NZ POLITICS DAILY: 11th Sep 2013

Today’s content

Labour leadership

Judith Collins (The Ruminator): Dance of the Desperates

Colin Espiner (Stuff): Labour needs unity, whatever the result

Jessica Williams (RadioLive): It's just a jump to the left...

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The test will be whether they can live with result

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Fog of war descends in Labour battle

TVNZ: Labour leadership 'wheeling and dealing' heats up

The Standard: Reviewing the media coverage of the leadership race

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Jones lashes Curran

Dan Satherley (TV3): Labour hopefuls focus on common enemy

Jock Anderson (NBR): How Cunliffe blamed staff for cops bullying little old lady

Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour leadership: Why the Jones Insurgency has impact

Stuff: Cunliffe sacks campaign worker

Simon Wong (TV3): Cunliffe campaigner kicked off team

Nelson Mail: Editorial: Battlelines drawn in leadership stoush

Waatea News: Treaty part of Cunliffe DNA

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The battle getting heated

Duncan Garner (RadioLive):In defence of Guyon Espiner

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Jones says internal disagreements must be sorted

Glenn Conway (Stuff): Triumvirate target Key in last tour address

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Sacked for stating the obvious

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The Coming bloodbath

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters):Is the Labour leadership election decided by the media?

Keith Rankin (Herald): Wooing the elusive median voter

Audrey Young (Herald): Caucus can yet clinch contest for Robertson

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Labour leader behind before he starts

The Standard: Cunliffe shows leadership steel

Philip Ferguson (Redline): Labour’s leadership contest: illusions and confusions on the left

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Curran manages to remind voters why they don’t like Labour

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Bob Jones endorses Robertson

Michael Fox, Tracy Watkins, and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour promises to probe supermarkets

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about the recent alleged dirty tricks in the Labour leadership contest

Greg Presland (The Standard): Labour Leadership Contest – the final meeting will be streamed

Red Alert: Poverty: How would you ensure no one needs to live in poverty? Labour Leadership Q&A #2

Michael Fox, Tracy Watkins, and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Jones clashes with Curran

Keeping Stock:Is Team Cunliffe undermining Robertson?

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Hard left!

TVNZ: Labour leadership contest turns sour

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): David Clifford enters #laboursgottalent

Stuff: Robertson backs rent controls

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Labour leadership campaign turns nasty

Brook Sabin (TV3): Robertson: 'The whole thing has got a bit silly'

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour’s rainbow divisions

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cracks show as race rivalry mounts

Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe not making staff choices yet

Glenn Conway (Stuff): Triumvirate target Key in last tour address

Audrey Young (Herald): Gay remark sees Cunliffe aide out

Newswire: Labour hopefuls now crunching the numbers

Radio NZ: Key predicts new Labour leader will take party to left

Radio NZ: Cunliffe stands down campaign team member

Michael Fox, Tracy Watkins, and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour promises to probe supermarkets

Laura McQuillan (Newswire): Two unions dodge Labour vote questions

Red Alert: Environment : What are your views on a clean green NZ? Labour Leadership Q&A #1

Gordon Campbell (Stuff): Are the polls to be believed?

Maori TV

No Right Turn: Transparency defeats cronyism

James Ihaka (Herald): Maori TV board unable to reach unanimous decision

Newswire: Maori TV delays appointing new boss

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Flavell furious as Maori TV boss questioned

Radio NZ: Maori TV board member quits

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Resignation over Maori TV hiring woes

Maori politics

TVNZ: Maori Party support continues to shrink – poll

Newswire: Maori voters still prefer Labour

Tertiary education

Matthew Theunissen (Herald): NZ universities drop in world rankings

Stuff: NZ universities lose ground

Katie Kenny (Stuff): Mature medical students hit by student loan rules

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Stuff on EXMSS

Newswire: University funding has increased – Joyce

Michael Daly and Tessa Johnstone (Stuff): Universities defend ranking slip

Brian Easton: UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BY PBRF SCORE [1]

Syria

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the practice of selective morality towards Syria

America’s Cup

Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Remainder of America’s Cup races to be decided in court

Dan Satherley (TV3): Key backs funding America's Cup defence

Australian Election

Radio NZ: Australia's foreign aid policy criticised by NZ charity

Wendy Bacon (PMC): Australian elections ignored free press issue - why we need truly democratic media

Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): NZ mustn't give way to neighbour

Psychometric testing

Will de Cleene (gonzo): Ouija in Kiwi is Yeah, Nah

Russell Brown (Hard News): The shaky ground of psychometric testing

Auckland

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Cupcake Freedom

Brian Rudman (Herald): About time Te Papa's treasures are shaken out

Ideologically Impure: Weird Tales of Epsom: The foul language in the darkness

GCSB

Simon Gibbs (Stuff): This civil rights thing is overblown

David Fisher (Herald): Dotcom set to claim $6m

Daily Blog: Just wondering if you guys have a real bad feeling about the TICS Bill, too?

Economy

Simon Cowlishaw (Stuff): Bosses warned over 'free' workers

Herald: Editorial: Route more than holiday highway

Radio NZ: Govt departments returning to Christchurch CBD

James Henderson (The Standard): Colin James on the asset sales referendum & Nats’ economic record

Susan St. John (Daily Blog): Where do we go from this timely documentary on inequality?

Radio NZ: Call for Govt to examine contract awards

Christchurch

Emily Cooper (TV3): Christchurch mayoral hopefuls stake their claims

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Buring down the house

Other

Brian Drake (Dominion Post): Nothing 'cool' about booze restrictions

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Journal contributors fear loss of Kiwi content

Herald: Public confidence in NZ police rises – survey

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The most unacceptable words and phrases for television

Brendan Manning (Herald): Defence Force spent $75k on defamation case

Julian Lee (TV3): Key's family getaway with the Queen

Sophie Ryan (Northern Advocate): 'Sensible' not to deregister Parker

CPAG: Healthcare for under 6s

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Press on English

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Govt needs to kill ETS before Labour/Greens take power