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Tim Watkin is the producer of Q+A and writes a weekly blog about the political issues the programme deals with.
Q+A is Tim's first foray into television but he is by no means a stranger to journalism having been a senior writer for the NZ Herald and deputy editor of the NZ Listener.
Tim has won several high profile awards including the Jubilee Prize, Media Peace Awards and several Qantas awards, including being named NZ print journalist of the year in 2005.
He has recently returned from living in San Francisco where he wrote a weekly blog for the Guardian in Britain and freelanced for publications including the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle.
Since returning to NZ he has founded the
current affairs and culture website
Pundit
and is a regular commentator on Newstalk
ZB and National Radio.
Tim's Blogs:
2011
October 18: Why Epsom matters
July 13: Management wisdom
June 23: Is Winston Peters past his sell-by-date?
June 8: Welfare debate stirs record feedback
May 12: Politics needs science
April 27: Asking 'why' of Afghanistan
April 5: Heke move brings huge opportunity
March 23: Quake's political aftermath
2010
November 11: Back to the future?
September 8: Lessons from the Australian election
August 8: Answers over Afghanistan
July 23: Tim Watkin: Locking people up a costly obsession
May 19: How to protect NZ's "new oil"
April 28: Dialogue with the Taliban?
April 21: NZ not good enough as super-hub?
March 17: NZ a seventh state of Australia? Never
February 26: The Heatley Question
February 17: Choosing what's best for NZ democracy
January 28: Who pays the price of tax cuts for the
rich?
November 19: Is the Maori party looking at the big
picture?
November 12: What's in a backbench MP's
package?
October 14: What makes good political
interviewing?
October 8: New Zealand's new best friend?
October 1: Don't leave road safety to the
sharks
September 23: Is Key's call for a Global Alliance
just hot air?
September 16: Why the ETS gift for industry?
September 9: What now for the Families
Commission?
September 3: Winning hearts and minds in
Afghanistan
August 20: First crack in Key's uneasy
coalition
August 12: English tinkers with tax at his
peril
August 6: Representative democracy costs money
July 31: The smacking argument continues
July 8: The foreshore, parole and Winston
July 1: Band aid weeks in the Middle East
June 23: Advance Australia Fair
June 17: How much pain is enough?
May 28: Home insulation: Green Party's deal with the devil
May 20: Trademe, gun sales and gun laws...
May 14: Crimianls can't use off-ramps?
May 5: Maori Party's foreign policy stance
April 29: Auckland super city fails to sell
April 23: National's honeymoon coming to an
end
April 15: Is democracy unrealistic in Fiji?
April 8: Deficits and controversial statements
April 3: A grunty line-up
March 31: Iwi, prisons and privatisation
March 27: Crusher Collins gets tough
March 20: Getting to the heart of the matter
Current affairs and culture website
Pundit
