The major NZ politics story of the day is the retirement of Shane Jones from politics. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Shane Jones
John Armstrong (Herald): Resignation couldn't have come at a worse time
TV3: Political expert calls Jones' departure 'significant'
Matthew Beveridge: Twitter responds to Shane Jones retiring
Fundamentally Useless: The red bush tea party
Vernon Small (Stuff):Jones' exit plunges Labour into disarray
Michael Fox and Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour in shock as Jones calls it quits
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jones shocks Labour by quitting
Newswire: Jones not upset with Labour, claims party president
Michael Sergel and Corazon Miller (Newstalk ZB): Jones escapes the political collar
TVNZ: Shane Jones: 'I've slipped the collar and I'm going'
Jane Patterson (Radio NZ): Shane Jones 'slips political collar'
Radio NZ: Maori Council praises Jones
Morgan Godfery (Maui Street): Shane Jones: the political obituary
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): ‘I told ya so’ of the day, Shane Jones edition
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour MP Shane Jones to step down
TVNZ: Shane Jones says it was 'right time' to quit politics
Patrick Gower (TV3): Shane Jones to leave Labour, set to work with Murray McCully
TVNZ: Shane Jones says it was 'right time' to quit politics
The Standard: Shane Jones standing down as MP
TVNZ: John Key 'surprised' National MP's husband funded Labour campaign
3 News Online Staff (TV3): Key plays down National member's Labour donation
No Right Turn: Shane Jones confirms everyone's suspicions
Rob Salmond (Polity): Exit Jones, stage north
Vernon Small (Stuff): Shane Jones 'to quit Labour'
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour MP Shane Jones to step down
Radio NZ: Labour's Shane Jones leaving politics
NBR: Shane Jones quitting politics - report
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Shane Jones resignation: Labour dodge a bullet & the Greens smile
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Shane Jones leaves Labour to take up job for National Government
TVNZ: Shane Jones to step down as Labour MP
Patrick Gower (TV3): Shane Jones to leave Labour, set to work with Murray McCully
Stuff: Profile: Shane Jones
Bryce Edwards (liberation): Top tweets about Shane Jones resigning as a Labour MP
Economy
TVNZ: Analyst predicts grim times for New Zealand economy
Michael Forbes (Stuff): Minister bursts analyst's bubble
Greg Presland (The Standard): The housing bubble
Radio NZ: Joyce pours scorn on bubble prediction
Chris Keall (NBR): Forbes 'bubble-ologist' jabs back at Steven Joyce
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): The problem with Jesse Colombo's NZ bubble theory
Brian Fallow (Herald): Four reasons not to panic about a property bubble
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): New Zealand’s Bubble Economy Is Vulnerable
Legal highs
Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Global Drugs Survey: The politics of pot
The Press: Editorial: Legal highs popular with Kiwis
Dominion Post: Editorial: Will legal highs last?
Dan Satherley (TV3): PM: Legalising cannabis won't kill legal highs
Pete George (Your NZ): MPs on cannabis
Pete George (Your NZ): ODT on legal highs and cannabis
Pete George (Your NZ): Key on cannabis – avoiding the elephant
Russell Brown (Hard News): Sorting out our thinking on drugs
RadioLIVE: Dunedin to propose legal high crackdown
Easter trading
The Press: Editorial: Time to drop Easter trading law
Dominion Post: Editorial: State washes hands of Easter trade laws
Colin Espiner (Stuff): Shop around for new law
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Easter trading has MP fuming
3 News Online Staff (TV3): PM favours Easter trading law change
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Easter holidays should always be mandatory and retail free
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Coordination failure?
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Social costs of Easter
Chris Ford (Voxy): It's holiday time - but some employers won't have it!
Dominion Post: Editorial: Easter laws outdated
Judith Collins
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Lack of evidence saving Collins
Greg Presland (The Standard): It’s the little things …
Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): Should Collins lose her ministerial portfolios?
Stacey Kirk and Vernon Small (Stuff): Collins misled Parliament – Robertson
Newswire: Labour hurting itself in Collins dinner saga - Key
Ministerial disclosure
Brendan Manning (Herald): PM shoots down Greens proposal to release records of meetings
TVNZ: John Key slams Greens' ministerial disclosure plan as 'ridiculous'
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): John Key dismisses disclosure regime
No Right Turn: John Key hates transparency
ACT
Brian Edwards (BEM): What ACT’s Jamie Whyte could learn from Albert Einstein
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The only one happy with ACTs new ’3 strikes’ for burglary will be private prisons
Pete George (Your NZ): On ACT’s 3 strikes for burglars policy
Herald: Editorial: Act Party's burglary law will strike out
Electricity
Olivia Carville (Stuff): Shearer slates soaring power prices
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Wolak on electricity reforms
ACC
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Government faces ACC levies criticism
Southland Times: ACC running true to form
Maori politics
Paul Easton (Stuff): Ngati Toa battle ends with $70m settlement
Radio NZ: NZ First votes against settlement
NBR Staff (NBR): Labour doesn’t deserve our vote - Tariana Turia
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Labour stands firm against claims it doesn't deserve the Maori vote
Stuff: Haka to get legal protection under new law
Radio NZ: Greens add PWA to Treaty policy
ANZAC Day
NZ Parliament: New Zealand at war announced on steps of Parliament in 1914
Colin James (ODT): What makes a national day? Not the Anzacs
Matthew Dallas (Manawatu Standard): Editorial: Peace poppy not welcome
UN security council seat
NBR Staff (NBR): US Commander: US/New Zealand relationship best in thirty years. NZ well qualified for UN Security Council seat
Herald: US Admiral backs NZ's bid for UN security council
Drone attacks
Adam Bennett (Herald): PM refuses to comment on any further Kiwi deaths in Yemen
Radio NZ: PM won't comment on other possible drone deaths
Kennedy Graham (Frogblog): Drones in Yemen; policy in Wellington – ‘conflation’ or global thinking?
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key Aspires to Mediocrity
Internet Party
Bob Jones (Herald): Criticism over Mein Kampf a load of nonsense
Callum Sweeney (Idealog): Kim Dot Com’s canny youth work
Matthew Beveridge: Hekia Parata and the Internet Party
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Will the Internet Party target the Asian vote?
TPP
Herald: Editorial: Standing up to Japan vital in trade talks
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): People Planet Peace over Profit
Nigella Lawson
TVNZ: Greens don't think Nigella Lawson should be punished over drug use
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour again focusing on the big issues
Michele A’Court (Stuff): Forgiving Nigella Lawson for drug-taking
Housing
Frank Newman (Breaking Views): Housing to be a hot election topic
Simon Collins (Herald): Community, iwi groups lobby to buy state houses cheap
Tova O’Brien (TV3): Dying mother makes tearful plea to Housing NZ
Disabilities
Jonathan Swan (Stuff): Australia looks to NZ for disability reform ideas
Sacha Dylan (Access): Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?
Other
Radio NZ: Police mistake payouts double in year
Anthony Willy (NZCPR): Privilege and the Rule of law
Matthew Beveridge: John Key and David Cunliffe’s Facebook Pages
No Right Turn: The GCSB has a credibility problem
Matthew Backhouse (Herald): Gender pay gap down to 'subconscious bias'
Radio NZ: Unions seek prosecution over deaths
Liam Dann (Herald): Govt's selldown - marks out of 10
Rob Salmond (Polity): Nerdy praise for The Nation
The Standard: Wealth and the wealthy
Radio NZ: Fiji political parties decry Wellington's regime election support
Nikki Preston (Herald): Ex-PM champions teen's desire to make a difference
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Building a sense of solidarity
Dave Armstrong (Herald): Cinema liquor knockback was right
Rob Kidd (Stuff): Foreign language teaching archaic: academic
Radio NZ: Poverty committee not fully supported – Turia
Amy Maas (Herald): MP to the rescue
Bevan Hurley (Herald): National luminary married in private rest home ceremony
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Social media study comes in for criticism
Nelson Mail: After royal waves and smiles, a serious debate
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): 'Bully Cunliffe' tweet history, says candidate
Southland Times: Editorial: Is there a problem officer . . . ?
Tim Selwyn (Daily Blog): TV Review: Seven Sharp: third strike lucky
Efeso Collins (Daily Blog): The PI vote and political stunts
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Vote more of the same
