Author and Investigative Journalist
The Solicitor-General will shortly make a decision whether to approve terrorism charges against the Maori, peace and environmental activists arrested last month. Nicky Hager describes how the decision will be made and the factors the Solicitor-General needs to take into account….
Standing Upright Here, New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945-1990, by Malcolm Templeton,Victoria University Press ISBN 08647354-0-5
Book review by Nicky Hager
The great weakness of much journalism is a process-worker approach to assembling quotation-based stories….
The most impressive new work [of 2006] was Dean Parker’s The Hollow Men (Bats), adapted from Nicky Hager’s book about the rise and fall of Don Brash (don’t mention the Masons). We rarely see local political plays of this sophistication – Harry Rickets, New Zealand Listener, December 29-January 4 2008.
It is a sad truth in politics, and maybe all human activity, that when people believe they are acting in secret they do things that they would never do if they believed other people might find out. Often good record keeping and the availability of those records is the best protection we have against deception, dishonesty and corrupt behaviour by people in positions of influence. I hope you recognise this important and powerful effect of your work
Inside Spin, the dark underbelly of the PR industry, Bob Burton, Allen & Unwin
review by Nicky Hager
No Left Turn, by Chris Trotter, Random House, Auckland, $36.99.
“Power and the People”, New Zealand Listener, 25 August 2007
Review by Nicky Hager
MPs have stepped back from proposals that would have lifted secrecy
surrounding party donations….
Student confesses he infiltrated group opposed to Solid Energy mining.
AN AUCKLAND private investigation firm is paying agents to infiltrate
and spy on environmental, peace and anti-vivisection groups….