Sky City
John Armstrong (Herald): Labour in corner over convention centre deal
John Armstrong (Herald): Gamble pays off for SkyCity
Dan Satherley (TV3): SkyCity deal 'fascist' - Peters
Laila Harre (Daily Blog): Sky City a rigged bet
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Stare decisis
Russell Brown (Public Address): SpinCity
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Devil to take PM's soul in convention centre deal
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The Sky City deal: analysing the benefits
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Auckland convention centre deal
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens say they may legislate to over-turn the Auckland Convention Centre deal
David Williams (NBR): SkyCity's return on convention centre deal
Ranjani Ponnuchetty (TVNZ): Govt holds off on SkyCity harms report
Radio NZ: Labour and Greens object to SkyCity deal
Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): Mixed reactions to SkyCity Convention Centre deal
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Skycity wants compensation if a Green/Labour Government elected
Pete George (Your NZ): Dunne backs convention centre “pragmatic deal”
The Standard: Key’s no-shows – protecting Brand Key
3 News Online Staff with Newswire (TV3): Govt confirms $402M convention centre deal
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Deal done, new convention centre for Auckland for free
The Standard: What’s done can be undone
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): SkyCity revisited
The Standard: Prwoperty rwights!
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian):John Key, Steven Joyce play pokies to raise money for convention centre
No Right Turn: Government of whores
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Sky City is evil?
Patrick Gower (TV3): SkyCity 'protected' from change of Government
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Joyce warns Greens of consequences
Newswire: Govt has majority for SkyCty deal
Adam Bennett (Herald): PM defends 35-year deal
Dominion Post: Editorial: Key's casino a misery shrine
Maria Slade (Stuff): SkyCity return put at 12pc on centre deal
Anne Gibson (Herald): SkyCity's fortunes on a roll
Anne Gibson (Herald): Convention centre at new heights
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Or your money back
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Green/Labour saboteurs spooking business
Budget 2013
Kate Chapman and Vernon Small (Stuff): Child poverty among Budget targets
David Haywood (Stuff): Will the Budget hike 'sin' taxes?
Lloyd Burr (TV3): Budget a 'house built on sand' — Greens
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What will the Budget show?
Jacinda Ardern (Herald): Govt must improve the lot of our children
Kate Shuttleworth (Herald): Budget funding for food in schools yet to be decided
Narrelle Henson (Stuff): Action on bad behaviour must start at home
Vernon Small (Stuff): Child poverty among Budget targets
Adam Bennett (Herald): Minister confident job target will be met
Newswire: Child poverty could be on budget cards
Aaron Gilmore
Brian Edwards: A dissenting view of Aaron Gilmore
The Civilian: Aaron Gilmore to return to life as suave billionaire
Kate Chapman (Stuff): Embattled MP's short political career
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Was it MMP’s fault?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Party positions MP for fall on sword
Jock Anderson (NBR): Aaron Gilmore and the Chute of Shame
Jock Anderson (NBR): Who is Claudette Hauiti?
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Gilmore saga not all MMP's fault
Bob Jones (Herald): Respect waiters, even if you're ugly
Dan Satherley (TV3): Will Aaron Gilmore get his 'utu'?
Radio NZ: Maori Affairs Committee keen on Hauiti
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Gilmore allegedly hitting back
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Utu?
The Wire House: Gilmore announces resignation from National to form new party
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Gilmore issuing threats now
The Standard: Claudette Hauiti
Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): PM: Would have been difficult for Gilmore to continue
Dan Satherley (TV3): Gilmore's departure 'probably for the best' – Joyce
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Always look on the bright side
Joelle Dally, Tracy Watkins, and Kate Chapman (Stuff): Utu best served publicly for Gilmore
Laura McQuillan (TV3): Gilmore expected to go out swinging
Isaac Davison (Herald): Gilmore readies final speech as 'utu' texts surface
Cathy Odgers (NBR): From the outside in and back again
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): #Utu threats – I’ve had a few
Electoral law and political finance
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): $420,259.33
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Edgeler on Labour’s undeclared donation
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour hides $430,000 donation for over a year
Kate Shuttleworth (Herald): Political party donation returns published
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Conservative Party tops donation returns list
Laura McQuillan (Newswire): Craig gives $1.6m to Conservatives
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Books thrown open on party donations
Newstalk ZB: Labour clears up donation confusion
Media
Russell Brown (Public Address): Media3: Parliament Live
Greg Dixon (Herald): A life more ordinary
John Drinnan (Herald): X-Factor success comes at a price
Hazel Phillips (Idealog): Journalists: the devil in disguise
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Another day in the life of Patrick Gower
Sim Ahmed (Idealog): Online news regulator to go live in July
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Firstline TV3 vs Breakfast TVNZ
Herald: Herald Online leading the way
Law and order
Kim Chisnall (TV3): Police pursuits policy under fire
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Rewiring the brain not that easy
Waikato Times: Police risk disconnection
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Child abuse laws need major overhaul – inquiry
John Weeks (Stuff): Protesters target legal highs
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Press on Judging the Judges
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): ‘There are spiders everywhere,’ reports stoned Duncan Garner
The Press: Editorial: No need for panic over judge website
Stephen Franks: ‘We have an excellent court system in NZ’
John Edens (Suff): NZ's prisons and police cells face UN scrutiny
Maori politics
Claire Trevett (Herald): Broadcaster eyes vacancy
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): “No” to racism
Morgan Godfery (Daily Blog): Is New Zealand sleepwalking towards Jim Crow?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election, mainstream media bias and the real political battle for second place
Maori Law and Politics: A New Direction: Why I Quit Law
Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Maori Party standing for Ikaroa-Rawhiti
Adam Walker (Newstalk ZB):Iwi head throws hat in by-election ring
Housing
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Housing: Is smaller better, or even necessary?
Brian Rudman (Herald): Housing plan 'a weak compromise'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): But Labour says it can do these for $300,000?
No Right Turn: Follow the money
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): A Modest Proposal Concerning Affordable Housing
Privatisations
Pattrick Smellie (NBR): Next partial privatisation in October, Key hints
Anthony Robins (The Standard): Dim-Post on two comparisons
Industrial relations
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Is it time for UNITE to be struck off?
Ross Henderson (Stuff): Industrial law changes threat to workplace health and safety
Lisa Glass (TVNZ): Concern for migrant workers in NZ
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Should the Unite Union be struck off – observation by The Owl
Border security
No Right Turn: A bureaucratic lynching
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Burn after reading
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): US scholar embroiled in NZ security row
Economy
Gordon Campbell (Stuff): Waihi decision needs scrutiny
Rod Oram (Stuff): China can show us the way
Local government
Lloyd Burr (TV3): Report shows strains between local, central govt
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Govt changes bogging down local councils
GCSB
Will de Cleene (gonzo): Obligatory Lazy Link Post
Waikato Times: Peters right about spooks
Claire Curran (Red Alert): When David beat Goliath
Other
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Cheat deals no shock to weary academics
Radio NZ: $4m to repair Beehive's leaky roof
No Right Turn: A troubling question
Matt Nippert (Stuff): NZ companies in overseas bribery spotlight
The Wire House: The Week In Politics
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Nasty tales keep voters sedated
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): No idea, no funders
Geoff Cumming (Herald): DoC cuts mean fewer specialists
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Let's put a few Harrys into streamed classes
No Right Turn: A conflict of interest
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Transcript of Labour Party caucus meeting II
Jane Clifton (Listener): Capital chimes
Patrick Smellie (Stuff): Capital losing its economic dynamism
International Socialist Organisation: Fighting to Choose: the Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand
The Standard: Review: Fighting to Choose by Alison McCulloch
Tim Watkin (Pundit): The Mighty River Power – unanswered questions
Claire Trevett (NBR): Courtship shows Key wise to predicament
Karl du Fresne (Listener): Are you in the precariat?
Ruth Laugesen (Listener): The leader of leaders
Guyon Espiner (Listener): Anti-rebel with a cause
Johnny Moore (Stuff): What about Christchurch's Disempowered List?
Chris Hutching (NBR): Brownlee's reply to special power use
Gordon Campbell (Stuff): Workplace safety under scrutiny
Niko Kloeten (NBR): Len Brown’s lifestyle estate ‘outrageous hypocrisy’
Sue Bradford (Daily Blog): Building Left Power: Role of Anonymity? A Topical Debate
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): The true horrifying depths of NZ Child Poverty
Bryce Edwards
Tue, 14 May 2013
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