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David Slack

New Zealand
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Covers:  New Zealand politics, social issues, climate change
Doesn't Cover: Sport
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David Slack’s Biography

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Author, columnist, speechwriter for New Zealand Prime Ministers.

Bullshit, Backlash and Bleeding Hearts explored race relations issues.
Civil War ...and Other Optimistic Predictions considered doomsday scenarios in New Zealand politics.
Bullrush was a New Zealand social history.

Columnist Sunday Star Times and RNZ.co.nz.
Previously Metro and Unlimited magazines.

David Slack’s Journalist Portfolio

The ANZ boss's half million dollar expense account is all that he'll be remembered for

The ANZ boss's half million dollar expense account is all that he'll be remembered for

OPINION: So farewell, then, ANZ CEO, leaving an extremely lucrative job in Aotearoa under a long white cloud.…

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Articles by David Slack | Stuff.co.nz Journalist | Muck Rack

Articles by David Slack | Stuff.co.nz Journalist | Muck Rack

Articles by David Slack on Muck Rack. Find David Slack's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitte…

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New Zealand is a great place to uplift children

New Zealand is a great place to uplift children

OPINION: New Zealand: a great place to uplift children. Oranga Tamariki has previously called itself CYF, and…

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One vote makes you larger and one vote makes you small

One vote makes you larger and one vote makes you small

OPINION: People in Melbourne use 'mate' the way other people use 'sir'. We say "Good morning, Sir" and "will …

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By David Slack
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More Than A Feilding now lives at davidslack.netwhere the daily edition continues as it always has, along with a good deal the old place couldn’t hold: a growing glossary of Aotearoa, a numbers desk, a daily quiz with a leaderboard, and more. If you were a subscriber, you came with me. Every subscription, free and paid, transferred automatically — the daily email arrives as usual, and paid subscriptions now run directly through the new site. You don’t need to do anything.
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Never mind where’s the beef, where’s my $30?

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By David Slack
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I have been pulling at a thread that began with something Mimi Gilmour said as she explained why her Burger Burger was in receivership. To make the sums work, she said, she’d have to charge thirty dollars a burger, and you can’t sell a burger for thirty dollars. You could say, well no, I’d never pay that, it’s just a burger ffs, but the thread I’m pullin…
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No one anywhere should ever be getting something that I don’t

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By David Slack
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Public transport: what a ghastly way to go! My very first ride ended in misery. I was 5, getting off the school bus, just a step down into the gravel outside school, but somehow I got it wrong and ended up slipping into a deep wet muddy ditch. Still at the same school, on the way home from a big trip, on the steep downhill from Taihape to Mangaweka, the b…
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