Today’s content
Labour Party
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour's biggest and best shot
Claire Trevett (Herald): Floating happily on a sea of red
Tracy Watkins and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour's health plan cost queried
Claire Trevett (Herald): $280m health plans target older voters
RNZ: Health policy spending adds up, Labour says
Tracey Watkins and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Old, young in sights for Labour, NZ First
Matthew Hooton (NBR): Nash/Davis: Labour’s impossible dream team (paywalled)
Stuff: National marches on Labour turf
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour kicks off campaign with focus on health
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Fishing for votes with David Cunliffe
TVNZ: Labour's education plans find favour in new poll
TV3: Labour promises free GP visits
TVNZ: Labour launches campaign with free healthcare promise
Tony Wall and Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Labour's big boost to health
Adam Bennett (Herald): Labour plans free care in pregnancy
New Zealand First
Steve Deane (Herald): Leaders unplugged: Winston Peters
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Peters unveils plan to transform KiwiSaver
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston's digs come with jokes
Newswire: New Zealand First a week away from releasing list
TVNZ: Winston Peters takes swipe at rivals at NZ First campaign launch
Derek Cheng (Herald): Peters: KiwiSaver for all newborns
Radio NZ: NZ First accused of racism on housing
Newswire: Peters promises to widen KiwiSaver
Newswire: NZ First to launch election campaign
Minor leaders’ debate
Patrice Dougan (Newstalk ZB): Colin Craig fails to shine
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Minor parties go head-to-head
Stuff: Craig, Peters face-off in debate
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Nation’s Minor Party Leaders Debate
RadioLive: Minor parties debate land ownership
Jacqui Stanford (Newstalk ZB): ACT claiming victory in minor party debate
The Standard: Leading voices: TV debates
Epsom contest
TVNZ: National leads the way in Epsom poll
Bryce Edwards and Geoffrey Miller (Herald): Twitter 2014: Epsom all a-twitter; but will it count?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Q&A Epsom Debazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Derek Cheng (Herald): Epsom co-operating with National-Act deal
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): ACT compares Pakeha struggles to apartheid
NBR: Whoops: National's Goldsmith well ahead of ACT's Seymour in Epsom
Campaign
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Key erred - any Harre hookup would be cougar mama-like
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Legal action threat gets candidate on to stage
John Armstrong (Herald): Spend-big politicians play into National's hands
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The two sides of election spending
Adam Bennett (Herald): Health and youth packages lift Labour's total
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Rash election tactics flow thick and fast
Brendan Manning (Herald): Key disappointed by billboard vandalism
Paul Little (Herald): Stand-up slogans fall flat
Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of . . . Colin Craig
Rodney Hide (Herald): Act's choice driven to succeed
TVNZ: Climate Party launched
Newstalk ZB: Election campaigning begins in earnest
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Another court bid over a debate snub
Colin James (Radio NZ): Poll of polls
Internet Mana video
Gordon Campbell (Scoop) On Internet Mana’s swearing video
Herald: Editorial: Parties alert to Dotcom's campaign
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): F*ing John Key: How Kim Dotcom and Internet-Mana transformed the Right into their best recruiters
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Young need to connect the Dots
Michael Cummings (Stuff): Fired up youth a good thing
Tova O’Brien (TV3): Dotcom labelled a 'thug' by Labour MP
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Internet Party association is dangerous for NZ
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Rude-word history repeating
Southland Times: Editorial – Party-party-party politics
Stephen Keys (Unframed): NZ youth: burn more flags and shout all you like
John Braddock (World Socialist Website): New Zealand: Internet-Mana parties wage bogus anti-establishment campaign
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Comrade Dotcom
Land sales and foreign ownership
John Armstrong (Herald): Lochinver sale raises quality of election debates
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Do MPs cash in on xenophobia? You can bet the farm
John Roughan (Herald): Lochinver is an issue Key needs
Greg Presland (The Standard): The Lochinver station
Rod Oram (Stuff): No big bucks from foreign ownership of NZ farms
Other
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Taxpayers pay for MP's counselling
Rodney Hide (NBR): An open letter to the race relations commissioner (paywalled)
Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): ISO on iwi
John Weekes (Herald): Case against PM and cop thrown out
Fiona Rotherham (Stuff): No backing to extend 90-day hiring trial
Byron Clark (Fightback): National and its right wing friends
Bryce Edwards
Mon, 11 Aug 2014
Mon, 11 Aug 2014
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