NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 25 2014

Labour Party

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Uncomplicated Loyalties: Why Cunliffe and the Labour Left Cannot Win

TVNZ: Is David Cunliffe preparing to quit Labour leadership?

John Armstrong (Herald): Leadership election rules full of pitfalls

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Cunliffe should probably just let Nash & Robertson win

Dominion Post: Editorial: Labour needs a likeable leader

Pete George (Your NZ): Whip Hipkins smartly positioned

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Numbers bad for Cunliffe

Susan St. John (Daily Blog): So Labour shifted too far to the left?

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe considers next move as no early vote

Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Lots left to be desired

Brent Edwards (Radio NZ): Labour Party at the crossroads

Claire Trevett (Herald): David Cunliffe pauses to reconsider future

Stephen Keys (Unframed): Labour Party – Bland, Cynical, and Lacking Conviction 

Simon Wong (TV3): Parker puts Labour leadership rumour to bed

Claire Trevett (Herald): David Parker expected to quit ahead of leadership race

Don Franks (Redline): Why Labour wasn’t worth the workers’ ticks

Matthew Beveridge: Labour return to social media and fail

Rob Salmond (Polity): Chicken bones: Diamonds and Rough

Hayden Eastmond-Mein (Pantograph Punch): Being Gracious in Defeat

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Caucus in Charge

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Jones on Cunliffe

Russell Brown (Hard News): The humanity

Saeran Maniparathy (Beehive Mandate): Messiness Now Is Not An Issue – Labour Leadership Struggles

TV3: Gower: Cunliffe's tactics 'sneaky', 'delphic'

Dan Satherley/Newswire: Cunliffe's caucus support crumbles

Rob Salmond (Polity): Chicken bones: Leadership

Rob Salmond (Polity): Chicken bones: Shambles

Mark Blackham (Political business): New generation Labour

Nick Grant (NBR): Parker quashes tilt talk, remains deputy – for now (paywalled)

Claire Trevett (Herald): David Parker expected to quit ahead of leadership race

Rob Salmond (Polity): Chicken bones – left/right

Anthony Robins (The Standard): Some brief musings on unity

Tasha Impey (TVNZ): Dark horse Jacinda Ardern out front in Labour leadership poll

National Party

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key happily pillaging as Labour navel gazes

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Facebook censoring pages critical of John Key?

David Killick (Stuff): A vote of confidence in the rebuild

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Anger at wrong target

Radio NZ: Greens expecting radical changes

Jo Moir (Stuff): Doubts over tests for years 9 and 10

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): The quake vote

Election result

The Listener: Editorial: Won for all

Jane Clifton (Listener): Stunning result (paywalled)

Bill Ralston (Listener): Interesting times (paywalled)

Diana Wichtel (Listener): Main distraction (paywalled)

The Economist: Clean sweep

Peter Hartcher (Sydney Morning Herald): Team Key teaches lessons on democracy to Team Australia

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Parliamentary Demographics 2014

Nick Grant (NBR): Peters cries ‘collusion,’ lets loose the dogs of rhetoric (paywalled)

Hamish McNeilly (ODT): Student voters shift right

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): iPredict looking forward

Rob Mitchell (Stuff): Voters deliver Key to the kingdom

Inequality and the economy

Jemma Brackebush (Radio NZ): Homeless banned from gathering

No Right Turn: Criminalising the homeless

Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): WANTED: new ideas on child poverty

No Right Turn: Will Key act on child poverty?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): CPAG calls for policies that already exist

Peter Lyons (Herald): Tax flaws creating economic apartheid

Brian Fallow (Herald): Emissions scheme a real stinker

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Child poverty won't be solved behind a desk in Wellington

Media

Herald: APN to rebrand as NZME.

David Cormack (The Ruminator): You guys are so choice

Matthew Beveridge: Where to from here?

GCSB and Dirty Politics

Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Interference by outsiders unwelcome

Nicky Hager (Guardian): New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term

Jarrod Gilbert: Proof of David Farrar’s deception: my own experience of Dirty Politics

Juha Saarinen (Herald): The runaway surveillance machine

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): This is a good time to abolish the SIS and GCSB!

Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Interference by outsiders unwelcome

Keith Ng (On Point): Sunlight Resistance

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Making things slightly better

Greens

Gareth Morgan: Time for a Bluegreen Party

Matt Nolan (TVHE): Blue Green party: background reading

ODT: Soul-searching for the Greens

Man of Errors: The Rongotai Election

NZ First

Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ First big winner - at Labour's cost

Piers Fuller (Stuff): Ron Mark's win means costly by-election

Act

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): David Seymour should not be a minister

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The wrong reason to make someone a Minister

Other

Bevan Chuang: Migrant Chinese and New Zealand Politics

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Sky TV boss's pay tops $1.8m

Jono Natusch (Occassionally Erudite):Is Steve Gibson the new Aaron Gilmore?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Jarrod was right

No Right Turn: Solid Energy, Pike River, and John Key

Dan Satherley (TV3): Decision 14: Why does counting take so long?

Alex Fensome (Stuff): Democracy goes to pot at school

David Fisher (Herald): Minister used wrong figures to justify gang policy, police admit

James Ihaka (Herald): Harawira heads for uncertain future

Radio NZ: Fiery debate as Maori ward vote passes

3 News Online Staff (TV3): Fiery debate as Maori ward vote passes

Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana (Wireless): A crude trade-off: Oil and the environment

Alexander Robertson (Wireless): Vox pops: How to get more people voting?

Jane Clifton (Listener): Who’s the boss? (paywalled)