New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
At the risk of missing a press conference on the freshly released Declaration of Port-of-Spain: Partnering for a More Equitable and Sustainable Future, I decide to see a bit of Trinidad beyond the actual port and secure compound that...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
“..If John Key needs a reason to go to the Copenhagen climate change talks, he need only examine his own hard-hitting advice to Federated Farmers on November 18 on climate change. “As a trading nation, we simply cannot afford to get it wrong. Our international reputation with our overseas consumers is at stake.” The Prime Minister was [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
If John Key needs a reason to go to the Copenhagen climate change talks, he need only examine his own hard-hitting advice to Federated Farmers on November 18 on climate change."As a trading nation, we simply cannot afford to get...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Audrey Young reports on part of a speech from Steven Joyce: One of Mr Key’s closest advisers, Transport Minister and first-term MP Stephen Joyce, also spoke to Federated Farmers, telling them how hard it had been getting used to the public service when he took office a year ago. He would hold meetings with officials sitting around [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Maori Party president Whatarangi Winiata's bombshell in asking MP Hone Harawira to resign will throw it the party into unprecedented turmoil.But Winiata and co-leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples knew that when the request...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Audrey Young covers the lighter side: You’ve got to wonder how much time John Key spends thinking up stunts. Not much I suspect. He just has an eye for a opportunity. He pulled one last night on Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama just before the two sets of First Couples were about to head into dinner. Key [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
New Zealand is holding its second "partnership forum" with Japan in Tokyo today but it is less of a partnership event than similar ones held with Australia and the United States.Today's forum is part of the salvage mission New...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
John Key will make a bold pitch for a free-trade agreement between Japan and New Zealand when he meets Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama late tonight in Tokyo.And the new Prime Minister's vow to end the power of officials...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Audrey Young is with John Key reporting on his visit to Tokyo. John Key and his wife Bronagh are getting ready to call on the Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace. I am allowed in for the meet and greet so long as I don't throw...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
John Key was due to touch down in Tokyo last night and whether he likes it or not, his will be a grand entrance to Japan.The giant rugby ball promoting the 2011 Rugby World Cup that screams "look at me!" went up at the base of...
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
No Right Turn really needs to lighten up sometimes. He proclaims journalism has hit a new low, as Audrey Young blogged about a chicken. I’m with Big News on this. NRT fails to understand the difference between what a journalist writes for their newspaper, and what they may blog about. Audrey’s story was not published in [...]
Big News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Are blogs "journalism"? As a former journalist, I think I know what journalism is. I have reported on candidates over three elections. I don't consider this blog to be journalism due to the fact that I don't often interview people and report on what they say. Neither does political journalist Audrey Young on her blog. So why No Right Turn feels the need to claim that political...
No Right Turn (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As Audrey Young reminds us, there are some big issues afoot this week in New Zealand politics. ACC hikes, the ETS, and Labour abandoning NeoLiberalism are all solid meaty issues politicians are currently grappling with. So what does the Herald 's political editor blog about this week? A bloody chicken , complete with bad jokes. Can I have some real journalism please, rather than this...
girl in greenwood (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital by Audrey Young I loved this book and read it in a few hours becuase I was so fascinated. I work at the hospital that Dr. Young describes with honesty and affection. In her stories about patients, doctors, families, and aspects of society, the reader gets a view inside a public hospital and the people who work and are treated...
