Reserve Bank Governor’s Intervention Speech Notches a 1-0 Lead For Opposition...
In this State Of It column, Selwyn Manning writes: If signals are anything to go by then the Reserve Bank governor's message that he will intervene to bring the Kiwi Dollar down should he have to - is...
View ArticleThe Problem, The Politics, The Solutions – Why Auckland’s Hot Housing Market...
"Woe be tied the politician who hitches a reputation to a bandwagon that is careering out of control, where solutions remain elusive to her or his political will and outside that politician's...
View ArticleSpecial Feature: Rudderless Within The Great Game
"This week, documents released by the High Court to Labour's deputy leader Grant Robertson show how in December 2011 this once proud nation's spies were in a conundrum. The Government Communications...
View ArticleOversight Reform Of Intelligence Agencies A True Test Of Opposition’s Resolve
Revelations that the Prime Minister’s mother was best friends with the GCSB director’s mother underscores two major issues: how small New Zealand’s population is and why current oversight laws of our...
View ArticleSome Stats + Top 20 The Daily Blog Posts For The Month
"After one month, what is most satisfying is seeing how The Daily Blog has provided an opportunity for a sense of community to develop around some of New Zealand's top writers.... And in celebration of...
View ArticleNicky Hager And International Team Of Journalists Expose Global Money...
This ICIJ.org investigation unearths a labyrinth of covert companies, bank accounts, blind trusts and assets designed as depositories where the rich, the powerful, the famous, and corrupt can hide away...
View ArticleTDB-MILNZ Political Performance Poll – GCSB Issue
TDB/MILNZ Audience Poll: After what seems an age of political activity, media coverage, and public discourse examining the Prime Minister’s oversight of the GCSB and the appointment of Ian Fletcher as...
View ArticlePolitics Aside: Why John Key Is Part Of The Intel Problem Not The Solution
Rebecca Kitteridge asserts that her report is a review, that she did not have a mandate nor the resource to investigate the GCSB. Without an inquiry we will never know if this scandal occurred due to...
View ArticleKey’s Intel Reform: Cyber Security Is A Five-Eyed Trojan Horse
Cyber Security has been the big ticket trojan horse concept that the Five Eyes network of nations (US-UK-Canada-Australia-NZ) has used to bind together new security-intel alliances and create compliant...
View ArticleTwo-Party Voting Bloc Works For Aussie’s Right So Why Not Also For NZ’s Left
If the Labour-Green bloc is to win in 2014, it needs to present itself as the Australian right does, as a two-part coalition. There voters over the ditch know what they will get when they vote for that...
View ArticleMadame Butterfly Exposes An All Too Common Betrayal Of A Past Time
"Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) is only 15 years old. She came from a family of relative privilege but one that through bereavement had fallen on more insecure times. Butterfly is representative of many young...
View ArticleSpecial Feature: In Defence Of New Zealand’s Last True Statesman
David Lange: "The Oxford Debate was an example of how different the times were. It was no secret that the New Zealand government's position was of grave concern to our own foreign affairs ministry. I...
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Reserve Bank Governor’s Intervention Speech Notches a 1-0 Lead For Opposition...
State Of It – By Selwyn Manning. If signals are anything to go by then the New Zealand Reserve Bank governor’s message that he will intervene to bring the Kiwi Dollar down should he have to – is a win...
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The Problem, The Politics, The Solutions – Why Auckland’s Hot Housing Market...
By Selwyn Manning. The Prophesy: Woe to you who underestimate a seasoned politician’s ability to climb aboard a problem that’s screaming out for solutions – particularly if the solutions have been...
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Updated: On Relevancy And Lifelines – The Strategic Rise Of Winston Peters
UPDATE: WEDNESDAY 9pm, May 8, 2014 – The Government has overcome its first hurdle managing to have Parliament pass the first reading of the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related...
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5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On Invasive New Spy Laws
5AA’s Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 9/05/13. Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning deliver their weekly live bulletin Across The Ditch on 5AA Australia.This week, Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey...
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Housing: Auckland Needs Real Practical Solutions – Not Grandstanding By...
Penny Hulse, Len Brown, Nick Smith and John Key announce the new Beehive/Council Housing Accord. THIS JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT by Prime Minister John Key, Housing Minister Nick Smith, and Auckland Mayor Len...
View ArticleRadio 5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning On Today’s ‘Smile And Be Optimistic’ Budget
Across The Ditch was Recorded Live on 16/05/13. In this week’s bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss the big challenges facing the National-led Government, and also the significant issues...
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State Of It: The Devil Is In The Detail Budget
THE STATE OF IT: Rhetoric aside, what the National-led Government’s Finance Minister Bill English wants from us is to embrace his fiscal plan with a smile and an air of optimism. But New Zealanders...
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,...
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