Few are arguing with Auditor-General John Ryan’s trenchant rebuke of the process by which the Government and attendant agencies attempted to decide on Auckland’s light-rail project.

    But you’d have to give this shemozzle an A-plus for creativity All participants were literally making it up as they went along – lacking anything like Keall’s basilisk gaze until Ryan’s investigation.

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