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NZ POLITICS DAILY: August 27 2014

Bryce Edwards
Wed, 27 Aug 2014

Today’s content

Campaign

John Armstrong (Herald): National careful not to name NZ First as spendthrifts

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Election 2014 like a James Bond plot

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Press Leaders Debate 2014  

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Will Labour abolish three strikes for repeat serious offenders?

Newswire: Panel backs Cunliffe's warning

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Election 2014: How to make sense of spending promises (paywalled)

Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): 60 tweeps to follow this election

Dave Clarkson (Stuff): Man admits defacing National Party billboards

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The irony of National's housing policy

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Maori Party list

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is it weird Radio NZ ban me yet still have….

Mark Sainsbury (Herald): Animals still need help after election

Simon Wilson (Metro): Meanwhile, Down On The Farm…

Andrea Vance (Stuff): The slick and the dead calm

TVNZ: Bill English plays down tax cut talk

Newswire: Labour policy to protect gay students

Claire Trevett (Herald): Mine blast rings on in PM's ears

Herald: Cameras to nail election billboard vandals

Herald: Newcomers jump up the party list as Williams dumped

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Govt looking at charter rules change

Audrey Young (Herald): Labour's three gender options for passports

Herald: Editorial: Abandoned policies show Labour's new responsibility

Grant Shimmin (Stuff): Editorial: Time to be informed

Michelle A’Court (Stuff): Could Mary please stand up and take charge?

Stuff: Campaign Diary: Tuesday, 28 August

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Pike River families face PM

TVNZ: New Zealanders want parole scapped, Colin Craig says

David Snell (Stuff): Capital gains tax: Exempting the family home

Brook Sabin (TV3): Pike families dissatisfied with PM's visit

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Division over KiwiSaver's future

Claire Trevett (Herald): Government to continue $50m rural broadband levy

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe quiet on assets  

Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour will give policy on state asset buy-backs

Radio NZ: Conservatives release party list

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Tax cuts policy still elusive

Mark Hubbard (Life behind the iron drape): New Zealand’s Race Debate: Classical Liberalism & Partnership Separatism - Parallelism - with Maori

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): National's Deputy Leader in the dark over Ministerial staff rules

 

Election songs

John Armstrong (Herald): Hip-hop song scrapes bottom of rotten barrel

Russell Brown (Public Address): Media Take: Election Songs

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): It’s alive!

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key says daughter should be off limits

TVNZ: Police assessing 'Kill the PM' song

Jono Natusch: That joke isn’t funny anymore

Radio NZ: Musician seeks Planet Key ban repeal

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Hip hop death threats – the selective outrage of our media

Man of errors: @Peace

Anthony Robins (The Standard): Condemning the obvious

TV3: Family First condemns 'Kill the PM' song

 

Dirty Politics

Anne Salmond (Herald): Royal commission needed to clean up dirty politics

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Dirty Politics should add spice to TV debate

Stuff: Cunliffe: New Zealand's grubbiest election campaign yet

Craig McCulloch (Radio NZ): Judith Collins digs in over Dirty Politics

Brent Edwards (Radio NZ): National told to get rid of 'rogue elements'

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): PM urged to rethink relationship with blogger

James Ireland (Stuff): Collins stays confident about Papakura

Kate Davis (Daily Blog): An Old and Honourable Profession

The Standard: All Antennae – No Compass

Richard Swainson (Stuff): When privacy goes flying out the window

Stuff: Plunket apologises over Gower ambush

The Standard: Tapping the media: subverting democracy

Nelson Mail: Collins conspicuous by her absence

Giovanni Tiso (Ban beam bean): The Jane Clifton continuum

Chloe King (Daily Blog): An open letter to David Farrar: Please, be that guy

Zayrd Wilson (Wanganui Chronical): Wanganui man outed in Hager's book

 

New Zealand First

Hamish Rutherford and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Asset shopping may woo Peters to Labour

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): NZ First is Luigi Peters

Tova O’Brient (TV3): NZ First's Andrew Williams out, Ron Mark on the up

Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters' Two Wongs joke a bit of fun - poll

Derek Cheng (Herald): Andrew Williams set to be dumped after clash with party leaders

Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Polished Winston finds himself in a home for the bewildered

Ian Llewellyn (Election data consortium): NZ First - Those Aged Over 65 Could Decide Next Government

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ First wipes Andrew Williams from list

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The NZ First list

Simon Wong (TV3): Andrew Williams quits NZ First

 

Internet Mana

Grant Miller (Stuff): Internet-Mana could influence election

Herald: Pam Corkery offered to resign - but won't apologise

Stuff: Corkery offers resignation after media clash

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Dotcom's 'bomb drop' could involve Assange

 

Other

Julia Hollingsworth (Newswire): John Banks' story backed by US businessmen

Radio NZ: Study links cancer to childhood poverty

Herald: Tests done in diplomat case

The Press: Editorial: Our job market; our rules apply

Dominion Post: School pressure will not be tolerated

David Killick (Stuff): Land key to housing crisis

Michael Fox (Stuff): Police draw a blank on Hone office shots

Matthew Beveridge: Guest post: Vernon Tava

No Right Turn: Monitoring the OIA: The view from FYI

Bryce Edwards
Wed, 27 Aug 2014
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