Chips falling: Election preliminaries, specials, scenarios.
As I began writing this the day after the general election (15/10/2023) it became apparent to the voters that NZ…
Tim Selwyn
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The last debate , Election Eve predictions and how Labour lost 2023 Election
Election eve and all the country is looking at Chippy’s taught winces and those dreadful haunted, spooked eyes from last…
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Blisskrieg – Winston’s provincial charm offensive
Winston Peters’ New Zealand First cavalcade fetched up in Opotiki yesterday afternoon (27/09/2023) at the Senior Citizens’ Hall. Former NZ…
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RNZ REVIEW: Will Shrill Kim Hill Kill Thrill Still Fill Bill?
How much longer Papa Smurf? I first heard that Kim Hill was leaving RNZ in a text. I remember it…
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RNZ Review: Children of the Undercurrent
Waking up last Sunday (23/07/2023) before 8am I turn on the radio. What is this strangely plodding narrative? Oh, the kids’…
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RNZ Review – RNZ solid state
The precise moment the penny dropped that Radio New Zealand is first and foremost a government department and not a…
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RNZ Review – Unplanned obsolescence
When someone in the public eye leaves a job and says they don’t know what they’re doing now – no plans –…
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RNZ Review – Kim Hill vs Posie Parker
It’s 11min55sec and tops the RNZ audio playback list this weekend. I heard it while making coffee live as it…
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RNZ Review #2 Mata
Fortnightly. Really? Nothing on radio, on television, in newspapers, in podcasting is fortnightly is it? Nothing. The promo for ‘Mata’…
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RNZ Review #1 Black and White Radio
The Broadcasting Act 1931, which established a National Broadcasting Service under the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, records that in 1925…