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….
Category: National Party
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.
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….
Why John Key wants to change the electoral system, Otago Daily Times, June 2008
National Party leader John Key is talking about changing New Zealand’s electoral system. Nicky Hager writes about Key’s plans and the lobby groups that are pushing for the change.
Election funding: What’s National up to?
The great weakness of much journalism is a process-worker approach to assembling quotation-based stories….
The Hollow Men: Play
The most impressive new work [of 2006] was Dean Parker’s The Hollow Men (Bats), adapted from Nicky Hager’s book about the rise and fall of Don Brash (don’t mention the Masons). We rarely see local political plays of this sophistication – Harry Rickets, New Zealand Listener, December 29-January 4 2008.
Donor cash stays in shadows
MPs have stepped back from proposals that would have lifted secrecy
surrounding party donations….