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"Well she would say that, wouldn't she!" - that was the dismissive response of radio talk jocks Mike Hosking and Michael Laws to the discovery that Breaking Silence identifies Chris Kahui as the likely killer of Macsyna King's twins.
Now it turns out the Coroner Garry Evans apparently agrees with the book. Chris Kahui's lawyers are trying to get the Coroner's report watered down before it is released, because it reportedly lays blame for the twins deaths with Chris Kahui, not Macsyna King.
With the Coroner's verdict now withheld pending legal action in February, Breaking Silence remains the only place you can read Chris Kahui's testimony in his own words, and weigh up the evidence in this controversial case for yourself.
REVIEWS
"Ian Wishart's book on Macsyna King was banned by some bookshops. It turns out from experts in the child abuse field that the book has real value. It was wrong to ban it. Bookshops got swayed by hysteria." - Larry Williams, Newstalk ZB
"I found it an incredibly surprising book, and a very relevant book, and a very important book." - Anna Smart, Newstalk ZB
"I had no particular views on the case before this book came out but I have to say it's a powerful read. An influential read, one might say...All those people who poured out their invective when it became known the book was about to hit the bookshops really should just read it for themselves. It may not be quite what they think". - Marlborough Express
"Breaking Silence is a chilling narrative and the most important I have read. Adults may need to read the story to gain any understanding. Younger people should read in it a warning: that it is the way we make decisions early on that may determine the course of our life and those lives entrusted to our care." - Southland Times
"The book so many maligned before it came out reveals a mother we haven't met. When I last wrote about Macsyna King, I said I didn't think I'd like her. I've changed my mind. I certainly think she outclasses the Wellington radio announcer [Polly Gillespie] who posted on Facebook that after receiving her advance copy of "Breaking Silence", she had "spat on it, wiped my ass on it, and ripped it up". - Tapu Misa, NZ Herald
"Actually, the rumours of Wishart's death as an investigative journalist turn out to be greatly exaggerated. Breaking Silence will likely enhance his reputation considerably. As we said at the outset--we are very, very glad to have read the book." - John Tertullian, Contra Celsum
" I have finished the book. First and foremost I send my sincerest apologies to Macsyna, although I never personally attacked you I was part of a group who did. Secondly Ian Wishart, I apologise to you - without you, this story could not have been told in the way that it has, honestly and completely. Macsyna is... not a perfect mother, neither am I or any other mother for that fact.....we do the best we can with the tools we have. I found Macsyna to be a likeable chick, who like us all has made mistakes but she is not the guilty party here by any stretch default or otherwise. To the people still boycotting.....you have got this so terribly wrong, I accept personal choice etc however this story needs to be out there....simple as that" - Bev Gibson, ex-boycotter
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IS SELLING STATE ASSETS IN A DOWN MARKET POSSIBLY THE DUMBEST IDEA POLITICIANS HAVE HAD SINCE THE FIRE SALES AFTER THE 1987 CRASH?
Prime Minister John Key wants your mandate this election for a new round of full or partial state asset sales, but as the darkest financial clouds gather on far horizons, is it National’s best idea and is now the best time?
In DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, Ian Wishart investigates what happened in the last series of state asset sales, and how taxpayers ended up having to bail out the private companies who bought them.
BUT THE POLITICIANS ARE TRYING TO SELL A MESSAGE OF HOPE –
Who wants to be the Grinch?
It’s been a turbulent decade, and judging from their election ads the main political parties appear to believe there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
But if you look carefully – “The International Monetary Fund has warned that the forces that caused the Great Depression in the 1930s are again at work” (IMF briefing to G20 leaders, October 2011) – you can see that “light at the end of the tunnel” is attached to a locomotive.
WHAT ABOUT SELLING FARMLAND AND STRATEGIC ASSETS TO FOREIGNERS?
“Nothing is surer than that a greater share of those companies will end up owned overseas, and Mr English has admitted by default he can’t stop it happening.” – Clayton Cosgrove
Additionally, you’ve got to ask the question: why do so many of the foreigners offering big money for NZ assets turn out to be criminals?:
MAY WANG & JACK CHEN’s CRAFAR FARMS BID:
“In our view it’s clear that Labour, National and Act have all had political dealings with Jack Chen and that – like the Yang Liu case – Chen has likely donated money to all three political parties as a way of hedging his bets.
“It’s clear that Chen’s claim to be “the driving force” behind the farms buy-up contradicts Natural Dairy’s official statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that Chen is not controlling the deal.
“It’s clear that the company acting as a middleman in the deal, UBNZ, is registered to the office address of one Jack Chen, who also turns out to be the landlord of UBNZ “owner” May Wang.”…
“On October 18, 2011, Hong Kong authorities issued an arrest warrant for Jack Chen on corruption charges, and charged his offsider May Wang with bribery in regard to the Natural Dairy bid in New Zealand. Investigate magazine was the first media outlet to raise serious doubts about the legality of their Crafar farms bid.
LI KA-SHING
“U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Export Affairs, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Rand Corporation had identified Li Ka-Shing and Hutchison Whampoa (Li’s primary business) as financing or serving as a conduit for Communist China’s military in order for them to acquire sensitive technologies and other equipment.” – report on Li Ka-Shing, who tried to buy Lyttelton Ports and now owns part of Vector’s New Zealand power grid.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO ALLAN HUBBARD?
We’ll never know how good the evidence against Hubbard was because he died in a car crash, but this book sheds light on the highly controversial closure of Allan Hubbard’s South Canterbury Finance that has cost taxpayers up to $1.6 billion in guarantee payouts.
“Simon Botherway’s role as a member of the Commission was pivotal in the recommendation to place Allan Hubbard into statutory management and under investigation for fraud. Simon Botherway was also the Chairman of NZ’s newly established Financial Markets Authority. He was therefore one of the most senior members of the Commission.
“During 2009 South Canterbury Finance took receivership action against the brother of Simon Botherway. The receivership was valued at approximately $6.6m. On 14 June 2010 the brother was placed into bankruptcy (www.insolvency.govt.nz). On 20 June 2010, 6 days after his brother’s bankruptcy order, Simon Botherway recommended Allan Hubbard be placed in statutory management and be referred to the Serious Fraud Office for investigation.
“Given SCF’s receivership action against his brother and the consequential bankruptcy of the brother, Botherway should not have had any role to play relating to any regulatory action against Allan Hubbard. Botherway’s conflict is clear and there can be no denial that it was real.” – OPINION OF FRAUD INVESTIGATOR
A critically-acclaimed author:
"Wishart presents facts he can totally substantiate, and leaves readers to draw some obvious conclusions...compelling, revealing and worrying reading" - Bay of Plenty Times
"Without peer in this country as an investigative journalist ...painstaking research...pacy narrative"-
City Voice
"Exceptionally thorough...skilfully blends official documents with his own observations...a more informative picture than could ever have been possible in the daily media" -
Evening Standard