NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 28
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Local government
Jamie Small (Stuff): Christchurch election failing to inspire large voter turnout
Jonathan Carson (Stuff):Votes trickle in for Nelson and Tasman as election campaign nears halfway point
Anna Loren (Stuff): Auckland mayoral brawl: Candidate defends outburst
Jill Cleave (Stuff): Hauraki mayoral candidates questioned
Brad Markham (Stuff): Time for new blood in local body elections
Jamie Small (Stuff): Minto's living wage pledge still uncosted
Brittany Baker (Stuff): Crowds and one candidate absent from latest mayoral debate
Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Outgoing Judd looms large in Taranaki elections
The Standard: Do elections matter?
John Lewis (ODT): Female candidates set to put the city right
David Loughrey (ODT): Environmental ratings controversial
Tom Dillane (Stuff): Auckland mayoral candidate John Palino calls for 'task force' of retired police
Ben Hill (Herald): Why the young feel alienated from local body elections
Ben Hill (Herald): Social media simplicity spurs Swarbrick's success
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Goff’s $150,000 foreign donation
Shawn McAvinue (ODT): Candidates divided on living wage, public holidays
Paul Walker (Anti-Dismal): Well done John Minto and Lianne Dalziel
Jan Logie (Greens): How to have more diverse councils
Dominion Post Editorial: City Council chief should be open about deal with airline
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Wellington's multi-million dollar Singapore Airlines subsidy creates almost no paper trail
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): $8 million and no paperwork
Matt Nippert (Herald): Corruption at council widespread, says Crown
Matt Nippert (Herald): Florida honeymoon, $3000 lunch: corruption trial begins
Matt Nippert (Herald): Corruption case alleges $1.2m paid in bribes
Justice
Mark Sainsbury (RadioLive): Memo to the NZRU - open your eyes and ears
Catherine Gaffaney (Herald): Rugby player Losi Filipo quits squad
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Losi Filipo and Wellington Rugby judged by the court of public opinion
Deena Coster (Stuff): Man serves equivalent of 14 months jail while waiting for his trial date
Environment
Alex Smith (Stuff): The future of NZ marine protection is in danger
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): More than hot air needed from climate change minister
Rhys Chamberlain (Stuff): Hayley Holt helps Green Party Shaw-up views on climate change in Queenstown
Jamie Morton (Herald): NZ air among world's cleanest, safest – report
Mike Joy (Stuff): The heavy price of our waterways pollution
US presidential election
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Kiwi politicians praise Hillary Clinton for poise in debate
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Don't write-off Donald Trump in today's debate, tips John Key
Vernon Small (Stuff): PM Key looking to underdog Trump to beat expectations in first debate with Clinton
Barry Soper (Herald): The Superbowl of politics begins
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Do Americans follow through on their election-year threats to move to New Zealand? Kind of
Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom
Tim McCready (Herald): Mood of the Boardroom: Will this be Winston's finest hour?
Graham Skellern (Herald): Mood of the Boardroom: CEOs call for English to sort housing shortage
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): CEO rankings of MPs
Labour-Greens Mt Roskill deal
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Labour and Greens criticised for by-election alliance
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Labour-Greens Mt Roskill deal 'rotten', says ACT's David Seymour
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Greens won't contest Mt Roskill by-election
Jason Walls (NBR): Green Party to step aside for Labour in Mt Roskill by-election
Fish dumping
Michael Morrah (Stuff): John Key backs MPI Minister despite fish dumping inaction
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On the Key style of crisis management
Housing
Simon Collins (Herald): Inns full as homeless fill up motels
Kyra Dawson (Rotorua Daily Post): Marae keen to house homeless
Alexandra Nelson (Stuff): Auckland middle class disenfranchised by property market, says business leader
Marjorie Cook (Stuff): Affordable housing a joke in Wanaka
Education
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): NCEA: Why are students taking toilet cleaning at school?
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Schools using foreigners' fees to staff classrooms
Kiwipolitico: Confronting academic Taylorists.
Dangerous dogs
Dominion Post Editorial: We need tougher laws against vicious dogs and their bad owners
Lewis Nicholls (Stuff): My open letter to MP Louise Upston about dangerous dogs
Opinion polls
Richard Harman (Politik): Labour still nervous even after big poll surge
Greg Presland (Standard): Latest Roy Morgan Poll – Labour surges
Colin Craig defamation trial
Jessica Mutch (TVNZ): Defamation case not about Colin Craig's relationship with former press secretary, court hears
Michael Allen (Newstalk ZB): Williams used Rachel McGregor for political ends, court told
Other
Dita de Boni (TVNZ): Key, the ultimate CEO, has an eye on his own legacy
Murdoch Stephens (Spinoff): John Key’s latest refugee remarks are a facepalming litany of wrongness
Nicholas McBride (Stuff): Work and Income gets first dibs on compo, leaving 'peanuts'
Claire Trevett (Herald): UN needs to elect woman and 'join the 21st century', says Key as Clark vows to fight on
Danielle Pintacasi (Critic): Economics of NGO's: When NGOs do more harm than good
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Wellington's confidence now back to pre-National Government levels
John Langley (Norther Advocate): Opinion: Social workers day - a chance to say thanks CYF
David Slack (Metro): Covered in lovemarks: the obituary of Kevin Roberts, died 2040
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Neil Quigley replaces Rod Carr as chairman of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Damian George (Stuff): Bishop and Mallard go head-to-head for blood pressure awareness
Evening Report: Te Reo Māori on ‘life support’, says Sharples
Jay Boreham (Rodney Times): Recommended thirty year transport package for Auckland revealed
Stephen Franks: Social and economic rights in a NZ constitution
Greg Presland (Standard): Dear Herald you can do better than Rodney Hide
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