Hon Jim Anderton, MP for Multi-Nationals

Isn't it great that we have a Minister who campaigned against foreign ownership of New Zealand assets going into bat for (yet another) overseas owned company. Yes, in yesterdays Hutt News, Hutt City Council development manager Gary Craig credits Jim Anderton "who was able to cut through a lot of red tape and access the finding to make it all happen in a very short time frame", with obtaining $137,500 worth of funding for Orica NZ.

Orica is an Australian Multi-National, with offices in 30 countries including Australia, NZ, North America, Euope, Asia and Latin America. (Only Africa and Antartica miss out) and made a A$326 million dollar profit last year. Orica's annual revenue is A$4 billion.

Amazing how you never hear about Jim Anderton helping out the small struggling kiwi company.