@SundayStarTimes and The Post assistant editor, working out of Parliament. True crime author.
Joined July 2009
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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/3…
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19 Nov 2025
Special PSA: We've taken down the paywall for 24 hours on The Post - come check out some of our premium journalism for the bargain cost of $0 thepost.co.nz/
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7 Sep 2025
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
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6 Sep 2025
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…
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6 Sep 2025
It's looking like an early lead for Oriini Kaipara in the Tamaki Makaurau byelection thepost.co.nz/puzzles/360815…
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
17 Jul 2025
Good wrap on the state of politicking between central Govt and local at the LGNZ conference this week, on @the_postnz this morning
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20 Nov 2024
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.
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
20 Sep 2024
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/su… @NewsroomNZ
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21 Aug 2024
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…
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23 Jul 2024
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
17 Jul 2024
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.
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
15 Jul 2024
Hundreds of care nonprofits left in limbo by Oranga Tamariki are facing uncertain futures, as the children’s ministry discontinued contracts without explanation or have failed to give them any details of what a new contract might look like - some are facing up to 20% cuts.
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10 Jul 2024
Leaked docs reveal crew failed to regain control of the Interislander from autopilot in time to prevent it beaching, after crew accidentally pushed a button that sent it off course. Exclusive from Tom Hunt thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350338…
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
9 Jul 2024
Proof that there are no new ideas: we're starting a '100 years ago in the Guardian' section, and looking through the 1924 editions I discovered a section called '25 years ago in the Guardian', featuring 1899 stories.
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10 Jul 2024
A union lawyer representing the ferry's bridge crew "categorically" ruled out any suggestion any beverages were involved in the incident. thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350337…
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7 Jul 2024
'By his last night in Odessa, a port town in Ukraine, David Farrar decided to ignore the warnings of an incoming air raid. 'It was at 1am....I rolled over and was like, 'Oh it probably won't be my hotel.' thepost.co.nz/politics/35033…
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
6 Jul 2024
The new ThreeNews looking smooth tonight, well done to everyone behind it #ThreeNews
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Kelly Dennett retweeted
6 Jul 2024
Congrats on the first bulletin ThreeNews!!!! Ya smashed it 🥳
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