The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.
Nick Blake
as Narrator (voice)
Donald Brash
as Self
John Key
as Self
Bill English
as Self
Vaughan Slinn
as Bryan Sinclair (voice)
Julie Thorns
as Diane Foreman (voice)
Sam Snedden
as Matthew Hooton (voice)
Bruce Phillips
as Peter Keenan (voice)
Russell Campbell
as Don Brash (voice)
Mick Rose
as Murray McCully (voice)
Matthew Chamberlain
as Richard Long (voice)/Roderick Deane (voice)
Phil Peleton
as Crosby/Textor (voice)/ Crosby/Textor Focus Group Leader
