DIRTY POLITICS PART 3 OF 5: JUDITH COLLINS FEEDING GOVERNMENT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION TO WHALE OIL

DIRTY POLITICS - PART 3 (of 5): Chapter 4

When “Crusher“Judith Collins becomes the National’s horse, speaking into the Whale’s ear

Thakur Ranjit Singh

DIRTY POLITICS ANALYSIS - PART 3 OF 5

JUDITH COLLINS – DID SHE PULL PUNCH IN HER BOOK ABOUT HER ROLE IN DIRTY POLITICKING IN THE NATIONAL CABINET?

Nicky Hager’s book, DIRTY POLITICS raised a number of concerns about COLLINS.

-      She was apparently unworried about the leak of police evidence.

-      She was directly involved in providing information about and attacking a Ministerial Services staff member.

-      She disclosed confidential department and client information.

-      She made it her business to feed a stream of information, gossip and documents for use on the Whale Oil site.

Read and be ashamed of a Third World–Type Government clandestine actions in a First World Civilised Democracy to abuse its position to discredit opposition.

Also be ashamed about a shameful mainstream media to have discounted this as a left wing-conspiracy

Please read and be shocked…two more parts coming, including role Michael Woodhouse played in discrediting the then labour leader, David Cunliffe .. Please read on..

An indelible link between the Beehive and Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater has damaged the Key brand. 

The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character of John Key has been revealed by Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics, revealing him as a leader lacking courage to stand up for integrity and a vision of shaping the country on foundation of a clean governance.

"You naughty boy! I was after your position,  but you got rid of me. But I will come back - and tell all". [Photo from The Daily Blog, KIWI PUNDIT caption]

The other excess baggage that voters should not forget is the unholy alliance between the “sacked” Justice/Police and ACC Minister Judith Collins and Cameron Slater. 

In this unethical and immoral marriage, confidentiality and sensitivity of Cabinet Office and executive arm of government have been compromised. This is when the Cabinet “horse” (or shall we say, the mare?) regularly mouthed such information in the blogger friend’s ear, for equally unholy usages. 

Wonder if Collins has courage to tell these dirty and dark secrets in her 2020 book "Pull No Punches". These immoral and unethical, if not illegal, revelations have been made by Nicky Hager in his 2014 book DIRTY POLITICS. Please read on...............

Whale Oil blogger used to hear it from the horse's mouths, both from the Beehive (Prime Minister's Office) and the then Cabinet Office of Justice/ Police/ACC Minister, Judith Collins

The adage, “birds of feather, flock together” is true for the unholy alliance between Cameron Slater and Judith Collins. 

While the contact point of other attack-bloggers to the National Government over many years have been John Key’s office, Slater seemed to be privileged in having his ear close to "his close friend and ally in the Government " - in fact in Key's Cabinet, Minister Judith Collins.

They had much in common. One cultivated the iron woman persona of Crusher Collins, future Prime Minister, the other the reckless bully-boy persona of Whale Oil, crusading outsider. They were drawn together by right-wing politics and a shared attraction to aggressive and often petty attack politics. 

Slater was a devoted supporter of Collins, using his blogs to promote her and to attack her critics. Collins, in return, fed a continuous supply of material to Slater: public press release, political gossip, tip-offs and serious leaks. She boasted for him in 2013 that “you might not like it but Whale Oil is better informed and better read than any other news outlet or social media. (p.45)

 They were in constant touch, via phone and e-mail. Perhaps this now explains why Whale Oil had unfair advantage and blessings (and hence reach and popularity) over others.

DR JEKYLL and MR HYDE: In light of revelations by the book, DIRTY POLITICS, does this image look familiar? Whose character does this represents, who projects a two-faced image to Kiwis? Guess, can name the key (pun intended) suspect?

While Chapter 4 illustrates cases of various other communication, including the case of transfer of a prisoner, where Slater used to “hear” directly from National’s Cabinet Office, the case of Bronwyn Pullar, a former National Party activist, needs mention. This is a case where details of some 6,700 Accident Compensation Commission (ACC) clients were accidently sent to Pullar, who herself was a client of ACC, of which Collins was the Minister. 

The support person of Pullar in negotiations was former National Party President Michelle Boag. Slater had an axe to grind with Boag because she was the person who replaced John Slater, Cameron’s father as president of National Party many years earlier. Hence, he regarded Boag as an enemy and attacked her at every opportunity. A leak was made to Herald on Sunday and key players were named and it became a controversial issue. Collins denied that she or her office leaked the letter.

That in gist reveals what happens when the Captain of a ship refuses to make himself informed of the message because he is so busy shooting the messenger. He should have fired Collins a long time ago. He needs to continuously and continually get informed, even from those he despises.

This chapter (chapter 4) raises a number of concerns about Collins: she was apparently unworried about the leak of police evidence; she was directly involved in providing information about and attacking a Ministerial Services staff member; she disclosed confidential department and client information, not to mention possibly leaking controversial Pullar e-mail; she made it her business to feed a stream of information, gossip and documents for use on the Whale Oil site. She was also a close friend and trusted confidante of Cameron Slater, which says much about her as a politician. 

This is how Dirty Politics REVEALED the image of John Key : A nice smiling likable man to the public, who had hired hounds to do all National Party's dirty work, to make him look clean-and good.

What surprises yours truly, this Kiwi Fiji Indian, who has seem much muck in Fiji, is the uncanny ability of mainstream Kiwis to be and remain unaffected by the filth that Dirty Politics dug up. And more so, their uncanny ability to take so much of s*** from a government whose leader appears to project such a clean and likeable image. 

And a bigger shame is for the supposedly watchdog mainstream NZ media to have apparently taken a pet dog attitude when it came to revealing the shortfalls of the smiling assassin. 

Why does it take a little known migrant ethnic blogger to raise very serious issues in the past National Government, whose leader has since been Knighted?

Wonder whether this generally happens, and whether this should happen in a civilised First World Democracy like Aotearoa. 

[E-mail: thakurji@xtra.co.nz]

[Disclaimer: All information in the above article is either direct quotations or interpretations from Nicky Hager’s book, Dirty Politics]

NEXT - PART 4 OF 5

WHEN DAVID CUNLIFFE WAS ATTACKED BY NATIONAL'S DOGS REGARDING DONGHUA LIU, ASKED TO RESIGN FOR LYING AND THE ROLE MICHAEL WOODHOUSE PLAYED IN DISCREDITING CUNLIFFE

[About the Author: Thakur Ranjit Singh completed his Masters in Communication Studies (with honours) at AUT on scholarship from Pacific Islands Media Association (PIMA) with the objective of adding colour to New Zealand's newsroom. But he ended up driving a bus - and is involved with community wellbeing, runs his blog, and occassionally ruffles a few feathers-AND HE IS DOING EXACTLY THAT NOW.
E-mail: thakurji@xtra.co.nz]