Arise Sir Trevor: Former Speaker is now Wellington’s newest knightWhen Sir Trevor Mallard next wanders into the Wainuiomata Rugby Football Club it is a pretty good bet that no-one will call him Sir Trevor. He was one of five New Zealanders made a Knight or Dame Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit. I didn’t ever like Trevor Mallard. ***At Helen Kelly’s Funeral in Wellington, Mallard stood and recounted his personal trauma in the wake of the Pike River disaster asking Helen, ‘what could I have done differently to have prevented that’. Mallard getting a knighthood is everything shameful in NZ politics.

Source: Stuff December 31, 2023 22:03 UTC