The main issues in NZ politics today are the Dotcom saga and the supermarket allegations. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Supermarket boycott
Radio NZ: Jones going to Commission over Countdown
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Countdown faces backlash
Adam Bennett (Herald): Supermarket 'shakedown'
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Food and Grocery Council backs Jones
Brook Sabin (TV3): Countdown denies blackmail allegations
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Shane Jones and the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Sector
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Blacklist is just not cricket, Ralph
Newswire: Jones slams 'corrupt' Countdown
Adam Bennett (Herald): NZ suppliers 'blackmailed' by supermarket chain – MP
TVNZ: Supermarket giant accused of 'Tony Soprano' racketeering
Kim Dotcom
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: Political guests at the Dotcom mansion
Vernon Small (Stuff): Dotcom minefield has cornered a Green one
Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe says he won't be doing deals with Dotcom
Radio NZ: 'No deal' with Dotcom – Norman
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Greens no longer so clean
Pete George (Your NZ): Clare Curran, Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party
Keeping Stock: Spinning, spinning, spinning
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): War pigs
Michael Fox (Stuff): Peters' visits to Dotcom queried
Vernon Small (Stuff): Dotcom: Wildcard becomes joker
Peter Wilson (Newswire): 'Serious questions' over Dotcom mansion visits - Key
Radio NZ: Russel defends Dotcom memory lapse
Patrick Gower (TV3): Dotcom 'brain fade' spreads to Opposition
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters resists excellent questions
Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): Dotcom reports anger Winston Peters
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): PM adds fuel to Dotcom fire
TVNZ: Key claims Greens, NZ First in secret meetings with Dotcom
Pete George (Your NZ): Russel Norman transcript with Duncan Garner
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Labour planning dodgy electoral deal with immortal giant
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Bryce Edwards summary on Dotcom and his corruption of NZ politics
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Laws for sale
Michael Cummings (Manawatu Standard): Editorial: Norman comments irresponsible
Briar Marbeck (TV3): Labour 'won't intervene' in Dotcom extradition
Isaac Davison (Herald): Key accuses Opposition of asking Dotcom's questions
Matthew Backhouse (Herald): Norman asked Dotcom to scrap political party
Michael Fox (Stuff): Peters visited Dotcom three times – Key
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: Questioning Peters is like blood from a stone
Newswire: Winston Peters dodges Dotcom in online Q&A
Rob Salmond (Polity): Kim Dotcom's 5% gambit
Pete George (Your NZ): Polity warns opposition parties – Dotcom sounds pretty icky
Pete George (Your NZ): Cunliffe on conversations with Dotcom
Pete George (Your NZ): Winston Peters – online Q&A
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Salmond on DotCom
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Dirty deals done dirt cheap, Dotcom corrupts NZ politics
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Russel Norman has a brain fade over secret Dotcom meetings
John Armstrong (Herald): Greens blinded by Dotcom's aura
Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Labour distancing itself from Dotcom
Briar Marbeck (TV3): Labour 'won't intervene' in Dotcom extradition
Matthew Backhouse (Herald): Norman asked Dotcom to scrap political party
Pete George (Your NZ): Polity warns opposition parties – Dotcom sounds pretty icky
Greg Presland (The Standard): Dotcom’s extradition and the 2014 general election
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Labour planning dodgy electoral deal with immortal giant
John Key, lizard person?
Dave Williams (Newswire): John Key: 'I'm not a reptile'
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The reptilian agenda
Dave Williams (Newswire): Is John Key an alien?
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): John Key cannot prove he isn't a lizard person
Toby Manhire (Listener):Is John Key a shapeshifting reptilian alien ushering humanity towards enslavement?
Stuff: Key's staff can't disprove reptilian theory
Greg Presland (The Standard): Is John Key a shape shifting reptilian?
Cop cams
Dominion Post: Cops with cameras protects both sides
Rachel Parkin (TV3): Critics say cop body cams need strict guidelines
Newswire: Police need proper funding for body cams
Newswire: Tolley: No plans for cop body cams
Audrey Young (Herald): Cameras-on-cops idea floated by minister
No Right Turn: For cop-cams
Plain packaging
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Cigarette plain packaging closer
Brian Rudman (Herald): Message for big tobacco - it's time to butt out
TVNZ: NZ needs to 'man up' on plain packaging – Turia
Waikato Times: Tobacco fix not easy
Newswire: Public submissions open for plain packaging
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More nonsense from Labour
Passports
Michael Fox (Suff): Five-year passports frustrating, but vital – Key
TVNZ: Call to extend life of 'expensive' NZ passports
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Passports should be for 10 years, not five
TPP
Pattrick Smellie (NBR): Calls for TPP transparency are code for destroying it, says Groser
Jane Kelsey (Daily Blog): What Obama suckered Key to agree on the golf course …
No Right Turn: Secrecy equals betrayal
Genesis float
Radio NZ: Govt says profit drop won't affect float
Simon Wong (TV3): Key still keen on Genesis float despite profit drop
James Weir (Stuff): Lights flicker for Genesis
Education
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Tertiary union doesn't understand the importance of marketing
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Uni changes an attempt to stop dissent – Labour
Herald: International student scheme gets $465k funding boost
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Charter school pays top dollar for teachers
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The State Our University Councils Are In: Some Comments on Steven Joyce’s actions and Labour’s less-than-convincing response.
No Right Turn: Ticket clipping
Sallies State of the Nation
Herald: Editorial: Sallies' report offers many reasons to feel positive
Sarah Harvey and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Sallies worried over state of the nation
TVNZ: NZ gets 'D' ranking for treatment of children
CPAG: Bold policies needed to tackle child poverty
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Salvation Army State of the Nation
Electricity
Newswire: Green Party to announce energy policy
NZ Fabian Society: Geoff Bertram - Single buyer model for electricity
Lewis Holden: Power prices report
Other
Stuff: Today in Politics: Thursday, February 13
Daily Blog: The Daily Blog Watch – 12/13 February 2014
Belinda Milnes (Stuff): Money alone won't curb ills
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Government told to keep brakes on spending
Morgan Godfery (Maui Street): Kaupapa Maori politics: a definition
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Anadarko broke safety rules, say lobbyists
Claire Robinson (Spinproffessor): Looking like a winner
Radio NZ: Council moves to pull rap group
Isaac Davison (Herald): Marine reserves south of NZ approved by MPs
Gareth Hughes (Frogblog): We can make history in 2014
Kennedy Graham (Frogblog): “People … may have been caught out…I just hope he gets his projections right in the future…” – The Groserian theory of emissions reductions
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Confidence and Paranoia
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fisking some Green stats
Newswire: NZ pressures Nauru over judiciary influence
No Right Turn: A big change in our foreign policy
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Public health system letting down its users
Radio NZ: Privacy a pressing issue – Shroff
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Outlaw prostitutes
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Dalziel on right track
