NZ POLITICS DAILY: October 23 2014
NZ Politics Daily from Dr Bryce Edwards
NZ Politics Daily from Dr Bryce Edwards
Today’s content
Labour Party
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): More Latté Than Lager: Reflections on Grant Robertson's Campaign Launch
Vernon Small (Stuff): Candidates pledge Labour change
Tim Watkin (Pundit): It's about history... & votes & elephants
Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Robertson, Little the standout performers
Simon Wong (TV3): Labour leadership contest hits the road
Patrick Gower (TV3): Labour's 'hard-core voters still there'
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour leaders hit the hustings
TVNZ: Labour leadership contenders in first face-off
Sarah Robson (Newswire): Labour leadership battle kicks off in Wellington
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): English, Cunliffe & the Labour contenders face off
TV3: At A Glance: Labour leadership roadshow dates
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Emails from the candidates
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): Like a cult…
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Parker says Labour is like a cult
Deborah Russell: Labour leadership: working out how to vote
Lawrence Hakiwai (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe eats humble pie in post resignation address
John McCormick (Pundit): Labour Needs A Civil Union With The Greens
Wayne Mapp (Pundit): Where is the Middle?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour change needed: Candidates
The Standard: The first hustings
Chris Bramwell (Radio NZ): Labour leadership hopefuls hit the road
National Party
John Armstrong (Herald): Hard work pinning down slick PM
Simon Wong (TV3): Heat on PM over Slater links
Adam Bennett (Herald): Key spoke to WhaleOil blogger 'not as PM'
RNZ: PM refuses to answer Slater questions
TVNZ: Key under more pressure over links with blogger
Jane Clifton (Dom Post): Prime minister only when he wants to be
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): When I mean me, I mean my office & when I call whaleoil I mean not as me the PM
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): John Key's Multiple Identities
No Right Turn: Judith Collins' two-tier OIA service
The Standard: Dirty politics and dirty cyclists
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Judith Collins relegated to lowly select committee
Inequality
Brian Fallow (Herald): New take on inequality sparks debate in NZ
Dita De Boni (Herald): State house poster boy callous to pull up ladder
Isaac Davison (Herald): Harawira's 'feed the kids' bill gets another chance
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Harawira's child poverty bill gets second life
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Can't please 'em all
Child Poverty Action Group: Comprehensive plan needed to end child poverty in New Zealand
Parliament and election
Stuff: Opening is about symbolism, not reality
NZ Parliament: Where MPs sit in the House
Stuff: Nats persist with new labour law
Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): EX-MPs: Updated or Not?
Socialist Aotearoa: 2014 Elections and the Revolutionary left
Migration
Dan Satherley (TV3): Economy didn't end the brain drain – King
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government to lure skilled Kiwis home
Newswire: Massive migrant boost drives NZ's population growth
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Migration and job growth two of our successes
Police
Isaac Davison (Herald): Minister rules out arming all frontline police
Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Minister: No need to arm all police
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Steady as she goes approach for new Police Minister
Environment
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): What will be done with the RMA?
Patrice Dougan (Herald): Oil wells drilled without consent – Greens
Taryn Utiger (Stuff): Police plug oil exhibition protest
Other
David Fisher (Public Address): The OIA arms race
Georgina Stylianou (Press): Ministry right to not name 'CTV-like' buildings
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Nick Smith must come clean
No Right Turn: Unbelieveable
TVNZ: Peace activists criticise NZ's nuclear involvement
John Drinnan (Herald): Julian Wilcox resigns from Maori TV
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Pharmac, Gough Whitlam and Sleater-Kinney
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Legal highs process 'wasteful, crazy'
James Weir (Stuff): ACC posts $2.1 billion surplus
TVNZ: Billion dollar surplus again for ACC
No Right Turn: Auckland's disturbing panopticon
Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): Life isn’t fair. But it should be.
Integrity Talking Points: Seeing a trusted public sector may depend on what you are looking at