NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 18 2014

Today’s content

Conservatives

Newstalk ZB: Colin Craig, press secretary part ways

Herald: Colin Craig's press secretary quits, reportedly calls him a 'manipulative man'

TV3: Colin Craig: Public doesn't trust Govt

RNZ: Craig says party will get over threshold

Steve Braunias (Metro): Campaign Diary: Day 12

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Don’t vote for Colon

Leaders debate

TVNZ: Fast and feisty final leaders debate

Claire Trevett (Herald): Final debate: Leaders keen to avoid Dotcom

Adam Bennett (Herald): Fourth debate: No power sharing with Peters

Herald: Key v Cunliffe: Who won the fourth debate?

Stuff: Leaders' debate: Numbers don't add up

Simon Wong (TV3): Leaders: Too many distractions in campaign

TVNZ: Key, Cunliffe go 'hammer and tongs' in final TV debate

GCSB and spying

Dan Satherley (TV3): Peters not telling where NSA bases are

Newswire: Internet Mana: We'd give Snowden asylum

Kelly Dennett and Manpreet Farrar (Newstalk ZB): No spying under Labour: Cunliffe

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Greenwald wants answers from spy watchdog

Adam Bennett (Herald): John Key 'comfortable' that NSA is not spying on NZ

Nelson Mail: Bombed timing?

TV3: PM appears to be lying about GCSB - Edwards

Paul McBeth (NBR): GCSB's 'Project Cortex' may expand to technology sharing with ISPs

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NSA spying can't be ruled out: PM

Dan Satherley (TV3): Spy claims will backfire on left - Joyce

TVNZ: Spy chief needs to look at our evidence – Greenwald

Radio NZ: No mass surveillance in New Zealand – PM

No Right Turn: Key admits the GCSB has broken the law

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A reader on Five Eyes

PMC: NZ: Mixed reaction over 'gang of four' mass surveillance impact on election

The Jackal: Key declassified secret information in error

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Privacy, Property and the #SurveillanceState

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): That’s democracy, David

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Media advisory: Glenn Greenwald is a fraud

TV3: Dotcom staff allege poor wages, bullying

TV3: Dotcom: 'I have never bullied staff'

Stephen Keys (Unframed): XKEYSCORE – NAH, YEAH

Brook Sabin (TV3): Cunliffe 'detests' Dotcom's big money

Selwyn Manning (Daily Blog): Has The NSA Constructed The Perfect PPP?

Radio NZ: Potentional partners criticise backtrack

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Clark and Privacy Commissioner also say there is no mass surveillance

Anthony Robbins (The Standard): Key’s last fig leaf

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key slams Greenwald over potential spiking of NZ's UN bid

Dominion Post: Advantages to Five Eyes network

Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Making out the Dotcom circus

Johnny Moore (Stuff): Kim Dotcodotnz could get Kiwi support

Simon Wong (TV3): Key 'reasonably knowledgeable' about GCSB

Andrea Vance (Stuff): How the Snowden story unfolded

Stuff: Greenwald's unanswered questions

TVNZ: Key not ruling out whether US spying on Kiwis

Stephen Franks: On the moral merits of hackers and spies

Polls

Greg Presland (The Standard): The latest polls

Patrick Gower (TV3): Poll: Winston holds balance of power

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Two more polls

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The most marginal seats according to iPredict

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): Poll of Polls update – 17 September 2014

Radio NZ: Te Tai Hauauru candidate wary of polls

Colin James (Radio NZ): Poll of polls

Ian Llewellyn (Scoop): The More Things Change…

Economy

Stuff: NZ's economy hollow: Cunliffe

Peter Lyons (Herald): Trickle-down is part of the problem, not an answer

Radio NZ: Income inequality - growing or stagnant

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): How much has the economy grown?

Richard Medows (Stuff): Fears investors would shun shares under Labour

Tim Fulton and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Flock Hill job losses a 'red herring'

TVNZ: Loss of tourism jobs a 'red herring' – Key

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Capital Gains Tax Bleg

Catherine Harris (Stuff): NZ homes among least affordable: BIS

Kate Chapman (Stuff): Strong opposition to foreign ownership of NZ farms - survey

ACT

Brendan Manning (Herald): Election 2014: Act rules out deal involving NZ First

Stuff: ACT: We'll win 3 or 4 seats

Matthew Beveridge: Jamie Whyte and ask away

NZ First

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters wins a debate he wasn't in

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Brief Winston Peters predictions for the record

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Winston grinning at the sidelines

National

Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): Bill English's cocaine reference slammed

Claire Trevett (Herald): National pledge to cut benefit numbers by 25 per cent

TV3: Australian Liberals want Kiwis to vote National

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Eminem fires back at National

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): National plans to cut numbers by 25%

Dave Gooselink (TV3): Clutha-Southland candidates' big challenge

Greens

Michael Fox (Stuff): Meet the leaders: Metiria Turei

TV3: Turei pushes for co-Deputy PM role

Dirty Politics

No Right Turn: Taking a stand against dirty politics

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Was Dotcom behind the hacking of my emails?

Other

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): What happens to Labour if they lose?

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim Post): Election predictions and uncertainties and strategic voting

The Ruminator: Election Prediction

Radio NZ: 10% of enrolled people have voted

Stephen Keys (Unframed): How the MSM fails us on democracy

Andrew Geddes (Pundit): A firm prediction about what will happen on September 21

Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (TV3): Party leaders hit the road in final push

Derek Cheng (Herald): Hone Harawira fears plot to unseat him

Aaron Leaman and Matt Bowen (Stuff): Voting rort allegations with intellectually disabled

Mark Blackham (Political Business): Why campaigns concentrate on decided voters

Aimee Gulliver and Michael Fox (Stuff): Hone Harawira accuses Maori Party of sabotage

Ciara Pratt (Stuff): Voting matters, youth say

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Take your pick - lamb chops or steak

Shilo Kino (Stuff): Charter school a boost for Maori kids

John Armstrong (Herald): Parties' final push: Getting punters out to vote

Sarah Wilson (Stuff): Each vote counts in every election

Scoop: New methods needed to reach non-voters

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Large donations in 2014

Nelson Mail: Skies brewing up wintry election

Peter Calder (Herald): An open letter to our leaders