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Income
Michael Wright (Stuff): Roger Sutton still the top earner
RNZ: Rennie and Sutton raking it in
TVNZ: How much does the top paid public servant earn?
Adam Bennett (Herald): Top public servants get cream of pay packet rises
Suze Metherell (NBR): Civil servant bosses income falls to 2008 levels in 2014
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Public Service Pay
RNZ: Unions question higher wages
The Standard: ‘Ditch the [misleading] rhetoric’
Inequality
Gordon Campbell (Scoop) On income inequality
Herald: Editorial: Competition way to reduce inequality
Rob Salmond (Polity): Tosh
Anthony Robins (Standard): None so blind
The Daily Blog: Public Equity and Progressive Politics
Labour Party
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Andrew Little: Wanted And Wondered At
Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour's back office: McCarten to stay
Pete George (Your NZ): More than a Little risk playing with ‘Dirty Politics’
Housing
Gareth Thomas (RNZ): The challenge of building on Māori land
RNZ: Call to repay rates on Maori land
Media
Jonathan Milne (SST): New columnist Phil Goff goes toe-to-toe with Judith Collins
On the Left: Twitter Territory: take-downs and turn-arounds
Bill Ralston (Listener): Reading and righteous (paywalled)
Christchurch
Michael Wright (Stuff): MPs' money for quake issues axed
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Luxury living!
Year in review
Jane Clifton (Listener): Crushed at the post (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Herald): Toby Manhire: 'Tis the season for some folly...
Rob Hosking (NBR): Politics 2014: The Year of the Hat (paywalled)
Other
Brent Edwards (RNZ): PM unlikely to change formula
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Should Key and Little stand in an electorate?
TV3: Winston Peters: No plans of slowing down
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Govt didn't record UNSC bid expenses
Jason Walls (NBR): Greenpeace blockade oil giant’s corporate HQ
RNZ: No plans to buy drones – NZDF
RNZ: Kohanga trust delays leadership decision
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZEI backs down
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Rennie in a hole and still digging
Eru Rerekura (RNZ): Commission to meet council over tweet
Mandy Hager (The Standard): This is not business as usual. This is not some hippy over-reaction. This is serious shit!
