Today’s content
Mana-Labour contest in Te Tai Tokerau
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour cool on Internet-Mana deal
Dan Satherley (TV3): Harawira calls on Davis to apologise over 'smear' website
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Cunliffe on Internet MANA, how ungrateful is Kelvin Davis & how we know Labour’s vote isn’t collapsing
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Te Tai Tokerau tangles
Matthew Hooton (NBR): Cunliffe’s delicate dance with Harawira (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Internet-Mana Party take on Key
Tova O’Brien (TV3): David Cunliffe pulls Kelvin Davis into line over Dotcom attack
TVNZ: Dotcom won't be part of Labour coalition
Ele Luddman (Homepaddock): Will he, won’t he?
Keeping Stock: Compare and contrast
Radio NZ: Harawira still confident of deal
Pete George (Your NZ): Right wing blogger donations to Davis
Patrick Leyland (Progress report): Bringing down a fake
Jono Natusch: Kelvin Davis – rock and a hard place
Bryce Edwards (liberation): Top tweets about Te Tai Tokerau Labour/Mana dispute
Land sales and foreign ownership
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Look at NZ land sale facts
Michael Fox and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour will fence in land sales to foreigners
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Foreign land ownership never far from the debate
Patrick Gower (TV3): Peters doesn't want foreigners in NZ - Key
TV3: Should foreigners be allowed to buy New Zealand land?
Grant Shimmin (Stuff): Can the sale be stopped?
Newswire: Labour disputes National's farm sales claim
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Foreign investors buying another station, Peters claims
Greens
Brook Sabin (TV3): Public transport 'Green Card' to cost $30M
Rebecca Wright (TV3): Speed Dates with the Leaders: Metiria Turei
Isaac Davison (Herald): Greens plan student card for free public transport
Vernon Small (Stuff): Students promised "green card" transport
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Paquin declares support for Green Party
Internet Mana
Derek Cheng (Herald): Internet Mana roadshow hits Wellington
Mathew Grocott (Stuff): Free-education pitch needs homework
Act Party and Jamie Whyte
Carys Goodwin (Critic): ACT candidate for Dunedin North resigns
RadioLive: ACT member quitting over Whyte's speech
Giovanni Tiso (Bat bean beam): The Pākehā grievance industry
Greg Presland (The Standard): Mihingarangi Forbes v Jamie Whyte
Other
Russell Brown (Public Address): The silence of the public square
Derek Burrows (Stuff): Too many Kiwis not on a living wage
Nathan Smith (NBR): Southern Cross 'categorically' denies secret NSA spy box watches NZ (paywalled)
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Strict rules for Key electorate event
Kate Davis – Inequality glosses over poverty
Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, August 6
Stuff: MP Tim Macindoe referred to police
Herald: Editorial: Vote-grabbing plan to tackle gangs holds little promise
Jamie Morton (Herald): Election 2014 - Leaders Unplugged: Staying true to simple roots
Derek Cheng (Herald): National MP referred to police over radio ad
Michael Foreman (Stuff): What business wants from the election
Rob Salmond (Polity): In search of National's ideas
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): National billboards being vandalised across the country
Liam Hehir (Stuff): The people rule; that's enough
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Online voting report released
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Online voting by 2016 'possible'
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour would favour SMEs