Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 31 2018
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.
Karel Sroubek residency decision, immigration
Gordon Campbell: On why deportation decisions should be transparent
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Karel Sroubek case will haunt the Government
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Government needs to explain why it’s being soft on hardened criminal Karel Sroubek
Beith Atkinson (Integrity Talking Points): Czechmate
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Do we really have to spell it out about Karel Sroubek gaining residency? Really?
Dominion Post Editorial: Reading between the lines, you are wrong
Zane Small (Newshub):‘We look like suckers’: Duncan Garner calls for justification of Sroubek’s visa
Jared Savage (Herald): ‘I believe him’ – Judge who gave Karel Sroubek AKA Jan Antolik a second chance stands by ruling
Zane Small (Newshub): ‘Privacy is critical’ in Sroubek’s residency case – Winston Peters
Derek Cheng (Herald): Residence decision for convicted drug-smuggler ‘responsible’ – Winston Peters
Jo Moir (RNZ): Minister stands by Czech drug smuggler decision
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway stands by his decision to grant convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek residency
Derek Cheng (Herald): Public safety chief concern in granting residency to drug smuggler – minister
Michael Morrah (Newshub): ‘It’s disgusting’: Napier electrician fumes at Czech drug lord Karel Sroubek’s NZ residency
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Split families slam Immigration Minister over Karel Sroubek decision
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Masters graduate mystified by ruling to leave country: ‘I was so confident’
Housing
Alice Webb-Liddall (Newshub): Duncan Garner: $650,000 KiwiBuild housing leaving out the lower class
Martyn Bradbury: Surprise, surprise – Kiwibuild is for the children of the white middle classes
Don Rowe (Spinoff): First homes and fake news
Zane Small (Newshub): Tova O’Brien calls Judith Collins’ cyberbullying ‘appalling’
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Five myths about KiwiBuild – and who it’s meant to help
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): KiwiBuild is not buyers’ only affordable housing option
David Farrar: It’s about the policy, not the people
Pete George: Politics and Kiwibuild
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Collins slates KiwiBuild for not serving those most in need, but is comfortable with nearly 10% of residential property purchases in central Auckland being made by foreigners
RNZ: Judith Collins says housing minister ‘verging on hysteria’
RNZ: Phil Twyford: KiwiBuild owners ‘a slice of middle New Zealand’
Anne Gibson (Herald): Twyford vs Collins: Twitterstorm raises questions about who should qualify for Kiwibuild
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Judith Collins accused of bullying KiwiBuild first-home buyers
Derek Cheng (Herald): Twyford, Collins, blame each other as cyber-bullies target KiwiBuild couple
Derek Cheng (Herald): Twyford and Collins in war of words over KiwiBuild bullying
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Judith Collins ‘bullying’ KiwiBuild first-home buyers, housing minister claims
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Cyberbullying spat in Parliament
Newshub: Judith Collins accused of bullying KiwiBuild first-home buyers
RNZ: Checkpoint: Housing Minister’s numbers in contrast to HNZ figures
RNZ: Meth evictions: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says tenants won’t be penalised twice
Rob Stock (Stuff): Incomes rise, housing costs rise faster, Stats NZ says
Interest: Stats NZ: Average annual housing costs rose faster than average annual household income over the past decade
Education and training
Simon Collins (Herald): Unicef ranks NZ education among world’s most unequal for boys and girls
Stuff: NZ’s education gap among the worst in the developed world
Jessica Long (Stuff): Poverty is stretching the divide within NZ’s education system, UNICEF says
RNZ: NZ among worst ranked for inequality in education – report
Laura Walters (Newsroom): NZ’s unequal education system
James Bentley (Herald): Schools have more urgent needs than all these reviews
Simon Collins (Herald): Fewer schools will sit NCEA online this year
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Hapū says MOE sells land without Māori consultation
Liz Garton (RNZ): Voices: Kicking NZ’s ‘cut and paste’ school curriculum to touch
Conan Young (RNZ):Pre-school at risk of closure puts community under pressure
RNZ: Plea to boost funding in work-based training to ease labour shortage
MItchell Alexander (Newshub): The number of university students needing counselling revealed
John Lewis (ODT): $310m boost for South from international education
Point of Order: VUW science teachers are encouraged to learn about mauri and other Māori belief concepts
Health and disability
MIchael Neilson (Herald): Poverty, discrimination behind health inequities facing young Māori – study
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Revealed: Hundreds declined specialist care for painful skin conditions
David Clark (ODT): Government is delivering on promises
Jesse King (Whanganui Chronicle): Mike King returning to Whanganui to visit schools with mental health message
Max Towle (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: What the govt should do about mental health
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Pasifika community in Hawke’s Bay urged to get bowel checks
Māori TV: Call for “Māori positive ageing”
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): After 8 years being locked up Ashley Peacock is ‘immensely happy’ in his new digs
National Party
Jane Clifton (Listener): Why you should never say ‘now I’ve seen everything’ in politics
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Ousted MP Jami-Lee Ross writes to National Party offering his vote
Tova O”Brien (Newshub): Jami-Lee Ross gears up for return to Parliament
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Disgraced MP Jami-Lee Ross still voting alongside National
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Jami-Lee Ross puts National on the spot
1News: Jami-Lee Ross remains on leave, gives National his proxy vote
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Jami-Lee Ross moved out of National’s offices in his absence
Newstalk ZB: Jami-Lee Ross breaks his social media silence
Parliament
Simon Chapple (The Conversation): New Zealand politics: how political donations could be reformed to reduce potential influence
Jack Vowles (Newsroom): A little creative accounting to fund politics
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Don’t give me culture – the question of character
1News: Watch: The moment Parliament is evacuated after 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Wellington
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Quake disruption stirs up strange reactions in Parliament
Jason Walls (Herald): Close to 1000 gather at Parliament in bid to get Jesus added back into parliamentary prayer
Collette Devlin and Thomas Manch (Stuff): Parliamentary prayer rally calls for speaker to reinstate references to Jesus
RNZ: Protesters want reference to Jesus put back in parliamentary prayer
Zane Small (Newshub): Christians protest Parliament’s removal of Jesus from prayer
Inequality
Alex Towle (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: ‘Life for them is a day-by-day survival’
Isaac Davison (Herald): The ‘kinder’ Winz: All 126 service centres to get family-friendly makeover
Rail
Zane Small (Newshub): Government scraps National’s plan for KiwiRail diesel trains
RNZ: Govt to keep electric locomotives running
Abortion
Jo Moir (RNZ): MPs tread cautiously around abortion legislation
Talisa Kupenga (Māori tV): Māori MPs give their take on abortion law reforms
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Abortion survey: 66% support women’s right to choose
Foreign affairs
RNZ: Four NZ MPs among Fiji election observers
RNZ: NZ law firm says Tokelauans denied legal access, human rights
Lorna Thornber (Stuff): New Zealanders granted right to fast-track at UK airports
MIchael Reddell: Is that the best you can do Prime Minister?
Oil and gas exploration ban
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Prime Minister’s once dramatic voice on oil has gone remarkably quiet
Jason Walls (Herald)): Energy Minister Megan Woods says people had enough time to submit on the oil and gas ban bill
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Govt slammed over ‘poor process’ of rushed offshore exploration bill
Justice, corrections
Roger Brooking (Pundit): Its not the justice system that’s broken – its the political system
Matt Stewart (Stuff): GPS ‘blind spot’ prevents residents of child sex offender village from being tracked
Georgia May (Hawkes Bay Today): Once ‘NZ’s most wanted criminal’, Adrian Pritchard can’t get a job
Media
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Media giants agree it’s ‘time to talk’ about sustaining journalism
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): RNZ and TVNZ look set to stay ‘just good friends’
Environment and conservation
Adrian Blomfield (Daily Telegraph): WWF warns of cataclysmic decline in global wildlife
Rachel Stewart (Herald): ‘Trump of tropics’ latest psycho in club
Newshub: Friends, family farewell Scott Theobald, man killed in Wanaka helicopter crash
David Williams (Newsroom): The cull before the crash
Leighton Keith (Stuff): Conservation minister invites public to talk about whitebait
Lindy Laird (Northern Advocate): It’s official – it’s a chick in Pukenui Forest, says Whangārei trust
RNZ: New $235k bore to help address Gore water shortage
Primary industries
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Farmers urged to have their say on changes to animal tracing system
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Massey study to look at farming effects on soil
RNZ: Plant-based mince product fills niche market
Employment
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Massive gender survey shows where women dip out of leadership
Liam Dann (Herald): Largest workplace gender survey shows huge gap at the top
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): West Coast farmer shames ex-employer into action over unpaid wages
Weapons Expo
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Protesters plan to ‘stop the weapons expo’
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Peace action groups bind together to oppose Weapons Expo
Local government
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Council looks to remove the word ‘begging’ from public safety bylaw
RNZ: Eden Park rejected offer to find cheaper turf: Goff
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Eden Park ramping up its case for $1.5m of ratepayer money for new turf
Tim Miller (ODT): Drinking rules now cover city but weakened during process
RNZ: Calls for flexibility in alcohol restrictions amid policy reform
Tom Rowland (Herald): City council looking towards a 100-year plan for Greater Hamilton
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): Council votes to change city’s ‘woeful’ extinction rate of native environment
Matthew Littlewood (Stuff): Grey Power raises concerns about CBD development, calls for greater transparency
Jess Cartwright (1News): Stewart Island locals fear proposed visitor levy hike will deter tourists
Sport
Dana Johannsen (Stuff): Sport New Zealand seeks public views on sport integrity issues
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Stuff): Sport culture needs a reset
Other
ODT Editorial: Auckland stadium a national matter
1News: Government to receive final Pike River re-entry plan today
Herald: Minister Andrew Little to receive Pike River re-entry plan tomorrow
Alice Webb-Liddall (Newshub): Public ban on fireworks not currently in plans, says PM
Newstalk ZB: PM standing behind embattled Deputy Kelvin Davis
Tony Wall (Stuff): An early warning system for eruptions on Mt Ruapehu is under threat over funding
Megan Sutherland (Newshub): Avalanche on Mt Cook: Gareth Morgan’s wife Jo ‘safe’
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Te Papa review panel not made aware of restructure plan
Brian Rudman (Herald): Lest we forget ravages of our own un-civil war
RNZ: Diaries of Gallipoli war veterans return home after a century
RNZ: Firms seek $30m to set up cannabis operations
Kayne Ngātokowhā Peters (Māori TV): Ngāti Paoa removes Treaty mandate from trust board
1News: NZ Post releases stamp collection celebrating Duke and Duchess trip
Herald: NZ third most generous country, global index finds
