Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 01 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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Meth report
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Taxpayers funded meth decontamination for private homes
Dan Satherley (Newshub):National had no idea meth guidelines were wrong – Judith Collins
RNZ: Meth compensation: ‘I’m not ruling it out, I’m not ruling it in’
RNZ: Twyford rules out apology over meth tests
Stuff: Phil Twyford apologises for meth myth saga but won’t commit to compensation
John Minto (Daily Blog): Paula Bennett is right…. state house tenants should be compensated for state sanctioned abuse
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Meth myth: 1338 state homes decontaminated in two years – almost all needlessly
Scott Yeoman (Bay of Plenty Times): $1.3 million spent on meth cleanup in state houses – just $3000 on mould
John Lewis (ODT): Meth clean-up cost frustrating for landlord
Greg Presland (The Standard): National’s strategy on the Housing Corp P fiasco
Justice
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): Time’s up for three strikes
Newstalk ZB: Criminologist: Three strikes law is a travesty
Isaac Davison (Herald): National would pass retrospective laws to make sure three strike offences don’t go unpunished
Isaac Davison (Herald): National promises to bring back three strikes and reverse any bail or sentencing changes
ODT Editorial: Law changes a risk and challenge
Laura Walters (Stuff): Opinion: Govt prioritising three strikes law overturn but what about the prison muster?
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Justice reform is needed but an angry Minister doesn’t help the case
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Sensible Sentencing Trust opposes repeal of ‘Three Strikes’ law
Stuff: Potential claims from prisoners held too long are ‘unquantifiable’
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Family Court problems run deep for whānau – Māori lawyers
Georgia May Gilbertson (Herald): Stuart Nash says 40th aggravated robbery in Hawke’s Bay shows a ‘societal issue’
Police
Gordon Campbell: On the carnage being caused by Police pursuits
Rob Kidd (ODT): Missing occupation on charge sheet an ‘oversight’
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Largest ever graduation of Auckland police keeps Government’s goal of 1800 extra cops by 2020 on track
Auckland
Simon Wilson (Herald): You should hear what the councillors said about the fuel tax
Bernard Orsman and Tess Nichol (Herald): Regional petrol tax will hurt poor communities in South Auckland, say local councillors
Tess Nichol (Herald): ‘It’s a lot to ask of motorists’: AA says new fuel taxes need to deliver results for Auckland
Dan Satherley (Newshub): All of NZ will pay for Auckland’s fuel tax – vehicle lobby
Anna Loren (Stuff): What you need to know about Auckland’s regional fuel tax
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Council gives green light to 11.5c fuel tax to hit motorists on July 1
RNZ: Auckland’s fuel tax a reality after council vote
Herald Editorial: Auckland Council’s proposed rates should have precise purposes
Jackson Thomas (Stuff): Auckland Council approve Goff’s $26 billion budget
Grant Bradley (Herald): Airlines accuse Auckland Airport of making $3.6 billion in excess returns
Mycoplasma bovis and forestry
Conan Young (RNZ): ‘This is people’s livelihood’: M bovis on Gypsy Day
Newsub: Farmers wary of M bovis as ‘Gypsy Day’ begins
Andrea Fox (Herald): Hunt for vaccine a priority if cattle disease M. bovis beats eradication
Maja Burry (RNZ): Greater food safety reassurance needed over M bovis – exporter
RNZ: Checkpoint: Farmers at country club: ‘We want to stop the spread’
Alison Pugh (1News): ‘It doesn’t work’ – Farmers question effectiveness of MPI’s Mycoplasma bovis testing
Stu Hunt (Nelson Mail): What do we do when the real mess begins?
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): Manawatū farmers question Simon Bridges on M bovis at Palmerston North Q+A
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Nelson Tasman farmers backing Government’s move to eradicate M Bovis
Bernadette Hunt (Spinoff): ‘We were as low as you can get’: a dispatch from Mycoplasma bovis ground zero
Lindy Laird (Northern Advocate): Seedling marks $6 million Ngāti Hine and Government forestry venture
Housing
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Is Labour’s Kiwibuild policy Talk Big but Think Small?
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Winter causes ‘intense’ pressure for homelessness sector
Stuff: Hardest winter yet for group providing accommodation for homeless families
Robin Martin (RNZ): Whanganui emergency housing unhabitable, Salvation Army says
Herald: Wellington homes are too cold to be healthy, University of Otago research confirms
Brian Fallow (Herald): Property values at risk as climate changes
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Increasing pressure on housing stock in next year
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Wellington residential development land supply scarce, as population balloons
Tina Morrison (BusinessDesk): NZ residential building consents slip 3.7% in April
Health
Richard Edwards, Janet Hoek and Anaru Waa (Spinoff): How can we make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Cigarettes in parliament
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): IDEA Services blasted over treatment of vulnerable man found with surgical glove in his bowel
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Intellectually disabled man assaulted in care
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Cadbury site deal is done
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Auckland district health boards tackling sudden infant death in Māori babies
Listener: The nurses’ pay dispute has put the Government in a tricky situation
BusinessDesk: Nurse pay hike could hit private health providers
Te Mata Peak track
Nicki Harper (Herald): New Te Mata track resolution not to everyone’s satisfaction
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Winery and iwi agree to buy land together for alternative Te Mata Peak track
Sean Hogan (1News): Deal reached between iwi and winery in Te Mata Peak walking track saga
RNZ: Iwi and winery to build new Te Mata track together
Employment
Peter Lyons (ODT): Reality of wages trumps economic dogma
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Testing for drugs in workplace likened to testing for meth house contamination
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): NZ sex workers undercut by illegal foreign prostitutes
Government, Labour Party, Ardern
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Sir Peter Gluckman – the knowledge broker
Michele Hewitson (Listener): Shane Jones is planting 150 trees in his backyard. 999,999,850 to go
Richard Harman (Politik): 118 inquiries and counting
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Generating Our Own Momentum?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Italian Job
Herald Editorial: PM lets us share her growing excitement
Simon Collins (Herald): PM gets practice holding a baby, hosts morning tea for her Plunket nurse and local community
Ben Leahy (Herald): ‘Everything’: Ambitious Jacinda Ardern to do list sells for $2500 at charity auction
National Party
Matthew Hooton (Herald): National’s high polling near miraculous
Wanganui Chronicle Editorial: Not so simple for Simon to bridge the gap
Parliament
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Why the Northcote byelection result is more interesting than we might have imagined
Mitchell Alexander (Newshub): Security called into Northcote by-election mall confrontation
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Maori TV): Mahuta concerned at Māori roll exodus
Foreign affairs and trade
Dan Satherley (Newshub): NZ labelled ‘soft underbelly’ of Five Eyes spy network in Canadian report
Stuff: New Zealander under 18 held in Australian immigration detention facility
Simon Murdoch (Incline): A Turning Point for New Zealand’s Maritime Periphery
Rae Si’ilata (Newsroom): Enacting alofa between NZ and Samoa
Poverty and inequality, financial hardship claims
Donna -Lee Biddle (Stuff): Report reveals deep pockets of deprivation in the Waikato
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): $100,000: It’s not what it used to be
Gareth Kiernan (Stuff): Fact-checking the ‘struggling rich’
Money lending
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Commerce Commission review finds 803% interest charge
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): One in four lenders may have breached law, Commerce Commission warns
Multi-national tax
Matt Nippert (Herald): Google claims another loss for NZ operations
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): OECD backs NZ tax plan in face of critics
Business and economy
Liam Dann: Business heads for winter of discontent
Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson (Herald): Business should be more optimistic about the Coalition Government
RNZ: Businesses ‘should pay a fair price’ for power – aluminium smelter
Nathan Torkington (Spinoff): Why half-baked R&D changes are a finger in the eye to startups and software
Megan Woods (Spinoff): ‘If you do R&D, we plan to support it’: Megan Woods defends the new tax incentive
RNZ: NZ economy forecast set to outpace most of OECD
Tina Morrison (BusinessDesk): New Zealand’s ‘solid’ economic growth seen continuing
Michael Reddell: Please Mr Orr, could we have some better analysis
Roger Douglas (Kiwiblog): On budget issues
Roger Douglas (Kiwiblog): Policy Recommendations
Roger Douglas (Kiwiblog): Outcomes
Education
RNZ: Biggest polytech makes $31m deficit, adviser appointed
John Morgan (Newsroom): Time to bring ‘knowledge’ back to schools?
RNZ: NZQA cancels results of cheating students
Southland Times Editorial:No need to get hot-headed about beanie rules
Paul Barkle (Informetrics): Fees-free: Grades are out
Environment
Jamie Morton (Herald): NZ’s recycling crisis after China ban: ‘This situation is not sustainable’
Emma Hurley and Alex Baird (Newshub): Recycling sector warns Government the system is broken
Herald: Avoiding meat and dairy is the best way to help the planet, study shows
RNZ: ‘Rare earth’ minerals potential for regions
Stuff: Z Energy cuts single-use plastic bags from all service stations in New Zealand
Newshub: Z Energy to stop providing plastic bags
Tourism
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Tourism sector anxious about proposed border tax
Damien Venuto (Herald): International media call BS on NZ’s 100% pure claims
Other
Chester Borrows (Herald):Learn your history, no matter how unpalatable it might be
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): 795 emergency calls answered by automated system then abandoned during April storm
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Male overstayers prioritised for deportation
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Two years on, another building standards review
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Why it’s time to ‘panic’ about cybersecurity
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): What our abortion debate would look like
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Banks axe ‘guiding principle’ on internet fraud reimbursement in new code
Stuff: Kiwis charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs reaches six-year high
Herald: British politician Nigel Farage to visit New Zealand
Isaac Davison (Herald): Forced marriage bill extended to civil unions and de facto relationships
Herald: SPCA ‘desperate’ for foster parents as centres fill up countrywide
Qiane Matata-Sipu (Spinoff): Māori women talk about the future of moko kauae
1News: ‘I’m just so sorry’ – Law Society President apologises to sexually harassed female lawyers
Emily Menkes (Stuff): Golliwogs cause stir at Oamaru restaurant
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Wake up New Zealand and give a voice to those who already have booming voices]]>
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