NZ POLITICS DAILY: March 9 2015

NZ spying revelations

Brent Edwards (RNZ): PM refuses to rule out mass surveillance

RNZ: PM confident spy agency acts within law

Nicky Hager, Ryan Gallagher and Anthony Hubbard (Stuff): Snowden files: NZ's spying on the family

Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher (Stuff): Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes

Sunday Star Times: Snowden files: which satellites are targeted by Waihopai?

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Silence on surveillance not healthy

Ryan Gallagher (The Intercept): Documents shine light on shadowy New Zealand surveillance base

Dom Post: Editorial: Spying demands an explanation

John Minto (Daily Blog): Blather, blah, blah, – John Key – blah, blah, blather

No Right Turn: Massively disproportionate

RNZ: PFF calls for regional response to NZ spying

David Fisher (Herald): Inquiry must look at spy practices: Peter Dunne

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): John Key burning up political capital following Edward Snowden revelations

Greg Presland (Standard): Key’s credibility and the Snowden leaks

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Key should get over Hager hang-up

John Roughan (Herald): No shock and awe in Nicky Hager's revelations

Toby Manhire (Herald): All-seeing PM a match for Five Eyes

James Robins (Newstalk ZB): Screaming left-wing conspiracy theorists

Press: Editorial: If we must spy, it should be to secure NZ interests

Kate Newton (RNZ): Security experts dispute ex-GCSB boss claims

RNZ: PM: Spying complaint political stunt

TVNZ: Greens ask watchdog to investigate Pacific spying claim

TV3/Newswire: Filtering Kiwis' data 'mission impossible'

David Fisher (Herald): Snowden revelations: John Key - You're still wrong

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Spying on Pacific neighbours 'protects NZ'

Claire Trevett (Herald): Island nations not worried by spying claims

Grant Bayldon (Herald): Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

Nathan Smith (NBR): GCSB spying

RNZ: Cooks not NZ spy target – Puna

Taranaki Daily News: The China connection

Denis Tegg (Daily Blog): GCSB & mass surveillance of NZers – definition of “private communication” the key

No Right Turn: Depraved indifference

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So mass surveillance is happening – sleepy hobbits get the Government they deserve

Manawatu Standard: Editorial: Is NZ an intelligence player, or just a pawn?

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: We don't much like being kept in the dark

Ruminator: John Key: I don’t even know what the GCSB is

Pete George (Your NZ): Hooton: Snowden should be executed

Gordon Campbell  (Scoop): On the legal fudging of the GCSB revelations, Tikrit and Jake Xerxes Fussell

Greg Presland (Standard): Is mass surveillance of Kiwis occurring?

Steven Cowan (Against the current): John Key’s media poodles

Narelle Henson (Stuff): I spy with my little eye...

Pete George (Your NZ): Andrew Little buys into Hager and Dirty Politics

Northland by-election

Vernon Small (Stuff): Northland by-election: National pledges to replace 10 bridges

RNZ: National promises new Northland bridges

TV3: National promises Northland bridge overhaul

Rob Salmond (Polity): Pork bridges

RNZ: Labour candidate staying the course

Stacey Kirk (Dom Post): Stakes high as Little gives Winston the nod

TVNZ: Andrew Little gives big hint to left voters on Peters support

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Andrew Little prods Northland to vote for Winston Peters

TV3: Labour hints to Northland: Vote Peters

Isaac Davison (Herald): Northland byelection: Andrew Little drops Winston Peters hint

Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of ... Winston Peters

TVNZ: Winston Peters 'is trying to give Government a black eye' - Key

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): No surprise – hypocrisy from Labour

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Northland is sick of Labour screwing them over

TVNZ: National fires first big shot in Northland by-election

Tim Watkins (Pundit): Everything to play for in Northland

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Latest Q+A poll highlights foolishness of Labour Strategy

RNZ: Big support for Peters if Labour pulls out – poll

Rob Salmond (Polity): Strategic retreat

Rob Salmond (Polity): Dirty deal?

Anthony Robins (Standard): Northland is not a “dirty deal”

The Standard: Nudge Nudge in Northland

Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Front-runners woo Northland voters as by-election gains momentum

Newswire: National fights to keep Northland seat

Sophie Lowery (TV3): National pulls out 'Team Key' in Northland

Claire Trevett (Herald): Northland byelection: John Key turns up Nats' heat

John Armstrong (Herald): Shock lead adds weight to NZ First campaign

Alicia Maree Burrow (Stuff): John Key brushes off Winston Peters' Northland surge

Dan Satherley (TV3): Can National's newbie catch Winston Peters?

Vernon Small and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): John Key to boost National's Northland by-election campaign

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): National’s now officially scared of losing

Rodney Hide (Herald): Fun and games if Winston wins

No Right Turn: The Northland by-election matters

Rob Salmond (Polity): More on 3news Northland poll

Rob Salmond (Polity): Game on

Andrew Gunn (Press): Who needs the media? No-one more than Winnie

Pete George (Your NZ): National, Sabin, Osborne, train wreck

Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Northland by-election – a damning poll and a damnable lie?

Don Franks (Redline): Northland by-election: worker solidarity or Winston Peters?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Five things to remember re Winston and Northland

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Your money, his campaign

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Some thoughts on Winston and Northland

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Northland

The Standard: Northland Polls; Horrorshow for National

Kuneblog: Northland By Election Week 4

NZ Parliament: By-elections and empty seats

Women in NZ Pols: Q & A with Willow-Jean Prime

NZ in Iraq

RNZ: Brownlee rejects Canada, NZ similarities in Iraq

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Andrew Little chooses Jihadi John (Paywalled)

James Robins (Newstalk ZB):Friends in unlikely places

MP pay

John Armstrong (Herald): He who pays the piper finally calls the tune ...

Jane Clifton (Listener): Payback time (Paywalled)

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Employing Representatives: How Limiting MPs Pay Rises Increases The Democratic Deficit.

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Paying Politicians and Managers

ODT: Editorial: Disclosing MPs' allowances

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs salaries vs Judges salaries

Zero hours contracts

Helen Kelly (Herald): Zero hour exploitation

Dita De Boni (Herald): Flexibility at its stretchiest for employers

RNZ: Union wants end to zero-hour contracts

Greens leadership

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Green Co-Leadership a battle for the ideological direction of Party

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Tava's inclusion adds twist to Greens election

Newswire: Greens co-leader contender: Abandon partisanship

Vernon Tava: Why I Am Standing for Green Party Male Co-Leader

TV3: Third contender joins Greens co-leadership race

Labour on ACC

Stuff: Labour leader Andrew Little attacks Govt over ACC 'rort'

Demelza Leslie (RNZ):Labour accuses Govt of ACC rip-off

Newswire: Labour: ACC levies should be cut

Chris Keall (NBR): Govt overcharging businesses for ACC levies by $373m a year, Little says

Rob Hosking (NBR): Little is right about ACC over-charging - but he needs to go further (Paywalled)

Stephanie Rodgers (Standard): Little: ACC levies need to come down

Stuff: Andrew Little hints at ACC announcement by Labour

Teina Pora

Duncan Garner (Dom Post): Teina Pora needs a payout, not a retrial

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Let’s be clear – the Police framed Teina Pora

Latifa Daud (Daily Blog): Teina Pora a victim of our system

Voluntary Euthanasia

Collette Devlin (Stuff): Euthanasia will be in NZ soon, says advocate

Herald: Voluntary euthanasia architect says people should be allowed to return God's gift

Sexism and women’s pay

Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Let's turn focus to women's pay

Aimie Cronin (Stuff): I'm not sexist but....

Ali Mau (Stuff): The curse of #casualsexism

RNZ: Women's equality progress 'painfully slow'

Anthony Robins (Standard): Gender pay gap still growing – of course

Tess McClure (Stuff): Women losing boardroom battle

Daphna Whitmore (Redline): Right-wing women ungrateful whingers

Other

Jared Savage (Herald): John Banks wants his retrial aborted

Suzanne McFadden (Herald): When Pacific Islanders were raided in their beds

Adrien Taylor (TV3): Thousands march against TPPA free trade agreement