The "Wellington crowd" will this afternoon get to celebrate their rugby team winning the Ranfurly Shield when a parade starts from outside the old Government House at 12.45pm.
Coincidentally, the parade starts right across from the new Government headquarters, the Beehive, prompting speculation over how many MPs will try to claim some sort of credit for helping the team to its successful challenge against Auckland on Saturday.
The parade is being held today to give Wellingtonians time to let the news sink in after 26 years of being without the shield.
Coming from Otago, I can understand the shock that rugby supporters will be feeling.
The only time we see the shield is on television.
But you can bet that every MP, or want-to-be MP, south of the Wairarapa will be considering his or her options this morning.
And there could be a clamour in the House later today by MPs wanting to congratulate the winning team.
However, the real scrum will be when Parliament again goes into urgency today as the Government rams through its legacy legislation.
Current polling would suggest that this week's legislative calendar will be Labour's last, although it is still a long way to go before polling day on November 8.
Cynics will look at the programme and note there are three Treaty of Waitangi settlements to receive their third readings this week, including the very large Waikato River Settlement.
The Port Nicholson Block Claims Settlement Bill will get its first reading.
Also on the list of things to do before Friday is the Walking Access Bill.
As Miss Clark suggested at her post-Cabinet press conference, there will be a long urgency motion.
But it all comes back to politics and where the votes lie for Labour.
Earlier in the day, Miss Clark and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Luamanuvao Winnie Laban announced Cabinet's approval of a new regulation to help reduce the high costs of sending money between New Zealand and the Pacific.
Studies showed that about 75% of Pacific people in New Zealand send money home to family members in the Pacific.
In many cases, the total cost of remittances could be anywhere from 15% to 25% of the value of the transaction.
The goal was to reduce the transaction costs to between 5% and 7% by next year.
South Auckland, the home to most of New Zealand's Pacific Island communities, delivered the 2005 election to Labour at the last minute.
Labour is struggling in the Maori seats, with up to five expected to go to the Maori Party this election.
It does not take much of a leap to see why legislation such as that already mentioned gets urgent treatment.
The public access network members are not likely to be National supporters either, just adding to the blatant last-minute electioneering in the House before the campaign proper starts.
Political editor Dene Mackenzie is in Wellington this week.
