Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 05 December 2017 – Today’s content
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.
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Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Employment and work for the dole
Dominion Post Editorial: The hard politics of work for the dole schemes
NZ Herald editorial: Jones’ work scheme deserves a chance
ODT Editorial: Working yourself off the couch
Southland Times Editorial: Circle the couches, guys
Max Towle (The Wireless): A town that hopes Shane Jones can deliver the jobs he’s promising
Tom Furley (RNZ): Unemployed in Northland: ‘I was doing everything I could’
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Work for the dole scheme will be a test for Shane Jones
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Conflict and confusion over Government’s tree-planting scheme
Dan Satherley (Newshub): ‘Work-for-the-dole’ plans actually ‘work-for-minimum-wage’ – Ardern
1News: NZ First’s push for work for the dole scheme causes tension in coalition government
1News: ‘You’re asking me to jump the gun’ – Jacinda Ardern cagey on forcing those on benefits into work
1News: Shane Jones’ work-for-the-dole proposal ‘precarious and insecure’ employment – poverty action group
Dean Nathan (Māori TV): Jones calls for ‘work for dole’ scheme
1News: ‘It’s a talk-back radio public policy solution’ – work-for-the-dole scheme drawing skepticism
Richard Harman (Politik): Shane Jones and Willie Jackson agree (and disagree) on Maori unemployment
RNZ: Young beneficiaries have ‘chaotic lives’ – English
Northland Age: Shane Jones’s employment scheme faces uphill battle
Herald: Just Water CEO Tony Falkenstein says job hunters failing to show
Stuff: How much are NZ households earning from wages and salaries?
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Poverty and inequality won’t be challenged by Tax working group
Government
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Shane Jones: The billion dollar man
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Jacinda Ardern’s greatest challenge may be the egos in her own cabinet
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Coalition Cabinet MIA, Shane Jones goes rogue
Colin James (ODT): A population challenge bigger than just numbers
Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern ‘will absolutely co-operate with the Ombudsman’ over unreleased coalition document
RNZ: ‘Demonstrable difference’ in OIA delays – ombudsman
Herald: Ombudsman steps in over unreleased coalition document, asks PM for response
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Shane Jones knew exactly who he was talking to and why Labour will fight to stop coalition document from being released
The Standard: Making official Information flow again
Parliament
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Todd Barclay’s holiday won’t result in law change – Jacinda Ardern
Newswire: 34 MPs receive $40,000 ‘golden handshake’
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Trans-Tasman on the new MPs
Ken Orr (Stuff): Should the Parliamentary Prayer Be Amended?
Education
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt to detail free year of tertiary plan
David Cohen (RNZ): Is NZ in danger of being too educated?
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Former senior staff member asks Education Minister Chris Hipkins for Wintec probe
Karoline Tuckey (Manawatu Standard): Professors say planned staff cuts will dent Massey University’s reputation
Simon Collins (Herald): NZQA agrees to talk about controversial maths exam
Rosie Gordon (Newstalk ZB): Students left in tears after funding cut to training provider
Michael Fallow (Stuff): Dowie assails Govt’s post-secondary funding plans
Health
Karen Brown (RNZ): Health Minister David Clark on director-general’s resignation
Herald: Health Minister sets up urgent expert group to examine system
Stuff: Government to urgently establish new health advisory group
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Director-General of Health steps down, hunt for new health boss starts
Herald: Director General of Health Chai Chuah resigns
RNZ: Director-general of health quits
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Clark pushes out Chuah
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Disgraced Waikato boss claimed DHB merger credit
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Waikato health chief had bid for new medical school in Canada
Mandy Te (Central Leader): Tax on highly processed foods needed on top of sugar tax, Exercise NZ says
Mike Wesley-Smith (Newshub): UN involved in Manawatu abuse investigation
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Navy veteran who won compensation battle after linking his Parkinson’s to chemical exposure speaks out for first time
Graham Adams (Noted): Who speaks for doctors on euthanasia?
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Watching my uncle die – and his mood swings – confirmed my opposition to euthanasia
Environment
David Fisher (Herald): Conservation minister opposes GM-rodent plan
David Fisher (Herald): The Big Read: What happened when one expert killer was visited by the US military’s science agency
Ged Cann (Stuff): How plastic bags clog our seas and kill birds, turtles and sea mammals
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government bans production and sale of all microbeads
Herald: Microbeads ban announced by Government
Jamie Morton (Herald): Waitakeres rahui keeping people away – iwi
David Hall (Briefing Papers): Changing climate, changing minds
Patrick Barkham (Guardian): Clean, green New Zealand is a lie – and a warning for Britain’s countryside
Primary industries
James Paul (Stuff): Nash coy on fisheries changes, after report calls for major overhaul
RNZ: Robots could soon take over dangerous forestry jobs
Media
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): RNZ: From Red Radio To Celebrity Radio Spinoff
Newstalk ZB: Leighton Smith to retire, Kerre McIvor to take over Newstalk ZB morning slot
Herald: Leighton Smith calls it a day next year after provoking punters for a generation
Duncan Grieve (Spinoff): A farewell to Leighton Smith, NZ radio’s crankiest uncle
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): TVNZ stretched in lower South Island as reporter quits
Housing
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Government backs Wellington City Council’s plans for a capital housing strategy
Joe Jeffries (Spinoff): Build, build, build: Why housing supply matters
David Hargreaves (Interest): If Phil Twyford follows through on the sentiments then the housing sector may be facing an even bigger shake up than people realise
Australia
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Australian deportation rules are ‘like Trump’s Mexican border’
Katarina Williams (Stuff): A quarter of Kiwis deported from Australia in the past two years have reoffended
Katherine Murphy (Guardian): Turnbull government scrambles after losing vote on New Zealand refugee offer
RNZ: Turnbull govt revokes temporarily passed refugee motion
Herald: Manus refugees prefer NZ to resettlement in US
Conan Young (RNZ): Are Manus Island asylum seekers a threat to Australia?
Pike River
Laura Walters (Stuff): Pike River Recovery Agency chief executive liable if re-entry goes wrong, not Andrew Little
David Williams (Newsroom): Solid Energy’s forlorn hope over Pike re-entry
Police
Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Police recruitment video reaches 14 million people, with over 1000 signing up
No Right Turn: Our police are still rotten
Te reo Māori
Kris Taylor (RNZ): The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): How should we respond to Don Brash’s criticism of Te Reo on Radio NZ
Brian Edwards:An Apology
CTV building collapse
Michael Wright (Stuff): Victims’ families to protest lack of charges over CTV building collapse
1News: ‘Come and stand in solidarity’ – Families to protest police decision not to prosecute over CTV building collapse
RNZ: Protest planned over CTV decision
Christchurch
Herald: PM Jacinda Ardern announces urgent legislation for ChristChurch Cathedral
Stuff: Urgent Christchurch Cathedral legislation to be introduced to Parliament
RNZ: Govt to fast-track Cathedral rebuild
1News: Watch: Protesters wearing mock prison clothes march through Christchurch mall over quake claims
Julian Lee (Stuff): ChristchurchNZ boss sounds alarm on anchor projects pace
Cycleways
Mike Hosking (Herald): Why cycleways lead only to frustration, anger, protest and ill-will
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Anti-cycleway protester compares opponent to the Nazis
Other
Ric Stevens (Press Editorial): Regional decline means it is time to think beyond just economic development
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Pay rises and rates increases
Nicole Moreham (Newsroom): Where private ends and public begins
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Budget blowout: Great War Exhibition leaves ministry in debt
Karl du Fresne: A rampant culture of entitlement
Chris Trotter (Stuff): How politicians exploit Māori dysfunction to weaponise Pākehā racism
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Competition watchdog could get power to conduct probes without Government approval
David McLean (Stuff): We need more women at the top
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Why NZ is missing out on a $900m per year economic boost
essie Chiang (RNZ): Kiwibank closure: ‘I feel as if I’ve been issued a death sentence’
Herald: Jacinda Ardern ends engagement speculation
Stuff: PM Jacinda Ardern quashes speculation she got engaged at the weekend]]>
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