NZ POLITICS DAILY: November 28 2014

Dirty Politics texts

Adam Bennett (Herald): Key: I am not actively contacting Cameron Slater

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Strength can become political weakness

TVNZ: John Key's 'credibility is on the line' for not disclosing texts with blogger

Patrick Gower (TV3): John Key 'genuinely couldn't recall' text messages

TV3: Ross: Kiwis don't care about PM-Slater texts

RNZ: 'Not fair on me' - PM on text messages

RNZ: Little suspects further text messages

Duncan Garner (RadioLIve): This time it doesn’t wash, Prime Minister

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Key claims confusion over texts with Slater

No Right Turn: John Key's TXTs and the Public Records Act

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The Labour Party plot to kill Cameron Slater: the shocking evidence

Rob Salmond (Polity): FFS

Rob Salmond (Polity): Unleashing hell

Dirty Politics

Jane Clifton (Listener): In the thick of it (paywalled)

Chris Keall (NBR): Key's problem: putting party hacks in charge of SIS relationship

Brent Edwards (RNZ): Oversight not very intelligent

Chris Keall (NBR): Key's problem: putting party hacks in charge of SIS relationship

Toby Manhire (Herald): Mad as a hatter on multi-tasking

Russel Norman (Press): Key's government is 'paranoid, secretive'

Dan Parker and Tristram Clayton (TV3): Where are the Dirty Politics stars now?

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Round up the usual suspects

Nelson Mail: PM blind to staff's shabby politicking

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Andrew Little caught in a lie in the first week of the job – and it’s on record

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Tension inside the Blue Tent – questions that should be asked

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key's Immoral Governance

Marian Hobbs: When does a Minister stop being responsible?

Lyn Prentice (Standard): Two guilty approaches after Dirty Politics

Deborah Russell (Bee of a Certain Age): John Key and Middlemarch

Countering Foreign Fighters bill

Listener: Editorial – Freedom vs security

Isaac Davison (Herald): Spying powers' fast-track upgrade hits wall of criticism

Herald: Editorial: Put the brakes on Govt's rush to pass drastic terrorism bill

RNZ: MPs warned over new anti-terror laws

Rachel Morton (TV3): Chris Finlayson apologises for 'chit chat' comment

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Spy powers expanded, experts say

Isaac Davison (Herald): Terrorism bill allowed NZ spies to go too far - Law Society

Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): Geoffrey Palmer sounds warning over terror powers

Sarah Robson (Newswire): Law Society: Bill interferes with human rights

No Right Turn: The Law Society on the spy bill

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): My Select Committee submission against the “terrorist fighters” bill

No Right Turn: Submission on the Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): The Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill

Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): CTFL Bill: Submission

Simon Wong (TV3): Terror laws give anti-Muslim 'impression'

Nathan Smith (NBR): ‘Jandalled jihadis’ a growing threat in NZ (paywalled)

John Banks conviction quashed

Adam Bennett, Claire Trevett, Rob Kidd (Herald): John Banks' conviction overturned

Katie Kenny (Stuff): John Banks' conviction quashed

Stuff: Timeline: John Banks court case

TV3: John Banks granted retrial

TVNZ: John Banks' conviction for filing false electoral return set aside

Glenn Inquiry report

Simon Collins (Herald): Glenn report - judges need to lead domestic violence cases

Michael Daly and Jess McAllen (Stuff): Glenn Inquiry: Domestic violence 'a disaster'

TVNZ: Report into family violence unveiled

Political Donations

Lyn Prentice (Standard): Dirty political money – why isn’t it illegal?

The Standard: Democracy, Money and Power

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): So what?

Labour Party

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Little Expecting A Lot

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): A good week for Andrew Little

Rob Hosking (NBR): Andrew Little to unveil 'future of work' (paywalled)

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour’s Little task is a big one (paywalled)

The Standard: Moira Coatsworth announces resignation

Environment

Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Clean up your act on emissions, Govt told

Isaac Davison (Herald): Sea levels will rise 30cm around NZ by 2050 - new report

No Right Turn: Climate change: Rising seas

Roger Sutton

Rosemary McLeod (Press): Alpha males' hug says it all in Sutton affair

Andrea O’Neil (Stuff): Sutton departure: 'It's a win for women'

Jock Anderson (Herald): Caseload: Why Roger Sutton hasn't had a fair go

Willie Harvie (Press): Sutton would have talked somehow

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Dunne calls for Iain Rennie's head

Housing

Natalie Mankelow (RNZ): Leaders seek ban on state home sales

James Weir (Stuff): Rise in housing costs outpaces income

Rob Salmond (Polity): Five houses

The Standard: Save Our State Houses: Labour Party

Liz McDonald (Stuff): Rising housing costs hit wallets

Richard Meadows (Stuff):Mortgages still elude first-home buyers

Dom Post: Editorial: Corrections' response must be measured

Isaac Davison (Herald): Adams: I have no bias on Bain case

Other

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Andrew Little’s debut, Mockingjay, and drunk texting

Brian Fallow (Herald): State's social role under scrutiny

Brian Easton (Pundit): Prolongation of Life and the Quality of Life.

Paul Thomas (Herald): Staying out of Middle East - wise or reckless?

John Drinnan (Herald): Change, change and more change

Audrey Young (Herald): Allen's exit opens up ministry job

Ceinwen Curtis (RNZ): Pressure over new MFAT boss decision

Adam Bennett (Herald): Foreign trusts in IRD sights

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Pixies in the Garden? Making money

Marian Hobbs: Democracy in danger. How do we relearn to work together?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What next for tobacco control?

Michael Forbes (Stuff): Transmission Gully tolling unlikely

Nevil Gibson (NBR): Why not all FTAs are created equal (paywalled)

Bryce Wilkinson (NBR): The case for a fiscal watchdog (paywalled)

David Cohen (NBR): Language traps Maori TV (paywalled)

TVNZ: Stop glorifying Gallipoli, Russell Crowe tells Australia