Cam Slater: Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

Remember the fuss when Judith Collins called out Arena Williams over her tweet about her father now being able to heat his room and pay for his prescriptions? The media covered Judith’s ‘mean’ tweet, but didn’t actually look into the circumstances of Arena’s father. We did that.

Cam Slater: There’s a Reason You Don’t Do This

There is an unwritten rule that you don’t bring family members into the political debate. If you do you run the risk of blowback on you, and worse, on them. They didn’t choose to be involved and every time I see it happen I cringe. After the budget, that is exactly what Arena Williams did: she brought her father into the political debate.

Bruce Moon: An Open Letter to Arena Williams, MP for Manurewa

Dear Arena Williams,

In your “Conversations” column for 18 February 2021, you state that “in an age of misinformation online and social media noise” .. “learning our history ... teaches us to think critically”.  Yet you repeat one of the grossest lies which have ever been perpetrated about the history of New Zealand.  Yes, you repeat one of the most frequently chanted lies with which our history is sullied: that “Colonel Nixon was famous for razing unfortified Rangiaowhia while men, women and children burnt in their church.”  Not a word of this is true.