NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 24 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 24 2015
Today’s content
NZ in Iraq
John Armstrong (Herald): Which 'club' is Key hoping to beat Jihadists with?
Chris Trotter (Press): Iraq deployment: Has NZ been lured into a fool's errand?
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the drip-feeding of information about the Iraq deployment
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Troops To Iraq
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Members of the Club
Press: Editorial: No consensus on Iraq mission
Dom Post: Editorial: New Zealand must face a grim duty
Timaru Herald: Editorial: Little choice in joining fight against Isis
Jo Moir (Stuff): 'Lives at risk' in Iraq troop deployment
Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister John Key claims NZ is not going to war in Iraq
Vernon Small (Stuff): John Key coy on details of Iraq mission
Audrey Young (Herald): PM set to reveal Iraq deployment
TVNZ: Troop deployment to Iraq narrowly gets public support – poll
Benedict Collins (RNZ): PM to outline Iraq deployment
Tova O’Brien (TV3): Govt reviews insider attack risk in Iraq
TVNZ: Green light tipped for Kiwi troop deployment to Iraq
TV3: Iraq deployment decision looming
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): NZ decision on Iraq announced tomorrow
TV3: Video: Brownlee's bungles over Iraq troop deployment
No Right Turn: Parliament must vote on Iraq
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): What Should Worry Us
Marian Hobbs:A Plea to John Key
National Party donations
Vernon Small (Stuff): John Key confirms dinner at Donghua Liu's house
Dan Satherley (TV3): Key: No deception over Liu dinner
Brook Sabin (TV3): John Key contradicts staff on meeting Donghua Liu
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Key's mixed messages over Donghua dinner
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Dinner at Donghua’s
SkyCity convention centre deal
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Govt accused of hiding SkyCity cost blowout
Nick Grant (NBR): Joyce’s equivocation continues as more convention centre deal details emerge (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Sky City tried to cheat us right from the beginning
Superannuation
Newswire: John Key shoots down referendum idea
Manawatu Standard: Editorial: It's up to politicians to sort out our Super
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Super idea
Foreign Affairs
Herald: Editorial: Diplomatic side-step blow to NZ's clout
RNZ: McCully says UN's conflict record poor
Rob Salmond (Polity): NZ and Palestine
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Murray McCully gives stinging speech in Security Council debut
Election spending
Claire Trevett (Herald): Election campaign funds: Labour outspent by Greens
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 2014 spend per vote
Pete Geroge (Your NZ): Greens outspent Labour on election advertising
Labour Party
Herald: Labour announces new chief press secretary
Vernon Small (Stuff): Former Woman's Weekly editor is Labour's new chief spin doctor
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s new chief press secretary
Pete George (Your NZ): Andrew Little’s leader’s office appointments
Opinion Polls
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest polls
Isobel Ewing (Taranaki Daily News): Binding poll on Maori ward confirmed
Media
Integrity Talking Points: Does Press Freedom mean much?
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Watch out, the bogeyman’s about!
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): This is Scoop’s answer?
Gay Pride and Pinkwashing
Laura Walter (Stuff):'Pinkwashing' statement on LGBTI politics
Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): 'Pinkwashing' paint attack on police stations and ANZ banks
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Gods and Monsters: Reflections on Saturday’s “Auckland Pride Parade”
Greg Presland (Standard): National hypocrisy about the gay pride parade
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Please, I can explain
Environment
ODT: Editorial: Seabed mining concerns
Phil McCabe (Herald): Seabed mining rebuffs send right message
John Roughan (Herald): Our undersea continent needs better law
Other
Liam Dann (Herald): Union queries cutbacks after NZ Post announces profit
Standard: Guy Standing at AUT
Simon Terry (Herald): TPP backers have questions to answer
Colin James (ODT): Whingeing Aussies and their beer belly
Ganesh Nana (Pundit): Who moved the inflation goal posts?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Treasury leading the way with OIA
No Right Turn: Treasury gets a disclosure log
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Foreign ownership register could breach privacy
John Palethorpe (Shinbone Star): Defend State Housing
Stuff: Internet down at Parliament again
RNZ: Call to widen scope of Te Reo law
Newswire: Organ transplants reach record high
Tom Furley (RNZ): Artists support Eleanor Catton
Seamus Hogan (Offsetting Behaviour): User Pays Policing?
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