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Maori in New Zealand are disproportionate poor and stuck in low-paid jobs. Added to this situation of inequality, Maori are often hit the hardest during times of economic recession and government restructuring. Yet despite the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars of assets to Maori tribal organisations over the last few decades, this reality of inequality between Maori and non-Maori continues unabated. And also, despite the failures of Treaty settlements to improve the material position of the majority of Maori, advocates of Treaty politics and identity politics would have us believe that the solution for Maori ills still lies in the continued empowering of iwi-tribal Maori organisations. That is, they continue to push the notion that through the transfer of further assets and capital to iwi from the state, as well as through transferring state responsibilities in areas such as health and education to Maori organisations, Maori general social and economic position will be 'further' positively transformed. In this guest blog post, John Moore argues that this Treaty politics solution just hasn't worked. [Read more below]

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Top tweets about Gareth Morgan and the Treaty

This is a selection of recent tweets about Gareth Morgan’s latest articles and book about the Treaty of Waitangi. As usual, the most recent tweets are first. This collection will be updated as more tweets appear. [Read more below]

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12 January 2015

NZ Politics Daily - 12 January 2015: NZ reaction to Paris killings; Treaty of Waitangi and Gareth Morgan

NZ reaction to Paris killings

Dominion Post: Editorial: Freedom of speech cuts both ways

Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Satire in short supply here

Sunday Star Times: Editorial – In New Zealand, the threat to free speech is within

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Charlie Hebdo killings and response

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Free speech for everyone, from Charlie Hebro to the jihadists

Marlborough Express: Editorial – Satire is serious stuff

Robert Patman (ODT): Paris massacre highlights deeper political problems

Mandy Hager (The Standard): The Hypocrisy of Hate

Bryce Johns (Sunshine Coast Daily): Could we see terror attack on Australian journalists?

Occassionally erudite: Fundamentalist Islam and freedom of speech

Max Towle (Radio NZ): Multi faith vigil condemns terror attacks

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Walking the moral tightrope

Steven Cowan (Against the current): Freedom for the one who thinks differently

Mamari Stephens (Sparrowhawk/karearea): The Paris attacks, Derek Fox, and the chimera of free speech

Finetooth column: Ayatollah Assahola

Lindsay Perigo (Breaking views): Mohammed's Murderous Minions

Greg Presland (The Standard): The difference between the left and the right

Grant Duncan (Policy matters): My right to make you look ridiculous

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): The Hypocritical champions of free speech

Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Ellipsister): Freedom: the front for exceptionalism

Josie Pagani (Pundit): Nous sommes Charlie aussi

Grant Shimmin (Stuff): Paris atrocity an assault on democracy

Rob Mitchell (Stuff): Editorial: Freedom of expression also requires thought

Nelson Mail: Editorial – Attack threatens freedom of speech

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Am I really Charlie? On freedom of speech, double standards and true satire

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Brief thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo massacre

Curwen Rolinson (Daily Blog): You Wouldn’t Brand Yourself With #IAmWhaleOil…

ODT: Editorial – Freedom of speech

Herald: Editorial: Thousands thumb noses at attack on press freedom

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A thousand apologies

Joanna Norris (Stuff): Charlie Hebdo shootings an 'attack on freedom of expression'

Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): NZ political leaders unite in condemning French killings

Matt Nippert (Herald): Cartoonists rocked by Paris slayings

Isaac Davison (Herald): Paris terror attack: Derek Fox's views not ours, says Maori Party

TVNZ: NZ broadcaster under fire for saying Paris victim paid the 'price for his arrogance'

Dominion Post: Editorial – Free speech includes the right to offend

Chris Ford: Islamophobic hatred should not flow following Charlie Hebdo shooting

Nikki Papatsoumas and Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): NZ vigils to be held for Charlie Hebdo victims

Radio NZ: Cartoonists, keep drawing - Tom Scott

Greg Presland (The Standard): On Freedom of Speech and Tolerance and Powers of Surveillance

The Standard: John Key on media freedom

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Awful views from Derek Fox

Mark Hubbard (Life behind the iron drape): Je Suis Charlie – My (Quick) Take

Kerre McIvor (Herald): Violence the resort of weak-minded

Isaac Davison (Herald): Paris terror attacks: Derek Fox slammed for 'disgusting' Facebook post

Sam Hurley (Hawke’s Bay Today): Fox comments condemned by local leaders

Treaty of Waitangi and Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan (Herald): Treaty justice triumph of commonsense

Gareth Morgan (Herald): One-sided tribunal process recipe for ongoing tension

Gareth Morgan (Herald): Co-operation needed to deliver rangatiratanga fairly

Gareth Morgan (Herald): We can honour 1840 promises without dividing nation

Morgan Godfery (Maui St): Gareth Morgan and the Pākehā Pathology

Joshua Hitchcock (Ka Tonuitanga): Reflections on Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Part 1

Mike Butler (Breaking Views): Gareth Morgan wrong on treaty

Potaua Biasiny-Tule (Tangata Whenua): Will Gareth Morgan be the new Moses to ignite a Maori Exodus?

Potaua Biasiny-Tule (Tangata Whenua): Gareth Morgan, Treaty Partnerships and the Mercy of the Majority

Potaua Biasiny-Tule (Tangata Whenua): Gareth Morgan and Pakeha Rangatiratanga

Potaua Biasiny-Tule (Tangata Whenua): Gareth Morgan, Wairua and the Challenge of Love

Reuben Chapple (Breaking views): Maori Land

Other

Damian Christie (Public Address): New Year, New Post.

Philip Matthews (Stuff): What is Twitter all about?

Karen Mangnall (Radio NZ): Election lessons on winning Pasifika vote

Geoff Cumming (Herald): Pushing the boundaries

Duncan Garner (Stuff):'Zero tolerance' policy should be scrapped

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): 2015 - 2017: A Struggle For Time And Power

Toby Manhire (Herald): A Welcome to Newzild tourist guide

Richard Prebble (Listener): Land of milk and oil (paywalled)

Newswire: Govt writes off $5b tax debt

Radio NZ: The changing media scene

Elspeth McLean (ODT): Transparent public service remains a rarity

Herald: Meet the backbenchers: Kris Faafoi

Isaac Davison (Herald): Auckland councillor Dick Quax gets tweeters all a-twitter

Deidre Mussen (Stuff): Sensible Sentencing Trust: Garth McVicar's election bid cause of division

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John Moore: How the left has failed Charlie Hebdo

The left in general is going at lengths to apologise for the fanatical terrorists who stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. In part, this grotesque response from the left comes from identity politics advocates wanting to be seen as siding with oppressed Muslims. In this guest blog, John Moore argues that rather than siding with the oppressed and taking a 'nuanced' take on the Paris terrorist attack, the politically correct left is in reality acting as apologists for religious fascists. And although the leftwing intelligentsia may claim that the ‘Islamic’ rage we have seen in Paris comes from a genuine feeling of offence amongst Muslims, in fact such rage, as author Salmon Rushdie has pointed out, is completely manufactured and political and ideological in nature. That is, this is a manufactured rage used by fundamentalist Islamic leaders and politicians for their own pursuit of power.

Leftwing apologists for rightwing murderers

Although ostensibly condemning the murders, many social-leftists, so called advocates of the oppressed, have been at pains to point out the apparent ‘racist, ‘sexist’, and ‘Islamophobic’ nature of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

Perhaps the most disturbing example in New Zealand of such apologising for the killers’ actions has come from former Maori broadcaster and Maori Party candidate, Derek Fox. In a bizarre rant on Facebook, Fox chose not to condemn the fanatical terrorists, but rather the murdered editor of the French satirical magazine, Stephane Charbonnier.

The former Maori Party candidate argued that the Charlie Hebdo editor had acted as a ‘bully’ for ‘insulting other peoples culture’. Fox then went on to claim that the editor and his colleagues have ‘paid the price’ for criticising and lampooning religious beliefs. And on a sinister note, Fox even went as far to condemn the New Zealand media, who he claims are equally guilty of such ‘cultural insensibility’. A chilling statement, which could easily be used as a future justification for violence against New Zealand journalists.

Other politically correct pundits chose also to 'explain' the apparent motivation for the killers, by pointing out at length the 'Islamophobic' and 'racist' nature of the murdered French satirists. For such liberal and leftist commentators, merely acting to mock or ridicule religious belief equates to being a bigot and a racist. This is despite the fact that all currents of liberal and leftwing thought are derived from the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers, who aimed to put an end to the political power of religious obscurantists. But for the modern day leftists, 'respect' and 'tolerance' supersedes any right to criticise others' beliefs. And the logic of such political correctness has led to a number of leftwing bloggers, including the Daily Blog editor Martyn Bradbury, effectively laying the blame on the Paris terrorist attack on the staff at Charlie Hedbo themselves. One New Zealand leftwing activist and anarchist rightly put ridicule to such an outlook:

“There was a time not so long ago when the left stood up for free speech, against censorship, and against religious bigotry. It is quite depressing seeing how much has been written in the last 24 hours about how offensive and unpleasant the murdered cartoonists were, and how freedom of speech is some sort of dangerous establishment trick that exits to oppress us.”

The perverse logic of identity politics

On the face of it is rather perplexing that the majority of modern-day liberals and leftists feel unable to condemn outright the actions of reactionary fanatics. The ideology of such religious extremists is completely antithetical to any form of progressive thought. Certainly, when Christian extremists, with a similar obscurantist world view to Islamists, carry out acts in the name of God, then the Western left are all to quick to condemn the culprits. And rightly so. Yet when reactionaries who claim to act in the name of the Islamic faith, attack those they see as sinners, including ‘blasphemers’, Jews, gays, liberated women or even fellow Muslims, politically correct leftists either remain silent or try to 'contextualise' the actions of such obscurantists. Why is this?

For the modern-day social-liberal and leftist, Muslims as a whole represent an oppressed or marginalised group. And so to criticise any ideology stemming from this demographic is to effectively side with the oppressor. The oppressor in this case being Western imperialism or even Western society in general.

Supporting struggles of marginalised people is certainly a good thing. But acting as apologists for perverse ideologies, whose adherents claim to represent a marginalised or oppressed people, is something else all together. But modern-day leftists just don’t get this. So for example, while many Western leftwingers rightly show solidarity with the Palestinian people when they are attacked by the Israeli state, such liberals go further and act to support reactionary orgaisations such as Hamas, a rightwing Islamist organisation with a base within the Palestinian community. The reason why social liberals fail to condemn such rightwing - if not outright fascist - groups such as Hamas, is because of the perverse logic of identity politics which now holds sway in the West.

Why identify politics liberals side with reactionaries

The Western left’s response to the Paris terrorist attack, where many pundits have felt the need to act as apologists for the terrorists, comes from an ideological crisis of the left. The left’s inability to unequivocally condemn rightwing Islamists partly comes from equating Muslims, and other oppressed groups, with the proletariat. Now that working class struggle and consciousness has all but disappeared in the West, the identity politics left has transferred their championing of the working class to that of certain identity politics favoured groups. So because groups such as Muslims are seen as oppressed and marginalised, the left therefore sees as something inherently progressive, or at least anti-Establishment, in the politics stemming from modern-day Islam.

In many ways this response is a continuation of where the New Left set of in the 1960s. The New Left ditched the old left’s class-focussed politics, and aimed to find other groups and movements to replace the working class as the agents for progressive change. So at various times the New Left hailed, Blacks, Third World peasants, and leftwing nationalist and Maoist anti-colonial movements, as the new agents for an anti-capitalist revolution.

The difference between the New Left ideology and that of the contemporary identity politics left is that oppressed groups aren’t supported as agents of change, but merely because of their marginalised social position. Therefore the modern left doesn’t so much advocate liberation for marginalised and oppressed groups, but merely promotes the need for an environment of ‘tolerance’ and ‘respect’ towards such communities such as Muslims.

The elitist racism of social-leftists

The Western left’s response to the Paris terrorist events shows, in an odd way, the inherent racism and elitism of this current. An argument put forward by communist philosopher Slovoj Zizek is that multi-culturalist leftists essentially have a condescending view of non-secular whites. They view communities such as Muslims as being inherently unable to give up their traditions and religion, and of being also unable to handle any form of critique off their beliefs. Only the middle class leftist apparently can engage in rigorous debate and critique, whereas a censoring environment of ‘respect’ and ‘tolerance’ must be the norm for others. Essentially, identity politics leftwingers position themselves as culturally superior to the ‘sensitive’ and ‘easily offended’ non-white masses:

“One of the most irritating liberal-tolerant strategies is to oppose Islam as a great religion of spiritual peace and compassion to its fundamentalist-terrorist abuse …This is liberal-tolerant racism at its purest: this kind of “respect” for the other is the very form of appearance of its opposite, of patronizing disrespect. The very term “tolerance” is here indicative: one “tolerates” something one doesn’t approve of, but cannot abolish, either because one is not strong enough to do it or because one is benevolent enough to allow the Other to stick to its illusion – in this way, a secular liberal “tolerates” religion, a permissive parent “tolerates” his children’s excesses, etc.”

Leftwing apologising for the reactionaries who murdered the staff at Charle Hebdo reveal how bankrupt identity politics is. For a return to the politics of class and universilism, and for a rejection of liberal-tolerant racism!

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New Zealand cartoons about the Paris Killings

Here's the response of New Zealand cartoonists to the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and others in Paris. [Read more below]

Emmerson - NZ Herald frontpage 9 January 2015

Emmerson - NZ Herald 14 January 2015

Evans - January 2015

Evans - The Press 14 January 2015

Emmerson - NZ Herald 13 January

Hubbard 9 January 2015

Moreu - The Press 9 January 2015

Scott - Dominion Post 10 January 2015

Murdoch - Sunday Star Times 11 January 2015

Chicane - Southland Times 9 January 2015

Moreu - Nelson Mail 10 January 2015

Emmerson - NZ Herald 10 January 2015

Body - NZ Herald 12 January 2015

The Press masthead for jesuischarlie 9 January 2015

The Press masthead for 9 January 2015

Dominion Post frontpage for jesuischarlie 9 January 2015

Dominion Post frontpage for 9 January 2015

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19 December 2014

NZ Politics Daily: 19 December 2014: Dirty Politics; Economy, and inequality; Year in review; Health; Housing; Environment

Today’s content

Dirty Politics

Brendan Manning (Herald): Judicial review hearing for Hager

Simon Wong (TV3): Nicky Hager gets Dirty Politics court date over search

Pete George (Your NZ): Word of the Year: #dirtypolitics

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Guess who won Massey Univeristy’s Quote of the Year competition?

Stuff: Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater wins quote of the year

Stuff: Judge orders handover of Nicky Hager raid documents

No Right Turn: The courts and the Public Records Act

Pete George (Your NZ): Slater versus Hooton on Dirty Politics

Pete George (Your NZ): Summary of “Dirty Politics” and dirty politics

Economy, and inequality

Economics NZ: Never mind the deficit

Catherine Harris (Stuff): More Aucklanders can't afford heating

James Weir (Stuff): NZ GDP grew 1 per cent, beats expectations

Brian Fallow (Herald): Treasury forecasts 9pc growth over three years

Adam Bennett (Herald): Government spending cuts key to surplus

Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt promising to measure up over surplus

Dan Satherley (TV3): Don't blame deficit on tax cuts – English

Dominion Post: Editorial: Surplus crowing was premature

Tim Watkin (Pundit): An economic comedy in four acts

Anthony Robins (Standard): On the economy and tax cut bribes

John Anthony (Stuff): Slight increase for NZ salaries

Rob Salmond (Polity): Deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit deficit tax cuts!

Rob Salmond (Polity): Rich inequality, poor inequality, good inequality, bad inequality

Innes Asher (Herald): Low-income families' safety net needs repair

The Standard: Power poverty on the up

Year in review

TV3: Key found campaign 'a low-light' for 2014

TV3: Patrick Gower's year in politics

TV3: Brook Sabin's year in politics

Chris Trotter (RadioLive): Political Awards for 2014

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Little, Peters deserve awards

TV3/Newswire: Cameron Slater's rugby quip voted year's best

Herald: Quote of 2014 goes to...WhaleOil blogger Cameron Slater

Toby Manhire (Herald): A festive verse for NZ

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): My 11 findings of the year

Claire Trevett (Herald): The year of apologies that keeps on giving

Patrick Gower (TV3): Moment of Truth 'defining moment' for 2014

TV3: 2014: The year in politics

Health

TV3: DHB funding comes up short

Manawatu Standard: Statistics support health advocate's view

TVNZ: Cancer sufferers more likely to survive in Australia than NZ - study

Lincoln Tan (Herald): Worst killers of Kiwis changing

Martin Johnston (Herald): New Zealand lags behind Australia in cancer survival rates

Ben Heather (Dom Post): New Zealanders living longer but some diseases double impact

Jill Ovens (Daily Blog): Auckland Hospital worker cuts – Democracy the loser

Housing

Adam Bennett (Herald): Housing crisis: Pasifika hit hard by shortage

Peter Lyons (Herald): Bet the house on city's weatherboard economics

TV3: Immigration boom pressures housing market

Sydney siege and terrorism

Dan Satherley (TV3): Terror laws not aimed at 'lone wolves' - Little

Dan Satherley (TV3): Key: 'Australia will be hurting'

Southland Times: Editorial: The sane response to atrocity

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): An incoherent argument for spying

The Standard: Over it

Dan Satherley (TV3): Terror laws won’t stop ‘lone operator’ - expert

Manawatu Standard: Cafe siege brings terror threat closer

No Right Turn: John Key wants arbitrary detention

Wake up NZ: Sydney seige: Why anti-terrorism laws still aren’t justified

Environment

Nelson Mail: Editorial: No time to hide on climate change

Taranaki Daily News: Government sticks head in sand

RNZ: Climate comments unpolitic - Maori Party

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens again call for cows to be culled

RNZ: Iwi climate group reprimanded by minister

RNZ: Labour criticises climate letter

Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ 'well placed' to increase clean energy use

Brownlee-gate

Hamish Rutheford (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee security details differ

RadioLive: Brownlee faces fresh security breach accusations

Greg Presland (The Standard): Why wasn’t Brownlee sacked?

Media

Russell Brown (Public Address): We're in this together

John Drinnan (Herald): Radio NZ pulls out of national award

Transport

Newswire: Mixed reactions to road funding policy

TV3: Transport to get $38.7B funding boost

Jamie Morton (Herald): Rena grounding: Failures revealed

Elton Smallman (Stuff): Damning report into Rena grounding

Other

No Right Turn: Horrifying

Winston Peters (Herald): Super City Grinches want our prize

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Sitting On Our Hands

Hilary Stace (Public Address): Some aspects of New Zealand's disability history - part two

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Novopay cost still 'unacceptably high': Joyce

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Hackers post alleged police passwords

Newswire: Novopay takeover to cost extra $8.7M

RNZ: One email behind diplomat bungle - McCully

TVNZ: McCully gets 'disappointing' report on Malaysian diplomat case

Newswire: Peters slams latest immigration figures

Newswire: Key to have quiet Christmas

RNZ: Port workers in fight for higher pay

Isaac Davison (Herald): Call for ban on alcohol advertising at sport events

Stuff: New US ambassador Mark Gilbert's very Kiwi video

Peter de Graaf (Northern Advocate): MP rubbishes beach claim

John Edens (Stuff): Flag needs to 'scream NZ': John Key

Simon Wilson (Metro): Honest John

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Brownlee declares war on defence jargon

Tariana Turia (Herald): It's time to restore the 'h' in Whanganui

Rob Salmond (Polity): LMAO

No Right Turn: John Key's war on P is a failure

Newswire: Winston Peters wants experts to fix ferry fiasco

Andrew Chen (MCDP): School Deciles and Wealth

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Alcohol sponsorship removal almost draconian

Elesha Edmonds (Stuff): Auckland University pays for transgender students' name changes

Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Say ‘Yay’, not ‘Nay’, to this New Zealand Flag

Herald: Editorial: Why $40,000 fine for quad bike couple makes sense

David Clark (ODT): Fresh approach needed to grow NZ's regions

Jamie Morton (Herald): Rena probe reveals catalogue of issues

Peter Bromhead (Herald): Flag's proud heritage fading to black

Kurt Bayer and Nikki Papatsoumas (Herald): Golf: John Key's love of greens proves to be diminishing handicap

Dan Satherley (TV3): Labour aims for 40 percent in 2015

Ellipsister: The Greens get a little personal

No Right Turn: The OIA Review

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17 December 2014

NZ Politics Daily: 17 December 2014: Economy and fiscal policy; Sydney siege & NZ; Year in review; OIA review; Phil Goff; Tau Henare

Today’s content

Economy and fiscal policy

John Armstrong (Herald): Tax-cut signal looks like rod for National's back

John Armstrong (Herald): Quixotic English like dog with bone

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): “I said surface, not surplus”

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Milk price could sour English's optimism

Vernon Small (Stuff): Deficit a bitter pill for Government

Patrick O'Meara (Radio NZ): English still tilting for surplus next year

Herald: Editorial: English must do more than hope surplus will appear

No Right Turn: No surplus

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Bill English's money meteorologists

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Government surplus in doubt

Patrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Economy can grow faster than thought before inflation bites - Treasury

Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Govt shunts out return to surplus to 2016 as tax take misses expectations

Rob Salmond (Polity): Mirage

Simon Wong (TV3): English vows surplus despite deficit prediction

Sydney hostage siege and NZ

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Tone it down, John: Sydney seige words seem self-serving

Brian Rudman (Herald): Terrorism no justification to fight others' wars

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Crass opportunism in wake of siege

Grant Duncan (Policy matters): Mark Mitchell MP gets it wrong

Scott Hamilton (Reading the maps): 'Sanitizing New Zealand': Kiwibloggers react to the Sydney siege

John Minto (Daily Blog): Political opportunists out in force over Sydney hostage crisis

Herald: Sydney siege: NZ Muslims in tears over support

Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Spy powers can't keep us safe

Year in review

Russell Brown (Public Address): Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics

TV3: John Key 'political winner' of 2014 - Hooton

Cameron Graham (Sparrowhawk/Karearea): Māori broadcasting & the year of living dangerously

Official information problems

Radio NZ: Too much secrecy in public health - Ombudsman

Benedict Collins (Radio NZ): Media body takes aim at Govt OIA delay tactics

TVNZ: OIA review 'where the rubber meets the road' for Key

Isaac Davison (Herald): Government offices selected for OIA review

Radio NZ: Wide-ranging review of Official Information Act

Phil Goff and leaked SIS report

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Goff let off over revealing report details

Radio NZ: Goff apologises for report leak

Simon Wong (TV3): Goff apologises for SIS report leak

Isaac Davison (Herald): Goff apologises for leak

Mfat report

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Rizalman report may see disciplinary action

Radio NZ: MFAT boss told to consider disciplinary action

Isaac Davison (Herald): Diplomat inquiry results 'disappointing' - Minister

Tau Henare and suppression law

Newswire: Tau Henare denies suppression breach

Ian Stewart (Stuff): Tau Henare in court over suppression breach charge

Rob Kidd (Herald): Former MP yet to delete online alleged suppression breach

Inequality

Brian Easton (Pundit): Does Inequality Affect Economic Growth?

Derek Burrows (Stuff): It's a bit rich our egalitarian image is dead

Kate Dickie-Davis (Daily Blog): NZs new hobby – hating the poor

Other

Dominion Post: Cunning convertibles put rich listers in Luxe crew

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): My letter to Santa Claus

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16 December 2014

NZ Politics Daily - 16 December 2014: Dirty Politics; Climate change; Year in review; Internet Party

Climate change

Adrien Taylor (TV3): Govt told to cut climate change target gap

Isaac Davison (Herald): Climate Change: NZ's emission impossible

Press: Editorial: Climate deal as remote as ever

Dom Post: A small step on climate change

Year in review

Colin James (ODT): The year of a man who’s been around a while

Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Why proclaiming Key as the Politician of the Year is ethically bankrupt

Dirty Politics

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Left reveals fascist tendencies over Judith Collins’ column (paywalled)

Rodney Hide (NBR): Imagine Winston’s Dirty Politics scenario

Giovanni Tiso (Bat Bean Beam): Tending fascist

Nick Grant (NBR): Hager named Waikato University’s 2015 writer in residence

David Cohen (NBR): Texting Slater: Non-story of the year? (paywalled)

TV3: Key criticised for Slater apology

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key’s crocodile tears over dirty politics

Pete George (Your NZ): Transcript – Key on media, dirty politics and bloggers

Sydney hostage siege

Audrey Young (Herald): Sydney siege: Anti-terrorist law in NZ 100% justified, says MP

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Sydney siege, and DHB budget cuts

Herald: Editorial: Sydney siege brings terror close to home

Voting

Claire Trevett (Herald): 126 voters referred to police for voting twice

TVNZ: Electoral Commission refers dual voting cases to police

Public service salaries

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Eye-watering salaries

Georgina Stylianou (Press): 'Top heavy' Cera has big salaries

Internet Party

John Armstrong (Herald): Mana deal was never 'till death us do part'

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Harre disconnects from Internet Party

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Laila quits her membership

Other

Demelza Leslie (RNZ): DHBs may face more funding cuts

Pete George (Your NZ): Collins should return as Minister but Williamson unlikely

Rob Salmond (Polity): Euthanasia

Mark Yardley (The Press): Restorative justice of little benefit to victims

Rob Hosking (NBR): Govt figures likely to show delayed surplus - but stronger underlying economy (paywalled)

Jamie Ball (NBR): MFAT slammed for ‘shameful misuse’ of $9m conference

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why we are in inequality denial and climate change denial

Catherine Delahunty (Herald): Maori representation no threat to open democracy

RNZ: Rents stagnant across nation

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Timaru case shows why we need spy laws

Angela Fitchett (Nelson Mail): Parliamentary prayer: Debate on update

Southland Times: Editorial: Want a pollie cracker?

Matthew Dearnaley (Herald): Key transport projects face delays

Stuff: Kohanga Reo trustee loses appeal

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15 December 2014

NZ Politics Daily - 15 December 2014: Year in review; Anti-terrorism act; Inequality; Housing; Internet Mana

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Year in review

Fairfax: Front bench report 2014's winners and losers

Tracy Watkins (Dom Post): One clear winner, plenty of dashed hopes

Tracy Watkins and Vernon Small (Stuff): One bumpy ride of an election

Duncan Garner (Stuff): Key my politician of the year, but now for the third-term blues

Scott Yorke (imperato Fish): The 2014 Imperator Fish Awards

Bryce Edwards (Herald): A year of controversies that didn't matter

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 2014 Kiwiblog Awards Winners

Foreign Fighters legislation

John Armstrong (Herald): Poor legislation arouses fears over civil liberties

Nelson Mail: State powers need greater scrutiny

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Little takes the game to National by backing Key's anti-jihadist law