On Citizen A this week Martyn Bradbury, Efeso Collins, and Selwyn Manning discuss the following issues: Issue 1: Now the IPCA report into Police during the Urewera terrorism case has finally been released – what have we learned? Issue 2: Will ramming through Parliament law that strips caregivers the right to challenge the Government’ hurt [...]

Wallace Chapman’s Sunday Panel was Recorded live on 20/05/13. In this bulletin Wallace Chapman talks to journalist Selwyn Manning and former ACT Party leader Rodney Hide about:Aaron Gilmore’s demise, the Budget, the SkyCity Convention Centre, the GCSB and police pursuits. You can check out the Sunday Panel on RadioLive.co.nz.

Wallace Chapman’s Sunday Panel was Recorded live on 20/05/13. In this bulletin Wallace Chapman talks to journalist Selwyn Manning and former ACT Party leader Rodney Hide about:Aaron Gilmore’s demise, the Budget, the SkyCity Convention Centre, the GCSB and police pursuits. You can check out the Sunday Panel on RadioLive.co.nz.

THE STATE OF IT: Rhetoric aside, what the National-led Government’s Finance Minister Bill English wants from us is to embrace his fiscal plan with a smile and an air of optimism. But New Zealanders should read the detail that lies behind English’s Budget speech because there lurks a fiscal-incompetence devil. And it will take more [...]

Across The Ditch was Recorded Live on 16/05/13. In this week’s bulletin Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss the big challenges facing the National-led Government, and also the significant issues that are likely to be delivered by Finance Minister Bill English when he reads today’s Budget. Budget 2013:The big challenges for the National-led Government are: [...]

Penny Hulse, Len Brown, Nick Smith and John Key announce the new Beehive/Council Housing Accord. THIS JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT by Prime Minister John Key, Housing Minister Nick Smith, and Auckland Mayor Len Brown is more a parody on how Auckland Council and The Beehive ought to work together than an announcement that delivers a real solution [...]

On Citizen A this week Martyn Bradbury, Chris Trotter and Selwyn Manning debate the following issues: Issue 1: Should we be concerned with John Key’s new GCSB laws? Issue 2: Is Wellington dying and who will lead Auckland? Issue 3: Aaron Gilmore – who cares? Citizen A broadcasts weekly on FaceTV and webcasts on The [...]

5AA’s Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 9/05/13. Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning deliver their weekly live bulletin Across The Ditch on 5AA Australia. This week, Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the New Zealand Government has passed under urgency the first stage of two new spy bills that will enable the GCSB [...]

UPDATE: WEDNESDAY 9pm, May 8, 2014 – The Government has overcome its first hurdle managing to have Parliament pass the first reading of the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill by 61 votes to 59. The bill will now be sent to a special security committee where over the next two months [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (4 votes cast) Special Feature: By Selwyn Manning. Gerald Hensley. Image sourced from Booksellers.co.nz. Introduction: In his about-to-be released book Friendly Fire Gerald Hensley (former head of the prime minister’s department for Sir Robert Muldoon and David Lange) claims David Lange lied about the polarising ANZUS arrangements and misled his senior [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes cast) On this week’s Citizen A host Martyn Bradbury is joined by Dr Wayne Hope and Selwyn Maning to discuss the following issues: Issue 1: Steven Joyce calls it Communism and John Key warns of the far left taking over NZ – why has the Labour/Green energy policy provoked [...]

Madame Butterfly Exposes An All Too Common Betrayal Of A Past Time Review by Selwyn Manning. Images by Neil Mackenzie. NBR NZ Opera Madame Butterfly 2013. Antoinette Halloran performs Cio-Cio San. Photo-credit Neil Mackenzie. So often the arts provide us an opportunity to view culture and practices of past times. And Madame Butterfly, currently being [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 4.5/5 (8 votes cast) Russel Norman and David-Shearer – Image: Unitenews.wordpress.com. A two-party voting-bloc has been a winning-formula for Australia’s Liberal/Nationals right parties in Federal General Elections (and looks likely to do so again) – So can it work for New Zealand’s centre-left? The latest Roy Morgan Poll suggests yes it can. [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (13 votes cast) Prime Minister John Key announces his remedy to the GCSB scandal. IT WAS DURING one of those dreadful press conferences while John Key was against the wall in China when questioned about what he would do to fix the GCSB scandal when he mumbled something about ‘cyber security’. [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 4.6/5 (14 votes cast) Prime Minister John Key sourced from DimPost.wordpress.com. After being forced to publicly release the Kitteridge Report ahead of his schedule the Prime Minister is falling back on his ‘trust me, I’ll fix it’ strategy. But this falls far short of the mark. Here’s why. From China, the Prime [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 3.0/5 (2 votes cast) Waihopai: GCSB official image. TDB/MILNZ Audience Poll: After what seems an age of political activity, media coverage, and public discourse examining the Prime Minister’s oversight of the GCSB and the appointment of Ian Fletcher as the GCSB director – let’s evaluate the performance of the Prime Minister, the [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (17 votes cast) Nicky Hager and four other internationally acclaimed investigative journalists have today published a comprehensive body of work that unpicks the offshore money maze. The investigation, which I understand has consumed around 12 months of investigative work, unearths a labyrinth of covert companies, bank accounts, blind trusts and assets [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (4 votes cast) As Martyn Bradbury announced yesterday, The Daily Blog has soared from an audience of zero at 9am March 1 to attracting 84,213 visits by midnight March 31. And this audience has accessed 196,886 pages pushing this new site up into 5th position on the Open Parachute blog-ratings. From [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (7 votes cast) Revelations that the Prime Minister’s mother was best friends with the GCSB director’s mother underscores two major issues: how small New Zealand’s population is and why current oversight laws of our intelligence agencies are failing the public interest test. In recent weeks we have come to understand more [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) By Selwyn Manning. Introduction: It was around morning smoko time, on the fifth floor of The Beehive, early 2000. Having finished crafting a handful of key messages that we wished to impress on the Parliamentary Press Gallery I thought I’d take a peak at the New Zealand Security [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 5.0/5 (10 votes cast) By Selwyn Manning. The Prophesy: Woe to you who underestimate a seasoned politician’s ability to climb aboard a problem that’s screaming out for solutions – particularly if the solutions have been identified, tested and ready for a vote-hungry thug to nail his or her name to the cart. [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 4.6/5 (5 votes cast) State Of It – By Selwyn Manning. If signals are anything to go by then the New Zealand Reserve Bank governor’s message that he will intervene to bring the Kiwi Dollar down should he have to – is a win for the New Zealand opposition parties and an [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 2.0/5 (1 vote cast) Selwyn Manning, BCS (Hons.) MCS (Hons.) is an investigative political journalist with 20 years media experience. He specializes in reportage and analysis of socioeconomics, politics, foreign affairs, and security/intelligence issues. Selwyn is the author of the book: I Almost Forgot About The Moon – the disinformation campaign against [...]

VN:F [1.9.22_1171] Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote cast) On Citizen-A this week, Martyn Bradbury, Phoebe Fletcher & Selwyn Manning discuss: Issue 1: Did the mainstream media’s Titewhai fetish manage to gloss over bigger issues on Waitangi Day? Issue 2: Is the Government stacking the Human Rights Commission and turning our watchdogs into lap dogs? and Issue [...]