NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 15 2014

Today’s content

Greenwald and GCSB

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Spy scandal - what we know and what we don't

No Right Turn: Key lies to us again

Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Double Trouble

David Fisher (Herald): John Key denied internet cables tapped by NSA

Bloomberg: New Zealand says it will release documents to deny Glenn Greenwald’s ‘proof’ that nation spied on its citizens

The Standard: The enablers

Liam Hyslop (Stuff): Kim Dotcom: Seven 'Moment of Truth' alternatives

Radio NZ: Greenwald claims NZ data already collected

Rob O’Neill: Dotcom, Greenwald, Assange and Snowden target New Zealand

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Keeping up with the rapid story of Glenn Greenwald & NZ spying

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Glenn Greenwald revelations

Adam Bennett and Claire Trevett (Herald): Kiwis' data lodged with NSA - Greenwald

TVNZ: Dotcom trying to save his 'reasonably large' butt - John Key

Steven Price (Media Law Journal): Some questions for the PM

Chris Keall (NBR): Five questions for Key, and Greenwald, ahead of tonight's 'Moment of Truth' (paywalled)

Tim Hume (CNN): 'House of Cards' in the South Pacific: New Zealand's dirty election campaign

Kim Dotcom (CNN): Why New Zealand is a slave to U.S. interests

Eric Crampton (Offsetting behaviour): One of these is a lie

Newstalk ZB: Key launches scathing attack on Greenwald

Sam Thompson (Newstalk ZB): Impact of spying on countries severe

Dan Satherley (TV3): GCSB spying plan 'ridiculous' - Boag

Grumpollie: Final pre-election polls have begun – what about the Dotcom bombshell?

Newswire: Greenwald questions mass surveillance in NZ

John Minto (Daily Blog): John Key’s love affair with a straw man

Geoffrey Miller (Tagesspiegel): The German Kim Dotcom whirls the campaign

NBR: GCSB has engaged in mass surveillance of NZers — Greenwald

Jane Bowron (Stuff): The 'dodgy' exercise of casting an early vote

Steve Braunias (Metro): Steve Braunias’ Campaign Diary: Day 9

Sarah Robson (Newswire): Key ready to counter Greenwald revelations

Anthony Robbins (The Standard): “Moment of Truth” – a key claim

Greg Presland (The Standard): John Key planned our mass surveillance

The Press: Editorial: Dotcom sideshow a distraction

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): PM defends on front foot

Andrea Vance (Stuff): It's a 'sound and light show' – Key

Toby Manhire (Guardian): New Zealand PM deceiving public over spying claims, says Glenn Greenwald

David Fisher (Herald): PM withheld spying data – critics

TVNZ: Kim Dotcom to reveal spying 'bombshell' tonight

Radio NZ: Key releasing documents to protect reputation

John Armstrong (Herald): Dotcom's last chance to shine

Eileen Goodwin (ODT): 'Moment of Truth' will need to be compelling

Brook Sabin (TV3): Greenwald: I stand by everything I've said

Andrea Vance (Stuff): PM waits for spy claims before counter

TVNZ: Key says mass surveillance considered but rejected

Derek Cheng (Herald): Spy case: No documents until claims verified – Key

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Analysis: Who's fooling who on spying claims?

Pete George (Your NZ): D-Day versus Key-Day

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Greenwald vs Key

Pete George (Your NZ): Glenn Greenwald in New Zealand

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Key’s denials sound so off and why Dotcom’s fight is all our fight

Saeran Maniparathy (Beehive Mandate): Key’s Reaction is Key – Kim Dotcom’s Moment Of Truth

Pete George (Your NZ): Greenwald acknowledges he’s not neutral and is politically motivated

Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): You really should watch this interview with Glenn Greenwald, despite the smears

Mike Smith (The Standard): VRWC rises from the grave

Labour’s Asset Fund

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Cunliffe denies asset fund aimed at NZ First

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour plans new fund to buy back assets

Adam Hollingworth (TV3): National says Labour asset buy-back plan 'desperate'

TVNZ: Labour pledges $100m for investment fund

NBR: Labour wants 'NZ Inc' sovereign wealth fund — but woolly on if it will be used for asset buy-backs

Newswire: Peters open to Southland smelter stake

Newswire: Labour fund could buy back assets

Paul Walker (Anti-Dismal): This is simply a bad idea: Labour's asset buying fund.

Election Campaign

Radio NZ: Final week of election campaigning

Radio NZ: Early votes at unprecedented numbers

Newswire: Big week for pre-election statistics

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Exercise your democratic right and vote!

Claire Allison (Timaru Herald): Changing the way we vote

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Gower on the election

Dave Armstrong (Stuff): MMP can create strange bedfellows

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Hardly time for Key v Cunliffe

Matthew Beveridge: Expectations for the last week

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Election 2014: Numbers and Faces

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Key and Cunliffe on Q+A

Michael Fox (Stuff): McVicar helping Nash, not Nats

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Wrong wrong wrong

Michael Fox (Stuff): Protester confronts 'racist' Cunliffe

Matthew Beveridge: This Year I’m Voting. And I’m Voting National

John Roughan (Herald): Key personifies a new confidence

Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Tax is not so bad

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What will soft National vote do, why Colin Craig will be a focus in final week and why msm will hope Key wins

Diana Clement (Herald): What parties will be putting in your pocket

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Why you must tick ACT twice! (paywalled)

Verity Johnson (Herald): Voting is a gutsy act of fighting spirit

The Standard: Authenticity

Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Thousands not yet enrolled

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): A clear and present choice  

Amy Jackson (Stuff): Early voting finding popularity

Dominion Post: Editorial: Electoral laws need rethink

Diana Dekker (Stuff): The art of politics

Herald: Selfie king versus preacher man

Ian Llewellyn (Election Data Consortium): Will Advance Voting Stimulate Non-Voters Into Action?

Jill Goldson (Herald): Will the election ruin your relationship?

Matt Nolan (Interest): Matt Nolan sifts through three political parties' policies

Gavin Bertram (Pantograph Punch): Asking the Right Questions: Brent Edwards

Hamish Parkinson (The Wireless): Out of the echo chamber, onto the streets

TV3: Let's Get Political: Episode 6

Cameron Murray (The Ruminator): The mainstream media’s secret agenda

Philip Ferguson (Redline): Not voting versus lesser-evilism and dressing up reformist politics

Libby Wilson (Stuff): Political site explores digital democracy

Toby Manhire (Listener): Election 2014: Big Night Beehive Bingo

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The third parties

Andrew Dickens (Herald): Middle NZ yawns as visionless politicians bicker

Ben Uffindell (Herald): Is this really much fun for you, John?

The Ruminator: Thoughts on media coverage of the election #3

The Standard: Get clean politics into the Herald 

Torben Akel (TV3): Decision '14: The bellweather booths

Nelson Mail: A song of freedom or a threat to it?

Rob Hosking (NBR): Election 2014: Winston's legacy option (paywalled)

Toby Manhire (Herald): Hint of third-termitis stealing Team Key's resolve

Steve Braunias (Stuff): Campaign Diary: Day 7

Stuff: Election 2014: All things economic

Stuff: Election 2014: Getting social

Rob Salmond (Polity): Key runs scared from TVNZ debate

Jamie Ball (NBR): Battle of ‘independent’ reports drives axe through CGT debate

Derek Handley (Herald): An open letter to first-time voters

Greens

Fundamentally useless: Red leaves falling, Green buds flowering

TVNZ: Cunliffe derides Greens' opposition hopes as 'wishful thinking'

Radio NZ: Key rules out dealing with Greens

The Jackal: Media misrepresent the Greens

Jono Natusch: The Greens and National

TV3: Green Party hints at independence

Audrey Young (Herald): Greens under fire for courting Nats

Brook Sabin (TV3): John Key rejects the Green Party

Andrea Vance (Stuff): John Key nixes deal with Greens

Claire Trevett (Herald): Greens go bush in search of support

Polls

Colin James (Radio NZ): Poll of polls

The Standard: Blue on the polls

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): Poll of polls uodate – 14 September 2014

Maori seats

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Maori seats could be tipping point

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Ikaroa-Rawhiti - and the legacy of Parekura Horomia

Inequality and poverty

Brent Edwards (Radio NZ): Leaders would struggle on low incomes

Martin van Beynen (Stuff): A trip down John Key's struggle street

Don Franks (Redline): Internet MANA’s campaign to eliminate poverty reviewed

Dirty Politics

Dita De Boni (Herald): Let's hear it for the lobbyists

David Haywood (Public Address):Sign this Petition

Rodney Hide (NBR): Mind control rules is real dirty politics (paywalled)

Salient: Dishing the dirt on Hager

Steven Price (MLJ): Is Whale Oil a journalist (3)?

ISIS

TV3: Key: No Kiwi troops to fight IS for now

Stuff:  No Kiwi military for Iraq

Other

John Daly-Peoples (NBR): Wild Bees: A play about Rogernomics timed for election week

Eric Crampton (NBR): How to revive our zombie towns (paywalled)

Critic: New Zealand general election

Michael Fox (Stuff): Perks or plain John - both have their benefits: PM

Herald: Editorial: Greens' ideas on dairying hold plenty of good water

Newswire: Jewish Council slams calls for fund boycott

TVNZ: Bradford 'shocked' by support for repeal of anti-smacking law

Stuff: NZ-registered firm in money 'spin cycle'

Rachel Morton (TV3): Parliament rejects Kate Sheppard statue

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Election plea for Public TV network

Kent Smith and Rebekah Smith (Salient): Being Well – Vote

TVNZ: Vote Compass: Over 55s more likely to support raising retirement age

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): An issue I agree with Laila on

Brian Easton: A New Home for Brian Easton

Tamsyn Parker (Herald): KiwiSaver election promises

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The NBR paywall

Chris Keall (NBR): One million reasons to love a paywall

Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): APN NZ fleshes out senior team as carve-out looms, plans paywall early 2015