Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The media's war on the new government

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We are in an extraordinary situation where the mainstream media are openly at war with an elected government. This has never happened before...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The left-wing media needed a line of attack, and they found one

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The left-wing media pack wasted no time identifying the new government’s weakest point. Seething over an election result that they didn’t li...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

A few random thoughts post-election

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■ My friend and former boss Robin Bromby, long domiciled in Australia but still a keen observer of New Zealand affairs, makes an interesting...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Kim Hill's exit interview

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Kim Hill signed off yesterday . Her legion of fans will be bereft. I am not one of them. Hill is ferociously intelligent and can be an inci...
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

There's no reason why this government shouldn't go the distance

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Notwithstanding everything pessimistic that I’ve said over the past few weeks, I rather like the look of this new government. At first gla...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

You call that a walk?

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  The Te Araroa website calls it “the walk of a lifetime”: Cape Reinga to Bluff, 3026 kilometres. “Walk”? Don’t believe it. Walking is som...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Memo to RNZ: the country has moved on

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I wonder, does RNZ realise that the government changed five weeks ago? Its editorial judgment suggests not. The story that led its bulleti...
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