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Labour Party
ODT: Stay the course
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour revises pledge on later pension age
John Armstrong (Herald): Cooling polls leave Cunliffe at crossroads
Michael Cummings (Stuff): Editorial: Cunliffe faces conference test
Laura Heathcote (Newstalk ZB): Labour party is looking at rule change to represent minorities
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour looking at quotas for everything!
Bob McCroskie (McBlog): ‘Gay’ Quota for Labour
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Fears mount that gays will soon be ruling the world
Keeping Stock: But wait; there's more...
Len Brown
Newswire: Aucklanders backing Brown – poll
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Mayoress fronts Len Brown's swearing in
Radio NZ: Mayor sees no political fallout from affair
Amy Maas (Stuff): Len Brown sworn in as Auckland mayor
Adrien Taylor (TV3): Auckland Mayor Len Brown sworn in
Bob Jones (Herald): Politicians should learn when to call it quits
Sarah Harvey (Herald): Len Brown 'back in business'
Kelley Dennett (Stuff): Hulse returns as Auckland deputy mayor
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Who is the mystery texter?
Pete George (Your NZ): A mistake calling it “a mistake”
Solid Energy
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Partial privatisation better for Solid Energy – Key
No Right Turn: Shorter John Key: "National can't run a company"
Greg Presland (The Standard): John Key admits National Government failed to properly monitor Solid Energy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MOM vs SOE model
Latest polls
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): More think NZ's on the right track – poll
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Key reveals National's private polling
Radio NZ: Dunne calls on National for helping hand
Radio NZ: Dunne sets out terms to support Labour
Dan Satherley (TV3): 'Pleasing' poll not fooling PM
Herald: Key: Conservative Party a possible coalition partner
Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Austromancy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): New poll average
Richard Prebble (NZCPR): A Labour/Green Government. Should we worry?
Inequality, poverty, and unemployment
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Urgent action on child poverty needed
David Gadd (Stuff): Illegal policy cheats widower
Newswire: Govt 'should pay for child poverty report'
No Right Turn: National doesn't care about child poverty
The Standard: Outsourcing poverty: Paula Bennett’s shame
Julie Ann Genter (Daily Blog): Transport and social equity: Part 2 Fares
NZ-US relations
Nick O’Malley (Stuff): US-New Zealand end decades-long chill
TVNZ: NZ and US to resume bilateral military ties
Radio NZ: Key confident he hasn't been spied on by US
Radio NZ: PM may visit Obama again
Herald: Editorial: Better links with US forces come with a caution
Patrick Gower (TV3): Coleman brushes off spying revelations
Audrey Young (Herald): PM confident US keeps eye off his affairs
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Key confident US didn't spy on him
Radio NZ: Greens warn of risk over US spying revelations
John Minto (Daily Blog):I feel sick…
The Standard: Avoiding the silly wars of the republic
Asset sales
TV3: Key would sell his own mother - Cunliffe
Radio NZ: Meridian float satisfactory - fund managers
Michael Fox and Dave Burgess (Stuff): Meridian listed, more sales to come
Dave Burgess (Stuff): Election to affect Meridian pricing
Adam Ray (TV3): $1.8B for Meridian not enough – Opposition
Dan Satherley (TV3): Uncertain future for Meridian shares
Dominion Post: Editorial: Key ignores bad asset sales
The Standard: Key says ‘damn the torpedoes’ on asset sales
Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): On the wisdom of selling state assets.. a right wing govt reconsiders.
Taxpayers Union
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Tip-line to expose 'waste and extravagance' opens
Newswire: New movement targets wasteful spending
Pete George (Your NZ): Taxpayer’s Union launched
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union
Fonterra
Morgan Tait (Herald): Fonterra: Truth comes out
Stuff: Fonterra report identifies 'shortcomings'
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Fonterra inquiry finds that Anchor Milk tastes great, Fonterra is best company
Other
Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, October 30
Rachel Glucina (Herald): The Diary: Show's surprise axing shocks Vote team
Warwick Elley (Herald): Worrying consequences for National Standards
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): NZ 1st in OECD, 3rd in world for business ease
Olivia Carville (Stuff): Patients in agony 'dumped off lists'
Hamish Fletcher (Stuff): 'Fair' returns aim of internet plan
Claire Trevett (Herald): Collins gives China a lesson in combating corruption
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): PPP- Private Prison Porn
Gareth Renowden (Daily Blog): No Clue, No Plan, No Future
Newswire: Govt to review shark finning law
Mark Blackham (Political Business): Kohanga Reo (cont)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 'Digital dividend' spectrum auction starts
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): You need a common base to measure changes
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Geddis on free speech
Bryce Edwards
Wed, 30 Oct 2013
Wed, 30 Oct 2013
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