Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 5 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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Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Why the Government is letting the rich buy KiwiBuild homes
Jess Berentson-Shaw (RNZ): KiwiBuild risks embedding wealth and housing inequalities
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Opinion: KiwiBuild a free-for-all
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Twyford’s ‘middle-class aspirational’ plan
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Kiwibuild shows the Kiwi housing dream is over
Henry Cooke (Stuff): KiwiBuild houses won’t sell with 10 per cent deposits, says broker
Brad Flahive (Stuff): KiwiBuild: How to get yourself in the running for the Government’s new homes
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): KiwiBuild eligibility parameters broad
Scott Yeoman (Bay of Plenty Times): Tauranga’s mayor and builder query KiwiBuild eligibility criteria
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Ballot will keep Kiwibuild equal, Twyford says
Henry Cooke (Stuff): KiwiBuild registration: More people than homes within hours
1News: Almost 6,000 registrations of interest for KiwiBuild homes, says Housing Minister
Sophia Duckor-Jones (RNZ): Thousands sign up for KiwiBuild in first day
Herald: KiwiBuild applications hit 1200 as Kiwis rush to get in
Jason Walls (Interest): Adams slams $180k KiwiBuild income cap – says it should be $130k
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Can you buy a Kiwibuild house?
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Housing NZ tenant with kids forced to live in home with ‘safety issues’
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): If property managers can’t fix mouldy homes, are they just ripping off renters?
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Oxygen ordered to pay tenants after two-month delay in fixing leak
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Landlords will get creative with fees, MPs warned
RNZ: Methamphetamine contamination: Toxicologist Leo Schep explains the science
Katy Jones (Stuff): House values drop in “less buoyant” market
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): Did Bob Jones create the housing crisis? Revisiting his 1977 bestseller
Russell McVeagh review
Steph Dyhrberg (Newsroom): Russell McVeagh report makes for ‘savage reading’
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Russell McVeagh slammed over sex assaults
RNZ: Russell McVeagh review: Women felt ‘intimidated, confused and uncomfortable
Frances Cook (Herald): ‘Out of control’: Junior Russell McVeagh staff faced drunken, sexually inappropriate behaviour: Dame Margaret Bazley
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Bazley report: A light shines into Russell McVeagh law firm and what it shows isn’t good
Newshub: Damning review into culture at Russell McVeagh released
Damian George (Stuff): Female staff at Russell McVeagh work function ‘thought they should have been safe’
Sasha Borissenko (Newsroom): Four things the Russell McVeagh review must address
GCSB spying in the Pacific
David Fisher (Herald): How the GCSB collects information about Kiwis through spying on the Pacific – and why it’s legal
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Report confirms the GCSB was spying on the Pacific – but it’s legal
Jane Patterson (RNZ): GCSB intelligence-gathering in Pacific all legal – report
RNZ: NZ spy agency cleared of wrongdoing in new report
Newshub: GCSB cleared over allegations it spied on Kiwis working in Pacific
No Right Turn: The GCSB spied on the Pacific
David Farrar: IGIS says GCSB acted entirely properly with work in the Pacific
Employment
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Pizza Hut stores profiled for migrant exploitation
Stuff: Fact check: Are public sector salaries higher?
Stuff: Over 16,000 have been unemployed for over a year
RNZ: Teachers’ strike: Pay rise needed to curb ‘crisis’
Carla Penman (Herald): Half of teachers at a south Auckland school on verge of quitting
Newshub: Teaching not seen as attractive career path anymore – strike negotiator
Logan Church (RNZ): Workers allegedly exploited at Christchurch water bottling plant Cloud Ocean Water
Logan Church (RNZ): Bottling company rejects claims of worker safety issues at plant
Matthew Rosenberg (Stuff): Long days, no annual leave, no breaks – courier drivers reveal difficulties of job
Business
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Shrinking profitability in business surveys sounds warning
MIchael Reddell: Falls in business confidence: 2000 and 2018
Banking industry
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Customers being sold loans they can’t afford: Westpac worker
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Third bank appoints female CEO
Welfare, poverty, inequality
Zac Fleming (RNZ): 20% of benefit fraud tip-offs have some legitimacy
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Debts cancelled more often for pensioners than beneficiaries
Victoria University (Newsroom): ‘A full apology from the highest level of government’
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Swift capping on loan sharks needed
Mere McLean (Māori TV): Salvation Army Rotorua stepping in to help
Police and justice
Audrey Young (Herald): Police minister Stuart Nash says he would have conducted his own due diligence on Wally Haumaha
Newshub: Lawyer says Taser death victim likely one of the ‘vulnerable’
Newshub: Three agencies to investigate man who died in police custody
Newshub:Auckland police: Man dies after multiple Taserings
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Man dead after ‘violent’ struggle and arrest by Auckland police
RNZ: Man who was tasered, restrained died in police custody
Herald: Witness says man who died in police custody three days after being arrested and tasered was ‘out of control
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Cost of policing Wellington protests is skyrocketing
Phillipa Yalden (Stuff): Police stayed quiet for five weeks on rape in Hamilton CBD
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): Crime is sophisticated, prevention needs to be too
RNZ: Sir Graham Panckhurst to review Scott Watson’s latest attempt to clear name
Government
John Tamihere (Herald): Peters right to pursue leak in court
Claire Trevett (Herald): National’s problem with Winston Peters’ heater bills
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Booming employment market gives Crown accounts another boost
Foreign investment
Richard Harman (Politik): Parker rejects Treasury advice
Jane Clifton (Listener): The Govt is making big moves on foreign speculators and Google’s low tax payment
Tax
Jason Walls (Interest): IMF calling on the Tax Working Group to introduce a land taxes to help give KiwiBuild a leg up
Herald: Bill will introduce automatic tax refunds
Education
Bali Haque (Herald): Tomorrows Schools review must deal with the market’s failure
Elizabeth Rata (Herald): NCEA’s fatal flaw is to assess projects before knowledge
Newshub: Government announces $49 million investment in Auckland schools
John Boynton (RNZ): Charter school closure will affect Māori
Audrey Young and Lucy Bennett (Herald): Maori educationist Sir Toby Curtis calls on PM to show some ‘aroha’ to charter schools
Kymberlee Fernandes and Adele Redmond (Stuff): Closure of charter schools ‘in breach’ of the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori educators claim
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub) Maori leader claims Govt ‘bullying’ charter schools, urges PM to show aroha
1News: ‘Where is the love for these students?’ – Chris Hipkins questioned by Nikki Kaye over partnership schools
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Teacher with history of assaulting pupils struck off for twisting child’s nose
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Auckland teacher acquitted of sex charges against students
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Unitec council at risk of being fired with $100m losses forecast
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Unitec in ‘extreme financial difficulty’
Scott Palmers (Newshub): The problem with student loans? Not enough interest – NZ Initiative
Impossible burger and meat-free diets
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): Wake up and smell the meatless future
Winston Aldworth (Herald): Why MPs are wrong to criticise Air New Zealand’s Impossible Burger
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters hits out at fake meat burger
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Impossible burgers could be good for meat industry, says Damien O’Connor
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Southern MPs slam Air New Zealand’s meat-free burger option
RNZ: National MP slams Air NZ’s offer of meat-free burger
Herald: NZ First MP Mark Patterson criticises Air New Zealand over ‘Impossible burger’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The ignorance of MPs criticising Air NZs impossible burger is impossibly terrifying
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Fight back against the fake-meat traitors and live like me, a true NZ patriot
Siouxsie Wiles (Spinoff): How genetic modification helps the Impossible Burger take flight
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Impossible burger? Artificial meat is having your cake and eating it
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Time for some ribbing – but no meat
Primary industries
Esther Taunton (Stuff): How Greenpeace found an ally in Fonterra in fight against Mackenzie Basin dairy expansion
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Fonterra’s stance on Mackenzie dairy expansion ‘shows depth of negative feeling’
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Govt officials weaken local forest rules
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): Ministry recommended pest weeds in oversight for Billion Tree plan
Guy Trafford (Interest): Is dairy NZ’s coal?
Herald: IHC ditches calf sale fundraising scheme amid Mycoplasma bovis fears
Catherine Groenestein (Stuff): Cattle classes cancelled at annual show due to M. Bovis risk
Environment
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Skeletons of giants: NZ’s sacred kauri in crisis
Lois Williams (RNZ): Pine forests could incubate kauri dieback, scientists warn
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Te Mata Peak stoush escalates to High Court over track
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Town promises to do more to tackle air pollution, now linked to diabetes
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Banning plastic bags dabbling in faux answers
Health
Herald: Private investigators Thompson and Clark used by Auckland DHB to catch thieving employee
RNZ: Two million New Zealanders will be obese by the 2030s – study
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): ‘Wake-up’ call study shows ‘alarming’ increase in obesity rates
Emily Ford (Stuff): Māori health researcher says culture more important than losing weight
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Documents reveal ‘weak’ financial position of Counties Manukau DHB
Newshub: Middlemore Hospital emergency department nurses wearing security alarms as violence surges
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Ready for a big quake: Wellington Hospital plans to raid vending machines after earthquake
Ruby McAndrew and Thomas Manch (Stuff): Earthquake-prone building report finds Wairarapa Hospital may be at risk
Laine Moger (Stuff): ‘I hope you have very painful toothache’: Auckland DHB member’s outburst at anti-fluoride campaigners
Stuff: Having an invisible illness means always feeling judged
Jeremy Rees (Newsroom): Tales of death and dying, unplugged
Water quality
RNZ: Govt to slash red tape around drinking water quality rules
Laura Walters (Stuff): Law change planned to speed up changes to drinking water standards
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Health Minister David Clark admits safe drinking water may be costly
RNZ: Clutha water supply fails all standard levels
International relations and trade
Eleanor Ainge Roy and Ben Doherty (Guardian): Release teenager from Australian immigration detention, urges acting New Zealand PM
Ian Rintoul (RNZ): US zero tolerance policy is very close to home
Charles Finny (Stuff): NZ should put some feelers out on a trade deal with the US
Local government
Tina Law (Press): Ombudsman calls for Attorney-General to take action against Christchurch council for touch wall cost secrecy
Johnny Moore (Press): Christchurch ratepayers are unhappy with their Council but who will pay the price?
Logan Church (RNZ): Shortage of Christchurch events forces restructure
RNZ: Illegal oil dumping case goes to court
Film industry subsidies
Gordon Campbell: On subsidising the film industry
Rajneel Singh (Spinoff): Want to scrap Hollywood tax breaks? Fine, but RIP to our local film industry
Stats House
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Wgtn’s Statistics House floors not built as planned
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Expert panel told Wellington’s Statistics House not built to design
Defence
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZDF ‘puppet’ officer leaves Timor-Leste
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Bodies of military personnel killed in Malaysia to return home
No Right Turn: A colossal waste of money
Sam Hurley (Herald): Trial set for Commodore Alfred Keating in Washington embassy hidden camera case
Other
RNZ: Pasifika families in New Zealand need help to stop gambling – report
Tommy Livingston (Stuff): Kim Dotcom loses appeal against extradition
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): NZ National party appeals order to pay Eminem $600,000 in copyright battle
Sam Hurley (Herald): Labour Party camp indecent assault accused appears in court
Newshub: Labour Party camp sexual assault suspect pleads not guilty
Todd Niall (Stuff): Helen Clark’s concert opposition a ‘fall from grace’: Sir Ray Avery
RNZ: Sir Ray Avery defends plan for benefit concert at Eden Park
Scout Barbour-Evans (Spinoff): I’m pregnant and I’m going to be a dad
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The richest group of New Zealanders just got some more government money
Herald: Are we really welcomed by Kiwis?’ When racism and refereeing collide
Herald: Friends remember Rangitoto College student who died in car accident with moving haka
Sam Hurley (Herald): Supreme Court allows Craig v Williams defamation appeal over compensation amount
RNZ: Colin Craig and Jordan Williams’ court battle continues
Simon Smith (Stuff): How much does a community get for having an alcohol monopoly?
RNZ: Beehive evacuated after fire]]>
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