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.
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
Jenée 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
