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Edward Gay

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Auckland bureau chief at RNZ

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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
He offered thousands for sex, showing proof of payment and even a clean STI test. But it was all fake. Rape charges he faced have been dropped - and advocates say New Zealand’s law is failing sex workers. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
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Man faked payments for sex - rape charges dropped
He offered thousands for sex, showing false proof of payment and a fake STI result. The rape charges were dropped – and advocates say NZ law is failing sex workers.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
No extradition of Vietnamese officials accused of sexual assault
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Fury as efforts to extradite foreign officials accused of sexual assault fail
Police said they had ‘no doubt’ assaults occurred, but the alleged offenders will not face justice.
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“I’ve become a doctor in my 50s, which is all well and good, but I should have been a doctor 30 years ago. And the only reason I wasn’t was because of all these barriers that have been put in front of me. “ — Dr Timoti Te Moke.
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Timoti Te Moke: 'I should have been a doctor 30 years ago' | E-Tangata
“I've become a doctor in my 50s, which is all well and good, but I should have been a doctor 30 years ago. And the only reason I wasn't was because of all these barriers that have been put in front of...
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Ping @fiona-webster22.bsky.social @mariopro.bsky.social
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Zara responds to the police documents release over the Forbes case.
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Sex worker: Police handling of press secretary case does not make sense
A sex worker at the centre of the Michael Forbes case says new documents show police handling of it was ‘concerning and unacceptable’.
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
That a young mother and her baby are discharged from hospital to live in a garage ... in 2025 ... in New Zealand ... is nothing short of a national disgrace. Such important reporting from Mildred Armah www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Baby’s first home: A cold, dirty garage with windows that don’t open
More than 25 babies were born into homelessness in one transitional housing facility alone last year. With a 300% surge in demand, providers are struggling to cope.
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Really important work from my extremely talented colleague Mildred Armah! www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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A New Zealander lives here, sleeping upright in the driver’s seat. He’s 64
Bob would be lost without his ute. It’s his office, it’s his bedroom, it’s his home.
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Continuous refilling of the Tūī feeder required on this very wet day. Every time I go into the kitchen I am faced with trees filled with Tūī staring at me
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Wrote a little piece on the cuts at MCH and the wider war on history in NZ. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
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The War on History
News that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is to press ahead with sweeping cuts that will abolish the jobs of most of its historians represents yet...
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My latest newsletter discusses the 1852 New Zealand Constitution Act, including section 71 providing for self-governing 'Native Districts' and a less well-known provision under the 1846 Constitution Act that included something very similar. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
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‘Native Districts’ and the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
Asked to nominate the point at which relations between Māori and Pākehā had really begun to turn sour in the nineteenth century, many historians would likely...
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
1/2 It's a privilege to call @paulapenfold.bsky.social a colleague... This par from her latest substack is chef's kiss: "Interviews where not only the talent (that awful TV term for interviewees) is in tears but so is the reporter, the producer, the cameraman."
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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The question from a mental health professional that left a domestic abuse survivor feeling distraught
A survivor of domestic abuse says she was victim shamed by a staff member at 1737 - the mental health support provider.
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Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A coroner's report into the death of The Clean's Hamish Kilgour found he was struggling adapting to a new life back in NZ www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3607...
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The Clean’s Hamish Kilgour felt overwhelmed by life challenges before death, coroner says
A coroner’s report into Kilgour’s death found he was struggling with depression and low mood.
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Inner-city art installation
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Brooke Van Velden’s new mission statement for WorkSafe. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #HealthAndSafety #WorkSafe #WorkplaceInjuries
Cartoon. Title: “New Mission Statement”. Images of injuries: broken bones, eye injuries, spinal injuries, head, hands, feet, legs, and a coffin, spell out the words “WORK SAFE” Below that it says, “Safety at Work” and Brooke Van Velden in the lower right corner adds, “Within reason”
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607... “The police say they have tried hard to foster trust with the sex worker community — that if we make a complaint to them that we will be taken seriously. But when we caught someone red-handed they essentially did nothing."
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Stuff
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Don’t gloss over the detail that that Holly had already been recorded - twice, once video and once audio - by a different client.
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Two more sex workers speak of the night the PM’s press sec was busted
“I have the Prime Minister’s phone number in my hand. Should I call him and let him know what’s happened?”
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"Nah, it's fucked Dave"
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Brilliant work from my wonderfully talented colleague, Mildred Armah www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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‘She’s a narcissistic autistic’: The bitter feud between a disabled woman and an advocate
A woman says an advocate she trusted to help her navigate Work and Income benefits charged her $2600 for his services over a period of 13 days.
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Democracy while female www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Research finds rape threats against female MPs common
It comes as the Justice Minister is getting advice on better protection for publicly elected officials.
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606... Over night some back peddling took place...it's still not good enough so let's hope they see the light and accept all treaty bill submissions made. #NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #TreatyBillSubmission #Treaty #Luxon #Māori #CoatOfArms
Cartoon. Title: PM confirms Many treaty submissions will be excluded. 

The Aotearoa New Zealand coat of arms has come alive. The pakeha woman is cross with Luxon. She's had enough of his shit. She's grabbing him by his ear (yanking pretty hard) and says, "When you make a promise Christopher, you keep it!" He's a tiny looking boy (in his big boy suit) wincing and crying out "It's David's fault!" To the right of the coat of arms our Māori partner stands with his elbow on top of the crest with his fingers pinching the top of his nose in exasperation.
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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 19/03/2025
Outreach kaimahi (worker) Josh Potter-Gardiner has also seen a family of six stuck living in a portacom, a 75-year-old grandfather sleeping in a slide, and full-time workers and students living in their cars.
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A baby in a tent, a granddad sleeping in a slide: The growing homelessness ‘epidemic’
Outreach workers saw almost 60 new people living on the street in January alone, including an 8-week-old baby living in a tent.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
John Bennett had resigned as an MBI Health director but was in business with its cofounder in two other companies when it was awarded a $2m Health NZ contract that wasn’t advertised. He was advising Health NZ at the time.
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The $2m contract to senior govt advisor’s business partner
Health NZ awarded an unadvertised $2m contract to a company co-founded by a senior adviser.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Breaking: ACC top manager John Bennett stood down after our series of stories raising concerns about his conduct
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Senior govt manager stood down after physical contact, conflict concerns
Top manager stood down, ACC investigating after physical contact, conflict concerns, and fresh questions from Stuff.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The long read from @eddiegay.bsky.social "The worst ‘I told you so’."
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She pleaded for her attacker to be unmasked. Before he was, he sexually abused a 13-year-old
When Mia Edmonds learned the convicted rapist and sex offender who attacked her and five others had gone on to sexually abuse a 13-year-old girl, she vomited.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Te kupu tika tēnei
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The Aotearoa complaints have gone up
Over the past few weeks I've seen a significant uptick in complaints around Stuff using the phrase Aotearoa instead of New Zealand, writes Editor Keith Lynch.
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605... Work and Income helped 146 people move into this boarding house over the years...
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The real estate agent who ran a ‘dangerous’, illegal boarding house
A boarding house had naked wires hanging from the ceiling, exposed waterpipes, no central fire alarm and some tenants were told to move out without any reason.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Posting without comment.
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Top ACC staffer seconded to Health NZ in spite of ‘physical contact’ complaint, topless video call
A senior ACC manager sent to plug staffing gaps at Te Whatu Ora was complained about by a co-worker, but ACC did not tell Health NZ.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
As Becky said, if I walked down your long driveway and took photos of your house and put them on the internet, you’d be livid. But that’s what Google Street View has been doing. While it says it’s an “error” the scale of it is significant.
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When is your driveway not private? Stuff investigation forces Google concession
Analysis of Google Street View photos has opened a privacy Pandora’s box, leading to the tech giant’s speedy removal of some controversial images.
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I want to share this with the journalism class I am about to teach, and I probably will, but man do I hate to tell these young faces this.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I mean, at any time this would have been *less than ideal* but the fact that it happened only five days after this story broke.. and to the same school.. suggests something pretty broken. You’d think there’d have been a ‘be very careful’ note on that file ..
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Edward Gay @eddiegay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Why Destiny Church’s Man Up patch is unlikely to be banned
An online petition is calling for Destiny Church’s Man Up to be added to the list of banned gang patches but an expert says that’s unlikely.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I know this stuff is complicated, but it’s also .. not.
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Police on private trip to China were hosted by CCP leader
Calls for investigation as foreign interference fears intensify over police ‘political tourism’ trip
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