Articles by Jason Walls and Tom Dillane
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: AUKUS – is a boon for Kiwi military intelligence worth poking the Chinese dragon?
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 2:51PMFormer Australia Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr was not mincing his words this week, when describing the highly contentious...
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National
Mosques across NZ asked to take security precautions after Sydney stabbings
Friday, 19 April 2024, 1:26PMMosques across New Zealand have been sent an email this morning asking them to remain vigilant and take security precautions...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: ‘Point of order, Mr Speaker!’ Snoozefest Question Time has lost its spark
Friday, 12 April 2024, 11:52AMNew Zealand’s great democratic pantheon is starting to feel more like a high school debate session than a great temple of...
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Politics
PM’s pay pickle: MPs’ pay rises loom amid public sector cuts
Monday, 8 April 2024, 7:30AMThe independent body tasked with setting MPs’ pay is just weeks away from deciding if politicians will get a pay raise for...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: The Prime Minister, his Ministers and every MP in Parliament are vastly underpaid
Friday, 5 April 2024, 12:20PMIt’s 3:55pm on a Monday afternoon. The Prime Minister’s just finished leading the most important weekly meeting in the country...
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Auckland
'Do less, pay less': Mayor Brown weighs into poll on his proposed 7.5% rates rise
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 10:41AMMore Aucklanders would prefer to have their services cut to achieve a lower rates hike than those who support the 7.5 per...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Willis disappoints fiscal nerds, but the worst is yet to come
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 10:35AMNicola Willis disappointed economic nerds across the country on Wednesday. The Finance Minister broke with a well-established...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Winston Peters - ‘drunk uncle’ or political genius?
Friday, 22 March 2024, 2:43PMWinston went full Winston this week. In a seeming return to campaign mode, the New Zealand First leader has pulled out all...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Major Labour missteps highlight tumultuous times in post-Robertson era
Monday, 18 March 2024, 3:04PMIt was not the week Chris Hipkins was hoping for. He and his MPs made their annual pilgrimage to Wairarapa on Thursday...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Luxon waves 100-day checkered flag as Willis waves economic red flag
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 10:38AMToday is the Government’s 104th day in office – better known as the day the real work begins. Chris Luxon’s had 100 days...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Why Labour Party excuses are less effective for National
Friday, 1 March 2024, 2:05PMNine long years. That was the rallying cry of Labour MPs and ministers during the last term of Government. It seemed...
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National
Journalist Michael Morrah reveals plan to save Newshub
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 8:36PMA group of senior Newshub journalists will be meeting next week to discuss a proposal to present to Warner Bros. Discovery...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: The pointless, PR-driven nonsense of a 100-day plan is just bad governance
Friday, 23 February 2024, 2:56PMNews flash: New Zealand is not the USA. A staple of a new, or re-elected, president for decades has been to establish a...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Who are Labour’s up-and-coming heavy hitters?
Saturday, 17 February 2024, 11:13AMThe wilderness of opposition can be a gift, or it can be a curse. For former ministers, the drop from the lofty heights...
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Audio
Football Fever: Five-point leads and six-goal Ferns
Monday, 12 February 2024, 12:41PMPiney and Bonnie break down the Football Ferns' 6-0 win over Samoa and the Phoenix men's latest win, taking them five points...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Luxon firms up Act’s support by backing away from Treaty Principles Bill
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 4:18PMThe dead duck got deader this week. After weeks of tepid, non-committal answers on his party's post-first reading support...
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National
$228m without a metre of track, now Auckland Light Rail disestablishment to cost millions more
Friday, 2 February 2024, 9:24AMThe disestablishment of the Ministry of Transport’s work on the Auckland Light Rail project will likely cost millions of...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Kill Bill – Shane Jones crushes Seymour’s Treaty dreams, but the battle’s not over yet
Friday, 26 January 2024, 2:28PMThere’s already trouble in paradise it seems. The Act Party secured half a win during the coalition negotiations when it...
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ZB Plus - Guest Opinions
Jason Heale: Our character deficit and how to fix it
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 11:59AMWith another shoplifting charge just laid against former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, with a subsequent summons to appear in...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: The top five political moments of 2023
Saturday, 16 December 2023, 8:56AMA week is a long time in politics, at least according to the oldest cliche in the book. And it’s a cliche for a reason. In...
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National
Mayor Wayne Brown irate at Auckland Council’s $7.4m recruiting spend during hiring freeze
Monday, 11 December 2023, 7:47AMAuckland Council has spent $7.4 million on recruiting staff during a supposed hiring freeze over the last year - with Mayor...
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National
'Bureaucratic cruelty': Disabled Kiwi resident battling to get out of Gaza
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 2:11PMA disabled Kiwi resident is battling to get out of the heavily bombarded Gaza Strip in a situation labelled “bureaucratic...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: A rare misstep from Nicola Willis
Friday, 8 December 2023, 5:07PMIt took Nicola Willis a single day in her new job to commit, what will no doubt go down as, one of the biggest political...
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Jason Walls
Jason Walls: Luxon lets Winston be Winston – but he’s setting a dangerous precedent
Friday, 1 December 2023, 8:34AMIt was Christopher Luxon's day, but it was all about Winston Peters. Less than an hour after the official swearing-in ceremony...