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NRT: The caretaker convention and elections
Reposted from No Right Turn. There was an interesting discussion on Twitter yesterday between Dean Knight and Graeme Edgeler about the caretaker convention and elections. Dean highlighted the fact that Key had a perfect right to call for whatever sort of inquiry he felt like, as the caretaker…
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The Press Debate – tonight, livestreamed on Stuff
The second big head-to-head between David Cunliffe and John Key will be livestreamed on Stuff from 7pm! The Press leaders' debate is where Key pulled his "show me the money" quote in 2011. And he's going to be taking this far more seriously than the…
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Puddleglum: We no longer have a Prime Minister
Puddleglum at Political Scientist has an excellent post that you should read all of Here are a couple of lengthy extracts, but go and read it all: Having just listened to an item featuring John Key on Checkpoint (National Radio) I now have to announce that New Zealand…
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Spinning the media: commericial imperatives
Dirty Politics has resulted in many questions being asked about the quality and reliability of the coverage of politics by the news media and blogs. Blogs, the Media and Two-Track Politics Many are trying to claim that left wing blogs are as bad as those…
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Nicky Hager on Democracy – Wellington
Nicky Hager will discuss his recent book "Dirty Politics", and what needs to be done differently to protect and enhance our democracy. Tuesday 9 September, St Andrew's Church, 30 The Terrace, Wellington, 5:30-7:30pm. All welcome. Registration essential on Fabian Society website or here.
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Whitewash inquiry
Time to get out the whitewash: An inquiry into the events surrounding Judith Collins' downfall will not examine the relationship between her and Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater or the Serious Fraud Office investigation into Hanover Finance, Prime Minister John Key says. I know, let's…
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Open mike 02/09/2014
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Pre-election Factory Farming Debate
Tomorrow evening SAFE is holding a pre-election debate on Factory Farming in Wellington. The participants are Shane Ardern (National), Trevor Mallard (Labour), Mojo Mathers (Greens), Richard Prosser (NZ First) and Miriam Pierard (Internet). Factory farming has featured prominently in the news this year after repeated…
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National must be very afraid
Rawshark has continued his or her terrorism of the John Key government by a further dump of screenshots of emails. Something interesting struck me about the latest dump which contains a series of emails which were collected in a folder called "Mark Hotchin". The emails are…
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NRT: More OIA skullduggery from National
Reposted from No Right Turn. Another day, and more evidence the National government is manipulating the OIA process: Judith Collins' office processed an Official Information Act request in just two days to release an email embarrassing then Serious Fraud Office head Adam Feeley in 2011. [...]…
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Condolences: safety at work
My condolences to those close to the victims of the horrific actions in Ashburton today. As the PSA spokes person Richard Wagstaff, says in their press release: “Nobody should go to work in the morning without returning home that same day. Such violence is just…
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Why Is John Key Not Compelled to Give Evidence Under Oath?
I have today sent an open letter to the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to ask why Mr Key is not required to attend her inquiry and to give evidence under oath. The letter is attached. Dear Inspector-General, I was delighted to learn of your…
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All the way to Key
[I see that I have doubled up on a post by Mike - sorry 'bout that! Because I'm hoping to get the transcript done I'll put this post up anyway, but I refer you to Mike's post and links.] National's involvement with dirty politics goes…
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Black ops – blogger in the House
John Key dropped Winston Peters' visits to DotCom into an answer to a question in the House of Parliament on February 12 2014. Today when pressed by Guyon Espiner whether the information had come to him from Cameron Slater he ducked and dived all over…
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Dirty Filthy Red Herring
So Judith Collins is gone. But she’s gone on the flimsy basis that Cameron Slater mentioned her in an email. She isn’t gone because of any revelations contained in Nicky Hagers’ book. I’m picking that Cameron Slater was indeed just ‘talking up a big game’…
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Open mike 01/09/2014
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Labour’s broadcasting policy: public service TV-RNZ
I've been at the Broadcasting debate in Auckland tonight, organised by the Coalition for Better Broadcasting. There was strong support from most of the speakers for public service broadcasting to be reformed and/or strengthened in NZ. For the parties of the left particularly, the manipulations…
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From Twitter
All your "trashing the SFO" connections. h/t DebsHancock (some might say there are some more you can add, but sticking strictly to the latest case, rather than the general dirty politics) Meanwhile in Grey Lynn... (Component is an excellent local artist and a mate, work…
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Well that deteriorated quickly
I honestly do not know where to start ... if the release of Dirty Politics was devastating then the revelations from yesterday are mind blowing. The release of the Cameron Slater email by John Key and the effective sacking of Judith Collins as a Minister…
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Wakeup call for the media – has Slater done us all a favour?
Key, Collins and the National government are not being brought down by a left-wing conspiracy, or by Whaledump, or Nicky Hager, or evil Leftie blogs, or any other desperate excuse. They are being brought down by we the people getting to see how they operate.…
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Open mike 31/08/2014
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For a better way…
The NACT way is Not Our Way. We need a better way of governance and democracy. One that is for all the people. I joined the hardy souls who went to the Not Our Way rally and march in Auckland. The host speaker said that…
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Whose Resignation?
Judith Collins’ resignation has, it is suggested in some quarters, allowed a line to be drawn under the whole dirty politics saga. We can, it seems, get on with the “real issues” of the election. Such optimism, however, seems entirely misplaced. First, there can surely…
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Some thoughts…
So Judith Collins is gone. This is English's faction taking control of dealing with the Dirty Politics mess. There's no way Bronwyn Puller would have placed a privacy complaint against Collins without English knowing. She's still tight with the National Party and with his faction.…
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Judith Collins resigns
Oravida and the mysterious Chinese border control official, the Simon Pleasants leak, Bronwyn Pullar's Privacy Commission complaint, plotting to roll John Key after the election - the allegations just kept coming. Now there's the allegation that she conspired with Cameron Slater and others to discredit former Serious Fraud…
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Crusher crushed
Press conference is running late, but Judith Collin's statement is out - resigning as Minister, but not as MP. New allegations of her undermining SFO head Adam Feeley have finally been too much. Not too much apparently was: Oravida conflict of interest Oravida lies and…
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Is Judith Collins gone?
Twitter is abuzz with news of a John Key press conference set for 12:30 pm today and rumours that Judith Collins may be gone. There are comments about the possible leaking of a SFO investigation. The Herald is saying she is gone. Stay tuned ...…
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“VRWC” exposes rift at top of National
There is a self-appointed "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" in New Zealand. Odgers and Slater are key members. Search VRWC on Slater's website and you'll find their activities. You can't search Odgers' website as she has taken it down. One very interesting inside account is a…
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Fairfax Media’s polling on Dirty Politics
The book Dirty Politics has thrown up all sorts of issues concerning journalism and morality. The selective leaking of information to attack blogs and the framing of issues have been seen to be powerful weapons in National's attempts to retain political power. In the Dominion Post…