NZ POLITICS DAILY: December 8 2014

NZ intervention in Middle East

Claire Trevett (Herald): Afghanistan asking for extension of training mission, says McCully

John Armstrong (Herald): Iraq deployment rattles Brownlee's good nature

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: We're in for a fight – maybe

Philip Matthews (Press): Is New Zealand discriminating against Muslims?

Narelle Henson (Waikato Times): Sending soldiers to fight Isis is right

Dirty Politics

Torben Akel (TV3): In search of Jason Ede

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): ‘Stalking’ Ede

Tessa Johnstone (Stuff): Tau Henare accuses TV3 of stalking

Pete George (Your NZ): Tau Henare accuses TV3 of stalking

RNZ: Hager's launch timing naive – Peters

John Palethorpe (Shinbone Star): Unloseable

Rodney Hide (Herald): Tantrums and trauma over texting

Judith Collins 

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets in reaction to Judith Collins' newspaper column

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Judith Collins as a newspaper columnist

David Williams (Herald): Feeley: Collins clearance 'inevitable'

Adam Dudding (Dom Post): A new crush-free Judith Collins

The Standard: The tipline has a SST column

Judith Collins (Sunday Star Times): New 'wood' worries

Foreign property investment

Stuff: Chinese property investment 'just beginning'

Patrice Dougan (Herald): More Chinese expected to buy NZ property

Labour Party

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Key might be in for a Little surprise

John Anthony (Stuff): Labour looks at small business

Brian Easton (Pundit): Grumbling About Political Grumblers

Wellington super city

Kate Chapman and Michael Forbes (Stuff): A super-charged debate

Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): Wellington Super City? Not even if it’s the best idea ever.

Duncan Garner (Dom Post): Ignore the squeals of self-interest

John Palethorpe (On the Left): Super?

Employment

John Roughan (Herald): Zero-hour contracts give Little a mission

Claire Trevett (Herald): Big public service pay gap for women

Matt Nippert and Simon Collins (Herald): Women miss top uni jobs

Thomas Heaton (Stuff): Expert urges quota for working women

Caleb Harris (Stuff): BP investigates pay-docking claim

Roger Sutton

Martin van Beynen and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Roger Sutton and his dramatic downfall

Adam Bennett (Herald): Top brass tight-lipped over Sutton concerns

RNZ: Commission confirms earlier complaint

RNZ: Labour sceptical of SSC review

Maori Wardens

Gareth Thomas (RNZ): Crown berated over Maori Wardens

TVNZ: Maori Wardens should be controlled by Maori - Waitangi Tribunal

Stuff: Tribunal urges review of Maori wardens

Christchurch

RNZ: Asset sales plan 'may be too timid'

Lois Cairns (Press): Asset sales may face ratepayer opposition

Press: Editorial: Council shows new maturity

Steven Cowan (Against the current): “Christchurch is still a mess”

Korotangi Paki

TVNZ: Maori King's son's discharge without conviction overturned

Stuff: Maori king's son convicted

Rob Kidd (Herald): King's son convicted on appeal

Marami Stephens (Sparrowhawk): The curious case of Korotangi Paki and inherited privilege in modern New Zealand.

Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): Korotake III

Environment

Michael Forbes (Stuff): Heads in the sand in climate change protest

Herald: NZ climate protesters draw line in the sand

NBR: NZ will push the envelope on emmissions targets, Groser says

Jamie Morton (Herald): Auckland must prepare for climate change – scientist

Parliament’s prayer

Audrey Young (Herald): Mallard baulks at MPs' new prayer

Ewen McQueen (RenewNZ): Parliamentary prayer should reflect our spiritual DNA

RNZ: Catholic leader supports biligual prayer

Health

Ben Heather (Press): There's a doctor in the House now

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): MP and ex-GP Jonathan Coleman shows no love for medical marijuana

The Standard: Dirty Politics and the health advocates

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): The voice of presumption

Stuff: Overdose of propaganda

Auckland Council ‘Secret Room’

Russell Brown (Public Address): Some reprehensible bullshit

Cherie Howie (Herald): What secrets are concealed in Len Brown's flash new office?

Bevan Chuang: This is how some journo talk to subjects

Herald: 'Secret room' spending shows need for recall elections

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Taxpayer Union, the NZ Herald and Len Brown’s secret hidden love den

NBR: Time for recall option lobby group says as Len Brown's $30K secret rooms revealed

Destiny Church

Herald on Sunday Editorial: Destiny shows its true object of worship

Bevan Hurley (Herald): Destiny's $6 million windfall

Paul Little (Herald): Your Destiny is to pay and pay

Other

Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of ... Kim Dotcom

Andrea Vance (Stuff): The year's weird Beehive buzz-iness

Herald: Kiwis fighting Isis also targeted under anti-terror bill

ODT: Editorial: New Zealand and corruption

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Unjust to imprison us for crimes we haven’t yet committed

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Pacific ministry's large travel bill

Vaughan Elder (ODT): Stalwart of student politics finishing

RNZ: Tolaga Bay launch for Horomia biography

Jo Moir (Stuff): Unregistered teachers 'no cause for concern'

Wayne Thompson (Herald): The bloody riot that shocked the country

Zoe Ferguson (RNZ): Feature: Tackling rape culture in NZ

TV3: Mana Party goes big for 2017

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Time to turn the key on electric future

Integrity Talking Points: New Zealand in the digital vanguard

Isaac Davison (Herald): Victims freed up to speak

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Housing up, fishing down

Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): A degree in Urban Mythology, courtesy of Massey University

Anthony Robins (Standard): NZ Media and blogs vs blogs

Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Media Watch: It’s Time to ‘Activate the Rest Button’

No Right Turn: A funny definition of charity