NZ POLITICS DAILY: Suddenly, McCully's days seem numbered
Could the World Cup opening shambles prove a game-changer?
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There is no doubt that the National Government deserves the pressure that is currently being applied over the shambles of the Rugby World Cup opening night. The chaos of the opening night of the Rugby World Cup in Auckland was extraordinary, and the decision now to commandeer the city’s waterfront is equally extraordinaire.
With just ten weeks until election day, this all gives Labour an amazing opportunity to scrutinize the government over something that was so unnecessary.
Whether or not this drama is a ‘game changer’ is still to be seen, and will largely depend to some extent on whether National can ensure that the rest of the RWC goes to plan.
But the fiasco has certainly taken the shine off the National government’s general appearance of competency.
Murray McCully’s days as a minister suddenly seemed numbered.
The most appropriate headline covering the debacle is therefore today’s Herald’s Four years of World Cup plans unravel in four days. Also conveying the latest drama well is Fran O'Sullivan’s Seizing control of fan zone surreal. But the must-read critique of National (and Labour and the local body politicians) comes from Duncan Garner – see: McCully must share Rugby World Cup Waterfront blame. Also of importance are: Vernon Small’s Nats in hot seat over party central, John Armstrong’s Knock out - Key lands the killer punch Len Brown didn't see coming, Brian Rudman’s So what comes next, Il Duce, and Dylan Moran and Lloyd Burr’s Opposition opposed RWC legislation as it gave McCully too much power.
Bryce Edwards, NZPD Editor (bryce.edwards@otago.ac.nz)
Today’s content:
RWC: Party Central organisational problems
John Armstrong (NZH): Knock out - Key lands the killer punch Len Brown didn't see coming
Vernon Small (Dom Post): Nats in hot seat over party central
Newstalk ZB and APNZ: Brown told of Govt's waterfront plan days ago – McCully
Duncan Garner (TV3): McCully must share Rugby World Cup Waterfront blame
Fran O'Sullivan (NZH): Seizing control of fan zone surreal
Bernard Orsman (NZH): Rugby World Cup party gatecrashers
Bernard Orsman (NZH): $2m price tag on getting city's World Cup trains to run properly
Dylan Moran and Lloyd Burr (TV3): Opposition opposed RWC legislation as it gave McCully too much power
Editorial (NZH): Four years of World Cup plans unravel in four days
Russell Brown (Hard News): The Minister’s Brain Has Exploded
Brian Rudman (NZH): So what comes next, Il Duce
Kim Savage, Alexia Russell, Natasha Burling and Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): No need for Govt intervention – Hulse
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Political Report: September 14
John Hartevelt and Danya Levy (Stuff): Party Central buck stops with me: McCully
Belinda McCammon (Stuff): Waterfront takeover a 'big kick' to council
Hayden Donnell, APNZ and NZH Staff (NZH): Waterfront move an 'overreaction'
Grant Robertson (Red Alert): ‘A side order of complete and utter shambles’
John Campbell (TV3): Govt blames Auckland for RWC fiasco
Audio Coverage
RWC politics
Alex Fensome (Southland Times): World Cup fever drowns out politicking
Matt Stewart (Dom Post): 'Snub' won't keep prince from game
Nick Krause (Stuff): RWC will leave a legacy – IRB
Colin Wiliscroft (NBR): Rugby World Cup to be subject of government report
RWC: NZ’s Minister of Bad Manners
Tim Donoghue (Fairfax): Journalist stands by 'Minister for Bad Manners' claim
John Pagani (electionresults): Do we have our Minister of Bad Manners?
Social disparity
Editorial (Dom Post): Left further behind the real world
NZ military interventions
Chris Trotter (Press): Moral fables in the post 9/11 era
Hana Garrett-Walker and AP: SAS 'sort of' involved in Kabul attack
Reuters and Danya Levy (Stuff): Taleban stage co-ordinated attacks in Kabul
Other
Adam Bennett (NZH): Party more blue than Green - Labour
Tim Watkin (Pundit): The powerful Professor Mutu
Max Rashbrooke (NZH): Prison costs reach $21m before start
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Ryall asks for confirmation of English health contract advice
Vernon Small (Stuff): Finance Minister warns of risks to NZ
Vernon Small (Stuff): Value unknown for Defence Secretary's gifts
Timaru Herald: ECan progress pleases Smith
No Right Turn: A permanent dictatorship in Canterbury?
Laird Harper (Taranaki Daily News ): Ngarewa-Packer to help shape Maori economics
Elizabeth Binning (NZH): Labour promises to drop National Standards
Bryce Edwards (liberation): What would you like to ask Clare Curran?
Bryce Edwards
Wed, 14 Sep 2011
Wed, 14 Sep 2011
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NZ POLITICS DAILY: Suddenly, McCully's days seem numbered
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