NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 16 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 16 2015
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Today’s content
SkyCity convention centre deal
Dave Armstrong (Dom Post): Odds stacked against SkyCity
Chris Keall (NBR): SkyCity: a win-win-lose deal
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the SkyCity debacle
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): On Hooton on Sky City
No Right Turn: "Close to corruption"
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The C word
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Will Bill collar SkyCity over centre funding?
Sam Thompson, Josh White and Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): Faction exposed in Nat caucus over SkyCity saga
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): SkyCity - it should never have got to this
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets on the latest SkyCity convention centre announcement
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): When gaining $40m per year is SkyCity ‘losing’
NBR: SkyCity drops bid for taxpayer top-up — but there's a catch
Isaac Davison (Herald): SkyCity convention centre may shrink after taxpayer funding ruled out
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Casino boss has played his cards toxically wrong this time
TV3: Smaller SkyCity convention centre likely
Hamish Rutherford and Paul Easton (Stuff): No public money for SkyCity centre
Brendan Manning (Herald): SkyCity: No longer seeking government help
Paul Easton and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): SkyCity backs down over Auckland convention centre top-up
TVNZ: SkyCity backs down from convention centre cash plea
TV3: No government money for SkyCity
Isaac Davison (Herald): SkyCity: Path to a convention centre
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): SkyCity folds
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A win for taxpayers
Bevan Hurley and Maria Slade (SST): Govt puts SkyCity cards on table
Paul Little (Herald): Government shutting its eyes
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): The Mendacities of Mr Key #9: The Sky’s the limit with taxpayer subsidies!
NZ in Iraq
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Two-year limit put on deployment to Iraq
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Confusion over rules for Kiwis sent to Iraq
RNZ: 'Too many questions' over Iraq involvement
TVNZ: Kiwi troops facing another 'Vietnam' in ISIS battle
TVNZ: New Zealand a step closer to joining ISIS fight in Iraq
Brendan Manning and Claire Trevett (Herald): Iraq asks NZ troops for support in plea to international community
Simon Wong (TV3): NZ asked to join war against IS
The Standard: Mission Accomplished
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Beware of the ‘American Sniper’ approach to foreign policy
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Barbarism and war in Iraq
TPPA
Jamie Morton (Herald): Make TPP details public – doctors
Cate Broughton (Press): Health leaders raise TPPA concerns
Otago University: NZ leads Lancet call for trade deal transparency and health check
Waikato Times: Editorial: Trans-Pacific Partnership may raise drug prices
The Standard: Aussies & US mount opposition to TPPA – but in NZ we just keep nodding
Dom Post: Editorial: Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trade deal secrecy par for the course
Work and income
Michael Cropp (RNZ): Gender wage gap pervasive
Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Political Minders and Basic Income
Mike Sabin inquiry and Northland by-election
Rodney Hide (Herald): Government attitude disrespects us
Herald: Editorial: Sabin a matter for the police, not politicians
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Key had to hide Sabin until after election
Pete George (Your NZ): What we know about the Mike Sabin case
Newswire: National selects Northland candidates
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The five nominees for National in Northland
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): National’s Northland nominees
Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Northland Nominees and Candidates
Housing
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National's 'next steps' for state housing full of uncertainty
Simon Collins (Herald): Ex-MP Hone Harawira plays peacemaker in Glen Innes housing protest
Herald: Trust on state houses: We won't buy unless they're free
Environment
Brian Fallow (Herald): Greens call for Super Fund to quit fossil fuels
Stuff: Greens want NZ Super Fund to drop fossil fuels
RNZ: Emissions 'blow-out' prompts action call
Education
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Deputy PM aids American's plan for NZ school 'revolution'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A Ngai Tahu charter school?
RNZ: Act 'likely to muzzle teachers'
Protest at National Party fundraiser
Wayne Thompson (Herald): Protesters give Prime Minister John Key a hard time
Ian Steward (Stuff): Protesters storm National Party fundraising event
TV3: Protesters storm National Party fundraiser
Offensive t-shirt in Canterbury Museum
Michael Wright (Stuff): Offensive t-shirt in Canterbury Museum exhibition
TVNZ: Masturbating nun t-shirt exhibition 'poor use of ratepayer money'
John Weekes (Herald): Obscene t-shirts featuring semi-naked nun spark call to police
Eric Crampton (Offsetting behaviour): Making history
Radio NZ: Complaint to police over T-shirt
Peters on Gold Card
Paul Easton and Diana Worthy (Stuff): Peters pushes for extension to SuperGold Card subsidy
TVNZ: NZ First slams lack of ferry choice for SuperGold cardholders
Other
Philip Matthews (Stuff): School of thought: On the dangers of intellectualism
John Armstrong (Herald): Mr Angry must take risks to beat Mr Boring
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Private Law - Cricket edition
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Why does the ICC care about 'courtsiding'?
John Palethorpe (Shinbone Star): Does JK Have A Problem?
Isaac Davison (Herald): Fee for police background checks slated by charities
Juha Saarinen (Herald): Power with smarts
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of ... Fifty Shades of Grey
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Charity punch-up degrading, risky
RNZ: Henare to be Treaty settlement facilitator
Duncan Garner: (Dom Post): Throw the book at parents who don't care
Jonathan Carson (Nelson Mail): Warning over Facebook page listing sex offenders
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Why not elect a Cassowary as Premier?
Lynley Bilby (Herald): Blow to Dotcom as co-accused pleads guilty
Grinaddict: In opposition to ‘flag as brand’
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Plenty of cars, shame about the roads
Rodney Hide (NBR): Little wonder works in Waitangi water waffle
Willie Jackson (RadioLive): John Key’s Waitangi war talk a blunder
Stephen Franks: Banal business naivete on politics (and Councils)
Anthony Robins (Standard): The truth about The Standard
Sam Sherwood (Press): 'Abusive' John Key message substituted for address
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