Hutt residents face a tough choice
The Hutt Radio mayoral debate on Monday night (23 September) gave me the first chance to see the candidates side-by-side. As someone who'
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Every sentence a life sentence?
"Do the crime, do the time" is a favourite catch-cry of the "hard on crime" mob. New Zealand has the comically misnamed Sensible...
It's not you... okay, it is you.
Really, voters. We've had this talk before, haven't we? Disillusionment with the status quo is one thing; Donald Trump and Derryn Hinch...
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Weldon?
Sorry, the previous reference to Dad's Army made the post title sort of inevitable. The gentleman referred to is of course TV3's CEO,...
A rare medium
Tell a broadcaster today that they ought to be guided by standards first created in 1922 by John Reith - and in the context of the stuffy...
Rigour, please!
There's something seriously wrong with the state of reporting when The Daily Mail Online can fisk other media in a way that, if it...
When the media no longer mediates
Mediate: adjectiveˈmiːdɪət/ involving an intermediate agency. Two stories, one from Australia and the other from New Zealand, on the same...
Will we see their like again? And do we want to?
It’s almost obligatory, as one ages, to start the occasional sentence with “In my day…” and to recollect figures from the past as being...
One law for Laws (and others) and one for the rest of us
I've purposely refrained from writing about the whole "Dirty Politics" saga that's so occupied New Zealand media and political observers...
Time to clean up politics – and not just in the way you might think
While NewZealand ponders the aftermath dirty politics, and a crop of newly minted politicians find their way to the Parliamentary...
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