NZ POLITICS DAILY: 2nd Oct 2013

Today’s content

Housing

Greg Ninness and Jazial Crossley (Stuff): Asking prices at record high

Michael Fox (Stuff): Government unveils state house sale scheme

Radio NZ: Discount on some state houses to be offered to first-home buyers

Simon Wong (TV3): Government subsidy to buy state houses

Isaac Davison (Herald): State house subsidy for first home buyers

3 News Online Staff (TV3): Greens offer up rent-to-buy housing scheme

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Reviewable tenancies won't hit most vulnerable – Smith

TVNZ: Uninsurable homes hot property in Christchurch

Dominion Post: Editorial: Labour misses its chance

Newswire: Banks opposes Govt's housing initiative

Radio NZ: Provincial state house sale subsidies seen as waste of money

Michael Fox (Stuff): Fears elderly will suffer from review

The Standard: National’s screwed up new housing policy

TVNZ: Govt's new state house sale scheme under fire

Adam Ray (TV3): Labour scorns Govt's housing initiative

Colin Espiner (Stuff): The great state house giveaway

Dan Satherley (TV3): Key: Loan restrictions better than alternatives

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): Housing war will decide election

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Clark unaware he got sacked!

Asset sales

James Weir (Stuff): Meridian price gets thumbs-up

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Smart play by National on Asset Sales Referendum

Radio NZ: Referendum will show NZers don't want assets sold - Love

Newswire: Govt sure Kiwis will reach Meridian goal

The Standard: Meridian on the block

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The $9 million waste of money dates

Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): Cynical disregard for Democracy the Key policy plank.

Solid Energy

Radio NZ: Solid Energy not out of the woods yet

TVNZ: Solid Energy still facing difficult future

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Govt unveils Solid Energy bailout plans

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Rescue plan 'privatisation by stealth'

Adam Bennett (Herald): Banks take shares in Solid Energy

Adam Bennett (Herald): Solid Energy gets $100m Govt loan

Stuff: Debt deal for Solid Energy

No Right Turn: Against the bailout

ACC

Vernon Small (Stuff): ACC surplus opens way for levy cuts

Radio NZ: CTU president stands by call for ACC Minister to resign

Adam Bennett (Herald): Anger over ACC's 'obscene' surplus

Radio NZ: ACC reports $4.9b surplus and talks of cuts to levies

TVNZ: Govt ponders levy cuts after record ACC surplus

Local body elections

Dominion Post: Candidates pledge unity to get city moving

Jenny Suo (TV3): Mayoral hopefuls struggle for name recognition

Brian Rudman (Herald): Super City elections all too hard

TVNZ: Christchurch election pamphlet bars migrant voters

Rob Crawford Jr (The Watercooler): Politics: The Super City Election Edition: Meeting the candidates in the wop wops

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Dunedin mayoralty

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Super City elections 2013: Booklet botch-up 'more widespread than hoped'

Ideologically Impure: Voting in Wellington

Dominion Post: Candidates' thoughts on infrastructure

Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Confusing world out there for voters

Ruataniwha dam

Chris Trotter (Stuff): Control of water shapes up to be leading issue

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Interference over river smells bad

TPPA

Calida SMylie (Herald): Calls for Govt to release draft text of TPPA

Dan Satherley (TV3): Key accused of spreading TPPA 'mistruths'

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): The TPPA: Is it democracy?

No Right Turn: Its not right

National Party

TVNZ: Cabinet minister to make move to private sector

Radio NZ: National will have to work hard to retain Napier – PM

Alan Paprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): Living on Planet Key part 2

The Standard: How?

Andrea Vance (Stuff): List MP Auchinvole stepping down

Greg Presland (The Standard): The seat of Napier is now in play

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Tremain won't be only MP to leave in 2014 – Key

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Our boat is faster than theirs

Environment

Gwynne Dyer (Stuff): It's the climate triggers, Stupid

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): A brief word on my beef with Generation Zero

Herald: Climate report a wake-up call - NZ environmentalists

America’s Cup

Jane Bowron (Stuff): Sir Russell Coutts 'a full-blown narcissist'

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): PM a 'Johnny come lately' when it came to America's Cup fever

Crime

Herald: Editorial: Drop in youth crime figures heartening turnaround

Anna Leask (Herald): Winning the war on crime

The Hand Mirror: Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones?

Kathryn King and Jimmy Ellingham (Stuff): Apologetic cop under investigation

Michael Daly (Stuff): Crime in NZ: The big picture

Isaac Davison (Herald): National crime rate falls by 7.4 per cent

Russell Brown (Hard News): Rape and unreason

Radio NZ: Crime figures down again

Duncan Wilson (RadioLIVE): The Bob Jones' rape column

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, October 2

Radio NZ: Former soldier, diplomat to take reins at MPI

Tim Hunter (Stuff): Size matters when fishing for funds

Michael Forbes (Stuff): Expressway no marriage of convenience

Isaac Davison (Herald): Kiwis back taking more refugees

Radio NZ: PM meeting Abbott in Canberra tonight

Radio NZ: NZ ranked 7th in UN index on treatment for elderly

Jade Cooper (Newstalk ZB): Redraw of electoral boundaries ahead of 2014

Taranaki Daily News: Simple: It's all about the jobs

Adam Bennett (Herald): Key cans schedule due to serious family illness

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fisking electricity price claims agains

TVNZ: Key 'wouldn't wrap fish and chips' in Daily Mail

Chris Barton (Herald): Copper tax debate continues

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Million dollar union slush fund may be cut

Beith Atkinson (Integrity Talking Points): Is open government what Ministers really want?

Thoms Mead (TV3): ChCh school's fight nears end

Stuff: Snowdon employment case begins

Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): The self-parody of calling someone ELSE ‘sanctimonious’

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Flexi-Super – change for changing times?