SOME PREDICTIONS

• Christine Rankin will not take up the job of Family Commissioner

• David Farrar will get engaged in the next year.

• Two high profile press secretaries will resign in the next 3 months.
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• Richard Worth wont last the year out as Minster
  

• Shane Jones will feel the full heat of an inquiry into Bill Liu

• The Securities Commission will be given greater powers

• We will find out who stole the Brash Emails and why the police covered it up but it will take another six months.

• Beaujolais will order more champagne next time we have a party.

• Winston will marry Jan Trotman

• Deborah Coddington will separate from her legal squeeze

• Whale Oil will get his own TV show -a mix of Rove and Jackass

• GonZo will write a novel and get famous

• Swine Flu will mutate

• Cactus will fall in love

• Rodney will get engaged

• Jim Anderton will leave parliament

• Melissa Lee will go close to taking Mt Albert

• Fairfax will scrap a Sunday paper by Xmas

• A new online newspaper to rival them all will become a " must read " by this time next year

• The world economy will go into freefall again - we are just seeing the deat cat bounce.