NZ POLITICS DAILY: 4th February 2014

Today’s content

ACT

Dominion Post: Editorial: A pact with ACT not a great look

The Press: Editorial: Reinventing the Right of centre

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): New ACT leader changes views

Audrey Young (Herald): Key plays wait-and-see on party favours

Radio NZ: Election jack-up claimed by Greens

Herald: Editorial: Act's new leader could take lesson from Greens

Radio NZ: PM coy on possible support for ACT

Simon Wong (TV3): Key coy on Epsom seat deal

John Armstrong (Herald): Act finally does something right

Audrey Young (Herald): New Act leader 'getting lot of advice'

TVNZ: Act's new leader confident of turning party around

Briar Marbeck (TV3): ACT has become a 'soap opera'

RadioLIVE: Is this the last ACT?

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): ACT has an uphill battle

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On further changes at Scoop, and the new Act Party leader

Tim Watkin (Pundit): ACT tilts at windmills, but don't forget other minors

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Meet The New Boss … Does Act’s Jamie Whyte represent change or continuity?

Metiria Turei

Nelson Mail: Dressing up and lowering standards

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): No-one wins after clothing argument

Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): Metiria and her 137,000-dollar “ivory tower”

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): "They go hard, they really go hard"

Catherine Delahunty (Frogblog): How adversarial politics is putting women off in the Pacific

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Wearing Racism

Pete George (Your NZ): Judith Collins versus Campbell Live

General election

Pattrick Smellie (NBR): Key hints at early November election date

Susan James (Stuff): Don't be dumb, New Zealand

Michael Cox (Herald): The perils of meeting the voters

Matthew Beveridge: Social Media & the 2014 General Election

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Will you be voting lizard this year?

Newswire: G20 summit complicates election date

Rob Salmond (Polity): Survey of non-voters

Jan Logie (Frogblog): Political decisions and Domestic Violence

Bruce Wills (Stuff): A funny way to attract voters

NZ First

ODT: The balance of power

Patrick Gower (TV3): Opinion: Winston, stop talking waffle

Patrick Gower (TV3): Poll: Public support for coalition with Peters

Audrey Young (Herald): Work with Peters, poll says

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Voters support Key with NZ First

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: Key might have to deal with the devil he knows

Labour Party

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Minimum wage hike puts pressure on Labour

Narelle Henson (Stuff): Labour/Green campaigns too bizarre to ignore

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour supporters want tax hikes even if they bring in no more revenue

Russell Brown (Hard News): Aiming for the feet

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Soper challenged

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): OECD says you can’t do special tax rules for digital companies

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe sets benchmark for election

Andrew Geddes (Pundit): Won't someone please think of poor Lesley?

Pete George (Your NZ): Cunliffe sets ambitious target

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Dark days

Genesis float

NBR: Genesis Energy float timing soon, says Key

No Right Turn: Selling something that nobody wants to buy

National Party

Rose Patterson (Stuff): Smart politics or smart policy?

Pete George (Your NZ): English and English

Maori politics

Michael Fox (Stuff): Key expects Waitangi protests

Newswire: Key expects protests at Waitangi

Colin James (ODT): National day — for a leading small advanced country

Adam Bennett (Herald): Protesters at powhiri just part of day: PM

Radio NZ: PM expects trouble at Waitangi

Jack MacDonald (Maui Street): Why I am standing for Te Tai Hauāuru - Jack McDonald

Education

Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): High-achievement recipe needs some sugar

Darrell Latham (The Press): Striving for the best in education

RadioLIVE:/Newswire: Union sceptical about education taskforce

Radio NZ: Parata wants schools to cut red tape

Economy

James Weir (Stuff): Business confidence on a high

TVNZ: Billionaire may buy Martinborough Vineyard

Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Evaluating export growth.

Libertarianz

Simon Wong (TV3): Libertarianz call it quits as party

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Libertarianz ask to be deregistered after 19 years

Radio NZ: Libertarianz Party deregisters

Inequality and poverty

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): 

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Another draconian attack on the poor dressed up as social responsibility

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Globalisation isn’t the problem

Matt Nolan (TVHE): Are we all confusing status competition and ‘inequality’: Short answer, yes

Karl du Fresne: Banks retains the capacity to surprise

David Clendon (Frogblog): Aspiring Northland

Taranaki Daily News: Helping those who can't help themselves

Giovanni Tiso (Bat, Bean, Beam): The cost of living

New flag

Newswire: No rush to decide on flag referendum

Kerre McIvor (Herald): How to flag down the boss

NZ-Australia relations

Newswire: John Key to talk Kiwi rights in Aussie

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ delegation to travel to Australia for joint cabinet

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Key and Abbott to provide double vision on economic growth

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, February 4

Stuff: Poll shows Kiwis support irrigation

Steve Deane (Herald): Roast Busters fallout: Talkback host sues for $620,000

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): MFAT told off over OIA response rate

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): We did it again!

TVNZ: Rachel Smalley joins TVNZ

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Scoop: Meet the new boss, just like the old boss

Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): Helen's world

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Parliamentary Service admits new privacy blunder

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Berms being mowed again

Tim Hazledine (Herald): An economist's view of $100K contest

The Standard: UN to NZ Human Rights – ‘can do better’