The main issues in NZ politics today are drink driving rules, the 'roast busters', Chorus, SkyCity, GCSB, and Maori politics. [Read more below]
Today’s links
Drink driving
Michael Forbes and Olivia Wannan (Stuff): New limit won't touch the sides
Dominion Post: Editorial: Drink law a sound step
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Rule won't hit 'moderate' drinkers
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behavior): .05
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The drink driving limit
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): The New Puritanism of 0.05 [updated]
Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): Nanny State's New Wowser Blood Alcohol Limit
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Alcohol's awful superpower - road toll edition
Pete George (Your NZ): Drink driving changes proposed
‘Roast Busters’
Grant Shimmin (Timaru Herald): Editorial: Stop this outrage now
Patrick Gower (TV3): Govt weighs toughening cyber bullying bill
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Cyber-bullying law doesn't address core issue – Cunliffe
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Don't be a vigilante, says Collins
TVNZ: Cyber bullying bill introduced amid Roast Busters fury
Newswire: Govt under pressure over sexual crime law
TVNZ: Law change would target Roast Busters copycats
Herald: Roast Busters: 'Violence will not be tolerated' – police
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Laws to lock-up cyber bullies
No Right Turn: A massive police failure
Tim Selwyn (Tumeke): NZ Police: Rape club patrons since 2011
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What Roast Busters has taught us and why Radio Live! is making it worse
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Too stupid to breed – Roast Busters
Mark Hubbard (Life Behind the Iron Drape): Free Speech Versus Cyber Bullying Law: The Roast Busters (Rapists).
Chorus
Herald: Editorial: Govt must bite the bullet on copper pricing
Adam Bennett (Herald): PM won't rule out Chorus intervention
Hamish Fletcher (Herald): Broadband blow-up: Chorus talks 'default event'
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Broadband price ruling worry
Newswire: Commission cedes ground on broadband
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A suggestion for the Government
Greg Presland (The Standard): Does Key want to nationalise Chorus Soviet style?
Sky City
David Fisher (Stuff): Casino risks kept a secret
Peter Wilson (Newswire): SkyCity bill passes second reading
Radio NZ: SkyCity bill passes second reading
Peter Wilson (Newswire): Opposition targets convention centre bill
The Standard: Gambling harm: “commercially sensitive”
GCSB
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Spying bill passes into law
Newstalk ZB: Controversial spying law passes third reading
Newswire: Telco interception bill becomes law
Adam Bennett (Herald): Warning as second part of spy bill passes
Chris Barton (Herald): Am I bovvered?
Labour Party
ODT: Insurance and risk
Ele Ludemann (Homepaddock): Cunliffe chickens out, Norman steps in
Alan Papprill (The Irascible Curmudgeon): The Line in the Sand
Len Brown
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Chuang confirmed she was in a relationship with Brown when he acted as a referee
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Not in a relationship!
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Front? For what?
Pete George (Your NZ): Brown, Chuang and the job reference
Marriage equality
Newswire: Same-sex marriages pass 100 mark
Stuff: Over 100 same sex marriages already
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Marriages and Unions
Christchurch rebuild
Charles Anderson (Stuff): Brownlee defends EQC performance
Glenn Conway (Stuff): EQC report echoes long-standing complaints
Adam Bennett (Herald): EQC performance 'mixed' - Auditor-General report
Stuff: Damning report into EQC practices
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): It’s the Anglican Church, not Gerry, who decided on the Cathedral
Maori politics
Radio NZ: Maori Party criticises delay in report on Te Urewera raids
Willie Jackson (RadioLIVE): Rihanna's ink and Beyonce's haka
Stuff: Iwi irate at Anadarko oil prospecting plans
Vernon Small (Stuff): Tariana Turia set to go
Radio NZ: Turia annoyed with Labour MP's comments
Simon Hendery (Hawke’s Bay Today): Iwi: Dam should be scaled back
Felix Marwick (Newstalk ZB): Tariana Turia: I am still standing down
Edward Ellison (ODT): Ngai Tahu plays the long game
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Who will cut a deal with MANA first? The Maori Party or Labour?
Housing
3 News Online Staff: Restrictions not cooling market – Harcourts
Josh Martin Stuff): Auckland housing market eases
Matthew Backhouse (Herald): Housing costs high, pay low
Other
Stuff: Today in politics: Wednesday, November 6
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Adams ignores EPA advice over water inquiry head
Adam Bennett (Herlad): Key wins on horses, collects on pokies
Rachel Glucina (Herald): The Diary: Key pins down pearler of a pre-election coup
John Minto (Daily Blog): Why John Key must not go to Sri Lanka
Chris Ford (Voxy): Vive La Republica! Is John Key desperate for a Prince William and Prince Kate royal visit?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Achtung – sugar must be banned
No Right Turn: How... convenient
No Right Turn: This is what happens if you underfund public services
David Kennedy (Local Bodies): Roads, PPPs and DDDs
Sue Kedgley (Herald): Elderly Kiwis in care deserve national watchdog
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): A brief angry word on Auckland Uni gutting 50% of their Arts courses
