NZ POLITICS DAILY: February 12 2015

Today’s content

SkyCity convention centre deal

Patrick Gower (TV3): SkyCity share price jumps on Govt announcement

Vernon Small (Dom Post): Counting the cost of 'free'

ODT: Editorial: Rolling the dice

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Stoush over SkyCity

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): High stakes between PM, SkyCity

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Old Renovator's Curse

Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Key must say no to SkyCity

Vernon Small (Stuff): Govt at odds over SkyCity convention centre

Anne Gibson and Nicholas Jones (Herald): Public money for SkyCity convention centre 'least preferred' fix

Anne Gibson (Herald): SkyCity has big plans for Adelaide property

Tim Hunter (Stuff): SkyCity CEO: Taxpayers always on the hook for higher costs

RNZ: Convention centre cost rise questioned

Rob Hosking (NBR): Purple Haze over SkyCity deal (paywalled)

Rob Hosking (NBR): Budget 2015: English names the day but shies away from further funding of Sky City deal (paywalled)

TV3: Video: Key vs Peters on SkyCity convention centre deal

RNZ: SkyCity willing to negotiate

TVNZ: SkyCity's demands for top-up 'not fair' - ONE News readers

Pete George (Your NZ): Joyce squirming on Sky ‘free plus costs’

Pete George (Your NZ): Row of Sky lemons a bitter jackpot

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key’s SkyCity Scam is a dirty deed done relatively expensively

The Standard: Say NO to the $140m SkyCity bailout

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Sign the petition against taxpayer money for Sky City

Pete George (Your NZ): Nats slam Sky City scam

Brenda McQuillan (Daily Blog): Problem Gamblers View of the Deal

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): SkyCity's Glorious Deal

Mike Sabin inquiry and Northland by-election

Claire Trevett (Herald): Police Minister stonewalls on Sabin

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Govt on Sabin case: 'No comment'

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Ministers refuse to comment on Sabin

Nick Grant (NBR): Police minister maintains Sabin silence in face of parliamentary questions

Jo Moir (Stuff): Parliament's integrity undermined over Mike Sabin, Phil Goff says

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): National continue the wall of silence over Sabin

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): John Key got the Mike Sabin scandal wrong

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Tell John Key to man up

Pete George (Your NZ): Garrett on Key and Sabin

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Ministers only told Sabin was investigated in late 

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): When will the Sabin issue explode in Key’s face?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 11 seeking National’s nomination for Northland

NZ intervention in Middle East

RNZ: Brownlee contradicts PM on Iraq

Stuff: Talk of NZ role in Iraq not rocket science, McCully says

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Iraq's foreign minister to make historic visit to NZ

Dom Post: Editorial: Time for clarity over Iraq deployment

Karl Du Fresne (Stuff): Left sees the evil but this time it's a blinkered view

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Dunne has a point

Housing

Catherine Harris (Stuff): Salvation Army: Housing shortfall 'no surprise'

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Cash not the reason for shortfall, Housing New Zealand says

Isaac Davison (Herald): Housing NZ: 'Cash is not the problem'

TVNZ: Housing NZ boss: Our building plan is world class

Jason Walls (NBR): Labour crowd-funds attack ad against Nats' state housing plan (paywalled)

Walt Glazer (Herald): Time to prick the housing bubble

Newswire: NZ First: Turn off the 'immigration tap'

Inequality

Susan St John (Daily Blog): Child poverty is dwindling?

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Salvation Army poverty report nothing to salute

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): New plan for those doing it tough a step in the right direction

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): National to target ‘family hardship’

Work

No Right Turn: How to close the gender pay gap

Kate Dickie-Davis (Daily Blog): The Precarious Labour Survey Monkey

Tony Stevens (On the Left): Lazy youth or lazy bosses?

Eminem vs National Party

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National Party in court next week with Eminem

Newswire: Eminem vs National battle hits court next week

RNZ: Eminem case in court next week

Campbell Gibson (NBR): Eminem suing National over election song is 'bizarre' – expert (paywalled)

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Eminem vs National Party

John Key’s hair

John Armstrong (Herald): Key throws Peters on carpet

Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston Peters: John Key's 'curtains don't match carpet'

Newswire: 'I don't dye my hair'

Roger Sutton resignation

Jo Moir (Stuff): PM 'not warned' about Roger Sutton press conference

Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Top public servant laments handling of Roger Sutton saga

RNZ: Regrets over Sutton resignation handling

Other

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Andrew Little is owning it

TVNZ: Public services, Christchurch to receive boost in 2015 Budget

Herald: Health Minister Jonathan Coleman eyes child obesity target

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Auditor-General criticises government's Primary Growth Partnership

TV3: Labour: Teachers lose autonomy in Education Amendment Bill

Pete George (Your NZ): Dunne demands transparency on Security review

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Questions Of Sovereignty: Who Has The Final Say In New Zealand? – And Should We Be Frightened Of Finding Out?

James Robins (Newstalk ZB): Great guns for Catton

RNZ: Maori Council unsurprised by exclusion

Jamie Small (Waikato Times): Politics, public services, and pumping water

Herald: McCully expresses concern over Malaysian opposition leader's sodomy conviction

Teuila Fuatai (Herald): Rusty's cat status scratches his vote on electoral roll

Narelle Henson (Waikato Times): Government distrust of Fonterra 'staggering'

Lincoln Tan (Herald): Alarm over appraisal of cash transfer option for NZ

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Watchdog needs to be open about probe

Deborah Russell (Bee of Certain Age): Talking about male privilege

Standard: If only Key was as passionate about climate change

No Right Turn: A victory for the environment

Rob Salmond (Polity): Statistics Done Wrong

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Scholarly outliers

Chris Hutching (NBR): Chance to improve EQC performance lost (paywalled)