Posts Tagged ‘The Hollow Men’

Nicky Hager was invited by the Pundit website to reply to a column by Matthew Hooton.

Nicky Hager is interviewed about lessons for the public from his book and the film The Hollow Men

The great weakness of much journalism is a process-worker approach to assembling quotation-based stories….

The most impressive new work [of 2006] was Dean Parker’s The Hollow Men (Bats), adapted from Nicky Hager’s book about the rise and fall of Don Brash (don’t mention the Masons). We rarely see local political plays of this sophistication – Harry Rickets, New Zealand Listener, December 29-January 4 2008.

I would like to propose a New Year’s resolution for news organisations: sorting out the difference between genuine media commentators and giving regular media space to political party spin doctors….

News release 28 November 2006 The Hollow Men author provides further email evidence to disprove denial Don Brash told the news media yesterday that he had no record of receiving a crucial 24 May 2005 Exclusive Brethren email that set out the church’s plans to spend a million dollars of seven nationwide pamphlets (reproduced on [...]

National and the Exclusive Brethren On the evening of Monday 7 August 2006 the leader of the New Zealand National Party, Don Brash, gave a strong speech about the difference between his party and the Labour government. ‘In our quest for victory, we choose the harder path, the path of principle and persuasion over the [...]

Preface of The Hollow Men In September 2005, National Party leader Don Brash came within a hair’s breadth of becoming New Zealand’s prime minister and the National Party of controlling the government. News reports and commentators said National had run a good campaign, achieving the outstanding result of nearly doubling the party’s electoral support. Some [...]

Today, Tuesday 21 November 2006, was to be the day of the launch of my new book. The books are printed, preparations for the launch were finalised and then we learnt of Friday afternoon that an injunction had been granted that has blocked release of the book.

The book shows the internal working of New Zealand’s main conservative party (the National Party) from the election of a new leader, through two years of election campaigning, up to that leaders demise. Based on 1000s of internal communications, strategy papers, itineraries and meeting minutes, it gives an unprecedented insight into modern politics. After exposing numerous lies told to the public, revealing the cynical use of racism to woo redneck voters, secret relations with millionaire donors and much more, the party leader resigned on the day the book was published.

• Order a copy
• Read the Preface
• Read the first chapter
• Nicky Hager speech notes for launching book
• Nicky Hager releases further National Party information 28 November 2006