Ralston on a tough start
Bill Ralston writes: Message to John Key and his new Government: No pressure. Well, just a global financial market collapse, a deepening recession, a growing deficit, a crisis meeting with many of the...
View ArticleRalston on National
Bill Ralston writes: National is doing exactly what it pledged to do – a 90-day probationary trial for new employees of small businesses, tax cuts, changes to KiwiSaver, amending bail laws, toughening...
View ArticleRalston on Labour
Bill Ralston has the same suspicions as me: I have the horrible feeling that Labour, had it still been in government, would have cancelled the tax cuts and thrashed the exhausted middle class for more...
View ArticleRalston’s Hot or Not 2009 List
Bill Ralston does a Hot or Not list for 2009: HOT John Key Working in the Beehive Government Press Secretaries Jonathan Coleman Lockwood Smith Lobbyists Consultants Heavy construction companies...
View ArticleRental car company backs down
Bill Ralston blogged some PR advice for NZ Rental Car Specialists: Mr Edwin Chan of New Zealand Rental Car Specialists needs a Public Relations Specialist. Quickly. If someone is late returning a...
View ArticlePredictions on media over next decade
As part of their series on ten years of Herald online, a number of media industry people look at the next ten years: Bill Ralston – Media commentator, radio host Everyone goes on about the death of...
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Ralston’s Advertisement
Bill Ralston has a job advertisement: Are you an up-and-coming, energised self-starter who enjoys working in a close and happy team? • Are you a confident communicator with a strong social conscience?...
View ArticleRalston on National
Bill Ralston writes in the HoS: Six months ago Labour was constantly telling us that John Key was weak, untrustworthy and devious, while his National Party was little more than a bunch of washed-up...
View ArticleRalston on promises
Bill Ralston writes in the HoS: The first 100 days programme was all about looking competent and appearing to honour National’s election promises. Sadly, most of those promises were made in an entirely...
View ArticleRalston on Labour
Today’s Ralston: Not that Labour’s counterattacks have been particularly effective. It seems to have reverted to the same prophet of doom approach it adopted before the last election. “The End is...
View ArticleRalston on National
Bill Ralston writes in the HoS: National has found an unerring ability to plug into public sentiment. Even when there has been an apparent reverse, such as minister Judith “Crusher” Collins’ frustrated...
View ArticleRalston on Govt advertising
Bill Ralston writes in the HoS: John Key’s memorable line about Labour’s “hug a polar bear” programmes, ineffective campaigns that sound good but don’t deliver results, wryly summed up this...
View ArticleAll about Worth
So many comments today. First Cactus Kate comments on Phil Goff’s description of Complainant A is “strikingly beautiful”: Imagine a man from the centre-right of politics objectifying a woman as...
View ArticleRalston on dirty tricks
Bill Ralston writes: He may have resigned but Richard Worth is not the only victim in this debacle. When you play in the muck you will get dirt on you. It’s a lesson Phil Goff forgot last week and it...
View ArticleRalston on Peters
Bill Ralston writes: A NZ First conference is coming up next month and it appears Peters plans staging a comeback at the next election. Party members might wonder where he has been for the past several...
View ArticleRalston on public service
Bill Ralston makes easy work of the PSA and Labour: Erect a stake, pile wood around it as a pyre, tie Treasury Head John Whitehead to it and throw in a match. The man has committed heresy. He said the...
View ArticleRalston on left blogosphere and Goff
Bill Ralston writes in the HoS that Goff must watch his back: It is occurring in the blogosphere, and not on the traditional centre-right sites that love to lampoon Goff and Labour but on centre-left...
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Ralston & Wilson on ‘NZ on Media’
Bill Ralston and/or Janet Wilson (not sure which one of them authored it) blogs: Over on Kiwiblog Dave Farrar reports on an interesting idea from the redoubtable Herald columnist Fran O’Sullivan who...
View ArticleInvestigative Journalism & Winston
NBR carry an NZPA story on Winston’s latest claim: Overseas ownership of New Zealand news media outlets is in the political spotlight, with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters saying it has eroded...
View ArticleTeam JR Development Trust
Jack Ralston died a couple of months ago. Brother Bill writes in The Listener about him. He spent a lifetime as a sports coach. Whale Oil blogs: Just over 9 weeks ago the sporting-world, in particular...
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