2026-09-23 23:15 UTC
Video of the Dirty Work book launch, published by the NZ Herald;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4m_-zwPV9k
Nicky Hager looks only slightly less exhausted when he comes to the mic.
It seems this book was a bit of an own goal for the Taxpayers Onion. Hager said he had no plans to write about them. But then in 2023 they issued some preemptive reputation laundering claiming that he was, and within days sources started coming out of the woodwork 😂
#TaxpayersUnion #DirtyWork #NickyHager #NZHerald
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-09-23 23:44
"Investigative journalist Nicky Hager has launched a new election-season book alleging the Taxpayers’ Union and an interconnected group of right-wing campaigners have helped shift New Zealand politics to the right." #GlennMcConnell, #EmmaRicketts, 2026 https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036953/dirty-work-what-nicky-hager-says-and-how-his-latest-book-captivated-capital That's not what he's alleging. To anyone who's been paying attention, that's self-evident. What's he is alleging, is that they've done it on utterly scurrilous ways, lying through their teeth to the public throughout.