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Year in review
Fairfax: Front bench report 2014's winners and losers
Tracy Watkins (Dom Post): One clear winner, plenty of dashed hopes
Tracy Watkins and Vernon Small (Stuff): One bumpy ride of an election
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Key my politician of the year, but now for the third-term blues
Scott Yorke (imperato Fish): The 2014 Imperator Fish Awards
Bryce Edwards (Herald): A year of controversies that didn't matter
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 2014 Kiwiblog Awards Winners
Foreign Fighters legislation
John Armstrong (Herald): Poor legislation arouses fears over civil liberties
Nelson Mail: State powers need greater scrutiny
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Little takes the game to National by backing Key's anti-jihadist law
Judith Collins (SST): Targeting radicals, not Muslims
No Right Turn: A pure power grab
Inequality
Max Rashbrook (The Guardian): How New Zealand's rich-poor divide killed its egalitarian paradise
Winston Peters (RadioLive): Inequality the PM’s responsibility
Dave Armstrong (Dom Post): Hey Mr Boring, isn't it time for new ideas?
Child Poverty Action Group: Children suffer from outdated ideas on relationships in the welfare system
Brian Easton (Pundit): Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments
RNZ: Welfare system 'based on outdated ideas'
Emma Whittaker (Stuff): Demand high at Auckland City Mission
Rachel Goldsmith (Daily Blog): Dear Ministry for Social Development
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Social Policy still in the dark ages when it comes to relationships
Catriona Maclennan: Stop sending beneficiary mums to jail - our double standard on debt
State sector pay
Dom Post: Editorial: Huge public pay packets disturbing
RNZ: Call to review public sector pay
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More state sector salary data
Phil Goff
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Phil Goff - rebel with applause
Phil Goff (SST): Arms not the answer
Pete George (Your NZ): Good Goff debut at SST on Middle East issues
Pete George (Your NZ): Goff to write for Sunday Star Times
Housing and foreign ownership
Dan Satherley (TV3): Mayor warns against alienating foreign buyers
Michael Wright (Press): Doubts raised on housing delivery
Brigitte Masters (TV3): NZ-based real estate website targets Chinese buyers
Waikato Times: Editorial: Action on landowners
RNZ: Housing shortage may be over – report
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Rise of the $1 million suburbs
Internet-Mana
John Minto (Daily Blog): The termination of the Internet Mana alliance
Newswire: Minto: No regrets despite Internet Party failure
RNZ: No regrets over Internet Mana alliance
Isaac Davison (Herald): Dotcom's lost Mana but Internet Party may ride again at 2017 election
RadioLive: Internet Mana coalition comes to an end
Pete George (Your NZ): Harawira on what he and Mana are up to
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Internet Mana: The divorce
Redline: InternetMana alliance ends
Labour Party
Audrey Young (Herald): Former enemy crucial to Labour's resurrection
TVNZ: 'He's always been the aggressive hard man' - PM on Andrew Little
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour MP drops euthanasia bill
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour dumps right to die bill
TV3: Labour kills euthanasia Bill
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Little keeps it stupid, simple
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour dumps euthanasia bill
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Wisdom’s Mirror: Can Grant Robertson Slay the Neoliberal Gorgon?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Peace breaks out between Greens and Labour
Dirty Politics
Herald: John Key: Bloggers 'not big part of my day'
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): John Key slammed for single apology
Hamish Rutheford (Stuff): Key's single 'sorry' was to blogger
The Standard: Whaleoil is the only person John Key apologised to this year
TV3: Will Nicky Hager have the last laugh?
Stuff: Police will likely have to disclose Hager raid documents
Scott Milne (Ruminator): The 4th Estate and Dirty Politics
Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): When is a nasty attack not a nasty attack?
Environment
RNZ: Labour says no climate deal means disaster
RNZ: 'Weak' climate deal reached
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Dairy industry and greens clash over water report
Newswire/RadioLive: Protesters to give National MPs coal for Christmas
Economy
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Surplus unlikely despite Govt pledge
John Palethorpe (Shinbone Star): Surplus & Deficit
Auckland
Steve Braunias (Herald): Len Brown: Slow train coming
John Roughan (Herald): Up close, council is worse than imagined
Stephen Franks: Why good people shun local government
TV3: Len Brown 'ever confident' about rail link
Media
RNZ: TVNZ set to sign outsourcing deals
John Drinnan (Herald): When will website be Freed?
Anthony Robins (Standard): Rushing in to Freed?
Other
The Standard: Latest Roy Morgan Poll
Tim Hunter (Stuff): Law professor is all about the issues
Jo Moir (Stuff): New education role suits former school prankster
Martin van Beynen (Press): Please don't call me a woman, call me Louise!
Willie Jackson (RadioLIve): A principled man, who sadly won’t last in politics
Adrien Taylor (TV3): FTA pushes ecostore to enter South Korea
Jono Galuszka (Manawatu Standard): Accused fearful of blogger
Paul Little (Herald): We've been knocked off our perch
Newswire: Police investigate 126 double voters
Miriam Pierard (Daily Blog): Sweet Sixteen and able to vote?
ISO: Zero-hour contracts, Poverty Pay, Rest Breaks Gone: We Need Our Unions
Newstalk ZB: NZ First calls for free GP visits for elderly
Tessa Johnstone (Stuff): Remodel of Govt youth website ‘poor spend’
Timaru Herald: Final court outcome damning for SFO
RNZ: Gender will be question for UN – Clark
RNZ: Millions of dollars in Maori cash unclaimed
Helen Castles (TVNZ): Would you pay to go on Ninety Mile Beach? User charges on the cards
