Posts Tagged ‘dirty politics’

Edwards on politics and the media

Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, June 20th, 2015 - 21 comments

It won’t come as a surprise to any Standardista, but it’s good to see Brent Edwards being up front about some of the systemic problems in politics and the media.

Little weighs in on dirty politics

Written By: - Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 - 104 comments

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].”

Cameron Slater’s statement on Ben Rachinger

Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, June 8th, 2015 - 77 comments

Cameron Slater has posted one statement in response to Ben Rachinger’s allegations.  It was by way of a jpg and was not searchable.  As a public service broadcast I thought that New Zealand should have the benefit of the text of his response.

Update on dirty politics developments

Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, June 7th, 2015 - 189 comments

A brief roundup of coverage and developments in the latest dirty politics revelations.

More dirty politics revealed on The Nation today

Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, June 6th, 2015 - 218 comments

You might want to tune in and watch The Nation this morning at 9:30.

Sheepgate and National’s last defence: Labour does it too

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, June 4th, 2015 - 43 comments

John Key yesterday went on the attack and implied that Labour did something about Sheepgate in 2007.  What it was he did not say but the implication was that Labour did it too.  A brief review of dirty politics shows that this is alway’s National’s desperate last line of defence. Update: Labour tried to table in Parliament the Cabinet Paper that John Key talked about yesterday and National refused leave …

Things that make you go “Hmmmm”

Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, May 30th, 2015 - 5 comments

Sepp Blatter. John Key. Hmmmm.

Crosby ‘most successful propogandist since Goebbels’ – Ken Livingston

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, May 27th, 2015 - 57 comments

Ken Livingston talks about Lynton Crosby and neoliberalism.

Auditor General rules on Dirty Politics allegation

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, May 16th, 2015 - 46 comments

The Auditor General has decided that Katherine Rich, head of the Food and Grocery Council which includes Coca Cola as well as Alcohol and Tobacco interests has no conflict in being a member of the Health Promotion Agency, a quango with the role of supporting healthy lifestyles.

Rachinger on dirty politics 4 – Ben asks for help

Written By: - Date published: 3:08 pm, May 11th, 2015 - 48 comments

Ben Rachinger was a dirty politics insider, he is telling his story. Ben has asked for help.

Rachinger on dirty politics 3 – Scoop takes up the story

Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, May 4th, 2015 - 120 comments

Ben Rachinger was a dirty politics insider. He is telling his story. Alastair Thompson at Scoop writes: “Arguably therefore this is an exceptionally fine piece of undercover investigative journalism into a matter of national significance”.

Rachinger on dirty politics 2

Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, May 3rd, 2015 - 34 comments

Ben’s story has reached an interesting point.

Rachinger on dirty politics

Written By: - Date published: 7:15 am, May 1st, 2015 - 61 comments

Ben Rachinger is telling his story about his involvement in the world of dirty politics.

The waitress the bloggers and the main stream media

Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, April 27th, 2015 - 150 comments

The Ponygate story provides a fascinating example of the use of social media to break a story.  The simple lesson is to tell a story without a political agenda.  And the response from the right shows a level of disarray progressives can take heart from.

Herald’s interview with the waitress – updated

Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 23rd, 2015 - 334 comments

Late night developments, the “hair pull” waitress states that a Herald interview (to be published today) was obtained under false pretences, and she withdrew her consent for it.

Multiple updates on the changing story.

Parsing John Key

Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 21st, 2015 - 32 comments

John Key’s recent public response to the news of the likely interception of Chinese diplomatic communications resemble those of a used car salesman rather than those of a New Zealand Prime Minister.

I want that left wing bastard gone

Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, April 13th, 2015 - 279 comments

Joe Trinder at Mana News claims Key’s direct involvement in the attack on Campbell Live.

And yet the cast of Dirty Politics are still at large in the media

Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, March 16th, 2015 - 46 comments

Herald: “Natalia Kills & Willy Moon are no longer suitable to judge X Factor”.

Key fails the leadership test

Written By: - Date published: 10:53 am, March 5th, 2015 - 30 comments

Fine work form David Fisher at The Herald. Does Key get to lie and deny his way through yet another crisis?

NZ spies on its Pacific neighbours

Written By: - Date published: 6:29 am, March 5th, 2015 - 170 comments

Nicky Hager and the Herald have reported that the GCSB has been collecting data en masse from New Zealand’s pacific neighbours and handed it over to the Americans for inclusion in xkeystore.

The more complete Donghua Liu timeline

Written By: - Date published: 2:34 pm, February 22nd, 2015 - 90 comments

Yesterday’s Herald revealed that Donghua Liu made a second donation to National in 2013 which was repaid to him after last year’s election.  A brief timeline was provided but in the interests of greater understanding I thought a fuller timeline would be helpful.

Interesting story coming up in The Herald

Written By: - Date published: 12:10 am, February 20th, 2015 - 105 comments

There will probably be a story soonish in The Herald that will be of particular interest to The Standard community.

Emmerson on dirty political romps

Written By: - Date published: 2:11 pm, February 3rd, 2015 - 2 comments

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The meaning of dirty politics

Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, January 7th, 2015 - 171 comments

One of the strategies of the right is to take any complaint levelled against them and reduce it down until it’s meaningless. Now they’re doing it to Dirty Politics.

The line on Little…

Written By: - Date published: 8:49 am, December 15th, 2014 - 155 comments

The Nats have finished focus-grouping their attack line on Andrew Little and are moving in to deployment. As narrated by Twitter this morning…

The tipline has a SST column

Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 7th, 2014 - 36 comments

Judith Collins had her debut as a columnist in the Sunday Star Times today.  Her article was not contentious and raised issues of importance.  She also revealed that she never liked the name “Crusher” and Hager’s description of her was false in many ways.

Dirty Politics and the health advocates

Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, December 6th, 2014 - 59 comments

How is it that Katherine Rich can be the head of the Food and Grocery Council and look after the interests of suppliers yet at the same time be on the Health Promotion Agency and not have a conflict?

Police neutrality

Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, December 5th, 2014 - 113 comments

If anyone thought that David Parker was content to fade quietly into obscurity, they been proven thoroughly wrong. Parker has confronted one of politics’ sacred cows – police neutrality.

Petition for Royal Commission on dirty politics

Written By: - Date published: 7:48 am, December 3rd, 2014 - 11 comments

“Please take immediate steps to call for the establishment of a high calibre, non-partisan Royal Commission to investigate the inner workings of government in New Zealand and recommend a form of governance that has integrity, is truly democratic, and fit for the 21st century.”

Nothing to hide nothing to fear?

Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, December 3rd, 2014 - 93 comments

I guess we can conclude that Key has something to hide, otherwise what could he possibly have to fear?

Key calls Slater’s bluff

Written By: - Date published: 11:11 am, December 2nd, 2014 - 54 comments

Key says he is not concerned about his calls with Slater being made public.