NZ POLITICS DAILY: January 30 2015
NZ POLITICS DAILY: January 30 2015
Today’s content
Russel Norman resigns as Greens co-leader
Stuff: Green Party co-leader Russel Norman resigns
Simon Wong and Angela Beswick (TV3): Green co-leader Russel Norman standing down
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Thoughts on Russel Norman’s retirement and Green Party leadership
Rob Hosking (NBR): Green Party leadership: the Norman bequest (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets about Russel Norman’s resignation
Audrey Young (Herald): Russel Norman resigns as Greens co-leader
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Russel Norman steps down
Chris Keall (NBR): Russel Norman resigns as Green co-leader
No Right Turn: Bugger
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Russel Norman is gone – long live Russel Norman
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Opposition leader stepping down
Rob Salmond (Polity): Russel Norman
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Russel Norman resigns
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Russel Norman resigns as co-leader of the Green Taliban
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): Top tweets wildly speculating on mystery Green Party announcement
Mike Sabin resigns from Parliament
Andrea Vance (Stuff): National MP Mike Sabin quits
Herald: Prime Minister John Key still to address Northland MP Mike Sabin
No Right Turn: An untenable position
State of the Nation speeches
Andrea Vance and Laura Walters (Stuff): Prime Minister John Key pushes state house sales plan
TVNZ: Community providers fear lack of money to buy state houses
Tova O’Brien (TV3): John Key defends hoxusing sell-off
RNZ: Maori Party says iwi should have right of refusal
Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons (Dom Post): Give voluntary providers a fair go
Taranaki Daily News: Editorial: Only time will tell on 'social' housing
Gareth Morgan (Gareth’s World): Why we shouldn’t fear the sale of state houses (if it is done well)
The Standard: John Key’s housing announcement
RNZ: No profiteering on state house plan says Key
TV3: Andrew Little's speech under the microscope
Toby Manhire (Herald): Look at the state we're in
Patrick Gower (TV3): Holiday over as Key, Little deliver speeches
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Andrew Little in testing times
Rob Salmond (Polity): Speech-off
Anthony Robins (Standard): Forgetting what the game is for
Lewis Holden: Interesting numbers
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Is Labour trying to save state baches?
Housing
RNZ: House prices more out of reach
Herald: Housing affordability fell 14 per cent last year
Richard Meadows (Stuff): Supply of low-equity home loans jumps
Gareth Morgan (Gareth’s World): The housing crisis has nothing to do with the RMA
Tom Furley (RNZ): Call for building regulation review
Malcolm Rands (Herald): Housing with emphasis on homeliness
Eleanor Catton
Patrice Dougan (Herald): Eleanor Catton's dad phones Sean Plunket's show over 'ungrateful hua' comment
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim-Post): Back to two-track
Oliver Chan (Fine Tooth Column): Tall Poppies and Tiaras
Matthew Dallas (Stuff): Manawatu Standard: Editorial – Eleanor Catton's candour does New Zealand proud
ODT: Editorial: Debating issues openly, fairly
Dom Post: Editorial: A writer's patriotic duty is to be honest
John Minto (Mana News): The New Zealand media dictatorship
Morgan Godfery (Overland): Burn the witch: on the attacks against Eleanor Catton
Paul Thomas (Herald): Shedding light on 'The Luminaries' stoush
Pete George (Your NZ): Free speech works both ways Mr Little
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): The Luminaries fails to win local baking award due to tall poppy syndrome
Glen Scanlon (Radio NZ): Cattongate: Let the book do the talking
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Eleanor Catton is half right and why Key keeps going up in the polls
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Did you hear the one about the novelist and the PM?
Elizabeth Kuruvilla (Live Mint): Eleanor Catton: In the last year, I’ve struggled with my identity as a New Zealand writer
Pike River
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Smith charters helicopter from Pike River funds
Thomas Mead and Dan Satherley (TV3): Govt backs Great Walk track for Pike River Mine
Economy
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Talk of interest rate cuts shows stark change in economic landscape
RNZ: NZ Super Fund now worth $27.5bn
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ 3rd for economic freedom
Other
Peter O'Connor (Herald): Schools chance to bridge class gap
John Drinnan (Herald): Frenemies co-operate on news
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Seymour on inequality stats
TVNZ: NZ's relationship with Fiji thaws, military ties resume
Herald: Roger Sutton receives low-key farewell
Olivia Allison (RNZ): Science and public hold divergent views
Herald: Editorial: Prince Philip and Key win - Abbott loses
RNZ: NZ set to become fattest country - surgeon
Mike Hosking (Herald): Let's do the decent thing by David Bain
RNZ: Settlements 'go some way to righting wrongs'
Pete George (Your NZ): The New Zealand media dictatorship
Eric Campton (Offsetting Behaviour): Student Visas revisited
TVNZ: Govt cops flak over $100m cycleways plan
Brian Rudman (Herald): Get real, Len, and look at the trams
Bryce Edwards
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