Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 13 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).
SIS
Dominion Post Editorial: Watchdog bites the SIS for acting illegally
David Fisher (Herald): Spies ‘unlawfully’ accessed data then refused to talk about it properly – oversight body
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): SIS criticised by government watchdog over ‘unlawfully accessing’ information
No Right Turn: The SIS breaks the law again
Government
Newshub: How the Government is tracking halfway through its first 100 days
Laura Walters (Stuff): Chief Ombudsman’s provisional ruling on secret coalition doc says it’s not ‘official’
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Ombudsman backs govt over coalition document
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Ombudsman rejects report he sided with Government over secret document
No Right Turn: Not official information
Karl du Fresne (Stuff): A new Government exercises the levers of power
Richard Harman (Politik): The Government gets ideological
Herald: British medical journal holds up PM Jacinda Ardern as example of voice against free markets
Greg Presland (Standard): The Herald thinks Jacinda Ardern is a Marxist
Newshub: New Government ‘not quite gelling’ – Chris Trotter
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Two BIMs and a bureaucrat
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): As republic debate reignites, what would it take for NZ to go it alone?
Stuff: Reader report: New Zealand needs its own head of state
2017 in review
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Māori Politics 2017 – wins and losses
Guy Williams (Stuff): Government-changing Metiria Turei is my Kiwi of the year
Parliament
Audrey Young (Herald): Willie Jackson gets caught out on basic question
1News: ‘You’re beginning to try my patience’ – weird ruling stops Stuart Nash speaking in House, gets him scolding from Speaker
1News: Watch: Look who’s back! Smiling Sir John Key makes low-key return to the House
Newshub: Former Prime Minister Sir John Key spotted in Parliament
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Beyond three-year cycles: The change Jacinda Ardern wants
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Wellington teen puts the country’s newest MPs under the microscope
Māori Party
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): O’Sullivan wants sole Māori Party leadership position
Stuff: Dr Lance O’Sullivan wants solo Māori Party leadership position
Rachel Smalley (Herald): Why Lance O’Sullivan should be the sole leader of the Maori Party
Reserve Bank
Herald Editorial: New RB Governor should work well with Labour
Liam Dann (Herald): Adrian Orr seen as a politically savvy choice as Reserve Bank governor
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Adrian Orr breathes new life into influential role
Economy
Pattrick Smellie (Listener): Does low business confidence foreshadow an economic downturn?
Jamie Gray (Herald): Finance Minister Grant Robertson faces cooling economy at first mini-budget
International relations and MFAT
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): Time to discuss China’s soft power in NZ
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): China’s influence back in the spotlight
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Australia ‘most pervasive influence’ on NZ – Bill English
RNZ: English: NZ has always dealt with foreign influence
Victoria University (Newsroom): Three ways NZ can improve its China literacy
The Standard: Why Malcolm Turnbull is nearly right
Audrey Young (Herald): Barnaby Joyce warns Jacinda Ardern to ‘stay away’ from Manus Island issue
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Exploit NZ’s leverage in Iraq, says expert
Andrea Vance (1News): MFAT mistake costs Kiwi taxpayers $262,000
Environment
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Government to release long-delayed sea level rules
Herald: Coastal developments ‘dumb’ in face of rising seas, says Climate Change Minister James Shaw
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): ‘It’s just so dangerous’: Squalid conditions reported at water bottling plant
Herald: Proposal to take water from Murupara lacking detail: Council
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): NZ Super among big investors pressuring climate polluters
Terrence Loomis (Daily Blog): Ending Our Reliance on the Oil and Gas Industry – Fossil Fuels Aotearoa Research Network
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Northland’s Maitai Bay faces seafood ban to replenish stocks
Ellie Hooper (Noted): Going beyond plastic bags: The next step in the fight to save our oceans
Education
Newshub: National Standards has sent kids’ education backwards – Chris Hipkins
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers leaving Auckland for cheaper houses
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Four in five NZ schools could stop asking families for donations, survey shows
Simon Collins (Herald): Treasury warns of ‘gap’ in school data without national standards
Peter Lyons (ODT): NCEA’s main lesson: do just enough to suffice
Derek McCormack (Herald): Society needs graduates as well as trades people
Water
Brian Rudman (Herald): Douse the water deniers
ODT Editorial: Getting to grips with our water
1News: Infrastructure think tank calls for a single nation-wide water authority in NZ
Health
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Cancer patients in New Zealand waiting months for treatment as hospitals struggle to cope
Tom Furley (RNZ): Whangarei Hospital blood bank’s accreditation suspended
Stuff: New medicinal marijuana legislation to spark debate in the House
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Medical cannabis legislation to get rolling next week
Stephen Blyth (Spinoff): It’s going to take more than a referendum to sort out NZ’s drugs issues
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Surgical mesh ban a ‘knee-jerk reaction’ that may hurt women: Doctors
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): Doctors say blanket restriction of surgical mesh not the way to go
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Most DHBs keep no records on self harm in respite care
Herald: Maori more likely subjected to mental health treatment, placed in seclusion
Euthanasia
Newshub: Euthanasia Bill likely to be debated on Wednesday
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Assisted dying: Politicians draw on their own consciences
Claire Trevett (Herald): MPs takes sides as euthanasia bill heads to vote
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Euthanasia bill campaign launched
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Battle lines being drawn over euthanasia as campaign for law change begins
Laura Walter (Herald): Contentious euthanasia bill to be debated, voted on
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): For terminally ill patients euthanasia is very real
Mike Hosking (Herald): Euthanasia debate needs a referendum, not MPs
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Which voters most support euthanasia?
Employment
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): Focus on real jobs with security, forget ‘bludgers’ rhetoric
Mkke Treen (Daily Blog): Open letter to Russel Creedy from Unite over Alternative holiday theft
Child welfare
Ella Predergast (Newshub): National won’t join child poverty conversation unless Govt ‘shows it’s serious’ – Bill English
Newshub: Government blames KidsCan funding woes on National
RNZ: Minister says KidsCan funding a process, not a guarantee
Newshub: KidsCan CEO, Minister for Children at odds over ‘funding cut’
RNZ: KidsCan may lose govt funding: ‘Children will go hungry’
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Losing focus on ‘vulnerable’ could cost lives: Bill English
Other
Max Towle (RNZ): Why is our prison population booming and how can we fix things?
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Man accused of live-baiting greyhounds had been investigated before
Todd Niall (RNZ): Wishlist: Goff wants govt to kick in for new stadium
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Twyford chases an illusory pot of gold
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Wairarapa says no to council amalgamation
Ric Stevens (Press): Council should ignore consultation results and give Cathedral restoration $10 million
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How does NZ do with atheists?
Herald: Revealed: PM’s Secret Santa wish
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): Former PM Helen Clark honoured with home-town doctorate
Herald: Helen Clark receives honorary doctorate from Waikato University
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Government’s claim to KiwiSaver savings is a myth that continues
Leanne Italie (Stuff): Merriam-Webster dictionary’s word of the year for 2017: ‘Feminism’]]>
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