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 [...]
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Radio 5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning On Today’s ‘Smile And Be Optimistic’ Budget
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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 [...]
ANZAC Day Live Stream: Wellington City Dawn Service at the Lambton Quay Cenotaph
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 25th, 2013
ANZAC Day Live Stream: Wellington City Dawn Service at the Lambton Quay Cenotaph your browser does not support frames. ANZAC Day stream will be live form approximately 5:00am New Zealand time. This live stream is courtesy of R2.co.nz, the RSA, and Absolutely Positively Wellington.
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – Same Sex Bill Passes In NZ
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 18th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – Same Sex Bill Passes In NZ + Education Ministry Seeks High COurt Redress Over Leaky Buildings Across The Ditch was Recorded Live on 18/04/13. The Issues: Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how New Zealand’s Parliament passed last night a marriage equality bill making it legal for people of [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – GCSB Scandal Is Becoming Very Weird
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 11th, 2013
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – GCSB Scandal Is Becoming Very Weird Across The Ditch with Peter Godfrey and Selwyn Manning was Recorded Live on 11/04/13. GCSB: This issue just keeps getting more weird. This week it has been revealed that the GCSB spy agency has illegally spied on at least 85 New Zealanders. And [...]
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: 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 [...]
Citizen-A: With Martyn Bradbury, Keith Locke, Matthew Hooton on the week’s political issues
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, February 15th, 2013
Citizen-A: With Martyn Bradbury, Keith Locke, Matthew Hooton on the week’s political issues This week on Citizen-A: Martyn Bradbury, Keith Locke and Matthew Hooton discuss the following issues: Is New Zealand First MP Richard Prosser a racist? Salvation Army gives the National-led Government a ‘D’ for its handling of the child poverty crisis. NZ PM [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Sean Perry & Selwyn Manning – The Illegal GCSB Spying Scandal
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, October 4th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Sean Perry & Selwyn Manning – The Illegal GCSB Spying Scandal Selwyn Manning & Sean Perry discuss the GCSB/Police surveillance of Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom, and the Prime Minister John Key’s handling of the affair. It is amazing what can occur in two weeks… The National-led Government has been [...]
Australian Soprano Taryn Fiebig & Selwyn Manning Discuss Being An Opera Star & the NBR NZ Opera’s The Bartered Bride
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Australian Soprano Taryn Fiebig & Selwyn Manning Discuss Being An Opera Star & the NBR NZ Opera’s The Bartered Bride Review: Click here to read the review of The Bartered Bride. Australian soprano, Taryn Fiebig and Selwyn Manning discuss what it is like to be a performing Opera star and the up-coming NBR New Zealand [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on Same Sex Marriage Bill + Pacific Forum
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, August 30th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on Same Sex Marriage Bill + Pacific Forum + Rena Wreckage 5AA Australia:, Across The Ditch Recorded live on 30/08/12. Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey examine the big issues of the week inclouding how the New Zealand Parliament vote 80-40 in favour of the [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Three More Kiwi Soldiers Killed + All Blacks V Wallabies
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Three More Kiwi Soldiers Killed + All Blacks V Wallabies Three more Kiwi soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan bringing the total NZDF deaths to ten (five killed in the last two weeks) – and PM John Key is under pressure to detail [...]
State Of It – Pacific Fibre, Has The US Gone Too Far?
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
State Of It – Pacific Fibre, Has The US Gone Too Far? Analysis – By Selwyn Manning. On Thursday morning Interest.co.nz‘s Alex Tarrant reported that the Kiwi Pacific Fibre cable project was sunk by US fears about Chinese investment, and espionage. Interest.co.nz‘s main contact was New Zealand-based invester Rod Drury who said: “It was made [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – NZ Politicians To Vote On Same Sex Marriage Bill
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch – NZ Politicians To Vote On Same Sex Marriage Bill 5AA Australia’s Across The Ditch, Recorded Live on 2/08/12. Peter Godfrey and Selwyn Manning discuss how New Zealand’s Parliament will vote on whether same-sex partners will be able to legally marry. The bill is expected to be voted on in [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On How Canada Breached Our Intelligence
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, July 26th, 2012
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey On How Canada Breached Our Intelligence Recorded LIVE on 26/07/12 – Across THe Ditch with Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey. This week: It has been revealed that a Canadian naval officer has been arrested on security charged where it is alleged he sold military intelligence to Russian spies. [...]
TriTV – Selwyn Manning IVs Matt Robson on Foreign Affairs and the Value of Aid
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
TriTV – Selwyn Manning IVs Matt Robson on Foreign Affairs and the Value of Aid Beatson Interview – Selwyn Manning IVs Matt Robson on foreign affairs, New Zealand’s independent brand, and the value of development aid. Matt Robson is a former New Zealand Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a minister responsible for NZAid in [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Cold-Case Murder + US/NZ Sign Security Pact
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, June 21st, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Cold-Case Murder + US/NZ Sign Security Pact 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Recorded live on 21/06/12. This week Peter and Selwyn discuss how Police have re-started a cold-case murder investigation after on May 19 the skeletal [...]
Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ’s UN Security Council Bid
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
Interview: Selwyn Manning IVs Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Phil Goff On NZ’s UN Security Council Bid Triangle TV, LiveNews.co.nz: Important Points – New Zealand’s former Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff reveals that Australia’s former PM Kevin Rudd, abandoned a pledge agreed in 2004 between Canada, New Zealand and Australia, that New Zealand would be next [...]
Beatson Interview – Selwyn Manning IVs Henry Yamo on Papua New Guinea Instability
Written by Selwyn Manning on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Beatson Interview – Selwyn Manning IVs Henry Yamo on Papua New Guinea Instability The Governor General in Papua New Guinea has signed the writs ordering a new election in the troubled Pacific State. Voters will go the polls in a month’s time — and if recent history’s any guide there could be more turmoil ahead [...]
5AA Australia: Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning’s Across The Ditch Bulletin – Embassy Closures + Snow
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 17th, 2012
5AA Australia: Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning’s Across The Ditch Bulletin – Embassy Closures + Snow Recorded live on 17/05/12 – 5AA Australia: Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning’s Across The Ditch Bulletin – Peter and Selwyn discuss how the New Zealand Government has announced it will close its Stockholm Embassy as part of its move [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey Recorded live on 10/05/12: Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey deliver their weekly bulletin, Across The Ditch, and discuss how the Crown will not hold a retrial into claims the Urewera Four were involved in an organised criminal group. Also discussed is how the New [...]
State Of It: Why Australia & NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea’s Crisis
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, May 4th, 2012
State Of It: Selwyn Manning & Glenn Williams – Why Australia & NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea’s Crisis As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are compelled to tread a soft diplomatic line [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning and Peter Godrey’s Across The Ditch – ACT Leader Under Scrutiny
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning and Peter Godrey’s Across The Ditch – ACT Leader Under Scrutiny + Kiwis Warned Of Dodgy Online Privacy Practices Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how minister in the National-led Government and ACT Party elader John Banks is under pressure to stand down over claims he accepted $50,000.00 from MegaUpload boss [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Law For Sale?
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 19th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – Law For Sale? Selwyn Manning and Peter Godfrey discuss how the Prime Minister John Key’s ethical judgment is under scrutiny after he admitted he had approached Skycity casinos bosses with a deal where if they build a convention centre in Auckland City, then [...]
State Of It: Pacific Geopolitics Reshapes As Melanesians Assert Security Autonomy
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, April 13th, 2012
State Of It: Pacific Geopolitics Reshapes As Melanesians Assert Security Autonomy Glenn Williams interviews 36th-Parallel.com’s Selwyn Manning on why Melanesian leaders have asserted from a security sense an independence and autonomy that renders Australia and New Zealand almost redundant in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. Melanesia’s solidarity-move counters what can be perceived as [...]
Glenn Williams IVs Russel Norman on What to do with Chinese Asylum Seekers?
Written by Selwyn Manning on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Glenn Williams IVs Russel Norman on What to do with Chinese Asylum Seekers? Green Party co-leader joins Glenn Williams to discuss what Australia should do regarding the Falun Gong asylum seekers that arrived via yacht in West Australia en route to New Zealand. Glenn Williams’ Radio Wammo Breakfast streams live on Wammo.co.nz and LiveNews.co.nz.
95bFM The Wire: Selwyn Manning & Simon On ANZ Common Currency + Melanesia Sets Up Security Force
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
95bFM The Wire: Selwyn Manning & Simon On ANZ Common Currency + Melanesia Sets Up Security Force 95bFM The Wire: Selwyn Manning & Simon On ANZ Common Currency + Melanesia’s newly established a security force called The Legion. Is it feasible for Australia and New Zealand to create a single common currency? What are the [...]
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – AG Inquiry & ANZ Single Currency
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
5AA Australia: Across The Ditch With Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – AG Inquiry & ANZ Single Currency 5AA Australia: Across The Ditch with Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey – This week’s discussion examines the New Zealand Auditor General’s office initiating an investigation into proceedures followed during the Bronwyn Pullar compensation claim and whether there [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey deliver across the ditch – Minister resigns + Urewera 4
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey deliver across the ditch – Minister resigns + Urewera 4 Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey deliver across the ditch – Today’s issues included: Minister resigns + Urewera 4. National-led Government Minister Nick Smith resigned on Wednesday after a week of revelations that he used his ministerial office correspondence [...]
State of It: Selwyn Manning and Glenn Williams on Australia’s New Foreign Minister
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, March 9th, 2012
State of It: Selwyn Manning and Glenn Williams on Australia’s New Foreign Minister Selwyn Manning is interviewed by KiwiFM’s Glenn Williams and analyses former NSW Premiere Bob Carr’s appointment as the Australia Federal Government’s foreign minister. The appointment is controversial but this does not detract from Carr’s ability to tackle the portfolio and progress a [...]
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey’s Across The Ditch – Foreign Affairs Wobbles & Kim Dot
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, March 1st, 2012
5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey’s Across The Ditch – Foreign Affairs Wobbles & Kim Dot Recorded on 1/03/12. 5AA Australia: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey deliver their weekly bulletin Across The Ditch. This week they discuss how Australia isn’t the only nation in the region experiencing Foreign Affairs Wobbles. Also discussed, the boss [...]
State Of It: Manning & Williams Unpick The Vicious Australia Prime Ministership Challenge
Written by Selwyn Manning on Friday, February 24th, 2012
State Of It: Selwyn Manning & Glenn Williams unpick the very vicious Australia Prime Ministership challenge between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. Points To Note: Gillard accuses Rudd of orchestrating a destabilization campaign going back months. Rudd accuses Gillard of not silencing warring factions from discrediting his reputation. We need to watch what the ALP’s [...]
Live Now! 95bFM’s The Wire with Manning & Armistead on MFAT Restructure & Australia Leadership Challenge
Written by Selwyn Manning on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Stream courtesy of 95bFM Recording of: Selwyn Manning’s counter-clockwise bulletin on 23/02/12 at 12:35pm. Selwyn Manning and Jon Armistead on NZ MFAT restructuring & Australia PM Leadership Challenge. 95bFM: Selwyn Manning and Jon Armistead on NZ MFAT restructuring, and, Australia’s foreign minister Kevin Rudd resigning his portfolio, and anticipated challenge for the prime ministership of [...]