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While more questions will no doubt be asked about Mr Key's choice of hiring infamous Aussie spin-stars, Crosby/Textor, (no doubt some more of them will feature here) I thought this point raised by Barry Soper yesterday was a good one: There's clearly a concern how this information is…
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Today marks the launch of KiwiRail. It's great to have rail back in Kiwi hands, after a decade of asset-stripping. Now comes the task of building up the network so it can provide cheap and clean transport. Businesses are keen to take more freight off…
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It was bound to happen. The Herald did it about a year ago and now Fairfax is following suit. Getting rid of subeditors who actually live in the same town as the paper for which they write. In their place Fairfax is offering New Zealander…
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Former National Party MP Marilyn Waring wrote in the introduction to The Hollow Men: I must admit to a sense of anticipated despair about the treatment [the book] might receive... The focus may be on looking for and condemning the leakers as opposed to scrutinising…
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This is one not to be missed. Nicky Hager will be speaking at Drinking Liberally - Wellington this coming Thursday. Hager, author of The Hollow Men - shortly to screen as a movie at the International Film Festival - is back in the spotlight this week…
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It comes as no surprise that Brand Key has been a Crosby/Textor project from Day 1. The hit and run, the bait and switch, the cake and eat it, the shoot the messenger, the misdirection, the dog-whistle, wedge politics, the outright lie - these are…