NZ POLITICS DAILY: 23th October 2013

Today's links

Len Brown

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Brown campaign 'tipped off by National MP'

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Len Brown affair: Nat MP 'source of Brown tip-off'

Christine Fletcher (Herald): Forget sex - mayor's underperformed

Tim Jackson (Timaru Herald): To err is human, except for politicians

Briar Marbeck (TV3): Brown hopes to 'learn from mistakes'

Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Len Brown wants limits to muckraking

Hamish Coleman-Ross (RadioLIVE): Hamish Coleman-Ross: Palino, Auckland must hear you

Kate Harley (TV3): Chuang thought identity would stay secret

Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): National Party Feuding Breaks Out

Pete George (Your NZ): Chuang’s reference at “the very early stages of knowing each other”

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Limits to muckraking?

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Dear Len

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Comment of the day

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Len Brown continues to blame others for his predicament

Sky City

Dan Satherley (TV3): Cunliffe hedges bets on SkyCity deal

Stuff: Cunliffe denies giving SkyCity assurance

Newswire: MP should have declared conflict - Greens

The Standard: None so blind as those who invent their own reality

Adam Bennett (Herald): Labour quiet on SkyCity deal's future

Stuff: Labour won't kill SkyCity convention centre deal – Key

Adam Bennett (Herald): Cunliffe: Key telling porkies on pokies deal

Patrick Gower (TV3): SkyCity contract is safe, Key says

Newswire: SkyCity deal could be axed without compo

TVNZ: Church man fails to disclose National link in SkyCity submission

Radio NZ: National Party chair defends not disclosing position

No Right Turn: Parliamentary sovereignty trumps contracts

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the America’s Cup and convention centre handouts

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour and Sky City

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Dissembling from David Cunliffe

John Banks

Radio NZ: Greens accuse Banks of delay tactics

Claire Trevett (Herald): Banks: Justice system is too slow

TVNZ: John Banks wants order to stand trial reviewed

Stuff: Banks seeks urgent judicial review

Claire Trevett (Herald): John Banks makes urgent bid to overturn trial decision

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Just so that we are all clear

MPs pay

Claire Trevett (Herald): Turei in gun after travel perk flip

Herald: Editorial: It's MP perks, not pay rates that annoy the taxpayers

Dominion Post: Editorial: Key on the money

Radio NZ: Politicians back Speaker's control of travel perks

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key not keen on MP pay rise

Patrick Gower (TV3): Make MPs subject to taxpayer review

Simon Wong (TV3): Cunliffe: PM playing politics with MPs' pay

Vernon Small (Stuff): MP's pay power ultimately theirs

Michael Fox (Stuff): MPs may not earn the highest pay

Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): PM says few get into politics for the money

Tova O’Brien (TV3): MPs coy on pay rise issue

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs pay rise coming

Offshore oil exploration

Newswire: Abandon deep sea drilling, Greens say

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Oil-spill projections paint big black stain

Jamie Morton (Herald): Blow-up over oil blowout study

Radio NZ: Oil spill could swamp estuaries, beaches

Michelle Ong (Stuff): Tribal fury at drilling plans

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): In other words…pay the taniwha

Karl du Fresne: Another heroically barmy cause

Solid Energy

Radio NZ: Solid Energy still not out of the woods

Adam Bennett (Herald): Solid Energy secures restructuring deal with banks

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Bank seeks to block Solid Energy deal

Energy

Eric Pyle (Stuff): Renewable energy would pay off

Mike Campbell (Stuff):It's time to consider nuclear power

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Negative Electricity Prices: Bleg

Gareth Hughes (Frogblog): Why would NZ actively disadvantage clean energy?

Maori politics

Chris Trotter (Stuff): Old ways in Maoridom more open to challenge

Radio NZ: Erosion policy "could have huge economic impact"

Radio NZ: Maori TV apologises to Maori Language Commission

Radio NZ: Melbourne Maori Wardens eye NZ cash

Migration

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Kiwis more positive about Asian immigration

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A 10 year high for migration

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Another campaign plank discarded

Inequality, poverty, and unemployment

Herald: Welfare reforms affecting children – CPAG

Simon Collins (Herald): Benefits cut for 13,000 parents in new regime

Radio NZ: English says Govt won't step in to save regional jobs

Alex Fensome (Stuff): Home ownership-jobless link inconclusive

The Standard: Taking from the poor to pay the rich

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The tax system has got more, not less, progressive

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Tax system more progressive

The Standard: Because it’s all about “me”

Superannuation

Colin Espiner (Stuff): Peters' wrinkly bottom lines

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Peters' KiwiFund idea called worst practice

John Armstrong (Herald): Different leaders, same message: No

Helen Twose (Stuff): What are the rules for the minimum wage?

Economy

Matthew Grocott (Manawatu Standard): Without subsidy, link could go off the rails

Tina Morrison (Newswire): Government wants to save on building costs

Radio NZ: Farm trade given a small boost - minister

Kohanga Reo Trust

Stuff: Kohanga Reo funding probe starts

Claire Trevett (Herald): Kohanga Reo audit to ensure public funds weren't misused

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, October 23

Beith Atkinson (Integrity Talking Points): Leaders must be trustworthy

Ben Heather (Stuff):Child abuse is rising in NZ

Stuff: NZ pushing for Ross Sea sanctuary

Audrey Young (Herald): Melissa Lee breaks down speaking about Korean War

Pete George (Your NZ): Weak Mayoral contests

Michael Daly (Stuff): Stats NZ publishes provisional figures

Michael Fox (Stuff): Zespri in dark over SFO probe but will co-operate

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Over 120,000 MRP prospectuses pulped

Bob Jones (Herald): Spare us from road-clogging women

The Standard: Fuck off, Bob Jones: and advertisers? Be warned

3 News (TV3): Vicki Buck announced as Chch deputy mayor

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Calorie labels for alcohol

James Henderson (The Standard): “Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?”

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A deputy for Winston – just 18 months late