Early Voting starts
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Date published: 11:00 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 43 comments
Advance votes can now be cast.
Nasty negative Nats
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Date published: 10:02 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 20 comments
Disgraced ex minister Collins calls Cunliffe a moron. Another John Ansell negative billboard campaign coming. The Nats are nasty as well as dirty. If only there was some positive alternative…
Emerson on Collins Enquiry
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Date published: 9:07 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 14 comments
Emerson’s cartoon today in the Herald.
National’s campaign train wreck
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Date published: 8:33 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 243 comments
So far National’s election campaign has been a train wreck. What was meant to be a leisurely walk to the finish line has turned into a limp. David Cunliffe is more than holding his own against John Key. And dirty politics is having a gradual corrosive effect on National’s support.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear
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Date published: 7:18 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 37 comments
If John Key has nothing to hide, sure he has nothing to fear from a full government inquiry into Dirty Politics?
Open mike 03/09/2014
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Date published: 6:26 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 174 comments
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Score draw?
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Date published: 9:45 pm, September 2nd, 2014 - 181 comments
Cunliffe started best, Key got in a zinger and put him off his stride, Cunliffe dominated the second half.
Caption competition
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Date published: 5:44 pm, September 2nd, 2014 - 58 comments
Too good to pass up but keep it civilised …
NRT: The caretaker convention and elections
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Date published: 4:17 pm, September 2nd, 2014 - 5 comments
There was an interesting discussion 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 prior to an election. Edgeler disputed this, on the basis that the Prime Minister could not be said to enjoy the confidence of the House, because there wasn’t one.
The Press Debate – tonight, livestreamed on Stuff
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Date published: 2:00 pm, September 2nd, 2014 - 227 comments
The second big head-to-head between David Cunliffe and John Key will be livestreamed on Stuff from 7pm tonight.
Puddleglum: We no longer have a Prime Minister
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Date published: 11:47 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 34 comments
There’s an excellent post at The Political Scientist I want to highlight, plus a few other of today’s Dirty Politics reads…
Spinning the media: commericial imperatives
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Date published: 10:55 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 24 comments
The main problems with dirty media-blogger connections, as exposed by Dirty Politics lie with the commercial dominance of our news media. Mediawatch focuses on issues raised by the book. Online Standards Authority is not the answer.
Nicky Hager on Democracy – Wellington
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Date published: 10:30 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 5 comments
Whitewash inquiry
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Date published: 8:16 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 41 comments
I know, let’s put on a production of Hamlet, but leave out the role of the Prince of Denmark.
Open mike 02/09/2014
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Date published: 6:54 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 439 comments
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Pre-election Factory Farming Debate
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Date published: 6:21 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 4 comments
WHEN: Wednesday 3rd September 6.30pm
WHERE: St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Participants: Shane Ardern (National), Trevor Mallard (Labour), Mojo Mathers (Greens), Richard Prosser (NZ First) and Miriam Pierard (Internet).
National must be very afraid
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Date published: 4:30 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 75 comments
The latest Whaledump has a collection of emails that makes no reference to Judith Collins. It makes you wonder if Key did not have the Cathy Odgers email whether he would have sacked Collins.
NRT: More OIA skullduggery from National
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Date published: 2:50 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 8 comments
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. The problem here isn’t that someone got their response within two days – its that other people didn’t…
Condolences: safety at work
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Date published: 12:57 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 76 comments
My condolences to those close to the victims of the horrific actions in Ashburton today.
Why Is John Key Not Compelled to Give Evidence Under Oath?
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Date published: 12:13 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 75 comments
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.
All the way to Key
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Date published: 11:19 am, September 1st, 2014 - 30 comments
All credit to Guyon Espiner for another hard-hitting interview with Key on Morning Report today. Espiner tries to get a straight answer from Key over his personal contacts with Slater. Tries and tries and tries, to no avail. It is clear that Key, personally and through his office, is up to his neck in dirty politics.
Black ops – blogger in the House
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Date published: 11:15 am, September 1st, 2014 - 12 comments
John Key dropped Winston Peters’ visits to DotCom into an answer to a question in the Houseof 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 the place but finally had to admit Slater was the source. This episode confirms that Key was part of the black ops campaign, not just his office.
Dirty Filthy Red Herring
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Date published: 10:54 am, September 1st, 2014 - 105 comments
Big fish and little fish.
Open mike 01/09/2014
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Date published: 6:30 am, September 1st, 2014 - 333 comments
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Labour’s broadcasting policy: public service TV-RNZ
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Date published: 10:03 pm, August 31st, 2014 - 40 comments
Labour’s broadcasting policy includes setting up a new public service TV channel, to be located with RNZ, incorporating RNZ values. The Greens are open to the idea. NZ First has a similar policy. Laila Harre makes some good points about public broadcasting and industrial relations. [Update: RNZ report; video clip added]
From Twitter
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Date published: 8:18 pm, August 31st, 2014 - 34 comments
All your trashing the SFO connections. h/t DebsHancock
Well that deteriorated quickly
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Date published: 9:00 am, August 31st, 2014 - 170 comments
The Sunday Star Times has reported on the Hotchin – Slater attack on SFO boss Adam Feeley. The email which caused John Key to effectively sack Judith Collins as a Minister was provided by Cathy Odgers. The intent was to put off a SFO/FMA investigation into Hotchin. This is third world stuff.
Wakeup call for the media – has Slater done us all a favour?
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Date published: 8:02 am, August 31st, 2014 - 171 comments
National’s dirty politics, for all its corrosive damage, also marks an opportunity for NZ. An opportunity to take stock, recognise such tactics for what they are, and reject them. An opportunity to clean up both politics and the media’s coverage of it.
Open mike 31/08/2014
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 31st, 2014 - 250 comments
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For a better way…
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Date published: 4:53 pm, August 30th, 2014 - 10 comments
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.
Whose Resignation?
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Date published: 3:52 pm, August 30th, 2014 - 115 comments
“There can surely be no more important issue than the fitness to govern of some of these pretending to office. What could be more serious than the abuse of power – its use, not to serve the interests of the country, but to discredit and destroy, in an unfair, vicious and underhand way, those whom the government sees as its opponents?”
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