A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the funeral of the late Prime Minister Mike Moore. It was Mike Moore who first sparked my interest in politics as a schoolkid. My parents were living in the marginal seat of Eden in Auckland, and Mike Moore was the sitting MP. He'd been elected in 1972 and he was ousted in 1975 by Aussie Malcolm and was a victim of the great Muldoon routing of the Labour Government in those days. And as I attended Mike Moore's funeral, I was able to reflect on the similarities between that one-term Labour Government and the current Government. There were a lot of similarities, particularly in that they had a leadership that was kind and generous and well-meaning but utterly ineffectual, utterly unable to make progress on their policy initiatives, and completely inept in terms of handling both a downturn in the domestic economy of the time, and then also unable to respond at all in any effective way to the uncertainties of the then international situation that was caused by the oil crisis of the time. 