Oceania nation resonates as perfect sounding board for social activist Atlantic policies United Nations exercises a supranational influence over New Zealand’s body politic in a way that has not been experienced since the waning of Westminster’s sway followed soon after by Washington’s. Nothing emphasises this realignment more than the view that the nation’s highest office, that of prime minister, is but a way station en route to assuming the real power which resides in the real high office which is that of secretary general of United Nations. Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark had, at best, a good outsider’s…