Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 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.
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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).
National Party
Richard Harman (Politik): National’s divisions open up
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): National’s leadership contest
Interest: Don Brash, Michelle Boag and David Farrar on National’s leadership
Audrey Young (Herald): Why the three-way National leadership battle is really a two-horse race
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): National’s ABC leadership rivals emerge
TVNZ: ‘There’s this real hunger for generational change’ – Who will take National’s leadership?
Barry Soper (Herald): Why there’s a lot to worry about in the National leadership race
Jo Moir (Stuff): National’s ten first-term MPs could decide the next leader
Jane Patterson (RNZ): And then there were three: Adams joins National leadership race
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Adams, Bridges and Collins bid for National leadership
Liam Hehir (Newsroom): Bridges best bet for conservatives
Kristin Macfarlane (Bay of Plenty Times): Tauranga MP Simon Bridges: I can replace Bill English as National leader
Derek Cheng (Herald): Simon Bridges: I have strong support for the leadership
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): National leadership contenders throw their hats in the ring
Liam Hehir: No, it’s not okay to call Simon Bridges “arrogant”
Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins sets her own sacking point: 35 per cent in the polls
Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins comes out swinging – at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Judith Collins: ‘We’re never going to out-Jacinda Jacinda’
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Judith Collins already crushing Simon Bridges, Amy Adams for National leadership
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Crushin’ it
Kate Hawkesby (Herald): Amy Adams the clear frontrunner
Newstalk ZB: Amy Adams announces bid for National leadership
Derek Cheng (Herald): Amy Adams announces bid for National leadership
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): National leadership: Paula Bennett could lose deputy leader role
Herald: Steven Joyce considers National Party leadership bid
Max Towle (The Wireless): Nikki Kaye won’t be National’s next leader, but should she be?
Stephen Franks: Surprise that Chris Bishop not contending
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Pity the staff
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): National aims for clean, fast leadership contest
Newshub: Duncan Garner quizzes Bill English on who will be new National leader
Mike Hosking: English can take bow for country’s head of steam
Conan Young (RNZ): Dipton reacts to English’s departure: ‘He wasn’t finished’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Bill English’s true legacy
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Stuff): Bill English and his ‘doing what works’ legacy
Joel Ineson (Stuff): Maureen Pugh back in Parliament after Bill English’s retirement
Max Molyneux and Ben O’Connor (Newshub): Who will be National’s new social influencer-in-chief?
Herald: The truth about Paula Bennett and Judith Collins’ new hair ‘dos
Government
Amelia Lester (Vogue): New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, Is Young, Forward-Looking, and Unabashedly Liberal—Call Her the Anti-Trump
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s new Vogue magazine photoshoot
Eleanor Black (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s Vogue fashion shoot praises her as the ‘anti-Trump’
Karl du Fresne: I reckon eventually, something will blow
Edward Willis (Public law and regulation): Waka jumping – has electoral integrity jumped the shark?
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers contributing to Māori under-achievement
Jo Moir (Stuff): Charter school lays complaint with Ministry of Education about Kelvin Davis
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Davis downplays charter school complaint
Amy Baker (Stuff): Negotiations to continue for Albany charter school in light of Govt announcement
RNZ: Digital divide in schools leaves students struggling
Russell McVeagh sexual harassment allegations
Sarah Borissenko and Melanie Reid (Newsroom): The summer interns and the law firm
Rosie Gordon and Sarah Harris (Herald): Top law firm Russell McVeagh embroiled in ‘serious’ sexual allegations involving law students
Trade
Winston Peters (Herald): Critics should look at the CPTPP with an open mind
Barry Coates (Herald): Gains under TPP not worth risks to democracy
Primary industries
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Govt considering ditching fishing boat camera plans
No Right Turn:Oh FFS
Doug Edmeades (Stuff): Dictatorial approach over water quality fails with farmers
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Crackdown on dairy farm employment records planned
Keith Woodford (Stuff): Clamour for other uses drives high country reform
Brittany Pickett (Stuff): Alternative proteins and red meat set to share NZ supermarket shelves
Health
Jessica Long (Stuff): University report shows support for exclusive tobacco sales at pharmacies
Emma Dangerfield (Press): Costs continue for experimental Keytruda patient
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Thousands of Hepatitis C sufferers unaware a cure is within reach
Miri Schroeter (Stuff): MidCentral DHB backs out of child development service in Manawatū and Horowhenua
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): Unknowns for Waikato DHB boss roles in 2018
Employment
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government enters into pay equity talks for mental health workers
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government announces equal pay deal for mental health workers
Retirement
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Analysis: Is an increase to the retirement age really inevitable?
Merewyn Groom (Spinoff): Super screwed: How the pay gap wrecks women’s retirements
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): New Zealand’s retirement age plan: leave the problem to someone else
Housing
Madison Reidy (Stuff): More apprentices needed for KiwiBuild
Anne Gibson (Herald): Anti-foreign house-buyer backdown on the cards
Inequality and poverty
Simon Maude (Stuff): National says Salvation Army poverty report shows ‘improvement’, others scathing
Samantha Morton (Herald): Tauranga council wants to ‘turn off the tap’ by telling people not to donate to beggars
Environment
Ellie Hooper (Noted): Tackling climate change requires more than just looking in the mirror
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Genesis Energy to phase out Huntly coal use
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Our Inconvenient Truth: NZ will burn coal until 2030
Deena Coster (Taranaki Daily News): Calls for Māori to have greater role in management of waterways after dead tuna found in stream
America’s Cup
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Team New Zealand battling Government and Auckland Council over America’s Cup bases
Christopher Reive (Herald): America’s Cup: Government announcement on Wynyard Quarter base a ‘surprise’ to Team New Zealand
Todd Niall (RNZ): Govt confident in preferred America’s Cup plan
Simon Maude (Stuff): Controversial Wynyard Wharf tank farm back on table for America’s Cup base
Herald: Tank farm to go for America’s Cup bases at Auckland waterfront
Local government
Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): Petitioners have the numbers for a poll on Māori wards
Don Esslemont (Manawatu Standard): Let’s hear the case for Māori wards
Transport and road safety
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Roadside saliva testing intrusive – Genter
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Hamilton to Auckland transport corridor ‘near top of list’
Māori Party
Grant Chapman (Newshub): Flavell, Fox stay on to clean up Māori Party election disaster
Daisy Hudson (Rotorua Daily Post): Maori Party AGM in Rotorua to signal new focus
Police
Nicole Barratt (Herald): New Zealand Police Association: We need to talk about firearms
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): More police officers being threatened with guns – union
Other
Julie Iles (Stuff): Minister David Parker rules out Fletcher Building bailout
Gill Bonnett (RNZ):Immigration ruling delays causing ‘mental anguish’
AAP: New Zealand Newswire to close
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): More than competition needed to change Kiwi power market: Analyst
Anan Zaki (Stuff): Google Maps lists Waihopai spy base as ‘best’ audio visual rental service in NZ
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): New Chairman for Waitangi National Trust
Alex Casey (Spinoff): Georgina Beyer still has a fire in her belly]]>
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