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Op-Ed: The Digital Exclusion of Our Rural Communities

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Last week I and my Rural Caucus Colleagues Louise Upston and Maureen Pugh called out the Government’s abysmal, and frankly unacceptable neglect of rural New Zealand’s connectivity needs. It is ridiculous that tens of

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Op-Ed: IRD Shutting down for Days

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Alongside the significant drop in Crown digital support, the refusal of the Government to invest further in the Ultra Fast broadband rollout and constant attacks on the cyber border of New Zealand, a nation with more

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Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of

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Op-Ed: The Cyber Siege Has Begun and the Government Doesn’t Care

Op-Ed: The Cyber Siege Has Begun and the Government Doesn’t Care

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities New Zealand’s largest city is in lockdown with no end in sight. Over a million people are restricted in their movements and the future of their livelihoods due to the latest COVID-19 outbreak that saw

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Radio New Zealand and You: It’s Time to Have Your Say

Radio New Zealand and You: It’s Time to Have Your Say

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Some readers of The BFD might be wondering why I’ve chosen to raise Radio New Zealand as today’s topic of discussion, considering it probably has a less than receptive audience among some regular commentators.

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Is Publicly Funded Journalism fit for purpose?

Is Publicly Funded Journalism fit for purpose?

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities I’m deeply concerned about the future of public interest journalism. The first tranche of Public Interest Journalism Funding has been announced and it’s clear to me that the fund won’t be supporting all

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Digital Exclusion and New Zealand’s Tech Future
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Digital Exclusion and New Zealand’s Tech Future

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities This month the Citizens Advice Bureau and a cross-section of the New Zealand community from around New Zealand arrived at the steps of Parliament to deliver a Petition calling on the Government to sort out digital

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The Unconscious Bias of Changing Journalism

The Unconscious Bias of Changing Journalism

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Long before politics, as a young news reporter and journalist, I was taught to stick to the facts and reveal next to nothing about my political persuasions. It was only in mid-2008 that my political values

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Data Security and New Zealand
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Data Security and New Zealand

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities We are now over a month on from the Waikato DHB ransomware attack and the public are still completely in the dark as to how much of their personal health data has made its way to

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