NZ POLITICS DAILY: April 30 2014

Today’s content

Labour’s monetary policy

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Immigration controls to dampen house prices

David Parker and Bill English (Stuff): Head to head: How to fight inflation

Newswire: Labour's monetary plan gains support from NZ First

Pete George (Your NZ): Kiwisaver tool will mostly effect worker’s back pockets

Herald: Editorial: Imaginative policy option to rises in interest rates

Dominion Post: Editorial: Kiwisaver policy a game-changer?

Brian Fallow (Herald): Labour's KiwiSaver 'bun fight'

Brook Sabin (TV3): English: Labour rates policy 'wishful thinking'

Newswire: Labour's monetary plan gets some backing

Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The Soap Box: Labour's logic tough to understand

Adam Bennett (Herald): KiwiSaver plan: who wins, loses

Amanda Gillies (TV3): Self-employed not happy with KiwiSaver proposal

Radio NZ: RBNZ says mortgage controls working

TVNZ: 61% use KiwiSaver payout on holidays

Vernon Small, Niko Kloeten, and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour's KiwiSaver plan 'hits low earners'

Adam Bennett (Herald): Labour to use KiwiSaver to drop dollar

Jenny Woods and Julie Moffett (Newstalk ZB): Labour would tinker with Kiwisaver

TV3: At a Glance: Key points from Labour's monetary policy

Brian Fallow (Herald): Labour's plan looks good

Rachel Stewart (Stuff): OBR policy a scary bank secret

Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Hole found in Labour's KiwiSaver policy

3 News Online Staff (TV3): Caution around proposed Reserve Bank changes

Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour's monetary policy a winner?

Russell Brown (Hard News): A Big Idea

Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On Labour’s new economic plan

David Parker (Daily Blog): GUEST BLOG: David Parker – How Labour will tame interest rates

The Standard: David Parker – Lower interest rates, a more competitive dollar and better jobs from Reserve Bank changes

Matt Nolan (TVHE): Labour and monetary policy

Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Show Me the Monetary Policy! [updated]

No Right Turn: Economic sadomasochism

Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Fixing the reserve bank

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): Labour’s monetary policy

Matthew Beveridge: Labour’s monetary policy graphic

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour proposes a cut in everyone’s after tax income

Tim Watkin (Pundit): Three ways Labour's 'new tool' is digging it out of a hole

Pete George (Your NZ): Labour policies could help property speculators

Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Labour no longer champion of poor

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National’s response to Labour’s monetary policy – since when the hell did National care about low wage earners?

Legal highs

Andrea Vance (Stuff): Legal highs about-face 'a mockery'

Alex Mason (Newstalk ZB): Animal rights groups says testing doesn't work

Dan Satherley (TV3): Key: Animal testing may be forced offshore

Nelson Mail: Editorial: Government failure in legal high debate

Michael Cummings (Manawatu Standard): Highs ban still leaves addiction problem

Tova O’Brien (TV3): Synthetics animal testing debate heats up

David Cunliffe

Herald: Labour's David Cunliffe in military medal mix-up

Radio NZ: Cunliffe corrects medal confusion

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Has Cunliffe got it wrong again?

Greg Presland (The Standard): David Cunliffe’s grandfather’s medals

Defence

Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt announces $100m boost for Defence

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): New defence spending criticized

Briar Marbeck (TV3): Defence Force gets $100.9M funding

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A small boost for Defence

Newswire: Defence Force funding not enough - Labour

Labour Party

Danyl McLauchlan (Dim-Post): What the opposition are up against

Bryan Gould (Herald): Jones knows when to fold 'em

TVNZ: Labour hits back at Shane Jones departure allegations

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Will it be the battle of the broadcasters for Labour’s nomination?

Greg Presland (The Standard): Labour Candidate selections

Radio NZ: Maori electorate deadline extended

National Party

Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Who is National's Todd Barclay?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The new Hunua candidate

Matthew Beveridge: National need to up their game

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): How have the mainstream NZ media missed this?

Simon Wilson (Metro): The liberal Iron Lady

The Standard: Another Quality Selection

Economy

Newswire: No excuses for farmers – Labour

Radio NZ: Unions oppose fortnightly wage shift

Narelle Henson (Stuff): Govt must make businesses go green – researcher

Matt Nippert (Stuff): Staff just want jobs that rock – survey

Liam Dann (Herald): Corporate musical chairs begins again

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A new high for exports

Philip Ferguson (Redline): Thomas Picketty’s ideas reach New Zealand

Justice

Susan Wood (Newstalk ZB): Susan's Editorial: Crime and punishment

Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): National, on Law and Order

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Crime reduction targets on track

ANZAC Day

Tom Peters (WSW): Anzac Day in New Zealand glorifies imperialism, past and present

Newswire: Veterans' children 'over' missing out on centenary

Other

Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, April 30

Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Labour's screening policy criticized

Radio NZ: Ministry manager blamed judges

George Gardiner (Stuff): Another MP walks the catwalk

TV3: At Home with the Leaders: Hone Harawira and his wife Hilda

Stephen Franks: Usefulness of a BA

John Braddock (WSW): New Zealand pseudo-lefts give green light for Mana-Internet Party alliance

Owen McShane (NZCPR): Why we have to learn to love Subdivision – Again

Colin James: Justice as Citizenship

The Standard: Second class citizens. Beggars belief

Newswire: Green Party reveals new conservation plan

Anne Salmond (Herald): Minister wrong to trample student rights