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  1. Dirty Politics 2024?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:50 pm, January 11th, 2024 -  89 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, greens, uncategorized
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    Some of the usual suspects… how would we know what is really going on?

  2. Is Simon Court a victim of dirty politics?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:43 pm, August 10th, 2023 -  18 comments
    Categories: act, Dirty Politics, national, national/act government, same old national
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    When the news about an Act MP being shot in the foot when he was 17 during a drug deal was released I did not think too much about it.  But on reflection maybe there is a story here …

  3. Dirty Politics does not work any more

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:53 am, September 11th, 2021 -  83 comments
    Categories: blogs, covid-19, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, Politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Egged on by a shock horror smear campaign on Cameron Slater’s latest post Judith Collins has attacked Dr Siouxsie Wiles by fat shaming her.

  4. Dirty politics denouement

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:27 am, March 4th, 2021 -  29 comments
    Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Another chapter of dirty politics has reached its conclusion with Carrick Graham offering an abject apology to Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook for smearing their reputation via the Whaleoil website.

  5. National is obsessed with dirty politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:14 am, February 2nd, 2021 -  21 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, national, same old national
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    National’s claim that news of a possible romantic engagement between a hotel worker and someone in quarantine was a political attempt to distract attention shows they are still obsessed with dirty politics.

  6. Judith Collins, Nicky Hager and Dirty Politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:16 pm, September 29th, 2020 -  55 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, national, same old national
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    Judith Collins has said about Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager that he “still needs to meet his maker.”  What did she mean by this?  And why does she harbour such dark thoughts about Hager?

  7. Of course it’s dirty politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:01 am, July 13th, 2020 -  39 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, todd muller, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National’s latest attempted spin is to try and suggest that last week’s clusterfuck of rolling events did not involve in any way the slightest trace of dirty politics.  How wrong they are.

  8. Judith Collins – dirty politics hypocrite.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 1:31 pm, June 28th, 2020 -  19 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, john key, Judith Collins, Media, politicans, Politics, The Standard
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    I’ve just been reading Andrea Vance’s review of Judith Collin’s released biography. One thing that usually infuriates me is whining arseholes. I have always thought Judith Collins has always been one of them. Vindictive, small-minded, and ignorant. She whines even through a review that merely quotes her.

  9. From dirty politics to compassionate politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:33 am, February 28th, 2019 -  43 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, national, Politics
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    Newshub has revealed that Jacinda Ardern instructed her ministers not tp publicly discuss National’s problems with Jami-Lee Ross.

  10. The dirty politics of beating up on Karel Sroubek

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:30 am, November 14th, 2018 -  272 comments
    Categories: Iain Lees-Galloway, immigration
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    You will be shocked to learn that the National Party has been less than honest about where it is getting its information regarding Karel Sroubek.

  11. Police scotches dirty politics rumours about Clarke Gayford

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:30 am, May 2nd, 2018 -  209 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The police have publicly scotched rumours that have been circulating about Clarke Gayford by saying that Gayford is not and has not been the subject of any police inquiry and has not been charged in relation to any matter.

  12. Hager posts Dirty Politics chapter on Mark Mitchell on web

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:17 am, February 21st, 2018 -  25 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national
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    Nicky Hager and the publishers of Dirty Politics have released into the public arena the chapter dealing with Mark Mitchell’s campaign to be selected as National’s Rodney candidate.

  13. Dirty Politics 2017 style

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:33 am, September 28th, 2017 -  168 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, election 2017, greens, journalism, making shit up
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    The Greens aren’t going to support a National government, so why is there so much push to make it look like it might happen?

  14. Hager: Dirty Politics three years on

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:02 am, August 17th, 2017 -  26 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, national
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    In an excellent piece on The Spinoff, Nicky Hager reflects on three years after Dirty Politics.

    Time now to sweep the party of these disgusting tactics out of office and #ChangeTheGovernment.

  15. National’s Dirty Politics Machine Attacks Complainant

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 6:43 am, June 28th, 2017 -  85 comments
    Categories: bill english, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, national
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    Upon what basis do they feel confident in suggesting to the public that Barclay’s – alleged – victim had been so unprofessional and out-of-control as to be accusing Barclay of being a drug dealer?

  16. Dirty Politics 2017 style

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:05 pm, June 8th, 2017 -  27 comments
    Categories: campaigning, crosby textor, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, facebook, making shit up, spin, uk politics
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    Latest polls and some anecdotal evidence from the doorstep are showing a move back to the Tories in Britain. If so it may in part be due to last-minute dark and dirty personally targeted Facebook advertising to voters in marginal seats. They cost so will need to be watched later on here.

  17. Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style – part 3

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:17 am, April 7th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    No further information from either Netsafe or the complainant. I can’t proceed any further apart from writing explicit site HDCA instructions. The Daily Blog has had the samehappen, with an attempt to gag any public debate on their actions by Netsafe. Amy Adams has hurriedly issued a press release saying how wonderful the HDCA is… I guess she doesn’t like debate.

  18. Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style – part 2

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:30 pm, March 31st, 2017 -  41 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Ok. Round 2. Still no more relevant information from Netsafe.

    I’m getting somewhat irritated with them. When exactly are they going to get off their arses and provide the information that we need to make a decision?

  19. Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:29 am, March 30th, 2017 -  48 comments
    Categories: admin, blogs, Dirty Politics, internet, making shit up, Media, Politics, The Standard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    I just got sent a notice of complaint from Netsafe under the HDCA (Harmful Digital Communications Act). It appears to me that Netsafe still either hasn’t read the act or that they are cooperating with the perpetrators of Dirty Politics. Either way, I don’t have time to deal with people who don’t put in the information required by the act for me and the unknown author to make a decision. Updated

  20. Marwick on dirty politics, leaks and the OIA

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:01 pm, March 13th, 2017 -  31 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, john key
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    Marwick: “The other thing you can deduce from a three year battle over access to correspondence is that the most senior politician in the land probably had something to hide.”

  21. Dirty politics past and present

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 12:42 pm, November 17th, 2016 -  63 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, Dirty Politics, dpf, same old national, spin
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    A couple of dirty politics related stories that slipped under the radar in the last hectic week.

  22. Ombudsman to investigate John Key’s dirty politics communications

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:42 am, September 27th, 2016 -  91 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, john key, Media, national, Politics, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The Ombudsman is to investigate John Key’s failure to disclose communications with David Farrar and Cameron Slater

  23. Dirty Politics Farrar and freedom of speech

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 1:45 pm, June 22nd, 2016 -  119 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, journalism, petition
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    There’s a petition – Get Rid of Hosking – it’s closing in on 16K signatures. Dirty Politics Farrar is a mite agitated about it, so let’s all give the Streisand effect a big hand.

  24. Hey Tracy Watkins – Judith Collins was not “cleared” of dirty politics

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, December 8th, 2015 -  33 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, john key, Judith Collins
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    No, Judith Collins was never investigated, let alone “cleared”, of the serious issues raised by Dirty Politics. After a token year off Key is happy to have her back because he has precisely as many principles as she does.

  25. Dirty Politics was in the public interest

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 12:11 pm, October 30th, 2015 -  46 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, journalism, law
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    Today’s anonymous editorial in The Herald makes for interesting reading, with the right conclusion in the end – Hager’s Dirty Politics served a genuine public interest, and should be legally protected as such.

  26. NRT: Exposing dirty politics

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:13 am, August 22nd, 2015 -  39 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, john key
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    I/S at No Right Turn on the OIA into communications between Key and Glucina.

  27. Dirty Politics: Police refuse to charge Slater

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, August 1st, 2015 -  197 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, john key, Politics
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    The police are refusing to even let the Courts rule on whether Cameron Slater and Jason Ede hacked Labour’s server despite there being a serious issue to be considered and despite the need for our justice system to be transparent.

  28. Ben Guerin: a dirty politics fuckwit

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 5:11 pm, July 13th, 2015 -  104 comments
    Categories: spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    This pathetic young nat dickhead has slapped up a site purporting to be Labour. But he left his fingerprints all over the site. He is employed by a National party list MP Brent Hudson. You’d think he’d be old enough to not to leave his fingerprints while jerking off in dirty politics… Or not do dirty politics at all. Updated: site removed.

  29. Hager v Attorney General & Dirty Politics

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:02 am, July 13th, 2015 -  49 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, journalism, Media, Politics
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    Nicky Hager’s case against the Police is being heard in the Wellington High Court today.  Jon Stephenson is live blogging (slightly delayed) proceedings and will tweet developments to #HagerCase.

  30. The Cyber bullying law and Dirty Politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:58 pm, July 1st, 2015 -  36 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The cyber bullying legislation is a cynical piece of law which allows National to claim that it has left dirty politics behind.

  31. Little weighs in on dirty politics

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 -  104 comments
    Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins
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    Andrew Little on the latest round of dirty politics.

    “It beggars belief any politician – like John Key and Judith Collins – wants to have anything to do with him [Cameron Slater].”

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