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Media’s disclosure of interests under spotlight

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on March 9, 2018

One fascinating development this week has seen the long-running concerns about undisclosed interests in the media finally burst out into the open. First, it was revealed that a commentator on Radio New Zealand, supposedly an ‘independent’ PR consultant, was actually working in the Prime Minister’s office. Then, even more strikingly, the NBR column of prominent…

Rumblings about transparency

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on March 9, 2018

For people interested in greater transparency, the last seven days have been filled with little rumbles that could turn into earthquakes. The biggest deal was an announcement by the Green Party over the weekend that its MPs would stop accepting corporate hospitality, and its ministers would soon publish the diaries that detail who they have…

Oxfam wealth inequality figures

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on January 26, 2018

Earlier this week Oxfam released figures arguing that “the richest 1 per cent of Kiwis bagged a staggering 28 per cent of all wealth created last year while the poorest 30 per cent of the population got just 1 per cent”. Note that this is talking about the increase in wealth in one year, and…

Some thoughts on Shaw’s State of the Nation Speech

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on January 26, 2018

I was at James Shaw’s agenda-setting speech yesterday. Overall I thought it was a good, ambitious, far-reaching speech, and it was pleasing to hear a party leader who clearly reads and thinks, and who has a sense that we’re living at a time of the end of one global political settlement and the birth of…

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