Today’s content
Dirty Politics
Brendan Manning (Herald): Judicial review hearing for Hager
Simon Wong (TV3): Nicky Hager gets Dirty Politics court date over search
Pete George (Your NZ): Word of the Year: #dirtypolitics
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Guess who won Massey Univeristy’s Quote of the Year competition?
Stuff: Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater wins quote of the year
Stuff: Judge orders handover of Nicky Hager raid documents
No Right Turn: The courts and the Public Records Act
Pete George (Your NZ): Slater versus Hooton on Dirty Politics
Pete George (Your NZ): Summary of “Dirty Politics” and dirty politics
Economy, and inequality
Economics NZ: Never mind the deficit
Catherine Harris (Stuff): More Aucklanders can't afford heating
James Weir (Stuff): NZ GDP grew 1 per cent, beats expectations
Brian Fallow (Herald): Treasury forecasts 9pc growth over three years
Adam Bennett (Herald): Government spending cuts key to surplus
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt promising to measure up over surplus
Dan Satherley (TV3): Don't blame deficit on tax cuts – English
Dominion Post: Editorial: Surplus crowing was premature
Tim Watkin (Pundit): An economic comedy in four acts
Anthony Robins (Standard): On the economy and tax cut bribes
John Anthony (Stuff): Slight increase for NZ salaries
Rob Salmond (Polity): Deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit tax cuts!
Rob Salmond (Polity): Rich inequality, poor inequality, good inequality, bad inequality
Innes Asher (Herald): Low-income families' safety net needs repair
The Standard: Power poverty on the up
Year in review
TV3: Key found campaign 'a low-light' for 2014
TV3: Patrick Gower's year in politics
TV3: Brook Sabin's year in politics
Chris Trotter (RadioLive): Political Awards for 2014
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Little, Peters deserve awards
TV3/Newswire: Cameron Slater's rugby quip voted year's best
Herald: Quote of 2014 goes to...WhaleOil blogger Cameron Slater
Toby Manhire (Herald): A festive verse for NZ
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): My 11 findings of the year
Claire Trevett (Herald): The year of apologies that keeps on giving
Patrick Gower (TV3): Moment of Truth 'defining moment' for 2014
TV3: 2014: The year in politics
Health
TV3: DHB funding comes up short
Manawatu Standard: Statistics support health advocate's view
TVNZ: Cancer sufferers more likely to survive in Australia than NZ - study
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Worst killers of Kiwis changing
Martin Johnston (Herald): New Zealand lags behind Australia in cancer survival rates
Ben Heather (Dom Post): New Zealanders living longer but some diseases double impact
Jill Ovens (Daily Blog): Auckland Hospital worker cuts – Democracy the loser
Housing
Adam Bennett (Herald): Housing crisis: Pasifika hit hard by shortage
Peter Lyons (Herald): Bet the house on city's weatherboard economics
TV3: Immigration boom pressures housing market
Sydney siege and terrorism
Dan Satherley (TV3): Terror laws not aimed at 'lone wolves' - Little
Dan Satherley (TV3): Key: 'Australia will be hurting'
Southland Times: Editorial: The sane response to atrocity
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): An incoherent argument for spying
The Standard: Over it
Dan Satherley (TV3): Terror laws won’t stop ‘lone operator’ - expert
Manawatu Standard: Cafe siege brings terror threat closer
No Right Turn: John Key wants arbitrary detention
Wake up NZ: Sydney seige: Why anti-terrorism laws still aren’t justified
Environment
Nelson Mail: Editorial: No time to hide on climate change
Taranaki Daily News: Government sticks head in sand
RNZ: Climate comments unpolitic - Maori Party
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens again call for cows to be culled
RNZ: Iwi climate group reprimanded by minister
RNZ: Labour criticises climate letter
Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ 'well placed' to increase clean energy use
Brownlee-gate
Hamish Rutheford (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee security details differ
RadioLive: Brownlee faces fresh security breach accusations
Greg Presland (The Standard): Why wasn’t Brownlee sacked?
Media
Russell Brown (Public Address): We're in this together
John Drinnan (Herald): Radio NZ pulls out of national award
Transport
Newswire: Mixed reactions to road funding policy
TV3: Transport to get $38.7B funding boost
Jamie Morton (Herald): Rena grounding: Failures revealed
Elton Smallman (Stuff): Damning report into Rena grounding
Other
No Right Turn: Horrifying
Winston Peters (Herald): Super City Grinches want our prize
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Sitting On Our Hands
Hilary Stace (Public Address): Some aspects of New Zealand's disability history - part two
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Novopay cost still 'unacceptably high': Joyce
Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Hackers post alleged police passwords
Newswire: Novopay takeover to cost extra $8.7M
RNZ: One email behind diplomat bungle - McCully
TVNZ: McCully gets 'disappointing' report on Malaysian diplomat case
Newswire: Peters slams latest immigration figures
Newswire: Key to have quiet Christmas
RNZ: Port workers in fight for higher pay
Isaac Davison (Herald): Call for ban on alcohol advertising at sport events
Stuff: New US ambassador Mark Gilbert's very Kiwi video
Peter de Graaf (Northern Advocate): MP rubbishes beach claim
John Edens (Stuff): Flag needs to 'scream NZ': John Key
Simon Wilson (Metro): Honest John
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Brownlee declares war on defence jargon
Tariana Turia (Herald): It's time to restore the 'h' in Whanganui
Rob Salmond (Polity): LMAO
No Right Turn: John Key's war on P is a failure
Newswire: Winston Peters wants experts to fix ferry fiasco
Andrew Chen (MCDP): School Deciles and Wealth
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Alcohol sponsorship removal almost draconian
Elesha Edmonds (Stuff): Auckland University pays for transgender students' name changes
Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Say ‘Yay’, not ‘Nay’, to this New Zealand Flag
Herald: Editorial: Why $40,000 fine for quad bike couple makes sense
David Clark (ODT): Fresh approach needed to grow NZ's regions
Jamie Morton (Herald): Rena probe reveals catalogue of issues
Peter Bromhead (Herald): Flag's proud heritage fading to black
Kurt Bayer and Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): Golf: John Key's love of greens proves to be diminishing handicap
Dan Satherley (TV3): Labour aims for 40 percent in 2015
Ellipsister: The Greens get a little personal
No Right Turn: The OIA Review
