NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 3 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 3 2015
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Today’s content
NZ in Iraq
Colin James (ODT): Statecraft and sending troops to Iraq
TVNZ: PM 'sensitive' over troop deployment backlash - Little
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Anything Key can bomb, Little can bomb better, Labour can bomb anything better than you
Tim Watkin (Pundit): A fight with limits: The right choice against Islamic State
Josie Pagani (Pundit): The opposite of intervention isn’t peace
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Labour’s mistake on US bombing in Iraq
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Loving Their Enemies? New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops Come Out In Support of the Iraq Deployment.
Rob Salmond (Polity): Iraq deployment: Flow-on effects
TVNZ: Growing number on NZ terror watch list – PM
TVNZ: Muslims leaders closer to cup of tea with John Key
Corazon Miller (Newstalk ZB): Are NZ's troops vital to fight the Islamic State?
Nathan Smith (NBR): The first rule of SAS is: you do not talk about SAS (Paywalled)
Electoral finance
Matt Nippert (Herald): Money in Politics: Labour Party candidate Stuart Nash received donations to the tune of $99,000
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): What we talk about when we talk about donations and political corruption
Radio NZ: Harawira tops election donation list
Newswire: Hone Harawira, Stuart Nash top donations list
The Standard: Brassneck
Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): Political donations and conflicts of interest
No Right Turn: This stinks
Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): Donations loophole 'bending the rules'
Jack Montgomerie (Stuff): Biggest election spends pay off
Mathew Grocott (Stuff): Naylor wins Palmerston North campaign spending stakes
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): Fundraising 'wake-up call' for Labour
Brook Sabin (TV3): Internet Party's election returns revealed
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): This should have been known before the election
Whaleoil:Bryce Edwards has an agenda
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Stuart Nash wins the money primary
MP pay rises
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Public servants could lose out on MP pay change: Andrew Little
Nicholas Jones (Herald): PSA warning over MPs' pay increases
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Support for law change to stop MP pay hikes
Nicholas Jones (Herald): MP salary system to be overhauled
RNZ: Govt to change law to stop MP pay hikes
Stuff: Law to change on MP pay rises
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Law to change on MP pay rises
TVNZ: MPs' pay rise trimmed - Key warned not to curb public servants' increases
Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): MPs' salary raise: Now you see it, now you don't.
No Right Turn: I want MPs' pay reformed, but not like this
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs pay rises to be cancelled!
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why I don’t begrudge MPs getting a pay rise and why Key’s move is so craven
Northland by-election
TVNZ: Winston Peters is too 'twilight' for Northlanders - Andrew Little
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Peters back at the bach
Dom Post: Editorial: Peters in search for grumpy voters
Waikato Times: Editorial: Peters always entertaining
Rob Hosking (NBR): Northland by-election: Winston's destructive play (Paywalled)
Immigration
Vernon Small (Stuff): Migrant influx will be housed, says Key
Vernon Small (Stuff):Immigration may boost house prices: Treasury
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): David Howells on immigration and prosperity
Foreign ownership
Gareth Morgan (Gareth’s World): Don’t be Xenophobic, Make Money Out of the Foreigners
Nelson Mail: Editorial: Foreign land register sensible move
IT for child support reform
Simon Collins (Herald): Child support: Cost of reforms rockets up $133m
Stuff: $130m child support IT blowout
Solid Energy
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Solid Energy's lessons in putting taxpayers at risk (Paywalled)
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): TSB Bank confirms ongoing talks with shaky Solid Energy
Other
Brian Easton (Pundit): What Is Happening at the Top of the Income Distribution?
Chris Hutching (NBR): U-turn on asset sales in Garden City (Paywalled)
Gareth Morgan (Taranaki Daily News): Special privileges for Maori replace doing the right thing
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Winz charged over Ashburton shooting
RNZ: $50,000 principal allowance defended
Ben Heather (Stuff): Anti-smoking group urges NZ to adopt plain tobacco packaging
Evan Harding (Southland Times): Private health details of 60 patients leaked
Catherine Harris (Stuff): SkyCity extends convention centre design deadline
Audrey Young (Herald): War criminal claim checked
Audrey Young (Herald): PM plays down claim war criminals are living in NZ
Sarah Robson (Newswire): Cameraman's defamation action to go to trial
Stuff: Cameraman to take Prime Minister John Key to court
Donal Curtin (Economics NZ): What's happening at the petrol pump?
Simon Lambert (Maori Economy): Post-disaster Iwi demographic changes
Herald: Office of Ethnic Affairs renamed
David Clendon (Green Blog): The Serco corrections circus
TV3: Manure-thrower guilty of assault
TVNZ: Doping rules stop PM from having a beer with victorious Black Caps
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