Graeme Hunt, NewstalkZzzzB bully and third-rate historian (Jul. 10, 2019)

1. greywarshark16

   10 July 2019 at 1:40 pm

   Random Note:  Reads like a thriller! 

   According to the journalist and author Graeme Hunt, domestic intelligence and counter-subversion prior to the establishment of the SIS was primarily in the hands of the New Zealand Police Force (1919–1941; 1945–1949) and of the New Zealand Police Force Special Branch (1949–1956). Another predecessor to the SIS during the Second World War was the short-lived New Zealand Security Intelligence Bureau (SIB).[6] The SIB, modelled after the British MI5, was headed by Major Kenneth Folkes, a junior MI5 officer. The conman Syd Ross duped Major Folkes into believing that there was a "Nazi plot" in New Zealand. Due to this embarrassment, Prime Minister Peter Fraser dismissed Folkes in February 1943 and the SIB merged into the New Zealand Police. Following the end of World War II in 1945, the police force resumed responsibility for domestic intelligence.[7]

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Security_Intelligence_Service

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2. The Chairman17

   10 July 2019 at 1:58 pm

   Unbelievable (read link below)

   In Australia GP's can order an MRI and people have them within 24 hours, but they can't here.

   Big improvements required here. 

   https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113542194/invercargill-nurse-collapses-in-australia-before-undergoing-surgery-to-remove-tumour.

   Being diagnosed early is vital to being cured, avoiding patient pain and suffering along with potential long term health costs in the process. MRI's are a vital diagnostic tool that should be GP referable and shouldn't require such long wait times. 

   Is there any action being taken to address this?

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3. Morrissey18

   10 July 2019 at 2:12 pm

   Graeme Hunt, who died in 2010, was one of the most unpleasant right wing ideologues infecting public life in this country. He was a regular dark and pompous presence on Larry "Lackwit" Williams' joke of a show on NewstalkZzzzzB, where he made a point of bullying, ridiculing, and harassing lesser souls, like Tim Watkin and the ridiculous Josie Pagani. 

   Even worse than his radio performances was his writing. He wrote a substandard biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh, and this "history" Spies and Revolutionaries was another missed opportunity, muddying the waters for any serious journalist or academic who might have wished to write on the history of security in this country in the future.

   In 2003 Hunt's crappy secret persona was outed on Google Groups, much to his mortification….

   https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-egregious-graeme-hunt-outed-on.html