Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 14 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.
[caption id="attachment_297" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] The Beehive and Parliament Buildings.[/caption]
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Euthanasia
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Parliament votes on assisted dying
Dan Satherley and Giles Dexter (Newshub): Assisted dying: ‘Fear, uncertainty and doubt’ campaign ahead – Seymour
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Assisted dying Bill passes first reading in New Zealand Parliament
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Big vote in favour of euthanasia bill
RNZ: Euthanasia bill passes first reading
David Farrar (KIwiblog): End of Life Choice Bill passes first reading
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Euthanasia support gets boost after referendum pledge
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Changes to euthanasia bill to court NZ First vote
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Five hundred emails in an afternoon: Euthanasia debate heats up
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Aussie right-to-life group lobbies NZ politicians against euthanasia
1News: Bill English scathing of euthanasia bill ahead of today’s potential vote: ‘It’s a very bad piece of legislation’
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Hosking says send euthanasia bill to a referendum
Child welfare and poverty
Jared Savage (Herald): Moko inquest: Red flags missed, Coroner wants compulsory checks on children under 5
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Beef up Well Child Tamariki Ora to fight child neglect – Children’s Commissioner
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Coroner investigating Moko Rangitoheriri’s horrific death calls for all children to be monitored by government agencies
Grant Chapman and Mike McRoberts (Newshub): Coroner challenges PM Ardern, Government after Moko inquest
Edward Gay and Joanna MacKenzie (RNZ): Child, Youth and Family blind to Moko warning signs
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Moko Rangitoheriri: Never more invisible, never more let down
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): There must never be another baby Moko
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On vulnerable kids, fresh RNZ funding, and Poppy
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Are we really sad KidsCan is getting dumped? Really?
1News: ‘We are seeing more need’ – Kidscan alarmed at prospect of $350,000 funding cut
International relations
Matt Nippert (Herald): GCSB and SIS table China’s influence at Five Eyes meeting
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Nations question terms of their friendship with China
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Australian Government ‘being overly sensitive’
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Is Australia being too sensitive on Manus? ‘Yes’ – PM
Ben Doherty (Guardian): Barnaby Joyce says New Zealand should ‘back off’ on offer to resettle refugees
RNZ: Cooks to lobby New Zealand over pension portability
RNZ: New Zealand aid to Tokelau needs to count – academic
Education
RNZ: ‘Schools shouldn’t be finance companies’ – Principal
RNZ: ‘Teacher crisis’: Aides standing in for registered staff
RNZ: Govt unveils $9.5m package to tackle teacher shortage
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): $9.5mil teachers package will support more Māori teachers – Kelvin Davis
Simon Collins (Herald): Labour cuts National’s planned teacher bonus
Jo Moir (Stuff): Government teacher supply package targets Auckland teachers and hard-to-fill subject areas
1News: Government sets up new emergency fund to halt looming teacher shortage
The Standard: National’s Standards
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Karori community ‘losing a lot’ with campus sale
Paul Barkle (Infometrics): Fees-free tertiary education: right problem, wrong answer?
Budget and economy
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Labour’s early Christmas present for families, beneficiaries
Audrey Young (Herald): Government set to implement centre-piece of campaign but National says it’s too narrow
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Money for families needs focus, not a free-for-all
Newshub: Govt’s spending priorities to be revealed
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Why so secretive?
Defence
Richard Harman (Politik): The 38 per cent Defence budget blowout
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Battle over ‘blowout’ in Anzac frigate costs
RNZ: Govt to keep frigate contractor despite soaring cost
Mei Heron (RNZ): Frigates’ costs blowout by $265m
TOP
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Gareth Morgan ends the ‘farce’ of trying to get into Parliament
The Wireless: Gareth Morgan will resign as leader of TOP
Laura Walters (Stuff): Gareth Morgan won’t lead TOP into 2020 election
RNZ: Gareth Morgan to stand down from TOP leadership
Herald: TOP to fight next election, minus Morgan
Election and 2017 in review
Spinoff: 2017 in politics: The champs and the flops
Victoria University: Jacinda Ardern – PM against the odds
Claire Trevett (Herald): National and its Frankenstein’s monster
Environment
Rachel Stewart (Spinoff): What gives with the chief scientist of the Environmental Protection Agency?
Grant McLauchlan (Herald): Environmental watchdog sorely needed
Charles Anderson (Spinoff): ‘They are going after the last fish’: Michael Field on the race for Pacific tuna
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): More complaints emerge on conditions at water bottling plant
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Editorial: Climate change to transform farming
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Kea recognised as endangered on red list of globally threatened species
Public service CEO pay
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Change on the cards for State Service
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): ‘Enough with the big pay hikes’
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Public sector boss warns escalating CEO pay is ‘not sustainable’
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Crown CEOs paid too much – Commissioner
Herald: Government may change law to curb state sector bosses’ pay rises
Health
RNZ: Mental health inquiry must be independent – advocates
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Most DHBs keep no records on self harm in respite care
RNZ: Funding for Māori and Pasifika youth mental health research
Jake Fitzgibbon (Stuff): One in five elderly New Zealanders say they are lonely, study says
RNZ: Wgtn Airport confirms toxic compounds not used
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Alarm raised over doctors’ ‘culture of entitlement’
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Law to ban foreign home buyers to be introduced in Parliament, passed in new year
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Legislation to ban foreigners from buying existing homes will be introduced tomorrow
RNZ: Bill banning foreign home-buyers to be introduced
RNZ: November house sales rebound, with record prices in 7 regions
Herald: Families in Papamoa emergency housing before Christmas
Robin Martin (RNZ): Waitara residents face massive lease hikes
RNZ: Housing ‘halo’ effect shines a light on new hotspot
Primary industries
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Plan to revive Forestry Service not out of the woods
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fisheries, forestry, biosecurity and food safety have new ‘entities’
Newshub: MPI gets rearranged into four agencies
Herald: MPI to be re-organised into four by early 2018 – O’Connor
Audrey Young (Herald): Strict tests announced for New Zealand manuka honey exports under new MPI rules
The Country (Herald): Listen: Jacinda Ardern on Mycoplasma bovis – ‘we’ve got to contain this’
Food and inequality
RNZ: Pumpkin and kumara prices skyrocket
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Wet weather has led to skyrocketing prices for pumpkin and kumara
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): We want tinned tomatoes, Hamilton’s Salvation Army says
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Give generously – but please no tinned tomatoes or chickpeas, say charities
Ryan Bridge (Newshub): Charities ask Kiwis to donate more than second hand goods or tinned vegetables
Justice
Alistair Paulin (Press Editorial): We should care about prisoners more than we care about dogs in a hot car
RNZ: Indians, Chinese demand action on crime
Auckland
Todd Niall (RNZ): Government’s America’s Cup plan deemed too costly and difficult
RNZ: Exemptions to visitor rate strip $1.9m from expected take
Todd Niall (RNZ): Almost 33,000 face 10% rates rises
Other
David Williams (Newsroom): CTV families’ last-ditch plea to police
Herald: Government to launch independent inquiry into pipeline failure
RNZ: Govt inquiry into country’s fuel supply
BusinessDesk (Newsroom): IRD to get tougher overseas powers
Herald: Public media should put people, place and planet before profit – report
No Right Turn: More dubious behaviour from the SIS
Russell Brown (Public Address): Public Address Word of the Year 2017
John Boynton (RNZ): Auckland iwi find common ground
Liz McDonald (Press): EQC bungles could force elderly Christchurch woman to sleep in car
Northern Advocate: Don Brash at Whangarei play to learn why te reo should be spoken more]]>
- Analysis
- Bryce Edwards
- Critical Politics
- journalism
- Media
- Media Intelligence
- MIL Syndication
- MIL-OSI
- News Media
- NZ Politics
- Pacific Region