Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:02 am, August 17th, 2017 - 26 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, national
Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, nicky hager
…that now these people know what was going on. It is …the attacks say much more about the attackers than they …do about themselves. By understanding the game… people realised that a dirty politics practitioner was involved in the election…
Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 10:00 am, January 7th, 2015 - 171 comments
Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, spin
Tags: dirty politics, political narrative, problem definition
… Standard, where political hacking, and thus Dirty Politics, was being discussed. Dirty Politics, to most… dirty politics isn’t serious because it’s what everyone does; that dirty politics…our meaning when we talk about dirty politics. We can keep pointing …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, December 6th, 2014 - 59 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, national
Tags: dirty politics, katherine rich, kevin hague
… of what author Nicky Hager described in his Dirty Politics book … about the subject. I thought that this is precisely what…still no. Kevin Hague: What actions will he take, …Herald: In Dirty Politics, Hager claimed Mr Falkenstein was written about after his…
Written By: rocky - Date published: 7:00 am, August 14th, 2014 - 88 comments
Categories: babies, corruption, democracy under attack, democratic participation, john key, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national
Tags: dirty politics, fonterra, nicky hager
… as clean and “above dirty politics” while very quietly pulling… highlight one story that was particularly hard for me…anything which distracts from what politics should be about – that is …of dirty politics outlined in Nicky Hager's book is exactly what …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:33 am, May 16th, 2015 - 46 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, food, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national
Tags: auditor-general, cameron slater, carrick graham, dirty politics, katherine rich
… Herald: In Dirty Politics, Hager claimed Mr Falkenstein was written about after his name… her suitability to continue given what has been alleged. The issue… will be doing less than what it should be.
Written By: karol - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 13th, 2014 - 189 comments
Categories: accountability, blogs, brand key, crosby textor, election 2014, john key, national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: dirty politics, jason ede, nicky hager
… evening I was totally wrong about the topic. The book was introduced and… smear machine that perpetuated attack politics, through what is known in the…, Hager said the book, titled Dirty Politics, focused on individuals in the…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 6:32 pm, November 24th, 2014 - 203 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, john key, national
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, Gwyn report
…government's abuse of power / dirty politics. From The Herald. …requested and published politically damaging material about former Labour … suggesting he request information about the Goff briefing. ……of what was in Dirty Politics. The book said Mr Ede was …
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
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, whaleoil
…ideal. Yesterday the Cyberbullying Law was passed. This law is …admire. Get that? If confronted about Dirty Politics National can now say it…is somehow worse than Whaleoil. What rankles is that National has…should have realised that this was all a PR job …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:08 am, August 22nd, 2014 - 38 comments
Categories: accountability, brand key, john key, Media, uncategorized
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, john key, sewerage
… feed confidential personal information about a civil servant to …before the book was released, Mr Key was besmirching the … appears that what he meant was while there was no place …herself. Sewerage. Poison. Dirty politics. People see it for what it is.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, August 30th, 2014 - 44 comments
Categories: john key, national, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: dirty politics, nicky hager
… to give their comments on what has occurred. One who…has to make you wonder about the selection of these …but who were incensed by what they had read and …most National supporters thought that dirty politics was acceptable, an interesting statement of…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:08 pm, May 11th, 2015 - 48 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics
Tags: #dirtypolitics, ben rachinger, dirty politics
…this blog, allegations were made about Rachinger's past behaviour. We're …this old post.] Ben Rachinger was a dirty politics insider, he is telling…details). We have no idea what to expect. Over to …individuals what to make of Ben's request….
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:35 am, December 18th, 2015 - 130 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, journalism, national, Politics, same old national
Tags: dirty politics, nicky hager, police
…the politicisation of the police was serious and wrong. Parker …of the complaints Labour made about the Dirty Politics revelations. And the … truck – you don't know what the source is and you… to be answered is what political pressure was put on the police…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:02 am, September 17th, 2014 - 117 comments
Categories: accountability, blogs, Ethics
Tags: #dirtypolitics, cameron slater, dirty politics, Wendyl Nissen
…out: Dirty Politics and the blogs I don't usually write columns about politics but…every Saturday which looks at what is in processed food. Most…. Earlier this year I was on the receiving end of…Herald. The person behind it was Katherine Rich … After that I…
Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 6:00 pm, August 18th, 2014 - 28 comments
Categories: wages, workers' rights
Tags: crestclean, dirty politics, whaleoil
…explanation for emails quoted in Dirty Politics which seem to show …behalf of Crest Clean. This was the situation: only BSC …government contracts. And they got what they wanted (not surprising, …. Because it speaks volumes about Slater and his friends if…
Written By: karol - Date published: 10:51 pm, August 13th, 2014 - 10 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: dirty politics, nicky hager, tweets
… a few people reading "Dirty Politics" tonight. One of the … Norman tweeted: The stuff about Ports of Auckland is dynamite… point to, what John Campbell said tonight about Cameron Slater, …that he's "not a nice person". This was…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:15 am, June 6th, 2015 - 218 comments
Categories: accountability, blogs, Dirty Politics
Tags: #dirtypolitics, ben rachinger, cameron slater, dirty politics, the nation
… investigation into allegations of more dirty politics by blogger Cameron Slater. A… bank statements raising serious questions about his online activities and plans… attacked him last year. So what was “the mission” that these two…
Written By: rocky - Date published: 5:00 am, August 15th, 2014 - 277 comments
Categories: accountability, brand key, corruption, David Farrar, democratic participation, election 2014, Ethics, john key, Politics, spin, Steven Joyce
Tags: dirty politics, Hacking, nicky hager
…answer about their motivations. The hacking of Cameron Slater's communications was unlawful…in this case is about government and political transparency and participation in… obtaining the information that was published in Dirty Politics. What is the harm and…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:25 pm, December 29th, 2015 - 88 comments
Categories: blogs, broadcasting, david cunliffe, john key, journalism, Judith Collins, Media, national, newspapers, radio, same old national, slippery, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: cactus kate, cameron slater, dirty politics, Jarrod Gilbert, jim parker, john campbell, john roughan, kim dotcom, mediaworks, mike hosking, nicky hager, nz herald, paul henry, peter aranyi, Rachel Glucina, radio new zealand, russell brown
… comment was the police's decision to label Hager as a "political author… this in June 2014, pre dirty politics, about the implications of the Dotcom… are completely disinterested in politics. And what they heard was something that made…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:11 pm, August 13th, 2014 - 138 comments
Categories: blogs, David Farrar, election 2014, national
Tags: dirty politics, nicky hager
…interest in the public knowing about the activities revealed in …It appears that David Farrar was also complicit. This isn't … site. But it is what we have come to expect…’ Campbell Live DimPost: Dirty Politics Hard News: Dirty Politics NZ Herald: Hager: New…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:34 am, August 20th, 2014 - 30 comments
Categories: accountability, Politics
Tags: chris trotter, dirty politics, no right turn
…Chris Trotter argues that politics is essentially dirty: "Bluntly, "dirty politics" is the only…and that we should accept what we have seen. To … Machiavelli wrote, that choice was effectively suicide, or at …that John Key routinely lies about as he did on …
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:04 am, March 30th, 2016 - 181 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, john key, national, Politics
Tags: #dirtypolitics, angry politics, dead fish, dirty politics
…so, why? Andrew Little was interviewed on this yesterday: 'Tough… economic and social stress was contributing to the problem….his high horse about what a nice guy he was – for …out in Dirty Politics (and summarised here). What has changed, what has …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:32 am, August 17th, 2014 - 46 comments
Categories: greens, labour, law, national, police
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, jason ede, nicky hager, occasionally erudite
…Nicky Hager’s new book, Dirty Politics, there’s the issue …blogging about what he’d done, back in 2011. No security was bypassed…on (or are tipped off about) a publicly accessible backdoor …the Crime Act. Tim Watkins: Dirty Politics: The battle of the …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:51 pm, October 6th, 2014 - 52 comments
Categories: david parker, greens, john key, labour, national
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, matt blomfield, matthew blomfield
…. This action is comparable to what happened in 2011 when John…" There was also an earlier Green Party complaint about the dirty politics revelations lodged… on August 14, 2014. Slater's complaint was…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:27 pm, August 16th, 2014 - 31 comments
Categories: Judith Collins
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, nicky hager
… Collins and Cameron Slater denials about their mutual back-scratching in… book "Dirty Politics" So as I stated on Twitter I was asked to… the application form. That was what the OIA request was for. Because in…
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:33 am, September 28th, 2017 - 168 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, election 2017, greens, journalism, making shit up
Tags: green politics, jane clifton, native advertising, stephanie rodgers
…I disagree with Lew's framing about the failure of the Greens's…the reality of what the Green Party is. Dirty Politics was normalised at …informed. This means learning what green politics is (yes, it's an…. We can't stop the Dirty Politics or the parts of the…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:59 am, September 1st, 2017 - 38 comments
Categories: blogs, David Farrar, national, nz first, same old national, winston peters
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, kiwiblog, sewer
… explanation. I was unable to find out what these letters are…which explains it. The explanation was provided from the MSD to…case you have to wonder what excuse he has for … Even without the insights of Dirty Politics about the linkages between the National…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:06 am, August 27th, 2014 - 39 comments
Categories: election 2014, Judith Collins, making shit up
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics
…able to keep stories surrounding Dirty Politics alive by throwing petrol onto…such thing. This is what he said about the Greens complaint: The…from the public servant who was the subject of the …that the Commissioner was trying to avoid. I was heartened to …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:53 am, January 13th, 2015 - 81 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, broadcasting, capitalism, class war, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, john key, journalism, labour, Media, national, newspapers, radio, same old national
Tags:
… well worth a listen. What was really impressive was the quality of the… lobby direct are huge. Dirty politics was all about cronyism and power of the… media in serving our political system and what can be done to…
Written By: karol - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 20th, 2014 - 12 comments
Categories: blogs, brand key, election 2014, john key, Left, slippery, spin, The Standard, tv
Tags:
…squeaks, as he answers questions about Ede. The squeaks indicate …is, that on the night Dirty Politics was released or in the build…information. But if that’s what the Minister said, and …fine. Nothing different to what any other political party would do. …
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:54 am, August 23rd, 2014 - 73 comments
Categories: accountability, john key, Media
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, john key, nicky hager, sis
… the main issues summarised in Dirty Politics. I was certainly confused earlier in… political SIS business, there seems no doubt that John Key knew what was… happening, approved it and had his staff liaise with Slater about…
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