The Hollow Men

The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.

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  Nick Blake

  Narrator (voice)
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  Vaughan Slinn

  Bryan Sinclair (voice)
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  Sam Snedden

  Matthew Hooton (voice)
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  Bruce Phillips

  Peter Keenan (voice)
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  Mick Rose

  Murray McCully (voice)
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  Matthew Chamberlain

  Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)
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  Phil Peleton

  Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader
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  John Bach

  Michael Bassett (voice)
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  Cohen Holloway

  John Ansell (voice)