NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 2 2015

NZ in Iraq

John Armstrong (Herald): Where US goes, Key follows - on his own

Audrey Young (Herald): Air strikes make sense, Labour leader Andrew Little tells Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Tacy Watkins (Stuff): Tony Abbott blunt in Iraq war message to NZ

Matthew Theunissen (Herald on Sunday): Fight against Isis: NZ troops can opt out of Iraq

John Minto (Daily Blog): Covering John Key’s backside

TVNZ: John Key promises to visit Kiwi troops in Iraq

TVNZ: Returning IS fighters present tremendous risks - John Key

Newswire: Goff: Troops in Iraq is what IS wants

Jess McAllen (Stuff): Secret death panel planned

RNZ: Govt watchlist number grows

NBR: Key, Aussies at odds with Abbott over time-limit on Iraq mission

Brian Edwards: Catch 22 and the war on terrorism

Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Internationalists versus isolationists in New Zealand.

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): John Key doing right thing in Iraq

John Roughan (Herald): Aiding those under Isis rule the right call

Pete George (Your NZ): Little and Goff contradictions over Iraq

Latifa Daud (Daily Blog): A NZ Muslim view on re-invading Iraq

Jane Bowron (Press): Our subservience to 'the club' is baby-minded

Māmari Stephens (Sparrowhawk): Deploying to Iraq: NZ & the nouveau (Facebook) isolationism

Paul Little (Herald): War details put us in a pretty pickle

Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Families help each other, but not blindly

Matt Heath (Herald): Horror of war hard to fathom from idyllic NZ

Dougal McNeill (ISO):Iraq: the Price of the Club

Redline: No to NZ, US and all western military intervention in the Middle East

Northland by-election

Vernon Small (Stuff): Winston Peters win in Northland could alter balance of power

Newswire: John Key confident National can retain Northland seat

Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): The Northland by-election; or The so-called Tizard Effect

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): Northland voters carry big responsibility

Audrey Young (Herald): Conservatives skip north's byelection to avoid giving Peters a fillip

Pete George (Your NZ): Conservatives opt out of Northland by-election

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why National might lose Northland and why Labour can’t win

Newswire: National announce Northland candidate

Herald: National Party names Northland by-election candidate

RNZ: National selects by-election candidate

David Gadd (Stuff): Mark Osbourne to face Winston Peters for Northland electorate

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Osborne wins National’s nomination

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): National selects candidate for Northland by-election

Isaac Davison (Herald): Peter Dunne wants rethink if Winston Peters wins Northland

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): NZ First 'match-fit' for ignored Northland

Nick Grant (NBR): Northland: secret poll puts Peters in dead-heat with National

Vernon Small (Stuff): Peters' paradoxical call to National voters  video

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Cynical Winnie come-lately, but that’s politics

The Standard: Winston: We Will Fight Them on The Beaches of Northland!

Rob Salmond (Polity): Easy National win

Isaac Davison (Herald): National nightmare: Winston Peters takes aim at Mike Sabin's Northland seat

TVNZ: Winston Peters calls for donations for his campaign in 'marginalised' Northland

Whena Owen (TV3): Winston Peters' Northland knowledge tested

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Timeline: Winston Peters and Northland

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Winston to run in Northland

Kuneblog: Northland By Election Week 3

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Key doesn’t rate Winston Peters’ chances in Northland

Political Finance

Matt Nippert (Herald): Money in Politics: Why businesses are donating to politicians

Matt Nippert (Herald): Loophole: National Party donors stay secret

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): You can't have it both ways

Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Curiouser and Curiouser

Waikato Times: Editorial: Close funding loopholes

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Not quite right

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): NZ Herald crowdsourcing: we found nothing, but let’s smear National anyway

Anthony Robins (Standard): Nats laundering donations (as ever)

No Right Turn: National is laundering donations

Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Digital campaigning in New Zealand

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Candidate returns

NZ spy agencies

David Fisher (Herald): Badly needed changes to spy network come slowly

Martyn Bradbury (Daily News): So the spy watchdog has been neutered into a lap dog

Labour Party

Andrew Little (Stuff): Dream run so far as Little clocks up 100

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Labour has to look outwards: new president

RNZ: Labour set to become government-in-waiting

Housing

Simon Collins (Herald): New state houses - minus the view

Catherine Harris and James Weir (Stuff): Slow pace of house building a 'disgrace'

Susan Edmunds and Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Average Auckland house price hits record $764,000

Christchurch

Lois Cairns (Press): Council sees no viable alternative to asset sales

Bryan Gould: A Fair Deal for Christchurch

Lois Cairns (Press): Gerry Brownlee says Christchurch rate rise as 'too much'

Rebuilding Christchurch: Bizarro Brownlee

MP salaries

Grant Duncan (Policy matters): Politicians' pay rises an annual embarrassment

Nelson Mail: Editorial: MPs' pay rise can't be justified

Dom Post: Editorial: Stop hollow politicking over MP salaries

Jack Montogomerie (Timaru Herald): MP's pay increase destined for good cause

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key Disingenuous Over MP Salaries

Work and wages

Max Rashbrooke (Briefing Papers): Insecure Work

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Charting the Minimum Wage

Media

Martin Van Beynen (Press): Keep our media incorruptible and independent

Clare Curran (RadioLive): The threat to our freedoms

Tim Hunter (Stuff): Stuff looks at premium membership

Pete George (Your NZ): Stuff – no paywall but pay for premium?

Maori Wards

Robin Martin (RNZ): Maori Wards - Partnership or Separatism?

RNZ: New Plymouth to spend $80k on poll

Aus-NZ agreement on Student Loans

Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Agreement aims to recoup unpaid student loans

Newswire: Student loan recoup for Kiwis in Australia

Tony Abbott visits NZ

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): John Key vouches for Tony Abott, a mate in need

RNZ: Tony Abbott officially welcomed

Julia Hollingworth (Newswire): NZ and Aus' friendship tested

Election Inquiry

Mojo Mathers (Green Blog): Election Inquiry – Getting accessible voting on the agenda

James Shaw (Green Blog):Analyse this – the 2014 Election Inquiry

Other

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Where is Colin Craig (Paywalled)

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): There's no reason the Maori Party can't succeed

Geoff Cumming (Herald): Can foreign owners save our country?

Rodney Hide (NBR): Why prosperity is best to protect environment (Paywalled)

Press: Taxpayers get big bill for Bain compo case

Herald: Editorial: Gift-of-life donors need more help

Leslie Bravery (Daily Blog): NZ’s timid silence at the Security Council

Juha Saarinen (Herald): The chilling effect of tech law

TrueblueNZ: National Party blog attacks on Kim Dotcom put politics over principle

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Getting people out of the shit

Rodney Hide (Herald): Mann up and take responsibility

Wayne Brown (NBR): Does a conference centre need a casino?

Jenny Harper (Press): Canterbury's provocative t-shirt exhibit needs debate

Marika Hill (Stuff): Condoms given out at school

Libby Wilson (Stuff): Under-achieving schools' principals to get salary top-up

Stuff: DHBs agree on pay for ultrasound specialists

Herald: Editorial: Super fund's unlucky punt

Stuff: Bosses may be underestimating the economy

RNZ: 20 years since Moutoa Gardens occupation

TVNZ: John Key would 'welcome' a visit by Prince Harry