Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 13 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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Prisons, justice and three strikes repeal
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On Sir Peter Gluckman and his report on prison reform
Newshub: Government to reveal plans for Waikeria Prison this afternoon
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Waikeria prison plan announcement today
Newshub: Plans for more cops will worsen prison bed shortage
Zane Small (Newshub): Former Labour President Mike Williams calls for rehabilitation in prisons
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Peters dismisses coalition ‘backstab’ on three strikes law
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Coalition regroups after ‘three strikes’ law repeal untidiness
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Winston Peters on charm offensive after Three Strikes and super lawsuit test cohesion
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Govt no longer scrapping Three Strikes law
Jo Moir (Stuff): NZ First says it won’t ever support Three Strikes repeal, taking it completely off the table
Herald: No support from New Zealand First to repeal ‘three strikes’ law
1News: Watch: ‘You’ve got a listening problem’ – Winston Peters and Simon Bridges clash over Three Strikes law repeal
Government
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): With Winston Peters in charge, it seems everything could be up for grabs
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Peters deploys favourite political weapons
Wayne Mapp (Spinoff): How will Winston Peters act as PM? Just look at the last few days
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): Why it’s getting hard to see Ardern’s government lasting past 2020
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): PM seeks $1.8m from state
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): The Peters Show debuts to National’s delight
Claire Trevett (Herald): Cut & Thrust: Acting PM-designate Winston Peters’ Yes Minister moments with Grant Robertson
Charles Anderson (Guardian): New Zealand coalition under strain as Jacinda Ardern prepares for maternity leave
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National Party criticises Peters’ privacy lawsuit
Claire Trevett (Herald): National leader Simon Bridges: Winston Peters should put aside ‘personal vendettas’
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Peters targets Govt’s ‘no surprises’ policy
No Right Turn: Awkward
Police apology to Nicky Hager
Herald Editorial: Hager case triumph for public information
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Police apologise to Nicky Hager for ‘dirty politics’
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Relief for Hager after tough-won settlement with police
1News: Nicky Hager receives apology from police and ‘substantial damages’ over Dirty Politics investigation
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Hager triumphs as police capitulate
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What we need to believe in illegal Police persecution against Hager
No Right Turn: Justice for Nicky Hager
Public service
Colin James (RNZ): Is public service working for MPs or the public?
Richard Harman (Politik): The politics behind the big public service top jobs reshuffle
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Upheaval in public service after sweeping changes
Meth report
Laura Walters (Stuff): Housing NZ report into meth test saga to cover ‘every aspect’ of ‘policy failure’
Matt Brown (Stuff): Family sells meth-contaminated house ‘below market value’ weeks before bombshell report
Mike Butler (NZCPR): Meth, evidence, govt failure
Housing
Susan St John (Newsroom): A new way to fix our housing bubble
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waiting list surges: 8108 awaiting homes in April
Lois Williams (RNZ): ‘New homelessness’ in Whangarei sparks call for help
John Anthony (Stuff): Auckland developers stuck in holding pattern as banks tighten purse strings, Colliers says
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Mould, leaking wastewater disgusts Dunedin student flat tenants
Julie Iles (Stuff): Firewood shortage leading to emergency deliveries for families without heating
Herald: Auckland second most expensive city to relocate to
Money lending, scams
Rob Stock (Stuff): ‘There’s just too many dodgy, shady, blood-sucking leech businesses out there’
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): Family’s worry as elderly man pours life savings into romance scam
Building safety
Tom Furley (RNZ): ‘No doubt’ of legal action over aluminium cladding – lawyer
Carla Penman (Herald): Apartment owner ‘disgusted’ that controversial cladding hasn’t yet been removed
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Council names Auckland buildings with Grenfell Tower-type cladding
Carla Penman (Herald): Apartment owner ‘disgusted’ that controversial cladding hasn’t yet been removed
Dileepa Fonseka (Auckland Now): Grenfell-tower style cladding found on Auckland stadiums, university and office blocks
Anne Gibson (Herald): Thousands in Auckland buildings with cladding cores like Grenfell Tower
Damien George (Stuff): 18 Wellington buildings with Grenfell Tower-style cladding require safety check
RNZ: Wgtn Council says 113 buildings have aluminium cladding
Herald: Wellington City Council identifies 113 buildings cladding similar to Grenfell Tower
Environment
Zac Fleming (RNZ): DOC withholds information after demands from Thompson and Clark
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party members revolt over water bottling decision
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Green Party green lights Chinese company to take MORE water?
RNZ: Chinese company granted consent to buy land for water bottling
Point of Order: Maori water claims likely to spring from land decision in favour of Chinese water bottler
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Just add water for a xenophobic political ‘scandal’
Andrea Vance (Stuff): MPs told to ‘get on’ with Kermadecs sanctuary
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Demonstrators call for action on Kermadec sanctuary
Primary industries
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Farmers keep taking biosecurity risks
Herald: Biosecurity onus on all of us, says Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor
Herald: NZ biosecurity top-scores in KPMG agribusiness survey
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Only two out of 100 Kiwis think biosecurity threats affect them
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Battle to protect mānuka honey to cost $5.5m
Lynley Tulloch (Scoop): Big Fat Lies and the New Zealand Dairy Industry
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Farmers need to reverse the negative narrative on the primary sector
Lyn Webster (Stuff): Proof please for ‘zero carbon utopia’ from cattle disease compo
RNZ: Forestry damage: ‘I do understand the anguish’
RNZ: Forestry companies ‘committed to do our fair share’
RNZ: Farmers order forestry companies to pay for ‘one helluva mess’
RNZ: Closure of scallop fishery to be extended in South Island
Health
RNZ: Ministry concedes caregivers should have been paid
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Pasifika, Māori put in seclusion at double the rates of Pākehā
Libby Wilson (Herald): Coroner’s inquest for Nicky Stevens, patient who died after leaving mental health facility
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Silence, then judgment – our approach to suicide isn’t working
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): What the sadness of celebrity deaths Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain can teach us
Samantha Gee (Stuff): Disability support staff claim bullying and unsafe behaviour
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato DHB confident of avoiding deadline dramas
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): National maternity authority supports Lumsden centre
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): The E word: when, if ever, is it acceptable to call someone ‘elderly’?
Chief Science Advisor announced
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): PM’s new, protein-wrangling science advisor
Jamie Morton (Herald): Scientists applaud pick for successor to PM’s science adviser Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Nicole Lawton ad Mandy Te (Stuff): PM Jacinda Ardern announces new science advisor
1News: Prime Minister’s new Chief Science Advisor announced by Jacinda Ardern
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Juliet Gerrard named as Chief Science Advisor
Education
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Immigration and education system under siege
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Economy expected to take up to $100m hit from post-study visa changes
Jason Walls (Interest): ANZ say the Government has overestimated how many students its new work rights policy will affect by up to 6000 people per year
Elena McPhee (ODT): Feedback supports claims
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Auckland school changes zone to cut out students moving in to planned housing development
Giovanni Tiso: A modest proposal for solving the crisis in ‘special education’ by next Tuesday
Amy Baker (North Harbour News): Auckland school ‘ignored and disregarded’ as 12-metre-high building approved on boundary
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Spinoff): How we talk about early childhood education matters
Parliament
Bevan Rapson (North & South): M. bovis and meth panic: When issues should be bigger than politics
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Revealed: David Seymour has won more votes for TV dancing than he did in actual election
Newshub: Gerry Brownlee caught playing solitaire during Parliament Question Time
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland councillors pen letter of no confidence in mayor Phil Goff
Newshub: Auckland Mayor Phil Goff faced with letter of no confidence
David Farrar: Goff no confidenced by half of Auckland Council
Chris Harrowell (Auckland Now): Major development plans outlined for Auckland’s waterfront
Virginia Fallon (Stuff):Kāpiti Coast District Council to consider funding private airline
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Council backs out of $5m Holcim purchase
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): Rates row: Some Sounds residents not Sounds enough
Financial hardship, welfare
Stuff: My constant struggle to stay above the poverty line
Shane Te Pou (Newsroom): Let’s keep welfare for the poor
Defence
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern isn’t sure whether NZDF Afghanistan mission a success
RNZ: NZDF told it needs plan to avoid further foam contamination
RNZ: Council orders NZDF not to discharge stormwater with firefighting foam
International relations and trade
Claire Trevett (Herald): Trump-Kim meeting ‘giant leap forward’ for peace says Foreign Minister Winston Peters
Stuff: Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un talks carry potential for ‘peace in our time’, Winston Peters says
Reserve Bank
Michael Reddell: Gift receiving at the Reserve Bank
Michael Reddell: (Lack of) transparency at the Orr Reserve Bank
Jacinda Ardern’s baby plans and Clarke Gayford
1News: Watch: ‘I just feel enormous’ – Jacinda Ardern hints she’s eager for baby to arrive as due date looms
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Economy expected to take up to $100m hit from post-study visa changes
Jo Moir (Stuff): It was a police decision to clear Clarke Gayford’s name after rumours
Other
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how KiwiSaver needs to change, experts say
Stuff: Four NZ Post and Kiwibank branches to close in Dunedin
Fiona Hutton (Herald): We need a well informed referendum on legalising cannabis
Liz McDonald (Stuff): Cathedral Square plan due Wednesday should end long costly wait
Pete George: Minister for Women questions Twitter follower imbalance
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): ‘Your call can’t be connected due to high demand’
Michelle Duff and Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Charities Services investigates complaint into seaborne medical aid charity
Jess Gibson (Stuff): Insulation jobs help refugees brush up their English
Leonie Pihama: Speaking Truth to Racism
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): Wellington SPCA staff summoned to meeting as bullying accusations surface
ODT Editorial: Appalling dog attacks continue
Brian Rudman (Herald): Matariki a more genuine festival than foreign imports
David Cormack (Herald): Why Simon Bridges is wrong about changing abortion law]]>
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