Clik here to view.
GCSB Downloaded Its Version Of The GCSB Bill From The Daily Blog
The New Zealand Herald’s David Fisher has revealed a smoke n dagger mystery on Twitter. It does appear the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) downloaded its copy of the GCSB draft...
View Article5AA Australia: Kim Dotcom & PM John Key Square Off Over NZ’s Proposed Spy Laws
Across The Ditch was recorded Live on 4/07/13: In this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the New Zealand Prime Minister has been challenged face to face by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Labour Should Take Moroney’s Tip & Put This ‘Man-Ban’ Silliness To Bed
Labour MP Sue Moroney.While the ‘man-ban’ silliness consumes the national debate, Labour is forced to create some wiggle-room to edge its way back to ready-to-govern status. It did this this morning on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s All This About A Leadership Coup?
NZ Labour Party leader David Shearer – image by Selwyn Manning.It’s an understatement to say there’s a lot of speculation flowing from all sides of the political spectrum on whether or not Labour...
View ArticleThe Sunday Panel on RadioLive With Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning & Rodney...
Radiolive’s The Sunday Panel was Recorded Live on 14/07/13. On this edition of the Sunday Panel Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning and Rodney Hide discuss: Party pills; David Shearer’s leadership;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Documentary’s Key Spy Witness Reveals How SIS Failed New Zealand
Trailer – Behind The Shroud. The documentary feature film Behind The Shroud is scheduled to broadcast for the first time on New Zealand television on FaceTV and Sky channel 83 on Monday August 5 at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All The Prime Minister’s Men: Why John Key Cannot Have It Both Ways
This morning on introducing the weekly New Zealand news bulletin that I do for an Australian radio station the host said: greetings to you from the land of spies and surveillance! This is how New...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on PM’s Men Acquire Journalists...
On this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the New Zealand Prime Minister’s investigator – who was tasked to find who had leaked a report into the spy agency...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Behind The Shroud Broadcasts Tonight – 8pm FaceTV & Sky Ch 83
Trailer – Behind The Shroud. BEHIND THE SHROUD: Tonight for the first time on NZ TV the public will be told why and how the SIS got the Ahmed Zaoui case so wrong. What can we learn from those mistakes?...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on the Fonterra-Caused Crisis
On this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest agriculture dairy product exporter, has become the focus of an international...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Special Feature: For China Is The GCSB Bill One Insult Too Many?
MENU: Preamble | Q&A Dr Paul Buchanan | Q&A Seeby Woodhouse | Q&A Thomas Beagle In this special feature, The Daily Blog considers whether New Zealand has over-stretched its diplomatic...
View Article5AA Australia: NZ Passes Controversial GCSB Electronic Spy Law
In this week’s Across The Ditch bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the National-led Government have managed to pass controversial electronic spy legislation into law, by only a slim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Labour Leadership: Get Ready For The Vision, The Policy, The Plan
EVERY TIME A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY has voted to unseat an established incumbent it has done it embracing a sense of vision. In the United States, John F Kennedy did it with his ‘a torch has been passed to...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Labour’s Leadership + Milk...
The leader of New Zealand’s Labour Party resigned last Thursday, sparking a leadership campaign. The three main candidates are: David Cunliffe, Grant Robertson, and Shane Jones. Among these three men...
View Article5AA: Across The Ditch – RMA Fizzer + Labour Leadership Primary
On 5AA Australia’s Across The Ditch bulletin this week Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the National-led Government looks likely to lose a key piece of legislation that paints it a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Jami-Lee Ross – National Affairs and the Public Interest
Selwyn Manning is the founding editor of Scoop, The Daily Blog and is now editor at Evening Report. He was a press secretary in the Helen Clark Government and one of New Zealand’s most respected...
View ArticleNew Zealand Government Should Advocate A Pathway For Peace For West Papua
It is clear and proper that New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is closely monitoring a concerning situation of deteriorating violence in West Papua. It is also apparent that groups who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Sentencing of a ‘Human Shell’
Special Report by Selwyn Manning. A German language version of this report was published by Cicero.de magazine in Germany. Caution: This report contains detail that could be disturbing to many people....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern
Analysis by Selwyn Manning. Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz. There’s a mood circulating among some circles that it would end badly for the Green Party in 2023 should it negotiate a part...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Election 2020: Green Party Negotiation Team Sets Its Terms of Reference
The Green Party has settled on its negotiation team, agreeing to who will represent the party’s members when considering the shape and outcome of talks with the incoming Labour-led Government. The...
View ArticleRadioLive: Wallace Chapman’s Sunday Panel with Selwyn Manning & Rodney Hide –...
Wallace Chapman’s Sunday Panel was Recorded live on 20/05/13. In this bulletin Wallace Chapman talks to journalist Selwyn Manning and former ACT Party leader Rodney Hide about: Aaron Gilmore’s demise,...
View Article5AA Australia: Police Commissioner Offers Conditional Apology To Ruatoki...
Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey was Recorded Live on 23/05/13. Issue One: Peter and Selwyn discuss how the New Zealand Police Commissioner Peter Marshall has conditionally...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Govt’s Miserable Response to...
After five years of mounting pressure, the National-led Government has coughed up $9.5 million for child poverty. The post-Budget targeted fund will be spread over five years and will contribute...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On A Battle for NZ’s Political...
5AA’s Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 6/06/13. This week Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey talk about the battle for NZ’s Political Centre now that Winston Peters has United Future’s Peter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is ‘Spot’ A Double-Dipper? Surely Not!
If one day can be a long time in politics, what do you make of 26 years! An old adage comes to mind: Every dog has its day. On Thursday, after 26 years representing south Auckland as a Labour Party...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Honour, Principle Or Personal Gain – Will New Zealand’s Real Leakers and...
RIGHT NOW OUT THERE AMONG US are a number of New Zealand Government officials who, at the peak of the United States’ war in Iraq, sold New Zealand’s national interests down the river. It was a breach...
View Article5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On Whether GCSB Spied On Aussies
– Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey’s Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 13/06/13. This week Selwyn and Peter discuss whether New Zealand’s intelligence agency, the GCSB, has been spying on Aussies....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breaking News: New Company Newco Positions To Purchase MediaWorks Off Receivers
MediaWorks, the company that owns and operates TV3, Four, RadioLive, the Rock, MoreFM, and a host of other radio broadcasting brands has gone into receivership. The receivers have formerly taken over...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5AA Australia: WOFs + Polar Blasts + Dodgy Pokie Laws
Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey. WOF & Transport Issues: South Australia is looking to require some vehicles be tested for road worthiness, and Selwyn Manning and Peter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RadioLive’s Sunday Panel With Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning & Rodney Hide
Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning & Rodney Hide discuss the political issues of the week (June 17-23) – Recorded Live on 23/06/13. Issues discussed: Truth newspaper’s closure; Lianne Dalziel’s...
View Article