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Brian Brooks Legacy

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

A podcast episode marking the end of a political moderator's tenure and announcing their entry as a Labour candidate for North Shore, reflecting on past elections, political conduct, and the personal and strategic challenges of running for office.

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  • Chris Finlayson Cross Party Lines (audio) New Candidates, Old Scores and Orbán's Defeat 13 Apr · 76s
    Yeah, I mean, we shouldn't always have death notices on this programme. We've tended to over the last few weeks, but I just wanted to record for listeners that the former Dean of the Victoria Law Faculty, Brian Brooks, passed away a couple of days ago. Now, Brian, of course, was very famous because he was the Brooks of Brooks and Muldoon. And it's when he was appointed Industrial Relations conciliator. And I think Muldoon called him a communist or something. So he sued Muldoon for defamation. He was represented by the former carpet Franco Flynn, and he got a very large sum of money in 1972 dollars. Interestingly, Brian told me that after he won a very senior official in the Auckland University said you may as well go overseas because you'll never get a job in New Zealand now. But anyway, he went overseas and came back. was a fabulous dean of the law faculty, a jolly good guy, very humorous sometimes. Now there's a guy who was too humorous for his own good at times, but gone but certainly not forgotten, a really lovable human being.
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defamation case against muldoon as political milestone

New Candidates, Old Scores and Orbán's Defeat
13 Apr
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