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FULL COVERAGE: National Conf + Secret Recordings
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 9:28 am
Article: Scoop Full Coverage
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FULL COVERAGE: National Conference + Secret
Recordings
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Syed Akbar Kamal: Lockwood Smith Interview
Do you think public interest lies at the core of the secret tapes fiasco? Lockwood Smith: I think there will be mixed feelings in the public-I think some members of the public will be quite disgusted that someone would lie about who they are to gain entry… More >>
STATE OF IT: Recordings + Rumour + Innuendo = Historian's Rant
Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning writes: Much energy has been directed this week by politicians and journalists to identify the individual who secretly recorded senior National Party MPs at the party's pre-conference cocktail soiree. That is obviously the prerogative of our peers. However, the ridicule directed at Scoop Media and two of its reporters by historian Dr Michael Bassett, is in need of reply.
This week, after Scoop published audio of the secret recordings of National Party deputy leader Bill English and senior MP Lockwood Smith, Dr Michael Bassett wrote: "First a preliminary about this new style of campaigning that is taking place. A small group of weirdos with a Berlin Wall mentality are associated with a website 'Scoop'." More >>
Media/Politics: Gordon Campbell on the ethics of taping politicians
Pretty doggedly, the mainstream media have stuck to their guns and kept the storyline on the secret tapes fiasco firmly focused where the National Party would prefer it to be – on Who Taped It, rather than (a) what is on the tapes or (b) what such content might indicate about the mindset and agenda of the likely next government. Bear with me. I know, there is nothing more unedifying than journalists banging on about ethics. More >>
ALSO:
Audio: Nick Smith On KiwiSaver + Crosby Textor
Scoop has received audio of Nick Smith discussing KiwiSaver and how National wants to fight the election on tax. He also discusses how MPs not Crosby Textor call the shots on National policy. More >>
Politics Chatter: Lockwood Smith
Discussion Suggests Hidden Agenda
Audio +
Transcript: Senior National Party MP Lockwood Smith was
recorded talking to delegates at the National Party
conference suggesting once in government that a 'discussion
document' process will enable the party to roll out its
agenda. "There's some bloody dead fish you have to
swallow... to get into Government to do the kinds of things
you want to do," Lockwood Smith. More
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Conference Tape: English Misspoke
“Statements of mine secretly recorded at a social function last Friday and published over the weekend have caused confusion and concern about National’s policy on Kiwibank and Working for Families,” says National Party Finance spokesman Bill English. "I did not choose my words well." More >>
ALSO:
NATIONAL'S
CONFERENCE:
Elections & Politics: National
Infrastructure Plan Vital To NZ's Growth
A
20-year National Infrastructure Plan and a Minister of
Infrastructure will be used by a National-led government to
help set a clear direction for this vital area of
investment, says National Party Leader John Key. More
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Gordon Campbell: National's Economic
Vision For NZ
If someone said they were planning
to raid their children's piggy banks in order to pay the
rent - mainly because they just couldn't resist the impulse
to spend the rent money down at the TAB - we wouldn't be
applauding them, and we certainly wouldn't be lining up to
let them run the country. Yet in stark essentials, such is
the economic vision for New Zealand over the next decade
unveiled by Bill English and John Key at the National Party
conference More
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