Category: Opinion
Dirty Politics, 2018: Nicky Hager assesses the Jami-Lee Ross saga
What an attack on journalism feels like
Nicky Hager describes how police targeted his daughter’s mobile number and even his TradeMe records of tadpole purchases in their hunt for the sources behind “Dirty Politics”. He explains the chilling effect of the police raid and why it should never happen again.
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
NZ Herald: US warship visit to New Zealand
Visit would show America, not NZ, has changed stance, writes Nicky Hager
Panama Papers: Nicky Hager on the selling of secrecy
Panama Papers NZ – My first experience of the tax haven world was in 2012-2013 when I worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on an earlier and smaller tax haven leak. It was a sobering introduction to how much a network of secretive tax havens can cause harm for the rest of the world.
Bruce Jesson Lecture, Maidment Theatre, Auckland
The second part of the lecture will be about investigative journalism. But before that, I want to use the opportunity of this lecture to talk much more widely, sharing some thoughts about the state of politics in New Zealand today.
2011 Election analysis: I’ve just been internalising a really complicated situation in my head
The news declared that the National Party had had a ‘historic’ election victory on Saturday but, if that was true, National Party people would be looking happier. The reality is much more complicated.
Visiting Wikileaks in December 2010
I HAVE had many careful meetings with sources during the last 20 years, but never anything as cautious and mysterious as this. I was heading overseas to meet the WikiLeaks team in the midst of heavy threats from the United States government and more imminent threats of police action.
Statement at PEN/Society of Authors event on freedom of speech in Iran, Bats Theatre, Wellington
I am grateful to PEN and the Society of Authors for inviting me to be part of protesting the suppression of freedom of speech in Iran. We are joining people around the world who are saddened and appalled by the news of repression in that country…. In doing this, and doing it wholeheartedly, I do not want to be a hypocrit or to be naive…