NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 4 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 4 2015
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Today’s content
Teina Pora conviction quashed
The Wireless (RNZ): The trials of Teina Pora
Brook Sabin (TV3): Political fallout from Pora's victory
Anna Pearson and Paul Easton (Stuff): Teina Pora conviction quashed
Newswire/TV3: Pora case proves need for review panel – expert
RNZ: Teina Pora 'happiest man' as conviction quashed
Anna Leask and Phil Taylor (Herald): I hope to get justice for my sister - Susan Burdett's brother on Teina Pora decision
TV3: Retrial decision delay surprised Pora's legal team
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): What next for Teina Pora?
Newstalk ZB: Burdett family welcome Pora verdict
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Privy Council’s Teina Pora decision
TVNZ: Teina Pora case: Who killed Susan Burdett?
TVNZ: Teina Pora decision highlights need for better legal system – expert
TV3: Teina Pora 'probably the happiest man in the country' – lawyer
Julian Drape (TV3): Teina Pora's convictions quashed by Privy Council
TVNZ: Support flows for Teina Pora - 'Time a waiata was busted out'
Law & Order
No Right Turn: NZ police violated legal privilege
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If Police can bug calls to lawyers, why did they have to have new surveillance powers?
RNZ: Police target change for Māori
Manawatu Standard: Editorial: Arming our police step into a darker future
Alex Mason (Newstalk ZB): Call for more female QCs
Mike Sabin inquiry and Northland by-election
No Right Turn: A cover up
Jamie Bell (NBR): Eagleson shuts down Sabin probe (Paywalled)
John Armstrong (Herald): Peters faces uphill battle in byelection
Brian Rudman (Herald): Labour misses chance to rattle Govt with Peters
Lois Williams (RNZ): Labour urged to make way for Peters in Northland
Rob Salmond (Polity): Herald on Northland
Claire Trevett (Herald): Eleven candidates to contest Northland by-election
Stuff: Eleven candidates contest Northland by-election
Nick Grant (NBR): The fix isn’t in – Labour to contest Northland
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): And Winston Peters proves me wrong
MP pay increases
Dom Post: Editorial: Overdue pay shakeup a win-win for Key
Herald: Editorial: Critics of politicians' pay increases should be careful what they wish for
TV3: Labour will back pay law 'in principle'
Max Rashbrooke (Inequality): Next step after MPs’ salaries: Pay ratios?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): MPs' pay move will have public sector nervy
Peter Lyons (ODT): Key's MP pay legislation magics problem from view
Newstalk ZB: MPs unlikely to fight for pay rises
Press: Editorial: Being an MP not about the salary
TV3: Key: Pay rise law has to 'strike fairness'
RNZ: Recruiter says salary link to PM flawed
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Curb stratospheric salaries, says Little
Newswire: Labour: CEOs' pay should be reviewed
Newswire: Greens join call for review of CEOs' pay
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Curran: what about CEOs?
Rob Salmond (Polity): Politicians' pay
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): MPs Pay Saga
Work and wages
Anna Burns-Francis (TV3) Campbell Live: Minister to zero-hour employers: Rethink your rosters
Rob Salmond (Polity): Zero Hours
Anthony Robins (Standard): Nats getting squeamish on zero hour contracts
RNZ: Home care workers win right to minimum wage
RNZ: Unions to take more cases to court
ODT: Editorial: Mitigating workplace risk
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Hammond vs Credit Union Baywide
Donal Curtin (Economics NZ): Our labour market in perspective
Key-snatching vigilantes
Kurt Bayer and Hamish McNeilly (Herald): Don't take keys from bad drivers, warns John Key as he attacks Kiwi driving skills
Stuff: John Key: Tourist key-snatching could lead to a 'terrible incident'
Thomas Mead (TV3): Key slams tourist driving vigilantes
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A guide for foreign types who might be considering a trip to Aotearoa
NZ in Iraq
Kevin Clements (ODT): Scrutinising Iraq intervention
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): War And Democracy
Dan Satherley (TV3): Ex-captive says UN should lead Iraq mission
Brent Edwards (RNZ): NZ Muslims extend hand to PM
Greg Presland (Standard): Why are we going to war?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Responding to Fran O’Sullivan’s and Mike Hoskings’ war cheerleading
Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Just try to do right thing in no-win scenario
Electoral finance
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National’s election finance loophole highlights double standards
Phil Duncan (Redline): Money can’t buy you love – the sad story of InternetMana
Solid Energy
No Right Turn: Another bailout for Solid Energy
RNZ: Solid Energy in 'delicate' position - Key
New MFAT head
Business Desk: Brook Barrington, state sector veteran, named head of MFAT
Audrey Young (Herald): New Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade head named
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Former diplomat Brook Barrington to head MFAT
Euthanasia
Neil Ratley (Stuff): Euthanasia campaign rides surge of support
Karen Brown (RNZ): Opposition to euthanasia call
Other
David Fisher (Herald): Snowden files expose NZ's part in America's spy network
Simon Collins (Herald): Child support changes: $163m blowout expected to increase further
Newswire: Questions over child support reform costs
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): 2014 NZ general election results – the definitive stats
James Shaw (Green Blog): Election Inquiry – Advance Voting
Gareth Morgan (Gareth’s World): Democracy Under Threat in New Zealand
TVNZ: NZ flag panel 'totally independent' from Govt – chair
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): What to do with our flag?
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Transtasman allies must look to future
Rose Patterson (Interest): The economy and society are built by people, not by governments
Joelle Dally (Press): John Key says shoddy quake repairs should be fixed
Phillipa Yalden (Stuff): 'New Zealand's biggest killer' billboard replaced with John Key sketch
Rob Salmond (Polity): Heart Foundation billboard
Rachel Stewart (Stuff): World's changing fast, MPs need to get on board
The Ruminator: Opaque transparency
Redline: Herbert Marcuse and the passivity of the New Zealand working class
Einat Wilf (NBR):NZ’s vote ‘pivotal’ to Israel’s future
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