The main topics in NZ politics today are electoral seats for the 2014 election, the Conservative Party, deep sea oil drilling, asset sales, Pike River compensation, water quality, housing and health. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Electorate seats and 2014 election
Rob Hosking (NBR): Key-vangelism and boundary issues
Matt McCarten (Herald): Battle of the egos in seat reshuffle
Herald: Editorial: Back-room deals aren't the way
RNZ: McCully indicates he will contest East Coast Bays
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): New electorate boundaries shock some
Patrick Leyland (The Progress Report): National’s targets for 2014
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Winners and Losers from boundaries
Jennie Michie (The Standard): The democracy challenge
Chris Trotter (Dom Post): Labour needs leftist edge back
Pete George (Your NZ): McCarten’s MP rankings
Lewis Holden: Colin or Winston?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Will Paula Bennett Win the National Selection in Upper Harbour?
Press: Parties grapple with new map
RNZ: Flavell says Maori electoral boundaries too big
RNZ: No political will to change Maori electorate boundaries – Flavell
TVNZ: Contest begins over Maori Party candidacy
Newswire: Six vying to replace Turia
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Reality of MMP
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): How Dopey is Peter Goodfellow?
Conservative Party
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Craig politics – nice and nutty
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Conservative Party: Crazy or credible?
Tracy Watkin (Stuff): Beware Craig's crazies, warns Dunne
Herald: Editorial: Stars aligning for Craig and his untainted party brand
Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . Colin Craig
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Colin Craig’s Whaleoil approved/disapproved policies
Deep sea oil drilling
Matthew Hooton (NBR): Greenpeace doesn’t speak for me
TVNZ: Oil spill risk increases with depth – Greens
RNZ: PM wrong on deep sea oil risks – Greens
TVNZ: Anadarko push on with drilling programme
Stuff: Maori threaten legal action
Pattrick Smellie (NBR): Bureaucrats fumble oil spill plan release
Stuff: Thousands protest deep sea oil drilling
RNZ: Protest boat says it's stopping drilling
Newstalk ZB: Movement against oil exploration 'growing'
Patrice Dougan (Herald): Crowds hit the beaches
Isaac Davison (Herald): Advice on oil-drilling risks misleading, says minister
Harry Pearl (Stuff): Protest yacht in Anadarko boat sandwich
RNZ: Labour accused of misleading public over deep sea drilling
Patrice Dougan (Herald): Kiwi Greenpeace activists freed from Russian jail
Asset sales
Adam Bennett (Herald): Speculation Genesis selldown may be shelved
RNZ: Air NZ praises Govt's sale of shares in the airline
Adam Bennett (Herald): Have we got a deal for you ...
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Air NZ attracted only 6500 investors
Southland Times: Editorial: A $9 million right of reply
Rod Oram (Stuff): Buy into SOEs the smart way
Pike River compensation
John Armstrong (Herald): Cunliffe stays on top in Pike compo fight
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Govt must pay for Pike tragedy
Tracy Watkin (Stuff): Pike River decision may cause backlash
Kiwiblog: Guest Post by Flipper on Pike River
Spying
Brook Sabin (TV3): Key refuses to answer NSA spying questions
Dominion Post: Editorial: Just what snooping is going on?
Martin van Beynen (Press): Struth, another sleuth on the phone
Report on water quality
Jan Wright (Stuff): Dairying's impact indisputable
Southland Times Editorial: Huge reaction still needed
ODT: Editorial: NZ's 'difficult dilemma'
Press: Editorial: Water nutrient pollution is a slowly-evolving crisis
Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Problem be damned: we'll just keep on growing
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Pollution problem likely to worsen
Cunliffe/Collins trout controversy
David Cunliffe (The Ruminator): Them’s fighting words
Cunliffe to Collins (Herald): You're a trout. Collins to Cunliffe: You're sexist
Herald: Collins calls Cunliffe sexist over 'trout' barb
Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): Now, if Cunliffe had joked that Judith Collins was a ‘troll’ …
The Irascible: Loss of Humour- another victim of privatisation policies
No Right Turn: David Cunliffe: Sexist
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Cunliffe calls Collins a trout
Identity politics debates
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is Giovanni Tiso racist? Is Graeme Edgeler a rape apologist and QoT proves hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned
Ideologically impure: A few minor points
Housing
John Minto (Daily Blog): Where is Paula Bennett’s baseball bat?
Glen Sowry (Herald):New era in state housing best yet
Geoff Cumming (Herald): The Glen Innes social experiment
Cherie Howie (Herald): Maori history undermines home renovations
Health
Olivia Carville (Stuff): Big shakeup coming for Chch hospitals
Olivia Carville (Herald): Call to measure unmet health need
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Forget Obamacare debate - focus on NZ
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Child healthcare 'pays off' later
TVNZ: National MP calls for Govt leadership on child health
Kelsey Fletcher (Stuff): Call to ban anti-bacterial home products
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Academic uneasy over Kiwi infant formula exports
Investigation into rest homes
Martin Johnston and Simon Collins (Herald): Lifting the lid on NZ's rest homes
Martin Johnston and Simon Collins (Herald): Inside our rest homes: What's really going on
Christchurch
Brook Sabin (Herald): Leaders coy over hopes of Christchurch East seat
RNZ: By-election 'no litmus test' on Cunliffe
The Standard: The Christchurch East by election
RNZ: Christchurch East by-election looms
Rebuilding Christchurch: If you’re planning on voting for a crazy in Christchurch East, make sure you choose the right crazy
Glen Conway (Stuff): Leading lights in red and black ties
Lois Cairns (Stuff): Cabinet to see new housing rules in 10 days
Eric Crampton (NBR): A Thousand Days
Olivia Carville (Stuff): Families upset over CTV inaction
Lois Cairns and Anna Pearson (Stuff): Minister berates council
Thomas Mead (TV3): Chch council avoids Brownlee takeover
Newswire: Brownlee gives Chch council an ultimatum
Alan Titford
Simon Day and Adam Dudding (Stuff): Bittersweet vindication for iwi
Lindy Laird (Herald): Tribe thank Titford's wife for bringing him to justice
Kathryn Powley (Herald): Rapist starts new family
Other
Jordan McCluskey (Old Zealand): The National Party and Maoridom: An occasional partnership?
Simon Wilson (Metro): The Best and the Worst of Auckland
Rodney Hide (Herald): Horse-trading is unwholesome
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): Q&A: John Banks' judicial review
Rodney Hide (NBR): How seductive state massages masses
Steve Maharey (Herald): Stop arguing and help build a better boat
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On MPs’ pay hikes, and the JFK conspiracy theories
Felix Marwick (Newstalk): Look into pay of politicians and CEOs
Sean Plunket (Dom Post): Money better spent on tattoo removal than on court case
Audrey Young (Herald): Judges' long-service leave soars
Grant Bradley (Herald): Politics take puff out of wind farm building
Winston Peters (RadioLive): Racial division is our past, but not our future
Anthony Hubbard (Stuff): The Reluctant Prime Minister
David Fisher (Herald): Dotcom: 'If I die, don't stop digging'
TVNZ: Kim Dotcom labels New Zealand 'kind of mediocre'
RNZ: Economic growth attracts more migrants
Herald: Editorial: Film industry needs to stand on own two feet
Tony Wall (Stuff): Government 'unprincipled' Peters says
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Hekia’s last chance?
Haydn Green (Public Address): TPP: Nearing Endgame
RNZ: US trying to curb Pharmac's negotiating power – Kelsey
RNZ: Labour rubbishes claim of US bullying at trade talks
Fiona Rotherham (Stuff): Election jitters loom on horizon
ODT: Editorial: The Thai trade talks
Jim Sullivan (ODT): One can always do with some friends in high places
TVNZ: Government takes aim at tax evaders
Michael Cummings (Manawatu Standard): Suppression guidelines clearer
Brendan Manning (Herald): Luigi Wewege engaged in US
Martin Hawes (Stuff): A new tool to find the best fund
Geoff Cumming (Herald): Fine print allows shark finning to continue
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Backdated net bill 'in millions'
Stuff: Today in Politics: Monday 25 November
Stuff: Today in politics: Saturday, November 23
RNZ: Treasury advice being reviewed by international economist
No Right Turn: Climate change: We're hypocrites
TV3: Labour vows to repeal charter school legislation
TVNZ: NZDF yet to propose legislation to better support soldiers
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Tamaki's kin get $10k to feed poor
Kathryn Powley (Herald): School soap ban sickens
Mike Butler (Breaking Views): No retreat on race-based funding
Taranaki Daily News: National needs bailout transparency
Colin Espiner (Stuff): School's job is not to police
Michael Laws (Stuff): We're racist and becoming more so
Matt Nippert (Stuff): Waipareira Trust wins court battle
Shane Gilchrist (ODT): Power to the people
TVNZ: Fake NZ university degrees 'worrying'
Stephen Franks (NBR): Companies Office another victim of National subjugation?
