The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, MPs pecuniary interests, 'Cabinet Club', the Labour Party, and legal highs. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Judith Collins
NBR Staff (NBR): Cunliffe fails to front on Mallard's '500K to family' claim against Collins
Taranaki Daily News: The worthwhile swamped in the abuse
ODT: 'Born to rule' perception costly
TV3: Some Twitter advice for Judith Collins
Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Collins resigns: Twitter becomes safer
Pete George (Your NZ): Grant Robertson’s ‘same milk’ accusation refuted
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Mallard smears made up, will Cunliffe act and demote him for lying to parliament
The Press: Editorial: Wounded and maybe wiser
Jane Clifton (Stuff): Subdued Collins forced to grin and bear it
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): When the boot's on the other foot
Andrea Vance (Stuff): A matter of he said/she said
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Collins survives bruising barrage
Grant Shimmin (Timaru Herald): Editorial: A question for Collins
Claire Trevett (Herald): Colourful Twitter feed falls silent once more
Adam Bennett (Herald): Embattled Collins digs in for long haul
TVNZ: Judith Collins faces further scrutiny before break
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: the royal barnacle John Kiwi
Jane Patterson (Radio NZ): Collins' last day before leave
Patrick Gower (TV3): Collins accused of making 500k from Oravida
Brook Sabin (TV3): Collins' wetlands comments outrage environmentalists
Jane Luscombe (TV3): PM: Twitter full of 'trolls, bottom feeders'
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): If Key is concerned with “Trolls and bottom-feeders” why does he call Cameron Slater regularly?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): No drama from quiet Collins
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Mallard kicked out of parliament for Oravida claims
Adam Bennett (Herald): Judith Collins survives torrid session in Parliament
Adam Bennett (Herald): Oravida's milk got preferential treatment in China – Labour
Simon Bradwell (TVNZ): Opposition MPs grill defiant Judith Collins
TVNZ: Robertson claims 'proof' over Oravida
Matthew Beveridge: John Key, Judith Collins and Twitter
The Standard: Final final final warning
Anti-Corruption NZ: Nationals multiple connections with Oravida – is it all about scampi?
Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): Judith Collins: stress leave
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs and Twitter
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Judith Collins, it's not easy being blue!
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Media and Opposition Over-Reach, Go Duck Shooting Instead
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What was most interesting about National in the house today
MPs pecuniary interests
Isaac Davison (Herald): Revealed: MPs' gifts and interests
Jane Patterson (Radio NZ): MPs declare pecuniary interests
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): MPs extend their property portfolios
Sarah Robson (Newswire): Key's gifts from Mexico, China and Brunei
No Right Turn: House of the 1%
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Has Metiria Turei taken her pecuniary interests declaration seriously?
‘Cabinet Club’
Tova O’Brien (TV3): Paying 'club' gets access to National MPs
Newswire: National's fundraising 'incredibly wrong' – Greens
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Circumventing the spin
The Standard: Cabinet Club
Dan Satherly (TV3): Cunliffe: Cabinet Club 'beyond the pale'
Labour Party
TVNZ: Phil Twyford, Trevor Mallard move up in Labour Party reshuffle
3 News Online Staff (TV3): Labour reshuffles caucus, post-Jones
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Curran back in Labour ICT role
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Cunliffe donors to stay a secret
Rob Salmond (Polity): Renewal
The Standard: Labour’s Caucus Reshuffle
Rob Salmond (Polity): Labour's reshuffle
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s mini-reshuffle
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour #Manban turns into Labour #Fanban
Radio NZ: Mahuta attacks Govt Te Reo plank
Eraka’s Blog: Susan Cullen vs Nanaia Mahuta
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More Tamaki Makaurau manoeuvres
Labour Party monetary policy
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour defends KiwiSaver plan
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Cunliffe Waves Hands, Brings House Prices Down [updated]
Stuart Nash (Daily Blog): How Labour make the monetary announcement a game changer
Legal highs
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): MPs ban legal highs
Isaac Davison (Herald): Warning as legal highs become illegal
Taryn Utiger (Stuff): Fake pot 'already on black market'
Keeping Stock: A Green disappointment
Newswire: Legal high ban to be introduced to Parliament
Stuff: Greens to abstain on legal high bill
TVNZ: Legal-highs set to be banned
Budget 2014
Audrey Young (Herald): Budget 2014: Beneficiaries given $3000 to move to Christchurch
Vernon Small (Stuff): Beneficiaries promised $3K to go to Christchurch
3 News Online Staff (TV3): Govt expands apprenticeship subsidy scheme
No Right Turn: An empty grab for headlines
Ashleigh Stewart (Stuff): Critics slam work incentive
Sarah Robson (TV3): Chch can't accommodate beneficiaries - Labour
Maori politics
Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): Most Maori connected to culture – report
James Fyfe (TV3): Maori language on the up, slowly
James Ihaka (Herald): Maori tuning in to identity on TV
Gareth Thomas (Radio NZ): Measuring Maori health and happiness
Michael Daly (Stuff): More Maori speaking Maori
Radio NZ: Racist teachers a minority, says Parata
Tim Selwyn (Daily Blog): Challenging RNZ’s racial exclusivity
Other
Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, May 7
Dominion Post: Editorial: Aussie super puts pressure on
Scott Hamilton (Reading the Maps): The trial of Roger Douglas, and other pieces of an alternate past
Ben Heather (Stuff): Claim of plain packaging reprisal 'scaremongering'
Gareth Renowden (Daily Blog): Generation Zero: come clean on NZ’s energy future
Tom mCRae (TV3): Coles accused of bully tactics
Jamie Morton (Herald): Mixed reaction to Labour's environment commitments
Andrew Geddes (Pundit): Exile is a dream of glorious return
Colin Hogg (Herald): Checking in on Henry's late show
Dan Satherley (TV3): Education money better spent elsewhere – parents
Bob Jones (Herald): We're all slaves to the system, one way or another