> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/176 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-176/ - Published: 2026-09-23T22:00:01.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-23T22:00:01.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, Media, Free Speech, USA, Culture, Election 2026, Taxpayers Union **This is edition 2026/176 of the *Ten@10* newsletter.** Hi all, This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media. Enjoy! --- ![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iEs4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce995eb8-5700-4079-9c79-2ea267e93d2a_1000x522.jpeg) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: What's in Nicky Hager's Dirty Work *Bryce Edwards - The Democracy Project* - ๐Ÿ“š Edwards summarises Nicky Hager's new book Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right, launched in Wellington with copies sold out in about 20 minutes. - ๐Ÿงญ He still backs Hager's past work as democratically useful, but says this book especially should not be taken on trust: it rests heavily on former staff interviews plus documents, not a single documentary leak. - ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Chapter One opens at Alan Gibbs's Kaipara property for the Union's tenth anniversary, then traces Jordan Williams's education under Brash, Lusk, Slater and Franks, including Vote for Change and a post-quake 'sacrificial lambs' exchange. - โš–๏ธ Chapter Two leans on the Colin Craig court record: Williams sharing confidential claims, Whale Oil posts, a $1.27m jury award later set aside, and Hager's claim the Union board paid out a sexual harassment case, which Williams and Ruth Richardson deny. - ๐Ÿ’ง Chapter Three casts Stop Three Waters as the breakthrough: petition growth, co-governance rhetoric, supporter lists leaping past 150,000, and staff talk of money 'pouring in like a pokie machine'. - ๐Ÿงพ Hager links Hobson's Pledge payments to Williams's Campaign Company and argues Act and Luxon shifted toward race politics once the Union showed there were votes and money in it; Farrar disputes key staff claims. - ๐Ÿงฑ The free preview ends mid-book; paid sections cover Williams's showmanship, apprentices, tobacco, money trails, supporters and media 'enablers'. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: A chapter guide that treats Dirty Work as both a public-interest dossier and a contested brief, with the sharpest fights still behind the paywall. [Read More](https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-whats-in-nicky?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b14b8_6a8b6e67a31b4feb8b1c60d8cae0a2b6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_416,h_237,al_c,lg_1,q_80/7b14b8_6a8b6e67a31b4feb8b1c60d8cae0a2b6~mv2.jpg) ## 2\. RICHARD PREBBLE: Nicky Hager's new book reminds me of my shameful mistake *Richard Prebble - Brash & Mitchell* - ๐Ÿ”ฅ Prebble says every Hager 'hit job' reminds him he was once a target, and the memory still burns with shame. - ๐Ÿ“– Hager wrote that Roger Douglas and Prebble were part of a conspiracy to appoint Don Brash as Reserve Bank Governor. - ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Prebble says a basic check would have shown Governors were appointed by the Governor-General in Council, meaning the Prime Minister, not the finance ministers. - ๐Ÿ‘ค David Lange knew Brash and chose him; Prebble says he only knew Brash from the media and opposed the appointment. - โœ… He now calls Brash New Zealand's greatest Governor for years of low inflation, and admits he was wrong. - ๐Ÿ“ž Had Hager put the allegation to him, something Prebble says Hager never does, he would have confessed the mistake. - ๐Ÿ’ฐ Instead of buying the new book, Prebble donated straight to the Taxpayers' Union for exposing waste. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: A one-page blast that treats Dirty Work as recycled hit-job method: allege first, never check with the named. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/richard-prebble-nicky-hager-s-new-book-reminds-me-of-my-shameful-mistake?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/09/hager-idiot-1.jpg) ## 3\. What's so wrong with Taxpayers Union? *Peter Allan Williams - Peter Allan Williams* - ๐Ÿงพ Williams defends the Taxpayers' Union as a lobby that calls out waste and proposes better ways to spend taxpayers' money, with 'union' used as a deliberate piss-take of left sacred cows. - ๐ŸŒ๏ธ He recalls asking Jordan Williams years ago to probe Major Events Fund golf subsidies, still sees that slush as indefensible in a fiscal hole, and wishes the Union had pushed harder. - โš–๏ธ He stresses the Union has attacked National-led governments as well as Labour, and names Simon Watts as a regular target over council accountability. - ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Disclosure: he sat on the TPU board in 2022-23, still writes occasional member letters and does paid podcasts, and says Hager never approached him. - ๐Ÿ“ฃ On day one of Dirty Work he sees no explosive scoop: Williams's Campaign Company crossover with Hobson's Pledge, Groundswell and the Free Speech Union is already known in media circles. - ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ He backs Williams's pre-release fundraising to fight alleged untruths or distortions, and notes Hager again offered no right of reply, citing book 'sabotage' risk Williams says publishers were promised against. - ๐Ÿง“ Hager's 'angry old men' line about Maori rights lands on Williams personally: living by the Clutha, he cites Ngai Tahu's unresolved freshwater claim as a real stakes issue, not a fever dream. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: A former insider's rebuttal that Dirty Work is personality politics, while the Union remains an ideas factory in a contest the left should answer with better ideas. [Read More](https://peterallanwilliams.substack.com/p/whats-so-wrong-with-taxpayers-union) --- ![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wMpp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08cf409a-a653-4286-9e34-6a33b248b881_553x302.jpeg) ## 4\. Sunset for the Broadcasting Standards Authority *A Halfling's View - A Halfling's View* - ๐Ÿ“œ The Broadcasting (Disestablishment of Broadcasting Standards Authority) Amendment Bill was introduced on 22 September 2026, a day before the House rises for the election. - โธ๏ธ It will not get a first reading this session; the hope is a returned coalition picks it up. For now it is a symbolic sunset notice. - ๐Ÿšซ What replaces the BSA? Nothing. Complaints culture loses its state-funded forum; the industry is expected to self-regulate, including via the New Zealand Media Council. - ๐Ÿ’ธ The broadcasting levy would end. If the Media Council inherits complaints work it will need more money, but that becomes an industry problem, not a Crown one. - ๐Ÿท๏ธ Classification and labelling duties for broadcast content are repealed, with audiences still expected to choose, and objectionable content still caught under Classification Act strict liability. - ๐Ÿ“… If enacted after the election, commencement is 1 September 2027 or earlier by Order in Council, with time to wind down BSA files and adapt on-demand rules. - ๐Ÿ“ก The Halfling says the BSA doomed itself by stretching jurisdiction online against The Platform, and warns Internal Affairs not to invent a renamed online regulator. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: A coalition marker that the BSA's sun can set on 7 November, but only if voters return a government willing to finish the job. [Read More](https://djhdcj.substack.com/p/sunset-for-the-broadcasting-standards) --- ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/centrist-news.firebasestorage.app/o/images%2FEO7ne5udnae9YXFEQ8z9r?alt=media&token=92f4e844-bec0-4111-a2a3-e34b0ab37e6e) ## 5\. How an overhang could change the election result *Centrist Editor - Centrist* - ๐Ÿงฎ Centrist explains an overhang: a party wins more electorates than its party vote buys, keeps those MPs, and Parliament grows past 120. - ๐Ÿ“Š Under MMP the party vote sets total seats; electorate wins usually reshuffle who fills them rather than adding seats, until an overhang breaks that pattern. - โž• Example: four seats on the party vote but six electorates means six MPs, a two-seat overhang, a 122-member House and 62 needed for a majority. - ๐ŸŽฏ That opens tactical splits: electorate votes for one party, party votes for an ally, so the first keeps electorates while the ally gains list seats. - ๐ŸŸข Te Pati Maori floated this at launch; Oliver Hartwich estimates three or four extra seats for the left under his polling assumptions. - ๐Ÿ”ต An NZ Initiative report also models National winning more electorates than its party-vote share, letting some party votes shift to partners without cutting National's electorate haul. - ๐Ÿ“ˆ In that model, moving one in nine National party votes delivers a government majority; one in four yields 69 coalition seats in a 132-member Parliament even if the opposition wins more votes overall. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: Hartwich wants the Electoral Commission to balance overhangs with compensating seats so coordinated split voting cannot quietly rewrite proportionality. [Read More](https://centrist.nz/how-an-overhang-could-change-the-election-result-1790029822477?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vP4Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2c27293b-4a88-48b3-8d63-e9adc4c1988c_760x366.jpeg) ## 6\. Shrinking Options. *Chris Trotter - Chris Trotter* - ๐Ÿท๏ธ Subtitle on the free teaser: 'Chris Hipkins has decided to go easy on the Landlord Class. Wondering why? Read on.' - ๐ŸŽญ Trotter labels the piece 'purely speculative political fiction', even if parts may feel persuasive. - ๐Ÿ“ž The open scene is the Monday after election Saturday: Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins compare notes on a call arranged weeks earlier. - ๐Ÿ“‰ Both men, in this fiction, already saw major-party support trending down and knew winning 2026 could hurt almost as much as losing. - ๐Ÿงฑ The free preview ends there; the argument about Labour easing off landlords sits behind the paywall. - ๐Ÿ”’ Cam's link was isFreemail=false / only\_paid; no usable mid-article excerpt beyond the setup. - ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Read as campaign-season allegory about constrained centre-left options, not a reported leak. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: A thin public hook about Hipkins, landlords and post-election pain; the actual thesis is members-only. [Read More](https://christrotter418256.substack.com/p/shrinking-options) --- ![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b14b8_1c90febfc79248e198d81be549708b3a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_412,h_570,al_c,lg_1,q_80/7b14b8_1c90febfc79248e198d81be549708b3a~mv2.jpg) ## 7\. CHRIS McVEIGH: The Thin Veneer *Chris McVeigh - Brash & Mitchell* - ๐Ÿ“– McVeigh frames the column with Lord of the Flies and a line about monsters wearing our clothes, then turns to Parliament's slipping standards. - ๐Ÿผ He starts with the old image of Speaker Trevor Mallard bottle-feeding a baby in the chair, now a marker of cosy informality that aged badly. - ๐Ÿคฌ Fast-forward: MPs ejected after the c-word in the House, while newsreaders still coyly say 'the c word'. - ๐Ÿ‘• He ties that to Maori Party come-as-you-are dress, a haka on the floor, and Greens in keffiyehs as progressive badges. - ๐ŸŽฉ Dress, speech and behaviour, he argues, uphold civilised debate; drop them and you risk the whole orderly structure. - ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ He rejects swapping Shakespeare and Churchill for bar-room crudeness and street-kid attire in the debating chamber. - ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช The 'salami effect' of Weimar erosions is his warning: each slice sold as progressive until the protections are gone. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: The thin veneer of parliamentary dignity is what stands between a legislature and a creche, beer garden or costume party, and restoring it may already be late. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/chris-mcveigh-the-thin-veneer?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/09/GettyImages-2242407876.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=compress&crop=faces&cs=origin&fit=crop&w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.11.0) ## 8\. Trump Just Upped The Ante In His Fight With Left-Wing Media *Brecca Stoll - The Daily Wire* - ๐Ÿ“บ After the White House press pool boycotted covering President Trump, the administration launched 'Trump TV' as a 24/7 stream of moments, announcements and archive clips. - ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ The White House posted: not every big moment made it onto your TV, 'now it can.' - ๐Ÿ—ป The New York Post said the first broadcast was Trump's 3 July Mount Rushmore speech, after a day of teaser posts including a satellite truck rolling in. - ๐Ÿšซ On Friday Trump barred Politico, CNN and MSNOW from the White House. - ๐Ÿ“ก On Monday the TV pool (Fox, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC) suspended pool coverage, including for the UN General Assembly trip, so no shared TV crew. - ๐Ÿ“ The five networks jointly said the public needs independent information and no administration should punish outlets for reporting it objects to. - ๐Ÿ“ท The Washington Post and New York Times joined a photo blackout of that day's presidential events in solidarity, due to resume after midnight Eastern. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: Trump answers a pool walkout with his own channel, hardening the standoff between the White House and legacy TV news. [Read More](https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-just-upped-the-ante-in-his-fight-with-left-wing-media?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://i0.wp.com/www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-23-at-3.07.37-PM.png?w=1200) ## 9\. The Hager story implodes even more *David Farrar - Kiwiblog* - ๐Ÿงจ Farrar says he was done blogging Dirty Work until three fresh collapses landed in one day. - ๐Ÿ™… Toy boss Nick Mowbray denies ever donating to the Taxpayers' Union or entering its office, claims Hager stated as fact; Mowbray has now donated in outrage. - ๐Ÿ’ธ Farrar jokes Hager may prove the Union's best fundraiser yet. - โš–๏ธ The book said the TU board paid out at least one sexual harassment case against Jordan Williams; chair Ruth Richardson says past chairs and board members know of no complaint or payment. - ๐Ÿ“ป On Ryan Bridge, Hager then said his two sources claimed the payout was hidden even from board members. - ๐Ÿฆ Farrar calls that impossible: bank payments need at least two directors' authorisation, so there is no 'secret payout' lane. - ๐Ÿ“ฌ On the claim Farrar illegally gave National's database for a 2020 TU mailout, the Union produced the commercial invoice for the list it actually bought. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: Three concrete denials and a paper trail that leave Dirty Work looking, to Farrar, unserious. [Read More](https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2026/09/the%5Fhager%5Fstory%5Fimplodes%5Feven%5Fmore.html?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://www.spiked-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2151082474-1536x864.jpg) ## 10\. John Cleese can say whatever the hell he wants about Islam *Brendan O'Neill - spiked* - ๐ŸŽญ O'Neill says Britain now runs on Islamo-censorship, and John Cleese is the latest comic told he is unwelcome for mocking Islam. - ๐ŸŽฌ Cleese is touring with a Holy Grail stage show; in Birmingham a group called Deenified branded him a 'hate preacher' and demanded Town Hall cancel for 'community respect'. - ๐Ÿ’ฌ His alleged sins include saying the Koran is about power, that British cultural heritage is superior, that 'Islamophobia' wards off criticism, and that fear of murder chills comics. - โœ… O'Neill treats all of that as legitimate argument about an ideology, not a crime warranting civic exile. - ๐Ÿงฑ He argues velvet talk of community respect hides a medieval intolerance for the liberty to speak and joke. - ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง The piece frames Cleese's late-career stage work as ordinary entertainment being policed by blasphemy activists in England's second city. - ๐Ÿ›‘ Ending the indulgence, he says, means refusing cancel demands and letting comics mock any religion, including Islam. - ๐Ÿ’ก Takeaway: If Cleese cannot take the piss after 65 years of comedy, free speech in Britain is already on life support. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/22/john-cleese-can-say-whatever-the-hell-he-wants-about-islam/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ## What our members are saying about Ten@10 **Elizabeth** These articles are compulsory reading for me and the perfect addition to the usual list of Goodoil items! **Lynne** Absolutely brilliant to receive these current and thought provoking articles. **Jonathan** Just wanted to let you know that Iโ€™m loving this new 10@10\. Much appreciated from someone who chooses to read/watch almost NO mainstream media. **Murray** Cam, relish your output as the newspaper in Christchurch is so intent on non news. Thankyou **Fred** Thanks for Ten @ Ten, really enjoy reading it.Keep it up. All the best, keep healthy. **Jocko** Wonderful info not otherwise available in NZ. More power to your elbow! Thanks.