Au Revoir Dr Ian Shearer: One of the Precious Few - Such As His Then Government Colleagues Winston Peters and Marilyn Waring - Who Actually Had the Moral Fibre/Gumption/Guts/Gonads To Stand Up and Be Counted Where and When It Really Mattered (During Rob Muldoon's Tenure in Office): & Vis-a-Vis One of the Signature Laws of That Administration, The National Development Bill/Act No Less...

Next to/Alongside their culturally pivotal and tragic opening up of Saturday trading holus-bolus throughout the length and breadth of God's Own/Godzone...

the liberalization of which, alongside Sunday trading laws both (attempted) at that time and in the 1990s (when the legislation passed through Parliament)...

has long since morphed into the consumerist free-for-all so detrimental to our once sacred way of life here.