Tim Watkin 

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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:

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