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NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 17 2015

NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 17 2015

Tue, 17 Feb 2015

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SkyCity convention centre deal

Dan Satherley (TV3): Little: Labour might scrap SkyCity deal

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: SkyCity plays better poker than National

Kim Baker Wilson and Jane Patterson (Radio NZ): Back to the drawing board

Dom Post: Editorial: Voters may not forgive John Key for casino fiasco

Manawatu Standard: Editorial: Another chapter in sorry SkyCity tale

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Labour leader Andrew Little warns SkyCity over deal

Herald: Editorial: SkyCity best bet despite public concern

Stuff: Labour pressures SkyCity to deliver

Richard Meadows (Stuff): SkyCity shares slip after convention centre plan change

Catherine Harris (Stuff): SkyCity says revised conference centre still drawcard

No Right Turn: Compare and contrast

True Blue NZ: SkyCity- It's not over yet.

Greg Presland (Standard): The house always wins

Rob Salmond (Polity): We all did it

Simon Prast (Daily Blog): A Dirty, Smelly, Well-Shagged Carpet

NZ in Iraq

TVNZ: NZ role in ISIS fight will increase risk of attacks at home - Kiwi war correspondent

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Govt quiet on protecting Kiwi troops in Iraq

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Responsibility To Protect: But who? And from what?

Stuff: 'Smashing' IS won't solve Iraq's problems Labour says

RNZ: NZDF to attend anti-IS coalition talks

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): We Can’t Handle The Truth! Democratic Competency And Elite Opinion

Northland by-election

Herald: Act's candidate for Northland by-election named

Newswire: ACT will contest Northland by-election

Ruminator: 3 tweets from ACT candidate for Northland, Robin Grieve, that tell you everything

RNZ: 'Tough' by-election race for Mana

Pete George (Your NZ): Slater still smearing National Northland contender

Work and income

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Government re-thinks on zero-hour contracts

Brian Easton (Pundit): What is The Problem with a Universal Minimum Income?

Housing

Anna Williams (Malborough Express): Marlborough's 'invisible' homeless desperate

TVNZ: Confidence in NZ's housing market reaches two year high

Rhiannon McConnell (Stuff): State housing selloff worrying Cannons Creek family

Rob Salmond (Polity): Affordable home builder goes belly-up

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The State Housing Debate

Cricket

Seamus Hogan (Offsetting Behaviour): More on Courtsiding

No Right Turn: This is not what police are for

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Isn’t the solution to stop the delay?

Steven Cowan (Against the current): Bread and circuses

Protest at National Party fundraiser

Amanda Gilles (TV3): Police stand by actions at National Party protest

Dan Satherley (TV3): Police 'over the top' at yesterday's protest – Bradford

Kate Dickie-Davis (Daily Blog): Police protect millionaire Prime Minister at Yacht club – why people protested

Health

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Moderate drinking is still good for you

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A child obesity health target?

Offensive t-shirt in Canterbury museum

Press: Editorial: Offensive T-shirt a free-speech matter

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Where are the riots and murders?

Other

Andrea Vance (Stuff):Government's spy review deal angers Greens

Anthony Robins (Standard): Principled stands from Little

Vernon Small (Stuff): Government reluctant to pass up ACC surplus

Colin James: Is the public service serving the public?’

Russell Brown (Public Address): Masters of Reality

Brook Sabin (TV3): Govt spends $360k on designer furniture

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Greens call for an end to animal testing

Matt Nolan (TVHE): New Zealand’s sexiest economist 2015: Voting

Greg Presland (Standard): Third termitis

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Defend the National Library from National

Isobel Ewing (Taranaki Daily News): Laila Harre hitchhikes for political rethink

Campbell Gibson (NBR): Minister takes aim at outdated censorship laws (paywalled)

Laura Bootham (RNZ): Te Papa looks at cultural redress

The Ruminator: There IS an app for Moral Outrage

Hilary Stace (Briefing Papers): Disability Policy in New Zealand

NZ Parliament: Have your say in the MY World Survey

Not PC: Right of reply: David Seymour

Isaac Davison (Herald): MPs test out military giant - the C-17 Globemaster aircraft

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Standard disappear down their own navel

RNZ: Mayor calls for acceptance of Maori representation

Philp Barry (NZCPR): Local Government Reform

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Student representation on university councils

Anne Gibson (Herald):MP plays wait and see on bridge SkyPath

David Fisher (Herald): Top Cook Islands' official sparks cop callout

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Fossil fuel divestment hurts only the sellers (paywalled)

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): UFB progress

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