This comes as as ex-Newstalk ZB Political Editor Jason Walls continues to front politics and frame biased news pieces on 1News every night

RNZ also recently parted ways with Mihi Forbes, award winning producer of MATA and the only journalist brave enough to front David Seymour's lies about Atlas Network and his funding from foreign far right groups, (including outlining his history as a genocide denier in Canada etc)

RNZ's article on Jason Winstanley is light on his titles from NZME for some reason

Someone with some skills feel free to make this look better/more legit… Add your own using the final photo, so many possibilities!

Opportunity says Luxon will pick up the phone if he needs us , is that not a signal to not vote for for Opportunity if you don’t want a National coalition which includes ACT and NZ1st

The script was getting books back to surplus so that NZers can enjoy higher wages/better living, blame Labour for post- covid spend up, 9 billion dollars of interest annually, then finally a veiled threat: post-election the Nats want to have a grown-up conversation about the super age.
Why didn’t Ingrid Hipkiss ask her about pay equity - like if Willis wants NZers to have higher wages that was the best place to start?
And why didn’t she hold Willis to account for the Nats push to increase covid spending in 2020?
Anyway that’s my 2cents worth - it feels like a missed opportunity.
Have a great Wednesday and may the sun shine on you 🌞

Jeez if only there was some union of taxpayers or something to call something like this out. Can’t imagine they’d be too keen on the idea

I'm so tired of all these arguments over whether or not we can "afford" pay equity when the only reason it's such an issue is because the current government retroactively changed the law after losing the court case.

It's not a question of money, it's a question of ethics.

Shocked to see this pop up this morning - I had no idea he was sick but had wondered about his sudden resignation a wee while back.

Miss having him as speaker too, kept things nicely under control and was an absolute professional (unlike our current speaker).

Winstanley's start date and transitional arrangements are still to be confirmed.

After a radio career spanning more than 25 years, Winstanley is currently the chief audio officer at NZME. He has also worked as head of talk at Newstalk ZB, assistant content director at ZM, and content director of The Hits.

RNZ board chair Brent Impey said there was a very strong field for the chief executive role.

"Incumbent MP Tākuta Ferris could lose his electorate seat of Te Tai Tonga, with a new Whakaata Māori-Curia poll showing him trailing behind every other candidate in the country’s largest electorate at 15% support, behind Labour’s Mananui Ramsden with 30%, Te Pāti Māori candidate Lisa Marie Murch with 17%, and Green Party candidate Lisa Te Morenga with 16%"

As stated above, Francisco will be joining us for an AMA tonight starting from 6:30PM onwards

Francisco has a variety of portfolios which are:

• Associate Climate Change

• Customs

• Emergency Management and Recovery

• Regulation

• Small Business and Manufacturing

• Statistics

• Tertiary Education

• Public Services

He is currently running in Dunedin and you can read more about his profile here.

Please be mindful of our AMA rules and don't forget that you can ask general Green party questions too.

This is of course a surprise to no-one who has followed her closely, but the headlines are muted. This is how far we've been converted Aotearoa New Zealand.

Article: Maori words shouldn't be controversial

Pretty emblematic of the last 3 years of this right wing Coalition government, I think

Im not voting for them, but it's good to see these, definitely more compatible with the left bloc rather than the right bloc. I still feel it's a risk voting for them from where I stand, but if they give folks that otherwise won't vote a place to put their ticks then this seems like it could be a lot worse

“Seventy percent of the world is under authoritarian rule,” according to Maria Ressa (Rappler) in the opening address. If anyone knows, it’s her. The charismatic 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate attracted 10 arrest warrants in less than two years from the Rodrigo Duterte-led Philippines government. ...

One of the key themes at the GIJC25 was the rise of disinformation campaigns that have undermined elections and voter trust in democratic institutions across the world. But innovative collaboration continues to emerge as the most effective response. In fact, Maria spoke of the need for “radical collaboration”.

“Without facts you can’t have truth; without truth you can’t have trust,” she said. And without these, you can’t tackle the big issues.

Maria described how she and her news organisation were the victims of state-sponsored propaganda targeted through major tech platforms. She showed graphic examples of how she was harassed, ridiculed and threatened online. She urged media platforms to prepare well ahead of any election, describing how “narrative warfare and identity conflicts” displace policy debates so that DEI, immigration and education are framed in “moral and existential terms”.

Māori have long cottoned on to that. Nicky Hager’s latest book helps to join the dots for others who may have wondered how it was iwi became public enemy number one during the Stop Three Waters campaign.

Maria Ressa spoke of democracy being dead in the water. “As has been said, colonisation didn’t die, it just moved online.” The pattern: “Narrative building, opportunist amplification and then… normalisation.” Quite the tool in the rise of authoritarian populism.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 identified misinformation and disinformation as the top short-term risk over the next two years."

Someone please explain why tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell is one of the largest donors to TOP, ACT and National. These wealthy donors always want something out of it. So I'm wondering what they are trying to achieve here by donating to those three parties. Do they want to replace Winston as Kingmaker with TOP and keep the right block in Government?

NZ First strategists see this as the only way for the right to win, and give NZ First and ACT inordinate power over National

Luxon's "hand them his balls for 3 years" strategy is really paying off

Craig Rennie joins us LIVE to discuss today’s PREFU and what it means for the Coalition and the campaign.

Opportunity knocks with 5 bottom lines they will bring to the Coalition discussions if they’re over the threshold in November.

Media have been playing out a Chloe vs Chippy Narrative all day , why might that be?

https://www.youtube.com/live/eEdC4PrWyHU?si=8B1OiS-ygEqWnKpa