NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 20 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 20 2015
Today’s content
Andrew Little
Toby Manhire (Herald): Free advice ... invoice to follow
Karl du Fresne: What's really interesting about the David Cohen affair
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Guest post: A character formed very early
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Andrew Little’s honeymoon is over
Claire Trevett (Herald): Little's misdemeanours take heat off the enemy
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Contractors aren’t workers?
Matthew Beveridge: Andrew Little, Fonterra and pies
Spy agencies
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Spy committee spat not the whole story
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the dangers posed by the upcoming security services review
No Right Turn: National wants secret evidence in our courts
Dita De Boni (Herald): Now who will watch the spies?
NZ in Iraq
Pete George (Your NZ): Dunne on the futility of military action against ISIL
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Dunne against sending troops to Iraq
Listener: Editorial – The greater good
Ron Smith (Breaking Views): Fighting Islamist Extremism
Tim Fulton (Stuff): ISIS Building Inspections changes its name because of notorious terror group
BPS targets and inequality
TVNZ: Fewer people on benefits but Government still not satisfied
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Crime, welfare dependency down, but will it last?
Michael O'Brien (Child poverty action group): Children, poverty and choice
David Bain compensation
Isaac Davison (Herald): Judith Collins stands by her word in Bain's compensation case
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Within the mountain of David Bain evidence lies truth
Kinley Salmon (Dom Post): Isis not only problem New Zealand should consider
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A new Bain review
Andrea Vance (Stuff): David Bain's compensation case gets fresh inquiry
No Right Turn: Here we go again
America’s Cup
Waikato Times: Editorial: John Key and Steven Joyce too eager to support corporate welfare
Dom Post: Editorial: Funding Team NZ too much of a long shot
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Team NZ in the trough
Education
Jo Moir (Stuff): No more charter school applications this year – Parata
Cameron Slater (Whlaeoil): Speaking of National and arrogance…Hekia Parata
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fisking QPEC
Greens
TVNZ: Green Party opts out of contesting Northland by-election
Newswire: Greens rule out Northland by-election stand
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The beginning of the dirty deal in Northland!
Rob Salmond (Polity): Defending the Greens
Petrol pricing
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Energy Minister warns fuel firms about margins
Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt warns petrol firms over pricing
Council amalgamations
Max Rashbrooke: No evidence that bigger councils are better, says expert
Karl Du Fresne: Open-minded yet sceptical on super-city
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): An Amalgamation Agenda
National Party
Joelle Dally (Press): Gilmore's parliamentary return dashed by John Key
Joelle Dally (Press): Protesters greet John Key in Oxford, Canterbury
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): National Party Manager Greg Hamilton: Rules don’t apply to us
Newswire: Eminem, National Party battle in court
Dom Post: Eminem v National put off for months
Rachinger vs Slater
Pete George (Your NZ): Ben Rachinger versus Cameron Slater
Pete George (Your NZ): Rachinger previously
Pete George (Your NZ): More on Rachinger accusations
Other
John Armstrong (Herald): Special report: David Seymour's rescue Act
Simon Wilson (Metro): Our Biggest Should be Our Best
Cecile Meier (Press): Regular referendums good for democracy
Aileen Nakhle (Stuff): Is sugar industry influencing scientists?
Standard: Crowdfunding Scoop
TVNZ: Shanghai Pengxin aims to double its NZ farm assets
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Ah, global capitalism
Vernon Small (Stuff): NZ Budget deficit trimmed to $1 billion
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Modernising censorship
Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Law Commission 'stretched to the limit'
Brian Fallow (Herald): Govt reaps what it sows
Sam Judd (Herald): Talk to me, like rivers do
Herald: Editorial: NZ must keep heavy airlift capability
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): The TPPA and the Recolonisation of Aotearoa
Stuff: Home building costs rise 5.3 per cent
Vernon Small (Stuff): Government to push for private sector providers: English
Ian Steward (Stuff): Prominent New Zealander in court on indecent assault charges
RNZ: Prominent New Zealander pleads not guilty
TVNZ: Prominent Kiwi facing assault charges loses name suppression
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