NZ POLITICS DAILY: 4th Sep 2013

Today’s content
Labour leadership
John Armstrong (Herald): Reality check in Labour top job roadshow

Claire Trevett (Herald): Leadership contenders promise a lot but caucus yet to sign off

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Cracks appear over Labour policy

Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Jones gets laughs from Napier hustings

Matthew Hooton (NBR): The case for Shane Jones

David Cunliffe (The Standard): Guest post

The Standard: The Jones surpremecy

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Clark and Cullen on the Leadership

Willie Jackson (RadioLive): Maori, gay or workers' rights alright by me

Denise Roche (Frogblog): The Living Wage will help the economy

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Labour leadership scrap exposing divisions

TVNZ: Labour MP responds to Shane Jones' feminist comments

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Shane Jones can’t be leader of the Labour Party

David Clark: Join Up, Join Up

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Cunliffe – might buy assets back – might not

Duncan Garner (RadioLIVE): Should Labour members vote Shane Jones?

Ben Clark (The Standard): 21st Century Leadership Election

Twistedhive: What’s Grants biggest strength?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The cost of just one promise

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): David Cunliffe on earthquake taxes

Clare Curran (Red Alert): Labour Leadership meetings go “virtual”

Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): Joyce attacks Living Wage Pledge ...Key joins in.

Carla Penman (Newstalk ZB): Shane Jones makes most of Northland stopover

Sam Thompson (Newstalk ZB): It's all uphill for Shane Jones

David Farrar (NBR): Labour leadership: who is promising what

Twistedhive: Shane – more than a little humour

Matt Chatterton (Newstalk ZB): Labour candidates stop off in Napier

Asset sales
TVNZ: Date for asset sales referendum to be confirmed

Chris Keall (NBR): NZ govts have proud history of ignoring referenda results

Denis Welch (Opposable Thumb): Zombie alert

Rob Hosking (NBR): The Greens’ bogus branding exercise – which you will pay for

Matthew Dallas (Manawatu Standard): Respecting the will of the people

No Right Turn: A referendum

Sam Thomson (Newstalk ZB): Non-binding referenda described as waste of time

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Opposition offer referendum deal

James Henderson (The Standard): National’s asset sales cost $124m + $2.3m per week

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Clayton’s offer

Southland Times: Editorial: That was then, this is now, eh?

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Democracy dilemma

Waikato Times: An expensive exercise

Nelson Mail: Editorial – Why assest sales referendum is a dud

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Asset sales referendum a waste of time and money

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The pointless referendum

Dunne enquiry
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Dunne strikes back over leak probe

TVNZ: Persistence saw Dunne hand over edited emails

TV3: Toilet breaks could be tracked with data - Dunne

Adam Bennett (Herald): Dunne: Inquiry had no regard for privacy\

SIS raids
Radio NZ: Winston Peters claims SIS raid was illegal

No Right Turn: The SIS and Fiji's dictator

Sky City
David Clark (Red Alert): The SkyCity Gamble

Gordon Campbell (Stuff): Punters being kept in the dark

Syria
Michael Fox (Stuff): Murray McCully: UN Security Council failing on Syria

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Key’s moral support to attack Syria

Radio NZ: Goff seeks wider Syria briefing

Pike River
Herald: Editorial: Leaving Pike River men in peace should give closure

Newswire: Opposition backs mine re-entry plan

Economy
Bob Jones (Herald): The mob wants a capital gains tax? Just ignore it

Brennan McDonald: The Myth Of Deregulation In New Zealand

Peter Lyons (Herald): Dunne's super plan offers incentive to work past age 65

Chris Barton (Stuff): Is the cost of broadband about to rise?

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Gareth Morgan has found his spiritual home

GCSB
Newswire: Dunne in front of privileges committee

Brian Roper: Radio National Interview on "Spying, Lying and Democracy" 

Health
Alasdair Thompson (Fair Point): Politics in Public Health

Kevin Hague (Frogblog): Tony Ryall and democracy

Christchurch
Bronwyn Hayward (Growing Greens): Three Years On...The Politics of Disaster  

David Killick (Stuff): September 4: Three year report card

Local body elections
Herald: Candidate in court named

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): You don’t get to vote for these councillors

Pacific Islands
Gareth Renowden (Daily Blog): Letting the Pacific drown

Brook Sabin (TV3): Marshall Islands' message to NZ

Michael Fox (Stuff): Forum's relevance on the wane

Michael Fox (Stuff): Interest in Pacific 'healthy'

Other
Max Rashbrooke: Absence of MP code of conduct ‘astounding’, says academic 

Robert Patman (Stuff): We need a plan to control the nukes

Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Treaty partnership and sovereignty

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Crusher Collins, the twitterspheric tory

Matthew Hooton (NBR): Fonterra fallout: Nathan Guy next minister for the chop?

Georgina Bond (NBR): How High Court judges do more with less

Stuff: Today in politics - Wednesday, September 4

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Deep-sea oil plans anger stars

Laura McQuillan (Newswire): NZ softens stance on exiled Fiji

Jared Savage (Herald): Protection staff overworked: Survey

James Ihaka (Herald): Maori TV board split on new boss

Nikki Turner (Stuff): More children than elderly living in hardship

David Clendon (Frogblog): Chance to have a say on tertiary education in NZ

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Media reporting on Labour’s housing policy

Daily Blog: Prime Minister proves himself unworkable, unbelievable.

Julie Ann Genter (Daily Blog): Latest motorway madness