NZ POLITICS DAILY: 23th Sep 2013

Today’s content:

Meridian sale

Stuff: Meridian's worst foe: Drought

James Weir (Stuff): Meridian offer counters MRP disappointment

Radio NZ: Meridian shares expected to be popular

Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Meridian D-Day and Fed timing

Simon Wong (TV3): Govt reveals Meridian share price

Waikato Times: Editorial: Meridian nice for some

Rodney Hide (Herald): Referendums a waste of time

Andrew Geddes (Pundit): Put me on the board! Put me on the Cadillac board!

The Standard: Have National’s asset sales officially cost more than they’ll earn?

James Henderson (The Standard): Have the Nats been at the insanity peppers?

James Henderson (The Standard): You’re paying for interest-free loans to foreign bankers

Labour leadership

John Armstrong (Herald): Battle-ready Cunliffe musters dogs of war

Audrey Young (Herald): Now he's running the show

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe faces balancing act

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe to 'refresh' online CV

Ross Henderson (Stuff): Cunliffe needs to commit to Left

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Top Picks for the Top Floor: Who’s doing what in David Cunliffe’s office

Radio NZ: New Labour caucus line-up to be announced

Newswire: Women in the mix for top Labour jobs

Michael Fox (Stuff): Robertson and Jones tipped for Labour top roles

TVNZ: David Cunliffe: 'We're pale, male, but not stale'

Michael Fox (Stuff): Cunliffe up, but behind in PM poll

Herald: Politics: Cunliffe fails to make dent in PM's popularity

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Cunliffe carries a huge weight

Adam Dudding (Stuff): Key v Cunliffe: What the personality tests reveal

Matt McCarten (Herald): Labour has found its mojo at last

Andrea Vance (Stuff): 'Naked ambition' behind Cunliffe's rise to top

Paul Thomas (Herald): From one preacher's son to another

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Who is editing David Cunliffe’s wiki page

John Braddock (WSW): NZ Labour installs new leader

The Standard: Beyond the MSM? You Bet!

Greg Presland (The Standard): About Judith Tizard

Michael Timmins (Daily Blog): Election 2014

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Has Labour elected Aaron Gilmore as their leader?

Salient: Who is David Cunliffe, Really?

Ellipsister: Roman Candle Politics All Round

Christchurch East by-election

Newswire: Tough fight for Labour in by-election

Stuff: Labour reveals Chch East candidate

Newswire: Labour selects Christchurch East candidate

Radio NZ: Labour picks community worker for Chch East

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): Poto Williams selected as Labour candidate for Christchurch East

James Henderson (The Standard): Labour chooses Poto Williams for Christchurch East

Pete George (Your NZ): A candidate for Christchurch East or Labour?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Caygill misses out again

James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): Well, that’s one Poto view

John Key in the UK

John Hartevelt (Stuff): Keys wrap up royal visit

TV3: Queen drives the Keys around Balmoral

John Hartevelt (Stuff): Key sees healthier, optimistic UK

Bruce Russell (Newstalk ZB): Church service on agenda for Keys

Claire Trevett (Herald): An intimate weekend with the Windsors

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key family join royals for church service

Herald: John Key meets with the Queen

Stuff: One addresses royal baby as 'Sir'

John Hartevelt (Stuff): Key family arrives for weekend at Balmoral

Radio NZ: Key lays wreath at London memorial

TVNZ: John Key briefs UK Tories on how to beat Labour

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key boasts of NZ to London tourism group

Claire Trevett (Herald): Key family brush up on etiquette for Balmoral visit

Herald: Key family meet with the Queen

Herald: NZ visit in build-up to war commemorations

America’s Cup

Rachel Glucina (Herald): The Diary: Red-sock fever raises temperature and spirits

John Roughan (Herald): What will we do with our Cup?

Sean Plunkett (Stuff): Raft of ideas for Americas Cup

Dominion Post: Editorial: America's Cup is a NZ triumph

Newswire: Cup will be bigger and better - Brown

Paul Buchannan (Kiwipolitico): Whose Team New Zealand?

TVNZ: Government keen for more teams in America's Cup

Michael Fox (Stuff): Regions would share in America's Cup – Joyce

Herald: How much will America's Cup cost NZ?

Herald: Kiwis buy 25,000 pairs of lucky red socks

Local body elections

Anna Turner (Stuff): Dalziel in pole position

Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Message on resilience a pointed one for Labour

The Press: Editorial: City 'tension' needs easing

Mathew Grocott (Manawatu Standard): Voters have no truck with trailers in way

TVNZ: Young adults urged to vote in local elections

Michael Forbes (Stuff): Local body election voting papers botched

Paul Little (Herald): Ugly mugs spoil billboard effort

Rob Stock (Stuff): Trouble in Paradise

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Making the Wellington local body elections REALLY easy

John Minto (Daily Blog): Finally – an inspiring meeting on the campaign trail

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Who not to vote for if you don’t want huge rate increases

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Kid gloves for the council kid

Ruataniwha Dam

NBR Staff (NBR): Dam or be damned?

Tova O’Brien and Dan Satherley (TV3): Smith knew about draft dam submission

Cameron Slater (WHaleoil):A day of sledges

No Right Turn: More lies from Smith

Alasdair Thompson

Simon Collins (Herald): Former CEO for bosses now backs 'living wage'

Alasdair Thomspon (Fair Point): Alasdair Thompson, candidate for election to the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB)

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Arguing against your own public position

UFB rollout

Damien Grant (Herald): Crown trips in tangled copper web

TVNZ: Opponents being 'cute' with copper tax claims

Education

TVNZ: Schools consider ditching science

TVNZ: Christchurch school fights costly battle to stay open

Colin Espiner (Stuff): What's wrong with Partnership Schools?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Espiner on charter schools

Legal highs

Pam Corkery (Herald): New synthetic drugs law is simply insane

Andrew Laxon (Herald): Legal highs back on sale

Economy

Vikram Kumar (NBR): The jagged edges of the TPP

Carla Penman (Newstalk ZB): Brownlee off to Montreal

RadioLIVE: Greens stage Auckland protest against rail delays

Rob Stock (Stuff): Godzone: Just the business

Jazial Crossley (Stuff): Not so great and powerful Oz

Radio NZ: Guy going to Argentina

Taranaki Daily News: The 'lucky' country light years behind NZ

David Williams (NBR): Ye Gods! Did a council-owned company just do something right?

Annette Kendall (Idealog): Fighting the underlying bias against local entrepreneurship

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A Govt contribution towards an international cable

The Standard: Nats’ City Rail Link delay to cost $500m

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Russel Norman, sanctimonious hypocrite

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Russel Norman thinks tax is not a burden!

Inequality, poverty, and unemployment

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Legal Aid 8% penalty rates the final blow to the poor buying justice in NZ

Daily Blog: Screw the poor – all the interactions that one family had with government agencies, not-for-profit community services, and private providers, over a two week period.

John Sargeant (Stuff): Houses that Labour built - no thank you

Shane Cowlishaw (Stuff): Hearing loss threshold 'penalising thousands'

Radio NZ: Auckland University Vice-Chancellor tops public sector pay

Rodney Hide (NBR): Why welfare needs health warning

Syria

Michael Fox (Stuff): Govt slams Oxfam criticism over Syria aid

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Oxfam out by 4000%

Other

Radio NZ: NZ campaigning in New York for Security Council seat

Michael Botur (Stuff): The courage of their convictions

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Treating sugar like tobacco

Stuff: Uni more than 'beer and skittles'

Herald: Our drink law is a bad joke

Ben Heather (Stuff): Holiday park battles to lose sacred status

Khyaati Acharya (NBR): Recognising the true value of diversity

TVNZ: Study finds Pakeha teens feel privileged but guilty

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A nice problem to have

Clare Curran (Red Alert): The right to know: Tariana Turia

The Inquiring Mind: This drivel is news

Metiria Turei (Frogblog): Building a good society

Clare Curran (Red Alert): The right to know: Judith Collins

Tahu Potiki (Stuff): Why is cricket given priority over kapa haka?

The Inquiring Mind: What is this obsession with trousers?