Mike Moore
Former Prime Minister of New ZealandWikipedia
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Mike Moore".
Oct 12, 2026
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Bolger was a bit boring, but he said, "Bugger the pollsters" at least on election night.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Mike Moore was quite out there.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Um, but yet the David Longys, and I love you, Mr. Longy, from Rob Muldoon.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
You know, you go back-
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Bolger was a bit boring, but he said, "Bugger the pollsters," at least on election night.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Mike Moore was quite out there.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Um, but yet the David Longes, and I love you, Mr. Longe, from Rob Muldoon.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
You know, you go back-
Barry SoperGUEST
Bolger was a bit boring, but he said bugger the pollsters, at least on election night.
Barry SoperGUEST
Mike Moore was quite out there.
Barry SoperGUEST
But you had the David Longys and I love you, Mr. Longy from Rob Muldoon.
Barry SoperGUEST
You go back to the big characters in
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Bolger was a bit boring, but he said, "Bugger the pollsters" at least on election night.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Mike Moore was quite out there.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
Um, but yet the David Longys, and I love you, Mr. Longy, from Rob Muldoon.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
You know, you go back-
Barry SoperGUEST
Bolger was a bit boring, but he said bugger the pollsters, at least on election night.
Barry SoperGUEST
Mike Moore was quite out there.
Barry SoperGUEST
But you had the David Longys and I love you, Mr. Longy from Rob Muldoon.
Barry SoperGUEST
You go back to the big characters in
Phil GoffGUEST
... it's, um, yeah.
Phil GoffGUEST
I mean- I just remember having a chat with Mike Moore when he was thinking of, you know, we'd been invited to go and join the New Zealand First party, and he said he couldn't possibly do that as long as he had a single value that remained in his body and a, a single legacy of what he believed in.
Phil GoffGUEST
Because if you're a populist, you go out and you say to the audience what they want you to say, not what you actually believe in, which makes you, in my view, one of the lowest forms of politician [laughs].
Phil GoffGUEST
I mean, you know, look, say what you believe, for God's sake.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of the greats of the game.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Moore.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bolger.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Shipley.
Jeremy WellsHOST
he didn't have great people that he could lean on.
Jeremy WellsHOST
He was leaning on Jenny Shipley.
Manaia StewartHOST
Yeah, who could remember the barnstorming run from Helen Clark? Mike Moore.
Jeremy WellsHOST
But it was nice.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
The point that old Winston made was he was one of 11 kids and certainly knew poverty.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
And I remember that was always the claim of Mike Moore as well.
Andrew DickensHOST
Jim Anderton was a millionaire, but he was the battler for the workers.
Barry SoperCORRESPONDENT
So I don't like that.
Winston PetersGUEST
And you know that? Who said that? Well, I don't want to say so, but it was Mac Neill who told me that.
Winston PetersGUEST
Who said it? Mike Moore told me that, and I thought, well, that's typical.
Winston PetersGUEST
You're better to be frank with people because they will respect it.
Winston PetersGUEST
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Paul MoonGUEST
And when one Labour MP I interviewed, who was a candidate in that election for one electorate, he gave a speech criticising National perfectly fine, criticising Social Credit, criticising the New Zealand Party.
Paul MoonGUEST
He then got a call from, I think, Mike Moore saying, whatever you do, don't criticise the New Zealand Party.
Paul MoonGUEST
So there were things along the way that you don't expect.
Kathryn RyanHOST
Let's talk about it then.
12 MINS LATER
Kathryn RyanHOST
I'm really interested in what you said earlier, that strategically within Labour, there was a bit of a shout-out to say, don't criticise Jones, because it was David Lange, incoming Prime Minister in 1984, who said that Jones achieved almost every policy he campaigned on without ever becoming an MP.
Kathryn RyanHOST
Now, Do you have evidence of actual kind of contact and collaboration between the two parties? Or was it more in-house, the strategic assessment of Labour, just to let the New Zealand party run?
Paul MoonGUEST
As I say, one of the examples is a Labour candidate being called by Mike Moore, being told, do not say anything bad about the New Zealand Party as we campaign.
Paul MoonGUEST
That's significant.