Amelia Wade
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For all those who missed the point - the Nats’ spin machine trashed a long-standing understanding about embargoes & broke trust to try and ‘win’.
Not seen anything so blatant the 14 years I’ve been a journalist.
All while not answering a very basic question about their policy.
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Shared the CTU’s numbers and workings with the Nats and asked how many households they expected to get that $252 p/fortnight promise.
Instead of providing an answer, Nats sent a conspiratorial press release saying it had uncovered Labour “gutter politics”
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Tbh put a team of journos in a room with a coffee machine, some free pizza and the contact tracing/testing results. We'll find the source of the infection and all contacts + their home addresses and what their favourite colour is within 24 hours.
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A member of the press gallery at Parliament has tested positive. Everyone else is considered a close contact and not allowed to attend post-Cab this afternoon.
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Treasury advice explicitly says foreigners buying up luxury homes drags up house prices.
So asked Luxon if he thought his plan would do that … SPOILER did not get an answer.
Watch: Luxon repeatedly refuses to answer questions about foreign buyers' tax as Treasury advice emerges
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Second jab! Doing it for my whanau, community immunity, the kids, ICUs, lockdowns, a lollipop and this sweet as vax card with a Parliament stamp!
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@cjsbishop
@AnnaCwhyte
Hey
@cjsbishop
did you get in touch with Anna and let her know about the honest mistake?
Or did you, a Cabinet minister, just opt to go straight for starting a pile on?
(All the while another faction of your govt is undermining the media with baseless allegations..)
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Now the NZDF plane has now broken down.
Even Homer could not have written this saga of the PM’s US trip.
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Nicola Willis on the Auckland outbreak: "This can't be the immaculate infection - it has to have come from somewhere."
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No new Covid-19 cases today, meaning more MPs have been sacked/quit than new cases this week.
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The first announcement of the new govt is … an announcement about an announcement.
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Just bumped into Bloomfield (at 12.27pm at the electronic gates at the entrance to the Beehive) who held up his sandwich and said we could take it as a good sign he was eating beforehand.
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National MP Maureen Pugh says she's waiting for Climate Change Minister
@jamespeshaw
to personally show her evidence that climate change is man made before she believes it.
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Here is a venn diagram of guys on my AKL -> WTN flight today.
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Honestly, at this point wouldn't be surprised if Seymour and Peters actually got in a fist fight on the black-and-white tiles.
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Hamish Walker believed naming the active Covid-19 cases would back up his claim they were from Asia. The document did not prove that.
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The Simpson Roche report is incredibly damning. It was delivered in September. The Government released it the Friday before Christmas.
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The good news is there's 59 days until the election so if we continue at the rate of one MP resigning a day, there'll still be someone left to vote for.
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Michael Heron had immense powers but didn't use them. It was a wasted opportunity.
@nzherald
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She was not, in fact, the leader by the end of the day.
Judith Collins has told
@AmeliaJWade
she will still be leader at the end of the day.
"It's a matter of principle. Every woman and every man should feel safe in their workplace. What is really important is that you don't deal with allegations by sweeping them under the carpet."
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A messy end to MIQ - it started as a necessary evil to keep out Covid but for so many became a system defined by unnecessary bureaucratic cruelty.
PM still has confidence in Hipkins after his release of journalist's personal info despite official advice not to
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Also 👀👀👀 for tomorrow with economists releasing their own modelling on the revenue from foreign buyers tax
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The staffer and the returnee passed notes, including one on the back of a face mask. After delivering a bottle of wine to the room, there was a 20 minute forbidden liaison.
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Nikki Kaye quits politics.
Just when you thought it might calm down for a second
@audreyNZH
scoops
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Chris Hipkins says govt is working on legal advice to make masks mandatory for Aucklanders from midday.
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Our pilot is live-tweeting while we’re doom-scrolling because our plane is connected to a satellite while we fly 35,000 feet above the largest ocean on one of the longest flights in the world.
Yet alas I can’t use Snapper on the train :(
It’s happening peeps! I’ll try an answer any questions enroute between rest and flight operations.
#NZ2
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200 people asking if journalists can put requests in an email.
Te Whatu Ora reveals it has about 200 comms people, following criticism from National
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Judith Collins says she’s relieved to no longer be leader - is backing Luxon.
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Ben Lummis when Dane Rumble gets nominated for NZer of the year but he does not.
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Petrol companies' profit. First spike this year is just before fuel tax cut and companies put on notice, second massive spike prompts Energry Min. Megan Woods to send another letter questioning margins.
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Michael Wood, in sunhat, Hawaiian shirt and Sketchers, also remaining tight lipped on whether he’s running.
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Chris Hipkins, snapped by Newshub out for a morning walk in his tracksuit, is still refusing to say whether he is in the running but is confident caucus will head into Sunday’s meeting with “a good degree of consensus” for a new leader … and new PM.
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The Covid presser today has been pushed to 2pm with Mr Chris Hipkins and Dr Caroline McElnay in the Beehive Theatrette, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand.
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The press conference on mystery Covid case has been confirmed for today at 5.10pm with Mr Chris Hipkins and Dr Ashley Bloomfield at the Beehive Theatrette, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand.
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This policy has been a year in the making.
And yet neither midwives nor nurses orgs say they were consulted. Stunning stuff.
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The first edition of the NZH gets sent to the press about 7.30pm.
A simpler time.
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Huge change in communications strategy from the coalition trio overnight. Yesterday, couldn't even get a wave w public getting palpably frustrated at being locked out.
Today, leaders stopping and chatting.
It's not just about making progress - but being seen to be making progress
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Welcome to Level 3 New Zealand! Number 8 wire alive and well.
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Amidst Wood's woes and Tinetti's regrettis, no politician has uttered the words "cost of living" during Question Time for two days.
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David Fisher is the only untainted, incorruptible journalist in the country, says Billy TK. Here is Fish's report:
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A chirpy Winston Peters says negotiations are done. How long now until the public is told?
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Some photos from the day NZ woke up in mourning for the Queen.
The PM’s address, the govt gen speech, signing the condolence book and the PM watching the 96 gun salute from the top of the Beehive.
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If you need me, I'll be printing off this email so I can physically hug it.
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I actually sign-off every email 'you can never write Winston Peters off'.
It's in white font so you won't be able to read it, but it's there, honestly.
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It's a weak RAT positive.
Close contacts will be using RATs to test before coming to work.
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Hamish Walker tried to stop his boss Todd Muller from publicly outing him as the leaker citing privacy concerns.
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@Jasonwalls92
Someone does need to ask Hipkins what the secret is to keeping a maidenhair fern so lush tho.
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"He will never, ever be freed."
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Will brash Nash, despite a crash over emailing donors with cash, dash in a flash from this hash? Toss being an MP in the trash?
Or will Nash stash his role, stay on despite the backlash to keep reviewing slash, without making another splash, not batting an eyelash?
📺Newshub@ 6pm
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Surrounded by world leaders at Apec -
@CTrevettNZH
and I freaking out over meeting the journalist legend who got *that* video of the Xi/Trudeau dust up.
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This is a scary time. The media is an essential service and will answer your Qs answered and hold the govt accountable. I wrote this Q&A. It's by no means complete, but hope it helps.
Contact dets in profile. Send your Qs and I'll try get them answered.
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Winston Peters to media during speech in Orewa: it’s not us going down the rabbit hole, it’s you.
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@marcdaalder
Marc you could get NZ out of debt and then buy every first home buyer a house if you were paid per word.
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There's also no Cabinet meeting which would be needed if there was an alert level change. And it would be the PM to announce that.
Hipkins = 😀
PM = 😶
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Right *cracks knuckles* time to put the hours of smizing lessons to use.
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excuse me is this giant gelatinous worm in the same "coast of New Zealand" that I swim in?
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Uff-in-dell or Uff-out-dell?
Uffindell revelations: National to make statement on report into newbie MP
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How a press release became Hamish Walker's downfall.
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Outgoing Trevor Mallard up in Siberia alongside ousted MP Gaurav Sharma.
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In all seriousness, an unbelievable and very dangerous breach which could have put all of NZ at risk.
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George is a regular for NZH journos. His feedback is always this insightful.
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Meanwhile new MP Chris Luxon took a tumble over a few overs at lunch.
Pics by the legendary Mark Mitchell
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@coughlthom
@emmawehipeihana
Its rude to refer to our queen as 'she' Thomas. Her name is Oprah.
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The system desperate arrivals are up against to get out of MIQ to see a dying loved one.
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Chris Hipkins has not requested a "minute by minute account" of exactly what happened during the encounter so doesn't know the content of the love notes.
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It's been an anxious but hopeful morning in Whakatane as the families head out to watch the recovery at
#Whakaari
We're now waiting with waiata at the harbour
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✅ Supermarkets, dairies (one in one out), hardware stores for trade customers only, MyFoodBag
✖️ Liquor stores (except trust areas), the Warehouse, that bougie bakery near you which reckons it's staying open.
Tl/Dr: unsure = shut.
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And because Boag and Walker used private emails, they're also not subject to the OIA - despite the info originally coming from the public sector. We'll likely never know if this is the true extent of the breach.
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Educators, frontline health workers = mandated. No jab, no job.
But some teachers want to know parents are vaxxed too.
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Newshub understands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern deliberately toned down her criticism of Iran to avoid upsetting the regime and jeopardising the release of the two Kiwi influencers who were there despite a travel warning.
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The Herald understands Amy Adams is also set to quit and will make an announcement "very soon"
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POLL!
TONIGHT AT 6PM -
@ThreeNewZealand
: It's 'back to school' for MPs tomorrow and Political Editor
@JennaLynchNZ
has their report cards, with 2022's first
#Newshub
-Reid Research poll results
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A terrifying, infuriating, destructive and deeply sad day at Parliament.
As police pushed trespassers off the people's lawn it exposed the depths of disinformation and extremes it can push ordinary people to.
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@CTrevettNZH
@Jamienzherald
As the chaos of the day quietened and the winds dropped leaving broken tents flaccid - their innards exposed - pizzas were rolled out through the carnage and the opportunistic fat bois returned.
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Hello,
@nzpolice
I’d like to make report … that your social team is killing it with the Facebook glitches.
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UPDATE: Rachael’s application for an emergency allocation in managed isolation has been approved. She flies home next week!
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