Private hospitals will ‘cream off’ easiest work under Nat scheme
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager says National’s health policies have gone publicly unnoticed, but involve a shift back to 1990s free-market reforms….
Author: Nicky Hager
Hooton’s hollow complaints, comment, Pundit website
Nicky Hager was invited by the Pundit website to reply to a column by Matthew Hooton.
“Exposing political parties and their strategies”, Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Lillehammer, Norway, September 2008
Unelected political advisers are the most interesting and important part of many political issues, controversies and election campaigns. They can be more influential than the politicians they serve. Yet they usually get away with acting invisibly and avoiding media scrutiny.
A question of judgement
Is it all right when the judge in a court case and the lawyer for one of the parties are also long-term business partners? Nicky Hager reports….
Plum job for Brash as National attacks cronyism 10th August 2008 Originally published in: Sunday Star-Times
Interview with Nicky Hager 2008
Nicky Hager is interviewed about lessons for the public from his book and the film The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men: Documentary film
Award-winning documentary maker Alister Barry (Someone Else’s Country, In a Land of Plenty) brings this exposé of behind-the-scenes politics in an all-too-real political thriller.
- DVD copies of “The Hollow Men” documentary are available by mailorder priced at $30 each, including gst and postage. Simply email alisterbarry@paradise.net.nz indicating how many copies you would like and your postal address.
Brethren leader visits in secrecy
THE WORLD leader of the Exclusive Brethren made an unpublicised visit to New Zealand last week, arriving on Wednesday, amid strict security, to a large meeting of faithful in Wellington.
Key’s election-advice invoices undermine attacks on Labour
National Party leader John Key appears to be using taxpayers’ money to pay for his controversial Australian strategy advisers, Crosby/Textor. Inside information strongly points to the firm being paid through Key’s parliamentary office rather than by the National Party, even though the Australians are primarily assisting the party’s election campaign strategy….
Return of the Hollow Men
National leader John Key’s campaign is being overseen by the same highly controversial manipulators who directed Don Brash’s ill-fated tilt at power….