Didn't occur to me first time I read it, however...

Annette King said this yesterday:

“It still astounds me that in New Zealand we have a min­is­ter for race horses, a min­is­ter of the Rugby World Cup, a min­is­ter for senior cit­i­zens but no min­is­ter for the most vul­ner­a­ble in our com­mu­nity, our kids.”

Whaleoil pointed this out today: 


While it may astound Annette King that we have a min­is­ter for race­horses it must have escaped her, or per­haps she will­fully ignored the fact that she was a key mem­ber of cab­i­net that vastly increased sub­si­dies to the blood­stock indus­try and rac­ing clubs so that Win­ston peters could con­tinue to sup­port them. It prob­a­bly also escaped her that Winston’s secret back­ers were all race horse fanciers. So while she is astounded we are not.

1 nil to the Whale.