NZ POLITICS DAILY: May 21

Family caregiving and discrimination

Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt slammed over censored caregiver legislation

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Discriminative law can't be challenged

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Greens question carers legislation block clause

Herald: Editorial: Disability bill demonstrates contempt for due process

Isaac Davison (Herald): Key backs changes to carer's law

Kate Chapman (Stuff): Clause denying legal action 'necessary' – PM

Anthony Robins (The Standard): Then why don’t you release the advice John?

Radio NZ: PM says family carers legislation is constitutional

Clare Curran (Red Alert): The law (of NZ) according to Kafka

Morgan Godfery (Daily Blog): Constitution to the people: “fix me”

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Johnyongyang?

Phoebe Fletcher (Daily Blog): A sad day for disability rights

US-NZ relations

Audrey Young (Herald): Audrey Young: Back in the USA

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Mid-East, marine reserve on McCully's US agenda

Alison McCulloch: Beware Americans Bearing … Well, Anything

Ken Ross (Dominion Post): Key not making US-NZ ties

Audrey Young (Herald): Wrong audience for Bolger tirade

Stuff: McCully meets with US Secretary of State

Audrey Young (Herald): Middle East a hot topic as McCully meets Kerry

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Trans-Pacific Partnership deal unlikely this year

Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Trade deal may be bad for consumers

Keith Locke (Daily Blog): What Will Murray McCully say to John Kerry this week about Guantanamo?

Audrey Young (Herald): NZ ready to aid Middle East deal

Radio NZ: NZ's China relationship puts pressure on its US ties - Goff

Inequality, poverty, employment

Alison McCulloch: Workers Unite!

Alison McCulloch: Workers as Beneficiaries

John Minto (Daily Blog): Jobs, jobs and jobs are the first three priorities

The Standard: Political science

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Buyers also sell

KJT: The magical world of New Zealand's, Neo-Liberal, right wing.

Keeping Stock: Is CPAG a charity or political?

3 News Online Staff (TV3): Police restrain anti-poverty protesters

The Standard: $2.49

Maori and Pacific politics

Claire Trevett (Herald): TVNZ broadcaster seeks selection for by-election

TVNZ: Shane Taurima joins race for Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election

Yvonne Tahana (Herald): TV broadcaster in bid to gain seat

Willie Jackson (RadioLIVE): Claudette Hauiti can step up as MP

Joshua Hitchcock (Maori Law and Politics): Review of Te Ture Whenua Māori 1993

Michael Field (Stuff): Pacific people suffering, say Sallies

Dion Tuuta (Stuff): Innovative thinking needed on land ownership

RadioLIVE: Labour to annouce new candidate

Radio NZ: Pacific people in NZ 'hardest hit' by recession

Vaimoana Tapaleao (Stuff): Our Pacific community: Charting Pasifika's progress in NZ

Radio NZ: Maori Party tensions expected to be resolved soon

Radio NZ: Crown concedes Treaty breaches in north

Newswire: Maori Party selects by-election candidate

Tim Selwyn (Daily Blog): TV Review: Black & White

Radio NZ: Mana chooses potential candidates for Ikaroa/Rawhiti

Christchurch rebuild

Dan Satherley (TV3): Christchurch seeks to avoid asset sales

The Press: Editorial: Time to discuss anchor projects

Radio NZ: Auditor-General to investigate Crown purchase offers

Thomas Mead (TV3): Budget spend leaves Cantabrians in limbo

Steven Cowan (Against the Current): 'I was appalled by your hand-out culture...'

Animal testing

Kate Chapman (Stuff): Greens to hold animal testing hearing

Catriona (MacLennan (Herald): Catriona MacLennan: Review of animal welfare law too timid

Isaac Davison (Herald): Greens plan own hearings on animal testing for drugs

IRD

Keith Rankin: IRD could be simpler and not need new IT system

David Cunliffe (Red Alert): $1.5 billion – for what?

Education and Novopay

Kate Shuttleworth (Herald): Minister could appoint Teachers Council members

Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Review critical of Teachers' Council

Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Teachers Council deemed ineffective – review

Nicholas Jones (Herald): New schools will help NZ to pass mark, says Parata

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Radical changes proposed for Teacher’s Council

Marc Greenhill (Stuff): Over-40s 'deterred from rebuild'

Dominion Post: Editorial: Loan defaulters break 'social contract'

Budget 2013

Radio NZ: Labour criticises 'funny money assumptions' on surplus

Katie Bradford-Crozier (Newstalk ZB): Labour unconvinced by 2014/15 surplus outline

Kate Shuttleworth (Herald): Pacific Island Affairs funding cuts will hurt Pasifika people – Labour

Vernon Small (Stuff): Govt dumped departure tax plan

Radio NZ: POLITICS WITH MATTHEW HOOTON AND MIKE WILLIAMS

TVNZ: PM defends petrol tax increases

Stuff: No formula for extra roading money

Kate Shuttleworth (Herald): PM backed departure tax plan

David Cunliffe (Red Alert): Gutting fisheries

Newswire: Salvation Army wants free school meals

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Department Budget hasn't been cut – Parata

Waikato Times: Editorial: A tad unconvincing

Newswire: Too much spent on highways – Greens

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Budget 2013

Stuff: Food in schools: Work needed first – PM

The Standard: Opposites day

Luke Malpass (Stuff): Australia pays for not living within its means

International trade

Tom Pullar-Stecker (Stuff): Coalition against Trans-Pacific deal grows

William Mace (Stuff): Levies increase blamed on Government

Fiona Rotherham (Stuff): Key talks up Asian opportunities

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Minister expects China meat fix in days

Jazial Crossley (Stuff): Big bucks to be made on small screen

RadioLIVE/3 News (TV3): China meat issue 'urgent' – farmers

Adam Bennett (Herald): 'Technical issues' holding up meat

Brook Sabin (TV3): Held-up meat costing millions

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ close to Taiwan free trade agreement

Michael Valley (The Standard): Frozen meat

TVNZ: 'Nothing sinister' in China meat block – Key

Stuff: Nothing sinister in China meat block – Key

RadioLIVE/3 News (TV3): Meat still waiting to enter China

Offshore oil and gas

Simon Hartley (ODT): Tenders open; parties ramp up policies

Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): “Remorseless Democracy” on the High Seas and National’s Plans to Resist It

Radio NZ: Labour doubts Govt can regulate continental shelf

Babies in parliament

Claire Trevett (Herald): PM: Keep Parliament hours

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Babies in Parliament

Kate Chapman (Stuff): Give breastfeeding mums a better go: MP

Other

No Right Turn: Not acceptable

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): ACTs new paint job in Zespri lime

Newstalk ZB: Smoking ban in spotlight as judicial review begins

Steve Kilgallon (Herald): Catholic Church powerless in face of extreme fringe

Lucy Townend (Stuff): Anti-China leaflet linked to Right-wing group

Holly Walker (Frogblog): How do we create a real golden age in the arts in NZ?

Rachel Tiffen (TV3): Police may be disciplined for discounted food

Andrea Vance (Stuff): MP tweeting - or napping - during taxing talk

Stuff: Anti-royalist fined for poo plot unrepentant

Neil Ratley (Stuff): Push for legal-high regulation

RadioLIVE/3 News/Newswire (TV3): New safety rules after Pike River disaster

Stuff: Today in politics: Tuesday, May 21, 2013

TVNZ: Community leaders due to gather over SkyCity deal

TVNZ: Solid Energy a 'broken company' – Key

Hamish Clark (TV3): Govt extends eviction date for red zoners

Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Sledging Gareth Hughes

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Monthly polls

TVNZ: Housing market not flooded with overseas buyers - economist

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