The main issues in NZ politics today are the Kim Dotcom Internet Party, Len Brown, Maori politics, Act Party, and inequality and poverty. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Len Brown
Dan Satherley (TV3): Len Brown plays down SkyCity allegations
Tom McRae (TV3): Auckland councillors cast more doubt on Len Brown
Jimmy Ellingham (Herald): Len Brown prosecution a 'test case'
Len Brown (Herald): Six strategies for 2014
TVNZ: Len Brown's wife off the hook - for now
Stuff: Auckland mayor to see out term
Radio NZ: Private prosecution likely against Brown
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Mayor surrounded by security guards
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why wouldn’t the Mayor hire security staff?
Russell Brown (Hard News): Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor
Kim Dotcom
James Fyfe (TV3): Kim Dotcom 'couldn't resist' opportunity to make album
Vernon Small (Stuff): Wrecking balls entertaining
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Some policy questions for the Dotcom Party
Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): Netzpolitiken: Party party be cray cray
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): DotBets
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour Party press release about Dotcom
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Labour’s New Friend
News.Com.Au: Inside the bizarre world of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Nothing Left
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Buchanan on the left cuddling up to Dotcom
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Platforms
Pete George (Your NZ): Reviewing Dotcom’s “Good Times” and “Internet Party”
Josie Pagani (Pundit): Dotcom hasn’t been extradited because it’s not clear he broke the law.
Maori politics
Radio NZ: Process to replace Sharples starts
Radio NZ: Wellington kaumatua objects to female MPs on paepae
Sam Thompson (Newstalk ZB): Changes ahead for Maori Party
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Will women lose in culture clash?
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Wahine Meanies, Maori Modernity
Radio NZ: Maori warden numbers increase
TPP
Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Goff upbeat about TPP
Jane Kelsey (Herald): Leak shows trade deal may prove tricky
Economy
Dene MacKenzie (ODT): Reality overriding political spiel
Lucy Craymer (WSJ): Economy Strong as New Zealand Enters Likely Election Year
TVNZ: NZ employment confidence rises in fourth quarter
Maria Slade (Stuff): An Australasian currency?
Pattrick Smellie (Idealog): The return of mercantilism
David Clark (ODT): Silence on Invermay will not do
Housing
Radio NZ: NZ housing 'severely unaffordable'
The Standard: State housing: bursting the “market” bubble
National Party
Newswire: Key to indicate possible partners
TVNZ: Key ready for 'hijinks and games' of election year
Herald: Leaders' golf: He invited me, says Key
Greg Presland (The Standard): And John Hayes makes ten
Labour Party
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Opposition gearing up for early election
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): MP kayaking around Waitemata Harbour to encourage cleanup
Inequality and poverty
Brian Easton (Listener): Poor Show
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Struggle Street needs fast broadband too
Charles Waldegrave (Stuff): The argument in support of a living wage
Waikato Times: Editorial: Justice failing on unpaid debts
Other
Taranaki Daily News: 'Saying nothing does not help'
Ben Heather (Stuff): MPI 'too lenient' with neglectful farmers
Caleb Harris (Stuff): Funding system for costly drugs 'unfair'
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Charity too vital a concept to be manipulated by self-interest
Dominion Post: Editorial: Afghanistan venture an exercise in futility
Tahu Potiki (Stuff): We are all culpable for fossil fuel dependence
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Doing politics
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Better Late Than Never
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): PPTA finds five good things in education in 2013
Scott Hamilton (Reading the Maps): Letting down the family
Tahu Potiki (Stuff): We are all culpable for fossil fuel dependence
Southland Times: Ignoring the wishes of the electorate
