The Manukau Courier reports that His Excellency Anand Satyanand, the Governor-General, is to reveal a statue for former Prime Minister David Lange in August. It not surprising that the current Governor-General is patron of the David Lange Memorial Trust - as the article notes, His Excellency was friends with the former Prime Minister, and helped David Lange campaign for office back at the 1975 election.

What's interesting is that the proponents of the status quo never fail to mention that the Governor-General "non-partisan". That clearly is not the case when the Governor-General is friends with a former Prime Minister and once campaigned on their behalf.