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
Tags: cameron slater, Harmful Digital Communications Act, HDCA, jordan "slater" williams, jordan williams, Netsafe
… what the complainants post was about? Two of the key figures from Dirty Politics in… a passage from the dirty politics dumps about the dirty politics that… that hard. That was how we saw dirty politics going on a decade…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 2:12 pm, August 15th, 2014 - 58 comments
Categories: john key
Tags: BLip, dirty politics, john armstrong, nicky hager
…John Armstrong about the coming consequences of Nicky Hager's "Dirty Politics". In …more than deny knowledge of what was going on in a … (8) I can't remember what was discussed at my meeting with… Auditor General there was nothing improper about the Sky City …
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 12:24 pm, August 17th, 2014 - 88 comments
Categories: articles, Media, Politics
Tags: dirty politics, nicky hager, rob gilchrist
…like this one about the book ‘Dirty Politics‘ (which …was out. I also knew that I could not argue against what… up’ in politics. I was not even a…The Hollow Men”, or what about “Seeds of Distrust…write ’baseless allegations’, ’what-ifs and fanciful speculation…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:51 am, June 4th, 2015 - 43 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, Annette King, john key, national, phil goff, same old national
Tags: dirty politics, fran o'sullivan, murray mccully, sheepgate
… media stand-up yesterday about Dirty Politics in which he mentioned … for writing about tax-havens, which is what Cathy Odgers,… be blackmailed, which is what Cameron Slater, the Justice …the aim was to neutralise the effect that Dirty Politics was having on…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:02 am, August 31st, 2014 - 171 comments
Categories: accountability, blogs, Ethics, Media, newspapers, spin
Tags: #dirtypolitics, cameron slater, david fisher, dirty politics, fran o'sullivan, impossible dreams, jared savage, nicky hager, shayne currie, the herald
… a lot of people knew what was going on. People whose job… I wonder what other journalists would have to say about his description… of politics has known for a long time that Slater was running dirty… worked out, as Fisher did, what was going on. Why did it…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, May 21st, 2017 - 22 comments
Categories: colin craig, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, humour, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics
…quite recent court appearance I was engaged in involved the … name suppression after he was charged with attempting to …the Conservative Party and of Dirty Politics need to have their … you don't acknowledge that's what politics is about, then you're going to…
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
Tags:
… the suggestion that it was a case of “dirty politics”. The party had… disappointed people's feelings about the Covid response because Labour was up so… people of Avondale. Everyone knew what was happening and how messy National…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:16 pm, September 29th, 2020 - 55 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, national, same old national
Tags: nicky hager
… Zealand: Queried about Hager's books The Hollow Men and Dirty Politics, in which… a dreadful man and what he wrote about me was disgraceful," Collins spat… that what she meant to say? It is apparent that Dirty Politics still…
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
Tags:
Remember Dirty Politics? When information was fed to the Whaleoil…, there was a problem. Slater's comprehension of what happened and…for personal choices”. She was asked about her view on obesity… said: “Do you know what is heartless? Is actually thinking…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, August 16th, 2014 - 58 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, nicky hager
… says a great deal about what sort of person he … Key's damage control operation was designed to both defuse and…Key's answers sounded glib there was good reason. The vilification…across in the news coverage about Dirty Politics, and Cameron Slater, Jason …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:00 am, August 25th, 2014 - 41 comments
Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national, same old national
Tags: dirty politics
…onto the property ladder but what else could we expect?…John Key more questions about Dirty Politics. His response was that everyone had … Union should be apoplectic about what our money has been …this is so? What does he think about Cameron Slater's and…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:35 pm, August 28th, 2014 - 17 comments
Categories: accountability, election 2014, john key, national, polls
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, horizon poll, polls
…us all what we think. In the wake of Dirty Politics he … knew in advance about attacks on political opponents planned by … National are now undecided about which party they will …Zealanders don't want dirty politics, believe that Key was involved, support the…
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
Tags: andrea vance, cameron slater, jason ede, kiwiblog, matthew hooton, whaleoil
… about people particularly comes with this statement (my bold).. Dirty Politics …alleged Key’s office was seeding information on… own illusions to see what really happens in the …of media cigarettes. Mostly what we do is to provide…
Written By: weka - Date published: 12:50 pm, January 11th, 2024 - 89 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, greens, uncategorized
Tags: cameron slater, Golriz Ghahraman, Marc Spring, philip crump, whale oil
… job, or stay in politics. Yesterday it was reported that Ghahraman has… Golriz story is Dirty Politics 2.0 Lprent has written about Dirty Politics here at… struggling to makes sense of what the fuck is going on…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:50 am, August 25th, 2014 - 31 comments
Categories: law, tax
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, matthew blomfield, public interest, tax evasion, whaleoil
… complaining about. Because of the equivalences of what happened …in other words what the material was used for. Making…politically and commercially toxic nature and now publicised comments about…Dirty Politics book and the whaledumps make quite clear, he was…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, December 7th, 2014 - 36 comments
Categories: Judith Collins, national
Tags: dirty politics
… Report. It did what was intended and acquitted her …is also quoted mouthing off about "total destruction", and "…combative responses to questions about her husband's company Oravida,…scarred with the effects of Dirty Politics and the Oravida scandal….
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:46 am, August 19th, 2014 - 26 comments
Categories: Judith Collins
Tags: aaron bhatnagar, BLip, cameron slater, dirty politics, nicky hager, Oravida
… terminal. Collins wasn't pleased – talk about the face of a bulldog… list had been drawn up, what specific qualities such as professional… players. In "Dirty Politics", Nicky Hager revealed that Bhatnagar was the one sniffing…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:24 am, December 12th, 2016 - 88 comments
Categories: crime, police
Tags: #dirtypolitics, ben rachinger, cameron slater, dirty politics, diversions, Media, name supression
… final hearing of the diversion was about to take place. Fortunately I… skills (unlike Cameron Slater – see Dirty Politics) in securing servers that are… that is a plausible scenario about what would happen. As a result…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:52 am, February 15th, 2020 - 120 comments
Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, national, nz first, paula bennett, same old national, uncategorized, winston peters
Tags: simon lusk, whaleoil
… talking to someone, so what? The context makes the …. And this is classic dirty politics. Using essentially the same … She was then asked if National ever resorted to dirty politics and … has engaged in. Complaining about NZ First's donor hiding when…
Written By: Dancer - Date published: 5:47 pm, September 22nd, 2008 - 12 comments
Categories: election 2008, rumour
Tags:
Dirty politics and personal attacks. They're two … took the time to investigate what dirty tricks might mean. According to… be embarrassed about if you were exposed". When he was a National…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:00 am, August 21st, 2014 - 52 comments
Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national, same old national, slippery
Tags: dirty politics
… in Nicky Hager's book, Dirty Politics. That was bound to happen. In…election. The longer Key denied what was fact – especially the questions … feed confidential personal information about a civil servant to … denial that he knew about Slater having his OIA …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:53 am, August 22nd, 2014 - 88 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics
… information concerning Phil Goff was declassified and handed to … it meant Key's office was briefed and not him … Key is effectively sanctioning the Dirty Politics exposed in the book. …on various payrolls shows what Key thinks about their tactics and …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, August 1st, 2015 - 197 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, john key, Politics
Tags: cameron slater, jason ede
…. And what about other indications that the information was not intended…And the Government and the political party currently in power …monstrous wrong. And still Dirty Politics is a blight on …our political landscape. Bunji's description …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:17 am, February 21st, 2018 - 25 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national
Tags: cameron slater, simon lusk
…publishers of Dirty Politics have made the chapter of Dirty Politics that deals…don’t know about [Whale Oil] Rule of Politics #43, Death…for this dirty campaigning, and was well aware of what he was buying….change the problems it talked about. He spoke up for…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:27 am, March 4th, 2021 - 29 comments
Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags:
… posts. The book Dirty Politics suggested that this was no random drive by… Graham made various defamatory comments about the plaintiffs using various pseudonyms… "given any proper explanation of what services" were provided for the…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:27 pm, August 19th, 2014 - 7 comments
Categories: crime, Politics, Satire
Tags:
…new book. Hager’s book Dirty Politics was released last week, and …company is demanding to know what happened to the confidential …books.” But Singh remains concerned about office security. “I just …. “I hate to think what might happen if someone publishes…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:44 am, December 3rd, 2016 - 128 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, labour, leadership, Media
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, ducan garner, media pile-on, tracy watkins
…was also a sense of urgency about breaking the cycle. There was talk about…rules was not spelt out. But we can guess. Dirty politics, personal… be comfortable voting for dirty politics, Labour supporters would not…party. And if that's what it takes to win …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:31 am, April 27th, 2015 - 150 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: cameron slater, david farrar, dirty politics, ponygate
… institutional target and showing that Dirty Politics is alive although not so… name even though consent was obtained under what appears to be pretty… allegedly suffering from trichophilia was nothing to worry about. Cameron Slater is…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:03 am, September 20th, 2015 - 103 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, crosby textor, election 2014, greens, john key, labour, Minister for Photo-ops, national, privatisation, same old national, slippery
Tags: dirty politics, mike sabin, serco, sheepgate
…National's campaign apparatus. Despite dirty politics and National wanting to… weakness. When Dirty Politics first hit National was in disarray, …soundings and work out what politically is the best line…are subject to debates about the flag and photo…
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