NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 23 2014

National

Colin James (ODT): Opinion: Eye on the future a brake on change

Timothy Brown (ODT): Attacks on National offices 'unfortunate'

Southland Times: They've been thinking

Mike Mather (Stuff): Brakes come off government's RMA reform

Waikato Times: Balance is Key's challenge

Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Farmers look forward to resource law reform

Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Unions wary of employment bill

Isaac Davison (Herald): Key close to missing Obama call

TVNZ: National's contentious laws back on agenda

TV3: John Key's outlook, goals for the next three years

WSW: Workers and youth voice disgust over New Zealand election

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): The election result of a lifetime

Sean Plunkett (RadioLIVE): Election Post-Mortem

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Five issues for business to ponder

Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Ho-hum, Nats won, and everyday life goes on

Mike Hosking (Herald): The secret to John Key's success

Liam Dann (Herald): Time to lead NZ beyond 'the cusp'

The Standard: Nationals promises to you. #1.

Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): The lurch to the right begins

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): The Deconstruction – what went down

Grant Miller (Stuff): Key's triumph no small achievement

Simon Wong (TV3): Key kicks off support partner talks

Nelson Mail: A remarkable end to turbulent campaign

Guardian: John Key wants 2015 referendum on ridding New Zealand's flag of union jack

Oliver Hartwich (Interest): Outright majority gives Key an unprecedented opportunity to pursue much needed reforms if he can ignore thoughts of a fourth term

Colin James: The best result John Key could have got

Labour

ODT: Reinventing the Labour Party

Radio NZ: Doubts MP will bring about change

Radio NZ: Fox focused on helping tangata whenua

Michael Wright (Stuff): Labour faces huge challenge

Caleb Morgan (Fine Tooth Column): The Party’s Over

Dominion Post: Labour's future of uncertainty

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour's debrief likely to be brutal

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Cunliffe to face caucus after defeat

Herald: Editorial: Labour needs a new leader, nothing more

Adam Bennett (Herald): Blue the new red in Labour bastions

Claire Trevett (Herald): MPs want Cunliffe to show secret polls

Scott Hamilton (Reading the Maps): From the left's to Filipe's lashing

ISO: Lessons to learn from bitter defeat

Tom Peters (WSW): New Zealand election: Labour’s worst defeat in 92 years

TV3: Shearer, Goff won't rush on leadership decision

John Armstrong (Herald): Rules that made Cunliffe leader could break him

Charlie Greenhalgh (Newstalk ZB): Education professionals pleased with Kelvin Davis' win

Brian Easton (Pundit): Labour and Greens voters are more alike than different

Blake Crayton-Brown (Stuff): Labour in thrashing from cities, suburbs

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The issues that matter

Toby Manhire (Herald): Cunliffe goes from slopes to ropes

Herald: David Cunliffe's letter to supporters

Colin Jackson (The Ruminator): Labour in Vain

Elton Smallman (Stuff): Voters show faith in Mahuta as Labour claws back

Helen Harvey (Stuff): Troubled wait for Little as specials counted

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): The success of right-wing counter messaging in the election

Blake Crayton-Brown (Stuff): Labour's Steve Gibson takes swing - at Cunliffe

Tau Henare (Herald): Heat on Labour's Maori MPs to deliver

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Greens raise eyebrows over Cunliffe admission

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite): On a Wave of Mutilation

Will Matthews (Left Estate): What went wrong?

Steve Maharey (Herald): Journey to the centre of real world

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Reflecting on Elections Past

Giovanni Tiso (Bat, Bean, Beam): The rebuild

David Cormack (The Ruminator): Baby, baby, where did our love go?

Rob Salmond (Polity): Semi-diamonds in the very rough

Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Aspirant talks court action

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): How about all those game changers, eh?

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Labour’s very bad year

Kiwipolitco: Reality-adjacent

Dirty Politics

TVNZ: John Key: I didn't force out Dirty Politics staffer

Radio NZ: Hager sceptical on Ede resignation

Radio NZ: PM has questions to answer – Hager

David Fisher (Herald): Election 2014: Dirty Politics author gives his verdict

Richard Shaw (Stuff): Careful reflection after dirty campaign

Isaac Davison (Herald): Key: Ede happy to move on

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): New Zealanders vote for Dirty Politics

Voter turnout

Newswire: Greens: Teach value of voting in school

Jade Cooper (Newstalk ZB): Not okay for a million Kiwis not to vote – Greens

Radio NZ: Compulsory voting 'an easy fix'

Herald: Election 2014: 53.1% of Maori cast a vote

Internet Mana

Audrey Young (Herald): Harawira: No public comment until next month

TVNZ: Harawira keeping quiet until special votes counted

Chris Keall (NBR): Labour's candidate vote far outstrips its party vote as red seats go blue

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Dotcom's 'poison' call his most honest

Mamari Stephens (Sparrowhawk): Internet Mana: the enemy of my enemy is my friend (atm, lol)

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): $577 a vote!

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The 30 second speech that could have saved the Moment of Truth

Rodney Hide (Herald): Half-baked hijack buried policies

John Minto (Daily Blog): Internet MANA and the 2014 election

Radio NZ: Minto blames Labour for left's failure

Maori Party

James Ihaka (Herald): Election 2014: Flavell open to olive branch

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Marama Fox stunned to make it into parliament

Newswire: Flavell has eyes on the ministerial prize

Tau Henare (Herald): A dramatic election for Maori voters

Dion Tuuta (Stuff): Election shows serious lack of confidence in ourselves

Radio NZ: Call for Kingitanga to unite Maori

Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): 3 more years

NZ First

ODT: Winston's ambidextrous talents were evident way back when

David Fisher (Herald): NZ First's MP of mystery

Special votes

John Weekes (Herald): Election 2014: 300,000 special votes still to be counted

Graeme Edgeler (Legal Beagle): Election 2014: The Special Votes

Conservatives

Nicholas Jones and Issac Davison (Herald): Colin Craig has spent $2.75m of his own cash on elections but never won a seat

Isaac Davison (Herald): Election 2014: Craig vows he is in it for long haul

TVNZ: Moment of Truth 'sucked oxygen' out of our campaign - Colin Craig

Stuff: Oldest candidate may run again in 2017

ACT

TVNZ: Jamie Whyte won't step down as Act Party leader

Audrey Young (Herald): Ministerial job high on new Act MP's wishlist

Sebastian Kinkum (Beehive Mandate): Seymour in for a difficult 3 years

Other

TVNZ: Parliament 101 for new MPs today

Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): School zone manipulation creating 'apartheid'

Elton Smallman (Stuff): Election blights leave bill

Susan Horsby-Guluk (Stuff): Support staff often victims in elections

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The delusional left

Brendan Manning (Herald): Claim of conflict of interest on gambling fund panel

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Me vs the grandchildren

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Prediction failures

Stephen Franks: Zombies, dementia and Maryan Street

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): The key is to look sane

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Farrar v Farrier

Jono Natusch (Occasionally Erudite): The minor parties

Bryan Leyland (Herald): Electricity market needs inquiry

Matthew Beveridge: A response to Whaleoil