Scoop Coverage: Key, Whale Oil, Hager And Dirty Politics   19 Aug 2014

Gordon Campbell: No More Mr Nice Guy

When future historians seek to identify the exact moment when the prime ministerial career of John Key hit the downward slope, they may well point to Key’s interview yesterday with Guyon Espiner on RNZ’s Morning Report.

In particular, they’ll cite the broken record moment when Espiner repeatedly asked Key whether he thought the behaviour of his Justice Minister Judith Collins was OK, and Key kept on trying to ignore the question…

Key couldn’t or wouldn’t answer the question, choosing instead to repeatedly bluster about Nicky Hager’s motives for writing his book, Dirty Politics. More>>

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Dirty (Politics) Weekend: Collins’ Admission Reason For Key To Act

Judith Collins’ admission that she was involved in a baseless smear campaign against a public servant is more than enough reason for John Key to sack her as a Minister, especially as she is on her ‘last warning’, said Labour MP Grant Robertson,

"Despite claiming that the evidence about her in Nicky Hager's book was ‘false’ Judith Collins has now been forced to admit that she did send information about a Ministerial Services staff member to Cameron Slater for him to use in a baseless smear campaign. More>>

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• The Nation - Lisa Owen Interviews Nicky Hager, Phil Goff & Metiria Turei - Lisa Owen Interviews Whale Oil Blogger Cameron Slater
• TVNZ - Q+A Nicky Hager: my source may release the raw data
• Labour - Time for John Key to answer yes or no questions - Key must clarify who signed out SIS OIA - Key must name National Party staffer - PM’s Denial at Odds with National Party Statement
• NZ First - Winston Peters: When Spin Runs Thin - Book Opens Door to Prime Minister’s Office
• NZ Independent Coalition - Party politics well past its Use-By date
• Internet Party - Kim Dotcom: Hacking Accusation a Diversion
• The Howard League for Penal Reform - Howard League Taking Advice On Dirty Politics" Allegation
• Building Services Contractors - BSC president demands answers on Hager book claims
• Public Service Association - Collins must resign for leaking public servants’ details
• Timothy Crescent - Some Perspective on Dirty Politics
• Grant Duncan - Opinion: A review of Dirty Politics
• Daphne Lawless - The Whale Oil leaks: Anti-politics from above
• Ben Peterson - Dirty Politics: The politics, not the dirt is the problem
• Spike Mountjoy - 'Dirty Politics' Cartoons: Whale Comes Home To Roost
• Martin Doyle - Martin Doyle Cartoon: Big Hager is watching you
• Out-Link - Some changes for Kiwiblog
• Out-Link - Hacker release shows links to PM staffer - NZ Herald News - Revealed: Slater's messages with former prostitute - NZ Herald News
• Out-Link - Guyon Espiner interview John Key - Morning Report
• Out-Link - PM: I should have known senior advisor accessed Labour data - TVNZ
• Out-Link - ONE News Colmar Brunton Poll - 'Dirty Politics' snap poll
• Out-Link - Confidential information: the legal rights and wrongs • Speaker • Public Address
• Out-Link - Cash for comment and New Zealand’s MOD squad | Griffin’s Gadgets
• Out-Link - The Ruminator :: The Official Information Act, Cam and me
• Out-Link - Did Nicky Hager “make stuff up”? | Media Law Journal
• Out-Link - Andrew Geddis: Cri du cœur | Pundit
• Out-Link - Duncan Garner: Dirtiest election campaign ever - and mud sticks - Articles - Duncan Garner - Shows - RadioLIVE
• Out-Link - Bat, Bean, Beam: Of journalism and monsters
• TV3 Video - Key: Left-wing has 'given up' arguing policy - 'Whaledump' account to leak more documents - Collins gave job to Whale Oil tipster - Full interview: Judith Collins on Aaron Bhatnagar - Key dogged by Dirty Politics - National only 1 or 2 percent from losing - Gower - Key backing Collins over Dirty Politics - New political poll a reality check for National - Kim Dotcom denies Cameron Slater's hacking allegations - Slater: Death threats over 'Dirty Politics' - Cunliffe ups the ante on National - Nicky Hager book: Cameron Slater defends Judith Collins - Dirty Politics 'points out' Key's relationship with Slater - Panel

Satire: Laundering Dirty Politics

Scoop News: So this book, then. Fire away.
Prime Minister John Key, Probably: Well you have to remember Nicky Hager is a well-known conspiracy theorist.
SN: In that he is presenting evidence of people conspiring, secretly, to do things?
PMJK,P: Exactly. Point proven.
SN: Some of which sound illegal.
PM: They don't sound illegal to me.
SN: Why not?
PM: I'm not listening.
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Gordon Campbell: On The Ongoing Fallout From Nicky Hager’s Book

Call me old-fashioned, but ad hominem attacks have almost seemed the last refuge of a scoundrel. That doesn’t mean you can’t reach a conclusion or make a judgement call – but you need to be guided by the evidence. More>>

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• Image - Tim Denee, designer & illustrator
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• Scoop Business - Hager links PM, Whaleoil in pre-election Dirty Politics book
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• Labour - Time Key took responsibility for Collins - Labour seeks legal advice on Hager evidence - Key has serious questions to answer on Dirty Politics
• Greens - Green Party to lodge official complaints
• NZ First - A Dark Day in New Zealand Politics
• MANA Movement - Dear John - Time to Answer a Few Questions
• ACT - Nicky Hager Has Found Out Politicians Speak to the Media
• Internet Party - ‘Dirty Politics’ Shows Absence of Moral Compass
• Public Service Association - Disturbing that PM’s office helped attack public servants
• Public Good - Lower enrolment levels: practical impact of dirty politics?
• WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival - Nicky Hager to Discuss Freedom of Information at the Word
• Maritime Union of NZ - Hager investigation has revealed Ports of Auckland agenda
• Newspaper Publishers Association - Newspaper publishers rebuff attacks on Canon
• TV3 Video - Dirty Politics 'insults the public's intelligence' - Joyce - Judith Collins silent about Dirty Politics allegations - Nicky Hager book causes political muck to fly - Video: John Key talks Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics - Dirty Politics: Greens lay complaint with police - Cameron Slater: Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics claims a 'lie' - New Zealand needs to know "the other side of Key" - Nicky Hager - Nicky Hager's new book 'Dirty Politics' will 'shock readers' - Nicky Hager book shows National's 'dirty politics'
• Martin Doyle - Martin Doyle cartoon: Dirty politics
• Whale Oil Out-Links - Apparently, shock, horror, politics is dirty - I love the smell of Napalm in the morning - I resent Hagar... - Hagers Book - Part 2 - Hager's Book
• Kiwiblog Out-Links - I’ve either been hacked or spied on - Wouldn’t it have been a good idea to interview people before publishing? - Dirty Politics - The Hager book
• The Dim-Post Out-Link - Dirty Politics Summary - Two points about Cameron Slater. First: Who reads this?
• Polity Out-Link - Dirty politics: My 2c
• Pundit Out-Link - A crazy day in dirty ol' NZ politics
• Public Address Out-Link - Confidential information: the legal rights and wrongs • Speaker
• Branko Marcetic - When John Key was concerned about dirty politics

Gordon Campbell: On Nicky Hager’s New Book

The simple antidote to all this ad hominem abuse is to read the book. I doubt that many people who do read the book – and especially the emails that provide the bulk of its narrative – will feel very happy about how politics is being conducted in this country right now. That’s the thing. Hager hasn’t needed to clothe the content in a conspiracy theory: the emails speak very eloquently for themselves. More>>

Multimedia: Launch Of Nicky Hager Book - Dirty Politics

Approximately 300 people gathered at Unity Books for the launch of Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment.

The book details the extent of political dealings between the Key administration and members of the right-wing blogosphere. Hager reveals that certain media events that appeared to be isolated instances of scandal were in fact part of a systematic effort by National to create political smears against their opponents. More>>

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• Wellington.Scoop - Dirty Politics: Nicky Hager’s new book on the Key Government launched at Unity

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