NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 11 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 11 2015
Today’s content
NZ spy revelations
Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher (Herald): Snowden revelations New Zealand's spy reach stretches across globe
Matt Nippert (Herald): UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says it's time to 'move on' from Snowden
RNZ: NZ spies on Asian countries, says Hager
No Right Turn: Spying on friendly nations
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Latest Snowden revelations: NZ spies on China, Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, South America, South Pacific, Pakistan, India, Iran…
Andrea Vance (Stuff): John Key digs in over spying claims
Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept): NZ Prime Minister retracts vow to resign if mass surveillance is shown
The Guardian: Australian spy officer was sent to New Zealand to lead new surveillance unit
TVNZ: Key says he won't quit if mass collection of Kiwis' communications proved
RNZ: How could NZ spies get it so wrong, asks Fiji opposition
TV3: Pacific leaders 'laughed off' GCSB claims – Key
RNZ: NZ spying will affect Suva's settling of regional ties, says academic
Rob Salmond (Polity): Twitter gold on spying
TVNZ: Little says Key 'pretty tricky' over data collection, surveillance
RNZ: Claim of tricky behaviour over GCSB
RNZ: Melanesia: wait and see approach on spying
RNZ: NZ journalist says spying was to earn points with US
RNZ: Pacific politicians 'routinely' spied on
No Right Turn: Collection, surveillance, and interception
Nathan Smith (NBR): So what if the GCSB spies, it was never about you! (Paywalled)
Mata Lauano (PMC): NZ spying on Pacific to 'buy into' closer US relations, says Hager
Greg Presland (Standard): Northland’s decaboondoggle bridge building programme
Rob Salmond (Polity): Darby and Joan Kauri Bridge, Northland
Pete George (Your NZ): Norman versus Key, collection versus surveillance
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Keeping Watch Over America's Lake.
1080 baby formula threat
John Armstrong (Herald): Key's silence right way to handle crisis
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Lessons have been learned from botulism fiasco
Patrick Gower (TV3): Political fallout from the 1080 threat
Dom Post: Editorial: An eco-crime of towering proportions
Jamie Ball (NBR): Govt ignored industry advice by giving 1080 scare 'oxygen' – food industry leader (Paywalled)
RNZ: Government will not give in to threat, says Key
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the dairy contamination threats, and parental policing of scary movies
Heather McCracken and Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): Formula threat: Retailers ramp up security
Jo Moir (Stuff): Baby formula 1080 poison threat: 1080 controls tightened
TV3: Key, Little eye-to-eye on 1080 delay
Teuila Fuatai (Herald): From parents to politicians, outrage at threat to baby formula
Jason Walls (NBR): 'Kiwi panics,' 'Eco-terrorism’ threat' -1080 saga hits international headlines
TV3: Campbell Live: MPI 'disappointed' with 1080 threat
Herald: Threat to contaminate baby formula
Stuff: 'Criminal blackmail threat' to poison baby formula with 1080
Simon Wong (TV3): Fonterra blackmailed over 1080 poison
Kloe Palmer (TV3): Anti-1080 campaigners call blackmail 'ludicrous'
The Guardian: New Zealand prime minister says poison threat to milk powder ‘ecoterrorism’
TV3: John Key: Fonterra 1080 threat 'likely a hoax'
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key, poisoned milk threats and ‘Eco-Terrorists’
Ben Uffindell (Civilian): Police release instructions on how best to panic about 1080 threat
Northland by-election
No Right turn: Pork and poor governance
TV3: Key: Dotcom, Hager prevented bridge announcement last year
RNZ: Northland roads were already in pipeline
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): What is Labour’s optimum strategy in Northland?
Pete George (Your NZ): Little confirms premature white flag
Timaru Herald: Editorial: Northland voters will be just loving this
Taranaki Daily News: By-election may bring home the bacon
Rob Hosking (NBR): Northland by-election: how not to do it (Paywalled)
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): If we're gonna go that way you're gonna need a bigger knife
Donal Curtin (Ecomics NZ): Northland jobs: fact or fiction?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): MMP by-elections – who and why?
Kuneblog: By Elections and MMP
Herald: Nailed it! Not... John Key admits: 'I'm no handyman'
Newswire: John Key's nail fail goes viral
Threatened Kauri tree
Aimee Gulliver and Jo Moir (Stuff): Cunliffe offers to climb threatened kauri
Sarah Robson (Newswire): Cunliffe considers scaling threatened kauri
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Cunliffe’s plan to climb kauri tree may actually encourage it to be felled
MP pay
Steve McCabe (Herald): Teachers happy to follow MPs' lead
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs pay law change may see pay rises twice as large
NZ flag
No Right Turn: The flag referendum bill
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): A panel of lepers judging a beauty contest
Rob Mitchell (Manawatu Standard): Flag debate honours sacrifice of our troops
Economy
Vernon Small (Stuff): Andrew Little criticises John Key's "megaphone" inflation talk
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Once again, PM should not comment on Reserve Bank decisions
ACC
Jason Walls (NBR): NBR poll doesn't surprise ACC minister (Paywalled)
Stephanie Rodgers (Standard): John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC
Other
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Solid Energy 'may not be viable': English
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Nothing new here, move on….
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Are the Greens really on the extreme left?
Alexander Gillespie (Herald): If NZ is entering Isis conflict, let's accept more refugees
RNZ: PPTA unconvinced by education proposal
Peter Landon-Lane (Herald): How science binds us to China
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Soak the tourists?
Herald: Malaysian diplomat trial begins in November
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Inherent Failings of Bureaucracy
Rob Salmond (Polity): Poll performance
Josh Fagan (Stuff): E-cigarette nicotine ban criticised
Liam Hyslop (Stuff): 'That's over half my income': Parents frustrated by child support formula change
Stuff: ACT leader: not a hologram
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