NZ POLITICS DAILY: 9th October 2013

Today’s links:

APEC/TPP

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key tips big benefits from trade deal

Audrey Young (Herald): Trans Pacific nations set deadline

Vernon Small (Stuff): Free-trade deal 'on track'

Radio NZ: Prime minister warns contentious issues could derail TPP deal

Jenny Suo (TV3): NZ's products are safe, Key tells China

Vernon Small (Stuff): It was never going to be flattering

Audrey Young (Herald): Key raises issue of Kiwi protestors with Putin

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Key, Putin meet briefly at APEC

Audrey Young (Herald): Only one chance for comprehensive TPP – Key

TVNZ: APEC talks take backseat to cake and candles

Audrey Young (Herald): TPP draft text probably not possible – Goff

Vernon Small (Stuff): It was never going to be flattering

Audrey Young (Herald): Key defends 100% pure New Zealand campaign

Audrey Young (Herald): Audrey Young: Mystical Bali missing the magic

The Standard: APEC, TPP, Crosby-Textor, Philip Morris & John Key

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Herald on TPP talks

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Goff vs Cunliffe on trade

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the media’s duty to evaluate the Trans Pacific Partnership

Paul Buchannan (Kiwipolitico): Mission to nowhere.

The Standard: How to pass treaties – could John Key please stop lying?

Sky TV

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Sky 'on notice' over telco contracts

John Drinnan (Herald): Sky TV dodges rare regulatory bullet

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Sky TV let off, but is it a win?

Newswire: Regulator accused of Sky TV cop-out

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Shameless political opportunism

Fiscal policy

Herald: Editorial: Super fund should be first in queue for spare cash

Peter Wilson (Newswire): Opposition questions regional report

John Armstrong (Herald): Minister's message: Don't fret - but don't get complacent either

3 News Online Staff (TV3): Govt spending report 'bizarre' – Opposition

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Government spend revealed

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The fiscal turn-around

Census

James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): A new Eastern Front

Grumpollie: Census count vs Stats NZ estimated population count

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Auckland growth

Christchurch consents

Radio NZ: New roles in Christchurch consents department shakeup

James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): Shuffling the deck

Local body elections

The Press: Editorial: Few excuses for low turnout

Martien Kelderman (Stuff): Election vows: Can we tell heaven from hell?

Simon Paterson (Stuff): Voted yet? It's fun. No really!

Eugenie Sage (Frogblog): Why it’s good to vote for your local council

Defamation

Steven Price (MLJ): Defamation ruling not very appealing

Steven Price (MLJ): Editorials undefended against defamation suits?

Inequality, poverty, and unemployment

Simon Collins (Herald): More Kiwis feel insecure about work –study

Rob Stock (Stuff): Call to link pension age to longevity

Michael Fox (Stuff): Generational pay gap evident in figures

John Minto (Daily Blog): More market madness

Law and order

Peter O’Neill (Timaru Herald): Editorial: No, it's not broke

Newswire: Govt aims to cut assaults on prison staff

Brook Sabin (TV3): Call for justice review committee for miscarriages

No Right Turn: The Lundy verdict and the police

Maori politics

Newswire: Maori Party points finger at commission

Mike Butler (ODT): Opinion: Ngai Tahu should pay Crown

Newswire: Maori Party defends National agreement

Matt Stewart (Stuff): Snow-groomer's antics violated tapu, skifield rules

Morgan Godfery (Maui Street): The iwi power rankings: who are the most powerful iwi in 2013?

Education

Isaac Davison (Herald): Shearer fights on for school food

Vaughan Elder (ODT): Labour joins students to protest changes to university governance

Radio NZ: NZ Initiative says some teachers not qualified in actual subjects

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Massey steps in

Economy

Newswire: NZ firms 'shut out of $1.5b project'

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): The market for affordable housing is still broken

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Targeting The Policy Agreement

James Weir (Stuff): Economy to end year on good note

TVNZ: NZ business confidence at three-year high

Radio NZ: Top earners paying more tax – English

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Looks like IRD are doing their job

James Henderson (The Sandard): $1.6 million a week lost net dividends from Meridian

Government surveillance

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Helping spies break through hi-tech barriers

No Right Turn: Customs, digital searches, and the police

Other

John Moore and Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Seeing racism everywhere: Why Lorde is not a racist

The Daily Blog: GUEST BLOG: Reflections on Contemporary Feminist ‘Censuring’

Hayden Donnell (Herald): Lorde’s Royals sparks racism row

Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, October 9

Newswire: Labour's drink driving bill in trouble

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Is Trevor in Trouble?

Adam Bennett (Herald): Anti-Muslim rant MP builds bridges

Radio NZ: Immigration NZ branch closures will 'make it hard' for immigrants

Glenn Conway (Stuff): Marryatt racked up Hooters bills on city council

Ideologically Impure: Why I will never be a paid political commentator

Radio NZ: Govt heading in wrong direction – poll

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Guest Post: Gareth Hughes on copyright

Josie Pagani (Pundit): Living in a town with no government

Radio NZ: Labour takes a swipe at bounty scheme