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Jamie Mackay: Wake me up after September's election
30 Jun, 2020 4:36pm
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COMMENT: Jamie Mackay rounds off the best and worst jobs to have in a pandemic.
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Comment: The Country host is determined to accentuate the positive in these trying times.
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Comment: Rating the winners - and the cowardly bottom-dwelling losers - of 2019.
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COMMENT: It would appear Labour is not winning too many of those hearts and minds.
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Today Jamie Mackay has 10 water questions for Todd Muller, tomorrow, Jacinda Ardern.
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Jones says the Government isn't solely to blame for the pressure on Kiwi dairy farmers.
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National's agriculture spokesman "frustrated" with the Govt's approach to agriculture.
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John Douglas wants environmentalists to talk to farmers rather than take photos at night.
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Your heroes should never die. Heroes are immortal.
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COMMENT: Show is about a whole lot more than farming.
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Looking back at one of the most popular stories on The Country in the past 12 months.
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Comment: The Country's Jamie Mackay takes a look at the rural highs and lows of 2018.
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The Country radio host takes a sneak peek at the future of farming at a major Euro forum.
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Opinion: Jamie Mackay tries to remember a particularly eventful Fieldays from the 1990's.
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Opinion: Jamie Mackay shares an interesting excerpt from his interview with David Parker.
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Jamie Mackay reckons Fonterra needs an Obama-esque type leader.
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Jamie Mackay on the joys of speed tree climbing and on Simon Bridges' top Nats role.
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Opinion: Jamie Mackay tackles a troll who thinks Jacinda is letting the side down.
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Jamie Mackay gives his review of the year that was and announces his Ag Person of the Year
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Jamie Mackay puts a rural perspective on the Prime Minister.
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A stint in Dunedin's emergency ward causes Jamie to doubt his political leanings...
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Opinion: Jamie Mackay wonders what the future holds for farming - will it be extinct?
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Jamie Mackay shares the eulogy he gave at Sir Colin Meads' funeral.
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Jamie Mackay says farmers will find Labour's freshwater policy particularly taxing...
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Jamie Mackay somehow pays tribute to his father in law Max via Osama bin Laden...
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A recent family bereavement causes Jamie Mackay to take stock of his life.
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Jamie Mackay's diary of the unveiling of the Sir Colin Meads statue in Te Kuiti.
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Jamie Mackay can't help but respect Winston Peters' eye for the main chance.
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Jamie Mackay eagerly awaits the unveiling of the Sir Colin Meads statue in Te Kuiti.
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Jamie Mackay would rather plant native trees around his duck pond than shoot ducks on it.
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Jamie Mackay's calm Easter time of reflection is scuppered by a hatred of slow drivers
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Crutching muddy ewes in winter? "No thank you!" says Jamie Mackay.
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Jamie Mackay loves modern technology. So why does he yearn for the simplicity of 1950?
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It's all shearing and superannuation in this week's From the Lip.
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Jamie Mackay reflects on politicians he has known and interviewed over his radio career. Even the ones who ignore him...
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Like all the young lads I went to boarding school with back in mid-seventies, the thing I looked forward to most on my 15th birthday
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You can rightfully accuse Donald Trump of many things but you couldn't accuse the most powerful man in the world of sitting on his hands.
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The Country host Jamie Mackay shares his list of things to see and do before he shuffles off this mortal coil.
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The Country Host Jamie Mackay reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly of 2016.
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The Country host Jamie Mackay reflects on some seismic shifts in the rural community.
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I first met East Coast farmer and raconteur, Graeme Williams, about a dozen or so years ago. He was a mate of Grant 'Disaster' McMaster
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The Country host Jamie Mackay tackles the bobby calf abuse issue.
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In this week's From the Lip - Jamie answers an ill-informed critic who labels him left-wing. Don't they know he's apolitical?
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The Country host Jamie Mackay tackles his detractors in this week's column, but it's not all bad news.
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Jamie Mackay wades in to the water quality debate
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Jamie Mackay ruminates on the location of those 500 missing cows in this week's From the Lip.
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The Country's Jamie Mackay reminisces about a night he spent in the company of sporting heroes Dick Tayler and Sir Colin Meads.
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The Country's Jamie Mackay is flexing his creative muscles with a clever Agricultural ABC poem.
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Jamie Mackay continues his obsession with Pokémon Go by chastising the youth of today about their obsession with Pokémon Go.
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Do you know your GDT from your OMG? The Country's Jamie Mackay is here to teach you the ways of the agricultural acronym!
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Jamie Mackay lets us read his personal Fieldays diary filled with amateur mistakes and blatant disregard for curfews.
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From the Lip: Fieldays and Fieldnights
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We all have our foibles. I'm an odd mix of impulsive and conservative.
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Jamie Mackay's From the Lip: Welcome to The Country
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There are three adages by which I try to live my life. The first is to err is human. It's forgivable to make a mistake, just as long as you don't make the same mistake twice.
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