The following are some links to key sources of information on the Pike River mining disaster. I'll be building this up over the next few days.
The first and most important place to start is the Royal Commission report:
http://pikeriver.royalcommission.govt.nz/Volume-One---Overview
And for the full report including Volume 2:
http://pikeriver.royalcommission.govt.nz/Final-Report
Very useful articles include:
http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2012/11/06/gordon-campbell-on-the-royal-commission-pike-river-report/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/chris-trotter/7924949/Labour-shares-Pike-River-guilt
Bryce Edwards provides a useful set of links to material in his NZ Politics Daily, November 6th, 2012. This is reproduced in the NBR:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nz-politics-daily-death-neoliberalism-ck-131940
He also has a useful collection of images, cartoons, and so forth at:
http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2012/11/the-politics-of-the-pike-river-tragedy-in-images-and-cartoons.html
For his criticism of Labour and the EPMU see:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10846245
There is some useful background on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_River_Mine
You can watch John Key's response to the report at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qWTnPPokM&noredirect=1
Pike families' lawyer, Nick Davidson QC, and spokesman
Bernie Monk emerged from the Greymouth report release and commented briefly on TV3:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/72640.html
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