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The Briefing, Issue 12

You can download the latest issue of The Briefing, here: Download BRFaug08.pdf

The Briefing, Issue 11, available here

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Key Questions May 24 08

National party leader John Key's May online interview with Investigate editor Ian Wishart.

Absolute Power- the online TV ad

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The Bank Of England fraud investigation

The story features in our Dec 07 issue...and was previewed by TVNZ Close Up

Rare interview with Crowded House, 1988

In the summer of 1988, rock band Crowded House returned to NZ on a promotional tour from LA. Ian Wishart sat down with band members Neil Finn and the late Paul Hester at Auckland's Hyatt Hotel to discuss the incredible success of their first album, and their hopes for their second, Temple of Low Men.

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89FM News Promo 1

As an adult rock station, 89FM was during 1988 and 89 Auckland's top rated radio station. Fully independent, it had a news staff totalling 11 journalists at its peak.

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Geoffrey Palmer's first move to challenge Lange

David Lange's leadership of the Labour Party became increasingly shaky in early 1989, when an unfortunate Time magazine cover had him frolicking in a pasture of daisies, and he hit the headlines over an ANZUS gaffe as well.

Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, who had on every previous occasion pledged absolute unswerving loyalty to Lange publicly (although  behind the scenes his advisers were continually running the numbers for a challenge) slipped up during an interview with 89FM, choosing not to give his usual loyalty pledge.

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Might Go Pop: Sir Robert Muldoon vs Lange

Sir Robert Muldoon goaded Labour Prime Minister David Lange into action one morning in 1989, when he said in an interview on 89FM that Lange's heart condition might be impacting on his job as Prime Minister.

Lange was so incensed he rang the radio station straight away to rebuke Muldoon. This is how it played out:

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Air NZ troop flights - Wishart on ZB

Newstalk ZB's Leighton Smith interviews Investigate editor Ian Wishart and aviation writer Peter Clarke about the Air New Zealand troop flights.

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