New Zealander of the Year – your chance to vote
OK, first, thanks for the many of you suggesting I should be New Zealander of the Year. It would be cool, but I’m asking my own team who to pick, so I’m obviously disqualified for this particular illustrious award. But – thank you all the same.
Here are the people that didn’t get a clear 2nd nomination, so they can’t be voted for today
- Lindsay Mitchell
- Bevan Chuang
- John Minto
- Hone Harawira
- Louisa Wall
- Kim Dotcom
- Scott Dixon
- David Shearer
- Val Baker and the Matata police
- Bob Parker
- Gerry Brownlee
One or two there reflecting some humour or the fact that we do in fact allow readers to have a different opinion to me!
Val Baker and the Matata police was an interesting nomination. This is how it was put forward, and I think they’ve earned some approbation: 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.