Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 29th November

Former National deputy leader Nikki Kaye has been crowned Matt and Tyler’s New Zealander of the Week for this week.

The late Auckland Central MP died of cancer on Tuesday aged 44.

Kaye served as an MP from 2008 until 2020 — holding two Cabinet positions during her tenure.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zid B,
we name the New Zealander of the Week and honor
that we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who
has had an outsized effect on our great and beautiful
nation over the previous seven days. As always, there will
be three nominees, but only one winner. And remember, like
the Time Magazine Person of the Year, the New Zealand
of the Week isn't always an agent of good. So
without further ado, the nominees for Matt and Tyler Afternoons

(00:43):
New Zealand of the Week are Nominee one also gets
the quarter Pounder of Controversy Award. You will be tastefully shifty,
You will create tasty food. The snobby Elitis tried to
take you down with their hateful trailers, but the people
will not let them win. The proposed warnicer McDonald's, you
have been nominated for New Zealander of the Week, Yes,
mac az. Nominee two also wins the Shoved and Neutral

(01:06):
and Coast and a Christmas Award you told us to
warm our cockles. Over the next few months, you dropped
the official cash rate, then pissed off overseas before the
hard interview bat Adrian or for jumping on the Christmas
go slow early. You are nominated for New Zealander of
the Week, but there can be only one and the
winner is And this is a sad one. We lost

(01:27):
you far too young. Everyone who met you was impressed
by you. You were respected and appreciated across the political spectrum.
Even your biggest rival said of you politics was better
for having you in it. Well, our great country was
better for having you in it. Nicky kay Rip you
are the Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealander of the Week.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
It is the toughest moments of my personal life that
have helped me be able to be a better member
of Parliament and Cabinet minister. Through my parents breaking up young,
a stepbrother, being charged with murder, being diagnosed with breast
cancer at thirty six, I have learned when your world
breaks and shatters, you can be your most powerful.

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