Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 14 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).
Labour Party sexual misconduct allegations
Newshub: Labour camp alleged sexual assault victim lays police complaint
RNZ: Labour summer camp victim goes to the police
Laura Walters (Stuff): Victim tells Labour they have gone to police over alleged sexual assault
Herald: Labour summer camp victim has gone to police over sexual harassment claim
Dominion Post Editorial: Labour should have fronted on sexual misconduct
ODT Editorial: Missteps on harassment allegations
Laura Walters and Jo Moir (Stuff): Sexual abuse support organisation says Labour right not to tell parents
Audrey Young (Herald): Ardern missed an opportunity to call out bungled response to assaults
Newshub: Alleged sexual assaults at Labour camp a ‘media beat-up’ – Don Brash
Newshub: Labour’s ‘enormous lapse of judgement’ over alleged sexual assaults – Chris Trotter
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Labour Party general secretary Andrew Kirton must be sacked over camp sexual harassment
Fiona McNamara (RNZ): Sexual violence in NZ: ‘We can be rid of it’
Spinoff: ‘Go to the police and tell your parents’: A sexual assault survivor’s story
Heather Roy: Young Labour Summer Camp and Parents’ Right to Know
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand Labour rocked by youth camp sexual assault allegations
RNZ: Explainer: Young Labour summer camp controversy
RNZ: ‘No complaints’ at other political parties’ youth camps
Newshub: Labour investigating another sexual assault complaint from separate party event
RNZ: Second Labour sexual assault incident alleged
1News: Another assault at an earlier Labour youth event revealed
Jo Moir (Stuff): Second sexual assault allegation surfaces for Labour Party
Herald: Andrew Kirton receives allegation of misconduct from earlier Labour event
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Labour Māori MPs tight-lipped over sexual assault allegations
Newshub: ‘We took too long’ – Jacinda Ardern on alleged sex assaults at Young Labour camp
Herald: Simon Bridges says Labour has left itself open to accusations of a cover-up
Newshub: Labour’s hypocrisy on minors drinking ‘beggars belief’ – David Seymour
Defence
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Hit & Run raid: Defence Force acknowledges ‘confusion’ on civilian casualty statements
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Defence Force admits book’s location right, but denies civilian casualties
RNZ: NZDF admits Afghan village raid same location as in Hit & Run
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Defence Force admits SAS Afghan raid WAS in the same location as evxents in Hit and Run
No Right Turn: NZDF admits they lied
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Pressure mounts on Government for Hit and Run inquiry
Newstalk ZB: Hit and Run petition heads to Parliament
Police
NZ Herald editorial:Innocent people pay price of police pursuits – NZ Herald
Brian Rudman (Herald):If police pursuits were shootings, we’d ban them
Adrienne Matthews (Herald):I supported police pursuits until I saw the consequences
Sandra Conchie (Herald): Police Minister Stuart Nash’s message to organised criminals – ‘We’re coming for you’
Foreign affairs and trade
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Peters raises ‘grave concerns’ over UK nerve agent attack
Richard Harman (Politik): Peters once again not ready to accuse Russia
Claire Trevett (Herald): Britain to call on NZ to join possible reprisals against Russia for nerve-agent attack
Tracy Watkins (Stuff):Russian spy scandal: Britain reaches out to New Zealand
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ diplomat under fire for US politics tweets
Government
Thomas Coughlan and Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): What to expect from the Tax Working Group
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Shane Jones reveals the panel who will help steer the $3b provincial growth fund
Interest: Immigration Minister Ian Lees-Galloway says the Government never had a specific target for cutting immigration numbers
Paula Bennett (Stuff): Why Willie Jackson should stop looking for excuses
Parliament
Claire Trevett (Herald): Dr Lance O’Sullivan considering leadership of The Opportunities Party, National also keen
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Online voting back on the agenda
No Right Turn: More on ministerial briefings
David Farrar (KIwiblog): Comparing the front benches
Education
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Children call for changes to schools: ‘No one cares enough’
Newshub: What children say is missing from their school experience
Bike helmets
Simon Maude (Stuff): Not wearing a bike helmet is unconscionable
Stuff: Rebecca Oaten, aka The Helmet Lady, and her crusade for compulsory bike helmets
Megan Gattey and Michael Daly (Stuff): Kiwis don’t like cycle helmets, but we ignore plenty of other laws too
1News: Should Kiwis still be required to wear a helmet while cycling? Advocate group says no
1News:‘It puts some people off’ – advocates say cyclists should be able to ride without helmets
Joel Ineson (Press): Canterbury tops country for fines dished out to cyclists not wearing helmets
Energy
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Solar power for wealthy poses risk to low-income Kiwis
Pattrick Smellie (Newsroom): Warning: electric cars could overload our power network
Housing
Robin Martin (RNZ): Rental shortage puts squeeze on the vulnerable
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Outgoing Reserve Bank head says LVRs are set to become ‘part of the furniture’
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Wellington house asking prices fall for first time in five months
Environment
Shaun Hendy (Spinoff): Why is NZ’s environmental regulator trying to muzzle scientist Mike Joy?
RNZ: NZ needs to up climate change effort – Shaw
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Our shrinking beach access
Laura Tupou (RNZ): NZ signs up to anti-plastic pledge
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Efforts to reduce plastic in seas ‘meaningless’ without knowing where it is from – National
Helen Harvey (Stuff): Grassroots environmental activist group amass $80,000 war chest to take council to court over drilling rules
RNZ: Councillor calls for inquiry over toxic foam
Gayle Souter-Brown (Briefing Papers): Design for well-being
Justice
Roger Brooking (Spinoff): How to cut the prison population by 50% in five years
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Teen kept in police cells for six nights
Health
Newshub: Tobacco companies selling smokes in generic brown packaging
Janet Hoek, Philip Gendall, Richard Edwards, Shayne Nahu, Nick Wilson (Public Health Expert): Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ
Russell Brown (Public Address): A medical cannabis korero by the sea
Primary Industries
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): First it was peak cow, is NZ facing peak milk factory now?
Sally Rae (ODT): Mycoplasma bovis: MPI stock process creating huge stress
Other
Peter Cullen (Stuff): Modern day slavery and human trafficking in New Zealand
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Kiwis have become a little more trusting
Herald: Team NZ says new plan for America’s Cup could work but problems still need to be resolved
Brad Flahive (Stuff): An Irish abortion referendum raises questions why NZ is still waiting
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Kirikiriroa City Council name change suggestion falls flat with councillors, public
David Williams (Newsroom): Axe taken to planned sports centre
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Outdated copyright law makes NZ ‘less attractive’ for innovation investment, says Deloitte]]>