Today’s content
Economy
RNZ: Key hits back over poverty claims
Shabnam Dastgheib (Stuff): Child welfare experts slam tax cuts
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Who will be brave enough to tackle poverty?
Stuff: Harawira: Child hunger the 'litmus test'
TVNZ: Majority calls for rise in minimum wage
Herald: Editorial: Greens' wage policy has to be affordable for country
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): 19 Reasons Why We Can’t Afford Another National Government
Press: Editorial: Two views on the way ahead
Newstalk ZB: Child poverty group calling for cross-party action
Radio NZ: Doubts over cross-party poverty agreement
Kate Chapman (TVNZ): Vote Compass: Government should do more on inequality
Bryan Gould: No One’s Fault But Ours
Peter Lyons (Herald):Is NZ's prosperity real?
Dave Armstrong (Stuff):Is this a taxing time to be rich, a politician or both?
Josie Pagani (Herald): Hard work means nothing with NZ taxes
Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): National’s amorphous tax cut plan
Nathan Smith (NBR): Can we vote away poverty? (paywalled)
TVNZ: Economists criticise Labour's Capital Gain Tax sums
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Tax cuts, maybe, at some point
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): High house prices 'a choice', English
Rob Hosking (NBR): Election 2014: Nats tax plan a bit too chancy (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Why we need a capital gains tax
Tom Peters (World Socialist Website): New Zealand election debates underscore bipartisan austerity agenda
John Armstrong (Herald): Tax offcut all that Key offers
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): National’s tax cuts like offering ‘free sex’ for all…
Dominion Post: Editorial: Clayton's tax cuts aimed at 2017
Adam Bennett (Herald): PM now says tax cuts up to $1500
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Labour defends capital gains tax
Dominion Post: Editorial: Capital gains tax still a smart idea
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe performs in debates, but Key performs with a crowd
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The left’s policies will put us back into deficit
National
Peter Hartcher (Sydney Morning Herald): The Key factor
Nathan Smith (NBR): Has National 'all but destroyed' New Zealand? Not even if it wanted to (paywalled)
Labour
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The numbers won't add up for Cunliffe
Claire Trevett (Herald): Flavell: Cunliffe may have shot himself in foot
Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe sticks to his guns over ruling out party
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Peters is Cunliffe's flavour of this campaign
Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe jokes: Does a Crown limo count as public transport?
NZ First
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Winston Peters satisfied with inquiries
Hamish Rutherford and Vernon Small (Stuff): Peters lays down his rules for coalition
Audrey Young (Herald): Peters sets out party priorities
Newswire: Peters: Post-election coalitions 'critical'
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Winston Peters’ Choices Will Be Determined By The Electorate’s
Greens
John Armstrong (Herald): Greens need to compromise to get ahead
Act
Mke Hosking (Newstalk ZB) Mike's Editorial: Foreign investment rules make sense
Internet Mana
Isaac Davison (Herald): Dotcom doubts big reveal will hurt Key
Claire Trevett (Herald): Internet-Mana Party stands united for Road Trip wrap
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Countdown to Dotcom 'bombshell'
Chris Keall (NBR): 'Sordid workings of Hollywood' to feature at Dotcom's 'Moment of Truth' event
Stuff: United front for Internet Mana
TVNZ: Email rant 'a misunderstanding' says Hone Harawira
Russell Brown (Public Address): But seriously, drug policy
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe mum on Internet-Mana stoush
Dirty Politics
Teresa Cowie (RNZ): People off politics, Nicky Hager claims
TV3: Whale Oil drops injunction bid
Ian Steward (Stuff): Whale Oil legal action stopped
Michael Field (Stuff): Cameron Slater's case 'overwhelming'
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Freedom of speech is required - Nicky Hager
Steve Braunias (Metro): Campaign Diary: Day 4
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Right Thinking: Nice try, Tricky Nicky
Rob Hosking (NBR): Election 2014: Dirty Politics and the Scientology Effect (paywalled)
Selwyn Manning (Daily Blog): Perceptions Of Corruption Damaging To New Zealand’s International Reputation
Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Removing Collins does all a favour
Mark Sainsbury (Herald): Let's leave the election up to Tom
Sophie Boot (Salient): iPredict or iPromote?
Penny Pepperell (NBR): Greenpeace's Bridges-mickey-taking website ruled not an electoral ad (paywalled)
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Hager’s hypocrisy
Campaign
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Choices lure Pasifika voters away from red
Jane Luscombe (TV3): Battle for Sharples' Maori seat neck-and-neck
Megan Whelan and Elle Hunt (Radio NZ): Insight for 7 September 2014
No Right Turn: A success for advance voting
TVNZ: Cunliffe 'at risk of ruling himself out' says Key
Kim Choe (TV3): Political polling trends at a glance
John Minto (Daily Blog): Planting the seeds for humanity’s survival
Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): The Expletive Election
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Parties lay out vision for higher education
RNZ: Immigrants feel ignored in campaign
Stuff: Election 2014: The promises of good health
TVNZ: Faulty vehicles revealed as Nats unveil Defence policy
Mathew Grocott (Stuff): Key reaffirms Defence policy with no new spending
Catriona MacLennan (Herald): Little progress on genuine equality for women
Hilary Stace (Public Address): Vote for Water
Anne Salmond (Herald): Keep our wealth flowing
Matt Rilkoff (Stuff): National is top choice for vandals
Andrew Chen (MCDP): A Policy A Day: Abolish GST
Andrew Chen (MCDP): A Policy A Day: Free GP Visits
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Who gets in on the current poll average
Isaac Davison (Herald): Impact of dairy farming a key election issue
Aimee Gulliver (Herald): Clean up the rentals: Maori party
TVNZ: As it happened: The Campaign Trail September 9
Tessa Johnstone (Stuff): Blah blah, they get it - heckles and all
Leaders debate
Dan Satherley (TV3): Key happy to debate tax, child poverty
Peter Wilson and Sarah Robson (Newswire): Leaders prepare for head-to-head debate
TV3: Decision 14 leaders debate: Key vs Cunliffe
Michele A’Court (Press): Potluck politics preferred
Media
The Ruminator: The media, they’re our friends
Gavin Bertram (Pantograph Punch): Asking the Right Questions: Patrick Gower
Gavin Bertram (Pantograph Punch): Asking the Right Questions: Corin Dann
Salient: Twitterview
No Right Turn: Working around journalistic privilege
Other
TVNZ: Prisoner in court bid to delay election
Radio NZ: Dementia patient vote questioned
Parliament: Statistics from the 50th Parliament
Kate Chapman (Stuff): Party weekend for capital's 150th
Herald: Parata defends charter schools
Stuff: Spies hit in Adobe hack
Don Brash (NZCPR): Hikois from hell