NZ POLITICS DAILY: October 31 2014
NZ POLITICS DAILY from Dr Bryce Edwards
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Employment
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Government considers holiday pay changes
Peter Wilson (Newswire): CTU: Labour law changes 'shameful'
Claire Trevett (Herald): 'Tea-break' employment bill becomes law
Vernon Small (Stuff): Right to smoko removed
TVNZ: Controversial 'smoko-break' law slammed as 'shameful'
Herald: Editorial: Teabreak law change least impressive
RNZ: Disagreement over employment laws
Stephanie Rodgers (On the Left): Employment law: it’s toasted
Dom Post: Editorial: Pay equity must be made to work
Dita De Boni (Herald): Quick nurse, more money for carers
Mai Chen (Herald): A win for low-paid women everywhere
Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Stats NZ staff work to rule
Homeopathy Ebola treatment
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): The idiot
Brook Sabin (TV3): Steffan Browning: Signing Ebola petition was 'unwise'
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmmm
Matthew Beveridge (Social Media): Steffan Browning, Ebola and Homeopathy
Matthew Beveridge (Social Media):If you do something on social media, own it
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Green advocacy of fighting Ebola with homeopathy
Aimee Gulliver (Stuff): MP signs petition to use homeopathy to treat Ebola
Newswire: Green MP under fire over Ebola homeopathy support
TVNZ: Russel Norman rebukes MP calling for Ebola to be treated by homeopathy
RNZ: Green MP plugs homeopathy for Ebola
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Ladies and Gentlemen, the Party of evidence-based science
Sarah Boseley (Guardian): Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa
Dirty Politics
Adam Bennett and Sophie Ryan (Herald): John Key won't reveal Rawshark's name
No Right Turn: The obvious question
Simon Wong (TV3): Winston, Norman: Raid Key's house over hacker claim
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If Key knows who Rawshark is…
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): John Key doesn’t care much about privacy, that much is clear
Stuff: Hager starts judicial review case
RNZ: Hager challenges search legality
Nicky Hager (Dirty Politics): Nicky Hager’s speech at the PSA
Kim Knight (Stuff): 'Ethics' behind patron's withdrawal of Biennale support
No Right Turn: An unmanaged conflict
Roast Busters
TVNZ: Roastbusters verdict could change court system – minister
Anna Leask (Herald): Positive change from 'Roast Busters' sex scandal
Toby Manhire (Herald): Some hope left in sex-case inquiry
Murielle Baker (RNZ): Consent to be part of sex education
Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Roast Busters off the hook - for now
Grant Shimmin (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Decision predictable, suspicion lingers
Press: Editorial: Society's sordid underculture
Herald: Roast Busters: Social media role 'worrying' – PM
Laura Walters (Stuff): Support needed for sex assault cases
Simon Wong (TV3): 'Roast Busters' unlikely to prompt law change
TVNZ: Roast Busters case prompts 'step up' call to protect rape victims
Shabnam Dastgheib (Stuff): Roast Busters case highlights teen drinking issues
Spin Bin: Famous Kiwi radio host invites #Roastbusters rapists to “call in and defend yourselves”
Jessie Hume (Daily Blog): Open Letter to Amy Adams: Please Reopen The Review Into Sexual Violence Court Processes
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): “There is little evidence in existence … of being engaged in criminal sexual offending”
Police
NZME: Police cleared over Blockade the Budget protest
Michael Field (Stuff): 'Blockade the Budget' protest cops cleared
The Standard: Time for a real Police Tribunal?
Michael Woodhouse drink-drive conviction
Adam Bennett (Herald): Police Minister confirms drink driving conviction
RNZ: Minister admits drink-drive conviction
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Let’s get the dirt out in front: Police minister declares his conviction
Labour Party
Rob Salmond (Polity): How Labour’s ballot paper works
Ian Telfer (RNZ): Mothers weigh in to Labour leadership
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Ghost Dancing?
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Agency of change
Anthony Robins (Standard): Leadership carnage! Crisis! Farce! Civil war!
Pete George (Your NZ): Nanaia Mahuta – Standard Q & A
Kim Dotcom
No Right Turn: A stretch
David Fisher (Herald): Dotcom's NZ status hits speed bump
Stuff: Kim Dotcom: Deportation a worry?
David Fisher (Herald): Immigration NZ: Kim Dotcom deportation an option
TV3: Dotcom fails to declare offence
Media
John Drinnan (Herald): MySky move to outshine Neon
Karl du Fresne (Dom Post): Not everyone wants the news in 'real time'
Denise Roche (Green blog): TVNZ Outsourcing Pasifika and Maori Programmes
Myles Thomas (Daily Blog): Does ‘No-Surprises’ Also Apply To TVNZ News?
Other
Stuff: Today in politics: Friday, October 31
Herald: Maori Party almost votes against Government
Claire Trevett (Herald): Maori Party's new co-leader: Headstrong Marama Fox reveals her cuss word
Steve Maharey (Dom Post): Union Jack doesn't fit our country
On the Left: Living with a criminal conviction
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Temporary, discriminatory and an admission of Faliure
Sophie Ryan (NZME): PM to discuss Ebola, Islamic State with Abbott
Newswire: Key to mark departure of Anzac troops
RNZ: Fewer homes to be built in Auckland
Ewan McQueen (RenewNZ): Why neither National or Labour will solve child poverty
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Poverty & inequality don’t need protest marches – they need a riot: #ifihadahammer
Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Push to wipe homosexual convictions
Dan Satherley (TV3): Buses and trains before tolls – Greens
RNZ: Former diplomat says Fiji's stance on PIF could mellow
Steve Braunias (Timaru Herald): Danyel loses grip on reality
Claire Browning (Pundit): Seabed mining: drums in the deep
Simon Collins (Herald): Govt approves $22m rebuild of leaky school
TVNZ: Employers the judge in 'rate my qualification' scheme
Brian Fallow (Herald):Inflation monster goes missing
Bryce Edwards
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