NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 9 2015

Waitangi

David Fisher (Herald): Voices from Waitangi

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Brash’s response to Morgan

David Fisher (Herald): Treaty book cost $600k, says Morgan

TVNZ: Waitangi visitors falling after fee introduced

Claire Trevett (Herald): Little offers brave views on a republic

Claire Trevett (Herald): Let's look at law-making by Maori: Andrew Little

Ruth Hill (RNZ): PM putting self interest over sovereignty – Little

The Standard: Tino Rangatiratanga

Ewan McQueen (RenewNZ): A “level of self-governance” is not sovereignty

Teuila Fuatai (Herald): John Key's Waitangi speech on Iraq raises hackles

Patrick Gower (TV3): Water rights dispute boils over at Waitangi

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Water rights up for discussion

Teuila Fuatai (Herald): Little: Water must not be traded as a commodity

Gareth Morgan (Gareth’s World): Government cowardice over water rights is damaging the environment

Brian Easton (Pundit): Trading Water Resource Consents

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little says water should not be traded!

Claire Trevett (Herald): Waitangi Day: Key urges Ngapuhi to resolve differences

ODT: The settlement process

Raniera Tau (Herald): This is the year of Ngapuhi

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Psychology 101 “reverse psychology” trick works for Key

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the government’s narrow conception of Waitangi Day

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Fast Forward: What Will New Zealand Look Like In 2040?

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Waitangi Day 2015 – 175 years of wilful ignorance and blind privilege

Press: Editorial: Waitangi Day korero needed

Dom Post: Editorial: The Treaty - let's beg to differ

Arielle Monk and Michael Wright (Stuff): Waitangi's importance grows as New Zealand changes

Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Prime Minister, Governor General won’t be at Waitangi celebrations, as it’s a public holiday

David Meech (Standard): Waitangi Day, build a bridge and get over it

Hand Mirror: The Mainstream Media Paepae

Lewis Holden: Waitangi at 175

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Waitangi Reveals Key Still a Hollow Man

Tim Selwyn (Daily Blog): Morgan’s crusade: Mau is less

Mike Sabin inquiry and Northland by-election

John Armstrong (Herald): Frenzy over Key's knowledge of Sabin affair pathetic

Rodney Hide (Herald): Democracy can't be compromised

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Now, don’t groan, but this is important

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Police remove themselves from Sabin timeline debacle

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Does John Key have Alzheimer’s disease?

Rob Salmond (Polity): A howler from Key

Rob Salmond (Polity): Answering Key's rhetorical question

Michael Field and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Will Winston Peters run for Northland seat?

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Politicians come forward for Northland seat

Herald: Winston Peters considers running for vacant Northland seat

David Farrar (KIwiblog): Will Peters stand for Northland?

TVNZ: Shane Jones scoffs at Northland comeback rumours

Briar Marbeck (TV3): Hone Harawira won't stand in Northland

Pete George (Your NZ): Summarising Key and the Sabin case

John Roughan: Byelection chance to set North's recovery

NZ intervention in Middle East

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Costs of fighting to stay in club

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Think twice before joining new Iraq war

Dave Armstrong (Dom Post): Doing our bit? But first we have to identify the bad guys

Martin van Beynen (Press): Doing our bit for peace and the club

ODT: Editorial: NZ's commitment quandary

Kerre McIvor (Herald): We must help - but on our terms

Michael Field (Stuff): Prime Minister: Let's help Iraq

Claire Trevett (Herald): 'NZ is not going to look the other way' – PM

Briar Marbeck (TV3): Key: NZ 'not turning the other way' on IS

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Helping Iraq

The Standard: Better to Jaw Jaw than War War

Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Key’s Hypocrisy in turning Waitangi Day into an even *bigger* monument to Anglo Imperialism

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key’s extraordinary war rant outburst at Waitangi

Mike Smith (Standard): The War Club Family

Housing

Simon Collins (Herald): Govt must aid state home sales: Salvation Army

TV3: Government details social housing plans

Herald: Editorial: Reserve Bank house warning hard to accept

Niko Kloeten (Stuff): Planners call for national urban land strategy

Listener: Editorial – The madness continues

Herald: Tenant worries iwi would price tangata whenua out

Catherine Harris (Stuff): New special housing areas announced

Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Factory can turn out a new house in 12 days

NZ Flag

Michael Field (Stuff): No black in new flag: John Key

Patrick Gower (TV3): John Key wants flag change to be his legacy

Michael Smythe (Herald): A flag to stand out from the crowd

Eye of the Fish: Flagging a new country

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Prediction: Key will not get this legacy

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Why does one symbol matter, but another does not?

Productivity Commission report

Brian Fallow (Herald): Some productivity gains flowing to labour as well as capital in NZ

Stephanie Rodgers (Standard): The lie about productivity and wages

Donal Curtin (Economics New Zealand) Who got what?

Big Gay Out

Jess McAllen (Auckland Now): Mixed reception for Prime Minister John Key at Auckland's Big Gay Out

TVNZ: John Key, Andrew Little join Big Gay Out festivities

Eleanor Catton debate

Dom Post: Catton one of 3 novelists honoured

Mandy Hager (Standard): A calculated feeding of the beasts within

Pete George (Your NZ): Wayne Mapp on New Zealand neo-liberalism

Pete George (Your NZ): “The social democracy of my youth has so radically collapsed”

The Political Scientist: ‘And then she goes and spoils it all …’

Paul Thomas (Herald): Hysterical 'intellectuals' fail the Hitchens test

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Paul Thomas on left-wing intelligentsia

James Griffin (Herald): What I learnt from the Catton-clamour

Greens

Nelson Mail: Greens need to rustle up a new Russel

Finn Jackson (Daily Blog): It ain’t easy being Green: Idealism versus Compromise?

Rodney Hide (NBR): How good intentions lead to misery

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Green backing for Syriza

Law & Order

Paul Easton (Stuff): Country cop carries gun despite rules

RNZ: Crown Law updates Māori judge numbers

Hamish McNeilly (Herald): Father of Sophie Elliot accuses government of soft stance

DOC

Anna Pearson (Stuff): DOC aims to improve internal operations

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: DOC needs to get house in order

EQC

Marta Steeman (Press): EQC pay staff top rates for no work

David Farrar (KIwiblog): Should EQC become a reinsurer only?

Other

Herald: Ministers and opponents face-off in the house

Vernon Small (Stuff): Abbott's battles shadow Key's woes

Toby Manhire (Herald): Bumbling Abbott Key's best friend

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Who would replace John Key?

Jane Kelsey (Herald): TPP compromised by Obama deadline

John Anthony (Stuff): Expensive SkyCity ad 'unbelievable'

Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): Iwi kids' school progress shown

Dianne Khan (Daily Blog): NZ’s broken special educational needs support systems

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): "A trying operation under the influence of chloroform"

Georgina Stylianou (Press): New Christchurch development rules 'will lead to slums'

Karl du Fresne: More pressing questions for our turbulent times

Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of ... The office romp

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Public Holidays

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Why it's OK the coach can't go to the [basket]ball

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): More declines in alcohol abuse

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Have fun...

Brian Fallow (Herald): Key dodges funding issue

Rob Mitchell (Manawatu Standard): Editorial: Big questions loom for local government

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Who should be exempt from rates?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): State gambling up, other gambling down

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Andrew Little and the Labour Party have had nothing to say about Syriza's historic election victory. But are we surprised?

TVNZ: Protesters call for haka ban at London pub crawl

Russell Blackstock (Herald): Coloured certainly ain't the new black

Feinstein Doak: Top Political Facebook Posts in 2014

Dom Post: Editorial: 150 years committed to news

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): An anti-Semitic Bishop in NZ