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Trotter on green leaders’ protests

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Chinese security overstepped the mark. Key grovelled in a way that was inappropriate for the head of government in a democratic nation.

But it wasn’t all black and white, right and wrong.

Thanks to the prickly woman for pointing me to the Trotter Donald obit. The contrast is telling.

My abiding memory of this remarkable man – my friend – Rod Donald, will be of him standing alone at the foot of the parliamentary steps, his face a mixture of sadness and defiance, holding up the forbidden Tibetan flag. It was a noble protest – and all the more effective for being conducted not by some raggle-taggle band of New Age anarchists, but by a senior Member of Parliament and party leader, dressed proudly and patriotically in his best, New Zealand-made, suit.


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