Wednesday nightCap
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April 2014
Daily Trivia
Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay. (source) Read more »
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Whaleoil Backchat
Welcome to the daily Whaleoil Backchat – posted at 6:30 pm every day.
This post is like an end-of-day General Debate post.
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.
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Post of the Day – Judith Collins
Judith Collins posted to Facebook this photo of herself in 1978…the last time that crime rates were as low as they are now.
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.
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More good news
Another crisis that Labour has been campaigning on has had a shot in the arm, simply from Labour declaring that there was a crisis in the first place.
Residential building consents continued to rise in March, which was the best month for house approvals in more than six years.
Some 1999 new dwellings were consented, 186 apartments which were largely rest-home units, and 1813 houses – the highest number since November 2007, Statistics New Zealand said today.
Business indications manager Neil Kelly said the trend for new dwellings had almost doubled since March 2011, but was still 28 per cent below the peak in January 2004. Read more »
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.
