Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey was Recorded Live on 23/05/13. Issue One: Peter and Selwyn discuss how the New Zealand Police Commissioner Peter Marshall has conditionally apologised for the way members of the remote Ruatoki community were apprehended and detained during supposed antiterror raids in 2007. The commissioner said Police stand [...]
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5AA Australia: Police Commissioner Offers Conditional Apology To Ruatoki Community
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Radio 5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning On Today’s ‘Smile And Be Optimistic’ Budget
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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 [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn & Peter Discuss Invasive New Spy Laws + Weather Warnings
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
5AA Australia: Selwyn & Peter Discuss Invasive New Spy Laws + Weather Warnings 5AA’s Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 9/05/13. 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 to spy on [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on PM’s Schoolmate Is Now His Spy Boss
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on PM’s Schoolmate Is Now His Spy Boss Across The Ditch was Recorded Live on 28/03/13. The Prime Minister John Key’s apparent cozy relationship with the spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), continues to be questioned. In Parliament on Wednesday opposition politicians questioned the Prime Minister’s [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On GCSB Shake-Up + The Dodgy Bank Bailout Law
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 21st, 2013
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On GCSB Shake-Up + The Dodgy Bank Bailout Law Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how changes are afoot at the Government’s spy agency, the GCSB. The Prime Minister who is responsible for the agency said changes were likely after a report is released on how it operated [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 14th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey Across The Ditch was Recorded LIVE on 14/03/13. In this week’s bulletin Peter Godfrey and Selwyn Manning discuss how the New Zealand Parliament voted on Wednesday night in favour of the second reading of the marriage equality bill. 77 members of Parliament voted in [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 7th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey Issue 1: Political pressure is intensifying on Hekia Parata, the Minister of Education, after a series of failures under her watch, including how a pay-system she signed off on (Novopay) still fails to ensure teachers are paid, over-states their tax liability, and is costing [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Sean Perry
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 28th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Sean Perry In this bulletin of Across The Ditch Selwyn Manning and Sean Perry discuss the first fatal shark attack in New Zealand since the 1970s, and also how the NZ Supreme Court has given the National-led Government a green light to go ahead with a [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on NZ Reserve Bank Gov Says He Will Intervene In Dollar If He Has To
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 21st, 2013
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on NZ Reserve Bank Gov Says He Will Intervene In Dollar If He Has To In this week’s Across The Ditch Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how if signals are anything to go by then New Zealand Reserve Bank governor’s message that he will intervene to bring [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Intervention & DNA
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 14th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Intervention & DNA Issue 1: Political maneuverings have begun in earnest over whether the New Zealand Government should instruct the Reserve Bank to cool down the New Zealand dollar – Opposition parties believe reducing the value of the Kiwi dollar would provide a [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – 2012 Round-Up
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, December 20th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – 2012 Round-Up Peter and Selwyn deliver the last Across The Ditch bulletin for 2012 and focus on a mix of themes: Most Bizarre Spin (and this one is hotly contested) – The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key trying to spin how more [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on TPPA + Costs of Royal Visit
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, December 13th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning Recorded LIVE on 13/12/12 This week, Selwyn and Peter discuss the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations + the cost of the Royal visit by Prince Charles and Camilla. Across The Ditch broadcasts live weekly on Radio 5AA Australia and webcasts on LiveNews.co.nz.
GPJA: The Watch House Tape – American Embassy ‘extremely happy’ with policing of protest
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
GPJA: The Watch House Tape – American Embassy “extremely happy” with policing of protest Press Release: Global Peace and Justice Auckland has obtained a recording of a senior police officer reporting by phone to a superior after last Saturday’s TPP protest – “In terms of the feedback on the ground from those involved at the [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – Driving Dogs + Polls + Hobbit Reviews
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, December 6th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – Driving Dogs + Polls + Hobbit Reviews A group of Kiwi dogs have been learning to drive: This is a novel idea by the SPCA and Mini designed to raise the plight of rescued dogs looking for families to adopt them. The SPCA [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – The Hobbit + NZ Wine
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, November 29th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – The Hobbit + NZ Wine This week Peter and Selwyn talk about the world premiere of Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s latest movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Tens of thousands of people lined a red-carpet that stretched almost the length [...]
State Of It: A Silent Tactic Will Progress Cunliffe Group’s Interests
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
State Of It: A Silent Tactic Will Progress Cunliffe Group’s Interests State Of It – By Selwyn Manning. What can we expect from Labour over the next three months? Now that it is reasonable to assume there is little love to be lost between Labour MP David Cunliffe and the current leader David Shearer, will [...]
5AA Across The Ditch: Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on: The Labour leader’s Strategic Meltdown + Volcanic Eruptions
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning discuss: The Labour leader’s Strategic Meltdown + Volcanic Eruptions 5AA Across The Ditch Recorded LIVE on 22/11/12. Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning discuss how the New Zealand Labour Party leader, David Shearer, had a strategic meltdown this week, demoting the most impressive politician on his front-bench, David Cunliffe, stripping him [...]
State Of It – Is Bill English’s Current Account Optimism In Keeping With National’s Stakeholder Groups?
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, November 15th, 2012
State Of It – Is Bill English’s Current Account Optimism In Keeping With National’s Stakeholder Groups? State Of It – By Selwyn Manning. Yesterday Finance Minister Bill English informed the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee that the Current Account Deficit will likely peak at around 5-6% of gross domestic product. The Current Account Deficit is [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – Huge Drug Haul + 4,444,444th Kiwi
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, November 1st, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning – Huge Drug Haul + 4,444,444th Kiwi 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch was Recorded Live on 1/11/12. This week Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning discuss how 165kgs of either cocaine or heroin has been found in a container in Algeria. The container originated in [...]
State Of It With Selwyn Manning – WTFMSD! A Systemic Failure Or Acceptable Human Error?
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 25th, 2012
State Of It With Selwyn Manning – WTFMSD! A Systemic Failure Or Acceptable Human Error? Let’s look at the question: Has the Ministry of Social Development a systemic problem with private information, particularly information relating to WINZ clients, and also a systemic problem with keeping private information safe? The examples: The most significant example has [...]
State Of It With Selwyn Manning: Multiple Degrees Of Incompetence and Why Donors Are Pulling The Plug On National
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 18th, 2012
State Of It: Multiple Degrees Of Incompetence and Why Donors Are Pulling The Plug On National Column By Selwyn Manning. It is now clear the National-led Government’s liberal attitude toward keeping its ministries, departments, agencies, and service wing accountable and functioning adequately – is creating a pattern of widespread incompetence. In addition to this, the [...]
WTFMSD! On 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – The WINZ Computer Access Scandal
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 18th, 2012
WTFMSD! On 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – The WINZ Computer Access Scandal Across The Ditch Recorded Live on 18/10/12. Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey summarise the insecure status of Work and Income New Zealand’s computer network. This week’s news has been dominated by this single huge issue – [...]
95bFM: Simon Maude and Selwyn Manning On The Pros & Cons Arguments For Interventionist Economics
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 11th, 2012
95bFM: Simon Maude and Selwyn Manning On The Pros & Cons Arguments For Interventionist Economics A political debate is raging among politicians and exporters on whether the National-led Government should embark on interventionist economic policy. The argument goes that the old way of requiring the Reserve Bank o manipulate the official cash rate that follows [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – NZD$9.2 Billion NZ Budget Deficit
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 11th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – NZD$9.2 Billion NZ Budget Deficit New Zealand Records NZD$9.2 Billion Budget Deficit The National-led Government has announced its budget deficit in the year to June 30 was 9.2 billion New Zealand dollars (US$7.52 billion), higher than the New Zealand Treasury’s forecast of NZ$8.4 [...]
State Of It: The PM & The GCSB – Why Someone Like Sir Anand Satyanand Must Lead An Independent Inquiry
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 4th, 2012
State Of It: The PM & The GCSB – Why Someone Like Sir Anand Satyanand Must Lead An Independent Inquiry The Audio: Selwyn Manning and 95bFM’s Simon Maude discuss how, despite earlier statements to the contrary, the Prime Minister, John Key, insists in February he was told but not briefed about the GCSB’s illegal spying [...]
Kim Dotcom – John Banks Song
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Kim Dotcom Releases The John Banks Song! Published on Youtube.com May 6, 2012 by MrKimDotcom. Amnesia is a song about the John Banks donation saga in New Zealand. For details watch this news story by John Campbell: http://bit.ly/Itv7OY Download the MP3 here: http://bit.ly/Jq4l5B or here: http://bit.ly/IwS1AB
95bFM: Counter-Clockwise With Jon Armistead & Selwyn Manning – DJ John
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 9th, 2012
95bFM: Counter-Clockwise With Jon Armistead & Selwyn Manning – DJ John Jon exhanges notes with Livenews.co.nz’s Selwyn Manning on the latest developments in the Kim Dot Com saga and Prime Minister John Key’s ill-fated DJ John moment as a radio-host prior to the General Elections in 2011. The Broadcasting Commission says the broadcast was ok, [...]
5AA Australia Across The Ditch: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey’s NZ Update
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 9th, 2012
5AA Australia/LiveNews Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey. Selwyn and Peter discuss the week’s big issues form a very down-under point of view. This week: National-Led Government increases the minimum wage by 50cents; and still on politics the Government’s key policy to sell off state owned assets to the share market looks [...]
Counter-Clockwise: Selwyn Manning & Jon Armistead On Nat’s Maori Party Strategy
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Counter-Clockwise: Selwyn Manning & Jon Armistead On Nat’s Maori Party Strategy. The Maori Party is threatening to withdraw support from the National-led Government after schedule 9 Treaty of Waitangi clauses were dropped from state asset sales documents. Selwyn & Jon explore whether National has bitten off more than it can chew. This audio interview is [...]
95bFM: Zac IVs Nikki Kaye Over Maori Party Threats To Walk
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
95bFM: Zac IVs Nikki Kaye Over Maori Party Threats To Walk out of its coalition agreement with the National-led Government. What is Nikki’s view on all of this? Also discussed, what is the National Party’s push on its National Standards education policy? This audio interview is courtesy of 95bFM.com
Counter Clockwise: Selwyn Manning & Jon Armistead On The NZ On Air Fiasco
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Counter Clockwise: Selwyn Manning & Jon Armistead On The NZ On Air Fiasco On this week’s Counter-clockwise on LiveNews and 95bFM, Selwyn Manning and Jon Armistead discuss the context underlying the NZ on Air issue where the National Government’s appointee to the public broadcast funding entity has been caught out attempting to shut down dissenting [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Brad Aldridge On Rena & The NZonAir Fiasco
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, January 19th, 2012
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Brad Aldridge On Rena & The NZonAir Fiasco 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Brad Aldridge. This week we discuss the ongoing Rena container ship catastrophe off the Boy of Plenty coast of New Zealand. Also discussed is how the National-led Government via its appointee has been [...]
Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – December 22 2011
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – December 22 2011 5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey present their weekly bulletin Across The Ditch. Here they look back on the big stories that emerged from New Zealand in 2011, including: the February 22 Christchurch earthquake, the big snow storm of August 2011, [...]
95bFM: Counter-Clockwise With Jon Armistead & Selwyn Manning
Written by Selwyn Manning on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
95bFM/Livenews.co.nz Counter-Clockwise: This week Jon Armistead and Selwyn Manning discuss the battle of the Davids. What can the Labour Party do to become more relevant and as a party of choice for a large chunk of voters? Can the contest between David Cunliffe, David Parker, and David Shearer see a leader emerge that can create [...]
5AA Australia: Manning & Godfrey On Rena Oil-Spill Disaster & Rugby World Cup
Written by Selwyn Manning on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Across The Ditch: Selwyn Manning and 5AA Australia’s Peter Godfrey discuss the MV Rena break-up, oil spill, and container hazard and how New Zealand Maritime authorities are grapling with what is defined as New Zealand’s worst marine environmental disaster. Also, the Rugby World Cup semi finals kick off this weekend with France V Wales, and [...]
Glenn Williams & Paul Brislen on Rara.com & Megaupload vs Universal
Written by Selwyn Manning on Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Glenn Williams & Paul Brislen on Rara.com & Megaupload vs Universal Catch Glenn Williams’ breakfast from 7am to 10am weekdays on LiveNews courtesy of Radio Wammo show on KiwiFM. You can join the chat or Kiwi viewers can txt Glenn in the studio on 3013.
5AA Australia/LiveNews.co.nz – Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey
Written by Selwyn Manning on Sunday, December 18th, 2011
The formalities of establishing the new government and opposition in the wake of the November 26 elections continues… The campaign to replace Phil Goff as the Labour Party leader has concluded with David Shearer winning the caucus vote. What will his leadership mean for Kiwis? Also, cabinet ministers in the National-led Government have been sworn [...]