The main issues in NZ politics today are the Labour Party and Matt McCarten, new media, the Living Wage, and cyber-bullying. [Read more below]
The main issues in NZ politics today are the Labour Party and Matt McCarten, new media, the Living Wage, and cyber-bullying. [Read more below]
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Labour and the latest polls
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): I expect the political prospects of the left to dramatically lift
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): What my gut tells me
Will Matthews (Left Estate): Dangerous Whispers
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): That Sinking Feeling: Is it already too late to save Labour and the Greens from disaster?
Third Culture: Is Labour targeting the wrong issue?
Pete George (Your NZ): Daily Blog poll denial – “trying to manipulate” opinion
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Latest TV1-Colmar Brunton Poll – Back To The Future IV?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): We have nothing to fear but TVNZ Polls
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A promising selection
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Tracking poll update
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour’s poll woes create pressure, will it be diamonds or coal?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): A message for Cunliffe?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Corin Dann swallowing dead rats
Pete George (Your NZ): Re-orientation more pressing for Robertson
Shane Taurima
Herald: TVNZ review into political bias to start this week
Radio NZ: TVNZ inquiry members named
Vernon Small (Stuff): 'Full access' for duo reviewing TVNZ probe
Newswire: TVNZ begins Taurima investigation
TVNZ: TVNZ names team to conduct Shane Taurima review
ACT
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): ACT leader confident Epsom voters know what to do
Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): National likely praying Prebble will save ACT
Dan Satherley (TV3): Prebble backs Whyte to revive ACT
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If the answer is Richard Prebble – what the hell was the question?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Suddenly the ACT Party is interesting again
Colin James (ODT): A battered fringe party hoping for rescue
Greens
Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Hay accuses Greens of 'smear campaign'
Stuff: Greens suspend leadership challenger
Stuff: Suspended Greens leadership challenger won't say sorry
Simon Wong (TV3): Greens leadership challenger kicked out
Isaac Davison (Herald): Green Party suspends candidate David Hay
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Greens suspend candidate David Hay
Radio NZ: Hay has 'no regrets'
Jacob Brown (Newstalk ZB): Change in style could be behind Greens' drop in polls
Radio NZ: Greens play down latest poll
Pete George (Your NZ): Greens see red over dissent
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens want to be in the PM vs Opp Ldr debate
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why the Greens demand to be part of election debates plays into Key’s hands
David Hay (Seriously: “Green”): Thanks and farewell to the Greens
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Green Party member who stood for leader suspended
Pete George (Your NZ): Turei on ‘rogue poll’
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Debates for PM and would-be not minor players
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Green Party moves to silence dissent, suspends member for 12 months
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Tell him ‘e’s dreamin’
Asset sales
Radio NZ: No more asset sales? Cunliffe doesn't believe it
Rob Salmond (Polity): Another asset sale
Stuff: English lifting lid on Genesis sale
NBR: Govt to sell Genesis stake in ‘next month or so’, Key says
Adam Bennett (Herald): PM: no more SOEs to sell after Genesis
Simon Wong (TV3): Govt confirms Genesis sale
Newswire: Genesis sale 'political expediency'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Genesis float in March
Minimum wage increase
Adam Bennett (Herald): Bonus for 100,000 workers
Vernon Small (Stuff): Minimum wage up 50c
Simon Wong (TV3): Minimum wage to rise to $14.25 an hour
Adam Bennett (Herald): Minimum wage set to rise
Vernon Small (Stuff): Union attacks minimum wage rise
Newswire: 'Missed opportunity' with minimum wage rise
TVNZ: Nearly half of Kiwis back $15 minimum wage – poll
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Minimum wage to go to $14.25 an hour
NBR Staff (NBR): National bows to minimum wage myths - ACT
GCSB
Radio NZ: Spy agencies silent over funding
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Spies mum over US cash questions
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): One line in the sand
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): GCSB complicit in NSA/GCHQ spying on Kiwis
No Right Turn: So much for Parliamentary oversight
No Right Turn: "An operational matter"
Selwyn Manning (Daily Blog): Two Hops: How New Zealand’s Security Agencies Surveil Targets Without Warrants
Pete Hodgson
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Dunedin mayor defends MP deal
Southland Times: Time, gentlemen, please . . .
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Where’s the paper trail?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Mayor gets former MP $3,400 with no documentation
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Money for mates – Taxpayer’s union uncovers Dunedin Mayor and Pete Hodgson
Superannuation
Audrey Young (Herald): National lacks courage on retirement age - Act leader
Newswire: Govt stands firm: no change in pension age
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: If only we'd kept Big Norm's super fund
Peter Wilson (Newswire): National super is affordable, Key says
Housing
Herald: Editorial: Warrants of fitness a must for all rental homes
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Will rental WOFs make the grade?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Housing Warrant of Fitness
Chris Barton (Metro): GI Blues: Inside the Glen Innes state house war zone
Colin Craig
TVNZ: Colin Craig needs to 'harden up' –PM
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Norman shouldn't apologise – Key
Newswire: Key advises Craig against legal action
Pete George (Your NZ): We shouldn’t “just accept it” Mr Key
Blogging
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): In bed with the bloggers
Rob Salmond (Polity): HoS on the blogsters
Other
Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, February 25
Isaac Davison (Herald): Migrant worker abuse crackdown
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Why the Maori Party could be left, right out
Matthew Beveridge: People you should follow on Twitter: Graeme Edgeler
Stephen Jacobi (Stuff): TPP benefit study was robust
Wilma McCorkindale and Amanda Parkinson (Stuff): DHB's 'in survival mode'
Radio NZ: Warning over power disconnections
Winston Peters (RadioLIVE): Auckland city plan favours iwi rights
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Spark
Radio NZ: Playcentres close over 'silly rules'
Ben Heather (Stuff): American tax grab may target Kiwis
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Kim Dotcom, the conviction of Daljit Singh, Colin Craig vs Russel Norman, the supermarket industry, and Shane Taurima. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Shane Taurima and partisan media issues, Colin Craig vs Russel Norman, the supermarket industry, and the Labour and National parties. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Shane Taurima, the Greens and solar energy, Colin Craig vs Russel Norman, and John Banks. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Kim Dotcom (and the many related issues), the supermarket trade, the latest opinion polls, the Labour Party, and the Greens. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Kim Dotcom, the supermarket industry, education, Odd Future, and inequality, poverty and employment. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the Dotcom saga and the supermarket allegations. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Kim Dotcom's Internet Party, Syria, whaling, the Labour and National parties, education, and plain packaging for cigarettes. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the New Zealanders fighting in Syria, Kim Dotcom's Internet Party, the Greens, NZ-Australian relations, the electricity market, and inequality, poverty and employment. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ poitics today are NZ-Australian relations, taxation and inequality, Waitangi Day and Maori politics, and the Big Gay Out. [Read more below]
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The main issue in NZ politics today is Waitangi Day and race relations. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Waitangi Day and Maori politics, the National Party, Labour Party, Kim Dotcom, and inequality and poverty. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the Act Party leadership, debates about Metiria Turei's clothes, NZ First, Labour Party, Maori politics, and inequality and poverty. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Metiria Turei's clothes and racism debate, the Act Party leadership, the latest opinion poll, the Labour Party, and the economy. [Read more below]
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The main issue in NZ politics today is the debate about Labour's Best Start policy announcement, together with related issues of inequality, education, and welfare. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Cunliffe's 'state of the nation speech' and 'baby bonus', education policy, and the Greens. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the Greens' education policy announcement, National's education policy, inequality and poverty, Dotcom's Internet Party, Ratana and Maori politics, the Act Party, NZ First, and the economy. [Read more below]
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The main issue in NZ politics today is John Key's 'state of the nation' speech and the announcements about education reforms. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are National and its coalition options, the Labour Party, the latest opinion poll, the Dotcom Internet Party, offshore oil and gas, and the Speakers conference. [Read more below]
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The main issue in NZ politics today is the 2014 general election and post-election coalition options. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the Kim Dotcom Internet Party, Len Brown, Maori politics, Act Party, and inequality and poverty. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are the Kim Dotcom Internet Party, the 2014 election, Colin Craig, Act Party, protection orders, Len Brown, and the economy. [Read more below]
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Amongst the circus surrounding Kim Dotcom’s new Internet Party, two big questions stand out: 1) Will it succeed, and 2) What does it stand for? Many of the more important and interesting commentaries look at whether it is genuinely relevant – rather than a trivial sideshow – and what impact it could have politically and ideologically. [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 16 January 2014: Dotcom's Internet Party - can it succeed?" »
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Colin Craig and smacking, the Act Party, Dotcom's Mega Party, and oil and gas. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ Politics at the end of last week were offshore drilling, parliamentary severance payments, the economy, Fonterra, and Len Brown. [Read more below]
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What can we expect to happen in New Zealand politics in 2014? Political commentators and bloggers are in the midst of publishing their predictions, forecasts and analysis for 2014. This column points to the more interesting and important views being put forward, details two major issues that are set to dominate this election year, and looks at the challenges ahead for the Government and Opposition. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ Politics today are about reviewing the 2013 year in politics and forecasting the 2014 year in politics. [Read more below]
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It was a tumultuous and colourful year in politics, littered with downfalls, fiascos and failures. The large number of politicians and other political figures who suffered embarrassments and scandals provided rich pickings for political commentators and especially satirists. In his end of year column Steve Braunias reflects on a year in which politicians made his job easy: ‘It was a vintage year for low farce and high foolishness in New Zealand public life, for shameful acts and disgraceful behaviour, for sheer stupidity and evil doing, and I was very grateful’ – see: The secret diaries of 2013. An introspective Braunias marvels at his quarry: ‘They offered no resistance. They came quietly. They were already ridiculous; it was as though they wrote the diary themselves’. [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 31 December 2013: A year of downfalls, fiascos and failures" »
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A round-up of some important and interesting items in the mainstream media and blogosphere that you might have missed over the last few weeks. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Len Brown, Bob Jones, Avatar, the economy, and the Act and Conservative parties. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Len Brown, the asset sales referendum, Avatar, Nelson Mandela, and the Act and Conservative parties. [Read more below]
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There’s been a battle over the weekend about how to interpret, sell, and spin the asset sales referendum results. Of course, this tussle has been mostly self-serving, with Labour/Green partisans declaring the referendum a resounding defeat for the Government, and National partisans promoting equal reasons to celebrate. So, who really won the referendum? Or did we all lose? [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 16 December 2013: So, who won the asset sales referendum?" »
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New Zealand politics is ‘a dirty, disgusting, despicable game. And it involves dirty, disgusting despicable people at all levels’. That’s the view of National Party-aligned blogger Cameron Slater. Is he right? Some areas are obviously cleaner and more principled than others. The blogosphere – although a particularly valuable part of the ‘public sphere’ – is often also one of the dirtiest and more deceptive. This reputation will be further cemented by revelations yesterday that one of John Key’s spin-doctors, Jason Ede, has supplied content to Cameron Slater’s Whaleoil blog. For the best coverage of this, see Michael Fox’s Senior Key staffer's rubbish pic duty. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Nelson Mandela, paid parental leave, TPP, and the Census. [Read more below]
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In the last few days there has been a wealth of evidence and examples pointing to the existence of widespread poverty in New Zealand. Given that growing inequality and poverty has been a significant problem for decades now – under both Labour and National governments – is it any wonder that it tends to be put in the ‘too hard’ basket. [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 11 December 2013: Who cares about poverty?" »
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The main issues in NZ politics today are inequality and child poverty, Nelson Mandela, the Maori Party, Maori politics, and resource extraction and the environment. [Read more below]
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You can’t take politics out of the death of one of the world’s most significant political figures. South Africa is a long way from New Zealand, yet the anti-apartheid struggle and the life of Nelson Mandela has greatly influenced our country’s politics. Inevitably, then, the death of Mandela has given rise to some very important and interesting political debate. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are Nelson Mandela's death, Act Party, Colin Craig, child welfare, education, Chorus, the Constitutional Review, and spying. [Read more below]
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Never before has the word ‘corruption’ been in so much use in New Zealand politics. The legal trial of John Banks is just the latest political scandal that involves allegations of corruption being asserted. There are plenty of other political controversies at the moment where allegations of corruption are a factor. Yet, today the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International has declared, once again, that New Zealand is the least corrupt nation in the world, ranked equally with Denmark. You can see the Transparency International report here: Corruption Perception Index 2013. For further details and discussion of the results and what they all mean, see my blogpost, Political corruption in New Zealand – 2013. In this I point out that an apparent paradox exists whereby New Zealand has experienced an explosion of political finance scandals over recent years, yet Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) suggests New Zealand is relatively immune from corruption. I look at some of the reasons why this might be. The blogpost also includes some information on how the use of the words corruption and corrupt have exploded within the media over recent years. [Read more below]
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Democratic politics depends on the existence of a healthy ‘public sphere’ in which debate, ideas and information flows freely. Traditionally the media is seen as the vehicle for this ‘public sphere’. Currently, however, there are a number of important debates about the state of the media and public debate, and the blogosphere which bring into question the health of democratic politics in New Zealand. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics daily are the Christchurch East by-election result, the Green Party leadership challenge, media law about bloggers, deep sea oil drilling, and forestry worker safety. [Read more below]
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It’s unprecedented. All the parties in Parliament – from Act to Mana - have ganged up on National to block it overruling the Commerce Commission’s decision to lower broadband pricing. But it still leaves the problem unfixed, which is why Paul Brislen’s column today, What to do about Chorus is a must-read for anyone interested in the issue. He outlines six options: Do nothing, Give Chorus more money directly, Go back out to market, Provide bank debt assurance, Nationalise Chorus, or Cancel the UFB. [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 29 November 2013: Must-reads from the last week" »
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Labour and the Greens probably have a 50/50 chance of forming the next government as recent opinion polls have them neck-and-neck with National in the race for the popular support. But the two parties face all sorts of problems and challenges in the lead up to election day. The main challenge for Labour and the Greens is how to both ‘compete and co-operate’ and there will be some delicate manoevering required in how the two parties present themselves to the electorate. This is covered well today by Vernon Small’s must-read column, Art of doing two things at once. The column also looks at the challenging ‘fault line’ that is submerged within the Labour caucus, and has led to ambiguous and problematic policy stances on issues such as deep sea oil drilling, the SkyCity convention centre deal, and the Trans Pacific Partnership. [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 28 November 2013: Challenges for the Greens and Labour" »
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There’s about one year to go until the general election, and there are some very important debates and decisions in play at the moment relating to the following questions: How can National help get its preferred coalition partner into Parliament (without causing too much embarrassment)? Can National and the Conservatives work together, and what would a Conservative government look like? Is National worthy of another term in government? How will the proposed new electoral boundaries impact on incumbent MPs? Who will replace the Maori Party leaders as candidates in the Maori seats? Will Russel Norman still be co-leader of the Greens? And what’s happening right now with the Christchurch East by-election? [Read more below]
Continue reading "NZ Politics Daily - 27 November 2013: Winning at the 2014 General Election" »
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The main issues in NZ politics today are deep sea oil drilling, the Maori electorates, asset sales, spying, and ACC. [Read more below]
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The main topics in NZ politics today are electoral seats for the 2014 election, the Conservative Party, deep sea oil drilling, asset sales, Pike River compensation, water quality, housing and health. [Read more below]
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A vicious blog war is raging over the successful campaign against Radiolive broadcasters Willie Jackson and John Tamihere. After blogger Giovanni Tiso, succeeded in getting Jackson and Tamihere taken off the air via a campaign focused on the radio station’s advertisers, bloggers have been vigorously debating whether this amounts to some kind of economic censorship that threatens free expression and media freedom. The debate has also encompassed highly-contested arguments about racism, feminism and identity politics in general. [Read more below]
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The National Government continues to have plenty of challenges and controversies to deal with. Below are some of the recent items that discuss National’s opportunities, successes, failures, and on-going difficulties. [Read more below]
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The main issues in NZ politics today are asset sales, Pike River, housing, the environment, and John Key in Asia. [Read more below]
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