http://www.prmatters.co.nz fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/never-mind-policy-what%e2%80%99s-on-the-tape/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/never-mind-policy-what%e2%80%99s-on-the-tape/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:50:13 +0000 Paul http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=1237 It is hard not to feel that that the 2011 General Election has descended into farce.  We’re now ten days out from the Election, and for nigh on three days our politicians aided and abetted by the national media have given us a diet of irrelevancy about a tape of a private conversation. The PM [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/never-mind-policy-what%e2%80%99s-on-the-tape/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/fair-play-or-out-of-bounds/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/fair-play-or-out-of-bounds/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:27:12 +0000 Dennis Lynch http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=243 The ability of the media to ‘spark’ a controversy, and that of social media to ‘fuel it’ has rarely been better illustrated than the histrionics raging in Australian over the comments made by the new Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, when asked the question:  what advice would you give your daughters about sex before [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/fair-play-or-out-of-bounds/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/just-how-can-phil-goff-win-the-hearts-and-minds-of-labour-voters/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/just-how-can-phil-goff-win-the-hearts-and-minds-of-labour-voters/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:56:02 +0000 Jane Dodd http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=138 Phil Goff has surely got the worst job in New Zealand politics right now?  Taking over the leadership of a party that was soundly trumped in an election is bad enough. But inheriting this role from St Helen, whose new position in the UN only serves to entrench her legacy as PM, makes his situation even [...]

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