The main issues in NZ politics today are the TPP leak, asset sales, the Waitangi Tribunal ruling, the Philippines typhoon, Colin Craig's Conservative Party, and 'Roast Busters'. [Read more below]
Today’s links
TPP leaks
Nicky Hager (Herald): Trans-Pacific Partnership leaks reveal trade battle
Tim Watkin (Pundit): TPP report shockingly predictable, good for Pharmac
TV3: Opposition vocal about TPP deal
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The TPP IP chapter
Herald: Beginner's guide: What is the TPP?
No Right Turn: The TPP leak
Radio NZ: TPP leaks show gulf between NZ and US
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Roadblocks revealed in TPP talks
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): TPP: The Never-To-Be-Ended Story
Asset sales
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Air NZ asset sale tipped for next week
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Air NZ asset sale will be more successful - anaylst
AFR and Fairfax: Air NZ trade expected within the week
Newswire: Air NZ may be set for quickfire share sale
Patrick Gower (TV3): Poll: 68 percent against Genesis sale
Herald: Assets could hit surplus in odd ways, warns English
David Farrar (Kiwiblog):Just one problem
No Right Turn: National to New Zealand: "Fuck you"
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Referendum On A Robbery
Waitangi Tribunal and Genesis Energy
TV3: Tribunal: Crown failed in setting up park
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Tongariro report 'won't delay Genesis sale'
Simon Wong (TV3): Tribunal decision 'won't stop Genesis sale'
Adam Bennett (Herald): Crown breached treaty over Tongariro hydro: Tribunal
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Govt must not ignore Waitangi Tribunal
No Right Turn: The Tongariro report
Philippines typhoon
Claire Trevett (Herald): Typhoon Haiyan: PM calls off visit to the Philippines
Tova O’Brien (TV3): Norman 'vindicated' by Philippines govt tweet
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Sorry Russel. you’re wrong
Media Training NZ: Russell Norman outburst part of media race against Labour
No Right Turn: Arseholes before the world
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Typhoon Haiyan: Another warning for the planet
Colin Craig’s Conservative Party
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Colin Craig eagerly waiting outside Beehive
Jane Clifton (Listener): Making plans for Colin (paywalled)
Carrie Stoddart (Ellipsister): On Conservatism
Will de Cleene (Gonzo): Colin in the Lion's Den
Greg Presland (The Standard): Crazy Colin and the Conservative Tea Party are National’s best chance
Dan Satherley (TV3): Cunliffe: Conservatives are 'Tea Party stuff'
Michael Cummings (Stuff): Cosying up with Craig has its risks
‘Roast Busters’
Gordon Campbell (Stuff): Not the Police's finest hour
Michael Cummings (Stuff): Reassess how courts handle sex cases
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Responsible attitude to sex should come naturally
Brian Rudman (Herald): Comeuppance for a toxic troll
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): JT and Willie in shock Radio NZ deal
Claire Curran (ODT): Women's voice must be heard
Michael Hewat (Herald): Govt failed to take fuel off Roast Busters' fire
Herald: Roast Busters: Police set up phone line
Judith Collins (Herald): Sex offenders must face up to actions
Radio NZ: Jackson stands down from Iwi Radio show
Herald: Cunliffe 'not in a hurry' to sign Tamihere as a candidate
TVNZ: Tamihere has a 'snowflake's chance' of rejoining Labour - Cunliffe
Isaac Davison (Herald): Roast busters: Sexual abuse has nothing to do with dress sense - Minister
Pete O’Neill (Stuff): Editorial: They went way too far
John Drinnan (Herald): RadioLive hangs hosts out to dry
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Whaleoil probably helped end Willie & JT and what Radio Live needs to do now
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Moral fervor
Pete George (Your NZ): Differences over RPE donations
Labour Party
Taranaki Daily News: Labour battles for credibility
Richard Meadows (Stuff): KiwiAssure no threat - Parker
The Standard: What the Waitakere Myth says about pundits’ attitudes to the working class
Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand pseudo-lefts promote new Labour leader
Colin James (ODT): Can Labour get bums on pews in its "broad church"?
Political finance
Claire Trevett (Herald):Financial nous among MPs not such a bad thing
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): 'Exposé' attempts will put people off politics
Katie Chapman (Stuff): $80,000 a year for councillors
Newswire: Manawatu MP tops list of land owners
Danyl Mclaughlin (Dim-Post): Focus
SIS
Brooke Sabin (TV3): NZ 'could breed extremists' - Kibblewhite
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Kitteridge to head up SIS
Sri Lanka
Listener: Editorial: Point of principle
Herald: Editorial: PM ought to be blunt with Chogm host
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi in hot water with political opponents
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Why Prime Minister Key must see for himself in Sri Lanka
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Detention of Green MP isn't quite what it seems
Patrice Dougan (Herald): Green MP returns to NZ after detainment in Sri Lanka
Dominion Post: Editorial – A blot on the Commonwealth
Satire
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Chris Laidlaw breaks Radio New Zealand tradition by stepping down before his death
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Kiwi Party – Fresh Leadership opportunity
The Chop:Agent Collins on the case
The Chop: Simon Says Money Please
The Chop: Collins dreamed a dream
The Chop: Immortal Winston Proposes KiwiDisco
Local government
Matt Rilkoff (Stuff): Councils will be forced to measure up
Newswire: 'Super council' proposed for Northland
TVNZ: One council proposed for Northland
Other
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Dinner At Government House: If Sir Jerry Mateparae was a corporation, we’d say he had a political agenda
Claire Robinson (Herald): Future NZ: Election 2014 - Who will win and why?
Richard Shaw (Herald): Future NZ: Election 2014 - The five hottest issues
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Will corporate tax dodgers to pay up
Stuff: Today in politics: Thursday, November 14
ODT: Editorial – The Chorus fiasco
Tom Hunt (Stuff): DPB marks 40 years of family support
Kurt Bayer (Herald): 'Most wanted' site underused by police
Peter Wilson (Newswire): National MP's strike bill defeated
Newswire: Peters' Reserve Bank bill defeated
Kate Harley and Briar Marbeck (TV3): Brown accused of cover-up over Hong Kong trip
Graeme Edgeler (The Ruminator): The Edge of Reason: NZ’s Prison Rate, we’re number 6!
Eric Crampton (Offsetting behaviour): Social capital isn't an unadulterated good
No Right Turn: Not a great result
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ 4th for open data
Stephen Franks: Genter plan is the best kind of plan
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): At what point do we stop subsidising the film industry?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The twits on twitter
Radio NZ: Te Tai Tokerau voters disillusioned with Govt
Richard Meadows (Stuff): Norman plans to 'rebalance' economy
Pete George (Your NZ): Serious questions for Russel Norman
Aaron Hawkings (Daily Blog): My question is to all MPs & asks: Is there something wrong with your inside voice?
TV3/Newsline: Feed the kids bill back for another crack
Patrick Gower (TV3): Wheeler defends new home loan rules
Amanda Gillies (TV3): Criminal Proceeds Act helping communities
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): MMP makes it a hard road for National in 2014
Bill Moore (Stuff): Old warhorse leading the charge
David Meates (Stuff): Ageing population adds to surgery waiting lists
Mike Yardley (Stuff): No public mandate to oppose oil exploration
Taryn Utiger (Stuff): Treaty settlements 'dividing iwi'
Miharo Armstrong (NBR): Māori land development does not depend on court reform
No Right Turn: The battle for MMP
Newswire: Parliament to debate 'coat tail' MMP rule
Brian Fallow (Herald): Flexi-Super's equations far from simple
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill enabling secret welfare snoopers criticised
Adam Bennett (Herald): Rise in number of core public service workers
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Public sevice keeps increasing
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): PM 'avoiding' Pike River payout
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): Pike River Mine: fatally flawed
Brian Easton (Listener): Market daze (paywalled)
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Kirkley - proof that every vote counts
Vernon Small (Stuff): Political minnows scrap for survival
No Right Turn: Deals and democracy
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): I just CANNOT let this go by
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Are they really the Green Taleban?
