Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 9 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).
Green Party and Marama Davidson
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Greens swing left with Marama Davidson in the co-pilot seat
Richard Harman (Politik): Left turn: The Greens membership speak
NZ Herald editorial: Green Party’s choice of co-leader revives their social agenda
Isaac Davison (Herald): Greens pick stability over broad appeal
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): What Davidson’s win means for Greens
RNZ: New Green co-leader targets homelessness, health funding
1News: New Greens co-leader Marama Davidson believes her ‘connections to grassroots groups and communities’ will benefit the party
Brigette Morton (RNZ): Will Marama Davidson get Greens back on track?
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Expect fireworks with Marama Davidson elected Green co-leader
Toby Manhire (The Spinoff): Who is Marama Davidson and what kind of a co-leader will she be?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Marama Davidson as new co-leader of Greens: NZ finally has its own flaxroots Corbyn & Sanders
Pete George (Your NZ): Greens return leftward, away from National
1News: 10 things to know about the new Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Marama Davidson wins Green Party co-leadership contest
Newshub: Marama Davidson elected new Greens co-leader
Herald: Marama Davidson’s landslide win as new Green Party co-leader
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens follow Hooton’s advice
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Marama Davidson wins Green Party co-leadership race
Isaac Davison (Herald): Green coalition partners prefer Julie-Anne Genter as new co-leader as vote nears
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald):Why the Green Party will be gone in a decade
Herald: Green Party announces Marama Davidson as new female co-leader
The Standard: Green Party female co-leader announcement: Marama Davidson
Transport and road safety
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Local Government Road Safety Summit has to do more than talk
John Armstrong (1News): The notion Ardern & Labour will pay the ultimate price for their ‘fuel tax’ at the 2020 general election is utterly fanciful
Simon Wilson (Herald): 10 pieces of nonsense they’re talking about transport
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of the new fuel tax
Claire Trevett (Herald): Smoke and mirrors in the fuel tax apocalypse
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Government on right road to get NZ moving
John Roughan (Herald): National taxpayers should not pay for Auckland’s pretended suffering
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Petrol tax? Let’s get this show on the road
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): How much the fuel taxes will cost you
Michael Hayward (Stuff): Governments new transport policy means Christchurch commuter rail ‘on the table’
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government set to measure how long the regions can hold a grudge
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Rapid transit won’t ‘do a damn thing’ for Auckland – Collins
Johnny Moore (Stuff): Why I’m opposed to 70kmh roads: Speed doesn’t kill people – drivers do
Education
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Ministry of Education withholding complaints about early childhood centres ‘tarnishes’ industry, organisation claims
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Early childhood sector: Govt looks to turn tide away from privatised education
RNZ: National targets ‘arrogant and reckless’ early childhood plans
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Charter school report silent on educational achievement
Karoline Tuckey (Manawatu Standard): Struggling schools cut teacher aide hours to keep up with minimum wage increase
Karoline Tuckey (Manawatu Standard): Rangitīkei College admits not following rules in awarding $240,000 of work
Herald: Auckland Catholic Maori college’s future put in doubt after roll falls to one pupil
Jodi Yeats and Anna Loren (Auckland Now): Hato Petera College faces closure with education minister starting formal process
Newshub: Education Minister to consider future of school with one student
Al Williams (Timaru Herald): Dwindling roll and budget may force Pareora campus closure
Te Ahua Maitland (Stuff): New Zealand Land Wars should be taught in high school, says Waikato history teacher
Erin Reilly (Auckland Now): Backyard Banter: Should teens learn essential life skills at school?
Stuff: Under-fire Otago University law professor Mark Henaghan steps down
Health
Isaac Davison (Herald): Coleman ‘should have known’ about Middlemore and should have fronted on it, National leader Simon Bridges says
1News: ‘We didn’t know’ – Simon Bridges says National was unaware of Middlemore Hospital’s faulty building issues, shifts blame to DHB
RNZ: Simon Bridges: Govt has money to deal with Middlemore
Laura Walters (Stuff): Nurses and midwives protest, National blames DHB for Middlemore situation
Merryn Gott (Newsroom): Stemming the tide of loneliness
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): I’ve found Joyce’s $11.7 billion hole
Andrew Gunn (Stuff):Beware fall-out as decommissioned health minister falls back to Earth
Rob Mitchell (Stuff): National Portrait: David Clark, Health Minister
RNZ: Rural health group to shut down next week unless it gets funding
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): New Zealand’s young activists need to step up for mental health
RNZ: DHB vacancies likely even higher than 400
Pete George: Middlemore mould, health budget hole, the budget
Karen Brown (RNZ): DHBs post $189m deficit, warning it could rise
RNZ and Clare Curran
ODT:Editorial – Fuller explanation needed from Curran
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Latest episode of ‘Curran events’
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Carol Hirschfeld keeps her head down
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Richard Griffin offered resignation to Clare Curran
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Griffin may not hand over Curran voice message
Henry Cooke (Stuff): RNZ Chair Richard Griffin ‘not interested’ in releasing Clare Curran voicemail
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Give us some of that broadcasting cash
Imogen Neale (Stuff): Hirschfeld career kōrero ‘postponed’
Media
John Gibb (ODT): PR influencing public debate, author says
Clare de Lore (Listener): How cosmetic surgery enabled Corin Dann to have a stellar TV career
Colin Peacock (RNZ): TVNZ gets back in the Games
Herald: Press Council rejects complaint against Sir Bob Jones’ ‘Maori Gratitude Day’ column
Government
Wayne Mapp (Spinoff): Ardern and Twyford are betting their futures on voters backing their zealotry
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Govt needs to cross Simon’s well-built bridge
Pete George: Stronger leadership required from Ardern as Government wobbles
RNZ: Govt ‘will try to weed out mistakes’ – Ardern
Debbie Jamieson and Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gets insight into women’s role in Central Otago wine industry
Parliament
Simon Wilson (Herald): Why the Northcote by-election matters
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Playing political dress-up – Party leaders still trying on
Economy and budget
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Timidity and blind side-picking gets us nowhere
Duncan Garner (Stuff): The Labour genie is Granting too many wishes
Liam Dann (Herald): Government’s well-being experiment a big challenge
Cameron Bagrie (Stuff): Adjusting the sails in a late-cycle NZ economy
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Inadequate Treasury advice
Tax
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Should We Mourn Our Cancelled Tax Cuts?
Erin Polaczuk (The Spinoff): Why we need to stop thinking of tax as a burden
Duncan Greive (The Spinoff): Sir Michael Cullen: ‘tax is not a necessary evil – it’s a necessary part of a civilised society’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): About 150 NZ firms likely to be caught in Australia’s ‘Amazon tax’ net
International relations and trade
Dominion Post Editorial: Tinker with trade at your peril
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Government poised to consult public on trade policy, in hope to quell opposition
Liam Dann (Herald): US can’t win a trade war – but it can hurt NZ
1News: Australian Government finally reveals number of Kiwis locked up on Christmas Island detention centre
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Russian spy drama symptom of and distraction from bigger geopolitical play
Greg Presland (The Standard): Ardern was right to hold back on Russia
Gerard Hindmarsh (Stuff): Murder of New Zealand commissioner on Niue revealed colonial flaws
RNZ: NZ not about to remove all restrictions on Superannuation
RNZ: Talagi says NZ pension discriminates against Niueans
Environment
Bruce Munro (ODT): Stream of conscience
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Earlier is better for climate change action
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Government admits it’s lost the war, as deadly myrtle rust reaches the South Island
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Govt’s irrigation cutback a blow but schemes to press on
Alison Pugh (1News): ‘It’s a sad place to be’ – South Island farmers reeling after large irrigation projects scrapped
Rose Davis (Stuff): Should rates be charged on land protected for conservation?
Immigration
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Immigration NZ ‘ethnic profiling’ didn’t happen
RNZ: Little ‘would be concerned’ if profiling is discriminatory
RNZ: Increase in deportations may be linked to computer profiling
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A misleading story
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Computer profiling could make us blind to race, if we wanted
Saziah Bashir (RNZ): Immigration NZ: Profiling by race is racial profiling
Housing
Herald: Hamilton mayor Andrew King set to save thousands of dollars under proposed changes to city’s rating system
Rob Stock (Stuff): Prefab industry seeks scheme to assure banks, homeowners
Newshub: Schools rezone to avoid Unitec KiwiBuild development
Anne Gibson (Herald): Opposition MPs push law reform on $50b apartment sector
Jessica Wilson (The Spinoff): Why do renters hate their property managers?
Eva Corlett (RNZ): The struggle to find a home: Hundreds of large families on waiting list
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Affordable housing push may extend to retirement village developments
Regions
Shane Te Pou (Newsroom):Shane Jones trying to make a dream real
Robin Martin (RNZ): Minister sought iwi blessing of $13m investment in Taranaki trek
Allison Lawton (Herald): Rotorua needs to take advantage of growth fund
Newshub: Shane Jones forgot warning against funding $350,000 feasibility study
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Kaikohe Warehouse landlord feels bullied into a new lease deal
Justice and police
Mike Williams (Hawkes Bay Today): Maori opposition to new jail welcome
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Convicted fraudster Alex Swney describes prison as ‘miserable, punitive, negative’
Jim Rose (Herald): Gluckman’s data could tell him why prison numbers are up
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): We can fix our prison system
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Rainbow police car cost $10k, as cops look at third gender on police forms, databases
Tess Nichol (Herald): Northland teacher acquitted of indecent assault says police bungled the investigation
David Farrar: Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill passes
Child welfare
Newswire: Jacinda Ardern urged to step in and save children’s camps by National: ‘It simply must not be left to fail’
RNZ: Children’s mental health service to close ‘villages’ in June if it can’t get funding
Employment and retirement
Alison Mau (Stuff): Education support workers’ hopes dashed as pay equity battle looks headed for court
Richard Wagstaff (Herald): Comment: Good businesses back better employment law
Julie Iles (Stuff): Minimum wage hikes hits the price of coffee
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Coffee prices go up as minimum wage rises
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): We’re all about to pay for minimum wage increase
Stuff: Job growth hinges on Government’s next move: Trade Me
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): NZ lagging behind rest of the world, says retirement expert
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Commerce Minister seeking information on whether companies shirking responsibility
Andrew Ashton (Hawke’s Bay Today): Iwi leader helps out with Hawke’s Bay’s apple-picking crisis – more residents urged to pitch in
Canterbury quakes and CTV Building
Michael Wright (Stuff): CTV victims’ families say ‘critical’ issues overlooked in the decision not to prosecute
Michael Wright (Stuff): CTV tragedy investigation head: ‘We didn’t think we were ever going to get a conviction’
The Press: Editorial – Does EQC’s culture need a re-repair?
RNZ: Nats didn’t scrimp on EQC costs, says Brownlee
Katy Gosset (RNZ): Brownlee’s claim that repairs weren’t botched ‘outrageous’ – lawyer
Newshub: Gerry Brownlee denies leaving new Govt to foot $200m blowout
Privacy
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Facebook: 63,724 Kiwis may be affected by Cambridge Analytica data misuse
Herald: 64,000 New Zealanders caught up in Facebook data scandal
RNZ: Facebook reveals NZers data accessed by Cambridge Analytica
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): New Zealand’s privacy watchdog is barking at shadows
Pike River re-entry
RNZ: Pike mine families knew about leaked footage for some time
Herald: Intact body seen in Pike River mine, says documentary maker
Stuff: NZ film-maker says new footage shows intact body in Pike River Mine
Stuff: Group of technical advisers appointed to consider manned re-entry of Pike River mine
Maori institutions and te reo Māori
Matt Nippert (Herald): Maori King’s trust lends $83k for travel
Herald: Maori King’s office admits to funding stomach stapling, but not who it was for
Dennis Ngawhare (Stuff): Koha is not so much a payment but a reciprocal gift
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Te reo Māori and sign language in preschools should be a no-brainer
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): NZ Transport Agency ban roadside signs in te reo
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): Te reo road-signs planned by Rotorua Lakes Council stalled by NZ Transport Agency
1News: Fallout over NZTA’s rejection of bi-lingual Rotorua welcome sign
Paul Eagle incident
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour MP Paul Eagle apologises for profane ‘misunderstanding’
Herald: Labour MP Paul Eagle says sorry for phone call profanity, says it was a ‘misunderstanding’
Gender politics
Olivia Wensley (Stuff): On #BlackFriday, I’m asking Kiwis to stand up to sexual harassment
Megan Gattey (Stuff): The entrenched transphobia facing transgender Kiwis
Joel MacManus (Critic): No Third Gender Option for Otago University Enrolment
Esme Hall (Critic): No Non-Binary People Allowed in OUSA Women’s Room
Other
Damien Grant (Stuff): A powerless monarch is the Empire’s greatest gift
Max Harris (RNZ): Where to from here? NZ Republic vs Empire 2.0
Matt Nippert (Herald): NZ Defence Force links to Peter Thiel’s software company revealed
Herald: Weekend Herald editorial: Our Defence Force cannot fire a shot for Anzac Day
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Ombudsman’s OIA war continues
Audrey Malone (Stuff): National Party bracing for another resignation from Parliament after election loss
Paul Little (Herald): Bitter and bossy? That’s getting old for you
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Affordable housing, employment high on agenda of new Senior Citizens Minister
David Kenkel (Re-imagining social work in NZ): Celebrating diversity! Umm?
Duncan Webb (Stuff): Insurance companies hold all the power so a review of insurance laws is overdue
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Local companies caught up in overseas investment rules
RNZ: Family desperately want to return autistic woman to NZ
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): 214 tales of harassment as #metoo blog ends
Martin Johnston (Herald): Wahine disaster survivors’ thank-you to rescuers at 50th anniversary events in Wellington
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Week in Review: Politicians, trains and automobiles
Stuff: Below the beltway: The week in politics
Herald: Hamilton mayor Andrew King set to save thousands of dollars under proposed changes to city’s rating system
Wanganui Chronicle Editorial: Sorry Sir John, you should have flagged your legacy project]]>
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