Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 20 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).
Opinion Poll
Colin James (RNZ): Labour polls equal National’s amid leadership race
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Labour soars to highest level in 15 years in new 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll
TVNZ: Labour soars at the expense of its governing partners in new 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll
TVNZ: ‘I’m consistently sceptical of polls’ – PM brushes off Labour’s best approval rating in 15 years
TVNZ: Jacinda’s ‘baby bump’ fuelled Labour’s dramatic poll jump, says political analyst
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll
Matthew Whitehead (Standard): Poll Watch: Colmar Brunton Poll 2018-2-19
Jo Moir (Stuff): Labour and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern take the lead in new poll
Herald: New poll: Labour up to 48 per cent as National drops, meanwhile support partners in danger territory
National Party
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): No contest – Steven Joyce should be National’s next leader
Claire Trevett (Herald): Steven Joyce confirms National leadership bid today
RNZ: Joyce on National leadership race – ‘I get things done’
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Joyce bids for leadership
Laura Walters (Stuff): National MP Steven Joyce has thrown his hat in the ring
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): And Joyce makes five
Liam Hehir (Stuff): National ignores Lyn of Tawa at its peril
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Mark Mitchell’s slip of the truth refreshing
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National leadership contest gets bigger
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): National’s Moderates May Win This Leadership Battle – But Can They Win The War?
Richard Harman (Politik): Nats face pressure to do a deal
Audrey Young (Herald): Who’s backing who? A guide to National’s leadership race
Claire Trevett (Herald): Four in the race as National meets again but what of Joyce?
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Mitchell looks for a late wave
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Mitchell joins the National Party leadership race
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Mark Mitchell gunning for National Party leadership
Herald: Mark Mitchell announces he will contest National Party leadership to replace Bill English
TVNZ: ‘I am in to win this race’ – Mark Mitchell enters National Party leadership race, has stern words for government
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Mark Mitchell’s run at leadership is a scam
Greg Presland (Standard): The battle of the five political midgets
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): I’m impressed by Mark Mitchell’s leadership credentials
Interest: Does Amy Adams have what it takes to lead her party into the 2020 election?
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Judith Collins fan website disappears after questions asked
Herald: ‘Backing Judith Collins’ website taken down
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Anonymous ‘Back Judith’ website has fake phone number, registered to Collins’ office address
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Team Collins launches ‘BackJudith’ website
Greg Presland (Standard): The strange case of the Judith Collins support website
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern refuses ‘passing judgement’ on crowded National Party leadership race
Government
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern ‘strongly hopes’ to release full text of revised TPP deal this week
Newstalk ZB: Pros and cons of Trans-Pacific Partnership due Wednesday
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government has no advice on moving state services to regions
Jo Moir (Stuff): Māori King to formally meet PM for first time since he badmouthed Labour
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Kīngitanga-Government relations “warm” in lead-up to Waikato regatta
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Democracy, inclusion and identity top Government’s digital agenda
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Prime Minister to visit Pacific nations struck by Gita
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): PM won’t ban sex between ministers and staffers
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): No ‘bonk ban’ for NZ ministers: ‘They have clear expectations’
Audrey Young (Herald): Sex ban not needed for NZ ministers, says Ardern
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): MP affairs not a problem confined to Australia
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern becomes first New Zealand PM to march in gay pride parade
Democracy
No Right Turn: Time to lock the revolving door
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Retired politicians in demand
ODT: Editorial – The perils of secrecy
Child welfare, poverty, inequality
Jonathan Boston (Dominion Post): Reforming the welfare state
Susan St John (Newsroom): National digs itself into child poverty hole
The Standard: Us and them – what will Labour do about WINZ?
Education
Laures Park (Spinoff): Why public education works for Māori students
Bronwyn Wood, Michael Johnston, Sue Cherrington, Suzanne Boniface and Anita Mortlock (Stuff): NCEA review: Let’s address quality
Chris Trotter (Stuff): New Zealand political dissident upsets the apple cart over China’s influence
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern to query Chinese links to break-in
Health
Herald:New Zealand cancer survival rate worse than Australia’s
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): ‘Don’t trust them. Just regulate them’
Dubby Henry (Herald): Midwifery in ‘crisis’ with pregnant women unable to find lead maternity carers
Merryn Gott (Newsroom): Family carers under pressure and in the shadows
Herald: ‘It would be horrific if it didn’t go through. Horrific’: Terminally ill woman advocating for Act’s euthanasia bill
Defence
No Right Turn: NZDF lied to us all along
Terence O’Brien (Stuff): NZ in Iraq – What happens next?
Housing
Herald: Nationwide housing quality survey to get underway, Statistics NZ announces
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealanders think it’s getting better for house buyers
Media
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The Herald and Stuff are defying the Commerce Commission and getting closer all the time
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): NZ media changing tack, and women are steering
Stuff: Jessica Mutch to replace Corin Dann as TVNZ’s new political editor
Farming
Herald: Dairy industry law changes ‘inevitable’: Minister
No Right Turn: Will they prosecute?
Local government
Grant Smith (Manawatu Standard): Māori wards in Palmerston North would fix imbalance in the council chamber
RNZ: Pacific woman elected as Auckland super city councilor
RNZ: Council considers broad closures, patrols in ranges
Mike Reid (Briefing Papers): Saving local democracy: An agenda for the new government
Victoria White (Hawke’s Bay Today): Hawke’s Bay councils choosing karakia over prayers to open meetings
Other
Dominion Post Editorial: Corrections needs a correction
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): All the fun of the rodeo not worth any animal’s pain
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Phil Twyford says Ministry of Transport can deliver on his policies, despite shocker review
Michael Coote (NZDPR): On the Money: Has MMP produced a new era of FPP elections?
Stuff: Hillary Rodham Clinton coming to New Zealand
RNZ: Hillary Clinton to talk US election during NZ visit]]>
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