NZ POLITICS DAILY: 4th Nov 2013

Today’s link

Labour Party Conference

The Press: Editorial: Big ideas need detailed look

Stuff: Labour promises more for Waikato-BOP

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour conference: Goff, Mallard to feel pinch to resign

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Labour happier and united for new policies

Newswire: Labour's vote-grabbing new policies

Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour's gender quota gets go-ahead

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Labour undecided over foreshore and seabed apology

John Armstrong (Herald): Labouring under an electoral delusion

Brook Sabin (TV3): Pressure on at Labour conference

Newswire: Labour makes pitch for Christchurch votes

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe gives first speech as leader

TVNZ: Cunliffe kicks off Labour conference berating Key

Vernon Small (Stuff): Hard decisions kept in a can

Tracy Watkins and Vernon Small (Stuff): Cunliffe heads off potential divisions

Matt McCarten (Herald): Pretend coalition on the ropes

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe to end conference with housing announcement

Audrey Young (Herald): Rudy Taylor endorsed as Labour's Maori VP

Audrey Young (Herald): Forestry deaths inspire Helen Kelly's conference speech

Laura McQuillan (TV3): Unions lay out demands for Labour

Matthew Hooton (NBR): How far left will Labour go?

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Cunliffe relaxed about potentially explosive policies

Jenny Michie (Daily Blog): Leo’s legacy

The Standard: Take us this day our daily statins

Greg Presland (The Standard): John Armstrong is labouring under a reality delusion

The Standard: Labour conference 2013 – day two

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour Party Conference 2013: The out of touch John Armstrong

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour Party Conference 2013 – Labour decide what they are – now they need to tell NZ what they will do

No Right Turn: Labour comes to its senses

The Civilian: Live Blog: The Civilian goes to the Labour Party Conference

The Standard: The prescient oracle

Keeping Stock: One step ahead

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour Party Conference 2013: The speech that will terrify National

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Another sneaky Cunliffe backflip. When is a promise, not a promise?

Pete George (Your NZ): Cunliffe versus truth

Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): Drawing Lines in the Sand. Cunliffe defines the clear differences between Labour and the PinoKeyo Parties.

Pete George (Your NZ): Cunliffe – Rebuilding the future?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Now Labour wants to regulate working hours

Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about the 2013 Labour Party conference

Labour Party gender quota

Audrey Young (Herald): Labour sets target for female MPs

Patrick Gower (TV3): Labour votes for gender quota system

Vernon Small and Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe backs gender quota

TVNZ: Rebuild, gender equality on Labour's agenda

Keeping Stock: Labour's Man-Ban is back

Gintearsandcremebrulee: Gender quota

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): The best (wo)man for the job?

Labour Party insurance policy

Radio NZ: State-owned insurance firm 'would diversify market'

Ashleigh Stewart (Stuff): Insurers insist they're on track

James Henderson (The Standard): National: the party the insurance companies bought

Newstalk ZB:  Insurance Council unimpressed with 'KiwiAssure'

TVNZ: David Cunliffe: 'KiwiAssure' plan not risky for NZ

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe set to tackle insurers

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe announces new Labour insurance policy

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Labour unveils plan for state run insurance company

John Armstrong (Herald): Soft target in the sights

Radio NZ: Critics slam state insurance idea

Laura McQuillan (Newswire): Cunliffe unveils 'KiwiAssure' insurer

Newswire: Labour's insurance plan panned by Insurance Council

Jacqui Stanford (Newstalk ZB): Brownlee dismisses Labour's insurance plan

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Have Labour not heard of how hated EQC is?

Voxy: Labour's leftward lurch continues – Joyce

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Face of the day

Keeping Stock: The devil is in the detail

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Labour’s left lurch shows hasn’t learned

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Oh look, another policy with “kiwi” tagged on the front

Greg Presland (The Standard): Kiwiassure

The Standard: “The purists can weep”

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What would happen to “KiwiAssure” if there was another earthquake?

Labour Party on TPP

Radio NZ: Labour to decide trade deal attitude

Vernon Small and Tracy Watkins (Stuff): CTU reinforces stance against TPP

Audrey Young (Herald): Cunliffe brokers Labour resolution on TPP

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): TPP and other fights at Labour’s conference

Labour Party on monarchy

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Key will play the Royal card - Cunliffe

Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Labour agrees vote on Queen

Claire Trevett (Herald): Cunliffe sets a royal challenge

Brook Sabin (TV3): Labour debates ditching the monarchy

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Queen holds NZ back, says former top diplomat

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The cost of the monarchy

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour choosing the populist path again

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour votes for a referendum on a republic

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Making shit up

Labour Party on Superannuation

Corin Dann (TVNZ): Labour softens stance on retirement age

Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour dilutes pension age policy

Audrey Young (Herald): Labour conference gives Parker options for superannuation policy

Labour Party housing policy

TVNZ: Labour pledges houses for Christchurch

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cunliffe launches accomodation plan

Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour Party unveils KiwiBuild policy detail

Laura McQuillan (Newswire): Labour announces Christchurch housing plan

Charles Anderson (Stuff): Housing policy 'questionable'

Radio NZ: Labour's housing plan for Christchurch questioned

Charles Anderson (Stuff): New era for New Brighton?

Len Brown

Voxy: Sunday Bevan Chuang Interview 3/11/2013

Kate Harley (TV3): Wewege denies relationship with Chuang

TVNZ: Mistress apologises to mayor's daughters

Radio NZ: Luigi Wewege denies allegations by mayor's ex-lover

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Tight belt starts at city's top

Herald: Luigi Wewege 'clarifies' position in Len Brown sex scandal

TVNZ: Revealing affair details 'foolishness' - Bevan Chuang

Stuff: Chuang confirms mayor was referee during affair

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Len Brown’s statements don’t add up

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Is this a resignation offence?

Rodney Hide (Herald): Devilish detail wipes Len's power

Kathryn Powley (Herald): Len's affair a 'surprise', says Cameron Brewer

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The supreme arrogance, vanity and psychopathy of mayor Len Brown

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The benefits of sunlight

Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of...Luigi Wewege

Inequality, poverty, and unemployment

Susan Edmunds (Herald): Auckland: The new Monaco?

Ben Heather (Stuff): Contractors to assess sick and disabled for work

Damien Grant (Herald): Poverty isn't fault of rich

NBR Staff (NBR): Bennett: ‘I’m an advocate’ for Warrant of Fitness on private rental housing.

David Haywood (Stuff): The rising price of the sin tax

Radio NZ: Treasury report no deterrent for living wage campaigners

Newswire: $5m could save sawmill, MP says

The Standard: “A Tale of two countries” – NZ/Aotearoa

Olive McRae (ISO): Auckland Action Against Poverty Welfare Impact

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Living Wage proposal would mainly help the Government, not low income families

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): The Living Wage, in one chart.

NZ-US relations

Stuff: Independence at risk

Dominion Post: Editorial: US tradeoff too long in making

Matt Robson (Daily Blog): National’s Grovelling Underscores Why NZ Must Reconnect To Its Independent Identity ASAP

NZ Post

NBR Staff (NBR): NZ Post should stay public

Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Postal job losses 'brutal reality'

Newswire: Key: NZ Post job cuts not out of the blue

Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Single postal worker to deliver entire nation’s mail

National Party

Radio NZ: Backbenchers to fight for electorates

TVNZ: National MP Phil Heatley announces retirement

Andrea Vacne (Stuff): MP Phil Heatley will retire from politics

Adam Bennett (Herald): Phil Heatley to retire from politics next year

Newswire: Another National MP calls it a day

Michael Fox (Stuff): English to resign as MP for Clutha-Southland

TVNZ: Bill English to step down as MP for Clutha-Southland

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Making the gains stick

John Roughan (Herald): Key's restraint should be applauded

Adam Bennett (Herald): New list MP seeks nomination for Whangarei electorate

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Five key points for National's popularity

Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): National gains in poll; up 25% since 2002

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Fresh vs stale

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): English goes list only, Heatley retires

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Watkins on National’s popularity

No Right Turn: A contrast on renewal

Douglas Graham

TVNZ: Sir Douglas Graham to keep knighthood

Vernon Small and Michael Fox (Stuff): Sir Douglas Graham to keep knighthood

Michael Fox and Vernon Small (Stuff): Gong decision angers Lombard investors

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Complacency led to Sir Doug's disgrace

Andrew Geddes (Pundit): Arise, Sir Douglas

No Right Turn: National loves white-collar criminals

Mike Butler (Breakingviews): Should this treatyist remain a sir?

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Douglas Graham retains his knighthood

Education

Bruce Munro (ODT): The value of education

RadioLIVE: Greens call for Parata to admit defeat

Jo Moir (Stuff): 'Chance lost' with axing of Teachers Council

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Parata alone will pick new panel

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Govt will not appeal Phillipstown ruling

TV3: Teachers Council scrapped in favour of new body

Housing

Michael Fox (Stuff): New lending criteria labelled unfair

Martin van Beynen (Stuff): The Block exploits desperate contestants

James Weir (Stuff): Governor willing to consider 'unintended consequences'

Superannuation

Rob Stock (Stuff): Will you be sitting pretty when you retire?

Rodney Hide (NBR): KiwiSaver: A money-go-round tax in disguise

Brian Gaynor (Herald): Cautious banks win - but investors are losing