Category: National Party
Nicky Hager: Five reasons why Judith Collins won’t be prime minister
Dirty Politics, 2018: Nicky Hager assesses the Jami-Lee Ross saga
Sunlight did what sunlight does: Nicky Hager on Dirty Politics, three years on
Dirty Politics landed like a bombshell in the NZ election campaign of 2014. It may not have affected that outcome, but that was never the ambition. It has, however, made a big impact on our politics, argues Nicky Hager
Snowden files: How NZ and US agents plotted to spy on China
Five Eyes allies identified a diplomatic data link between Chinese offices as a target for hacking. Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher dissect the plan.
#snowdenNZ : The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations
Leaked Snowden files show most of GCSB’s targets are not security threats to New Zealand, as Government suggests…
Digging up dirty deeds, Nicky Hager writing in Walkley Magazine
Political journalists had long suspected
links between the prime minister’s office and these
bloggers, but the activities were well hidden and
denied. The book shows a series of attacks and
manufactured scandals: researched and coordinated
by government staff and then fed to journalists via
the attack bloggers. It is a classic example of where
a leak was crucial for the story getting out
New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term
An orchestrated attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work: Nicky Hager writes in The Guardian
New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term
An orchestrated attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work
Dirty Politics
Early in 2014 Nicky Hager was leaked a large number of email and online conversations from Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil blog.
Many of these were between Slater and his personal allies on the hard right, revealing an ugly and destructive style of politics. But there were also many communications with the prime minister’s office and other Cabinet ministers in the National Govt.