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Two articles in yesterday’s Sunday Star Times broached the sensitive topic of mass-media survival. Both had some points more relevant to a decade ago than today, such has the landscape changed in the period. One piece noted that the government had failed to ‘front up’ with a media survival
Newsflash: Woman Drinks Coffee
George I witnessed an extraordinary event last night, a whole news hour on TV1 without one item where the PM was featured. But in Stuff yesterday morning I was confronted with the breaking news that the PM had to wait for two minutes in a queue for a coffee at
Daily News Roundup – 18 May 2020
Budget, economy John Armstrong (1News): Jobs, jobs jobs or spend, spend, spend? Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A homecoming or still adrift – how radical is Labour’s budget? Audrey Young (Herald): National’s uphill battle on a Budget for a crisis (paywalled) Peter Dunne: An extraordinary but pedestrian budget
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Chinese Virus NZ Timeline
I’ve gotten sick and tired of hearing the “hard and early” slogan from the Prime Minister. So, I decided to create an interactive timeline of key events to see if we really did go “hard and early”. Click on any event to see further details. As you will be
Daily News Roundup – 15 May 2020
Budget – commentary and reactions Henry Cooke (Stuff):Grant Robertson isn’t using this crisis to transform the country Max Rashbrooke (RNZ): Robertson goes for repair, not rebuild Matthew Hooton (Herald): Grant Robertson conservative despite huge numbers (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Simon Bridges vs Jacinda Ardern over $20 billion blank cheque
How Out of Control Are Our Police?
Ever since the Christchurch massacre, the Police have been operating in a doctrinaire and dictatorial fashion. We know that they used massive over-reach to grab as many guns as they could, and have treated their minister like he’s their lap dog. Earlier they announced that, despite disarming a large
Daily News Roundup – 14 May 2020
Budget Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Prime Minister warns coming months the most challenging in a long time (paywalled) Jane Patterson and Gyles Beckford (RNZ): What to expect from the 2020 Budget Richard Harman (Politik): It’s budget day and the election campaign begin Tim Watkins (Pundit): NZ’s Economy Has Been
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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Comeskey, Law Man to Tool Man
For someone so completely obsessed with ‘image’, perhaps, Chris Comeskey has finally found his calling. With a failed dental supply business behind him and no chance of resurrecting his chequered legal career, the former headline-grabbing lawyer now has reinvented himself as Sydney’s answer to Tim ‘the Tool Man’ Taylor.