You be the judge. Imagine for a few moments that you are an official in the Overseas Investment Office with the power to say yes or no to applications from foreign interests wanting to buy parcels of New Zealand land.
Education Minister Anne Tolley will be given a prime speaking slot at the National Party conference in Auckland in a week's time - as well she should be.
Feeling the financial pinch from the emissions trading scheme? Didn't think so.
While Phil Goff would have felt it more keenly, it would be surprising if at least a soupcon of anxiety did not shiver up John Key's spine, too, when he heard Kevin Rudd was about to be dumped as leader of the Australian Labor Party.
Nothing this week had a hope of upstaging the fall and fall of Chris Carter, which had the public transfixed by the MP's sheer bloody-mindedness and the root cause of his self-destruction.
Paula Bennett's remarks this week about the welfare reform debate turning ugly were lost in the firestorm kindled by the exposure of former Labour ministers' rorting of their taxpayer-funded credit cards.
Metiria Turei has probably long forgotten it. Those who witnessed it still wince at the memory of it.
While Bill English was seriously off-message when he gave his strongest hint yet that he wants to privatise Kiwibank, his faux pax may be a blessing in disguise for National.
Bill English may be the only one with his name on the front cover of Thursday's Budget.
Gut instinct would have prodded John Key to cut short his Middle East trip immediately he was told of the Anzac Day helicopter crash.
Gerry Brownlee's search for El Dorado in this country's supposedly mineral-ridden national parks has so far been more akin to King Midas in reverse.
No-one else in the current Parliament can ladle out the sarcasm with quite the abundance of acid as that oozing from Jim Anderton on occasion.
Oh lucky man: the political gods continue to smile on How else to explain the incredible switch in American attitudes to New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy - as witnessed in Washington this week?
You would be hard pressed to find another Government-commissioned report containing as much mind-numbing mumbo-jumbo or indigestible twaddle as the one produced by the Whanau Ora task force.
The increasingly erratic and somewhat flaky behaviour of Act New Zealand and the Maori Party should be giving the Prime Minister some serious cause for worry.
Hysterical? Who's being hysterical? Not the media, Prime Minister.
Whatever you think of Anne Tolley and her trenchant advocacy of national standards, the Minister of Education deserves some credit for having the good grace and fortitude to front this week's announcement of the restructuring of her ministry.
Axe the tax? Labour would if it could. But it can't. So maybe the tax will stay. Maybe it won't. Who knows. Labour isn't saying. And it won't be saying for quite a while yet.
Tax cuts in the good times; even bigger tax cuts in the not so good times.
Prime Minister John Key's economic growth package is just tax cuts in disguise, says John Armstrong, of The New Zealand Herald.
