Posts by Hilary Stace
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Just watched this morning’s Nation. Couldn’t be a bigger contrast in the interviews with Key and Cunliffe which were on before the interview with Glen Greenwald. Key looked exhausted, tried to pick a fight and sniffed. Cunliffe was firing on more than six cylinders, even correcting Patrick Gower’s maths. So they were either on something, as per Russell’s theory, or spooked/inspired by Glen Greenwald in the green room.
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Yay more than 100,000 page views. Some people are interested in cleaning up dirty politics, democracy and all that.
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Sorry to interrupt this citizenship discussion but Dita de Boni, who tried (and largely failed) to get the Panel to take note of the Dirty Politics allegations writes wryly in praise of the corporate lobbyists.
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Interesting and intelligent as usual commentary from Toby Manhire in the Herald about PM, the election, influence of Dirty Politics etc
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Giovanni expresses the lack of action on the Dirty Politics/media links in a series of tweets (he's so clever) http://thestandard.org.nz/giovanni-tiso-on-dirty-politics/
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The was a heartening gathering of those wanting clean politics outside parliament yesterday. About 100 there and many had heard about it at the Nicky Hagar talk the night before when the woman organising it told the audience about it. Others joined as they walked by. Several people told the group why they were there. The organiser herself wanted good political role models for her children. Four weeks to the day after the launch of Dirty Politics it was just the sort of spontaneous event to take back our democracy that the book inspires. One of the women who spoke, Marianne Elliott I think, is one of the organisers of the Action Stations petition and she mentioned the huge groundswell of support for it already.
It was really good to hear Nicky Hager speak on Tuesday night because he reassured the audience that the revelations in his book are probably not going to affect the current election, but it is about the long game – of cleaning up politics and reclaiming our democracy. It’s about ethics. The fact that the head of the government and the National Party refuses to take any responsibility although he is clearly accountable shows he has lost any moral authority.
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Such a common story in Wellington. Such a culture of fear in the public service these days. The minister is your first and only client. Don't let anything upset them.
Nicky Hager says public servants used to do their day job loyally, go home for tea and then go out in the evening to do their civil society work. They were skilled at the civil society work and everyone and democracy benefited. That civil society work is no longer allowed. Someone will tell on you and there will be consequences.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/254178/protection-of-public-servants-questioned
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Dinah Dunavan,
Downstage as a company using the building closed last year. Very sad. The notice about the Nicky Hager meeting called the building the Hannah Playhouse.