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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 30 2018

By Bryce Edwards -
October 30, 2018
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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 30 2018

Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.

The Beehive and Parliament Buildings.

Immigration, Karel Sroubek residency decision
Dileepa Fonseka and Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Immigration NZ fields more tip offs about scams than it can manage
1News: Jacinda Ardern defends decision not to deport Czech drug smuggler – ‘There’s other information, obviously’
Derek Cheng (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern backs her minister over not deporting Czech drug smuggler Karel Sroubek
Zane Small (Newshub): ‘This is now a decision for him’: Jacinda Ardern defends drug lord’s residency
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Public deserve an explanation of Karel Sroubek decision
Derek Cheng (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern says Karel Sroubek decision was difficult for Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway
Scott Palmer and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): ‘Not an easy one’: Jacinda Ardern defends decision to grant drug lord Karel Sroubek residency
RNZ: Czech smuggler previously had residency – under a false identity
Derek Cheng (Herald): Immigration Minister releases letter setting out residency conditions for Karel Sroubek
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Drug smuggler Karel Sroubek’s ‘strict conditions’ to remain in New Zealand
1News: Czech drug smuggler granted NZ residency under strict conditions, Immigration Minister says
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway reveals Karel Sroubek’s residency conditions
Derek Cheng (Herald): National MP to travel to Czech Republic if Govt fails to give immigration answers
Northland Age: MP protest after drug smuggler granted residency, Switzer care worker deported
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Immigrant drug lord Karel Sroubek should be ‘gone by lunchtime’ – Simon Bridges
RNZ: Minister criticised over drug smuggler’s residency
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Couple struggling to remain in NZ disgusted drug dealer Karel Sroubek was granted residency
David Farrar: What the Parole Board said
David Farrar: The full background of the guy given residency by Labour

Health and disability
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Regulating junk food, alcohol, tobacco marketing could assist cancer prevention – experts
Newshub: Junk food marketing needs to be changed to reduce risk of obesity induced cancers
Karen Brown (RNZ): One Year On: The cost of accessible healthcare
Ananish Chaudhuri (Herald) Racial bias unlikely in resuscitation attempts for premature births
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Health cuts feared as boards ordered to reduce deficits
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Waikato DHB launches crackdown on expected $56m deficit
RNZ: Sunday Morning: Dr Nick Wright: eating a plant-based diet
Elena McPhee (ODT): Benefits to higher excise tax: research
1News: ‘Alarming’ new study shows 33 per cent of Kiwis are drinking hazardously their entire adult lives
Dennis Maga (Stuff): Ambulance workers deserve better pay
Karen Brown (RNZ): World shortage of HPV vaccine disrupts immunisation in NZ
Annette Lambly (Stuff): Whangarei council votes for more outdoor spaces smokefree by 2020
Mike Houlahan (ODT): War kept killing after 1918: study
Herald: New study finds WWI cast a long shadow over New Zealanders’ health
Aine Kelly-Costello and Mitch McCann (Newshub): Blind Foundation members break down barriers in the newsroom
Newshub: The amazing story of June Hieatt
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Porirua community demands help after six suicides: ‘It’s just too many’

Housing
Herald: Criticism over new KiwiBuild buyers’ suitability, housing minister says homes not for low-income families
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): KiwiBuild not for low-income families, says housing minister
Scott Palmer (Newshub): KiwiBuild ‘not aimed at low-income families’ – Phil Twyford
David Farrar: Yes it is like winning Lotto
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Barrier to compensation over flawed meth testing leaves bitter taste
Derek Cheng (Herald): PM hopes compensation for flawed meth tests by Xmas
Michelle Cooke and LIsa Owen (RNZ): Checkpoint: Law change ‘likely’ before meth compensation can be paid out
Deena Coster (Stuff): $750K grant breathes life into kaumātua housing initiative
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Aussie property market slowdown might (and might not) be contagious

Government
Colin James (RNZ): Polls show coalition well-placed in second year of govt
ODT Editorial: Labour’s satisfactory first year
David Cormack (Herald): The politics of doing jack-all
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Verdicts on the Government’s first year
Jen​ée Tibshraeny (Interest): Are criticisms that the Labour Party is the ‘tax party’ are well-founded?
Whena Owen (1News): Shane Jones’ tari: ‘Welcome to the lair’

Online voting, party membership, parliament
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Political parties benefit from having a broad base of members
Josie Pagani (Stuff): The politics of ‘tribal’ membership
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Online voting no cure for apathy, says academic
David Farrar:Huge increase in overseas votes because of e-voting
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Christians return to Parliament to protest removal of Jesus from prayer
Jason Walls (Herald): Speaker Trevor Mallard ‘has no plans’ to reintroduce Jesus into Parliamentary prayer

Abortion
Liz Beddoe (Newsroom): Abortion law change at last in sight
RNZ: Simon Bridges: Abortion law change a ‘conscience issue’ for MPs
1News: Should abortion be a health issue, rather than in the Crimes Act? Q+A debate
Bob McCoskrie : The Q+A abortion debate

Foreign affairs
Jo Moir (RNZ): ‘The days of treating you as pests are over’
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters flags $70m for nurturing Pacific NGOs
1News: The Story with John Campbell: Trapped on Nauru
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Ardern softly raises concern over Uighurs

Primary industries, animal welfare
Pat Deavoll (Stuff): The light and the dark sides of the pork industry
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Countdown sells Kiwi free farmed fresh pork only
Ewan Sargent (Stuff): Lamb hunter: ‘They have a good life, then bang’
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Kiwi firm Craft Meat Company launches meat-free mince
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Taking animals out of the lab
Jamie Gray (Herald): NZ dairy farm prices drop 18 pct as environmental, foreign investment concerns bite
Stuff: Walker raises concerns about new farming rules
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): Ngāi Tahu Farming replaces forestry with 14,000 cows at Eyrewell

Environment and conservation
Rachael Kelly (Southland times): Salmon company wants exclusive use of Stewart Island coastal area
Alexander Robertson (Herald): Local Focus: Multi-kill traps deployed to save our rarest duck, the whistling whio
Zane Small (Newshub): Tauranga Mayor calls for restrictions on so-called ‘flushable’ wet wipes

Oil and gas exploration ban
Mike Joy (Newsroom): Energy makes the economy go round
Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern has to defend high speed legislative process
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Prime Minister says offshore oil permit ban legislation offers ‘complete certainty’ to industry
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Ardern defends short consultation period on oil/gas exploration ban

Education
Peter Lyons (ODT): Bid to bring in teachers shows up sad status of profession
Luke Kirkeby (Stuff): Foreign teachers bridging New Zealand’s shortage
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Teachers want long-term solutions
Adele Redmond and Josephine Franks (Stuff): One third of early childhood centres struggling to fill vacancies, sector survey says
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): ‘We’re known to be nurses, social workers – you name it’
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Science shouldn’t be a ‘nice to have’ in schools
Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley (Briefing Papers): The New Zealand Wars and the School Curriculum
Josh Williams (Herald): Apprenticeships and training a tertiary education success story

Local government
Liz McDonald (Stuff): Mayor sticks to short showers as council urges water restraint
Bernard Orsman (Herald): $1.5m needed to fix deteriorating turf at Eden Park to guarantee continuation of All Black tests and T20 cricket matches
Robin Martin (RNZ): Rubbish offer forces councils to reconsider $42m landfill plan
Deena Coster (Stuff): Waitara residents upset by MP’s no show at leaseholders’ meeting

Transport
Todd Niall (Stuff):It’s time to ensure scootering stays fun for everyone
Press Editorial: Teething problems no reason to simply abandon trial
Newshub: No changes needed for Lime electric scooters – Gerry Brownlee
Nita Blake-Persen (RNZ): Number of e-scooter ACC claims rises to 38
Alice Webb-Liddall and Ella Prendergast (Newshub): The substantial number of Lime scooter ACC injury claims in NZ already
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Footpaths should be a no-no for scooters
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): ACC numbers reveal a 27-fold increase in e-bike related accidents in last five years
Damian George (Stuff): At least 30 Wellington bus routes need fixing as network continues to struggle
RNZ: Wellington bus strike called off
Zane Small (Newshub): Car battery callouts spike in wake of rising fuel prices
Colin Williscroft (Stuff): Speed limits as low as 60kmh proposed for parts of SH1 near Kaikoura
Kawe Roes (Māori TV): New railway line to Marsden Point being investigated by KiwiRail

Employment
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Construction and agriculture serious injuries on the rise
Rob Stock (Stuff): Multi-national corporation breaches New Zealand bargaining law
Herald: Bidfood found to have breached employment laws
Newshub: Bidfood New Zealand found to have breached employment laws

Business
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): SME confidence collapses as revenue falls sharply
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Influencers lay out plan to get more women on boards

Royal visit
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Spinoff): At Government House with the royals, 183 years after we declared our independence
Herald Editorial: Harry and Meghan royalty with a difference
Jason Walls (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern gifts Prince Harry a Shapeshifter CD and Meghan a pair of Boh Runga earrings
Stuff: Prime Minister gifts music album and earrings to Prince Harry and Meghan
Peter de Graaf (Northern Advocate): ‘Star-struck’ Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime talks period poverty with Duchess
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Meghan Markle praised for speaking Māori in New Zealand suffrage speech

Other
John Armstrong (1News): The sad truth for Simon Bridges is that the vast proportion of the public simply don’t like him
Cate Broughton (Stuff): EQC’s disaster fund to get $50m Government top up, months earlier than forecast
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZ experts cautious about following UK with new tax on digital giants
Simeon Brown (Spinoff): A middle ground on drug laws: Simeon Brown responds to Chlöe Swarbrick
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Whistleblower protection: firms and charities may face tougher reporting
Mike Dinsdale (Northern Advocate): Twenty-one kids in state care commit crimes in Tai Tokerau in a year
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Five things to look for in the Financial Markets Authority and Reserve Bank report on New Zealand banks’ conduct and culture
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): RBNZ’s Orr ‘off-the-record’ speech
Ian Taylor (ODT): Govt must be shown how region is behind project
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Te Papa lacking enough internal staff to look after entire collection, experts say
1News: Police investigate ‘date rape’ complaint at Auckland K Road bar amid calls for better reporting
RNZ: Samoa to tighten adoption laws to counter slave labour
Pam Jones (ODT): Freedom camping rules push
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Documentary series on Ihumātao land protest wins top award
Greg Moyle (Herald): A museum at Le Quesnoy will remember our war contribution
Conor Twyford (Spinoff): We asked a trans woman to speak on our #metoo panel. Then the abuse began.
Stuff: John Campbell launches podcast, looks at trains during first six weeks at TVNZ

Bryce Edwards
Bryce Edwards
Dr Bryce Edwards is a political scientist and a lecturer in Politics.

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