NZ POLITICS DAILY: May 19 2014

Today’s content

Immigration and housing

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the government’s inadequate housing policy

Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): More people is good

Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Election battlegrounds

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Labour fears proposed immigration changes go too far

TV3: NZ housing market most overpriced - report

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour says we should have 35,000 fewer immigrants a year

Radio NZ: Price of a new house at six-year high

Rob Salmond (Polity): Migration and housing

Alistair Helm (NBR): We still know so little about overseas buyers of NZ property: we need more data

Herald: Editorial: Clear picture needed of foreign home ownership

RadioLIVE: Housing crisis could drive people into poverty – Labour

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): In which Winston smells a circus

Pete George (Your NZ): Winston Peters stoking immigration fears

Fundamentally Useless: When did the Left turn on foreigners?

Catherine Harris (Stuff): Landlords bag housing WOF

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): If 90% fail, it’s a silly test

Bernard Hickey (Herald): Budget buries migration bomb

Marta Steeman (Stuff): English: High dollar cities' fault

Dan Satherley (TV3): Supply key to curbing house price inflation - English

Brook Sabin (TV3): Key defends Govt's housing record

NBR: English: Pressure from immigration, but no plans to tighten rules

Newswire: English fine with immigration levels

Mike Wesley-Smith (TV3): Immigration to be key election issue

TVNZ: Government 'asleep at the wheel' over house prices

NBR: Cunliffe: slash net immigrant numbers from 40,000 a year to as low as 5000

Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): Labour’s Immigration Policy is Decidedly Conservative: Identity Politics Left & Right.

Pete George (Your NZ): Labour on immigration – slash to “sweet spot” somehow

Pete George (Your NZ): National on immigration – no change

Budget 2014

John Armstrong (Herald): Mahora the merrier after winning Budget

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Alright For Some: Bill English delivers a profoundly political budget

Duncan Garner (Stuff): Policy pinching may just work

Vernon Small (Stuff): English emerges smiling from global meltdown

James Fyfe (TV3): Vocal protests outside post-Budget speech

Nike Kloeten and Josh Fagan (Stuff): PM John Key defends equality after protest

Tess MCCLure (Stuff): Disappointment at grants cut

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): On-form Key a tough act for Cunliffe or protesters to roll

Brian Fallow (Herald): Govt should not be a business risk: English

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Four Budget slides

Catherine Delahunty (Frogblog): Education and the Budget

Jan Logie (Frogblog): The Budget and poverty

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Hopeless

Suze Metherall (NBR): Fletcher affected by govt move to cut tariffs on imported building supplies, Key says

Isaac Davison (Herald): GPs eye more cash to join free schemes

Marta Steeman (Stuff): Forecast surplus of $1b from drop in welfare

Jade Cooper (Newstalk ZB): Spending tax - there's an app for that

Hamish Clark (TV3): Budget no relief for Christchurch homeowners

Radio NZ: Maori need more of Budget – Deloitte

John Roughan (Herald): A tax cut is not the right call

Greg Thompson (NBR): Budget 2014: Harvesting the rewards

Radio NZ: Child lobby sceptical of budget moves

Greg Presland (The Standard): The Budget and the Christchurch rebuild

Tim Downes (NBR): Budget 2014: A tale of two cities - Auckland and Christchurch

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Pragmatic English eases Budget belt

Radio NZ: Social housing 'cut' puzzles sector

Sarah Dunn (Stuff): Thousands wait on the knife

Rodney Hide (Herald): Huh? Spending boast a wrong 'un

Steve Braunias (Stuff): The secret diary of...The Budget

Radio NZ: Funding 'only part' of housing boost

Andrea Vance (Stuff): English won't dress up as Superman

Radio NZ: Health money generous, says English

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): How much of a tosser is Mike Hosking?

Caleb Morgan (Cut Your Hair): A quick word on tax cuts

Latifa Daud (Daily Blog): Budget 2014 – all that glitters

Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Budget 2014 – How has National exposed itself in Election Year?

MTNZ: Budget coverage highlights importance of examples

ISO: Protesting National’s Budget 2014

Tom Peters (WSW): New Zealand budget deepens austerity

The Political Scientist: Wafer-thin socialism in nouvelle cuisine budget

Brian Easton: The Purpose of Economic Policy

Newstalk ZB Staff (Newstalk ZB): Bill English defends National's record on health

Susie Nordqvist (TV3): Patients clogging hospitals with minor problems

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Greens slam talk from National and Labour of tax cuts

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Labour slams John Key's tax cut carrot

David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Bill's Budget and the Buts...

Kayla Dalrymple (Newstalk ZB): Greens say govt is dismantling DOC

Drone strikes and GCSB

Laura McQuillan (Newstalk ZB): Key adamant spies stay legal

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Key should apologise to Brazilian and Mexican presidents for helping NSA spy on them

Toby Manhire (Herald): US kills young Kiwi and Govt does diddly-squat

No Right Turn: Key knows what his spies are doing

Stuff: NZ 'aware' of US drone attacks – journalist

Patrick Gower (TV3): Journalist: NZ spies aware of drone strikes

Will de Cleene (gonzo): Dirty Wars and Ignored Laws

Journalists and political bias

Chris Trotter (Stuff): Declare your bias and let the audience decide

John Drinnan (Herald): Broadcaster Linda Clark acted for Taurima through inquiry

Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The pundit test

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Will Taurima sue Labour?

Inequality and Economy

Jerram Watts (TV3): Ministry workers call for wage increase

Geoff Cumming (Herald): Taxis - why you're paying so much

Collette Devlin (Stuff): Union victory puts cloud over smelter

Mike Smith (The Standard): EPMU wins for Tiwai workers

Deborah Russell (Herald): We all deserve to get a fair go

Pete George (Your NZ): Taxation lecturer ticky tacky

Herald: Finding work 'really tough'

RadioLIVE: Govt eyeing up new trade opportunities with India

Cecile Meier (Stuff): So, where's the payoff?

Taranaki Daily News: All things being equal - we're not

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): This actually happened

James Ritchie (Daily Blog): Break down the Lies

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): The Human Cost of Inequality

Labour Party

Kerre McIvor (Herald): Behind the scenes with political leaders

Jarrod Gilbert: Nothing means something for Cunliffe

Michael Fox and Tracy Watkins (Stuff): How we really rate leaders

Pete George (Your NZ): David who?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Stuff rates the leaders

The Standard: Marama Davidson: candidate for Tāmaki Makaurau

Herald: Labour MP Darien Fenton to leave Parliament

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fenton retires

Vernon Small (Stuff): No decision on Tamaki Makaurau

TVHE: VSR: Very silly regulation?

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Darien Fenton not seeking re-election

National Party

Carys Goodwin (Critic): Interview: Michael Woodhouse - National Party MP

Karl du Fresne: The public couldn't see the smoke, let alone the gun

James Griffin (Herald): Learning the lines

Michael Timmins (Daily Blog): Crony capitalism and voting against self-interest

Christchurch rebuild

Radio NZ: Asset sale would net $1.4 billion – report

James Dann (Rebuilding Christchurch): I guess National won’t be putting up any “Rebuilding Christchurch” billboards this election

Radio NZ: Brownlee questions council report data

Kim Dotcom and Internet Party

Lynley Bilby (Herald): Dotcom's five-year marriage over

David Fisher (Herald): Mona has Mega stake after split

Salient: Kim Dotcodotnz

Owen Glenn

Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Owen Glenn trips up on Otara pledge

Bevan Hurley (Herald): $400m at stake as Glenn sues old mate

Cannabis

Ross Bell (Stuff): The criminalising of cannabis is adding harm, not reducing it

Greg Presland (The Standard): Penny Hulse and the decriminalisation of cannabis

Maori politics

Leigh McLachlan (Radio NZ): Maori elders hold on to powhiri custom

Dion Tuuta (Stuff): Whanau role in student achievements

Mike Butler (Breaking Views): Maori TV shows anti-white bias

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Monday, May 19

Matthew Beveridge (SOCIAL MEDIA & THE 2014 GENERAL ELECTION): Redesign and New Feature

Claire Trevett (Herald): Foundation takes Ministry of Health to court

Radio NZ: Unfair treatment over ETS – foresters

Newswire: John Banks' trial to start

Kerre McIvor (Herald): Economy class for most of us

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Funniest press release by an MP yet – unintentionally

Simon Day (Stuff): Nek minnit, cheesy Craig breaches trademark

John Weekes (Herald): Palino mulls a second attempt

Amy Maas (Herald): The real cost of cut-price justice

Bruce Munro (ODT): Is growth of lobbyists threat to democracy?

Chris Keall (NBR): Will Brendan drop the hammer?

Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Justice advocate slams Kiwi prison culture

Anna Leask (Herald): Watchdog's Roast Busters report imminent but inquiry into sex group still under wraps

Andrea Vance (Stuff): More lobbyists enjoy Parliament access

No Right Turn: MBIE doesn't care about conservation

Lindy Laird (Herald): Lesbian couple sceptical of Church's acceptance

Stuff: Governor-General invites Pope to NZ

Brian Rudman (Herald): Unhappy landings for ratepayers