Yesterday we saw yet another Matthew Tukaki double standard.
The
@nzherald published a story by
@MikeThorpeNZ about war medal cheating, concerning an RSA President. Thorpe references and quotes New Zealand’s foremost expert on military medals, Ian Martyn, and his Facebook page which he uses to expose medal cheats. On this page, there are also posts from Martin exposing Matthew Tukaki’s claims that he served in the Australian Military.
In a social media post, Tukaki claimed 6 Australian Defence Force medals on the left of his jacket, which is where you pin your own medals:
An Australian Active Service Medal, Afghanistan Medal, Australian Operational Service Medal (Border Protection), Australian Operational Service Medal (Greater Middle East Operations), 15 year Defence Long Service Medal, Australian Defence Medal, and, the NATO Medal with an "Afghanistan" clasp.
Tukaki has never mentioned his military service in interviews and it doesn’t appear in his LinkedIn profile. His name also doesn’t appear in searchable Australian Defence data bases available to the public.
So here’s the question…How is the Head of a News Service claiming an extensive but false military history not news worthy?
Are
@waateanews and
@williejackson05 both comfortable with their General Manager’s claim of decorated military service?
Since the post on April 25th, Tukaki has appeared on the
@theplatform_nz with
@SeanPlunket who correctly went after James Shaw regarding his incomplete University qualification but as far as I am aware Plunket has never even mentioned the stolen valour issue with Tukaki, ironically the Platform even features a segment called holier than thou with
@bespin3r calling out hypocrisy. Tukaki has even featured in several NZ Herald articles by Joseph Los'e, the New Zealand Herald's Kaupapa Māori Editor, but again there has been no mention of the stolen valour incident.
So why the double standard by media?
More to come….