Show Notes
Nicky Hager’s new book, Dirty Work: The Taxpayers’ Union and New Zealand’s Hard Right, is out now. In it, Hagar details the ways Jordan Williams and his web of connected astroturf groups work some of their plans in action and outcomes they caused and how their playbook works - including how media is enabling it. So how did media react? They proved Hager right.
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