Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 4 2018
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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Foreign affairs and trade
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern to raise refugee crisis at Nauru forum
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Labour and NZ First differ over refugee increase
1News: Watch: Winston Peters says focus needs to be on Kiwis, not accepting refugees from Nauru – ‘I can show you parts of Northland where people are living in degradation’
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Winston Peters declares U-turn on Government’s plan to boost refugee quota
Anna Powles and Michael Powles (Incline): Taking New Zealand’s Pacific Reset to the Pacific Islands Forum
Don Rowe (Spinoff): A Pacific powderkeg: why Nauru will dominate the news this week
Nick Perry (AP): Fate of Nauru refugees casts shadow over Pacific conference
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Will Jacinda Ardern meet Nauru refugees she’s forever talking about?
1News: Grant Robertson defends Jacinda Ardern’s decision to take extra flight to Nauru, and to not use it for critically ill NZ woman
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Grant Robertson defends Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s separate Nauru flight
Newshub: ‘She shouldn’t go’ – Duncan Garner on Jacinda Ardern’s separate Nauru flight
Newstalk ZB: Extra costs for taxpayers so PM can spend more time with baby
Newstalk ZB: PM reveals she considered not going to Nauru over immunisations issue
Newstalk ZB: Ardern defended over Nauru flight, slammed over Whaitiri
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defends Air Force ride to Nauru
1News: Additional cost of Nauru trip due to ‘unique set of circumstances’ as baby Neve unable to travel – Prime Minister
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern defends travelling separately to Nauru for Pacific Islands Forum
RNZ: Bainimarama no show at Forum
Perss Editorial: New Zealand’s Antarctic efforts need to be refocused
Herald: Huge China-backed free trade deal could be signed as early as November
Anneke Smith (RNZ): NZers in Australia’s Yongah Hill Detention Centre say jail is better
Government
Herald: Alleged incident between suspended minister Meka Whaitiri and staffer did not take place at Parliament
1News: Peeni Henare backs Labour colleague Meka Whaitiri as party’s Māori caucus meets
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Meka Whaitiri absent from Parliament this week, PM says
Jo Moir (RNZ): Meka Whaitiri will not return to Parliament when it resumes
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Meka Whaitiri working from home constituency this week, PM says
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The vastly different perspectives on the Government
Jason Walls (Interest): The sheer scale of the Provincial Growth Fund could be problematic for the Government
The Standard: Government as startup
Parliament
Richard Harman (Politik): Heightened tensions at Parliament
Rawiri Taonui (Herald): Māori opting for general seats reflects their rise in all parties
Lucy Bennett (Herald): DIA missed out whole month when calculating ministerial expenses
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Feminist MPs throw support behind transgender women
National Party
Audrey Young (Herald): All National MPs have verbally agreed to privacy waiver for computer probe says Gerry Brownlee
Chris Marshall (Spinoff): The best solution for Simon Bridges and his leaker? Restorative justice
David Cormack (Herald): What if National had actually retained power?
The Standard: Bridges establishes working group to prepare discussion document
Environment and conservation
Jamie Morton (Herald): Challenging but achievable’ – how NZ can go green
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Productivity Commission suggests ‘feebate’ for all cars and even more trees to fight climate change
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Not enough electric cars to hit the target
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fish & Game warn of farmers’ move to blunt environmental message
Newstalk ZB: Fed. Farmers deny they want to take over Fish and Game
No Right Turn: Federated Farmers tries entryism to protect pollution
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Toxic dye used in ‘breast cancer awareness’ promo was poured into stream
Jenny Ling (Stuff): DOC postpones Far North 1080 aerial drop following outrage from iwi
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Challenges for native plant nurseries
Danielle Clent (North Shore Times): Tracks and reserves on Auckland’s North Shore to close because of kauri dieback disease
Māori TV: North Shore tracks to close to stem kauri dieback
1News: Kereru are a protected species but some iwi want to hunt the birds for cultural reasons
Esther Tauntom (Stuff): Water projects ‘critical’ as scientists predict run of even higher temperatures
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Pipeline completion provides relief for water plant’s lone caretaker
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Hapū to restore mahinga kai despite council stuff-up
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Levin landfill largely compliant with consents
Primary industries
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Animal rights lawyers attack feedlot for violating welfare code
Veronika Meduna (LIstener): What role should dairy farms play in NZ’s low-emission future?
Interest: Treasury: Alternative proteins, artificial meats and the implications for our agricultural sector
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Growing exports of New Zealand Redwood for US market
Keith Woodford (Stuff): China demand for New Zealand sheepmeat booming
Business and economy
Colin James (ODT): Question of wellbeing
Gordon Campbell: On trying to cheer up the business sector
Point of Order: It’s hard to find the policy beneath the platitudes in PM’s business speech
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Treasury warns migration is falling faster than expected ‘posing a risk’ to growth
RNZ: Higher dairy export prices boost terms of trade
Andrew Caseley (Herald): Companies are looking at how to reduce their carbon emissions
Employment
Kate Newton (RNZ): Why being made redundant in NZ is so tough
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Not all businesses oppose the living wage
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): Kiwiblog gets it wrong
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): The women who stood their ground in Levin factory found
Chris Morris (ODT):#MeTooNZ: inquiry call
Justice, corrections, police
David Fisher (Herald): The Great Escape – prison crisis eases after Corrections thinks outside the cell
Ryan Boswell (1News): Government hails supposed turnaround in prisoner population, but National says the numbers are PR spin
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): It’s not the justice system that’s broken, it’s the people
Baden Vertongen (Pundit): Thoughts from the Criminal Justice Summit
Oriini Kaipara (Māori TV): Community says no to convicted offenders
Jared Savage (Herald): QC to consider bullying allegations in Haumaha inquiry
Health
Herald: Schools need national health food policy, researchers say
1News: Alcohol and dental organisations slam PAK’nSAVE’s ‘Good Health Week’ promotion after beer, chips and fizzy drink included
Ben Strang (RNZ): $90m DHB IT system could be ditched
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Waitemata DHB doubles Māori workforce
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Iwi-led initiative to receive health award
Wanganui Chronicle: Whanganui retirement home Enliven leading the way in cultural care
1News: Jacinda Ardern won’t criticise Simon Bridges for helping Kiwi woman ill in Bali
Emily van Velthooven (1News): Simon Bridges helped organise medevac flight for New Zealand woman seriously ill in Bali to return home
Isaac Davison (Herald): ‘Be okay to lean on the people around you’ – Lifeline volunteer Victoria Rendall
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): ‘Jaw-dropping’ delays for special education
Simon Judd (Herald): Students removed from school deserve justice
Teresa Cowie (RNZ): Insight: Should NZ Schools Ban Mobile Phones?
Janika ter Ellen (Newshub): Novopay leaves 2000 educators in debt after ‘shocking’ payment error
Nicholas Boyack (Stuff): Government commits $24m to rebuilding rundown Wainuiomata High School
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): $24mil Wainuiomata High School upgrade to include marae facilities
1News: Religious education row splits Wellington state school community
RNZ: Unitec cuts at least 100 jobs as courses dropped
Simon Collins (Herald): Unitec axes 19 courses and at least 100 jobs in bid to rein in costs
Tim Miller (ODT): Concerns over focus of law camp review
Housing
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Borrowing on state house spending has more than a whiff of Hollywood about it
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Phil Twyford’s house of cards – with 9982 homes to go, KiwiBuild is a fantasy
Marlene Singh (Stuff): Landlord of grotty ‘swamp’ house given 10 days to fix flooding issues
Te Reo Māori
Newshub: Mark Richardson’s passionate push for compulsory te reo Māori stuns co-hosts
Jennifer Dann (Herald): 12 Questions: The Hits radio star Stacey Morrison
Point of Order: There’s strength in numbers, they say – but how strong is 300 responses to te reo ambitions?
Canterbury
Liz McDonald (Press): Eight years on: Christchurch’s changing faces of power
David Williams (Newsroom): Council manager makes legal threat over water report
Dominic Harris (Press): Christchurch district plan change ‘serious injustice’ for residents
Dominic Harris (Press): Council staff ‘deliberately sabotaged’ Christchurch District Plan on consents
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Christchurch councillor David East calls for independent inquiry after tampering allegations
RNZ: Councillor accuses staff of tampering with district plan
Newshub: Christchurch City Council tampering claims ‘inappropriate’ – chief executive
Garth Bray (TVNZ): Mould brings heartache for Christchurch woman still waiting for quake repairs
Vicki Anderson (Stuff): It is people that make post-earthquake Christchurch great
Local government
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Wellington council becomes country’s largest living wage employer
Laura Macdonald (Newshub): Wellington City Council becomes country’s first living wage council
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Business leaders question cost as Wellington City Council gets living wage accreditation
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Wellington’s mayor and city councillors trade civic heart for political beltway
Anne Marie May (RNZ): Legal stoush over Chinese Garden plan continues
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Regional council confirms use of consulting company
David Farrar: Online voting trial
Pike River
Newshub: Pike River Recovery Agency reveals new details for drift re-entry plan
Conan Young (RNZ): Pike electrical infrastructure may have survived explosions
RNZ: Drift re-entry a ‘forensics examination’
Defence
Terence O’Brien (Incline): An Old or a New Dawn? Questions Hang Over New Zealand’s Defence Policy Statement
Stuff: $2 million budget for NZDF Afghanistan SAS raid Special Inquiry Office
Transport
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Transporting Aucklanders: Capitalist Cars versus Socialist Trains
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Years of transport indecision sees ‘ghost flats’ haunt Wellington during housing crisis
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Expressway uncertainty: Residents living in limbo
Sam Kelway (1News): Mackenzie District Councillor outlines community effort to signpost dangerous road
Sam Kelway (1News): ‘Disappointing’ and ‘profoundly gutting’ as twelve people killed on NZ’s road last week alone
Drugs
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Drug Foundation blasts ‘callous indifference’ of Government amid synthetics epidemic
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Drug cartels trafficking synthetic opioids target NZ
Gambling
John Minto (Daily Blog): Labour, New Zealand First and the Pokies
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): More time with whānau during Gambling Awareness Week
Racing
Herald Editorial: Messara report on racing offers familiar answers
Press Editorial: Racing industry needs surgery, antibiotics – but not steroids
Ollie Ritchie (Newshub): More NZ sporting bodies express concerns over TAB changes
Other
Alexander Gillespie (Stuff): Manning leaked info to break secrecy and privacy governments work under
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Internet society fears ‘Five Eyes’ could be about to undermine the Net
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): DNA testing: pitfalls, bombshells and mysteries solved
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Wellington hapū place rāhui on land to halt development plans
Rose Davis (RNZ): Waiheke Island military tunnel tours planned
RNZ: Warning over unrealistic KiwiSaver promises
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): New study shows less than half of adult Kiwis have a will – ‘I didn’t think I needed one’
Chris Hutching (Stuff): US billionaire Julian Robertson buys Waiheke land for luxury lodge
Grant Bradley (Herald): US billionaire Julian Robertson pays $19m for Waiheke Island property
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Business of former MP Marama Fox owes over $70k
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Former Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox’s company owes at least $70k
Murdoch Stephens (Spinoff): How I gamed Facebook to get the refugee quota increased
James Belfield (Stuff): The hard truth about immigration
David Hall (Briefing Papers): Free speech and responsibilities
James Croot (Stuff): Lisa Owen to start RNZ Checkpoint role next month
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Tourist hotspots struggle for staff before summer season
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Top trainer fined after five greyhounds die during Cook Strait ferry crossing
Maria Pozza (Idealog): Into uncharted territory: as New Zealand’s space industry takes off, can we create laws that allow it to grow while keeping it in check?
Robin Martin (RNZ): Anglican Archdeacon Tikitūterangi Raumati makes powerful gesture in death]]>
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