NZ POLITICS DAILY: October 30 2014
NZ POLITICS DAILY from Dr Bryce Edwards
Today’s content
Roast Busters
Laura Walters (Stuff): Door not closed to Roast Busters action
Anna Leask (Herald): Police decision over charges vindicates Hales, say his family
Anna Leask (Herald): Roast Busters: Alleged victim's mum fights on
Ian Steward and Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Roast Busters case: No charges to be laid
Sophie Ryan (Herald): Roast Busters case: 'Where was the respect?' – police
Stuff: Roast Busters: By the numbers
Laura Walters (Stuff): Roast Busters case: Police shocked by alcohol use
No Right Turn: Today's lesson
Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): You Can Get Away With Rape In New Zealand
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Immoral’s not illegal
Employment
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the links between bad labour laws and poor safety practices
Nicole Mathewson (Stuff): Too many port deaths as profits rise
TV3: Tea breaks gone by lunchtime? 'Absolutely not'
Kevin Ikin (RNZ) Union condemns workplace laws
Beehive Mandate: The Tea Break Issue – Does No Regulation Really Mean No Smoko?
Mike Hosking (Herald): Hard workers have nothing to fear
Don Franks (Redline): Ways to wreck the tea-break-busting bill
No Right Turn: Women going backwards under National
Rob Mitchell (Manawatu Standard): Discordant notes in rock star economy
Alan Wood (Stuff): Aged-care cost hike worries
Waikato Times: Editorial - Decision could hit elderly
Jan Logie (Green blog): Equal pay and the aged care sector
Dirty Politics
John Armstrong (Herald): Opposition must question their stickability
John Armstrong (Herald): John Key 'given Rawshark's name'
Newswire: Key opens up about Dirty Politics, Collins' resignation
TVNZ: John Key: I know who Rawshark is
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Of course National’s politics are dirty. Who is Key trying to kid?
RNZ: Last chance for Slater to prepare case
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The beginning of the end of Cameron Slater?
Adam Bennett (Herald): Snap! Political insider reappears
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Dirty Politics author in arts funding row
Nicky Hager (Dirty Politics): Latest news: Monday-Wednesday, 27-29 October
Labour Party
Brian Edwards: Why my money’s on David Parker. And why Labour’s should be as well!
The Standard: Leadership Election: Candidates Start Painting Themselves Into Corners
Claire Trevett (Herald): Chameleon Key a happy distraction for Labour
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Random thoughts on the Labour Party leadership contest
Abbie Napier (Stuff): Andrew Little vows 'polarising policy' crackdown
Pete George (Your NZ): ‘Labour West’ promoting Little and Mahuta leadership
Pete George (Your NZ): Chris Hipkins on the election result and Labour’s future
Inequality
Vernon Small (Stuff): Key must walk the talk on child poverty
Sophie Lowery (TV3): Struggling parents want action on child poverty
Rob Salmond (Polity): Key's spin on child poverty
No Right Turn: National's failure on child poverty
Slightly Left of Centre: UNICEF report a load of crap
The Standard: There is no child poverty in New Zealand
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Bill English's creeping social housing crisis
Brian Easton (Pundit): Does Piketty Matter?
Flag referendum
Adam Bennett (Herald): Taxpayers face $25 million bill even if old flag stays
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Flag change debate spread over a year
Adam Bennett (Herald): John Key defends cost of flag referendums
RNZ: Two referendums on flag change
Newswire: Flag referendum to cost $26M
TVNZ: Winston Peters slams flag referendum spending
Guardian: New Zealand to hold 2016 referendum on scrapping union jack national flag
Govt transport
Adam Bennett (Herald): Heat on for Govt to lead on limos
Adam Bennett (Herald): New Government limos to replace old BMWs
RNZ: Crown to replace BMW limo fleet
Stuff: Government to replace BMW fleet
Newswire: Greens urge Govt to choose electric cars
John Banks
Simon Wong (TV3): Banks' lawyer: New evidence proves Dotcom wrong
Stuff: Banks' wife finds witnesses
Other
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Taxpayers miss out
Jane Kelsey (Herald): TPP deal keeps disappearing down rabbit hole
Herald: Agreement will promote Kiwi product sales overseas - Steven Joyce
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): $2.16 trillion breakthrough for Kiwi firms
Brian Rudman (Herald): Justice can and must be served
No Right Turn: A reminder
No Right Turn: GCHQ's backdoor spying
David Fisher (Herald): Offence Dotcom didn't declare
Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Police minister's drink-drive confession
Press: Editorial: Time to rethink alcohol attitude
Stuff: Teen drinking law 'poorly implemented'
Laura Bootham (RNZ): Māori health fears under TPP
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Publishing Journalists’ Home Addresses Is A Tactic Of The Right, Not The Left
Slightly Left of Centre: A case of Green corruption?
Man of Errors: James Shaw, MP
Dom Post: History shows Isis hard to defeat
Herald: Editorial: Little time to waste plugging funding gap
Simon Maude (Herald): Law change leaves hole in budget
Robert MacCulloch (Herald): Out of control - our red tape tangle
Sarah Stuart (Herald): Twelve Questions: Penny Bright
TV3: John Key wants a NZ flag with 'passion and pride'
Stuff: Today in Politics: October 30
NZ Parliament: Recommended sitting programme for the rest of 2014 and for 2015
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