National Press Club president Peter Isaac on what was covered and what was left uncovered during the General Election and in the course of this he invokes Lord Scarman (pictured.) Story inside.

Sir Christopher Harris in introducing ACT Party leader and former governor of the Reserve Bank Don Brash noted that The Economist had once described Brash as the "world's best central banker." As he eased into his briefing, leaning only lightly against the historic oaken bar of the Wellesley, smilingly parrying interjectors, his admirers must have wished that this seemingly effortless urbanity might find its way too onto the broadcast media from which they so often see him emerging with all the panache of a starchy school master.

Taxpayer funded tertiary education for journalists should centre not on the question of whether jobs in journalism are diminishing, or even increasing claimed National Press Club president Peter Isaac. But on the issue of whether or not journalists would get paid to do them

The National Press Club’s tertiary training review now underway devolved instead onto the main issue of whether the jobs available were likely to be rewarded by more than just the invisible value of the exposure so gained.

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Pakistan High Commissioner Syed Ibne Abbas and High Commission counsellor Asima Rabbani at the National Press Club with Denis Adam.

A communiqué to individual members of the National Press Club from its president Peter Isaac sought to clarify lingering confusion over the National Press Club vis-à-vis the New Zealand Press Association. One of the two main chains underpinning the NZPA had announced its intention of quitting it and thus closure of the organisation was pending.