Ah, lovely NZ politics

Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove was having nothing of Collins waving around her apology in a "Shirley Temple sort of way".
Collins was no "dilettante, delicate daisy". She was a woman who "could spit acid better than an Australian cane toad".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11223070