NZ POLITICS DAILY: 22 August 2013

Today’s content

David Shearer resignation
Claire Trevett and Teuila Fuatai (Herald): Shearer resignation: Who will be the next leader?

Tracy Watkins, Vernon Small, and Michael Fox (Stuff): David Shearer quits as Labour leader

Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Cunliffe-Jones leadership for Labour?

Tim Watkin (Pundit): David Shearer goes ... who next for Labour?

Michael Fox (Stuff): MPs offer mixed reaction

Stuff: David Shearer quits, Twitter explodes

Russell Brown (Hard News): So long, and thanks for all the fish

Kim Choe (TV3): David Shearer resigns as Labour leader

Bill Moore (Stuff): Lessons for Shearer in Clark debut  

Owen Vaughan and Bill Moore (Stuff): David Shearer: Was Helen Clark in the know?

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Me!

Rob Crawford (Watercooler): The Failed Experiment; Shearer resigns

Pete George (Your NZ): Shearer resigns – sadness and hope

No Right Turn: Good riddance to David Shearer

Herald: Labour leader David Shearer steps down

Stuff: Shearer: Beehive and beyond

Herald: Profile: David Shearer

TVNZ: David Shearer resigns as Labour leader

TV3: Timeline: David Shearer's 20 months as Labour leader

GCSB
Jon Johansson (Public Address): Naked Inside the Off-Ramp

TVNZ: Labour will kill GCSB Bill if elected

Michael Daly (Stuff): Key questions if GCSB law is controversial

Listener: Editorial: watching the watchers

Jane Clifton (Listener): The politics merry-go-round

Bill Ralston (Listener): GCSB bill? Yawn …

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Politics and the GCSB

Audrey Young (Herald): GCSB bill passes after final reading

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Controversial GCSB laws pass by two votes

Anne Salmond (Pundit): The GCSB Bill and press freedom

No Right Turn: The spy bill and the future

The Standard: If lawyers don’t understand the law…

Pete George (Your NZ): GCSB Bill polls

The Standard: Bad law making – GCSB Bill

Audrey Young (Herald): Key rules out wholesale spying

Radio NZ: Mana expects to be targeted by GCSB

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Critics of GCSB Dealt To, Muldoon Style

Andrew Tait (ISO): GCSB bill passes – Resistance continues

TVNZ: GCSB law criticised as a 'travesty for democracy'

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The GCSB Bill has passed

Newswire: MP kicked out of Parliament

Simon Wong (TV3): GCSB Bill becomes law

No Right Turn: TICS gives spies a veto on ISPs

Simon Wong (TV3): Key seeks to ease GCSB fears

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): #SurveillanceState: The GCSB dividend

Newswire: GCSB 'free to protect national security'

Radio NZ: PM assures New Zealanders over GCSB legislation

Henry enquiry
John Armstrong (Herald): Senior pair go against the grain to show their anger

Vernon Small (Stuff): 'Nelson's eye' as info fleet rocks

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Request for journalist's records not questioned  

Adam Bennett (Herald): Thorn 'was pushed' over GCSB leak probe - Banks

Radio NZ: Parliamentary Service ex-chief won't say if he jumped or was pushed

Simon Wong (TV3): Thorn: 'I wasn't a scapegoat'

TVNZ: Thorn 'uncomfortable' about releasing ministers' information

Newswire: Thorn to answer questions from MPs

Pete George (Your NZ): Key fails to understand Ministers’ complaints

Radio NZ: PM puzzled over worries by ministers about Henry inquiry

Patrick Gower (TV3): Few answers still in Vance spy case

Audrey Young and Adam Bennett (Herald): Collins criticises leak probe inquiry

Simon Wong (TV3): Parliamentary Service concerned about GCSB inquiry

Radio NZ: Former Parliamentary Service boss critical of Henry Inquiry

TVNZ: GCSB inquiry head: Seeking emails was 'necessary'

No Right Turn: Inquiry3

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Peters calls Henry Inquiry a farce

Tracy Watkins and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Release of reporter's records probed

Dominion Post: Editorial: Flunkies learn about democracy

Adam Bennett (Herald): Ministers hit out at Key's leak inquiry

TVNZ: Dunne could front up at spy leak inquiry

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Collins slams 'contemptuous' attitude over emails

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): #SurveillanceState: Privacy for me, but not for thee, say National ministers

Snapper quota
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM turns dead snapper into red herring

Bill Hohepa (Herald): Catch bag limit proposal ignores commercial wastage

Brook Sabin (TV3): 2M commercial snapper dumped a year – LegaSea

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Snapper saga refuses to die

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A snapper backfire

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): How you gut a snapper

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The Shearer-Mold dream team aren’t done with you yet

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Gutted like a…snapper

TVNZ: Opposition stokes anger over snapper proposals

Meridian Energy sale
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): The Electricity debate

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Socialism for the rich

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Herald on Meridian sale

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the latest asset sales handout, and some really bad news from Afghanistan

Tony Field (TV3): Meridian instalment plan not without risks

Housing
Brian Fallow (Herald): Wheeler batting on sticky wicket

Herald: Editorial: Lending curbs good for banks and borrowers

Amelia Wade (Herald): Banks to 'cherry pick' loans

ODT: Bursting the housing bubble

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): LVRs from 1 October

Nadine Chalmers-Ross (TVNZ): 20% deposit rule too high

Migration
James Weir (Stuff): Migration boom could defeat home-loan restrictions

James Weir (Stuff): Migration boosts economic recovery

David Hargreaves (Interest): New Zealand had a net gain of 10,600 migrants in 12 months to July - highest since the November 2010 year

Conservation land
Newswire: Protection of stewardship land needed

Renee Graham (TVNZ): Large tracts of Conservation Estate 'at risk'

Stuff: DOC land seen as 'open for business'

Dairy crisis
The Press: Editorial: Chipping away at reputation

Nathan Field (Herald): Fonterra can learn from Yum's woes

TVNZ: Fonterra reveals another China hiccup

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): MPI mulls interim measures for dairy

Radio NZ: Govt needs to give MPI more resources – Labour

Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Raining on each others' parades

Tracy Watkins and Caleb Harris (Stuff): We're a long way from 100 per cent pure

Radio NZ: Fonterra toughens inspection regime at plants

Local government
Johnny Moore (Stuff): Some 'nut-jobs' running for council

Grant Miller (Manawatu Standard): Poll test of city's faith in mayor

Efeso Collins (Daily Blog): Normalizing participation

Simon Wong (TV3): Who is running for Wellington Mayor?

TVNZ: Ex-con seeks Hamilton mayoralty

Keith Marshall (Stuff): Council boss’s goals must be visible

Charlotte Whiteacre (TV3): Auckland mayoral race – who are the candidates?

Other
Herald: Collins: IPCA should investigate Rewa rape alibi claim

Stuff: Today in politics: Thursday, August 22

Peter Lyons (ODT): 'Values free' economics versus ideology

Adam Roberts (Stuff): Destiny Church no magnet for business

Stuff: David Bain loses bid to access papers

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Polls update

Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): Has PinoKeyo lost his mojo?

Michael Daly (Stuff): Statistics NZ's records go digital

RadioLIVE: IRD transformation launched

Claire Matthews (Stuff): Increasing women's economic power

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Pora goes to the Privy Council

Newswire: Sexual violence funding to be reviewed

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Govt. control costs consumers

Stuff: Dairy first charged under new drug law

Sam Carran (Herald): Nazi memorabilia auction a 'slap in the face'

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): The Iniquitous Inquiry Bill

David Chaplin (Herald): PC debate switches on (and off) to KiwiSaver

Christopher Loeak (Herald): Low lying atolls appeal to New Zealand

Karl du Fresne (Listener): Baby boomers: flush but forgotten

Brian Easton (Listener): Culture of dependency