Alex Braae

RT @jacktame: I spoke to Judith Collins about the Defence Capability Plan and the Court of Inquiry into Manawanui. https://t.co/v6rCk5LEQy

RT @hankgreen: A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by co…

A great Whena Owen story on how farmers themselves are split over liberalising gene editing laws in agriculture https://t.co/bTXVuctjVl

From the Manawanui report - is this Navalese for "the captain wasn't sufficiently qualified"? https://t.co/XGTaVHPyBw

Personally think there are significant geopolitical issues worth covering at the World Cup and Q+A should send a producer to observe and monitor

Jason Pine @pineynz

You honestly would not believe the number of kiwi sports media today who are “making themselves big” in the very early stages of their company’s FIFA World Cup planning. I hope you all get to go!

David Seymour on Q+A this morning, talking school lunches, charter schools, and the ministry for regulation https://t.co/QVHN19FRx1

Fair to say resigning in March was not what RBNZ governor Adrian Orr suggested he'd be doing in this interview from December last year https://t.co/3pVrLEzVTO

Its pretty funny and also very Australian sporting myopia that the NRL thought Donald Trump might like to follow up a meeting of world-historic geopolitical significance with a nice game of footy in Vegas

Really interesting Helen Clark interview on Q+A this morning, with the full tape here: https://t.co/n6YFuO4Pdp -Questions direction of Five Eyes and NZ's involvement -Managing relationships with US Presidents -Chinese ships in the Tasman Quite a few more bits in there too

The @renews_nz series on teenagers in Regional NZ is really really good. Interesting people, beautifully shot, real issues discussed, very funny in parts. It's top work and the care that's gone into it is obvious.

Thats effectively the end of the Nix season imo, and its only February. Perhaps not surprising to lose so many when the roster has little attacking depth, basically 1 centre-back at the required level, and a string of injuries. But we've been very poor.

So many newsroom pivots are like a man lost in the desert throwing down his water in order to run faster towards what he's pretty sure is an oasis on the horizon