The Sunday Newspaper Brunch Club

On the Sunday Newspaper Brunch Club today at 11am, Sky Digital 65, Wallace Chapman from Kiwi FM Breakfast and Ben Thomas from the NBR

News that caught my eye –
News that Caught my eye
1: Fairfax Poll at the beginning of the week - labour 40% - National 45%

2: The EFB - Anonymous Donations hit - The Herald still claiming issues

3: Police complaint - albiet 8 years late - that protestors were wrongly stopped from protesting against the 1999 visit of the chinese leaders

4: Clint Rickards 'resigns'

5: Case of Father hitting his kid

6: Saudia Arabia and the raped girl woman about to get 200 lashes

STORY 1 - Rudd Wins - HOS
How dirty did this election get with Liberal candidates sending out bogus leaflets?

STORY 2: OUTRAGE AS TEEN CRIMS LET OFF THE HOOK - SST
Thousands of teen offenders may escape being dealt with by an adult court under moves to lift the minimum age from 17 to 18. The government is drafting law changes to bring New Zealand into line with a United Nations convention. O'conner says that we are just doing it to stay in line with the UN - he wasn't complainging when that's what we were doing with the TSA

STORY 3: Qantas TV awards - SST
Robyn Maclom - Best TV Drama Actress
Antony Starr - Best Actor
Outragous Fortune - Peoples Choice
3 News - Best News
Duncan Garner - Best TV Journalist
60 Minutes - Best Current Affairs
LET US SPRAY - Best Investigation
Mark Sainsbury - Best Presenter
Sunday - Best Weekly Current Affairs
Pulp Sport - Best Comedy

STORY 4: Legal Aid Row for Bain - HOS
A question mark is hanging over David Bain's murder retrial after claims inadequate legal aid funding has been made available to fight the charges.
The row is expected to delay the case, which had been scheduled for May next year - and his legal team has warned "a worst-case scenario" could be that Bain fights the charges without any legal representation at all.
The Legal Services Agency has rejected an application by Bain's defence team for more legal aid funding, claiming while the trial is "complex", it is no more complex than other trials it has funded in the past.
Currently Bain has legal aid funding for lead counsel Michael Reed, QC, Helen Cull, QC, lawyer Paul Morton and supporter Joe Karam.
The request was to provide funding to increase the defence team by another four solicitors, who would primarily be employed to help analyse the more than 100,000 pages of evidence.
Adding to the cost of the trial is the number of defence witnesses Bain's legal team plans to call. In the original trial there were only three, including Bain - for the retrial, up to 100 are expected to be called.
The Crown has a team of detectives, three firms of solicitors and research and administrative staff working on the retrial. The whole case is expected to cost taxpayers up to $15 million, with around $4 million of that devoted to legal aid. An extra four defence counsel would add at least a further $500,000 to the total bill.

FINAL WORD: Owen Polland winning the 'taking Paul Henrys Foot in mouth for the team award'.