NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 23 2015

NZ in Iraq

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On today’s announcement on sending our troops to Iraq

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why are we sending troops to Iraq?

Jane Patterson (RNZ): Decision due today on Iraq deployment

Stuff: Iraq troop deployment decision may have already been made

John Weekes (Herald): Cabinet expected to give Isis fight green light tomorrow

Patrice Dougan (Herald): John Key: New Zealand can't 'do nothing' in Isis fight

RNZ: Iraq vote not required – Key

Nathan Smith (NBR): John Key to make case for NZ troops in Iraq

Standard: NZ sending troops to Iraq

Audrey Young (Herald): Fight against ISIS: Back to Baghdad for our Kiwi troops

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Debating America's Wars

Ross Henderson (Taranaki Daily News): Don't waste Kiwi lives on a fool's errand

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Up to 100 Kiwi troops poised to join war in Iraq

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Chris Finlayson speaks at criticised anti-extremist summit

National Party political donation

Jared Savage (Herald): The Prime Minister, the dinner and the $25,000 donation

Greg Presland (Standard): The more complete Donghua Liu timeline

Rob Salmond (Polity): Down the Liu

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Donation refunded

Trueblue NZ: More to the return of donation than we know?

David Bain compensation

Claire Trevett (Herald): Government 'avoiding Bain payout' - Ian Binnie

Dom Post: Editorial: Last chance to resolve David Bain fiasco

Herald on Sunday: Editorial: Let Bain review be done quickly

Timaru Herald: Editorial: Greater expertise needed in Bain compo case

Dan Satherley (TV3): Karam lashes out at Collins over Bain report

Amy Maas (Herald): Arthur Allan Thomas says Bain review expensive, unfair

Herald: David Bain: Law expert slams Government inquiry

Greg Presland (Standard): Bain’s compensation claim

Act

John Armstrong (Herald): Act tries to unplug life support

John Armstrong (Herald): Only one road open for Act leader: the long haul

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Morbid Symptoms

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): ACT hopes to halt plunge in support

John Armstrong (Herald): Act wants to end the 'Mexican stand-off'

Chris Bramwell (RNZ): ACT calls for superannuation referendum

Chris Keall (NBR): ACT wants referendum on Super

TVNZ: ACT Party calling for referendum on retirement age

Newswire: ACT to address future of superannuation

Stuff: ACT wants to put superannuation to public vote

Jane Luscombe (TV3): ACT Party getting rid of the 'tired old grumpies'

Rob Hosking (NBR): Seymour's super move: the risks and the opportunity 

David Farrar (Kiwiblog):A binding referendum on superannuation

Mark Hubbard (Life behind the iron drape): ACT’s Duplicitous War on Classical Liberals | ACT the Conservative Party in Parliament.

SkyCity convention centre deal

Todd Niall (RNZ): Govt expected SkyCity cost to be addressed

RNZ: Sky City timeline of events

Matthew Hooton (NBR): SkyCity’s big win from Sunday ‘backdown’ (paywalled)

Andrew Gunn (Press): The House always wins, so read 'em and weep

James Griffin (Herald): Convention Centre - Plan B

Northland by-election

ODT: Editorial: Winston Peters - the waiting game

Newswire: Labour confident about Northland by-election

Rob Salmond (Polity): Greens won't contest Northland

Education

Claire Trevett (Herald): Parata issues formal warning to troubled charter school

TV3: Failing charter school on notice

Jason Walls (NBR): Seymour defends pet partnership school policy (paywalled)

Dianne Khan (Daily Blog): Charter Schools: When no news is not good news

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Charter school likely to close

Anthony Robins (Standard): Charter schools mess – what a surprise

Laura Walters (Stuff): Bible studies concerns heard by Human Rights Commission

Laura Walters (Stuff): Bible lessons lead to court

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Bible Studies Court Action

Rachael Goldsmith (Daily Blog): Is time up for Bible in Schools? What are your rights as a parent?

Manawatu Standard: Editorial: 'Unschooling' runs risk of clash with reality

Labour-Greens relationship

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Little relegates Greens to sidelines

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Greens must learn sometimes national interest comes first

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Tracey Watkins is wrong and why Labour will sell us out on mass surveillance

No Right Turn: "The national interest" and democracy 

Rodney Hide (Herald): Corrosive wound to our democracy

TV3: 'Civil war' on the Opposition benches?

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): The Greens and Labour

Foreign affairs

Herald: Justice minister to attend international law conference

Newswire: McCully hopes to revive UN Security council in NY

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): McCully announces diplomatic reshuffle, in backdown to Israel

Audrey Young (Herald): New Zealand's UN representative Jim McLay to be replaced

RNZ: NZ reshuffle for Israel, Palestine

Housing

Child Poverty Action Group: State housing provides vital safety net for poor families

Anne Gibson (Herald): Big rent rises 'grim for tenants'

Fightback: Housing: Foreign ownership is not the problem

Opinion polls

TVNZ: Poll reveals big boost for Labour and Little

Stuff: New poll points to big boost for Labour

NBR: Poll has Labour back over 30%

Newswire: Labour gains support in latest political poll

Anthony Robins (Standard): Another Roy Morgan

Anthony Robins (Standard): Three polls is a trend

Jane Clifton (Listener): Poll dancing (paywalled)

Offensive t-shirt at Canterbury Museum

Philip Matthews (Press): The filth and the fury

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Courageous conversations?

Scott Hamilton (Reading the maps): Exhibitionism: a quick guide for the offended

National Party

Claire Trevett (Herald): Brownlee should pay for $43,550 airport breach inquiry - Winston Peters

TV3/RadioLive:Taxpayers get $43k bill for Brownlee inquiry

Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of ... Steven Joyce

Manawatu Standard: Editorial: Is Gilmore really beyond political redemption?

Gay Pride parade and Pinkwashing

RNZ: Arrest and injury at Pride Parade

Stuff: Gay group claims responsibility for 'Gaytm' vandalism

Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): #Notproud of Pinkwashing

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Queers Against Injustice are right – the depoliticisation of NZ culture

Maria Slade (Stuff): Councillor's 'verbal abuse' shocks after Pride Parade

Handmirror: It's raining racism and transphobia on my Pride parade

Other

Brook Sabin (TV3): National to blame for fruit fly outbreak

Herald: Editorial: Plug the gap between EQC, private cover

Rodney Hide (NBR): Christchurch’s sad tale of two cities

Dave Armstrong (Dom Post): It's barmy to pay for police vetting

Integrity Talking Points: Interesting the conflicts that worry the commentariat

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): While Evils Are Sufferable: What Would It Take To Rouse New Zealanders To Revolt?

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Basic Basic Income

Brian Easton (Pundit): Does Radio New Zealand Need a Television Channel?

Pete George (Your NZ): Can Scoop survive with crowdfunding?

Duncan Garner (Dom Post): Losing Lashlie is a tragedy

Herald: Editorial: Court siding no business for the police

Ruminator: State of the Union

Kerre McIvor (Herald): Sunny outlook as long as you don't speak 'Mowri' on air

Helen Twose (Herald): Door open for women directors

Christopher Adams (Herald): Sanitarium safe from charity crackdown

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Between the potency and the existence ... falls the shadow

Laura Bootham (RNZ): Blue t-shirt sales stopped after PM's comments

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Half Mast Occasions

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): NZ to assist Cuban medical programme in the Pacific

Wayne Brown (NBR): Hypocrisy rules in loving the environment

Brian Fallow (Herald): English shrugs off doubts over surplus

TV3: Labour sceptical over budget promise

John Weekes (Herald): Luigi Wewege caught up in TV expose claims

NBR: Luigi Wewege re-emerges with Irish defamation case