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NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 10 2014

Bryce Edwards
Wed, 10 Sep 2014

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

Bryce Edwards
Wed, 10 Sep 2014
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