Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 20 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).
Housing, KiwiBuild and foreign house buyer ban
Nicholas Jones (Herald):KiwiBuild to get underway – attacked as a ‘slogan’ by National
Henry Cooke (Stuff): First KiwiBuild homes ready in mid-2018, Phil Twyford hopes
1News: Watch: ‘She’s not building 100,000’ – Bill English accuses Jacinda Ardern of fudging election housing promise
Newswire:Government takes first steps in setting up KiwiBuild housing programme
Laura Walters (Stuff): Govt says $5k housing grant isn’t working, National says they’re just desperate for cash
Herald: Axe falls on Auckland relocation grant – despite helping 500 families
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government one step closer to banning foreign house buyers
Nicholas Jones (Herald):Overseas buyer ban rushed through amid fierce debate
Nicholas Jones (Herald); Twyford slams ‘moral panic’ on meth testing state houses
Herald: Property makes Kiwis wealth surge to $1.5 trillion over last decade: Statistics NZ
David Hargreaves (Interest): Statistics New Zealand says investment in houses made up nearly a third of all kiwis’ investment in the past year
Baz Macdonald and Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): Twyford wants new meth testing standards
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Quarter of Auckland state houses overcrowded
Media and thwarted Fairfax-NZME merger
Richard Harman (Politik): Political journalism in an unquiet time
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): The Endgame begins
Ellen Read and Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): All you need to know about the Fairfax-NZME merger appeal
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Loss of diversity in rejected media merger ‘virtually irreplaceable’
Damien Venuto (Herald): Merger failure clears path for potential sale of Fairfax assets
Donal Curtin (Economics New Zealand): Quick reaction to NZME/Fairfax
Herald: NZME and Fairfax merger appeal rejected by High Court
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Ellen Read (Stuff): Fairfax, NZME merger appeal dismissed
Stuff: BSA says Mike Hosking misled voters with comments on Māori Party
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Seven Sharp taking on John Campbell would be a step back in time, producer says
Medicinal cannabis bill
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Medicinal marijuana bill will be introduced to Parliament today
Herald: Medicinal cannabis bill to be introduced tomorrow
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Medicinal cannabis rules to be loosened by govt
Pete George (Your NZ): A watered down Medical Cannabis bill?
Year in review
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 10 biggest NZ political scandals and scams of 2017
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Long Live The Sun Queen!
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Media person of the year
Jenna Lynch and Isobel Ewing (Newshub): New Zealand’s parliamentary playlist of 2017
Environment and climate change
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On yesterday’s quest for zero net carbon emissions
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Government all talk no walk no climate change
Mike Hosking (Herald): Climate change commission will achieve nothing
No Right Turn: Climate change: The slow boring of hard boards
Henry Cooke (Stuff): James Shaw’s two positions on fossil fuel extraction
Dominion Post: Editorial: Saving the planet with a bit of help from the public
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Ardern and Shaw hope for bi-partisan Carbon Act
Official Information Act
Sam Warburton (The Spinoff): Bluster, waste and delay: the new reality of a rotten OIA
Charlotte Graham (Scoop): I OIA’d every council in NZ and all I got was this headache
RNZ: Ministry for Primary Industries reprimanded over OIA
No Right Turn: OIA dieback infects MPI
Education
Jo Moir (Stuff): Iwi Chairs have questions for the Government over charter school closures
RNZ: Most teachers are using te reo Māori
RNZ: Weak parental support for national standards – survey
NZ Herald editorial: Schools’ discretionary grants still public funds
Briar Lipson (Stuff): Hipkins on right path but achieving an excellence mark for NCEA will need innovative thinking
Todd Barclay
Sam Sachdeva and David Williams (Newsroom): ‘Grounds to suspect’ Barclay made recording: Police
David Fisher (Herald): Todd Barclay refused to co-operate with police three times
Employment
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Unions jump gun on pay equity announcement: Health Minister David Clark
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): For a living wage plus restoring margins for skills and service
Waka jumping bill
RNZ: ‘Waka-jumping’ law plan dangerous – English
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The terrible waka jumping bill
ODT: Editorial – Bill attacks democracy
National Party
Newshub: Judith Collins picks fight with Labour Party meme page on Twitter
Barry Soper (Herald): For National, this year has struck new lows
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): The back of the envelope analysis of what National needs to do to win in 2020
Other
Matt Nippert (Herald): MP Yang lobbied ministers to overturn Security Intelligence Service block
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Willie Jackson: I wanted to destroy the Māori Party
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Police investigator in Japan to explain decision not to prosecute over CTV building collapse
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Online giants escape regulatory probe
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Resigned Opportunities Party candidates start ‘political action group’
Phil Pennington (RNZ): MBIE promises to cut back on consultants
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Finance Minister Robertson names expert panel for Reserve Bank Act review
Frances Cook (Herald): Former premier Helen Clark awarded Japan’s highest award for helping bring two nations closer together
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Helen Clark decorated with top Japanese honours for diplomatic work
Fiona Rae (Listener): Kim Dotcom’s truly bizarre story retold in Caught in the Web
Newsroom: Peters still wants to sue over super leak
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Search on for New Zealand chief technology officer
Graham Adams (Noted): Hollywood scandals, #MeToo and abuse in New Zealand state care
Katherine Granich (Noted): Women are carrying the burden of poverty this Christmas
Ellen Read (Stuff): Rob Fyfe to advise Govt on Pike River re-entry
Rob Stock (Stuff): NZ Super Fund won’t buy recreational cannabis shares
Nadine Higgins (Herald): It’s about time we stood up to Australia
LaQuisha St Redfern (Daily Blog): How Stats NZ Censors Non-binary Gender Identities
David Williams (Newsroom): Census faces paper form shortfall]]>
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