Kelly Dennett

Wrote about the tremendously sad and disturbing story of Noeleen Marinovich, who was abandoned by a local priest during her pregnancy then killed by her only son stuff.co.nz/national/crime…

@HaydenDonnell he just wants you to be happy

@kellydennettnz yes! And I felt a real kinship with the dancing meatball! I hope he's not offended

But weren't you at the opening @HaydenDonnell ? thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-12-…

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It's my first day back in Parliament as deputy political editor at The Post! If you know about something going on in NZ politics or the public sector that you think more people should know about, please get in touch. ✉️henry.cooke@stuff.co.nz Phone/Signal: 021 241 1398

Half the votes are counted, and Oriini Kaipara has a sizeable lead in the Tamaki Makaurau byelection. Results and all the reaction here thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360815…

It's looking like an early lead for Oriini Kaipara in the Tamaki Makaurau byelection thepost.co.nz/puzzles/360815…

Good wrap on the state of politicking between central Govt and local at the LGNZ conference this week, on @the_postnz this morning

@BenThomasNZ I heard about this

Since we’re all offering tough but honest appraisals of our own performance I want to acknowledge and apologise for my burp on RNZ’s nine to noon politics segment yesterday

@foxcar_joey mount wellington

What spot in New Zealand gets closest to the energy of this picture?

@chamfy Cries

@Media58Bias @TheRedbaiter @AnnaCwhyte Oh dear, touched a nerve have we 😂

@TheRedbaiter @kellydennettnz @AnnaCwhyte The govt's delivering school lunches for a fraction of the cost, reaching more kids than ever, but these useless woke reporters would rather nitpick to push a narrative. Now there’s an effort to make things efficient, suddenly it’s a catastrophe!

So much of import to report upon in New Zealand today, and Wellington's Dominion Post publishes yet another story on school lunches. Or yet another hit on David Seymour. This one goes on forever, must have taken days to prepare & is credited to three so called "journalists". All of the age and gender that embodies woke leftism as identified in yesterday's Roy Morgan Political poll. Is there any hope at all for NZ's legacy media? (thanks to poster Gabriel on The Good Oil blog for bringing this to my attention.)

@StewartLundNZ Welcome to the team!

🚨 News! After nearly five years at The Spinoff, this Friday will be my last day. 🥲 I've had the best time working with the best people – I look forward to being a reader. From Monday, I'm thrilled to be joining the Sunday Star-Times/The Post team as a Senior Journalist.

Nicholas Boyack wrote so many heartfelt and detailed obituaries in his decades as a local journalist in Wellington. If anyone deserved a good writeup after their passing, it was him. It is a tough task, but in this piece, Kevin Norquay does it justice. thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360490…

@CitizenBomber Hipkins pic by Rob Kitchin

GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Careful what you ask for Labour Party: following UK Labour not smart politics | The Daily Blog buff.ly/3XV7Qzb #nzpol

@chamfy stop trolling us

Are you a Kiwi writer craving time and space to finish your book? Check out the famed Surrey Hotel Writers Residency Award. 2016 winner @kellydennettnz worked on her Ngaios winning book there, as did #2024Ngaios winner @CbaylisClaire (DICE)! newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/17/sur… @NewsroomNZ

Staggering thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350385…

From Thomas Manch on PM's speech to mayors y'day: "In dashing councils’ hopes of new funding tools to seriously reshape how they deal with growing pains, Luxon has also planted himself a thicket of contradictions." thepost.co.nz/politics/35038…

timeless

The Press Gallery’s opened applications for junior to mid-grade journalists for the 2024 Templeton Scholarship & the Māori Press Gallery Scholarships.   The programme runs from August 19 - 23 in Wellington, you’ll work with gallery offices and flights, accommodation etc provided.