Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 8 January 2018 – 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_15742" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Former Prime Minister, Jim Anderton, NZOM.[/caption]
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Jim Anderton
John-Michael Swannix and Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Jim Anderton ‘saved’ the Labour Party, NZ – Matt McCarten
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Jim Anderton: An unlikely left-wing hero
Herald: Bolger: Anderton’s social justice principles will endure
NZ Herald editorial: Jim Anderton might have been PM but for timing
Laila Harre (Herald): Jim Anderton champion of the most basic Labour values
Herald: Jim Anderton remembered as champion of MMP, Kiwibank, paid parental leave
Simon Collins (Herald): Jim Anderton’s last message: Let’s rebuild trust in governments
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Anderton’s Shakespearean legacy
John Gibb (ODT): Policies seen as Anderton’s legacy
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Anderton’s lasting legacy
Piripi Taylor (Maori TV): A freedom fighter for our people – Sandra Lee-Vercoe
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): James Patrick Anderton 1938 – 2018
Simon Collins (Herald): Feisty to the end: Jim Anderton’s final days
Michael Wright (Stuff): The legacy of Jim Anderton: Former Deputy Prime Minister hailed ‘one of the most highly-principled and idealistic’ politicians
Herald: Helen Clark’s tribute to ‘diligent, kind’ Jim Anderton
Julian Lee and Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Former Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton dies in Christchurch
1News: ‘Jim stood for a kinder, fairer, better New Zealand’ – Helen Clark pays tribute to Jim Anderton
1News: Former Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Anderton has died
Newshub: Jim Anderton dies aged 79
1News: Jim Anderton remembered as a man ‘who stood strongly for what he believed in’
Newstalk ZB: Jim Bolger’s tribute to former political foe: Anderton was ‘a man of principle’
RNZ: Jim Anderton a ‘towering figure’ – PM
Stuff: Tributes flow for former deputy PM Jim Anderton, who has died aged 79
Evening Report: Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton Dies
Herald: Former deputy PM Jim Anderton dies
Newstalk ZB: Mike Williams, Don Brash on Jim Anderton
Gender issues
Kristin Hall (The Spinoff): When will New Zealand finally grow up about boobs?
Alison Mau (Stuff): Don’t waste your breath excusing the Rhythm and Vines groper
Stephanie Rodgers (Boots theory): What did she expect?
Graham Cameron (First we take Manhattan): Hey, saw you grab her breast at Rhythm & Vines. Come on bro, it’s time to apologise
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Nearly 60pc of Kiwi women earn less than their partners
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Does anyone really want anti-abortion death cult booties used for political grand standing?
1News: Women’s refuge experiencing busiest period of the year with services stretched
Sarah Harris (Herald): Gender diverse Kiwis are increasingly changing identification to match
Offensive politics
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): A resolution for the world – park the outrage
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 2017 – The year of Trumpism, resentment kulture & climate change
Herald: Kush Coffee gets push to remove ‘joke’ about women in wheelchairs
Stuff: Golliwogs not harmless, never have been – Human Rights Commission
Herald: Waiheke Island gift shop owner won’t stop selling golliwog dolls
Environment
Bob Kerridge (Stuff): The abhorrence of killing in the name of conservation
Herald: Poll reveals lake, river pollution key concern of Kiwis
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): How climate change could send your insurance costs soaring
Dominion Post: Editorial: China’s refusal to take our rubbish should make us greener
Newshub: Pollution will ‘kill your pets’ – Fish and Game
Lorde not playing in Israel
The Guardian: Lorde’s artistic right to cancel gig in Tel Aviv
Stuff: Over 100 artists sign pledge supporting Lorde’s Israel decision
David Cohen (RNZ): ‘Lorde deserves some sympathy’
Current and former MPs
Herald: Meet the backbencher: Chris Penk on siblings, kauri dieback and cricket legends
Herald: Shane Jones gets married in Rarotonga
Kelly Makiha (Herald): Te Ururoa Flavell reveals new business venture
Rexine Hawes (Stuff): Former Waikato MP humbled by Queen’s Service Order
Other
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Plus ca change, or, does Labour have a foreign policy?
Audrey Malone (Stuff): Roads of National Significance partly to blame for death toll on our roads: Genter
Graham Adams (North & South): Why should we respect religion?
John Farrow (ODT): Still questions about Whittall’s $3.41m Pike deal
Tom Peters (World socialist website): New Zealand government seeks to contain outrage over Pike River mine disaster
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): ‘Dramatic’ shake-up for NZ workplaces in 2018: experts
David Williams (Newsroom): The future of newspapers
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Ethical dilemma for lawyers forced by new rules to disclose dodgy dealings
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Super ghosts: Pensions paid to thousands already in their graves
Graeme Edgeler (Public address): If Australia Jumped off a Cliff…; or How not to waste millions of taxpayer dollars
1News: Government announces new, more lenient pet policy for state houses
Brennan McDonald: Can regional economic development really happen?
Liam Dann (Herald): Why is Graeme Hart so rich?
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): OIA obstructionism – yet more evidence for RB reform
Richard Swainson (Stuff): Honours: You’re either with them or against them
Brian Easton (Pundit): Celebrating New Zealand’s Independent Republics.
Sam Price (World socialist website): New Zealand government prepares attack on foreign students
Alastair Paulin (Stuff): The public has a right to know what gifts doctors get from drug companies
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Isn’t it time to reflect on fanatical anti-tobacco crusade?
RNZ: Outspoken – Young Voters
Victoria University of Wellington (Newsroom): Ending child poverty can’t be partisan pursuit
John Tamihere: Tax cuts are the wrong approach]]>
