Nominating Nicky Hager for 2015 New Zealander of the Year

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Brothers and Sisters, Nicky Hager has done more journalism with this one book than the entire mainstream media have managed to achieve in 6 years of a National led Government. His exposure of the true and corrupt nature of the National Party has been an eye watering wake up call for all decent NZers to demand answers.

Nicky has shown a courage in our mean spirited, anti-intellectual, knuckle dragging redneck country to side step the communist taunts and provide a voice prepared to speak truth to power.

In a dead eyed country whose cultural highlights are rugby, alcoholism and domestic violence, Hager has been a beacon of enlightenment. Dammit, he deserves NZer of the Year and that is why I have lodged a nomination this morning for Nicky Hager to be the  2015 New Zealander of the Year. Sure it’s likely to go to some establishment figure National Party hack or someone connected to bloody rugby, but just to get Hager on the list for nomination will be a win.

Visit the site and nominate Nicky yourself. The more os us that do, the more likely likely we can get him onto the nomination list.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Nick has worked tirelessly to help political figures and parties be honest with the public, at considerable cost to himeself. His first referee, John Key, considers him a left wing eccentric who is too fond of the truth and not willing to accept weak excuses (both, to Key, character flaws). Helen Clark, on the other hand, thinks of Nick as a right wing ding bat, too fond of the truth and not willing to shut up when he should (also, obviously, character flaws in her view).

  2. NOMINATED Nicky Hagar has worked tirelessly to help political figures and parties be honest with the public, at considerable cost to himself. His tenacity, honesty and humility is a beacon for ordinary New Zealanders and our children as he proves that integrity is important, honest never fails being the best policy and dirty politics has no place in New Zealand culture. He deserves a place in our history as a New Zealander of the Year for everything he stands for and his accomplishments attempting to keep our politics and its politicians honest.

    Thanks for the first sentence MOZ IN OZ – brilliant – pardon me for using it in the nomination, it was too good not to 🙂

  3. My submission. It can be revised up to deadline so any feedback welcome.

    “Nicky Hager has done New Zealand great service with his work on political and journalistic ethics, as well as his encouragement of transparent and participatory democracy. Awarding Hager New Zealander of the year will encourage more honest and open governance, a cause he has actively advocated for since at least 1978. It will also encourage greater community interest and involvement in governance, a cause which Hager claims motivates his work. An excellent investigative journalist and writer, Hager is meticulous in researching and communicating unethical behaviour. This has brought Hager considerable flak and difficulty as those who resent the scrutiny have sought to suppress and discredit him. Despite this challenge, Hager’s work has withstood criticism and has exposed inappropriate and un-democratic behaviour. Hager has been a keynote speaker at many events, has lectured on journalistic ethics and has been interviewed through radio, TV and the press. Hager’s books, articles and talks have strongly influenced public discussion of appropriate governance, political and journalistic ethics, and participatory democracy. This has been of great benefit to public discourse in New Zealand. Hager deserves New Zealander of the year for a long track record promoting high ethical standards, making information that is of public interest accessible, and resolute commitment to New Zealand’s democratic environment.”

    I’m missing specific examples of endorsements, awards and itemised work and achievements which would make any nomination stronger.

    Details on the award criteria can be found here: http://www.nzawards.co.nz/nominate/award-categories-and-criteria/

    While my feeling is that the “expert judging panel” will ultimately choose someone politically uncontroversial and ‘safe’, it’s still worth making submissions for people who have genuinely benefited NZ despite partisan opposition.

  4. Why has the link to this come up with an extremely ugly photo of Slug Slater next to it on my timeline. Not funny.

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