networkn:
Whomever prepared her speech certainly did a good job with the feel good stuff. I agree that it was an outrageous claim that they "widely consulted", an outright lie by their own admission.
It's pretty easy to get up and say these things, it's a whole other thing to enact policies and then execute them well, in order to actually make a change, so far there is a lot of talk.
I think she was given a very easy set of interviews from a friendly crowd/host. Not one interviewer asked her a tough question, or put her on the spot. You'd certainly hope she could come across as charming and engaging and smash the answers out of the ballpark when people are setting up balls like that :)
You almost broke character and said nothing bad then....... back to script. At least she did not act the village idiot like John Key.