Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 07 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.
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Steven Joyce resigns from parliament
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Steven Joyce and the turning of the tide
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Welcome back to business, Steven
Richard Harman (Politik): Why Steven Joyce had to go
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Joyce’s Odyssey
Audrey Young (Herald): The rise and stall of Steven Joyce
RNZ: Steven Joyce reflects on life in politics
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Why Steven Joyce’s time in politics was up
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): Steven Joyce’s resignation: A man of strategy to the end
RNZ: ‘I just like to get on and get things done’ – Joyce quits politics
Bernard Hickey and Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Minister for Everything moves on
RNZ: ‘Mr Fix-It, the ‘Super Minister’ – Who was Steven Joyce?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National’s ‘Mr Fixit’ Steven Joyce resigns after failed leadership bid
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Joyce resigns
Claire Trevett (Herald): Steven Joyce, Minister for Everything, exits
Claire Trevett (Herald): National MP Steven Joyce is to retire from Parliament
Jo Moir (Stuff): Steven Joyce is bowing out of politics, but insists he’s not going back to radio
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): More retirements expected from the National Party
Emma Hurley (Newshub):‘It is hard to walk away’ – National MP Steven Joyce
Ella Prendergast and Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Top moments of Steven Joyce’s political career
Herald: Steven Joyce’s Greatest Hits – the dildo incident, egg head and red-face
1News: More of National’s old guard ‘contemplating their futures’ as Steven Joyce goes – Katie Bradford
1News: Simon Bridges says outgoing Steven Joyce ‘a huge loss’
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Joyce to leave parliament; leaked letter shows anger
Steven Joyce: The art of winning elections
Tess Nichol (Herald): Nicola Willis to enter Parliament following Steven Joyce’s retirement
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Why most-qualified Judith Collins won’t get the finance job
Newstalk ZB: Amy Adams to be named Steven Joyce’s replacement
Census
Herald: Nearly 3 million New Zealanders do the Census online
David Williams (Newsroom): Census boss: We’ll deliver
Newstalk ZB: Stats minister Shaw ‘missing in action’ despite census problems: National
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National claims disability access issues will undermine nationwide census results
Newshub: Statistics Minister not here when it counts – National
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): WTF is happening with the census?
Herald: Census figures roll in as 2 million people take part but rates for over 80s low
Mānia Clarke (MāoriTV): Census causing hiccups for hundreds
Michael Daly (Stuff): What happens if I don’t fill in the census?
Brian Rudman (Herald): Census 2018 might reveal the truth about believers
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Counted out: anger as New Zealand census fails to tick all the boxes
Foreign affairs and trade
Gordon Campbell (Werwolf): On our unthinking readiness to confront China
Rodney Jones (Newsroom): Something big just changed in China
Mei Heron (RNZ): Samoan village may become uninhabitable: ‘It’s heartbreaking’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives in a turbulent Tonga
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Niue fights brain drain to NZ
Mei Heron (RNZ): Govt reviews pension rules for Niue and Cook Islands
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern’s Niue ‘homecoming’ underway
Mei Heron (RNZ): PM’s Pacific Island trip becomes a family reunion
Boris Jancic (Newswire): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives in Niue to family welcome
1News: Jacinda Ardern desires shift away from ‘donor, recipient relationship’ with Pacific nations
Ella Prendergast (Newshub): How Jacinda Ardern plans to ‘reset’ our relationship with the Pacific
Thomas Nash (Stuff): Reinstating a Minister for Disarmament a good sign for NZ’s role in the world
RNZ: NZ farmers nervous about trade war
RNZ: New working holiday deal for some Kiwis
Stuff: Man charged for offending inside the New Zealand Embassy in Washington
Health
Andrew Geddis (Herald): Law discriminated against carers of their own
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Labour Party politicians cagey over family carers law repeal
Catherine Hunt (RNZ): Caregivers going to court for disabled care pay
RNZ: Health Minister moves to improve pay, conditions for NZ midwives
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): How soon is soon: Ministry of Health ‘wrong’ to withhold DHB financial data
Donna Miles (Stuff): Kiwi drinking culture is ‘as stupid as the American gun culture’
Law profession culture and sexual harassment
ODT Editorial: Changing times and student behavior
Herald: Nearly 800 students vote to reinstate Otago University’s annual law camp
NZ Herald editorial: Time’s up for sexual harassment in legal profession
Zoë Lawton (Vice): Inside the #MeToo Blog Giving Abused New Zealand Lawyers a Voice
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Drinking games planned as Victoria University law students’ camp goes ahead
Max Towle (The Wireless): Hundreds backing a campaign to save Otago University’s law camp
EQC and Fletcher Building
RNZ: Brownlee defends EQC over assessor claims
RNZ: EQC ‘expectations were unrealistic’ – former Fletcher boss
RNZ: National suggests EQC consider suing Fletcher
Press: Former Fletcher boss says running quake rebuild without indemnity would have been ‘absolutely stupid’
David Williams (Newsroom): Minister versus mandarin: Big gun rolled out
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ construction woes just beginning – UK expert
Parliament and democracy
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Lifting the lid on lobbying in politics
No Right Turn: Less than open
No Right Turn: Shoulder-tapping a crony
Nicola Russel (Newshub): Newshub Nation’s guide to getting kicked out of Parliament
Housing
Rob Stock (Stuff): Damp: The battlegound between landlords and tenants
RNZ: QV stats: First home buyers show signs of returning
Media
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): NZME, Stuff to renegotiate merger terms if appeal is successful
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Breaking free from addictive web
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Announcing the Spinoff Bulletin. Subscribe now or regret forever
Justice
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Justice advocate proposes ‘quick fixes’ to slash prison muster to 7000 in six years
Frances Cook (Herald): Supreme Court told ban on prisoner voting infringes on rights
Stuff: Supreme Court to decide if they can say prisoners voting ban breaches Bill of Rights
RNZ: Marceau report: Andrew Little vows to make changes
Local government
RNZ: Dunedin council property sales to fund developments
Todd Niall (RNZ): Minister’s trip may delay America’s Cup village decisions
Māori Party
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Che Wilson encouraged by support for Māori Party as new president
Yvonne Tahana (Herald): Maori Party opts for youthful refresh after disastrous election campaign
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Charter schools at odds over Chris Hipkins’ plans to abolish them
Simon Collins (Herald): Charter school mum: ‘You are not excluded if you’re not good enough’
Raniera Harrison (Māori TV): Ministry seeks feedback on guns in schools
RNZ: Students in limbo after Hawke’s Bay college closes
Other
Sarah Harris (Herald): A quarter of Kiwi kids reported to child protection services, AUT study reveals
Toby Morris (Spinoff): Al Nisbet and the age old problem with New Zealand political cartoons
Jihee Junn (Spinoff): What we know about assault in New Zealand – in graphs
Patrick O’Sullivan (Herald): Local Focus: Craggy backtrack not fault of Māori says kaumātua
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): This tax and spend Government will make us pay more
