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Daily News Roundup – 30 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 30 September 2020

SFO NZ First decision RNZ: Checkpoint: NZ First Foundation arrangement ‘unprecedented’ – law expert Luke Malpass (Stuff): Serious Fraud Office charges may be final blow for NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters draws on his best defence against SFO, attack (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Campaign derailed David Farrar: SFO lays

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Yesterday was ‘World News Day’

Yesterday was ‘World News Day’

Yesterday, apparently it was ‘World News Day’, gosh. Stuff ‘n Nonsense have published an editorial to accompany the passing of this ignominious event by declaring that “trust” is now “their most important currency”. They may be smarting from the second-lowest “trust” rating as reported by Horizon Research in April this

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Are You a Retired Journalist?

Are You a Retired Journalist?

The BFD is seeking journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not to

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Daily News Roundup – 29 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 29 September 2020

1News Colmar Brunton poll Thomas Coughlan  and Luke Malpass(Stuff): Spectre of Labour-Green coalition National’s worst nightmare Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour needs Greens on latest One News poll (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Do the polls deliver a whisper of hope for National? (paywalled) David Farrar: Latest poll ————— 1News: 1

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Letter to the Editor:

Letter to the Editor:

Dear Editor I got quite a shock when I saw on the Stuff website this morning “Stuff code of practice and ethics”. I thought, at long last decent, investigative, factual non-biased non-opinionated journalism was returning to Stuff and I waited with bated breath as the website loaded. So I started

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is ex-pat New Zealander Matt Ratana a 54-year-old policeman who was shot and killed by a person being detained at Croydon Custody Centre last Friday. Sergeant Ratana worked for the UK police for nearly 30 years and was two months away from retirement when

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Daily News Roundup – 28 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 28 September 2020

Newshub-Reid Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National is in a classic opposition party death spiral Audrey Young (Herald): Latest poll is a shocker for National (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Labour – walking away with it Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: For the first time, exclusive polling shows how

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Are You a Retired Journalist?

Are You a Retired Journalist?

The BFD is seeking journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not to

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Are You a Retired Journalist?

Are You a Retired Journalist?

The BFD is seeking journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not to

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Daily News Roundup – 25 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 25 September 2020

Election Tim Watkin (RNZ): Sending out the political assassins as National shoots itself in the foot Peter Dunne: Greens’ fate uncertain, but the rest of the election jigsaw is beginning to look remarkably settled Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): Will the polls move this close to election day? (paywalled) Ali Shakir (Herald)

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Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2020

Election Audrey Young (Herald): Act’s job is to destroy NZ First vote says National’s Judith Collins Ben Leahy (Herald): Wealth tax ‘a bottom line’ for a Greens-Labour Government: Genter Claire Trevett (Herald): Why Jacinda Ardern has more to fear from a poll she won than a debate she

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