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NZ POLITICS DAILY: January 26 2015

NZ POLITICS DAILY: January 26 2015

Bryce Edwards
Mon, 26 Jan 2015

Today’s content

Housing and RMA reform

John Armstrong (Herald): Nick Smith sets up RMA as straw man for housing

Vernon Small (Stuff): RMA reforms no long-term solution

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Cut it out, you RMA spoilsports

Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Nick Smith's calculation stretch on housing crisis headline-grabbing but way off the mark

Bryan Gould: Solving the Housing Crisis – Facts or Ideology?

Southland Times: Editorial: A bit of RMA-wrestling

ODT: Editorial: 'Reforming' the RMA

Rob Salmond (Polity): Herald on Smith on RMA

Simon Collins (Herald): If you don't own a home by 40, you don't have much hope, warns study

Simon Collins (Herald): Mr Rental now thinking about buying house

Winston Peters (RadioLive): Govt trying to hide housing crisis

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Kill the RMA

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Gen Xers and Gen Y locked out of property ownership forever

Phil Hayward (Whaleoil): On Auckland and the RMA reforms

Brennan McDonald: Slimmer RMA won’t improve affordability

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Costs, benefits, and apartments

Eric Crampton (NZ Initiative): RMA changes necessary, but not sufficient

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): How the RMA continues to protect polluters

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): RMA reform will be an uphill battle

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Will Nick Smith slash and burn the RMA? Or will it be as effective as his housing efforts?

Isaac Davison (Herald): Auckland Council red tape in the spotlight

Pete George (Your NZ): RMA reform proposal

Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Keep RMA standards high says group

Nick Smith: Annual speech to Nelson Rotary

Parliament and political year

Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ's political leaders to push their plans

Matthew Hooton (NBR): The year the worm may turn (paywalled)

Dom Post: Voters await signs of a new game plan

RNZ: Key and Little to give State of the Nation

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fairfax’s 2015 predictions

Rob Salmond (Polity): Speech duel

Newswire: National surges to highest rating since 2014 election

David Farrar (KIwiblog): 1st poll of 2015

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is it over for the Greens?

Andrea Vance (Stuff): NZ First MPs make most of summer lull

Audrey Young (Herald): Meet the backbenchers: Back home to make a contribution – Mark Mitchell

NZ Parliament: Introducing Parliament 101

Lewis Holden: Restoring our upper house – I

Ian Steward (Stuff): Arthur Taylor claims John Key's election as MP unlawful

Craig McCulloch (Radio NZ): Greens reject purely green focus

Ratana

Claire Trevett (Herald): Andrew Little survives at Ratana but Peters steals show

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Opposition slams Key's Ratana no-show

Claire Trevett (Herald): Ratana: Turei launches stinging attack on Key

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Andrew Little at Ratana – ignoring the battle to win the war

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Of course the Greens should be political on a political day

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Turei Ratana Speech Justified

Patricia Greig (Herald): MP attracts hoots of laughter

Key in Europe

Audrey Young (Herald): Davos 2015: John Key networking 'like speed dater in first class'

Melissa Davies (TV3): Key in Davos: 'Europe's time will come again'

Mellissa Davies (TV3): Key wants TPPA ready within six months

TVNZ: Key tries to woo Europe during 'speed dating' in Davos

Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): To Lunchtime And Beyond! Why There’s No More Loyal Servant Of The Anglo-Saxon Empire Than The New Zealand National Party

Don Franks (Redline): Looking inside John Key’s club

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Montgomerie on Key

Farming and free speech

Rachel Stewart (Stuff): Farmers not exempt from country's laws

Lucy Townend (Stuff): Police investigate threat to columnist Rachel Stewart

RNZ: Threat to columnist 'should be handled by police'

Anthony Robins (Standard): The image of farming

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Standard defends Farmer rape threats

Economy

Vernon Small (Stuff): Better Budget deficit renews Government surplus hopes

Herald: Govt's operating deficit smaller than expected

Fiona Rotherham (Idealog): Do we really have a rockstar economy?

TVHE: Why doesn’t NZ need a fiscal rule?

Death of Saudi King

Herald: Governor-General to attend Saudi King's funeral

Newswire: Key pays tribute after Saudi king dies

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Our dear Saudi friends

Media

John Drinnan (Herald): Concert station gets a tune-up

Stuff: Prime News production moves to NZ

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Dear Lynn Prentice – I have no interest in Scoop closing

Bill Bennett (Scoop): How Freelancers & Bloggers Inform NZ's $23 Bn ICT Industry

Bill Rosenberg (Scoop): News Before Profits

Pete George (Your NZ): What’s happening On The Left?

Stephanie Rodgers (The Standard): The meaning of dirty politics

Pete George (Your NZ): Left versus lefter

Lynn Prentice (Standard): The prince and the pea

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Blogwatch: Has Lynn Prentice apologised to his best blogger for outing him yet?

Isis

Herald: McCully to go to Jordan to discuss Syria, Isis

Cameron Walker (Redline): Ramping up state powers: the Terrorism Suppression Act since 2007

The Civilian: Editorial: Why ISIL is great and we don’t want to die

Other

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Ratepayer cash won't go into convention centre, mayor promises

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): New cyber-defence system for NZ

TV3: The week in politics - January 22, 2015

Rob Salmond (Polity): Quadratic voting

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): McCully slates Russia, but shies away from attacking Putin

Andrea Vance (Stuff): History in bin when the PM deletes texts

Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): The language of John Key, akshually

TV3: Inequality in NZ - how bad is it?

Lisa Knight (Stuff): Pay boost for health board boss riles snubbed hospital staff

Integrity Talking Points: New Zealand remains an open data leader

Newswire: Little outruns Robertson in Wellington

Waikato Times: Editorial: My home, my castle

Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Celebrity boxing pits Cameron 'Whaleoil' Slater against Jesse Ryder

TV3: Light rail gets thumbs up from opposition

TV3: Helen Clark pressures businesses to support sustainability

Isaac Davison (Herald): Elective surgery patients miss out on treatment

Bryce Edwards
Mon, 26 Jan 2015

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