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Thomas Cranmer

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3 months

A 20 year old male punches a 71 year old woman in the face three times, discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression supported by the police. A male punches a male politician in the face, jail time and no name suppression.

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This is the strongly worded advice from the New Zealand government’s group of vaccine experts in relation to the under 18s. It wasn’t implemented.

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Since the Court of Appeal released its judgment on Friday which ruled that the current NZDF covid mandate is unlawful only yours truly at ZB Plus has run a story. No other media org has touched it. This despite ACT and NZ First issuing press releases today on the judgment and

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It’s very unclear what the Christchurch Call has left to achieve. However OIA docs released in December reveal an interesting development. The Call is not just about terrorism and violent extremism but now is specifically looking at gender-based hatred. In a briefing paper to

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Kate Hannah and the Disinformation Project continue to discredit themselves. In 2020, Hannah and others released a paper which stated that, “It is notable that a considerable amount of the narrators identified were either associated with, or explicitly from, conservative leaning

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Some background to Thursday's story as it seems interesting. I've been approached by a number of msm journalists over the last 12 months enquiring about doing a similar story - all have been very good to deal with and have respected my wishes that the focus remains on my stories

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8 months

Yesterday it was reported that a hikoi from Northland to Parliament was underway opposing National’s and Act’s gang policies. The trip is led by Matilda Kahotea. It omits to mention that Kahotea is the mother of three senior Headhunter gang members and also runs a bail and rehab

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1 year

Today Drs Bloomfield and McElnay received honours from the government. In two weeks time, I'll share my examination of one aspect of NZ's covid response and set out what Bloomfield and McElnay knew in private and what they said in public - with reference to the paperwork.

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Thomas Cranmer

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2 years

When the PM arrives back in NZ today bear in mind that she has just spent more time on that 17 hour return flight from New York than she has spent on her Reduction of Child Poverty portfolio during this entire term of Parliament. On 15 August I pointed out that her ..

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9 months

Interesting info from a written parliamentary question on media placement. The government purchased a $200,000 “package” from Stuff which included 5 climate stories, and a $300,000 “package” from TVNZ which included prime time specials, interviews with “experts” and stories. Are

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6 months

Yesterday, two months after the Hamas attacks, I watched 45 mins of raw footage at the Israeli Embassy in Wellington with around a dozen other journalists and a forensic pathologist who went to Israel and volunteered in the days after the atrocities to identify some of the

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11 months

As has been reported, the PM’s mother is the Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Education Research and has been involved in the controversial school curriculum refresh. The NZCER has a four year strategic plan from 2021-24 which has four priorities. The first of

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4 months

By now it’s no surprise to learn that Ardern is an opportunist motivated to promote her own brand on other peoples’ dime. Last year, a Labour MP recounted to me a story relating to Ardern’s first wedding planned for 2022. Labour MPs were in their caucus meeting when the whips

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8 months

Cranmer goes mainstream! My views don’t change. Thank you for all the support which has made this possible.

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9 months

The government approached TVNZ about a “special partnership” relating to climate change on 23 May 2022 which was signed on 31 October timed to coincide with COP27. Minister Woods received written updates as negotiations progressed and has confirmed that she has been “paying close

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@tomdaynz @SeanPlunket Minister Woods described the Breakfast integration as part of their TVNZ Partnership. That included interviews with ‘experts’ on Breakfast that was actually paid content.

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3 months

Interesting to note that yesterday ACT issued a press release regarding the Auckland Museum and I was the only person to run the story … in the entire country. Makes you think about what other stories aren’t being covered.

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9 months

After Tamihere’s bellicose performance earlier this week, a reminder that his Waipareira Trust has amassed a war chest of $50.3M as at June 2022. An amount which has swelled from $8.2M in 2017.

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9 months

"There will be trouble in this country" if ACT insists on people being treated equally. What do you think the Māori Party president meant by that?

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In a recent decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority earlier this month Warner Bros accepted that the blurring of a hand gesture by Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker) during a Newshub Live at 6pm item was potentially misleading and unfair to Ms Keen.

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Thomas Cranmer

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11 months

$308,000 from four other government ministries to Tātou NZ, a business run by Minister Henare’s partner (Skye Kimura) and brother (Tatai Henare). $67,550 from Statistics, $136,840 from Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, $30,000 from Lotto NZ (DIA) and $74,240 from Food

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Thomas Cranmer

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5 months

John Tamihere’s Waipareira Trust filed its annual accounts for the financial year ended 30 June 2023 on 21 Dec. It shows that over the course of the last financial year its cash position has swollen from $50.3M to $64.3M (up from $6.95M in 2016). In 2023 remuneration to senior

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Thomas Cranmer

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7 months

More government papers show the extent to which advance purchases of advertising was used by the government to provide urgent short-term cash injections to the media sector in 2020 amidst fears of the viability of some media players. Options such as government loan guarantees and

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10 months

The high level review of Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority is shocking. The health reforms are an unmitigated disaster and are doing nothing to improve health outcomes.

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11 months

Ministers, spouses and government contracts. Same story, different faces. This time, Peeni Henare as Associate Minister of Health and his partner, Skye Kimura as CEO of ad agency Tātou NZ winning contracts from MOH even when Andrew Little, then Health Minister, has confirmed that

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6 months

Yesterday I asked the Mayor of Wellington's office how many official meetings or appointments involving Mayor Whanau have been cancelled or rescheduled since 1 October, and whether Mayor Whanau has not attended any meetings or appointments that she was scheduled to attend since 1

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Last week lifetime Black Power member and gang spokesperson Denis O’Reilly appeared before the Justice select committee to argue against proposed gang legislation. O’Reilly introduced himself as the chair of the Waiohiki Community Charitable Trust. The trust’s purpose is to

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8 months

ZB Plus is covering the treatment of MomoSt John today. Some observations: first, I’ve followed Momo for some time and enjoyed her observations. I’ve also seen Momo provide a quiet word of reassurance, encouragement or support to people having a tough time. Secondly, nothing

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10 months

Questions have been asked about why Charities Services isn’t taking a tougher position against Waipareira and Tamihere. Interestingly, its three person Registration Board, which looks at its most difficult cases, is chaired by Gwendoline Keel, a lawyer who is also the general

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Stuff launched The Whole Truth in 2020 as an election fact-checking project. It was then “re-imagined” as a project to counter Covid misinformation. In that guise it was first funded by a Google grant and then by $591,000 from NZ On Air. From government, the project was

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How often does the NZ media edit their online stories in ways that are not obvious to their readers? In 2018 Newshub ran an article called ‘Who is Denis O’Reilly?’ which included the sentence, “Mr O’Reilly admits that he did horrible things to become a patched member, including

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Harry Tam, a prominent gang member, is producing tax-payer funded ‘cultural reports’ that are provided to courts when sentencing offenders! Wrong!

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6 months

One final post on the October 7 footage. First with regard to the 2,700 to 3,000 gunman that crossed into Israel that day. Although some wore light combat fatigues, none that we saw wore body armour, helmets, or the balaclavas and distinctive green Hamas bandanas that you see on

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9 months

Despite having 9 full time and contracted comms staff within the Ministry for Pacific Peoples paid approximately $1M per annum, the ministry issued no press releases in the 2021/22 financial year or in any of the previous four financial years! 5 years and no press releases!

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1 year

Is the NZ media having a collective breakdown? TVNZ grilling Luxon again about his property portfolio and comparing his comments about babies to Nazi Germany!? At the same time, revelations that the media have edited copy wire stories relating to the Ukraine War and

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7 months

Newstalk ZB Plus has asked Chloe Swarbrick and the Green Party to clarify those comments. Story published tomorrow.

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7 months

“From the river to the sea” appears in Hamas’ 2017 constitution. Some people believe it means no Israel and even no Jewish people. UK Labour suspended an MP for using it last week. Our Jewish community lives in fear of anti-semitism. Why aren’t media asking her what she meant?

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David Seymour calls on the Prime Minister to proactively release all Covid communications to assure the country that the government acted in the public interest at all times. Message to the govt: secure and retain all Covid comms for release!

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Defendant in the Posie Parker assault of elderly women gets discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression. The Court recognised the 180 hours of Red Cross voluntary work and other factors which the defendant had undertaken.

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9 months

The government pays the state-owned broadcaster to run news stories and interviews with hand-picked “experts”. Pure political propaganda.

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4 months

Last year it was revealed that TVNZ and Stuff ran paid content for the EECA on climate issues. But how much other content on TVNZ’s Breakfast and Seven Sharp programmes is paid content? In response to an OIA covering the last three years we can see that paid content on those two

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5 months

Ministerial briefing papers released last month show that during 2022/23 the Ministry of Health had significant concerns relating to the leadership and performance of the board and executive of Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand). Poutasi and Apa need to go, along with others. It’s

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8 months

Cabinet turned down a proposal by then Justice Minister Kiri Allan to stop funding gangs. Hipkins was reportedly concerned that it would affect too many businesses that have gang affiliations. Says it all.

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7 months

When watching Parliament, ever noticed that when Luxon would stand up to speak Labour MPs would start to speak amongst themselves? Not on accident. It was MPs responding to a text instruction sent from the Labour whip. Amusing to hear the extent to which Labour MPs were stage

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10 months

Here is the Ministry of Pacific Peoples withdrawing $4,300 of taxpayer money in cash from Westpac as part of the departure of the MPP chief executive. Taxpayer money treated like an ATM.

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The Green Party director of comms left yesterday for even greener pastures. A permanent replacement has yet to be appointed. A party source telling me “so far we haven’t found anyone stupid enough”.

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10 months

John Tamihere’s Waipareira Trust is taking $6M in annual management fees as part of his deal to provide Whanau Ora services. Tamihere and his wife are the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officers of Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency (WOCA) and Waipareira Trust respectively.

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11 months

The Herald refuses to publish articles from former Labour MP and Minister Michael Bassett, and has also refused to print advertisements from non-profits - but it has published two opinion pieces from a life member of the Black Power gang in the last week. Very wrong!

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9 months

Responses from the NZ Police to Official Information Act requests relating to @ThePosieParker Auckland event made in late March remain long overdue. Emails confirm that all OIA responses relating to the Posie Parker event required Executive Review from Police National HQ. That

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1 year

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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In late 2020 Tourism NZ launched a campaign ‘Do Something New’. It was part of $13m of fees paid by the ministry to ad agency, Stanley St. Insiders have confirmed that Skye Kimura (partner of the Minister of Tourism) was involved in securing the ‘Do Something New’ campaign

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4 months

Part of the $300k that the government, via the EECA, spent on paid content with TVNZ included 5 interviews on Breakfast. TVNZ has now confirmed that two of those interviews on climate were with professors from Canterbury Uni. An example of the unholy alliance between the NZ

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1 year

Media going hard on Luxon’s leadership. It’s almost as if their jobs depended on it …

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@CranmerWrites

9 months

It doesn’t appear that these interviews were marked as being “paid or sponsored content”. It is also not clear if interviews conducted with the Climate Change Minister James Shaw leading up to COP27 were part of this package but it might explain why some some interviews with

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3 years

@RealJamesWoods Discussions between the President and the Speaker must be entertaining ..

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1 month

On December 7, I sat in a small room in the Israeli Embassy with around a dozen journalists and watched 45 mins of horrific footage from Oct 7. To my right sat the then Human Rights Commissioner - he declined all invitations to speak to media following the viewing.

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10 months

The PM continues to mismanage the Kiri Allan situation. For the good of Kiri, the government and the country he needs to issue a concise summary of what actually occurred on Sunday, rule a line under it and move on. Instead he is letting journalists piece it together bit by bit.

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1 year

Deborah, the concern is that it is the government that has not followed the science. Specifically, it has misrepresented the technical assessments of Medsafe, and not followed recommendations of its own vaccine technical advisory group on matters of vaccine safety.

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1 year

Following on from @jacindaardern 's valedictory speech in Parliament this evening, I've blocked someone for disinformation. Follow the science, dude. Not the fear mongering, irrationality and silliness of some alleged/self appointed expert on a social media channel.

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On 29 November 2023, Costello as the Minister of Customs, took a paper to Cabinet which supported the increase of excise tax on tabacco products in line with CPI. The increase took effect from 1 January. RNZ omits that material fact from their coverage of Costello.

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The Ministry of Health / Tātou conflict issue involving Peeni Henare’s partner Skye Kimura from last September - now confirmed by a PWC review. Why did the ministry fight for months to withhold the report? It was obvious to anyone that looked that there were deficiencies in their

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Ministers, spouses and government contracts. Same story, different faces. This time, Peeni Henare as Associate Minister of Health and his partner, Skye Kimura as CEO of ad agency Tātou NZ winning contracts from MOH even when Andrew Little, then Health Minister, has confirmed that

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Concerning news from New Lynn electorate yesterday. A car was driven towards towards National Party supporters who were standing on the side of the road with placards before swerving and stopping. Driver got out of car and was abusive and aggressive towards the group,

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InsideOUT Kōaro, a controversial charity which provides transgender material to NZ schools has seen a huge increase in government funding from $63k in 2021 to $558k in 2022. Over the same period salaries at the charity increased from $198k to $715k. Also in 2021 the Associate

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7 months

On Friday at 4:18pm Pharmac issued a press release which included an apology from its chief executive Sarah Fitt for her sneering and arrogant emails aimed at a journalist asking questions on behalf of New Zealanders. The Board seems to think that the CE responsible for the

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2 years

The wife of Kiri Allan MP became a partner at Kahui Legal on 30 July 2019 and within weeks was helping prepare the He Puapua report although her relationship to Ms Allan is not disclosed. How and why was this firm appointed by govt to participate (and by whom)?

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In Oct 2020, Kelvin Davis and Willie Jackson attended the opening of the Ahikaa Trust drug rehab centre in Auckland. It was run by the mother of three senior Headhunter gang members. In Oct 2022 police raided that facility along with another at Dairy Flat recovering drugs and

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What is going on with the Ministry of Education and Tātou NZ? Last year, then Minister, Chris Hipkins was asked whether the department had entered into any contracts with Waitapu Group (the shareholder of Tātou NZ) since 2017. Hipkins stated that the ministry was “not aware of

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10 months

Excellent Herald article this morning revealing that DOC is paying staff bonuses of up to $3,500 each for Māori language proficiency at a time when it is facing a massive shortfall in its operating budget and has consulting firms PWC and Nimbl reviewing its asset management plan.

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6 months

Peters hits a nerve but however you describe it, media in NZ is at an inflection point.

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1 year

Pfizer Vaccine Approval in NZ Under Scrutiny: A Retrospective Analysis: The government's enthusiastic promotion of the Pfizer vaccine approval in New Zealand overstated the strength of the clinical assessment despite significant gaps in the data.

Pfizer Vaccine Approval in NZ Under Scrutiny: A Retrospective Analysis

The government's enthusiastic promotion of the Pfizer vaccine approval in New Zealand overstated the strength of the clinical assessment despite significant gaps in the data.

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10 months

1 million impressions over the last 28 days! Thanks for the support. Appreciate you all.

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6 months

Former Foreign Minister Mahuta gave an interview on Q+A last week in which she referred to information coming from a third party that influenced her first tweet relating to the Hamas terror attack. MFAT has now confirmed that it holds no information relating to third party

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2 years

This is jaw-dropping. Mahuta’s husband received $28,300 of funding from TPK’s Rangatahi Suicide Prevention Fund of which $15,500 was earmarked to pay a group of ‘experts’ and ‘panellists’. When we received the application form via OIA those names were redacted but who were they?

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10 months

Immediately after the Posie Parker rally a number of OIAs were submitted to the Police. They were extended to 17 July. That date has passed without the Police giving any further timing update. They merely apologise for not complying with their OIA obligations. Why the delay?

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1 year

The High Court found that the vaccine mandate extension to care workers was invalid because Minister Hipkins had no public health advice justifying the extension. Rights were unlawfully limited because of a political decision made by Minister Hipkins.

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1 year

Surely no politician has burnt through more political capital in as fast a time as Jacinda Ardern. Winning her second election in a landslide in Oct 2020, she resigns in January 2023. There was simply no more political capital left in the tank.

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11 months

$250,000 from the Ministry of Health to Tātou NZ, a business run by the partner of Peeni Henare, the Associate Health Minister. Other government contracts were awarded from other ministries.

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7 months

Kiri Allan resigned as a Minister on 24 July. Two weeks later on 7 August, KLA Limited was incorporated - a consultancy and lobbying firm focused on policy review, stakeholder engagement and public relations.

Home | Kiri Allan

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In order to demonstrate that it acted in the public interest and on the basis of public health advice, the NZ government should proactively release all text, WhatsApp and Teams messages relating to its Covid response between Ministers and officials - the principal communications

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2024 promises to be a year of change in NZ media. If you’re not happy with the current offering and want other options, please subscribe to NewstalkZB Plus. More subscribers will mean more resource to break stories that others wont.

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Yesterday Prime Minister Luxon ended his post Cabinet press conference by addressing the question about whether the government will continue to support Jacinda Ardern as the special envoy for the Christchurch Call. "We will have more to say about that very very shortly,

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The Hawke’s Bay Chaindog Meth rehab programme run by the Mongrel Mob’s Harry Tam was required to deliver an evaluation progress report by 30 June 2023 under the terms of its government funding agreement. However a response to an OIA request has confirmed that no such document

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7 months

The Green Party has refused to back its MP, Chlöe Swarbrick over her inflammatory speech delivered on the weekend. Just as the party refused to back its co-leader Marama Davidson over her claims made in an election debate last month that the IDF should be designated a terrorist

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

7 months

Green Party refuses to back Swarbrick over inflammatory speech #ZBPLUS

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2 years

There has been much discussion and concern expressed about the media and the effect that the $55m PIJF may have had on their ability to objectively and critically comment on difficult issues of public interest. The template funding docs are available on the NZ on Air website

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Te Papa confirms that the event of Saturday will likely go ahead with the statement, “Our assessment at this point in time is that the event can be conducted safely and we are proceeding on that basis. We will continue actively monitoring the situation. As a museum for all New

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8 months

The other bail house raided by police last year was the notorious facility at Karaka St, Auckland run by sisters Elaine and Karen Ngamu from Ahikaa Trust. Elaine has close family connections with the Tribesmen gang and been described as one of NZ’s biggest fraudsters having over

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1 year

Covid and our Kiwi Kids - Part 2. 'Two Shots for Summer' was the New Zealand government's edgy tag line to get young people vaccinated. The only problem was that it was contrary to the government's health advice from their own experts.

Covid and our Kiwi Kids - Part 2

'Two Shots for Summer' was the New Zealand government's edgy tag line to get young people vaccinated. The only problem was that it was contrary to the health advice.

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NZ media in crisis. A paper prepared by the Strong Public Media Establishment Board in March 2023 outlines the scale of the problem. Despite media companies having access to $100M of government help during covid, the business model remains under pressure. The result is “a

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Confirmation that Nanaia Mahuta’s office was directly involved in objecting to the suggested MFAT tweet responding in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 atrocities; substituting it with a hopelessly tone-deaf tweet that required correction by the Prime Minister. Did Mahuta

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8 months

Whilst the Ministry for Pacific Peoples has attracted criticism for its largesse, it is not alone amongst government departments. The Department for Internal Affairs spent $15,063 on the welcome of Karen Vercoe, the Reserve Bank spent $7,274 on the farewell of Graeme Wheeler and

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7 months

On the first day of ZB Plus I covered the attempted cancellation of momo and the efforts of the Free Speech Union to rally support around her. Since then, amongst other things, we have covered the re-emergence of the Listener Seven controversy, Stuff's financial position at the

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Haven’t delivered so far, but early days. Here’s another golden opportunity for ZB Plus to deliver on their “No topic will be off limits for us” statement. @CranmerWrites

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Ministry for Pacific Peoples don’t just specialise in welcomes and farewells. Post-budget breakfasts also look good! 3 breakfasts in 2022 for $29,597. How much did the four breakfasts held this year cost?

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4 months

As the public waits for justice to be done for Baby Ru, a reminder that the jury in the Kahui murder case took just one minute to acquit the father after a six-week trial. Years later the coroner ruled that the fatal injuries suffered by the twins occurred “whilst they were in

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1 year

Interesting article in today’s ODT at a time when the Otago Uni is battling a $60m funding hole in its budget - the uni is refusing to say how much it has spent on a Māori sculpture that is still under wraps, and has warned it will consider any further questioning about the

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@CranmerWrites

10 months

$40,000 of taxpayer money spent on a public servant’s farewell, including $7,500 on gifts. That’s insane.

Andrew Ashton

@A_J_Ashton

10 months

Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes said today the use of taxpayers’ money for farewell and welcome events for a chief executive of a government agency was not appropriate. Ministry of Pacific Peoples’ spent $39,262.22 on a farewell for its former chief executive, Secretary

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

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Not only were the contracts that Tātou entered into with the Ministry of Health not compliant with procurement rules, Peter Hughes the Public Service Commissioner wrote to the DG of Health Dr Sarfati on 10 November to advise her that in relation to her response, “there are

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

1 year

Yesterday Hipkins denied that ministers ever discussed using fear as a tactic for encouraging compliance with Covid measures, but the Prime Minister’s Office was regularly receiving reports that monitored public behaviour and sentiment - including fear. They measured your fear.

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

4 months

The PM helps fill in some knowledge gaps for Dr Woods relating to her former portfolio. So many teachable moments.

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

1 year

Both @nzpolice and the responsible minister, Ginny Andersen, are extending OIA requests relating to the Posie Parker rally. In the case of the Police, they’ve extended OIA requests to mid-July. Why so sensitive? Wotcha hiding?

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

11 months

The same year as the honour was awarded to the mother of Minister Hipkins, a Northland couple were also surprised to both receive Queen’s Service Medals. At least that Herald article mentioned loving son Kelvin - who was also sitting on the Appointment and Honours Committee.

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

10 months

Despite being under a Charities Services investigation for loans made by Waipareira Trust to Te Pati Māori, John Tamihere (CEO of Waipareira and president of TPM) has made another donation of $50,000 to TPM only weeks ago. What is the source of funds?

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

3 months

He Whenua Taurikura National Centre of Research Excellence was set up in June 2022 and is hosted by Victoria University. The director of the Centre is Professor Joanna Kidman, appointed for a three year term by then PM Ardern. Funding is provided to the Centre by the He Whenua

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Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

2 years

Mike King raises some very good and serious questions. Providing funding for suicide prevention to a company owned by a Minister’s spouse which has no expertise in the area makes a mockery of a serious issue and the hard work that genuinely qualified people are doing in area

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