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NZ Politics Daily - 31 October 2014: Employment; Homeopathy & Ebola; Dirty Politics; Roast Busters; Labour

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Employment

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Government considers holiday pay changes

Peter Wilson (Newswire): CTU: Labour law changes 'shameful'

Claire Trevett (Herald): 'Tea-break' employment bill becomes law

Vernon Small (Stuff): Right to smoko removed

TVNZ: Controversial 'smoko-break' law slammed as 'shameful'

Herald: Editorial: Teabreak law change least impressive

RNZ: Disagreement over employment laws

Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): Employment law: it’s toasted

Dom Post: Editorial: Pay equity must be made to work

Dita De Boni (Herald): Quick nurse, more money for carers

Mai Chen (Herald): A win for low-paid women everywhere

Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Stats NZ staff work to rule

 

Homeopathy Ebola treatment

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): The idiot

Brook Sabin (TV3): Steffan Browning: Signing Ebola petition was 'unwise'

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmmm

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Steffan Browning, Ebola and Homeopathy

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media):If you do something on social media, own it

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Green advocacy of fighting Ebola with homeopathy

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): MP signs petition to use homeopathy to treat Ebola

Newswire: Green MP under fire over Ebola homeopathy support

TVNZ: Russel Norman rebukes MP calling for Ebola to be treated by homeopathy

RNZ: Green MP plugs homeopathy for Ebola

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Ladies and Gentlemen, the Party of evidence-based science

Sarah Boseley (Guardian): Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa

 

Dirty Politics

Adam Bennett and Sophie Ryan (Herald): John Key won't reveal Rawshark's name

No Right Turn: The obvious question

Simon Wong (TV3): Winston, Norman: Raid Key's house over hacker claim

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If Key knows who Rawshark is…

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): John Key doesn’t care much about privacy, that much is clear

Stuff: Hager starts judicial review case

RNZ: Hager challenges search legality

Nicky Hager (Dirty Politics): Nicky Hager’s speech at the PSA

Kim Knight (Stuff): 'Ethics' behind patron's withdrawal of Biennale support

No Right Turn: An unmanaged conflict

 

Roast Busters

TVNZ: Roastbusters verdict could change court system – minister

Anna Leask (Herald): Positive change from 'Roast Busters' sex scandal

Toby Manhire (Herald):  Some hope left in sex-case inquiry

Murielle Baker (RNZ): Consent to be part of sex education

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Roast Busters off the hook - for now

Grant Shimmin (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Decision predictable, suspicion lingers

Press: Editorial: Society's sordid underculture

Herald: Roast Busters: Social media role 'worrying' – PM

Laura Walters (Stuff): Support needed for sex assault cases

Simon Wong (TV3): 'Roast Busters' unlikely to prompt law change

TVNZ: Roast Busters case prompts 'step up' call to protect rape victims

Shabnam Dastgheib (Stuff): Roast Busters case highlights teen drinking issues

Spin Bin: Famous Kiwi radio host invites #Roastbusters rapists to “call in and defend yourselves”

Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): Open Letter to Amy Adams: Please Reopen The Review Into Sexual Violence Court Processes

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): “There is little evidence in existence … of being engaged in criminal sexual offending”

 

Police

NZME: Police cleared over Blockade the Budget protest

Michael Field (Stuff): 'Blockade the Budget' protest cops cleared

The Standard: Time for a real Police Tribunal?

 

Michael Woodhouse drink-drive conviction

Adam Bennett (Herald): Police Minister confirms drink driving conviction

RNZ: Minister admits drink-drive conviction

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Let’s get the dirt out in front: Police minister declares his conviction

 

Labour Party

Rob Salmond (Polity): How Labour’s ballot paper works

Ian Telfer (RNZ): Mothers weigh in to Labour leadership

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Ghost Dancing?

Steven Cowan (Against the current): Agency of change

Anthony Robins (Standard): Leadership carnage! Crisis! Farce! Civil war!

Pete George (Your NZ): Nanaia Mahuta – Standard Q & A

 

Kim Dotcom

No Right Turn: A stretch

David Fisher (Herald): Dotcom's NZ status hits speed bump

Stuff: Kim Dotcom: Deportation a worry?

David Fisher (Herald): Immigration NZ: Kim Dotcom deportation an option

TV3: Dotcom fails to declare offence

 

Media

John Drinnan (Herald): MySky move to outshine Neon

Karl du Fresne (Dom Post): Not everyone wants the news in 'real time'

Denise Roche (Green blog): TVNZ Outsourcing Pasifika and Maori Programmes

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Does ‘No-Surprises’ Also Apply To TVNZ News?

 

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Friday, October 31

Herald: Maori Party almost votes against Government

Claire Trevett (Herald): Maori Party's new co-leader: Headstrong Marama Fox reveals her cuss word

Steve Maharey (Dom Post): Union Jack doesn't fit our country

On the Left: Living with a criminal conviction

Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Temporary, discriminatory and an admission of Faliure

Sophie Ryan (NZME): PM to discuss Ebola, Islamic State with Abbott

Newswire: Key to mark departure of Anzac troops

RNZ: Fewer homes to be built in Auckland

Ewan McQueen (RenewNZ): Why neither National or Labour will solve child poverty

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Poverty & inequality don’t need protest marches – they need a riot: #ifihadahammer

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Push to wipe homosexual convictions

Dan Satherley (TV3): Buses and trains before tolls – Greens

RNZ: Former diplomat says Fiji's stance on PIF could mellow

Steve Braunias (Timaru Herald): Danyel loses grip on reality

Claire Browning (Pundit): Seabed mining: drums in the deep

Simon Collins (Herald): Govt approves $22m rebuild of leaky school

TVNZ: Employers the judge in 'rate my qualification' scheme

Brian Fallow (Herald):Inflation monster goes missing

 

 

Top tweets about Green advocacy of fighting Ebola with homeopathy

This is a selection of recent tweets about Green MP and Party spokesman on natural health, Steffan Browning’s advocacy of homeopathy to fight Ebola. The most recent tweets are first. Suggested tweets to include are always welcome. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 30 October 2014: Roast Busters; Employment; Dirty Politics; Labour; Inequality

NZ Politics Daily is an email service, sent out to subscribers for free Monday-to-Friday. The daily email contains the text below, as well as a PDF of the full text of the all the items. To subscribe, send an email to: [email protected]

 

Roast Busters

Laura Walters (Stuff): Door not closed to Roast Busters action

Anna Leask (Herald): Police decision over charges vindicates Hales, say his family

Anna Leask (Herald): Roast Busters: Alleged victim's mum fights on

Ian Steward and Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Roast Busters case: No charges to be laid

Sophie Ryan (Herald): Roast Busters case: 'Where was the respect?' – police

Stuff: Roast Busters: By the numbers

Laura Walters (Stuff): Roast Busters case: Police shocked by alcohol use

No Right Turn: Today's lesson

Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): You Can Get Away With Rape In New Zealand

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Immoral’s not illegal

 

Employment

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the links between bad labour laws and poor safety practices

Nicole Mathewson (Stuff): Too many port deaths as profits rise

TV3: Tea breaks gone by lunchtime? 'Absolutely not'

Kevin Ikin (RNZ) Union condemns workplace laws

Beehive Mandate: The Tea Break Issue – Does No Regulation Really Mean No Smoko?

Mike Hosking (Herald): Hard workers have nothing to fear

Don Franks (Redline): Ways to wreck the tea-break-busting bill

No Right Turn: Women going backwards under National

Rob Mitchell (Manawatu Standard): Discordant notes in rock star economy

Alan Wood (Stuff): Aged-care cost hike worries

Waikato Times: Editorial - Decision could hit elderly

Jan Logie (Green blog): Equal pay and the aged care sector

 

Dirty Politics

John Armstrong (Herald): Opposition must question their stickability

John Armstrong (Herald): John Key 'given Rawshark's name'

Newswire: Key opens up about Dirty Politics, Collins' resignation

TVNZ: John Key: I know who Rawshark is

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Of course National’s politics are dirty. Who is Key trying to kid?

RNZ: Last chance for Slater to prepare case

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The beginning of the end of Cameron Slater?

Adam Bennett (Herald): Snap! Political insider reappears

Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Dirty Politics author in arts funding row

Nicky Hager (Dirty Politics): Latest news: Monday-Wednesday, 27-29 October

 

Labour Party

Brian Edwards: Why my money’s on David Parker. And why Labour’s should be as well!

The Standard: Leadership Election: Candidates Start Painting Themselves Into Corners

Claire Trevett (Herald): Chameleon Key a happy distraction for Labour

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Random thoughts on the Labour Party leadership contest

Abbie Napier (Stuff): Andrew Little vows 'polarising policy' crackdown

Pete George (Your NZ): ‘Labour West’ promoting Little and Mahuta leadership

Pete George (Your NZ): Chris Hipkins on the election result and Labour’s future

 

Inequality

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key must walk the talk on child poverty

Sophie Lowery (TV3): Struggling parents want action on child poverty

Rob Salmond (Polity): Key's spin on child poverty

No Right Turn: National's failure on child poverty

Slightly Left of Centre: UNICEF report a load of crap

The Standard: There is no child poverty in New Zealand

Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Bill English's creeping social housing crisis

Brian Easton (Pundit): Does Piketty Matter?

 

Flag referendum

Adam Bennett (Herald): Taxpayers face $25 million bill even if old flag stays

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Flag change debate spread over a year

Adam Bennett (Herald): John Key defends cost of flag referendums

RNZ: Two referendums on flag change

Newswire: Flag referendum to cost $26M

TVNZ: Winston Peters slams flag referendum spending

Guardian: New Zealand to hold 2016 referendum on scrapping union jack national flag

 

Govt transport

Adam Bennett (Herald): Heat on for Govt to lead on limos

Adam Bennett (Herald): New Government limos to replace old BMWs

RNZ: Crown to replace BMW limo fleet

Stuff: Government to replace BMW fleet

Newswire: Greens urge Govt to choose electric cars

 

John Banks

Simon Wong (TV3): Banks' lawyer: New evidence proves Dotcom wrong

Stuff: Banks' wife finds witnesses

 

Other

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Taxpayers miss out

Jane Kelsey (Herald):  TPP deal keeps disappearing down rabbit hole

Herald: Agreement will promote Kiwi product sales overseas - Steven Joyce

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): $2.16 trillion breakthrough for Kiwi firms

Brian Rudman (Herald): Justice can and must be served

No Right Turn: A reminder

No Right Turn: GCHQ's backdoor spying

David Fisher (Herald): Offence Dotcom didn't declare

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Police minister's drink-drive confession

Press: Editorial: Time to rethink alcohol attitude

Stuff: Teen drinking law 'poorly implemented'

Laura Bootham (RNZ): Māori health fears under TPP

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Publishing Journalists’ Home Addresses Is A Tactic Of The Right, Not The Left

Slightly Left of Centre: A case of Green corruption?

Man of Errors: James Shaw, MP

Dom Post: History shows Isis hard to defeat

Herald: Editorial: Little time to waste plugging funding gap

Simon Maude (Herald): Law change leaves hole in budget

Robert MacCulloch (Herald): Out of control - our red tape tangle

Sarah Stuart (Herald): Twelve Questions: Penny Bright

TV3: John Key wants a NZ flag with 'passion and pride'

Stuff: Today in Politics: October 30

NZ Parliament: Recommended sitting programme for the rest of 2014 and for 2015

 

 

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 29 October 2014: Employment; Labour; Dirty Politics; Child poverty

NZ Politics Daily is an email service, sent out to subscribers for free Monday-to-Friday. The daily email contains the text below, as well as a PDF of the full text of the all the items. To subscribe, send an email to: [email protected]

 

Employment

Audrey Young (Herald): Govt's 'tea-break' employment bill ready to become law

RNZ: Workers' rights still protected - EMA

Newswire: Employment law changes set to pass

The Standard: Collective bargaining? Yeah right

Dan Satherley (TV3): Equal pay ruling 'small cost for quality' – King

No Right Turn: Cementing pay equity?

Sophie Ryan (Herald): Landmark pay equality decision upheld

RNZ: Pay parity a long way off, lawyer says

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Win for equal pay campaign

Editorial: Judicial law rewrite isn't pay answer

Asher Goldman (On the Left): Another step towards pay equity

Integrity Talking Points: NZ slips further on the Global Gender Gap index

Southland Times: Editorial: Workers take wins where they can

Richard Meadows (Stuff): Poll shows insecurity over work

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): More trade union lies

Claire Dunn (Stuff): Nine to five consigned to history?

Newswire: Christchurch employment scheme 'transforming lives' – Tolley

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): National are “seeking to undermine collective bargaining” aka the strike-threat system

 

Labour

TV3: Little backed by Dairy Workers Union

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: More union support for Little

Vernon Small (Stuff): Dairy workers back Little in Labour bid

Brian Edwards: On flocks of drunken sheep and pillow-fighting teenage girls

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): How does Andrew Little win Labour Leadership and unify the caucus?

Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Labour's secret leaders ballot is no 'primary'

Keir Leslie (Progress Report): Why Labour Did Not Did Not Win

Saeran Maniparathy (Beehive Mandate): Labour Leadership Contest: an Update – Has Andrew Little already won?

TVNZ: Labour leadership hopefuls out to woo Nelson voters

Jonathan Wood (Stuff): Labour Party needs leader, not follower

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Labour's rainy day

 

Dirty Politics

Newswire: Key confirms Whale Oil conversation

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Opposition keeps up attack on Key over Dirty Politics

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Key: Our politics aren't dirty

Steven Price (Media Law):The blogger and the journalist

Lyn Prentice (Standard): Slater sued

 

Child Poverty

Paloma Migone (RNZ): NZ child poverty rate static - UNICEF report

Renee Graham (TVNZ): NZ 'stagnated' on child poverty and inequality – UNICEF

Tessa Jonstone (Stuff): Little progress in child poverty - Unicef report

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Adam Bennett (Herald): Anti-jihadist law will have narrow focus – PM

Vernon Small (Stuff): Passport controls to target foreign fighters

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Isis will 'rain carnage on the world' - John Key

Newswire: Key: Action against IS 'morally right'

 

John Banks

Newswire: John Banks calls new witnesses in appeal

Sophie Ryan (Herald): John Banks heads to Court of Appeal today

 

Broadcasting

Russell Brown (Public Address): TVNZ: Emptied out

RNZ: Plea for programmes to stay on TVNZ

 

Christchurch Convention Centre OIA

Rob Salmond (Polity): Gerry Brownlee, the OIA, and the Christchurch Convention Centre

No Right Turn: Improper?

 

Other

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the TPP finishing line, and Amazon’s woes

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Hiatus interruptus

Southland Times: Editorial: Let's not sound the alarm too soon

Kelly Ellis (Daily Blog): Privilege cheque

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): That Hella-Weird Feeling When You Defend Tova O’Brien

Daily Blog: Guest bog: Joe Trinder – Right of response to Curwen

Dom Post: Editorial: Shades of blue for Greens doesn't sit right

Phil McCarthy (Stuff): 'Corrupt' power market attacked

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): 'NZ needs to do more to fight Ebola'

RNZ: Research unit to idenitfy needs

Michael Potts (Herald): G20 NZ's chance to make a real difference

Newswire: NZ, Fiji look to resume diplomatic relations

Richard Benge (Herald): Govt must paint brighter picture for all

Ruminator: The time John Key lied and said I threw an egg at an old man

Tami Louisson (Herald): Govt grants vital for would-be exporters

Charlie Gates (Stuff): Racism rows rile university students 

Redline: Symposium on The Way Forward, 3: The miseries of political life

Blake Crayton-Brown (Dom Post): PM's bodyguard gone to the dogs

Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, October 29

 

NZ Politics Daily - 28 October 2014: Labour; Media; Parliament; Dirty Politics; Labour laws

Labour

Audrey Young (Herald): Where MPs are lining up in Labour leadership race

Adam Hollingsworth (TV3): Labour's leadership contenders out campaigning

Audrey Young (Herald): Leadership rivals mark Labour Day

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Labour Needs To Stop Saying What People DON"T want to hear.

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): Does Labour have leadership?

Jack Montgomerie (Stuff): Heed provinces, Labour leader candidates told

TVNZ: Will South Auckland support a gay Labour leader?

Willie Jackson (RadioLive): Grant Robertson

Ben Clark (Standard): I’m backing Grant

The Standard:Andrew Little’s Palmerston North Speech

Stuff: Live chat review: Labour leadership candidate Andrew Little

Anjum Rahman (Daily Blog): Guest blog – “Meritocracy? I wish.”

The Standard: All Things Being Equal…

TV3: Labour seeks to reverse 10-year decline

Pete George (Your NZ): Clare Curran survey: 1 = not at all related

 

Media

RNZ: Call for 'transparency' at Maori TV

RNZ: Organisation questions TVNZ's commitment

RNZ: Funder supports TVNZ outsourcing

RNZ: TVNZ Pacific presenter upbeat on outsourcing

No Right Turn: Political interference at Maori Television

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about TVNZ outsourcing of Maori programme production

Bevan Chuang: Diverse Media Programming

Fightback: Moves to gut public and Maori broadcasting

Giovanni Tiso (Bat Bean Beam): Dirty journalism

Jarrod Gilbert: Why we must pay for our online media

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Twitter Stats: 24 October

 

Parliament

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): No regrets from Peters

Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . David Seymour

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Former stars fall down ladder

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Ideological Blitzkrieg – Privatization of state housing, more charter schools & more union crushing employment law

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): And if you have to carry a gun to keep your fragile seat at number one ...

Mark Blackham (Political Business): Parliaments must be vulnerable to save democracy

Audrey Young (Herald): What the new MPs' maiden speeches say about them

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): The Questions Have Been Asked – They Deserve An Answer

Nelson Evening Mail: Editorial: Disregard for free flow of information

 

Dirty Politics

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Key misses opportunity to clear air with more questions to come

David Fisher (Herald): Nicky Hager gets high-powered legal help

Pete George (Your NZ): On Slater and dirty politics and “Dirty Politics”

Pete George (Your NZ): On Hager and “Dirty Politics and dirty politics

Pete George (Your NZ): Dirt and “Dirty Politics” yet to come

 

ERA reform and Labour Day

Vernon Small (Stuff): Government sends signal with new bill

RNZ: Trial period doesn't create jobs – Labour

Dom Post: Workers need regular rest breaks

TVNZ: Controversial 'tea break' law fails to fly in National's first week

Asher Goldman (On the Left): The ERA changes and what we do next

Rodney Hide (Herald): Working day victory a union myth

Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): A rightwing fairytale about Labour Day

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Thoughts on Labour Day and the New Zealand Worker

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Falling for Labour spin

 

Housing

John Armstrong (Herald): Taxpayer looks the loser in English's pet reform

Herald: Editorial: Kiwi dream needs Govt on board

Duncan Garner (Manawatu Standard): I'm an instant millionaire - but can't afford my house

Rob Stock (Stuff): Call for apartment rethink

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): When is an asset sale not an asset sale? When it robs from the poor and steals for the rich

 

Malaysian diplomat allegations

Amy Maas (Herald): Charges humiliating and embarrassing for family and Malaysia, says MP

RNZ: High public interest in diplomat – MP

 

Education

TVNZ: 'Catch-22' facing foreign student debate – academic

RNZ: Uni debate 'must focus on quality'

TV3: NZ universities told to follow Australia offshore

 

TPP

Torben Arkel (TV3): What the TPP means for New Zealand

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): TPP trade deal no sure thing, Groser

Newswire: Trans-Pacific Partnership deal 'still lousy' - law professor

Audrey Young (Herald): Groser has big concerns about dairy in TPP

Newswire: Trans-Pacific trade deal firming

RNZ: 'Significant progress' in TPP trade deal

 

Economy

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Prepare to pin on your nappies

Jonathan Carson (Stuff): New recession looming says economist

 

UN Security Council seat

Michael Timmins (Daily Blog): My insecurity about the Security Council

Jordan Ward (Dom Post): UN seat triumph just a numbers game

 

Other

Colin James (ODT): Security matters: Key’s ups and downs

Ron Smith (NZCPR): The Terrorist Threat

No Right Turn: Turning a blind eye to corruption

Taranaki Daily News: Our reputation needs to be justified

Herald: The best place to raise a child? New Zealand

Fundamentally Useless: Angry white men and legal highs

Narelle Henson (Waikato Times): Help the parents, not just the kids

Press: Editorial: No easy answer on suppression

John Roughan (Herald): Ocean eco-caution being taken too far

On the Left: Because they wanted a better life for me

Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Hegemony rules but resistance is fertile

Andrew Gunn (Press): Saturday Satire: Let's use Tasers on scumbags

 

 

Top tweets about TVNZ outsourcing of Maori programme production

This is a selection of some of the tweets about TVNZ’s decision to outsource production of its Maori programmes. The most recent tweets are first. More tweets will probably be added – suggestions always welcome. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 24 October 2014: National; Labour; Nicky Hager; Broadcasting; Parliament

National 

Herald: Editorial: Speaker gives PM, ministers a licence to duck for cover

Duncan Garner (TV3): Key is always the PM – it’s not a part-time gig

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Slipping in and out of the emperor's cloak

Adam Bennett and Brendan Manning (Herald): Key should have answered WhaleOil question – Speaker

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): There appears to be an off button

RNZ: Key's blogger response questioned

Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Key spoke to Cameron Slater ‘not as Prime Minister’, but as a sponge

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins – the John Key edition

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Collins still in opposition's sights

Nick Grant (NBR): ‘Bland’, ‘predictable’, ‘vacuous’ – govt’s third term programme critiqued (paywalled)

 

Labour 

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Labour leadership race: Focussing the message

Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour leadership selection woes

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour change needed: Candidates

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Parker kicks off leadership campaign

Phil Quin (Pundit): Grant Robertson is not as much like Joseph Stalin as some would have you think

The Standard: A encomium for Nanaia Mahuta

Harry Love (ODT): Labour must stick to its message

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Labour leadership challengers: Who runs the accounts?

 

Nicky Hager and Dirty Politics

Brendan Manning (Herald): Police take Hager to court over sources

Laura Walters (Herald): Nicky Hager challenges police raid

TV3: Nicky Hager takes police to court over Dirty Politics raid

RNZ: Legislation 'may not protect Hager'

Anthony Robins (Standard): Hager vs police – suppressing debate

 

Broadcasting

John Drinnan (Herald): TVNZ losing Maori link

RNZ: TVNZ Pasifika shows 'will be produced'

RNZ: TVNZ opts out of Maori, Pacific shows

RNZ: MP questions TVNZ's future

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Marae Investigates No More

 

Parliament

Jane Clifton (Listener): ‘Friends’ with benefits (paywalled)

Toby Manhire (Herald): Pomp and tosh in fantasyland

Audrey Young (Herald): Judith Collins on two parliamentary select committees

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The 51st Parliament Select Committees

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Assistant Speaker Trevor

Newswire/TV3: Parliament needs armed guards - O'Connor

Lydia Anderson and Simon Wong (TV3): Parliament security tightened after Canada shooting

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Canada attack wake-up call for Kiwi MPs

Newswire: NZ diplomats caught in Canada lockdown

 

OIA abuse

David Fisher (Herald): Opinion: OIA a bizarre arms race

No Right Turn: Freedom of information: How it works in Norway

 

Parliamentary spending

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): McCully tops ministerial expenses list

Vernon Small (Stuff): PM gifts food hamper to Helen Clark

Isaac Davison (Herald): Departing MPs' one last spend-up

Newswire: Hone Harawira tops MP spending list

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Gordon Campbelll (Scoop): On the tokenism of New Zealand‘s role against Islamic State

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Terrorism is a threat but lest we forget

Nigel Parsons and Beth Greener (Dom Post): Careful steps needed over Isis

Nathan Smith (NBR): Key 'not going to walk away' from defending NZ against terror (paywalled)

David Rutherford (Herald): If we live in fear, terrorists win

 

Inequality

Brian Fallow (Herald): Wealth gap goes mainstream

Adam Bennett (Herald): Child poverty: 'Substantial policy' needed

Newswire: Charity: PM needs to do more to stop child poverty

Jack McDonald (On the Left): Workers’ rights under attack

 

Environment

Dan Satherley (TV3): Russel Norman: Shell Todd must be held to account

No Right Turn: National lets Shell drill illegally

 

Mana

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Harawira hired sex offenders with taxpayer money

Pete George (Your NZ): Once Were Mana

 

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Friday, October 24

Stuff: Today in Politics: October 23

Patrick Gower (TV3): This week in politics - October 23, 2014

Stuff: Beehive Live: Employment law clash

Listener: Editorial – True merit

Diana Wichtel (Listener): The controversial commissioner (paywalled)

Audrey Young (Herald): Spy advisory panel members named

Whena Owen (TV3): Cheesemaker takes a stand against Govt

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ well-prepared against Ebola: Coleman

Fundamentally Useless: The quiet privileges

Kieren Gera (On the Left): Wanted: more fertiliser and horse manure

Jem Yoshioka (On the Left): Why I am on the left

Nicole Skews (On the left): Why I’m Left: happiness, solidarity and community

John Clements (Herald): City that's big but far from super

Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Manipulating Charities

Herald: NZ among world's best countries to move to, survey finds

Stuff: Guinea pig for drink-drive tech

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ won election on the first round

Newswire: NZ First calls for urgent debate on immigration

 

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 23 October 2014: Labour; National; Inequality; Parliament; Migration

Labour Party

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): More Latté Than Lager: Reflections on Grant Robertson's Campaign Launch

Vernon Small (Stuff): Candidates pledge Labour change

Tim Watkin (Pundit): It's about history... & votes & elephants

Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Robertson, Little the standout performers

Simon Wong (TV3): Labour leadership contest hits the road

Patrick Gower (TV3): Labour's 'hard-core voters still there'

Audrey Young (Herald): Labour leaders hit the hustings

TVNZ: Labour leadership contenders in first face-off

Sarah Robson (Newswire): Labour leadership battle kicks off in Wellington

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): English, Cunliffe & the Labour contenders face off

TV3: At A Glance: Labour leadership roadshow dates

Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Emails from the candidates

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Like a cult…

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Parker says Labour is like a cult

Deborah Russell: Labour leadership: working out how to vote

Lawrence Hakiwai (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe eats humble pie in post resignation address

John McCormick (Pundit): Labour Needs A Civil Union With The Greens

Wayne Mapp (Pundit): Where is the Middle?

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour change needed: Candidates

The Standard: The first hustings

Chris Bramwell (Radio NZ): Labour leadership hopefuls hit the road

 

National Party

John Armstrong (Herald): Hard work pinning down slick PM

Simon Wong (TV3): Heat on PM over Slater links

Adam Bennett (Herald): Key spoke to WhaleOil blogger 'not as PM'

RNZ: PM refuses to answer Slater questions

TVNZ: Key under more pressure over links with blogger

Jane Clifton (Dom Post): Prime minister only when he wants to be

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): When I mean me, I mean my office & when I call whaleoil I mean not as me the PM

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key's Multiple Identities

No Right Turn: Judith Collins' two-tier OIA service

The Standard: Dirty politics and dirty cyclists

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Armstrong: John Key’s hidden objective

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Judith Collins relegated to lowly select committee

 

Inequality

Brian Fallow (Herald): New take on inequality sparks debate in NZ

Dita De Boni (Herald): State house poster boy callous to pull up ladder

Isaac Davison (Herald): Harawira's 'feed the kids' bill gets another chance

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Harawira's child poverty bill gets second life

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Can't please 'em all

Child Poverty Action Group: Comprehensive plan needed to end child poverty in New Zealand

 

Parliament and election

Stuff: Opening is about symbolism, not reality

NZ Parliament: Where MPs sit in the House

Stuff: Nats persist with new labour law

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): EX-MPs: Updated or Not?

Socialist Aotearoa: 2014 Elections and the Revolutionary left

 

Migration

Dan Satherley (TV3): Economy didn't end the brain drain – King

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government to lure skilled Kiwis home

Newswire: Massive migrant boost drives NZ's population growth

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Migration and job growth two of our successes

 

Police

Isaac Davison (Herald): Minister rules out arming all frontline police

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Minister: No need to arm all police

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Steady as she goes approach for new Police Minister

 

Environment

Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): What will be done with the RMA? 

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Oil wells drilled without consent – Greens

Taryn Utiger (Stuff): Police plug oil exhibition protest

 

Other

David Fisher (Public Address): The OIA arms race

Georgina Stylianou (Press): Ministry right to not name 'CTV-like' buildings

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Nick Smith must come clean

No Right Turn: Unbelieveable

TVNZ: Peace activists criticise NZ's nuclear involvement

John Drinnan (Herald): Julian Wilcox resigns from Maori TV

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Pharmac, Gough Whitlam and Sleater-Kinney

Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Legal highs process 'wasteful, crazy'

James Weir (Stuff): ACC posts $2.1 billion surplus

TVNZ: Billion dollar surplus again for ACC

No Right Turn: Auckland's disturbing panopticon

Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): Life isn’t fair. But it should be.

Integrity Talking Points: Seeing a trusted public sector may depend on what you are looking at

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 22 October 2014: Labour; National; Greens; Parliament; Housing

Labour

Claire Trevett (Herald): David Parker: Labour needs to act like a political party not a cult

Claire Trevett (Herald): Like a cult and too red - Parker on Labour

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: 'I can reach across the ideological divide,' says Andrew Little

Claire Trevett (Herald): Nanaia Mahuta: In it to win, not just to be Labour deputy leader

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: 'We've got to stop talking about ourselves,' says Grant Robertson

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Andrew Little running solo

Lynn Prentice (Standard): I have the form – but none to vote for

Slightly Left of Centre: Labour’s slightly depressing leadership contest

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Labour’s Din of Inequity

Bob Jones (Herald): Labour’s choice - nutters or normal’s

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Gracinda? Someone needs to tell them they’re dreamin’

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Irony in God's Own's latest accolade?

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): When the answer is Bryan Gould…

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Wrong process, wrong person

Newswire: Shane Jones gets new diplomatic role

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour leadership: no substance and much weirdness (paywalled)

Craig Hoyle (Gay NZ): Rugby, Beer, Rock ‘n’ Roll – Robertson launches leadership bid

Duncan Garner (Radiolive): Robertson and Ardern need to stand for something

Fundamentally Useless: Give us some substance, Grant

 

National

John Armstrong (Herald): Shadow lingers on National

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Key catches drift on waterways

Rob Hosking (NBR): Key highlights business initiatives as Parliament opens 

Dene Mackenzie (ODT): National sets out its agenda

Adam Bennett (Herald): Prime Minister outlines Govt agenda at opening of Parliament

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Housing, tax cuts, jobs focus of next term: Government

TV3: Govt's third term focus on housing, poverty

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Judith Collins relegated to lowly select committee

John Armstrong (Herald): John Key drops clue on real agenda

Herald: Editorial: Govt opts for caution and stability

RNZ: Govt to increase poverty spend - Key

Kiwiblog: Guest Post: What will it take for John Key to lead National to a 4th term? Could he ever be NZ’s longest serving PM?

 

Greens

Tracey Watkins (Stuff): Key cool on Greens

Simon Wong (TV3): Greens keen to work with National again

RNZ: Greens hoping to work with National

TVNZ: Greens and John Key haggle over possible deal

Lesley Deverall (Newstalk ZB): Greens seek fresh cooperation deal with National

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Portfolio reshuffle for Greens

Ruminator: When Russel Norman’s money was no good here

 

Parliament

Audrey Young (Herald): State of the parties

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Parliament's déjà vu

Dom Post: Editorial: Opposition is vital to good government

John Armstrong (Herald): Here's dinky Dave and Stoner Phil

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Red robes flow as Parliament opens for another term

Tracy Watkins and Vernon Small (Stuff): Trevor Mallard elected assistant Speaker

TV3/Newswire: Trevor Mallard chosen as Assistant Speaker

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Patrick Gower (TV3): Defence, PM at odds over Obama meeting

TV3: Video: Defence Force 'dropped the ball' on Obama meeting – Chief

Dan Satherley (TV3): Cellphone ban behind Obama surprise – Key

RNZ: PM to brief parties on Islamic State

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Key up against it over anti-IS action

Keith Locke (Herald): Take on extremists with words not war

Lamia Imam (On the Left): New Zealand, ISIL, and suspicious behaviour

 

Housing

Dan Satherley (TV3): Govt's housing plan derailed by land banking – Labour

No Right Turn: National's failure on housing

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Time to look seriously at apartment living

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB):Labour questions National's state housing shift

 

TPP

Gordon Campbell (Scoop) On the latest TPP leaks

No Right Turn: The Security Council and free trade

Conan Young (RNZ): Medicines 'won't cost more under TPP'

 

Other

Stuff: Today in Politics: October 22

David Fisher (Herald): Kiwis pay $103m 'membership fee' for spying

Caleb Harris (Stuff): JP ticked rest home resident's vote form

Fundamentally Useless: The long march through the consultations

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): A World Without Advertising

Peter Lyons (Herald): Ignoring super is political hypocrisy

Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Key's flag-waving unlikely to succeed

Derek Burrows (Timaru Herald): Finding a new flag to represent us

Christine Rose (Daily Blog): “Blue-Greenwash” fails the test when it comes to endangered dolphins

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Will National privatize the RMA process?

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A new left-leaning blog

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Dotcom's claims don't have 'an air of reality' – Judge

Brook Sabin (TV3): Key: Record immigration shows 'confidence' in NZ

Waikato Times: Action slow on silly rules

Stephanie Rodgers (On the left): We have lift-off!

Lamia Imam (On the left): Meaningful compassion

Sarah Wilson (On the left): Putting people at the centre of policy

Brian Rudman (Herald): One man's dream a nightmare for poor students

Russell Brown (Public Address): Media Take: The creeping politicisation of the OIA

Richard Runner (Waikato Independent): Pam Corkery set to explode at Wintec Press Club

Asher Goldman (On the left): If you didn’t vote, please complain!

 

 

Images of the Third Term Key National Government

This is a selection of photos, images and cartoons to give a visual indication of how the Third Term of John Key's National Government is shaping up, and how it is being portrayed. [Read more below]

Scott - Dominion Post 22 October 2014

NZ Politics Daily - 21 October 2014: Labour; New Parliament; Blogosphere; Housing

Labour

Vernon Small (Stuff): Robertson's risk with Ardern

Audrey Young (Herald): EPMU backing for Little

Dan Satherley (TV3): At a glance: Labour's leadership election process

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Previewing the 4 candidates for Leader of the Labour Party

Simon Wong (TV3): Mahuta makes leadership pitch to colleagues

Willie Jackson (RadioLIve): Labour Maori make their move

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): I quite like beer, the rugby no so much

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about #Gracinda

Slightly Left of Centre: Leadership race doomed to fail

 

NZ Intervention in Middle East

Audrey Young (Herald): New Zealand forces could train Iraqi troops, Key says

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Decision on NZ deployment to Mid East weeks away

No Right Turn: John Key on Iraq: A timeline

 

UN Security Council seat

Philip Ferguson (Redline): NZ elite win seat at UN Security Council – don’t celebrate, organise!

Redline: United Nations: friend or foe?

 

OIA abuse

Dom Post: Editorial: Abuse of OIA disgraceful

Susan St John (Daily Blog): OIA protocols and official advice ignored to hide Child Poverty

 

Housing

Brook Sabin (TV3): Key: Housing problem takes time to fix

Adam Bennett (Hreald): Housing strategy may lower prices

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): John Key reminds Aucklanders of property risks

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): There is no housing bubble

Slightly Left of Centre: English putting lipstick on a pug?

 

New Parliament

Jane Clifton (Dom Post): No beheadings, one Stoner, and the usual rabble

Colin James (ODT): The gerrymanders and National’s 2017 constraints

Tracey Watkins (Stuff): Key to outline shopping list

Newswire: Key: 'No surprises' in opening speech

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Oath wording strikes MP discord

Tova O’Brien (TV3): MPs take their places as Parliament begins

Adam Bennett (Herald): Twist on ceremony as new MPs sworn in

Stuff: Quiz: Who are our new MPs?

 

Blogosphere

Anthony Robin (The Standard): New Blog: On The Left

Pete George (Your NZ): New blog – On The left

Asher Goldman (On the Left): The struggles of everyday life

Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): Briefly on “Women in Politics” blog

Slightly Left of Centre: Where do you stand?

Kate Davis (Daily Blog): Guest blog: The sudden explosion of ‘left’ blogs

Pete George (Your NZ): Backlash against Whale Oil continues

 

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, October 21

RNZ: Uni fees a fair amount says Minister

No Right Turn: National doesn't care about crime by the rich

Anthony Robins (Standard): Hypocrisy and the cost of crime

Chris Laidlaw (ODT): NZ must move on from destructive partisan politics

Ruminator: The time I did cocaine with John Key

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 20 October 2014: UN Security Council seat; Labour

UN Security Council seat

Murray McCully: UN seat doesn't mean Iraq action

TVNZ: Security Council seat won't harm NZ foreign policy - UN Ambassador

Bernard Manning (Herald): NZ independence important at UN - Jim McLay

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): No cushy ride ahead at UN

Integrity Talking Points: Can treating UN delegates ever be justifiable?

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cocktail guests gave UN hint

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ must now walk the tough talk of UN campaign

Dom Post: Editorial: Let's live up to independent promise

Southland Times: Editorial: NZ takes its place at the table

Press: Editorial: UN win useful but limited

Damien Rogers (Herald): Raft of complexities for small country to navigate

Audrey Young (Herald): UN choices may strain friendships, McCully says

ODT: Editorial: Now, the real work begins

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): New Zealand can do more for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine

Patrick Gower and Simon Shepherd (TV3): Security Council seat a second chance for New Zealand

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ's UN Security Council win praised

Newswire/TV3: UN Security Council win unites Govt, Opposition

No Right Turn: Bugger

Adam Bennett (Herald): Key: NZ will have 'loud voice' on Security Council

Audrey Young (Herald): UN Security Council victory: Team New Zealand in its truest sense

Rob Salmond (Polity): Well done NZ

 

Labour Party

Phil Quin (Pundit): Robertson's 'safety-first' leadership pitch fraught with risk

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern bites back at 'Beltway babies' branding

Radio NZ: Labour needs bold ideas says Ardern

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Ardern is Labour's best hope long-term

TV3: Trotter: Labour could learn from Don Brash

TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern: Judge me on my competency not my age

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Robertson coy on who should step aside

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Union backs Andrew Little for Labour leadership

Audrey Young (Herald): EPMU backs Little in leadership contest

RadioLive: Ardern as deputy 'risky' move – Mike Williams

The Standard: Labour’s Leadership campaign heats up

Pete George (Your NZ): Robertson and Ardern, Grant and Jacinda

Simon Day (Stuff): Labour needs new generation – Robertson

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Jacinda Ardern is Grant Robertson's preferred deputy in Labour leadership race

TVNZ: Grant Robertson sounds a warning to disloyal MPs

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Robertson coy on who should step aside

RNZ: Robertson says Ardern would be deputy

Stuff: Robertson picks Ardern as running mate

TVNZ: Labour names post-election review team

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Ex-MP to head panel of inquiry

Newswire: Labour names team to review election loss

TVNZ: David Parker admits to 'glitches' in selling capital gains tax policy

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour hopefuls trade policy blows

Brendan Manning (Herald): Labour leadership race: 'We've got to talk to NZers'

TVNZ: 'We should've been more clear about Internet Mana' - Grant Robertson

Pete George (Your NZ): David Parker – Standard Q & A

Newswire: Grant Robertson outlines ambitions

Mike Williams (Herald):  David Parker's my pick of the bunch

Pete George (Your NZ): Labour leadership events and links

Ellipsister: Labour to the middle

Rodney Hide (Herald): Labour's answer? Let MPs choose

John Roughan (Herald): Labour's leadership vote matters to us all

The Standard: Sherman Cunliffe

James Griffin (Herald): Labour, I am your man

Kiwiblog: Guest Post: Can Labour ever again lead a governing coalition? – 3 scenarios

Andrew Gunn (Press): Parliament Pictures presents ... The Power-Hunger Games

Matt Rilkoff (Stuff): Buddy upstages Little

Irene Gardiner (Herald): NZ on Screen: Labour leaders of the past

Matthew Dallas (Manawatu Standard): Threat of Labour's favour spooks the horses

Herald: Shane Jones: From five-star hotels to state house

 

National Party

Vernon Small (Stuff): Political influence denied in Ede's work

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Jason Ede is back – but no media can interview him?

Herald on Sunday editorial: The Hon is all that's on for Collins

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): The next three years: National

Chris Ford: National - the key reasons why they won

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Secrets, Lies and Revelations

 

Strategic voting and electoral deals

Isaac Davison (Herald): Nats' strategic voting vital for Act

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): The politics of electorate accommodations

The Standard: Strategic voting

 

Opening of Parliament

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Special WWI touches as Parliament opens

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Parliament set to open

Parliament Today: 51st Parliament To Be Commissioned

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Adam Bennett (Herald): Any SAS activity under the radar for public

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans (ODT): Why NZ shouldn't go to war

Martin van Beynen (Press): The self-defeating nature of terror alerts

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): We must join the fight against Islamic State

The Standard: To arms!

Lynn Prentice (Standard):Let them go to war

Dom Post: Editorial: Wisdom won from worst kind of madness

 

Inequality

Kate Newton (RNZ): Struggling families eager for relief

Newswire: Kiwi welfare numbers increase

Thomas Heaton (Stuff): Govt 'playing the figures' on welfare

RNZ: Keep child poverty focus – Archbishop

No Right Turn: Treasury cherry-picks its data

Slightly Left of Centre: It simply isn’t their fault

 

Housing

Simon Collins (Herald): 'No point' in new state houses - Bill English

Simon Collins (Herald): Peters condemns move to sell state houses

Anthony Robins (Standard): No point in state houses

Catherine Harris (Stuff): NZ wealthy, but it's locked up in housing

 

Nicky Hager and Dirty Politics

Neil Ratley (Stuff): Hager fundraising goes global

Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): Read Nicky Hager’s search warrant

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Comparing Police action – Hager raid vs Roast Buster case

 

Media

Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . Paul Henry

The Standard: The 4th estate & its pretenders

Press: Criticism of Radio NZ a storm in a breakfast teacup

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Twitter stats 17 October 

 

TPPA

No Right Turn: TPPA would criminalise journalism

Tom Pullar- Strecker (Stuff): Kiwis may be hit by higher medicine costs

Brian Easton (Pundit): Dealing with Foreign Investors

 

Other

ODT: Reconsidering the pie

The Wireless: Should New Zealand change its flag?

James Shaw (Green blog): The OIA Abuse

TV3: NZ prepared for Ebola – Health Minister

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Lawyer calls for wages protection

Alex Fensome (Stuff): Wipe your student loan: go bankrupt

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Treasury must front up over role in SCF debacle

Herald: Editorial: Arming police carries too many risks

Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Roast Busters inquiry drags on

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Malaysian accused due back to face sex charges

Richard Meadows (Stuff): Kiwisaver whoopsie

Curwen Rolinson (Daily Blog): Guest blog: Leadership Transitions In Other Parties: A Short Guide

 

 

Top tweets about #Gracinda

This is a selection of tweets about the Labour leadership candidacy duo of Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern. As usual, the most recent tweets are first, and more will be added. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 17 October 2014: UN Security Council; NZ in Middle East; Labour; Inequality

UN Security Council

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): 'We nailed it': NZ wins UN Security Council seat

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ wins seat on Security Council: 'Victory for the small states'

Nevil Gibson (NBR): NZ's UN Security Council seat is 'voice for small nations'

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): New Zealand lands seat on UN Security Council

TV3: At A Glance: What is the UN Security Council?

TVNZ: John Key thanks Helen Clark after Security Council win

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): The UN security council vote explained

Stuff: Key players in the UN security council vote

Stuff: New Zealand's UN highlights

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Expert rubbishes IS claim

Adam Bennett (Herald): Aussie airports collecting Kiwi data

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On New Zealand getting involved (again) in other peoples wars

Patrick Gower (TV3): Key's claims on IS meeting 'ridiculous'

Adam Bennett (Herald): NZ 'a very long way' from Isis conflict – Key

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): You can’t have crisis without ISIS

Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Whack a mole as US govt foreign policy

 

Labour Party

Toby Manhire (Herald): Labour in safe and bloody hands

Brian Fallow (Herald): Big ideas need salesmanship

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe mulls quitting as MP in 2017

Vernon Small (Stuff): Little noses ahead in Labour race

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour contenders defend free flights

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Labour leadership battle begins again

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Labour contenders satisfied with taxpayer travel tab

Nick Grant (NBR): Taxpayer bankrolls flights for Labour leadership fight

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The free flights for the leadership contest

Vernon Small (Stuff): 'Clean' Labour leadership race: Contenders

Levi Joule (Gay Express): Are Maori and Pacific Islanders homophobic?

Craig Young (Gay NZ): Past and Prejudice? The Postgay Agenda

Jacqui Stanford (Gay NZ): Grant Robertson's gay. Get over it.

Craig Young (Gay NZ): Labour's new "Game of Thrones"

Waatea News: Maori on sidelines in Labour trainwreck

Brian Edwards: I say, I say, I say: What is the secret of successful comedy?

Ian Llewellyn (Election Results): Labour Explores Support Depths

 

Inequality

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Government Prioritising Child Poverty?

RNZ: Turei likely to pick up Feed the Kids bill

Waikato Times: Editorial: Government secrecy appals

RNZ: Harawira defends 'food in schools'

Newswire: Greens challenge officials to go hungry

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Inequality narrative-buster

 

Housing

Simon Collins (Herald): Tainui puts hand up for English's state house sale

Pattrick Smellie, Tina Morrison, Suze Metherell (Listener): Betting the house on non-profits

Listener: Editorial – Not so fast

 

Health

Michael Wright (Press): Call to measure cracks in treatment

RNZ: Whanau Ora money committed, says TPK

John Weekes (Herald): Food poisoning saga: Consumer backlash hits home

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): MPI releases list of potential food poisoning sources

 

Other

Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher (The Intercept): New Zealand cops raided home of reporter working on Snowden documents

Mai Chen (Herald): Boss can't stop staff playing politics

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Will local ownership improve NZ media?

John Drinnan (Herald): Henry bait for money men

Roy Morgan Poll October 16

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The last 48 hours – Poverty denial, war denial and unapologetic abuse of power

Claire Trevett (Herald): Bovver boy gets chance to lord it over MPs

Jonathan Pearlman (The Telegraph): John Key: the poor boy who saved New Zealand's economy

Jane Clifton (Listener): Deadly infestations (paywalled)

Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Cabinet is bloated and too powerful

Tim Dower (Newstalk ZB): Flag debate a good thing

Press: Editorial: Do we know who we are?

Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Schools failing to report standards

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): In Paean of Debt

David Hay: The #climatevoter partnership and the challenge of global governance on climate change.

 

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 16 October 2014: NZ intervention in Middle East; Labour; Inequality; NZ flag; Judith Collins

NZ intervention in Middle East

Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Lying, clueless or incompetent.

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Key denies call made to join coalition

RNZ: NZ could join fight against IS – expert

Adam Bennett (Herald): Public misled on US talks: Goff

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Military meeting regular or irregular?

Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (Newswire): John Key weighs up options in fight against IS

Brook Sabin (TV3): John Key denies NZ part of coalition against IS

TVNZ: John Key denies that NZ is set for war

Audrey Young (Herald): Anti-Isis summit 'regular meeting' - John Key

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ, world defence chiefs discuss IS

Mike Treen (Fightback): Why workers need our own “foreign policy” based on solidarity

 

Labour Party

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On David Shearer’s latest outburst

Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour circus drags on

Claire Trevett (Herald): Factions and females - F words dog Labour

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Discordant Chimes of Freedom: Why Labour has yet to be forgiven.

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Former MP Fenton backs Robertson for top job

ODT: Editorial: Leadership of a troubled party

Nelson Evening Mail: Hard Labour ahead to select leader

Herald: Editorial: Electorate MPs best placed to pick leader

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The other five affiliate unions should follow the SFWU lead

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Little has the most potential

Mike Hosking (Herald): Only one wave worth catching

The Standard: Why I’m voting for Andrew Little

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A Labour Party action plan

Pete George (Your NZ): Rating Labour’s contenders

Claire Trevett (Herald): Grant Robertson trims down ahead of Labour leadership race

Josh Forman (Slightly left of centre): The Daily poison

Nick Grant (NBR): Cunliffe camp engaged in dirty politics against Labour rivals – Shearer (paywalled)

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Throwing my hat into the ring

Waatea News: Mahuta promising something different

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Andrew Little and his cat Buddy

 

Inequality

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On child poverty

No Right Turn: An example of the problem

Jessica Roden (Northern Advocate): MP to take letters to 'Dear John'

Manawatu Standard: Cheaper to stay on benefit than to learn more

 

NZ Flag

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Two-step flag referendum outlined by PM John Key

Simon Wong (TV3): Key outlines flag referendum timeline

TVNZ: Key backtracks on colour scheme for new NZ flag

TVNZ: Key admits strong public resistance to flag change

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): How about this for a new flag design?

 

Judith Collins

Andrea Vance and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Collins omission may have been mishandled

TVNZ: John Key: We should have explained Honourable decision to Judith Collins

Isaac Davison (Herald): Key: Collins likely to get 'Honourable' title after inquiry

Isaac Davison (Herald): Mallard stands up for Collins

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Collins’ title

Nick Grant (NBR): Collins makes nice with Key – ‘Everyone makes mistakes’ (paywalled)

 

Other

Craig McCulloch (RNZ): PM admits using delaying tactics

Nick Grant (NBR): Key’s OIA delay admission – ‘that’s just the way the world works’ (paywalled)

Pat O’Dea (Daily Blog): Mana 2.0 Rebooted

Jamie Ball (NBR): Joyce disputes corporate welfare analysis (paywalled)

Eric Crampton (Offsetting behaviour): On offence

The Standard: The power & the pressure

Bruce Bisset (Hawkes’ Bay Today): Greens need political lesson

Audrey Young (Herald): UN campaign of huge benefit to NZ – McCully

Dita De Boni (Herald): NZ independent? Tell that to the marines

Morgan Godfery (Guardian): The US can learn a lot from New Zealand on how to embrace indigenous cultures

Anne Gibson (Herald): Reform will be aimed at house affordability – Smith

ODT: Govt's chance to heal rift with educators

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Tariana Turia leaves parliament but not politics

Daniel Lynch (Herald): NZ wealth growth on top of the world

Catherine Harris (Stuff): NZ tops for wealth growth

Stuff: Survey shows farmers ready to tighten belts

No Right Turn: The failure of the Ombudsman

Wilma McKay (Stuff): Law can't deal with 'revenge porn' - Rape Crisis

Greg O'Connor (Herald): Time to get real and arm our police

 

 

Top tweets about Andrew Little and his cat Buddy

This is going to get me in trouble… but this is a quick selection of tweets related to Andrew Little’s bid to become Labour leader in cahoots with his cat Buddy. The most recent tweets are first. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 15 October 2014: Labour; Housing & inequality; Terror laws; Judith Collins

Labour Party

RNZ: Meet Labour's leadership hopefuls

Patrick Gower (TV3): Shearer unleashes 'utu' on Cunliffe

Adam Bennett (Herald): Mahuta cites Maori vote in leadership bid

Vernon Small (Stuff): Mahuta in hunt for top job

Newswire: Labour's Maori MPs met before Nanaia Mahuta's last minute entry into race

RNZ: Mahuta will represent Labour's "core"

TVNZ: Nanaia Mahuta says she's in to win Labour leadership battle

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Mahuta stands for the leadership

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Nanaia Mahuta's leadership bid half-hearted

Vernon Small (Stuff): Mahuta running for Labour leadership

Herald: Nanaia Mahuta to contest Labour leadership

NBR: The temp: Annette King to lead Labour for a month

Mike Smith (The Standard): David Parker – my choice for Leader

Phil Quin (Pundit): Andrew Little's New Plymouth problem

Tim Dower (Newstalk ZB): Labour needs to pick the best person

Anthony Robins (Standard): The final field

 

NZ  intervention in Middle East

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Terror law speed questioned

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Don’t rush the law

Brian Rudman (Herald): Scaremongering to curb freedom further

Michael Field (Stuff): Islamic State site linked to New Zealand office

 

Housing and Inequality

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Govt advised not to spend more on poverty

Susan St John (Daily Blog): Families need more money to reduce child poverty

Catriona MacLennan (Herald): Taking on the loan sharks

Duncan Garner (RadioLIve):Living on just $5 a week, with three kids

Anne Gibson (Herald): House affordability falls – survey

TVNZ: Housing affordability plummets across New Zealand

Anthony Robins (Standard): The housing dream

Andrew King (Herald): Here's how Gen Y can buy a home

Deborah Russell (A Bee of a Certain Age): Talking about pay equity

Bob Jones (Herald): Living wage is a reward, not a right

Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Recommendations for the Prime Minister

 

Judith Collins

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Judith Collins seething at snub

Chris Keall (NBR): Collins commits career suicide

Adam Bennett & Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins loses 'Honourable' title

TVNZ: Judith Collins 'hurt and shocked' at title snub

 

Health

Bernard Manning (Herald): Minister's cone of silence on lettuce

Herald: Editorial: Ministry needs to remember who it serves

Laura Bootham (RNZ): Turia criticises TPK over Whanau Ora

 

Other

Integrity Talking Points: New Zealand compares well on Sustainable Governance Indicators

Peter Lyons (Herald): Why investigative journalism is so important

Shaun Hendy (Stuff): Dirty Politics damages science

Lynn Prentice (Standard): How Slater manufactures smears

Māni Dunlop (RNZ): No place for bias, say police

Rob Mitchell (Manawatu Standard): Editorial: There are few winners in racism debate

Newswire: NZ in free trade talks with South Korea

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Politicians deluding us and themselves

David Hisco (Herald): Five ways to set NZ up for a bright future

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Hiatus

Fundamentally Useless: Plain English is radical

The Standard: The power and the pressure

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): ‘Gold-plated system' should be the norm

Aaron Schiff (Herald): Data blog: Mapping the young(ish) adults

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 14 October 2014: Labour Party; NZ intervention in Middle East; Justice system

Labour Party

Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Nanaia Mahuta joins race for Labour leadership

Vernon Small (Stuff): Mahuta running for Labour leadership

Herald: Nanaia Mahuta to contest Labour leadership

Simon Wong (TV3): Nanaia Mahuta makes last-minute Labour leader bid

Nick Grant (NBR): Mahuta joins Labour leadership race

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Nanaia Mahuta running for Labour leadership

Vernon Small (Stuff): David Parker stays as acting Labour leader

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): I may not agree with The Standard but I will support their right to say it

Lynn Prentice (The Standard:) On the unruly parts of the Labour caucus

Nick Grant (NBR): Cunliffe camp engaged in dirty politics against Labour rivals – Shearer

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe's political future uncertain

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Blow for Grant Robertson's hopes

Vernon Small (Stuff): Shearer comes out swinging

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): What to do with former Labour Party leaders?

Simon Wong and Patrick Gower (TV3): Shearer to Cunliffe: Leave politics

Simon Wong (TV3): Shearer: Leadership vote process 'hijacked'

Julie Fairey (Handmirror): Labour leadership: Too many irrelevant judgements

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour and ‘special interests’

Claire Trevett (Herald): Leadership dance crazier by the day

TV3: Cunliffe's endorsement seals it for Little - Edwards

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): David Shearer’s ‘no feminist chicks’ mentality highlights all that is wrong within Labour

Greg Presland (The Standard): Dear David Shearer

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Phil Goff a lost Labour opportunity?

Claire Trevett (Herald): David Shearer: Cunliffe should quit politics

Claire Trevett (Herald): Shearer backs out of leadership race

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Shearer questions Cunliffe's motives

TVNZ: David Parker: Let NZ decide about raising superannuation age

TVNZ: Cunliffe will undermine Labour's next leader – Shearer

TV3: David Shearer rules out running for Labour leader

Herald: Labour leadership's turbulent ride

Stuff: Labour's leadership: where are we?

TVNZ: David Cunliffe: I'm at peace with my decision to step down

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Cunliffe: 'My decision is final'

Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Cunliffe out; backs Little for leader

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Cunliffe pulls out

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): Cunliffe bows out

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Cunliffe's exit from race a clear boost for Little

Cassandra Mason, Claire Trevett, Bernard Orsman (Herald): David Cunliffe quits leadership race

Greg Presland (The Standard): Some thoughts on David Cunliffe’s withdrawal

Stuff: David Cunliffe quits Labour race  

TVNZ: David Cunliffe pulls out of Labour leadership race

Simon Wong (TV3): David Cunliffe withdraws from Labour leadership race

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Cunliffe quits leadership race – the losers are the Labour Party members

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour bans secret trusts

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): David Cunliffe goes on a following spree

The Ruminator: Labour Idol: not by Judith Collins

Keir Leslie (Progress report): How Labour Should Change

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How have the leadership contenders gone in their electorates?

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour's leadership contest is not about taking turns

Dan Satherley (TV3): NZ sick of 'comedian' PM – Parker

Manawatu Standard: Editorial: Labour needs more than policy changes

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour leadership: how Little and Parker have changed the contest (paywalled)

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little puts policies on the table

Slightly Left of Centre: TUMEKE ISM’S

Lewis Holden: Labour's leadership election

Curwen Rolinson (Daily Blog): Guest blog: Why David Parker *isn’t* a credible choice for the Labour Leadership

Simon Hendery (Herald): Nash wrote foreword for lobby report

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Bowker says Nash knew of report

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Gordon Campbell (Stuff): On the government’s review of security laws

Adam Bennett (Herald): Labour: terror law overhaul 'superficially attractive'

Dan Satherley (TV3): Andrew Little: PM's terror talk 'creating fear'

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour unconvinced on terror law changes

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Wider scrutiny of terror law changes urged by Greens

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Terrorist attack 'possible, not expected'

Adam Bennett (Herald): Isis fight: NZ's threat level rises from 'very low' – Key

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A useful terror threat tool

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Panic in Detroit. And Auckland.

No Right Turn: Apparently, NZ has a terror level

RNZ: PM warned over terror threat level

Patrick Gower (TV3): Terrorism threat rises to 'low' – Key

Stuff: IS sparks terror law tightening

Adam Bennett (Herald): Quickfire overhaul of terror laws to boost SIS surveillance powers

Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (Newswire): John Key wants Opposition's support for terror law change

TV3: Key 'misleading' over IS law change – Greens

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key raises terror threat level to justify war in Iraq and now the SIS need MORE spying powers???

ODT: Editorial: Venturing into quicksand

Herald: Editorial: Confiscation of passports a step too far

Press: Editorial: Keeping us safe a worthy goal

TV3/Newswire: SAS in Iraq unlikely – Key

First we take Manhatten: Key plays up ISIS to betray our freedoms for a Security Council seat

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Doing nothing now is not an option

 

Surveillance 

Andrea Vance (Stuff): NZ embassies used by spies: docs

Adam Bennett (Herald): NZ faces claims of spying on friends

Adam Bennett (Herald): NZ embassies involved in covert intelligence work for US – reports

 

Justice system

Neil Ratley (Stuff): Institutional racism in justice system: Flavell

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Maori Youth Offending

Mike Butler (Breaking Views): Playing young Maori crims for votes

No Right Turn: More rotten cops

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The audacity of the NZ Police in trying to justify their cover up of a cover up of a cover up

 

Other

Brian Easton (Pundit): A divided country?

Colin James (ODT): Investing, not spending. A tougher way of thinking

TVNZ: NZ campaigning hard to secure UN security council seat

Willie Jackson (RadioLive): Hone Harawira will be back

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Seymour to escape questions in House

Newswire: Labour: MPI should name source of bug

No Right Turn: MPI's policy capture is now a threat to public health

Rachel Stewart (Stuff): What's the source of Fed funds?

Chris Keall (NBR): Kumar farewells Dotcom, founds startup (paywalled)

Rodney Hide (NBR): Flag debate is next poll distraction (paywalled)

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Corporate welfare reveals deep conceit (paywalled)

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): BMJ claims dirty politics not confined to NZ

Chris Keall (NBR): Tony Lentino's 'Whaleoil 2.0' site back on

Jane Clifton (Listener): Snakes in a Parliament (paywalled)

Bill Ralston (Listener): The greening of the Greens (paywalled)

Christine Rose (Daily Blog): The Importance of Perception in Politics

Michael Timmins (Daily Blog): The Dust Settles

 

 

Top tweets about Nanaia Mahuta running for Labour leadership

This is a selection of some of the more interesting and insightful tweets relating to Nanaia Mahuta's bid for the Labour leadership in 2014. The most recent tweets are first. [Read more below]

 

Images of the 2014 Labour leadership race (updated)

This is a selection of cartoons and photographs showing how the post-election Labour leadership contest is being portrayed. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 13 October 2014: Labour; NZ intervention in Middle East; Nicky Hager and Dirty Politics

Labour Party

Phil Quin (Pundit): Labour's dilemma: The unelectable leader

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Labour's leadership contest a four-way race

Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Parker joins Labour race

Dom Post: Editorial: Beware of giving in to populism

TVNZ: Too many Davids, not enough diversity in Labour leadership race

Brendan Manning (Herald): David Parker to run for Labour leader

Newswire: David Parker to run for Labour leadership

Newswire: David Parker flags idea of referendum on superannuation

Herald: Editorial: It's time for Cunliffe to step aside

Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Too many chiefs in Labour contest

Vernon Small (Stuff): Robertson reveals party push

David Farrar (KIwiblog): Robertson is nominated

Kelly Dennett (Stuff): David Parker running for Labour leadership

The Standard: Q&A with Andrew Little

Pete George (Your NZ): Andrew Little at The Standard

NBR: Labour should have spurned Dotcom's party — Little

Will Matthews (The Left Estate): Option D?

Fine Tooth Column: Labour’s big tent revival

NBR: Parker confirms tilt at Labour leadership

Claire Trevett (Herald): Parker expected to run for Labour leader

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership hopefuls get their bids in

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Parker poised for leadership bid

RNZ: Parker set to contest Labour leadership

TV3: Labour race a 'fight for survival' – panel

Taranaki Daily News: Little has backing for Labour leadership

Manawatu Standard: He may be Little, but he's a big player

Occasionally Erudite: What effect will Andrew Little have on the leadership race?

Ian Apperley (NBR): Is this the death of the Labour Party we are witnessing?

Newswire: David Shearer considers standing for Labour leadership

NBR: 'Incredibly divisive' if Cunliffe returns as leader — Shearer

Pat O’Dea (Daily Blog): Guest blog: Who would you SUPPORT as Labour Party leader?

Curwen Rolinson (Daily Blog): Guest blog: Why Andrew Little’s a credible contender for the Labour leadership

TV3: Labour leadership saga a ‘circus’ – Jami-Lee Ross

Anjum Rahman (Daily Blog): Guest blog: Shifting focus: towards building an effective opposition

Slightly Left of Centre: We must understand the bug

Slightly Left of Centre: Connecting the Heartland and the Beltway

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Is David Cunliffe going to quit the race?

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Robbo continues to show Labour’s condescension toward voters

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): It’s a miracle: Within 24 hours everyone agrees Andrew Little is the new messiah

Alliance: We Don’t Need Another Hero

Efeso Collins (Daily Blog): Labour, leadership and White blokes

 

National

John Armstrong (Herald): Key hits ground running as Labour squabbles

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): What's ahead for National?

Rod Oram (Stuff): A radical shift

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Key starts to flesh out poverty & housing plans

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Reasons to doubt Key's spy overhaul

Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): Terrorism is already illegal

Lauren Baker (RNZ): Terror intention hard to prove – experts

John Minto (Daily Blog): John Key uses the same old warmongering recipe

TVNZ: PM denies scaremongering to push through terrorist law changes

Stuff: IS sparks terror law tightening

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key mulls air support in IS fight

TVNZ: Cabinet to consider changes to NZ terror laws

TVNZ: Key on ISIS fight: There are risks but it would be odd to do nothing

Claire Trevett (Herald): 'Odd' if NZ shunned Isis fight: Key

Brendan Manning and Amy Maas (Herald): PM still considering NZ's role in Isis fight

Amanda Gillies (TV3): Key warns against IS domestic threat

TV3: NZ should be involved in fight against IS - John Key

AAP (Guardian): New Zealand PM considers new laws to detain potential Isis recruits

Herald: Isis fight: NZ might join combat operations

David Farrar (Kiwiblog):Air support sounds okay

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Want to see new Nu Zilind? Read the comments section of Andrea Vance’s column

 

Nicky Hager and Dirty Politics

Russell Brown (Public Address): The Hager saga continues

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): We need to know who tried to fit up SFO boss

John Roughan (Herald): Press can be too precious about its rights

Rodney Hide (Herald): Hager shouldn't be surprised by raid

Nick Grant (NBR): Key talks dirty... Dirty Politics, that is

 

State surveillance

No Right Turn: The GCSB has been using our embassies as spybases

Kiwipolitico: Blog Link: NZ embassies used for signals intelligence gathering.

Claire Trevett (Herald): Minister in charge of keeping secrets

 

Housing

Dave Armstrong (Stuff): The sad state of our state housing

Herald: Editorial: Voters should have been told of reform

 

Inequality

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Living wage is good for everyone

Richard Meadows (Stuff): Kiwis face financial insecurity

Richard Meadows, Matt Stewart and Ged Cann (Stuff): Living week to week

 

Other

Michael Wright (Stuff): Turbulence on the airwaves

Stuart Nash (NBR): Guest opinion: Crony capitalism undermines sustainable growth

Vernon Small (Stuff): New conservation minister endorses 1080

Stuff: Flavell calls justice system racist

Press: Council elections to restore democracy – Key

Vernon Small (Stuff): Colin Craig drops defamation lawsuit

Vernon Tava: Greens in Local Government

Herald: Editorial: Parliament better for Harawira's departure

Fundamentally Useless: If the ivory tower can’t go to the people, the people should go to the ivory tower

 

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 10 October 2014: Labour; Nicky Hager; NZ and Middle East; Housing

Labour Party

John Armstrong (Herald): Little selling himself as Labour's unifier

Phil Quin: Labour's leadership vote open to manipulation

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Wild card could trump favourites in leadership race

Vernon Small (Stuff): Andrew Little signals change

Claire Trevett (Herald): Little banking on a clean break

RNZ: Little confident he can take on Key

RNZ: Commentators wade in on Andrew Little's bid for Labour leadership

TVNZ: Andrew Little 'not too attached to Parliament'

Isaac Davison (Herald): Who is Andrew Little? Union chief, lawyer and Gangnam Style dancer

Bernard Hickey (Interest): Former union leader and list MP Andrew Little says he will run for Labour leadership

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Little says he's not in leadership race to come second

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: Grant Robertson puts in formal nomination

Vernon Small (Stuff): Slim pickings for Labour leader

Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (Newswire): Time running out for Labour leadership contenders

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Little wants to be the saviour of Labour

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB):  Labour leadership now a three-horse race

Laura McQuillan and Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Two Labour contenders agree Party had too many policies

Alex Mason (Newstalk ZB): Labour leader must deliver vital reforms, says commentator

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little puts policies on the table

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): And Little makes three

Pete George (Your NZ): Andrew Little adds value to leadership contest

Patrick Gower (TV3): Labour MP Nash wanted own party

RNZ: Labour MP asked to set up new party

Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Labour loses party vote on specials

 

Hager police raid & Slater investigation

Herald: Editorial: Hager raid an intimidatory over-reaction

Sarah Robson (Newswire): Nicky Hager donations top $40,000

Chris Keall (NBR): Hager legal fund off to a flier

Anthony Robins (Standard): Who is trying to shut down Hager defence fund?

David Fisher (Herald): Police review complaint against Whaleoil blogger

RNZ: Complaint against blogger reviewed

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The things Whaleoil did to Matthew Blomfield & why haven’t Police chased his stolen emails the way they did for Slater?

RNZ: SIS inquiry to be complete by year's end

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On John Key’s posturing about Islamic State

Toby Manhire (Herald): Isis decision too big for PM alone

Herald: Editorial: Parliament should decide whether we go to war

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Reprisal threat won't sway PM on terror

Newswire: Winston Peters concerned John Key will commit troops

TV3: Caution needed in dealing with 'foreign fighters' – Parker

Mike Smith (Standard): Check the polls – we’re off to war!

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If Key reinvades Iraq – can we actually trust our media to hold him to account?

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): We need to protect our freedoms

 

Housing

Dominion Post: Editorial: No mandate to sell state houses

Duncan Garner (Radio Live): Why can’t this family get a state house?

Press: Editorial: New housing means trade-offs

Brian Rudman (Herald): Hey Bill, we can build cheap homes

Adam Bennett (Herald): English's $500k 'illegal house' claim draws fire

Ccile Meier (Press): Planning costs linked to poverty

Newswire: Bill English 'out of touch' on poverty – Peters

Slightly Left: Housing issue not confined to Auckland

 

Te Tai Tokerau recount

TV3: Harawira: Te Tai Tokerau recount 'not about me'

RNZ: Davis yet to hear from Harawira

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Hone, the recount and news tweets

 

RMA changes

Isaac Davison (Herald): RMA reforms could be underway by end of year – PM

Newswire: Peter Dunne hopes to support RMA bill

 

Other

Patrick Gower (TV3): The week in politics – October 9, 2014

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Priorities for third term revealed

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Unfretful Voters

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Daggers In The Dark: Why John Key should remain minister-in-charge of the SIS and GCSB

TVNZ: Hobbit tax rebate climbs to $153m in year four of production

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): No delay in diplomat extradition case: Malaysian government

Fundamentally Useless: Fuck politics. Let’s volunteer.

Chris Laidlaw (Dom Post): Leave ideology at the door

Gerrard Eckhoff (ODT): Candidates represent party, not electorate

The Standard: Progressive social media

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Coalition for Better Broadcasting – Amy Adams: Minister of Broadcasting

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): The next three years: Maori Party

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Te Ururoa Flavell and cabinet

Adam Bennett (Herald): Property dodge for MPs closed

Integrity Talking Points: Different integrity standards likely for Ministers’ political staff

Rose Cawley (Stuff): Journo's book reveals abuse on fishing boats

Ian Telfer (RNZ): Migrant worker complaints growing

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): An Equity Solution

Newswire: Murray McCully heads to New York for UN elections

Dom Post: Editorial: Government right to stoke innovation

Wayne Mapp (Pundit): What economic resilience looks like

Brian Fallow (Herald): Gazing into dairy's future

Mark Hubbard: Why This Government Urgently Needs to Pick Up Maryan Street’s Euthanasia Bill.

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Why are we funding a golf tournament?

No Right Turn: We need more transparency from our telecommunications providers

 

 

NZ Politics Daily: 9 October 2014: Labour: NZ and Middle East; Nicky Hager; Housing & inequality

Labour 

Claire Trevett (Herald): Andrew Little puts hand up for Labour leadership

Newswire: Andrew Little to contest Labour leadership

TVNZ: Andrew Little to take on Cunliffe, Robertson in Labour leadership bid

Adam Bennett (Herald): Stuart Nash: Leadership race pull out not linked to email

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour infighting: the Nash-Lusk 'blackmail' email and the leadership battle (paywalled)

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 3 News on Nash

John Bradoch (World Socialist Website): New Zealand Labour leader resigns after election rout

Nicholas Sheppard (Stuff): Labour's gay conundrum

Fundamentally useless: So you think you’re working class

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Nash & Lusk

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

No Right Turn: We don't need new laws to fight terrorism

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Decision to fight ISIS not as simple as it seems

Dita de Boni (Herald): Tackling terror no excuse for police state

Adam Bennett (Herald): Isis fight: NZ won't be a target - PM

Brian Rudman (Herald): If Key wants to send troops, here's a better war

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On New Zealand’s response to Kiwi jihadis

Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand government prepares to join US war in Middle East

Dominion Post: Editorial – Let's be cautious on committing troops

Russell Brown (Public Address): Terror panics and the war imperative

 

Nicky Hager

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): The case for (and against) Nicky Hager

Russell Brown (Public Address): Help from the crowd

No Right Turn: Protecting the press from the police

Pete George (Your NZ): Hager house raid hubrus

TVNZ: Nicky Hager's supporters raise thousands for legal fight

Chris Keall (NBR): Hager legal fund off to a flier

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Dear Danyl…

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): John Key’s police poodles

Aimee Guliver (Stuff): Cash rolls in to Hager's legal battle fund

No Right Turn: Support Nicky Hager!

 

New Government

Claire Trevett (Herald): English's plan to save the children: scrap RMA

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Priorities for third term revealed

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Government ministers sworn in

The Press: Editorial: Heading off future trouble

Herald: Editorial: PM's sharing of spy agency responsibility a good move

TVNZ: John Key sworn in as Prime Minister

The Eye of the fish: Is Bill English as stupid as Jonny English?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Advice for new Ministers

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Key has picked team for business

Isaac Davison (Herald): Maggie Barry's first close encounter as Minister

Nick Grant (NBR): It’ll be a three-year fight for fourth term – Key (paywalled)

Nick Grant (NBR): Key talks legacy, legislative priorities (paywalled)

NBR: Nats now need to deliver on RMA promises (paywalled)

 

Housing and inequality

Jim Chipp (Stuff): Housing boost for poorer families

Southland Times: Editorial – Higher pay, not housing, will close gap

Rob Mitchell (Stuff): Opening door to poor housing

TVNZ: Homeless family slam Govt move to quit state houses

Radio NZ: No rush in state housing decision

Kevin Hodder (International Socialists): Growing Inequality – and a sign of resistance

Adam Bennett (Herald): Planning policies increase inequality, says English

 

Hone Harawira and TTT

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Hone’s last stand

Isaac Davison (Herald): Hone Harawira calls for recount in Te Tai Tokerau seat

Sebastian Klinkum (The Beehive Mandate): Why does Harawira want a recount?

Radio NZ: Recount to ensure fairness - Harawira

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Hone refuses to give up without a fight

 

Election results

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What If?

Chris Keall (NBR): Election 2014: How final polls stacked up against the actual result

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Voting Blocs 1938 – 2014

David Kennedy (Local bodies): Planet Key Survives...

Matthew Dentith (Episto): More Conspiracy Theories of the Old Left

Bevan Chuang: Election 2014 and the Chinese Community

Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): Die aubtraum

 

Other

Gareth Morgan: Labour and the Green Party are not the only ones who care about poverty

Vernon Small (Stuff): Government deficit widens

Beith Atkinson (Integrity talking points): New Zealand’s membership of UNCAC seems on track

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs salaries

Vikram Kumar: Why no transparency reporting in NZ?

Juha Saarinen (Herald): How to stop the law playing dirty

Kennedy Graham (Herald): Why green isn't just a shade of red

 

 

 

NZ Politics Daily: 7 October 2014: New Cabinet; Nicky Hager: Labour; Housing; National security, surveillance, and the Middle East

New Cabinet

John Armstrong (Herald): Key calls tune in cabinet renewal

Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Key's reshuffle all about rejuvenation

Dominion Post: No big changes with Key's Cabinet

Stuff: Winners, losers and sideways gently for some

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Reshuffle puts extra attention on housing

Adam Bennett (Herald): The new-look Government: Cabinet gets a revamp

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Ministerial Demographics

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Who's who in the Cabinet reshuffle

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): John Key's rejuvenated Cabinet

Michael Wright (Stuff): Brownlee picks up defence portfolio

Jack Montgomerie (Stuff): Rangitata MP takes ranking downgrade in her stride

 

National security, surveillance, and the Middle East

Patrick Gower (TV3): Key lining up SAS for Iraq

Adam Bennett (Herald): Government alone to decide on Isis fight

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Key plans major speech on terror threat

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On John Key avoiding being held accountable for the SIS and GCSB

Anthony Robins (The Standard): Two tier strategy on spying

The Standard: The long reach of “5 Eyes”: re-post

 

Nicky Hager

Russell Brown (Public Address): Doing over the witness

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour questions 'harrowing' Hager search

Ben Heather and Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Hager vows to protect hacker's ID

The Ruminator: Nicky Hager and the false flag

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): Hager shouldn't be surprised by police raid

Sarah McDougall (Newswire): Hager: Police haven't looked at raided info

David Fisher (Herald): Dirty Politics: Police raid puts Hagers on edge

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Don’t believe the spin

 

National housing policy

Simon Collins (Herald): Housing role divvied up as part of reshuffle

No Right Turn: A surprise policy

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government to shift away from state houses

Brook Sabin (TV3): State housing sell-off worth $5B

Rob Hosking (NBR): Treasury says National's housing subsidy counter-productive (paywalled)

 

Labour 

Brian Easton (Pundit): Party renewal: National's success, Labour's failing

Liam Hehir (Stuff): Labour's moderates could split

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little for Leader

Adam Hollingsworth (TV3): Cunliffe plays for leadership vote in south Auckland

Willie Jackson (RadioLive): The Price is not right for Cunliffe right now

Roger Douglas (Herald): Labour needs to reboot its vision

Rachel Jones (Daily Blog): Me, Me, Me! Meh.

 

Economy

Beith Atkinson (Integrity talking points): Should we trust the data?

Peter Lyons (Herald): When rock stars run out of puff

Christopher Adams (Herald): CEO earnings: See what NZ's top execs earn

James Weir (Stuff): Economy comes off the boil: NZIER

 

Greens

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Thoughts on the special votes and the Greens

Steven Cowan (Against the current): Sound and fury signifying nothing

Nick Grant (NBR): Key to Greens – stick to environment or wither on the vine (paywalled)

 

Other

Geoffrey Miller (The Diplomat): The Downfall of Kim Dotcom

Colin James (ODT): National’s super app: macro-personality Key

Giovanni Tiso (Bat, bean, beam): The big, bad German and New Zealand politics

Chris Barton (Herald): Are blogs journalism?

Edna Welthorpe (Redline): Ructions at Lyttelton port

Peter Kearns (Redline): Election 2014, the Mana Movement and the left

Chris Keall (NBR): I fixed it for you: Every political party independently reviewed

Radio NZ: Labour upset Govt funding Fed Farmers

Deborah Russell (A Bee of a certain age): Women in the House – updating the numbers

Brendan Manning (Herald): John Key: 'Odd' final result will make us work harder

Grant Bradley (Herald): Time to cut to core of power woes

Rodney Hide (NBR): Deputy is a deputy because his boss thinks he might be (paywalled)

Nathan Smith (NBR): NZ has the best government system in the world. Wait, what?! (paywalled)

NZ Politics Daily: 6 October 2014: New Cabinet; Labour leadership

New Cabinet

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Key's new Cabinet: Winners and losers

Adam Bennett (Herald): John Key unveils new Cabinet line-up

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The new Executive

No Right Turn: A new Minister for spies

Simon Wong (TV3): Key seeks Labour's help to reform SIS laws

Rob Salmond (Polity): National's new Ministry: Key fires himself!

 

Labour leadership

Francis Cook (Newstalk ZB): Little happy with leadership bid support

Laird Harper (Stuff): Little to consider Labour's top job

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): 'A large number' want Little to stand

Adam Bennett (Herald): Nash out of race, Little still in mix

Will Matthews (Left estate): Option C

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Is NZ ‘ready’ for a gay PM? (paywalled)

Cherie Howie (Herald): Rebuilding Labour, from the grassroots up

TVNZ: Andrew Little considering putting 'hat in the ring' for Labour leadership

Jade Cooper (Newstalk ZB): Andrew Little enters Labour's leadership race

Kiwipolitico: Some rules governing social organisations

The Standard: A Little Goes A Long Way

Newswire: Little still undecided on Labour leadership

Tim Dower (Newstalk ZB): Andrew Little could take leadership chance

Isaac Davison (Herald): Leadership no Little decision

NBR: Andrew Little considers Labour leadership bid

Adam Hollingworth (TV3): Andrew Little hints at leadership run

TV3: Labour lacks 'obvious leader' – panel

Pete George (Your NZ): A Little chance of bridging the divides

Newswire: Stuart Nash not standing for Labour leadership at this stage

 

Mana

TVNZ: Internet Party alliance 'a risk worth taking' - Hone Harawira

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Harawira: 'I don't regret getting into bed with Dotcom'

Adam Bennett (Herald): I'll be back – Harawira

 

Maori Party

Stuff: New role for Flavell in National deal

Adam Bennett (Herald): National signs deal with Maori Party

Newswire: Maori Party enters deal with National

TVNZ: Flavell a minister under National agreement with Maori Party

 

Act

Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . David Seymour

Chris Keall (NBR): Whyte quits as ACT leader, Seymour steps in

The Standard: Taxpayers support Mr “Small Government”

 

Greens

David Hay: A "bright green" party. How cool would that be?

Fundamentally Useless: There is no room for a bluegreen party

Vernon Tava: Is the Green Party of the Left or is it a Party for Sustainability?

 

General election

Newswire: Disallowed votes to be followed up

Colin James (RNZ): Poll of polls

Grumpollie: How did the polls do? The final outcome.

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): The numbers do the talking

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): It's a dull election after all

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Final vote – National lose majority, will Greens go right & could Little/Ardern ticket save Labour?

Newswire: No decision yet on celebrity tweets

Tim Watkin (Pundit): The shape of the new government - who gets what

RNZ: Loss of seat 'won't hinder Govt plans'

 

Other

Andrea Vance (Stuff): A likely long, bloody war worth a chat

TV3: Working poor: When a job isn't enough

Redline: Why I refuse to talk about child poverty

Rodney Hide (Herald): The Ministry of Nothing Tangible

Bernard Hickey (Herald): War on the high-tech dodgers

Adam Bennett (Herald): Auckland power cut a 'freak' occurence – Key

TVNZ: NZ businessman Sir Douglas Myers has terminal cancer

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 4 October 2014: Final election results; Labour leadership

 

 

Final election results

Audrey Young (Herald): Temporary historic victory

Isaac Davison (Herald): Final election results in: National loses majority

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Special votes make significant change to parliament

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National loses majority, Greens pick up one

TVNZ: National loses majority on special votes

TV3: National down, Greens up in final election results

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens pick up a seat from National on specials

 

Labour leadership

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Andrew Little considers Labour leadership bid

RNZ: Little considers bid to be Labour leader

Newswire: Labour scared voters, says Little

Duncan Garner (Stuff): Time for a new broom to sweep away the delusion

Dominion Post: Editorial: Rising Robertson will need to take risks

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Can Cunliffe rise from the ashes?

John Armstrong (Herald): No middle ground in coming Labour battle

Claire Trevett and Isaac Davison (Herald): Nash eyes standing for leadership

ODT: Expensive to save Labour

TVNZ: Stuart Nash won't rule out running for Labour leadership

Toby Manhire (Herald): Roll up for NZ's maddest show

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): This time around Labour bans secret trusts

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Just shut up

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Orwellian?

TV3: Labour Party 'in civil war' – Nat MP

TVNZ: Is Stuart Nash set to launch a Labour leadership bid?

The Standard: A paean about Grant Robertson

 

Labour Party

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Post Mortem At The Pub

Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Curran alleges 'dirty' politics

Don Franks (Redline): The tragedy of Macliffe

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Guest Post: Reflections on the 2014 Election

 

Economy

Waikato Times: Tough times looming

John Roughan (Herald): Economy vs nature can be a fair contest

Brian Gaynor (Herald): Why a gross index will beat a capital one

Internet Ganesha: R&D Grants- finally some public debate

Brian Fallow (Herald): Dollar level not one-way bet

 

Inequality and poverty

Marta Steeman (Stuff): When the CEO's boat comes in

Brain Fallow (Herald): Household income a rosier image

Verity Johnson (Herald): University should be stretching our minds, not pockets

Simon Collins (Herald): Trapped and paying half income in rent

Simon Collins (Herald): More living in cars as rents go through roof

Redline: Why I refuse to talk about child poverty

 

ACT

Adam Bennett (Herald): MP new leader as Whyte goes

Chris Keall (NBR): Whyte quits as ACT leader, Seymour steps in

Adam Bennett and Matthew Backhouse (Herald): Jamie Whyte resigns as the leader of the Act Party

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): The slow decline of ACT continues

 

Maori politics

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Harawira about to talk post election plans?

Karen Brown (Radio NZ): Whanau Ora helping build self-reliance

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Waitangi National Trust not losing money

Rachel Morton (TV3): Hone Harawira farewells Parliament

Radio NZ: Turia saying no to co-leader role

 

Gender equality

Radio NZ: Gender pay gap 'disempowering'

No Right Turn: Equality is still 50 years away

 

Other

Jared Savage (Herald): Probe into charities' use of pokie-machine cash

Greg Presland (The Standard): Final election results due out today

Steven Price (MLJ): Broadcasting Standards issue

Russell Brown (Hard News): History repeats: New Zealand's history of drugs and the law

Sarah-Jane O’Connor (Stuff): Pike re-entry decision 'astonishes' families

The Standard: David Farrar gets it wrong on abortion law in NZ

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Top Government official racks up huge travel bills

Mai Chen (Herald): MMP keeps governments honest

John Drinnan (Herald): New Hirschfeld radio dream job

NZ Politics Daily - 3 October 2014: Labour leadership; Greens

Labour leadership

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour member told to keep behaviour in check

Toby Manhire (Herald): Roll up for NZ's maddest show

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Nash may yet go for leadership

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Just shut up

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Behaviour raised ahead of Labour leadership contest

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): Why Grant Robertson’s sexuality doesn’t matter

ODT: Labour being damaged by uncertainty - O'Connor

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): Labour being damaged by uncertainty - O'Connor

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): Karen Price should take a leaf out of Bronagh's book

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: Decision day on Nov 18

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Ardern coy on deputy rumours

Nick Grant (NBR): Labour limbers up for leadership runoff, self-immolation

Isaac Davison (Herald): Former MP Judith Tizard backs Price

Claire Trevett (Herald): Rules tighten for Labour's run-off

Slightly Left of Centre: New Zealand needs a gay Prime Minister

Matthew Beveridge: Labour, leadership elections, and expectations

Steve Braunias (Stuff): Stumbling through defeat

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Both of Cameron Slater’s mates leading the Labour Party?

Cameron Chalmers (Stuff): Labour needs to look to non-voters

Miles Lacey and Peter Johnson (DoM): New Zealand: National win 2104 election – Labour needs to go left and adopt genuine socialist policies

Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Left rendered irrelevant?

 

Greens

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Challenges for the Greens this term

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Editor's Insight: Is the Green vote up for grabs? (paywalled)

Fundamentally useless: The Greens can take blue votes without going blue

Slightly left of centre: A New Zealand teal party

Waatea news: Greens' campaigning crippled by crazies

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Russel Norman gives Hone a final kick in the guts as Harawira bows out with dignity

Matt Nolan (TVHE): Rant: Social justice warriors, the environment, and Green parties

Brennan McDonald: Matt Nolan hits the Blue-Green nail on the head

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Garner says Greens need to be more centrist

Herald: Editorial: Greens need to reposition if they are going to thrive

 

National Party

Brent Edwards (Radio NZ): National keeping to the Centre

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): National Party Spice Boys

Alan Duff (Herald): New Zealand is in a good head space

 

Economy

Greg Presland (The Standard): New Zealand’s brighter future

Slightly Left of Centre: MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD…

Newswire: Winston Peters slams John Key over job losses

Wayne Mapp (Pundit): The big kahunas - facing NZ's top economic challenges

 

Auckland transport

No Right Turn: A panopticon in Auckland

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Ummmm, why is Auckland Transport spying on Aucklanders?

 

Media

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Volunteers sought for Kiwiblog

Stephen Franks: ‘Respect’, don’t ‘Like’ on Kiwiblog

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Coalition for Better Broadcasting – What Has Political Journalism Become?

 

Mana

Isaac Davison (Herald): Mana leader Hone Harawira promises not to fade away quietly

Stacy Kirk (Stuff): Hone Harawira bids parliament farewell

 

Other

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): Some questions to end the week

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Lyttleton executive pay scandal, and more TPP problems

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Abortion rights around the world

Guyon Espiner (Listener): Losing the voice (paywalled)

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Criticised diplomat back on party duty

Audrey Young (Herald): All-out effort to put NZ at top table

Herald: Donghua Liu fined for building code breaches

Nick Grant (NBR): Greenpeace adopts slick tactics to disrupt petroleum summit

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Herald on ISIS

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Press on offence

Liz Banas (Radio NZ): Changing the Resource Management Act

Saeran Maniparathy (Beehive): Key should publicly disapprove – Australian parliamentary burqa rules

ODT: Fewer voters may reflect state of politics

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Advice for new MPs

 

 

Images of the Greens in 2014

This is a selection of various images of the Green Party from this year - cartoons, advertising, and photos. [Read more below]

Emmerson - NZ Herald 13 September 2014

 

 

Emmerson - NZ Herald 17 July 2014

 

 

Moreu - Nelson Mail 18 February 2014

 

 

Moreu - Nelson Mail 3 June 2014

 

 

Scott - Dominion Post 3 June 2014

 

 

 

Body - NZ Herald 12 April 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bromhead - Marlborough Express 2 June 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicane - Southland Times 9 May 2014

 

 

 

 

 

Chicane - Southland Times 25 February 2014

 

NZ Politics Daily - 2 October 2014: Labour Party and leadership; ISIS; Maori politics; Voting and MMP

Labour Party and leadership

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Narcissistic Labour proves voters were bang on

Jane Clifton (Listener): Divided we rule (paywalled)

John Minto (Daily Blog): I feel sorry for Labour Party members and supporters

Jono Natusch: @Tarnbabe67: Cosgrove's conspiracy theory backfires

Matthew Beveridge: Karen Price, Tarnbabe67 and David Cunliffe

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): Karen Price should take a leaf out of Bronagh's book

Nick Grant (NBR): Labour limbers up for leadership runoff, self-immolation

John Armstrong (Herald): Cunliffe's bid a non-starter

Claire Trevett (Herald): Bottled-up venom leaking into leadership battle

Dita de Boni (Herald): Time for Labour to embrace the left

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Cosgrove, the whining MP

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe: I'm not into gutter politics

Stuff: Embarrassing political families

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Twitter attacks herald a bitter contest

Isaac Davison (Herald): Twitter denials provoke fresh attacks

Newswire: David Cunliffe used his wife for Twitter attack – Clayton Cosgrove

Tim Watkin (Pundit): What Labour needs to hear: the 4th voice

Fundamentally Useless: Guest post: The Labours of Left-wing Leadership

Sebastian Klinkum (Beehive Mandate): Labour leadership process cannot be disrupted

John Armstrong (Herald): Party's way out of leadership quagmire unclear

Patrick Gower (TV3): Cunliffe's wife was 'incredibly stressed'

TVNZ: Cunliffe 'unaware' of wife's Twitter attacks

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Time to stop attacking Cunliffe

TVNZ: Cunliffe's wife 'signed his political death warrant' with Twitter rant

RadioLIVE: Nash reconsiders Labour leadership bid – reports

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe: No knowledge of wife's Twitter account

Brian Edwards: Shock! Horror! Wife defends husband!!!!

Herald: Karen Price: the lawyer who isn't comfortable being a politician's wife

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Why not Gillard for Leader

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Cunliffe’s wife behind anonymous attacks on Labour MPs

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): It’s time for a new kind of Labour leader

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): David Cunliffe's missus takes to Twitter

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): New Labour leader by November

Radio NZ: Robertson calls for honest debate

TVNZ: David Cunliffe has 'very, very little' support in Labour caucus

Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Memo to Labour: it's also the policy

Philip Ferguson (Redline): The election: a defeat for ‘the left’?

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): A pig headed refusal to look facts in the face

 

ISIS

TV3: PM nervous about NZ troops fighting 'grotesque' IS

Anthony Robbins (The Standard): NZ troops to Iraq?

No Right Turn: Parliament should decide

 

Maori politics

Herald: Editorial: Free entry to Treaty site nation's right

Joe Trinder (Daily Blog): Mana Maori alliance

Brian Rudman (Herald): Forget the myth, let's talk about Waitangi charge

 

Voting and MMP

ODT: MMP changes needed

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): MPs to present MMP paper in Sydney

Shomi Yoon (ISO): If you didn’t vote you can still complain

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Electoral lotteries

 

Economy and Inequality

Max Rashbrooke: New Zealand set for rising inequality, new data shows

TVNZ: New Zealand '10th best country to grow old in'

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the last rites for the TPP

 

Other

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): The Standard’s last two months

Pete George (Your NZ): Standard blog banning spree

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest crime stats

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Lobby groups should not be taxpayer funded

No Right Turn: Fundamental incomprehension II

Janine Rankin (Stuff): The Rankin Files: City democracy lined up to take a hit

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Kiwiblog now a member of Online Media Standards Authority

John Weekes and Grant Bradley (Herald): Oil protesters disrupt event, scale building

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Can National win a 4th or even a 5th term?

 

 

Images of the post-election Labour Party

This is a collection of cartoons and photos to show how the media is covering the post-election Labour Party. [Read more below]

Emmerson - NZ Herald 27 September 2014

NZ Politics Daily - 1 October 2014: Labour leadership; Greens; Economy; Maori politics

Labour leadership

TVNZ: Cunliffe reveals 'family member' behind Twitter attacks on Labour MPs

Laura McQuillan and Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Robertson: Sexuality shouldn't be a barrier

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Nobody does factions like the Labour Party

Patrice Dougan (Herald): David Cunliffe's wife Karen Price reportedly targeted his rivals on Twitter

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Moveable feast for leadership

Andrea Vance (Stuff): David Cunliffe's wife in Twitter potshots

Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (Newswire): David Cunliffe and Grant Robertson battle for supremacy

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Party members and affiliates – the real losers in Labour’s leadership fight (Meanwhile the NZ Herald is pimping for war)

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour MPs undecided over front-runners

Chris Bramwell (Radio NZ): Labour Party leadership contest hots up

Jack Nohi (Stuff): Leadership goes beyond charisma

Danyl MacLauchlan (Dim-Post): Is New Zealand ready for an openly inane Prime Minister?

Pete George (Your NZ): Anecdote avalanche after Dann damns Cunliffe

Pete George (Your NZ): Labour needs more leadership contenders

Patrick Gower (TV3): Labour leadership battle turns dirty

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): The very public evisceration of David Cunliffe

Adam Bennett (Herald): 13 bizarre things Cunliffe has said in the past 24 hours

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leadership: 'We'll keep it seemly' – Parker

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Leadership battle may blind Labour

Brian Edwards (BEM): Long run or short season for David Cunliffe?

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Parker, King to lead Labour for now

Nelson Mail: Labour beware, only fools rush in

Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): Who is backing Cunliffe and who wants change?

Chris Keall (NBR): Does it matter that Grant Robertson is gay?

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): The leadership characteristic that shall not be named

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Cunliffe, Cunliffe, Cunliffe

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Ilam candidate says he can’t be part of Labour if Cunliffe remains

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): David Cunliffe makes Grant Robertson’s homosexuality a primary issue

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about the Wellington/Labour beltway

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Robertson the right man for the job?

 

Labour Party

Liam Hehir (Stuff): The trouble with Labour

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Changing Leaders Will Not Be Enough

Slightly Left of Centre: The place is here, the time is now

Charlie Gates (Stuff): Data suggests Labour out till 2020

 

National Party

Audrey Young (Herald): Deals crucial only if Key hits trouble

Elspeth McLean (ODT): PM vows to remain our humble servant

 

ACT

TV3: Seymour could oust Whyte in future

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the farcical elevation of David Seymour

David Slack (Metro): The Obituary of Jamie Whyte, Died April 2, 2060

 

Greens

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): Time for the Greens to go both ways

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Greens Immediately Become the Opposition.

Fundamentally Useless: Greens 2014: What went wrong?

William Taylor (TVHE): Quote of the Day: Garner on the Greens

 

Pike River

Kim Fulton (Westport News): Pike River had 'worst of everything'

Jeff Hampton (TV3): Pike commissioner still shocked over disaster

 

Economy

Bob Jones (Herald): Cheap labour will fix housing crisis

Ifor Ffowcs-Williams (Stuff): 'Rock-star economy' ignores regions

Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Russian trade deal in limbo

James Weir (Stuff): Election jitters see confidence fall

Heinz Fellerhoff (Stuff): The poverty trap of Gen Y

Peter Lyons (Herald): Election is over, fire up the barbie

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The PM should not talk on where he wants the currency

Joseph Stiglitz (Irascible Curmudgeon): Europe’s Austerity Disaster

Paul Verhaeghe (Irascible Curmudgeon): The Damage Fallacies of Neo-Liberal economics cause

 

Maori politics

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Turia's 'beaten wives' slur rejected by Labour's Davis

James Ihaka (Herald): Haere ra Maori TV: Hirschfeld

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ First MP chairs Waitangi Board charging $15

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Turia 'beaten wives' speech angers

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Farewelling Tariana

Muriel Newman (NZCPR): The Danger of Constitutional Rights

 

ISIS

Herald: Editorial: NZ must be ready to join fight against Isis

Adam Bennett (Herald): Coleman rejects SAS claim

Redline: National and Labour close on foreign policy

No Right Turn: Key admits exiling people without trial

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Headline vs substance on SAS

 

Other

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: The cost of justice

Matthew Beveridge: Social Media Details of new MPs

Isaac Davison (Herald): Dunne unwittingly pays tribute to serial killer

NZ Parliament: Next steps towards the 51st Parliament

Herald: McCully states case for NZ representation on UN Security Council

Mike Yardely (Stuff): More than NZ flag will go into the skip

Isaac Davison (Herald): Key confident accused Malaysian envoy will return

No Right Turn: Pissing on the OIA