05-11-2006, 08:40 AM
Quote:An Australian man tried to auction New Zealand off over the internet, starting at just one Australian cent.
Six thousand hits and 22 bids later, New Zealand was still a real estate bargain at $3,000.
But it is a joke Foreign Minister Winston Peters could not take.
"I don't think it's fun. I think that kind of nonsensical stupidity, I'll leave to the tabloid media," he says...
full article: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/712869
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