Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury

Bradbury was the elected editor of the Auckland University Students' Association's (AUSA) Craccum magazine for the 1997 year, and elected co-editor with Stuart Gardiner for the 1995 year.{{cite news| url = http://www.waikatoindependent.co.nz/2011/04/martyn-bomber’-bradbury-wintec’s-new-editor-in-residence/85/ | title = Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury Wintec’s new editor-in-residence | work= The Waikato Independent| last = Tunstall | first = Kaskha | date = 18 April 2011 | accessdate = 6 July 2013}} Before that he was the poetry editor. According to Bradbury, he picked up the nickname Bomber from one of the editors of Craccum.{{cite news| url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=3589245 | title = Bomber Bradbury – he sure likes to talk | last = Samways | first = Ana | work = The New Zealand Herald|location = Auckland | accessdate = 6 July 2013 | date = 6 September 2004}}

Bradbury is a former editor (2004–05) of New Zealand music magazine Rip It Up.

Prior to his television work Bradbury was the host of the 'Late night talk lounge' on defunct alternative music station Channel Z from 1996 until 1998, as well as a regular DJ during various time slots. Until late 2011, he was a guest on various panel discussions on "Afternoons with Jim Mora' on Radio New Zealand (RNZ).

After a regular guest spot on RNZ's show The Panel, the network withdrew an invitation for Bradbury to return as a panellist.{{cite news| url = http://www.3news.co.nz/Blogger-Bomber-banned-from-RNZ-for-criticism-of-Key/tabid/419/articleID/228888/Default.aspx. | title = Blogger Bomber banned from RNZ for criticism of Key | publisher =3 News | date = 10 October 2011 | last = Murray | first = James | accessdate = 6 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118145825/http://www.3news.co.nz/Blogger-Bomber-banned-from-RNZ-for-criticism-of-Key/tabid/419/articleID/228888/Default.aspx|archive-date=18 November 2011|url-status=dead }} While Bradbury claimed he had been "banned" for criticising the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, RNZ said he had not been banned, and that he had been removed as a panellist after breaching their editorial policy. According to Radio NZ "Mr Bradbury’s comments were inconsistent with information that he had provided to programme producers before going on air. Mr Bradbury later apologised to the programme’s executive producer. It was made clear to him that while his invitation to appear as an occasional guest on The Panel was being withdrawn, it was not a 'lifelong ban' and it did not apply to other Radio New Zealand programmes".

Bradbury hosted Bomber's Blog – the war on news, on Triangle TV – renamed Face TV before it disbanded. He hosted an investigative television series called Stake-Out which used hidden cameras to catch people in the act of committing criminal or immoral acts on film. He hosted Citizen A on Face TV.{{cite web | url = http://www.facetv.co.nz/index.php/component/content/article/79-programmes/87-citizen-a | title = Citizen A | publisher = Face TV | accessdate = 6 July 2013 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130503222547/http://facetv.co.nz/index.php/component/content/article/79-programmes/87-citizen-a | archivedate = 3 May 2013}}{{cite news | url = http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=2838 | date = 19 March 2013 | accessdate = 6 July 2013 | last = Bookman | first = Sam | title = From the Blogosphere – Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury | work =Craccum |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141220051639/http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=2838 | archive-date = 20 December 2014 | url-status = dead }}

Martyn Bradbury was a consultant to the Mana party until 2013, and provided a draft strategy document for the Kim Dotcom Internet Party in 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30010853/journo-linked-to-internet-party-quits|title=Journo linked to Internet Party quits|publisher=Fairfax New Zealand|date=15 January 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/01/15/a-response-to-whaleoils-exclusive-on-me-and-the-internet-party/|title=A response to Whaleoil’s exclusive on me and the Internet Party|date=15 January 2014|first=Martyn|last=Bradbury|publisher=The Daily Blog}} He was influential in promoting public opposition to expansion of GCSB spying powers.{{cite news| url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11208097| title=In bed with the bloggers| first=Jonathan| last=Milne| date=23 February 2014| work=The New Zealand Herald}}

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On 23 September 2016, Martyn Bradbury testified as a defence witness in Jordan Williams' defamation trial against Colin Craig, the former leader of the Conservative Party. Williams, the co-founder of the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union had filed a defamation suit against Craig after the latter had produced a pamphlet entitled "Dirty Politics and Hidden Agenda" attacking Williams, the right-wing blogger Cameron Slater, and a dissident Party member John Stringer. In his testimony, Bradbury alleged that Williams had embarked on a political hit job against Craig and defended Craig's pamphlet. Bradbury described the trial as "an angry fight between two people who don't like each other much." Bradbury was also questioned by Williams' lawyer Peter McKnight for making alleged defamatory comments against Williams in The Daily Blog.{{cite news|last1=Leask|first1=Anna|title=Jordan Williams emotional and angry in court|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11715434|accessdate=23 September 2016|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=23 September 2016}} Some in the media credited Bradbury for the extent of damages awarded to Williams.

Bradbury was highly critical of the late finance company owner Alan Hubbard, whose company was placed under statutory management by the-then Justice Minister Simon Power.{{cite web|url=http://www.headliner.co.nz/news/3682.html|title=Allan Hubbard under Statutory Management|date=20 June 2010|publisher=The Headliner}}

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In response to the Government's proposed conversion practices legislation in 2021 which seeks to ban gay conversion therapy, Bradbury criticised bill's five year prison term as form of "government overreach" which distracted from the Government's failure to address what he regarded as their failed mental health, poverty and housing policies.{{cite web |last1=Bradbury |first1=Martyn |title=Eye watering State overreach in Gay Conversation Therapy law |url=https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/07/30/eye-watering-state-overreach-in-gay-conversation-therapy-law/ |website=The Daily Blog |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813060952/https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/07/30/eye-watering-state-overreach-in-gay-conversation-therapy-law/ |archive-date=13 August 2021 |date=30 July 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Bradbury |first1=Martyn |title=How Parents will be prosecuted by new Gay Conversion law – a response to Marja Lubeck |url=https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/08/15/how-parents-will-be-prosecuted-by-new-gay-conversion-law-a-response-to-marja-lubeck/ |website=The Daily Blog |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820080716/https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/08/15/how-parents-will-be-prosecuted-by-new-gay-conversion-law-a-response-to-marja-lubeck/ |archive-date=20 August 2021 |date=15 August 2021 |url-status=live}}

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• [http://tumeke.blogspot.com Tumeke! blog]
• [http://www.thedailyblog.co.nz The Daily Blog]

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