The main issues in NZ politics today are state cyber surveillance, industrial relations reform, manufacturing and the economy, Peter Dunne and United Future, and Labour and SkyCity. [Read more below]
Today’s links
State cyber surveillance
David Fisher (Herald): Secret network 'has to be in probe'
Danyl Mclaughlin (Dim-Post): On why not everyone has a stake in surveillance reduction
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Why I'm a big fan of whistleblowers
Chris Keall (NBR): Are Palantir spooks?
Ian Apperley (NBR): How I learned to stop worrying and love Prism
John Roughan (Herald): Security trumps privacy online
Jack Tame (Herald): Phone and email spying hardly a shock in land of the free
Paul Little (Herald): I spy with a huge global eye
Susie Nordqvist (TV3): Expert: Watch for 'Little Brother' online
Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): PRISM: The Huge Contradiction for the Left. Retort to Chris Trotter.
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Mega balks at proposed spy powers
NBR Staff (NBR): Little brother more of a threat to privacy
Industrial relations reform
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Employers group wary of strike-breaking Bill
Don Franks (Redline): Jami-Lee Ross MP, unions and scabs
Darien Fenton (Red Alert): Topsy turvy world
No Right Turn: Too radical
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Bloody Friday
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Ramifications of National’s new scab law
Audrey Young (Herald): Unions and Labour outraged over new bill
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Do you own your job?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Peter Cresswell on the strike breaking bill
The Standard: Workers’ rights under attack
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Speaking the truth to National Members via the Libertarianz
Manufacturing and the economy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What bad timing
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Opposition exaggerates plight of manufacturers
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Technology revolution only just beginning
The Standard: Inconvenient indeed
RadioLIVE: 'Mismanagement' to blame for job cuts – Labour
Aaron Gilmore (Mighty Rocket): Tiwai point is it playing games?
Tim Cronshaw (Stuff): Key pushing for Korea FTA
Alasdair Thompson (Fair Point): Manufacturing extraordinarily good
No Right Turn: Time for Invercargill to buy the smelter?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How inconvenient
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): NZ 'world leader' in agricultural production
TVNZ: Opposition manufacturing inquiry findings to be released
David Williams (NBR): Why I hate OPEC and its grip should be loosened
The Standard: Water under pressure
Matthew Hooton (NBR): Pity the poor farmers
Tim Groser and China
Newswire: Groser: Chinese infant formula a gold rush
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Crisis Management Governance Failing
TVNZ: Q A: The panel discuss Tim Groser interview
TVNZ: NZ needs to lift its game with China - Groser
Labour Party
John Armstrong (Herald): Labour barking up the wrong tree
Colin Espiner (Stuff): MPs in corporate boxes - they all do it
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): When did Phil Goff delvier his stern message?
Pete George (Your NZ): Last bastion of Shearer/Labour support slips
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Armstrong on Labour
Radio NZ: The Panel with Chris Trotter and Lisa Scott (Part 1)
Pete George (Your NZ): Labour MPs at Eden Park
Scott Yorke (Manufactured Outrage): An idea
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Keep digging
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Two departures?
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): David Shearer accused of hypocrisy after attending National Party function
Keeping Stock: We can't help but wonder...
Anthony Robins (The Standard): Deep hypocrisy vs government for sale
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Random impertinent questions for Labour over their Skycity hypocrisy
Sky City
Kate Chapman (Stuff): SkyCity convention centre design delayed
TVNZ: Key confident convention centre deal 'very close'
NBR Staff (NBR): Norman: I wouldn’t have gone to the SkyCity corporate box
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Why Pokie Machines Should Be the First Victims of the Revolution
Education and Novopay
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): On NZEI’s side on this one
Lynley Bilby (Herald): Teachers against karakia
Dianne Kahn (Daily Blog): The John Banks School for Errant Maori and Polynesian South Auckland Lads (Ltd)
Herald: Novopay: Another senior staff member resigns
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Private school stands to reap financial bonanza
Housing
James Henderson (The Standard): Houston and the cost of sprawl
Bernard Hickey (Herald): Bet on Gen Y debt
Scott Yorke (Imperitor Fish): Imperator Fish Nation: Government announces exciting new plan to overcrowd 39,000 houses in Auckland
Herald: Editorial: Action on house prices sensible move
Peter Dunne and United Future
Steve Braunias (Stuff): The Secret Diary of ... Winston Peters
Paul Thomas (Herald): Revealed: Messages from a leaky boat
Kiwipolitico: What should I think about Dunne?
Pete George (Your NZ): Rodney Hide on Peter Dunne
Rodney Hide (Herald): Being a goody-good has pitfalls
Matt McCarten (Herald): So dumb... and they're in charge
Radio NZ: Focus on Politics for 14 June 2013
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Opinion: No basis for `govt in crisis' claims
Pete George (Your NZ): An opinion on the Electoral Commission requirements
Radio NZ: Electoral Commission may be dragged into digital age – Gunston
Audrey Young (Herald): Downsized Dunne fights for $100k
Maori politics
Radio NZ: Maori King temporarily stands down
Joshua Hitchcock (Maori Law and Politics): Valmaine Toki on Māori Governance
Radio NZ: Crown says sorry to iwi over geothermal resource
Newswire: Another treaty settlement signed
Jacob Brown (Newstalk ZB): Maori roll Bill labelled a 'bit of an imposition'
TVNZ: New bill seeks to make Maori Roll first option
Inequality, poverty, and unemployment
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): The gentrification of Te Papa
T.K. Lewis (The Standard): Child poverty: Are we that heartless?
Anthony Robins (The Standard): Poverty Watch 35
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The hypocrisy of Unite Union
The Standard: #voteWTF – Wednesday 19 June, 8:30pm, TV3
Christchurch
TVNZ: NZ First slams Fletcher Building role in Canterbury
James Dann (Daily Blog): King Gerry flogs Christchurch
Rebuilding Christchurch: The Marryatt Surprise
TVNZ: People entitled to the truth - EQC truths blogger
Jenee Tibshraeny (Newstalk ZB): Call for Govt to break Fletchers' quake rebuild stranglehold
Media and the blogosphere
Newswire: Blogger judgment won't open flood gates
Kathryn Powley (Herald): Blogger told to stop
TVNZ: Judge issues restraining order against blogger
Pete George (Your NZ): Accusations and blog rivalries
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): TVNZ’s social media rules
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Politicians and Twitter
Fluoridation
Radio NZ: Key supports fluoridation
Daniel Adams and Harry Pearl (Stuff): Key plays down anti-fluoride claims
Race relations
Kieran Campbell (Herald): Devoy has Peters in sights
TVNZ: Institutional racism in NZ – Devoy
NBR Staff (NBR): Dame Susan may step on Peters
Kate Chapman (Stuff): Devoy keeps close eye on Peters
Matthew Backhouse and Kieran Campbell (Herald): Dame Susan's talking nonsense: Peters
International relations
ODT: Does seeing help believing?
Audrey Young (Herald): NZ backing US peace moves in Middle East
TVNZ: Murray McCully to meet with Israeli, Palestinian leaders
Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Interpreters' lives were 'under threat'
Radio NZ: Jon Stephenson on Afghanistan Report
TVNZ: Firefight video did not do justice to brave NZ soldiers - Key
Trevor Mallard and Mike Bush
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Testy exchanges mark feral point-scoring
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Mallard & Goff at their best grilling top cop who condones corruption
Drive Social
The Standard: Greens attack stupid spending, rattle Key
Brook Sabin (TV3): Greens slam flashy NZTA campaign
Other
Audrey Young (Herald): Speaker allows twice as many lobbyists to get free pass
Rodney Hide (Herald): Global warming ends with a whimper
Newswire: Four staff have left Parata's office
No Right Turn: A dark day for New Zealand
Dominion Post: Editorial: Biting the bullet and making changes
Stuff: Today in politics: Monday, June 17
Vaughan Elder (ODT): Staying with Glenn inquiry
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Sex report slams Kiwi lessons
Southland Times: Editorial: Big changes loom for industry
Herald: Vindictive agencies out of line
Radio NZ: Charles Pigden: conspiracies and cockups
Gordon Brown (Stuff): It's time we followed Air NZ and went for a black and silver flag
Michael Timmins (Daily Blog): Celebrate World Refugee Day
Sean Plunkett (Dominion Post): Education not legislation needed on helmets for youngsters
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Te Papa split costs $1.18m in job payouts
Andrew Koubaridis (Herald): Harawira jnr gets luxury respite from Waterview noise
Beith Atkinson (Integrity Talking Points): Peace on earth becoming less likely
Ewan Tavendale (ISO): Wellington region super-city plans: a watering-down of democracy
Mai Chen (Herald): Important to get it right in admitting lawyers to top club
