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NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 11 2015

NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 11 2015

Wed, 11 Feb 2015

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SkyCity convention centre deal

Maria Slade (Stuff): SkyCity unlikely to walk away from convention centre deal

Vernon Small (Stuff): Tax chips likely for SkyCity

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Key warm on taxpayer funds for convention centre

Nicholas Jones (Herald): John Key warns of SkyCity 'eyesore' if more money is not found

Vernon Small (Stuff): John Key: SkyCity will be an 'eyesore' without government money

Simon Wong (TV3): Taxpayers could go all in on SkyCity convention centre

Dom Post: Eyesore threat ups the ante

Patrick Gower (TV3): SkyCity deal political jackpot for Little

Patrick Gower (TV3): SkyCity pokies deal a total rip-off

Nick Grant (NBR): Key refuses to rule out convention centre taxpayer top-up

TVNZ: All eyes on SkyCity for convention centre funding update

TVNZ: SkyCity convention centre could get taxpayer money to avoid 'eyesore'

Jane Patterson (RNZ): Pressure mounting over SkyCity

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Win by not playing

No Right Turn: More money down the drain

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): SkyCity deal: this is what cronyism looks like.

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): What does SkyCity have on John Key

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): SkyCity is Darth Vader

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Better a free eyesore than a taxpayer funded coliseum

Rob Salmond (Polity): Mo' money

Pete George (Your NZ): Sky City eyesore

Mike Smith (Standard): Sky’s playing us for suckers

The Standard: The SkyCity Deal

Rob Salmond (Polity): Fleeced

The Standard: SkyCity vox pop

Mike Sabin inquiry and Northland by-election

Claire Trevett (Herald): Ministers knew of probe

TV3: Ministers to be questioned over Sabin saga

TV3: Ministers still won't comment on Sabin

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Key to face a grilling over Sabin saga

Simon Wong (TV3): Winston Peters' Northland by-election run decision 'soon'

Pete George (Your NZ): Damage control leak on Sabin raises more questions

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Not quite right Winston

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): McCallum declares candidacy for Northland nomination

Pete George (Your NZ): Whale Oil, Northland, skullduggery

Rob Salmond (Polity): Poll wordings in Northland

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Who Northland would really be voting for if Winston stands – Ria Bond

NZ intervention in Middle East

Stuff: NZ Iraq deployment a fait accompli, says Labour

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ's Iraq mission under attack

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ Defence Force in training for Iraq deployment

TV3: Defence Force to begin training for Iraq

Newswire: Labour: Govt decided to send troops to Iraq 'long ago'

RNZ: Go-ahead for possible deployment

Richard Jackson (ODT): IS: how should world respond?

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the government’s reluctance to treat the enemies of Islamic State as its friends

Gerrard Eckhoff (ODT): Fighting terror - it's about what is right

Parliament returns

Vernon Small (Stuff): PM John Key delivers opening statement

Audrey Young (Herald): PM's focus on family hardship

Rob Hosking (NBR): Politics: Key and Little face off (paywalled)

Isaac Davison (Herald): Winston Peters claims Prime Minister John Key dyes his hair

Stuff: John Key dyes his hair, Winston Peter says

Claire Trevett (Herald): Politicians return to Parliament armed with new jokes

TV3: John Key mocks Labour's 'Dr Dolittle'

Jo Moir (Stuff): Govt accused of 'window-dressing'

David Haywood (Public Address): This Week in Parliament: 2 February 2015 - 6 February 2015

Rob Salmond (Polity): Parliamentary opening: Say what?

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): When the umpire commits the foul

No Right Turn: Parliamentary Privilege vs Suppression Orders

Rob Salmond (Polity): On "no new ideas."

Rob Hosking (NBR): Parliament returns: it's back and it's angry

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 10 things to watch in politics

The Wireless: Behind the scenes of Parliament

Devon Mace (Breaking Views): Gareth Morgan’s ‘Upper House’ betrays all notions of democracy

John Key

Simon Wilson (Metro): Honest John

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Key and reality

Salvation Army State of Nation report and inequality

Simon Collins (Herald): State of the nation: Life getting better on most indicators

Lauren Baker (RNZ): Housing cost linked to overcrowding, poor health

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Child poverty progess 'fails', Salvation Army says

TVNZ: Salvation Army slates housing costs, rise in child abuse

Lydia Anderson (TV3): Salvation Army: State of the Nation report

Mike Smith (Standard): The Enduring Legacy of Neo-Liberalism – Sir Edmund Thomas

Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): To see the future look at history’

Housing

John Armstrong (Herald): Govt struggles to sell complex state house plan

Simon Collins (Herald): Housing shortage worsens by 4000 homes

Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English: Skyrocketing house prices can't go on forever

Brent Edwards (RNZ): English signals house price expectations

Newswire: English: Rising house prices can’t go on

The Standard: The Sallies do not like Government’s housing policy

Frank Newman (Breaking Views): Property headlines

Andrew Little and sovereignty debate

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Danger cliff edge: Andrew Little's loose footing

John Armstrong (Herald): Little tackles very thorny issue

Claire Trevett (Herald): Andrew Little waters down Maori governance comments

Stuff: 'Mischief' over Maori sovereignty comments

Herald: Editorial: Sovereignty - it's nothing for us to fear

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Maori “separatism” bogey

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: One law for all revisits Brash question

Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Key uses Brash's racist dog whistle to twist power sharing into separatism.

Mike Butler (Breaking Views): Focus on tribal tax exemption

Waitangi

Don Brash (NZCPR): Why I disagree with Gareth Morgan

Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Reflecting On Our Past and Future

Other

TVNZ: 'We expect them to fight' - public servants demand wage rise

Rob Salmond (Polity): Future of Work Commission

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Does Grant Robertson get it?

RNZ: Call for apology over state care abuse

RNZ: Iwi can compare progress – Parata

John Gerritsen (RNZ): Tertiary subjects get the chop

Brittany Mann (Press): Funnyman Uffindell can laugh again

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Running against the wind: Key’s legacy flag

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Gone With The Nuclear Wind?

Chris Hutching (NBR): Grants for Rich Listers' mill to ‘benefit everyone’

ODT: Dunedin Public Hospital 'downgrade'

Feinstein Doak: Stuff vs NZHerald on Facebook 2014

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): TV3 make excellent call on late night news team

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Hannifin de Joux partners with Crosby Textor

Fiona Rotherham (Newswire): Review: Councils in good financial health

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