The main issues in NZ politics today are the Labour Party and Matt McCarten, new media, the Living Wage, and cyber-bullying. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Labour Party
Vernon Small (Stuff):
Martyn Bradbury: Matt McCarten to be appointed Cunliffe’s Chief-of-Staff – the revolution will be televised
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): McCarten for Labour?
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Wartime Consigliere
Will Matthews (Left estate): Dangerous Whispers
Third culture commentary: Is Labour targeting the wrong issue?
Keeping Stock: First Bradbury; now McCarten
Simon Wong (TV3): Labour could work with NZ First
Radio NZ: We could govern with Peters – Cunliffe
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): PM reckons Peters will go with Labour-Green coalition
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Cunliffe says Labour will win – but maybe not until 2017
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour’s conundrum upon conundrum
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour’s poll woes create pressure, will be it be diamonds or coal?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Fisking David Cunliffe’s RNZ interview, double speak translations provided
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour: the caucus dilemma
Greg Presland (The Standard): On polls and things
Deborah Russell: Why I’m standing
New media
Russell Brown (Public Address): Let's do some commerce
Giovanni Tiso (Bat, bean, beam): Worlds collide
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Nice try Jono, but you got some things dreadfully wrong
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Twitter fight! David Fisher vs David Fissher
Matthew Beveridge: MPs on Twitter: Clare Curran.
Living wage
Radio NZ: 'Timing right' for 50c rise
TVNZ: Labour promises more money in working Kiwis' pockets
No Right Turn: Miserly
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The flipside of minimum wage increases
Josie Pagani (Pundit): Warning: Annual minimum wage debate could lead to hysteria and unscientific claims
Don Franks (Redline): A united front against low-paid workers
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Key the Expedient
Inequality and poverty
Dominion Post: Editorial: Better ways to help poor
Brennan McDonald: The Living Wage Is A Joke
The Standard: Gini: A Measure of Inequality
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The Shortsightedness of a living wage
Lindsay Mitchell (Whaleoil): Guest Post: Are thousands of people being denied benefits?
Shane Taurima
Stephen Franks: Taurima’s employment law defence
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The TVNZ inquiry
Winston Peters
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: Winston's Chinese 'fact-finding' mission
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Peters in China this week
Pete George (Your NZ): Reading Winston's Mind
Act Party
Herald: Editorial: Act needs to come up with fresher ideas than flat tax
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Richard Prebble’s return and our immigration policy
Colin Craig
Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Take it on the chin
Will Matthews (Left Estate): Out in the Cold
National Party
Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): National not taking anything for granted
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): That was Then, This is Now #23 – Bolger breaks election promise AND predicts the future!
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): The Mendacities of Mr Key #3: tax cuts
Greens
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Should Greens be included in leaders' debate?
Newswire: Greens: Give up the coal mine
Gareth Hughes (Frogblog): Power companies letting down the vulnerable
GCSB
Radio NZ: Hager suspects US provides spy funds
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): GCSB admits it has intel about Snowden
The Standard: The surveillance state online
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Hefty?
Cyber Bullying
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Trolls 'crushed a butterfly on a wheel'
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): It wasn't just depression that claimed Charlotte
Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): Friends launch 'Charlotte's Law' petition
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): A brief word on Deborah Hill Cone & Charlotte Dawson
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Charlotte's Web
Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): Why Are We Discussing Mental Illness As An Excuse to Curtail Free Speech?
Mathew Grocott (Manawatu Standard): Time to rein in cyber bullies
Damian Christie (Cracker): Bully
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Social media can't be controlled
Fiscal policy
TVNZ: Bill English to give economic address
Herald: Govt deficit bigger than expected as tax trickles in
James Weir (Stuff): Tax dive hits Govt accounts
Audrey Young (Herald): NZ buys into G20 deal to tax online profits
Lewis Holden: "The biggest debt since Muldoon"
Rob Salmond (Polity): Progress on online taxes
Police
Andrea Vance and Simon Day (Stuff): Thirty-five year veteran in top police job
Claire Trevett (Herald): New Police Commissioner apologises for eulogy
No Right Turn: This is not the way to rebuild trust
Asset sales
Dominion Post: Editorial: Key caught by low sales
Jacob Brown, Barry Soper, and Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Genesis Energy may prove a tough sell
Dave Burgess (Stuff): MP says sale of company 'short term'
Health
TVNZ: Patient care fears over Dunedin Hospital computer crash
Newswire: Ryall: A&E 'fastest ever'
Tonga deportation
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Labour says deportation of sick Tongan "a death sentence"
No Right Turn: Vile
New flag
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Replacement flag will take time
TVNZ: Three quarters of Kiwis against changing flag - poll
Christchurch rebuild
Olivia Carville (Stuff): Quake-city strugglers left behind
James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): Anchor Me (In the middle of your National blue sea)
Other
Daily Blog: The Daily Blog Watch – 24/25 February 2014
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Clark moves to Kensington Swan
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How can you sue to demand a higher donation?
James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): Erudite of Berhampore
Bob Jones (Herald): Assume brace position - it's time for moral outrage
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Twitter fight! David Fisher vs David Fissher
Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday 26 February
Josh Martin (Stuff): Councils urged to turn on charm
Ben Irwin (Herald): And you thought a life of politics can be rough, minister
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): The Abuse of Property Rights
Scott Hamilton (Reading the Maps): Pseudo-history at the zoo
Radio NZ: Flavell to meet expats in Australia
Newwire: NGOs scared to criticise govt – Labour
Pete George (Your NZ): Dave Cull lacks transparency in secret deal
Daily Blog: Warrant Of Fitness for homes is a Warrant Of Fitness for us
Tahu Potiki (Stuff): Sth Island alliance will benefit all
Jesse Peach (TV3): Georgina Beyer on 'surviving it all'
Susan Hornsby-Guluk (Stuff): It's only natural to know who your accuser is
Nelson Mail:Editorial: Sugary drinks ban a welcome stand
Newswire: TPP talks again fail to reach agreement
Lynn Prentice (The Standard): StopPress and comments
Pete George (Your NZ): Lynn Prentice sells The Standard
