NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 6
NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 6 2016
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Housing
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Maori Party calls for immediate rent freeze
Dom Post Editorial: The government's heart isn't in the state housing business
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Govt injects $25m into Auckland social housing
Russell Brown (Public Address): Housing NZ keeps digging the meth hole
Mei Heron (RNZ): Govt not convinced homelessness inquiry was needed
No Right Turn: An economic failure as well as a moral one
Newswire: Plight of the homeless revealed to MPs
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Hundreds of empty state houses in Wellington, while 523 wait for new home
Rachel Smalley (Newshub): Economics 101 doesn't apply to overheated housing market
Vivien Maidaborn (Stuff): Children and families are at the mercy of a broken system
Herald Editorial: Houses - might be time to wait and see
Chris Holden (Newshub): Opinion: 5 reasons why the housing crisis can't be blamed on Labour
Anne Gibson (Herald): Buy an Auckland apartment: Is Prime Minister John Key right?
Paul Walker (Anti-Dismal): The Maori Party needs to do Econ 101
NZ First
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Key, Little not ruling Winston out as deputy PM
Jenna Lynch and Patrick Gower (Newshub): Revealed: Winston Peters in $3k Indian donation controversy
Audrey Young (Herald): NZ First received donation from founder of immigrant party slammed by Peters
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Buried in the bluster Peters finds a good idea
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Embedded At The New Zealand First Convention Part 2: What The Media Aren’t Telling You About Tracey Martin’s Tertiary Education Push
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Peters has one last shot at power
Pete George (Your NZ): NZ First succession
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): We all know what it means when Winston says no – yes!
Kevin Hague quits Parliament
Isaac Davison (Herald): Kevin Hague quits Greens for Forest and Bird
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Green MP Kevin Hague quits Parliament
Newstalk ZB: Hague proudest of Pike River reforms
Amy Jane Bedwell (Gay Express): Gay MP steps down from Parliament
No Right Turn: Bugger
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Hague leaves the Greens more blue – Meanwhile….climate change happening far faster and far more dangerously than predicted
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Hague quits
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets on Kevin Hague leaving Parliament
Labour Party
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour spin doctor not doing campaign work, rather 'public outreach' - Andrew Little
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour leader's staffing exodus continues with four key roles now vacant
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Labour's spin doctor exodus
Rob Hosking (NBR): Andrew Little's staffing problem
Pete George (Your NZ): Little’s Labour leaking staff
Dan Satherley (Newshub):Nude portrait not entirely accurate - Andrew Little
Nikki Kaye takes leave for cancer treatment
Tracey Watkins (Stuff): Nikki Kaye news unites politicians in shock
Audrey Young (Herald): Nikki Kaye's diagnosis is a shock to Parliament
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): MP Nikki Kaye diagnosed with breast cancer
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Nikki Kaye to take leave from Ministerial portfolios to undergo breast cancer treatment
Laura Walters (Stuff): Nikki Kaye's rise through the political ranks
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Nikki
Colin Craig defamation case
Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Sexual harassment allegations against Colin Craig detailed for first time
Anna Leask (Herald): Colin Craig's former press secretary to give evidence against him at defamation trial
Anna Leask (Herald): Ex-Conservative leader Colin Craig on trial for defamation
Campbell Gibson (NBR): Jordan Williams and Colin Craig defamation case begins
Local Government elections
Andy Asquith and Andrew Cardow (Herald): Mayoral candidates should show their real colours
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckland's mayoral contest heats up
Ian Telfer (RNZ): Shadbolt facing serious competition for Invercargill mayoralty
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Dunedin mayoral candidate's hoarding all at sea
Ruby MacAndrew (Stuff): Young voters urged to use online tool to choose their candidate
Massey University: Online tool engages youth vote for council elections
Jonathan Carson (Stuff): Cindy Batt: A Maori woman in a Pakeha man's world
Simon Hendery (Stuff): At 85, retired teacher Roland Matley wants to be Mayor of Wairoa
Daisy Hudson (Stuff): Timaru District Council candidates have election hoardings vandalised
Illya McLellan (Stuff): Masterton council candidates say independent survey is 'disturbing'
Marjorie Cook (Stuff): Upper Clutha women candidates want district to flourish
Dasha Kupienko (Stuff): Wakatipu election candidates to show personalities and policies
Hannah Lee (Stuff): Councillors asked to reveal their votes on CEOs payrise in first NPDC candidate meeting
Jonathan Carson (Stuff): Councillors consider meeting boycott over 'attack advertising'
Zizi Sparks (Stuff): Ballot boxes available in libraries for 2016 voting period
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The six not to vote for
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): WCC Mayoral candidates on Vegemite vs Marmite
Local Government reforms
Richard Harman (Politik): Key looking to back down on controversial bill
Richard Harman (Politik): Councils say no to Government reforms
Education
Tom Furley (RNZ): Hundreds of teachers protest proposed funding changes
Shannon Redstall and Dianna Vezich (Newshub): Bigger class sizes could be coming, unions warn
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On government complacency
Max Towle (RNZ): Victoria University slammed over job ads
Benedict Collins (RNZ): I did not snort fake coke, says Health Minister
Employment
Donal Curtin (Economics NZ): Hard core unemployment
No Right Turn: Key: Sack the people and employ another
Samantha Gee (Stuff): Unfairly treated workers still waiting for payouts, ERA powerless
Tao Lin (Stuff): NZ businesses need to overcome bias about Maori – Westpac
Ethnicity Issues
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand warned against 'overt racism' of Australia and other nations
Marama Stephens (Sparrowhawk/Karearea): The Māori in the Room
Other
Phil Bagshaw (Stuff): New Zealand's declining health care system is slipping behind other countries'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Elective Surgery
Colin James: The hysteresis effect and what it means to politics
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): A day on the selfie-less campaign trail
Pete George (Your NZ): Shutting down Whale Oil “not that far off”
Fiona Rotherham (Business Desk): Transparency on executive remuneration has pushed up the cost, director Tony Carter says
Kate Newton (RNZ): NZ eyes Europe's €13bn tax ruling against Apple
Chris Trotter (Stuff): New Zealand needs a patron to grow its economy
Liam Dann (Herald): Are we too gloomy about the economy?
Gareth Morgan: Closing Tax Loopholes for Business and Farmers
Robert Jones (Herald): Our infrastructure will struggle to keep up with demands of rapid population growth
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Is New Zealand about to sign away 30 per cent of our EEZ to no-fishing zones?
Paul McBeth (NBR): TPP deal still a possibility – Key
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