Slater pushes back against Hager

Cameron Slater has dismissed Dirty Politics allegations relating to himself and Justice Minister Judith Collins, while Labour leader Phil Goff compared the scandal to Watergate. In an interview this morning with The Nation’s Lisa Owen, Slater ripped into the book, saying author Nicky Hager “didn’t even have the common journalistic courtesy to contact a single person contained within these emails, while he breached everybody’s privacy”.

Once were the cast of Warriors

Hands up who doesn’t remember where and when they were smacked over the head by the visual and emotional assault that is Once Were Warriors. The 1994 drama about the dysfunctional Heke family exposed a dark vein of domestic violence, rape, suicide and alcoholism and propelled New Zealand cinema on to the world stage.

Leading role but not for her eyes

It’s the film all of New Zealand will be talking about on Monday morning, with one notable exception – the teenager who plays young rape victim Louise Nicholas will not see most of Consent: The Louise Nicholas story. Houghton Bay schoolgirl Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, 14, will not be allowed to watch the full docudrama, by order of her famous actor parents Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie