NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 25 2014

Today’s links

Labour and the latest polls

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): I expect the political prospects of the left to dramatically lift

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): What my gut tells me

Will Matthews (Left Estate): Dangerous Whispers

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): That Sinking Feeling: Is it already too late to save Labour and the Greens from disaster?

Third Culture: Is Labour targeting the wrong issue?

Pete George (Your NZ): Daily Blog poll denial – “trying to manipulate” opinion

Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Latest TV1-Colmar Brunton Poll – Back To The Future IV?

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): We have nothing to fear but TVNZ Polls

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A promising selection

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Tracking poll update

Pete George (Your NZ): Re-orientation more pressing for Robertson

Shane Taurima

Herald: TVNZ review into political bias to start this week

Radio NZ: TVNZ inquiry members named

Vernon Small (Stuff): 'Full access' for duo reviewing TVNZ probe

Newswire: TVNZ begins Taurima investigation

TVNZ: TVNZ names team to conduct Shane Taurima review

ACT

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): ACT leader confident Epsom voters know what to do

Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): National likely praying Prebble will save ACT

Dan Satherley (TV3): Prebble backs Whyte to revive ACT

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If the answer is Richard Prebble – what the hell was the question?

Colin James (ODT): A battered fringe party hoping for rescue

Greens

Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Hay accuses Greens of 'smear campaign'

Stuff: Greens suspend leadership challenger

Stuff: Suspended Greens leadership challenger won't say sorry

Simon Wong (TV3): Greens leadership challenger kicked out

Isaac Davison (Herald): Green Party suspends candidate David Hay

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Greens suspend candidate David Hay

Radio NZ: Hay has 'no regrets'

Jacob Brown (Newstalk ZB): Change in style could be behind Greens' drop in polls

Radio NZ: Greens play down latest poll

Pete George (Your NZ): Greens see red over dissent

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens want to be in the PM vs Opp Ldr debate

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why the Greens demand to be part of election debates plays into Key’s hands

David Hay (Seriously: “Green”): Thanks and farewell to the Greens

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Green Party member who stood for leader suspended

Pete George (Your NZ): Turei on ‘rogue poll’

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Debates for PM and would-be not minor players

Asset sales

Radio NZ: No more asset sales? Cunliffe doesn't believe it

Rob Salmond (Polity): Another asset sale

Stuff: English lifting lid on Genesis sale

NBR: Govt to sell Genesis stake in ‘next month or so’, Key says

Adam Bennett (Herald): PM: no more SOEs to sell after Genesis

Simon Wong (TV3): Govt confirms Genesis sale

Newswire: Genesis sale 'political expediency'

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Genesis float in March

Minimum wage increase

Adam Bennett (Herald): Bonus for 100,000 workers

Vernon Small (Stuff): Minimum wage up 50c

Simon Wong (TV3): Minimum wage to rise to $14.25 an hour

Adam Bennett (Herald): Minimum wage set to rise

Vernon Small (Stuff): Union attacks minimum wage rise

Newswire: 'Missed opportunity' with minimum wage rise

TVNZ: Nearly half of Kiwis back $15 minimum wage – poll

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Minimum wage to go to $14.25 an hour

NBR Staff (NBR): National bows to minimum wage myths - ACT

GCSB

Radio NZ: Spy agencies silent over funding

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Spies mum over US cash questions

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): One line in the sand

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): GCSB complicit in NSA/GCHQ spying on Kiwis

No Right Turn: So much for Parliamentary oversight

No Right Turn: "An operational matter"

Selwyn Manning (Daily Blog): Two Hops: How New Zealand’s Security Agencies Surveil Targets Without Warrants

Pete Hodgson

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Dunedin mayor defends MP deal

Southland Times: Time, gentlemen, please . . .

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Where’s the paper trail?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Mayor gets former MP $3,400 with no documentation

Superannuation

Audrey Young (Herald): National lacks courage on retirement age - Act leader

Newswire: Govt stands firm: no change in pension age

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: If only we'd kept Big Norm's super fund

Peter Wilson (Newswire): National super is affordable, Key says

Housing

Herald: Editorial: Warrants of fitness a must for all rental homes

Catherine Harris (Stuff): Will rental WOFs make the grade?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Housing Warrant of Fitness

Chris Barton (Metro): GI Blues: Inside the Glen Innes state house war zone

Colin Craig

TVNZ: Colin Craig needs to 'harden up' –PM

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Norman shouldn't apologise – Key

Newswire: Key advises Craig against legal action

Pete George (Your NZ): We shouldn’t “just accept it” Mr Key

Blogging

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): In bed with the bloggers

Rob Salmond (Polity): HoS on the blogsters

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, February 25

Isaac Davison (Herald): Migrant worker abuse crackdown

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Why the Maori Party could be left, right out

Matthew Beveridge: People you should follow on Twitter: Graeme Edgeler

Stephen Jacobi (Stuff): TPP benefit study was robust

Wilma McCorkindale and Amanda Parkinson (Stuff): DHB's 'in survival mode'

Radio NZ: Warning over power disconnections

Winston Peters (RadioLIVE): Auckland city plan favours iwi rights

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Spark

Radio NZ: Playcentres close over 'silly rules'

Ben Heather (Stuff): American tax grab may target Kiwis