NZ POLITICS DAILY: 5th Sep 2013

Labour leadership

Claire Trevett (Herald): Clark had no role in Shearer exit: Labour

Claire Trevett (Herald): Jones shows every underdog has his day

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How the unions may vote for Labour leadership

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour caucus vote closer than I thought

Listener: Labour leader race: Who is your political hero?

Jane Clifton (Listener): Labour’s got talent

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Labour leadership

Russell Brown (Public Address): Jonesing

Philip Ferguson (Redline): Can “we” afford a living wage?

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

Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): Of Espresso; Nuts; Prostrate Cancer; Grammar; Labour Leadership – The Three Boring Men & Quotas Again.

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Hollow promises from hollow men

Greg Presland (The Standard): Labour leadership campaign – day five

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Spending less, delivering more

Matt Chatterton (Newstalk ZB): Promise of prosperity from Labour candidates

The Standard: The Jones surpremacy

Radio NZ: Maori Council says Cunliffe has wider appeal for Labour leadership

Sophia Duckor-Jones (Newstalk ZB): Labour wannabes fashionably late

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Meet the candidates online

Herald: Editorial: Hard task for leadership contenders

Ellipsister: The potential for Maori leadership should not be understated

Twistedhive: Soft focus on Jones

Pacific Islands

Brook Sabin (TV3): Push for nuclear compensation in Marshalls

Jan Logie (Frogblog): New Zealand’s role in the Pacific

Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ commits $5m to low-lying countries

SIS raids

No Right Turn: More on the SIS and Fiji's dictator

Michael Field (Stuff): Peters reveals SIS raid text warning

Online voting

No Right Turn: Madness

Newswire: Online voting trial in 2016

TVNZ: Voting online to be trialled

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Online voting for 2016

Holly Walker (Frogblog): Modernising elections

Herald: Online voting to be trialled in 2016 local elections

Education

Rebecca Quilliam (Herald): Minister defends national standards

Jo Moir (Stuff): Foundation education to be free

TVNZ: National Standards will get 'better' – Parata

Nicole Pryor (Stuff): National standards will improve – Parata

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Planet Parata and the National Standards

Newswire: Teachers don black for Novopay anniversary

Sky City

Newswire: TVNZ dividend relief tied to upgrade

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If only the SkyCity scam was a dirty deal done dirt cheap (and Steven Joyce admits he doesn’t read all reports)

TVNZ: TVNZ make $14 million profit

Tom Pullar-Strecker amd Andrea Vance (Stuff): TVNZ sells more land to SkyCity

TVNZ: SkyCity buys land from TVNZ for $10.6m

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): TVNZ land deal doesn't pay dividends, say Greens

Radio NZ: Govt denies it induced TVNZ to make way for SkyCity deal

Fonterra

TVNZ: Fonterra boss: 'Red flag should have gone up faster'

Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Sighs of relief - now for answers

Radio NZ: Fonterra explains what went wrong in botulism scare

Radio NZ: Fonterra bosses head to China to bolster reputation

Kim Dotcom

TVNZ: Kim Dotcom resigns Mega directorship

Adam Dudding (Stuff): Dotcom steals the show at copyright debate

School Journal

Audrey Young (Herald): PM: Journal won't be lost in closure

Radio NZ: Future of 'School Journal' unknown

Dominion Post: Editorial: A lesson for creative companies

Andrea Vance (Stuff): School Journal publisher winding up

Economy

Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Minerals versus hi-tech - a false dichotomy

Stuff: NZ competitiveness improves

Gambling bill

Newswire: Flavell's gambling bill becomes law

Stuff: Problem gambling bill passed by conscience vote

Citizens Initiated Referenda

The Press: Editorial: Poor device for making policy

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Political consensus: Citzens Initiated Referenda to stay

GCSB

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Dunne facing grilling from colleagues

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Dunne sticks to guns over email row

Owen Glenn

Kirsty Johnston (Stuff): Sir Owen Glenn formally knighted

Maori politics

Wilma McCorkindale (Stuff): Maori and Pakeha 'united through love'

James Ihaka (Herald): Jones fears MTV board 'spectacle'

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Thursday, September 5

Beith Atkinson (Integrity Talking Points): UK government wants lobbying controls rejected by NZ parliament

Michael Fox (Stuff): Government rethinks overseas deployments

Kevin Hague (Frogblog): A table for one?

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): We have moved!

Herald: More funding for restorative justice conferences

Stuff: Greg Boyed quits Seven Sharp

Stuff: Taking a stand against legal highs

Ideologically Impure: Weird Tales of Epsom: the brothel-seeker at the threshold

John Gibb (Herald): 'Magic wand' wanted on war pension rules

Andrea Vance (Stuff): NZ to cave on Ross Sea protection?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Please Labour stop blaming the person who needs protection

Ashleigh Stewart (Stuff): One in 20 young Kiwis addicted to booze

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Gareth Morgan and North Korea

John Kerr (Redline): “Appeasement doesn’t work; the bosses and their lackeys in government always want more”: RMT organiser John Kerr

No Right Turn: Member's Day

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Tax dodgers to be hunted by passports

Amy Maas (Stuff): Brown calls for 'full review'

Grant Duncan (Policy Matters): Should NZ support a military strike on Syria?

Will Harvie (Stuff): EQC has paid $6b in claims

ODT: Exporting to China

Radio NZ: Govt outlines 4G spectrum auction plan

John Drinnan (Herald): State broadcaster taking less risk with programmes

Patrice Dougan (Herald): Writer, businessman and former cop honoured for services to NZ

Brian Rudman (Herald): Key in for mauling as asset sales hit centre stage