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NZ Politics Daily - 11 November 2014: Labour; Security & terrorism; Education; Trade; Housing

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Labour Party

Patrick Gower (TV3): Gower: Labour's epic leadership battle a 'yawnfest'

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour leadership: the battle catches fire (paywalled)

Isaac Davison (Herald): Timing of euthanasia bill worries Little

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Good News For The Left!

Rob Salmond (Polity): A glimmer?

The Standard: Standard questions: Grant Robertson

Matt Heath (Herald): Grant is great - just the guy for the job

Fundamentally Useless: Quiet successes, noisy failures

The Standard: Lessons from the ’30s and 40’s: culture and the left

The Standard: The final Labour leadership contest meetings

 

NZ security and terrorism

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the unravelling of the government’s responses to Islamic State

No Right Turn: An inflated risk

Scott Hamilton (Reading the Maps): For and against Islamism: the West's hypocritical war in Iraq

Dave Armstrong (Dom Post): Let troops out for takeaways

Willie Jackson (RadioLIve): John Key on the right track

 

Education

Patrick Walsh (Herald): There's a poverty fault line in NZ schools and it's creating an ethnic divide

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Principal calls for fairer school funding

Harkanwai Singh (Herald): The difference between rich and poor schools: Three ways of looking at decile data

Peter Lyons (ODT): 'Feathers on a turd and selling it as a turkey'

Kevin Smythe (Networkonnet): Public schools and only to the extent it protects the powerful and wealthy

 

Trade

Vernon Small (Herald): Trade window 'closes mid 2015'

RNZ: PM sees 6 month window for TPP deal

Audrey Young (Herald): Fighting fund to finance TPP battle

Audrey Young (Herald): TPP discussion a 'solid meeting' – Key

Audrey Young (Herald): Power in plentiful supply at Apec summit

Herald: Editorial: Free trade deals must aspire to a high standard

The Standard: The TPPA – big business plans to fight back

Vernon Small (Stuff): PM to brief Obama on IS and free trade

Newswire: Key confident in TPPA deal

TVNZ: John Key dons APEC 'silly' shirt: Stylish or awkward?

Vernon Small (Stuff): Apec's Beijing atmosphere is electric

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key and Abbot race planes to Beijing Apec talks

 

Housing

Nigel Moffiet (Stuff): 76 empty state houses in South Auckland

Simon Collins (Herald): Liquor firm eyes more state houses

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Wealthy Aucklanders' home values soar

Russell Brown (Public Address): The Boom Crash

James Weir (Stuff): End to LVRs might lift prices

 

Family violence

Simon Collins (Herald): How did Sir Owen Glenn's domestic violence inquiry get $7 billion figure wrong?

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Big numbers: domestic violence edition

Simon Collins (Herald): Family violence costs NZ up to $7 billion a year

RNZ: Maori over-represented in abuse stats

 

Inequality

Russell Wills and Phil O'Reilly (Herald): Help families and we all win

Rodney Hide (NBR): If Turkey's the answer, what's the problem? (paywalled)

 

Rick Ellis to head Te Papa

Dom Post: Te Papa isn't a television station

Deidre Mussen (Stuff): Former TVNZ boss takes over at Te Papa

RNZ: Te Papa appoints new chief executive

 

Law and order

Stuff: John Key to tell Chilean president about fugitive killer

Herald: One Kiwi you wouldn’t invite to lunch: John Key under fire for Phillip Smith joke

Talia Shadwell, Shane Cowlishaw and Caleb Harris (Stuff):From under their noses

David Fisher (Herald): Ministers acted on inaccurate gang data

 

Other

Colin James (ODT): Who will be first to the frontier of thought?

Brian Easton (Pundit): The Cost of Demanding More Health Care

Karen Mangnall (RNZ): Tongan deportations 'unconscionable'

Asher Goldman (On the Left): FIREWORKS! Now, let’s talk about local government

Matthew Hooton (Metro): John Key: The Greatest Ever?

Rob Hosking (NBR): Politics: the John Key Comfort Zone (paywalled)

No Right Turn: An outrageous abuse of the OIA

Peter Cullen (Stuff): Court ruling a big win for female workers

Liam Dann (Herald): Great escape yes, but inflation not all bad

Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): Dying with dignity

Matthew Hooton (NBR): It's climate change season again (paywalled)

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The fundraiser… Final score

Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fonterra to offer free milk to schools in Sri Lanka

Anthony Robins (Standard): Effects of privatised power

Sue Kedgley (Herald): Smart power meters a threat to health and liberty

Integrity Talking Points: Prosperous NZ is a place to be – even if one prisoner prefers distant parts

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Informed choices?

Wayne Mapp (Pundit): Mr Mayor, tear down those rates

Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, November 11

NZ Politics Daily - 10 November 2014: Security & terrorism; Labour; TPPA; Education; Health

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NZ security and terrorism

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Inflating the terrorism risk

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Key eyes war with caution

Stuff: Brownlee defends speed of changes

TVNZ: Why the wait to introduce anti-terror laws?

TV3: Anti-IS strategy flawed - Harre

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ mission could free allies to focus on Isis

Paul Little (Herald): Isis an excuse to peek at us

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The SIS won’t use 48 hour warrantless spying for ‘evidence’

Stephen Key (Unframed): Pilger compares ISIS to Khmer Rouge – US complicit

Anjum Rahman (Daily Blog): Where’s the evidence?

Blair Ensor (Stuff): Aotearoa Muslim is proud to support Isis

No Right Turn: A blow for privacy

RNZ: NZ left out of 'Five Eyes' DNA deal

 

Labour Party

Stephen Mills (Stuff): The future for Labour

The Nation (TV3): Special broadcast: Labour leadership debate 

The Nation (TV3): Panel: Patrick Gower, Nick Leggett & Damon Salesa

The Nation (TV3): Labour candidates split over capital gains tax

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Labour leadership candidates reject Key's IS plan

RNZ: IS law changes lack scrutiny – Labour

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Nation Review: Labour leadership debate

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): NZ security high on the agenda at Labour leaders debate

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour rift over capital gains tax

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Contenders split over capital gains tax

NBR: Labour leadership debate reveals tax split

Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Mahuta crowd favourite in Hamilton

Rodney Hide (Herald): Labour backs a losing strategy

Bob McCoskrie (McBlog): Labour Leadership – Where do they stand on family issues?

 

TPPA, trade and APEC

Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): New trade deal on cards at APEC

TVNZ: Key and Obama set to discuss Trans-Pacific trade deal at APEC

Newswire: Key talks trade, investment at APEC

Audrey Young (Herald): Key, Obama to press Japan on trade accord

Matt Stewart and Matt Rilkoff (Stuff): Marches against TPPA trade deal

Sophie Ryan (Herald): Thousands gather to protest trade agreement

Adam Hollingworth (TV3): Protesters rally against TPPA

TVNZ: Thousands rally against trade agreement

RNZ: Thousands of NZers rally against TPPA

Tim Groser (TV3): Secrecy is part of TPPA negotiations

NBR: Groser sees TPP finalised within months

TVNZ: Trans-Pacific trade deal gathers momentum despite protest

RNZ: Progress in TPP negotiations – Japan

TVNZ: Trade deal discussed as leaders gather for APEC summit

Jem Yoshioka (On the Left): TPPA – The monster in our future

The Standard: “Marching in the streets”

Stephen Key (Unframed): TPP and the fallacy of free trade

Newswire: Free trade talks between India and NZ reignited

Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): Thinking about economic self-determination

Simon Collins (Herald):Key to ask Oravida again to stop using his image

Newswire: Abbott and Key share stop in Darwin

 

Health

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Cooking The Medical Books: Citizens suffer in stoical silence so National can keep taxes low

Press: Whether on or off a waiting list, the pain remains

Dom Post: Editorial: Waiting lists don't tell the whole story

Blake Crayton-Brown (Stuff): Sex partners traceable under proposed law

 

Education

Nicholas Jones and Harkanwai Singh (Herald): Interactive: The decile drift - how school rolls have changed according to ethnicity

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): NZ Herald and moderation

Michael Field and Simon Day (Stuff): New decile rankings hit school budgets

Simon Day (Stuff): Charter schools claim early success

Saeran Maniparathy (Beehive Mandate): Sex Education – It needs to be improved, but is improvement welcomed?

 

Pike River

Manawatu Standard: There are many left with blood on their hands

Southland Times: Dignity within a disgraceful outcome

Dominion Post: Proper Pike River memorial essential

RNZ: Peters: PM a hypocrite over Pike action

 

Housing

RNZ: State houses too big, too small – English

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Investor landlords need curbing

 

Media

RNZ: Community meets to air TVNZ concerns

Willie Jackson (RadioLive): End of an era

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Twitter Stats 7 November 

 

Inequality

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Just how many kids go hungry at school, Mr Key?

Dianne Khan (Daily Blog): Mr Key’s Mythical Principals

 

Justice

Isaac Davison (Herald):Lifelong checks for worst crims

Amy Maas (Herald): Cop flirted with rape accuser

 

Environment

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): The blue-green challenge

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): National's Conservation Dance, The Blue Green Spin

 

Other

John Armstrong (Herald): Listen up, Greens - it's a lesson you must learn

Gregor Paul (Herald): Key lesson is politics and sport don't mix

No Right Turn: Immigration, profiling and reflexive secrecy

Stuff: New Zealand legal highs law subject of global survey

Steve Braunias (Stuff): Secret diary of . . . a nice, hot cup of tea

John Roughan (Herald): Let working over-65s help ease the load

Martin van Beynen (Press): Revelations unlikely in research on rape

Pete George (Your NZ): Complexities of left, right and centre

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Key puts world on notice of NZ's strategy for UN

RNZ: Passing of Te Reo Bill 'a priority'

Fundamentally Useless: Select Committee season

Steve Braunias (Timaru Herald): Boredom: If all else fails, save the whales

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Envoy criticised by Key quits

Vernon Small (Stuff): Budget deficit worsens slightly

Herald: Govt deficit on track as tax take grows

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): NZ 'third most prosperous country'

Stuff: Today in politics: November 10

Stuff: Today in politics: Saturday, November 8

Grant Smithies (Stuff): Liberals poke fun at Colin Craig's eyes

NZ Politics Daily: 10 November 2014: Security and terrorism; Pike River; Roast Busters; Housing

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NZ national security and terrorism

Toby Manhire (Herald): When is a war not a war? Ask Key

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): A Professional Engagement

Robert Ayson (The Strategist): New Zealand’s weeks of risk aversion on ISIS

Newswire: National security changes have Parliament divided

No Right Turn: National refuses to say how many people it has exiled without charge or trial

Nathan Smith (NBR): John Key's fight with the Islamic State and the long con (paywalled)

Claire Trevett (Herald): Isis deployment won't end in combat like SAS in Afghanistan: Brownlee

Brent Edwards (RNZ): What price for freedom?

RNZ: Brownlee, Key at odds of SAS

RNZ: Govt has returning jihadists in sights

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): 'Foreign fighters' may face travel restrictions

No Right Turn: Brownlee wants a "no-fly" list

Newswire: No need to strengthen airport security – Govt

Listener: Getting out of neutral

Tulia Thompson: Key’s ‘Free Thinkers’ on Security Risk reveals his Distrust in Academics

 

Pike River

Dan Satherley (TV3): Families back Pike River civil case

RNZ: Pike re-entry possible, UK expert says

TV3: Pike River: Why no re-entry?

Nicola Grigg (RNZ): Pike River mine site to be protected

Press: Editorial: Pike decision unavoidable

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Time to move on for Pike families

Isaac Davison (Herald): Pike families let final hopes fade

Jeff Hampton and Emily Cooper (TV3): Pike River families forced to abandon recovery mission

Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): Pike River: 'It's unjust and so unfair'

Thomas Mead (TV3/RadioLive): Pike River mine may become a reservation

Guardian: Owners of New Zealand mine rule out retrieving remains of buried miners

Don Franks (Redline): Pike River – the final cover-up?

 

Roast Busters and gender politics

Sam Boyer (Herald): Roast Busters: Women chain themselves to police station in protest

RNZ: Women chained to Akl police station

Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): Public Fury Skyrockets Over Inadequate Response To Roast Busters

Tulia Thompson: Protest Challenges Police Handling of ‘Roast Busters’ Case

Manawatu Standard: Sex education overhaul a grim necessity

Emma Hart (Public Address): The Song of Angry Women

Herald: Controversial men's health ad causes a stir

 

Trade

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Week of Key issues for PM

Vernon Small (Stuff): Oravida's promo photo angers PM

Rob Salmond (Polity): Oravida, again

Taylor Sincock (TV3): John Key taking Oravida promo 'seriously'

Socialist Aotearoa: TPPA, bad for your health?

 

Ebola

Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ medics to join Africa's Ebola fight

Stuff: Keep Ebola threat at bay – Cook

 

Housing

Simon Collins (Herald): Iwi sets its sights on state houses

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Labour kicks state housing football (paywalled)

Rob Hosking (NBR): Social housing debate: ideology and emotion trumping common sense (paywalled)

On the Left: Generation Rent

 

Labour Party

TV3: Questions for the Labour leadership candidates: David Parker

Isobel Ewing (Stuff): Taranaki unsure on Labour race

Benn Bathgate and Elton Smallman (Stuff): Hamilton to give Labour candidates a rark-up

 

Media

John Drinnan (Herald): Changes ahead for Maori TV

Daily Blog: Paora Maxwell, a liability

Rachel Glucina (Herald): The Diary - part one: Trouble and strife joins press gallery

Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Why Good Journalists Are So ‘Rude’

 

Dirty Politics

Herald: Hager case continues in High Court

Pete George (Your NZ): Whale Oil fundraising inconsistencies

 

Employment

Elle Hunt: The Wireless (RNZ): Uncertain future of work in a global world

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Bosses on notice as worker confidence up

 

Greens

Claire Trevett (Herald): Greens set example for small players

Steven Cowan (Against the current): Personna non grata

Matthew Hooton (NBR): A Green MP business can work with (paywalled)

 

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Friday, November 7

Herald: Editorial: Key's radar wrong on fireworks ban

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Supporting our Elders and Youngers

Anna Powles (The Interpreter): What will New Zealand do with its UN Security Council seat?

Karl du Fresne (Listener): Distant relations (paywalled)

Jane Clifton (Listener): That’s what he said (paywalled)

Mark Broatch (Listener): Dairy me (paywalled)

Nick Grant (NBR): Bridges needs to build some, not burn ’em – business groups (paywalled)

Rodney Hide (NBR): Business forced to bow as faith triumphs (paywalled)

The Standard: Paid parental leave bill faces defeat

Ben Heather (Stuff): Patients 'forgotten' in wait for surgery

TVNZ: Kim Dotcom election advertising complaints rejected

Simon Wong (TV3): Labour MP gauges support for assisted-suicide bill

Jerram Watts (TV3): Peters: Minister needs to 'step up' over Interislander

Stephen Franks: Three strikes decision shows de facto judicial supremacy

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): McShite and Associates wins prestigious law award

TVNZ: CTV engineer suspended and fined over failure to disclose

Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Continuing crisis is the nature of capitalism

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 5 November 2014: NZ national security; Employment; Pike River

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NZ national security and terrorism

Gordon Campbell: On our IS counter measures, Forbes’ hostility to the TPP, and CNBC’s idiocy

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Spies won't jeopardise cases with 'fishing expeditions'

Audrey Young (Herald): PM ramps up SIS and Five Eyes

John Armstrong (Herald): Minimalist approach to 'war' classic Key

Tim Watkin (Pundit): On War, restraint & Trojan horses

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Risk and Resilience: Introducing John Key’s “Free Thinkers”.

Dominion Post: Key lights a fuse that may fire up terror

Herald: Editorial: Solid evidence of terror links vital before passports held

Press: Editorial: Key's carefully pragmatic line

ODT: Editorial: Balance of security and privacy

Patrick Gower (TV3):Polls guide Govt on Islamic State response

No Right Turn: Safeguards?

Dan Satherley (TV3): IS watchlist figure 'surprisingly high'

Stacey Kirk and Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Kiwis supporting Islamic State 'surprising'

John Armstrong (Herald): Two discordant messages in PM's security speech

Stuff: NZ military personnel headed for Iraq

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Key's security speech raises concerns, questions

Patrick Gower (TV3): Kiwi troops to remain behind the wire in IS fight

RNZ: Domestic risk focus a concern – expert

No Right Turn: No Key lied to us about troop deployment

Anthony Robins (Standard): Reds under the beds

Sebastian Klinkum (Beehive Mandate): Key’s decision on armed intervention is the right call

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): John Key’s amazing magical ‘behind the wire’ forcefield

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Great SIS fishing expedition begins

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Herald says 80. Fairfax says 40

Man of Errors: New Zealand and ISIS

The Standard: Turei for peace & freedom: rejects politics of fear

TV3: GCSB spies respond to mass surveillance allegations

 

Employment

No Right Turn: 29,000 out of work under National

RNZ: Rebuild companies breached work laws

Press: Canty creates half NZ's new jobs

Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): Decision a 'win for women' - Teachers union

Jo Moir (Stuff): 'Victory for motherhood'

RNZ: Change to parental leave bill defeated

 

Pike River

Edward Rooney (Herald): Solid Energy says Pike River Mine will not be re-entered

Myles Hume (Stuff): Government has 'failed' Pike River families

No Right Turn: Betrayal at Pike River

Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): Pike River: Solid Energy removes key re-entry tool

Lisa Davies (TVNZ): John Key to meet with Pike River families about re-entry

 

Access to 90 Mile beach

Isaac Davison (Herald): Iwi beach plan spurs Govt 'fear not' pledge

Isaac Davison (Herald): Iwi to limit access to 90 Mile Beach

 

Other

TV3: Questions for the Labour leadership candidates: Andrew Little

Dita De Boni (Herald): Govt loath to let facts come between friends

Steve Maharey (Herald): Uni shake-up can halt NZ's ranking slide

Brian Rudman (Herald): High time Govt took notice of facts on drug war

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key's Housing Legacy

Stuff: MPs hear more on fireworks sale ban

Karl du Fresne (Manawatu Standard): Law not a game of pick and choose

TVNZ: Kiwi volunteers to help fight Ebola in West Africa

Kurt Bayer (Herald): Bill to ban unethical products like Ebola 'cure' before Parliament

Lib Wilson (Stuff): $800,000 to review 'sin tax'

RNZ: Pacific to benefit from more portable NZ pensions

Jane Kelsey (Daily Blog): YES – it really DOES matter that you turn out this Saturday for the International Day of Action against the TPPA!

Claire Trevett Herald): Global political heavyweights to visit NZ this month

TV3/Newswire: World leaders to visit NZ

Fundamentally Useless: Inside the minds of our minders

Taranaki Daily News:Absurdity of law must be changed

Grant Duncan (Metro): Geoffrey Palmer: Reform, a Memoir – review

Herald: Tributes paid to late Maori leader

Today in politics: Thursday, November 6

NZ Politics Daily - 3 November 2014: Housing; Employment; Labour; Greens; Maori Party; Blogosphere

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Housing

RNZ: 'Too many gaps' in state housing plan

Jo Moir and Dave Burgess (Stuff): Council bullish on buying state houses

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): No state house sale moves: Key

RNZ: State housing plan 'not an asset sale'

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Will state housing privatisation & health be Key’s Achilles heel?

RNZ: Housing NZ 'will stay dominant'

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): State houses on the chopping block

Stuff: Government could sell 'thousands' of state houses

TVNZ: Government still committed to social housing - Paula Bennett

Newswire: Paula Bennett noncommittal on state house sales

Jeff Hampton (TV3): Bennett: State housing deal does not amount to asset sale

RNZ: Hundreds of state houses to be built

The Standard: The exciting sexy selloff of our State housing

Joel Cosgrove (Fightback): Housing under Neoliberalism

RNZ: Maori housing provider planned

 

NZ intervention in Middle East

Tom McRae (TV3): PM, Abbott discuss potential IS fight

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Concern over Kiwi jihadists

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The new terror threat

TVNZ: 'Kiwi Jihadi' raising concerns about NZ terror threat

RNZ: Cabinet to discuss options against IS

RNZ: Key reveals date for terrorism speech

Newswire: PM to outline NZ's role in IS fight

Tony Wall and Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Maori Muslim backs Islamic State

 

Employment

Vernon Small (Stuff): Employment law 'a step backwards'

Jane Clifton (Listener): Give us a break (paywalled)

Newswire: Labour sceptical about holiday pay change

Josie Pagani (Pundit): The problem with our economy is too many tea breaks?

TV3: Tea breaks - are they really under threat?

Rob Salmond (Polity): Herald vs Hosking-in-Herald on teabreaks

Manawatu Standard: Employment law change boon for bosses

John Anthony (Stuff): New employment laws 'common sense'

Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Workers rights weakened by new laws – fightback needed

Martin Gregory (ISO): A Victory in the Long March for Equal Pay

Ruth Hill (RNZ): Unions divided on shareholding merits

 

NZ role in fighting Ebola

TVNZ: 'NZ should be playing bigger role' in Ebola fight – doctor

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Key weighs sending Kiwi medics to help with Ebola crisis

Newswire: PM: Govt could send help to Ebola nations

Imperator Fish: Hard workers have nothing to fear from Ebola

 

Labour Party

Vernon Small (Stuff): Cunliffe loyalists back Little

Denise Irvine and Aimie Cronin (Waikato Times): Waikato politicians pitch for Labour's top jobs

Fundamentally Useless: Grant’s ‘jobs for hacks’ programme

Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Rethinking Labour

Kiwiblog: Why Labour’s post-election defeat Review will achieve little

Anna Lee (Herald):I Want Your Job: Jacinda Ardern

Simon Buckingham (Daily Blog): Where are Labour Candidates on disability?

The Standard: Moving away from the politics of fear

 

Greens

John Armstrong (Herald): Seances and crackpot ramblings belong in Greens' mystical past

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): LewSOS sums it up

Southland Times: Editorial: Defining moment, or forehead-slapper?

Grant Jacobs (Sciblogs): New Zealand political spokesperson for GE and more endorses homeopathy for Ebola

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): The Greens are wacky?

Pete George (Your NZ): Green Browning “laughable weirdo”

Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Greens need to let foreign leaders speak when the House sits

 

Maori Party

Claire Trevett (Herald): Fox elected as new co-leader

RNZ: Maori Party elects new co-leader

Claire Trevett (Herald): Maori Party chair criticises fundraising dinners

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cut deals to ensure survival - Taurima tells Maori Party

Claire Trevett (Herald): Maori Party focussed on rebuild

RNZ: Turia defends deal with National

RNZ: Fox confirmed as Maori Party co-leader

 

Blogosphere

Philip Matthews (Stuff): Should Left-wing bloggers just shut up?

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Where to now for Left Wing Blogs?

Anthony Robins (Standard): Should Right-wing newspapers just shut up?

Rodney Hide (Herald): Forget the Whale and get on with it

Lyn Prentice (Standard): The bad blogger

Pete George (Your NZ): Prentice “lies” again

Pete George (Your NZ): “Farrar, Slater and George form the dark-triad of NZ blogging”

Pete George (Your NZ): Whale Oil advertising onslaught explained

 

Dirty Politics

David Slack (Metro): The Obituary of Nicky Hager, Died April 1, 2052

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): I’m alive and have something to share

Whaleoil: From the passenger seat: It’s only just begun

Megan Woods (Radio Live): Dirty Politics goes too far

Waikato Times: Key blurring his lines

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): For once I agree with Russel Norman

Te Putatara: Rawshark – Is She Maori or Pakeha?

 

Roast Busters

Herald: Editorial: Roast Busters case shows legal failings

Nicola Gavey (Sexual Politics Now): Where to after Operation Clover?

Kate Dickie-Davis (Daily Blog): Myth Busting Rape Boasters

 

Inequality

Dom Post: Editorial: The Government must act on poverty

Duncan Garner (Stuff): Time for some gutsy decisions on tackling poverty

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Final Fifth: The Last Great Task for Progressive New Zealand

 

Other

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Electoral Commission has some questions to answer

No Right Turn: MacLennan on fixing the OIA

No Right Turn: A lack of commitment

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): From the farm to the Beehive

TV3: Govt leaves for trade mission in India

Audrey Young (Herald): We're about security not spying: SIS chief

Stuff: Today in politics: Monday, November 3

Stuff: Today in politics: Saturday, November 1

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Going once, twice, power to the people

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Greens call for power buyback umpire

David Fisher (Herald): Waitangi wrangle burns $1m legal fees

RNZ: Iwi criticises process for water issues

Keith Woodford (Stuff): New Zealand's dairy dilemma

Michael Field (Stuff): Shane Jones fishing in deep waters

Grant Duncan (Briefing Papers): Two Years to Demonstrate Our Independent Status

Tina Law (Stuff): Govt slams planning changes as inadequate

Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Twitter Stats: 31 October

RNZ: Govt consulted over legal highs

Paul Little (Herald): It's bullying by another name

Martin van Beynen (Press): Should journalists be armed?

Andrew Gunn (Press): Why PM really is a ... star

Jess McAllen (Stuff): Court's gang patch ruling unravels

Taranaki Daily News: Time for civil debate on Maori wards

Tracey Chatterton (Stuff): Aspiring politician stabbed ex-partner's new man

Herald: Trick or treating the PM

Rob Stock (Stuff): Chief executive as politician

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Handbags?

On the Left: Why I am on the left: class and gender

NZ Parliament: Parliamentary shield for the 50th Parliament

 

 

NZ Politics Daily - 26 May 2014

The main issues in NZ Politics today are inequality, opinion polls, GCSB, Greens, National Party, and asylum seekers. Please note, the NZ Politics Daily service is taking a break for while. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 23 May 2014

The main issues in politics for today are NZ First, National Party, housing and immigration, John Banks, Roastbusters, and MPs and Twitter. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily – 22 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are housing and immigration, the GCSB, MPs and Twitter, NZ First, John Banks, and the Labour and National parties. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 21 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are MPs and Twitter, GSCB and drones, housing and immigration, NZ First, John Banks, and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 20 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are housing, John Banks, Labour Party, the Budget, GCSB and drones. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 13 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Budget 2014 and the economy, fundraising and influence, the Taurima report and media-politico relations, and the Green Party economic plans. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily: 12 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are about political finance, scandals, and the Budget. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 9 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are about 'Cabinet Club' and Michael Woodhouse, NZ First, the latest polls, and Judith Collins. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 8 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, the latest opinion polls, Maurice Williams, 'Cabinet Club', and legal highs. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 7 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, MPs pecuniary interests, 'Cabinet Club', the Labour Party, and legal highs. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 6 May 2014

The main issue in NZ politics today is the Judith Collins scandal. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 5 May 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are about Judith Collins, Maurice Williamson and the National Government. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 2 May 2014

The main issue in NZ politics today is the Maurice Williamson scandal and resignation. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 30 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Labour's monetary policy, legal highs, David Cunliffe and the Labour Party, Defence, and the economy. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 29 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are legal highs, Shane Jones, and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 28 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Shane Jones and Labour, Legal highs, alcohol, housing, Anzac Day, and alcohol. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 24 April 2014

The main issue in NZ politics today is Shane Jones and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 23 April 2014

The major NZ politics story of the day is the retirement of Shane Jones from politics. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 22 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Green Party, Act's Three-strikes policy, Judith Collins, Labour party, Tariana Turia and the Maori Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 14 April 2014

The main issues in NZ Politics today are the Mana.Com alliance, Labour and the Greens, the National Party, the royal visit, and Maori poilitics. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 10 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the royal tour of NZ, Simon Bridges, the Labour Party and the Greens, and Mana and the Internet Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 9 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the royal visit and republicanism, the Countdown supermarket enquiry, Budget 2014 and the economy, Tau Henare's resignation, and the National Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 8 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Royal tour of NZ, NZ First, the Internet Party, and Tau Henare resigning. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 7 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Labour Party, Countdown allegations, macroeconomic policies, welfare reform, inequality and poverty, and the Internet Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 3 April 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Labour Party, Media and polls, the 2014 Budget, and Offshore oil and gas. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 27 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party, John Key in Europe, Cyber-bullying law, the Genesis sale, fiscal policy, Kohanga Reo Trust, and the Press Council. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 26 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Dotcom Internet Party, Hone Harawira's Mana Party, and John Key in Europe. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 25 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Dotcom's Internet Party alliance with Mana, the Kohanga Reo scandal, NZ-China relations, and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 24 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Kohanga Reo scandal and Hekia Parata, the Dotcom Internet Party alliances, the funding cuts to the Problem Gambling Foundation, and NZ-China relations. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 20 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are John Key in China, Judith Collins, Hone Harawira, the Kohanga Reo Trust, Forestry, and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 19 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are John Key in China, Judith Collins, and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 18 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are education, the Greens, the latest polls, and the Labour and National parties. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 17 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Greens, NZ First, Judith Collins, the economy, education, and David Cunliffe and the Labour Party. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 14 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, National's citizenship waiver, Amy Adams, the Genesis float, and polling and the election. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 13 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, Amy Adams, Labour-Greens relations, and the flag change debate. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 12 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the announcement of the general election date, the flag change referendum, Shane Jones and the Greens, and Judith Collins and Oravida [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 11 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the general election date being announced, Judith Collins, electricity, and money and politics. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 10 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are about the relationship between money, business and politics. Additional topics include Colin Craig vs Russel Norman, the Labour Party, the National Party, education, and gender equality. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 7 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Judith Collins, David Cunliffe, TVNZ, Patrick Gower, and Gerry Brownlee. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 6 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the allegations about Judith Collins, David Cunliffe's trusts, Labour and its ICT leaks, and John Key. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 5 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are David Cunliffe's secret trust, the Labour Party, Judith Collins' alleged conflicts of interest, Labour's ICT leak, and Colin Craig. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 4 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are David Cunliffe and the Labour Party, Ukraine, the Act Party, Mojo Mathers, and Maori politics. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 3 March 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are the Act Party conference, the Mojo Mathers controversy, Matt McCarten, Tamati Coffey, and offshore oil and gas. [Read more below]

NZ Politics Daily - 28 February 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Matt McCarten and Labour, Pike River, Tony Ryall, Act Party, and child poverty. [Read more below]

 

NZ Politics Daily - 27 February 2014

The main issues in NZ politics today are Matt McCarten and Labour, asset sales, online bullying, and the Act Party. [Read more below]