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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 04 2019

By Barbara Sumner -
February 4, 2019
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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 04 2019

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.
Today’s content

Employment, income
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Full employment: This is probably as good as it gets
Richard Wagstaff and Kirk Hope (Stuff): Have we really reached full employment?
John Anthony (Stuff): How near to full employment can New Zealand get?
Rob Stock and John Anthony (Stuff): Unemployment is low, but for many Kiwis aren’t feeling the benefits in higher wages
Dominion Post Editorial: Why back to the future on pay might not work
Dave Kennedy: Fair pay will not destroy the economy
Henry Cooke (Stuff): $82m slated for regional employment initiative from Provincial Growth Fund
Ross Webb (Jacobin): The Strike Returns to New Zealand
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Households earning up to $100,000 a year but still struggling to make ends meet
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff):  I admit it, I have no financial buffer for when things go wrong
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Kiwi quality of life can be a harsh reality
Richard Meadows (Stuff): In defence of manual labour
Emily Writes (Spinoff): An honest living
RNZ: Claim of discrimination against wāhine Māori to go ahead
RNZ: Rotorua wood processer fined $680k for workers’ serious injuries

Government
Audrey Young (Herald): Coalition Government lining up smorgasbord of targets for National
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): After Davos, a reality check for Jacinda Ardern
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): ‘Let’s do what?’ The politics of accountability
Bryan Gould: New Zealand and Davos 

Waitangi
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern’s Waitangi sequel a test of relationship
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern had a great Waitangi last year – will she repeat the trick?
Simon Wilson (Herald): Waitangi Diary 1: Jacinda Ardern returns to Waitangi
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Changes for official powhiri at Waitangi
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki to speak at Waitangi event
RNZ: Don Brash at Waitangi: ‘We’re trying to create partnerships’ – Reuben Taipari
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Don Brash guaranteed protection at Waitangi speech
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Boycott Don Brash’s Speech at Waitangi – Hilda Halkyard-Harawira
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash to speak at Waitangi
Ben Strang (RNZ): Don Brash set to return to marae at Waitangi
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Former National Party leader Don Brash to speak at Waitangi, where he was once pelted with mud
Herald: No comment from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Waitangi placenta burial idea
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): For many, Waitangi Day is just a day off work
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Waitangi Day 2019 – With Brash going, could it explode?
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Reduced funding puts strain on paddlers’ Waitangi prep
Matthew Rosenberg (Stuff): Waitangi extravaganza: Auckland Harbour Bridge to feature exploding volcano, soaring birds
Philip Matthews (Stuff): National portrait: Matthew Wright, Treaty historian
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Māori canoe builder and much-loved chief to be knighted tomorrow
Point of Order: Two Māori ministers are off to share the Waitangi spirit with Kiwis in the Land of Oz

Māori land development funding
Zane Small (Newshub): Shane Jones on defence: Why should we fund all this ‘flash’ science?
1News: Government announces $100m in funding to unlock under-utilised Māori land
Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces $100m funding package for Māori development and infrastructure
Henry Cooke (Stuff): $120m of Provincial Growth Fund announced, $100m fund for Māori landowners
RNZ: Govt to spend $100m on supporting Māori landowners
Scott Palmer (Newshub): Government offers Māori landowners $100m from Provincial Growth Fund
Zane Small (Newshub): $100m for Māori landowners ‘complete waste of money’ – Simon Bridges
Stuff: Simon Bridges likens spending on Māori land to ‘beads and blankets’

Iwi Chairs Forum
RNZ: Iwi leaders tell PM: We don’t want our message diluted
David Fisher (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern meets with iwi leaders at Waitangi

Housing
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): KiwiBuild noose tightens; Labour’s flagship policy is a dead duck
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government scale of complaints against Barclay
David Slack (Stuff): Is Kiwibuild a flop, or good policy that just needs a chance to develop
Charlotte Graham-McLay (News York Times): New Zealand Vowed 100,000 New Homes to Ease Crunch. So Far It Has Built 47.
Harrison Christian (Stuff): ‘Pathetic’ landlord leaves tenants out of pocket and facing homelessness
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Wellington students in housing struggle get temporary relief
Laura Macdonald (Newshub): Wellington hostel rents rooms to students for $20 a night due to rental crisis
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Human Rights Tribunal decision may help guide dog users
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff) :Anti-money laundering law slows listings, spikes asking price but market steady

Primary industries
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Shane Jones in hot water over support for Talley’s accused of illegal fishing
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What on earth does the fishing industry have over Shane Jones?
Robin Martin (RNZ): 58 Taranaki farms in breach of their consents
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Running Dry – Can rural NZ thrive without irrigation?
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Our farmers need a Volkswagen moment
RNZ: Farmer faces legal action over ‘land farm’ discharge
John Saker (Stuff): How climate change is threatening New Zealand’s wine industry
Sean Hogan (1News): Beekeepers say there’s not enough food for all hives as more and more are created

Cancer care
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Time for inquiry into Pharmac’s funding of cancer drugs
Emma Russell (Herald): Calls for national cancer agency to put a stop to ‘unacceptable’ ‘post code lottery’
RNZ: Cancer conference puts action plan in motion
RNZ: Some cancer drugs with a ‘huge price’ don’t work

Health
RNZ: Govt to review drug advertising policy
RNZ: Minister rejects claim that lack of health targets cause early deaths
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Mental health patients in seclusion given cardboard box as toilet
Conan Young (RNZ): Investigation into how patient was locked in shed withheld from media
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Hundreds of Auckland mental health workers resigning, some blaming stress
Mike Houlahan (ODT): GP salary issue revived by Otago academics
Dave Goosselink (Newshub): Otago group urges Government to fund free GP visits
1News: Teens who vape are three times more likely to start smoking cigarettes later – study
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Social media ‘influencer’ paid by tobacco giant to promote vape deletes Instagram posts
Matt Burrows (Newshub): ‘I’m missing from so many family photos’: St John worker’s heart-wrenching letter protesting poor work conditions
Alice Webb-Liddall (Newshub): Midwives’ union positive after return to negotiation with DHBs
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Health Minister David Clark stops cut to Aids Foundation budget ahead of 2019 Ending HIV Big Gay Out
RNZ: AIDS Foundation funding re-instated a week before the Big Gay Out
Hone Edwards (Māori TV): Iwi and medical union in dental dispute
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Five times more transgender Kiwis lining up for surgery
Tom O’Connor (Stuff): Tax on red meat — is this the way to go?

Cannabis law reform, alcohol
Doug Sellman and Joe Boden (ODT): Question an important ‘bit of detail’
Mitch McCann (Newshub): New Zealanders lack knowledge around alcohol – study

Tax
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): ‘Why shouldn’t I call it income?’ – Grant Robertson’s CGT sales mission begins
Liam Dann (Herald): Pot and property tax pose double dilemma for PM
Jason Walls (Herald): Tax Working Group gives Finance Minister Grant Robertson its final report
Liam Dann (Herald): Government has received capital gains tax recommendation
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Tax group delivers report to government
Stephen Forbes (Interest): Tax Working Group final report out February 21, govt response in April
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Looming tax report ‘lost opportunity’ for small business
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Government may wait until April before deciding on capital gains tax
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The political smarts behind National’s new tax attack
Amy Adams (Stuff): It’s time to end ‘tax by stealth’ taking more money from New Zealanders each year
David Farrar: How the stealth income tax increases make you worse off

Environment and conservation
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): New Zealand’s disappearing wetlands continue to be destroyed
1News: Farmers called on to build wetlands as unique ecosystem enters steep decline
Matthew Littlewood (Timaru Herald): ECan disputes Fish and Game NZ’s unswimmable river levels
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Several fish found dead after riverbeds dry up in wider Marlborough region
RNZ: Unprecedented rise in South Island ocean temperatures
Todd Muller (Herald): There is plenty to learn as a climate change novice
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): West Coast council debates that ‘climate change crap’
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Bottling expansion could see 9 billion litres of pristine Christchurch water sold overseas
1News: Water activists concerned after Chinese bottling company reveals plans for second Canterbury plant
Bryan Bruce (Daily Blog): Watershed moment for democracy
Nikki Macdonald (Stuff): Could turning aquifers into managed reservoirs prevent water shortages and seawater contamination?
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Remind me what was wrong with plastic shopping bags
David Williams (Newsroom): Withdraw ‘flawed’ plans, DOC urged
RNZ: More time to feedback on national park proposals
Leith Huffadine (RNZ): Not just ‘greenies’: More diversity wanted for conservation boards
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Visitors have trashed one of New Zealand’s most scenic lakes, Waikaremoana
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Selfie takers are the latest threat to Auckland kauri
RNZ: Australasian bittern numbers may be lower than 1000
RNZ: Tight water restrictions now in place for Coromandel Town
RNZ: Hamilton warned over high water use
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Devonport firefighting foam: Defence Force rejects further investigation
RNZ: Contaminated Taranaki eel ‘little risk’ if consumed – study
Robin Martin (RNZ): Sewage spill stinks up suburb
Eric Frykberg (RNZ):EPA considers bringing beetle to control ‘threat’ to NZ fauna
RNZ: Household chemical disposal guidelines issued
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Conservationists colour-code canines in Otago
1News: Warning to pet owners after two blue penguins found dead after dog attack
RNZ: Wellingtonians warned to watch for toxic algae
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Martinborough residents to boil drinking water until at least Monday as E.coli issue continues
Katie Fitzgerald and Laura Macdonald (Newshub): E. coli in water supply threatens Martinborough Fair
Bridget Grace (Newshub): Waste management company says cheap tents should be banned as festival rubbish piles up
Lisa Davies (1News): More scenic flights proposed for Mount Cook – but some are concerned about noise

Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Battle over school reforms begins this week as 70 public meetings begin
John O’Neill (Herald): Taskforce proposals will make schools better, says John O’Neill
Zane Small (Newshub): Education overhaul: National to hold 40 meetings to address concerns
1News: ‘We need to get out there and talk and listen’ – Simon Bridges touts education tour
Josephine Franks (Stuff): ‘Bums on seats’ approach puts children at risk in early childhood education centres, teachers say
Ben Leahy (Herald): Demand hot for rentals near Auckland Grammar School as families move into zone
Laura James (1News): Hundreds of teaching positions left vacant despite overseas staff being available
Simon Collins (Herald): Ten teachers for 13 kids in new Flat Bush school despite record teacher shortage
Emma Cropper (Newshub): Bus driver shortage leaves Tauranga school children stranded
Jessica Long (Stuff): NCEA course in how to be a police officer launches in three Wellington schools
RNZ: Wellington students embrace chance for close look at policing
John Roughan (Herald): Education does not need to restrain the strong

Parliament
Simon Chapple and Thomas Anderson (Newsroom): Reviewing the political donation rules
Alison Mau (Stuff): #UsToo – what’s the fix for Parliament’s harassment problem?
Damian Grant (Stuff): Sarah Dowie has paid a painful price for her liaisons, let her torment end there
Heather Roy: New Political Parties’ Success Rests with Electoral Reform

Immigration
RNZ: Deported Indian students: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her support is ‘no longer appropriate’
Sam Hurley (Herald): Rich building boss guilty of immigration fraud after residency granted, loses court battle with Herald
Liam Dann (Herald): NZ has fewer people than we thought … so we don’t need to build so many houses
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Oops, maybe we haven’t got as many New Zealanders as we thought…
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): New Zealand has nearly 20,000 fewer immigrants than previously thought, data reveals
Alice Webb-Liddall (Newshub): Watch: Police step in as Wellington crowd turns on anti-immigration protesters
Alex Braae (Spinoff): ‘Integrate or get out’: at the anti-UN rally in Aotea Square
1News: Petition for Ukrainian family to avoid deportation grows overnight
1News: Thousands support Ukrainian family facing deportation
RNZ: Thousands support Ukrainian family facing deportation
Scott Palmer (Newshub): Thousands sign petition to save Ukrainian family from deportation

National Party, Jami-Lee Ross
Simon Wilson (Herald): Could Simon Bridges be our Angela Merkel?
Bill Ralston (Listener): Why it’s time for Simon Bridges to swallow his pride over Jami-Lee Ross
The Daily Blog: Exclusive: TDB interview with Jami-Lee Ross

Greens. Blue-Green party
Chris Trotter: There Can be Only One Green Party.
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Incredible Lightness of Being Green
Peter Dunne (Interest): The challenges for a possible ‘blue-green’ party and the National Party’s quest to get the numbers to allow it to govern
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The real purpose of the Blue Greens and New Conservatives

Auckland Pride
David Herkt (Herald): Auckland’s Pride festival: What went wrong?
Express: Auckland Pride board member goes on expletive-laden rant, Mika questions lack of Māori representation in festival programme
David Farrar: A vicious attack on gay men
Stuff: Auckland Pride 2019: Stuff’s festival event guide

Justice, corrections
Chester Borrows (Herlad): Why prisoners need care
George Block (ODT): Otago prison ‘more hostile’
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Inmates at Rimutaka Prison take on roles as dog handlers
Listener: Justice’s blindfold appears to have slipped in Grant Hannis’ sexual assault case

CTV building collapse
Martin van Beynen (Press): CTV families dismayed over legal ‘shenanigans’ to challenge investigation
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Alan Reay, whose company designed Christchurch’s CTV Building that collapsed in quake, lodges appeal
RNZ: CTV building designer accused of ‘gaming the system’

Public relations
Helen Harvey (Taranaki Daily News): The rise and rise of PR in the public sector
Matt Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Democracy and public relations are not easy bedfellows

Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): A potential political party hooks the media
Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings (Newsroom): MediaRoom: Putting a price on trust
Māori TV: Call for submissions on Māori media sector change
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Money for media mockery
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): ‘Nightmare’ media company hired by MP to cover euthanasia debate

Social media
Laine Moger (Stuff): Facebook cracks the whip on Kiwis using the term ‘gypsy’
Herald: Facebook bans New Zealanders from using the word ‘gypsy’ following unruly tourists’ saga
Matt Burrows (Newshub): Facebook clamps down on the word ‘gypsy’ after unruly tourists saga
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Opinion: Hey men – stop being terrible on social media

Building and construction industry, safety
Matt Shand (Stuff): Top fire resistant plywood used in various buildings found to be flammable
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Possible Commerce Commission probe into building material suppliers – Kris Faafoi
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Closer scrutiny of building safety in Queenstown
Kate Nicol-Williams (!News): Wellington City Council wants a law change to make quake-prone reporting compulsory

Transport, roading
Jo Moir (RNZ): $20m spend no consolation for ignoring Northland expressway – Goldsmith
Kawe Roes (Māori TV): NZ’s newest rail line a step closer for Northland
RNZ: Public ferry service may be on the cards for Queenstown
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Shane Jones says he won’t ‘dance on political grave’ of Air NZ safety video
RNZ: Bay of Plenty bus services reduced due to driver shortage

Rodeo
Karoline Tuckey (RNZ): Rodeo events ‘inherently cruel’ Martinborough protesters say
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Protesters take on the cowboys at Martinborough bull ride
Pat Deavoll (Stuff): Rodeo: Ultimate sport, family fun or blatant animal abuse?

Aotearoa New Zealand petition
Tom Furley (RNZ): Aotearoa petition: No longer a ‘vicious response’ to te reo
Nita Blake-Persen (RNZ): Man petitions to make ‘Aotearoa’ official, alongside ‘NZ’
Stuff: Petition for referendum to include Aotearoa in official name of New Zealand

Tourism
RNZ: Deadline for sharing ideas on new tourism strategy looms
1News: Mess left by tourists in Himalayas serving as warning to New Zealand
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Ultralight backpacking trend hitting New Zealand raising safety questions

Local government
Todd Niall (Stuff): Will Phil Goff run again for Auckland mayor? His Twitter strategy says yes
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Phil Goff’s wife on mayoralty race: ‘Don’t you ever want to have a life?’
Kelley Tantau (Stuff): Uncontested mayors on why hard work the key to getting a tick

Huawei and NZ-China relations
Chris Keall (Herald): Spark boils over Huawei saga as NZ falls behind Oz on 5G
David Farrar: A security professional on Huawai
MIchael Reddell: Donations, the PRC etc

Insurance, banking industries
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Life insurance: Who can you trust?
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Tougher NZ lending conditions biggest likely impact from Oz bank inquiry
RNZ: Westpac to refund almost $6m in fees to customers

Economy, consumer confidence
RNZ: Consumer confidence off to a positive start in 2019
RNZ: NZ credit outlook improves from ‘stable’ to positive’

Business
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): Developing business aspirations within the community
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Lack of women on boards is ’embarrassing’ for NZ – advocacy group

Auckland
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Radical reforms could shift Auckland’s port
Stuff: Stuart Smith and Deborah Russell: Aucklanders urged to move south for homes, jobs

Other
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: National springs policy surprise as government kills off KiwiBuild targets
Morgan Godfery: Kaupapa Māori politics, and why it matters
RNZ: Tuhoronuku not right for Ngāpuhi settlement – Little
Simon Chapple (Herald): How many Māori lived in Aotearoa when Captain Cook arrived?
Liz McDonald (Stuff): Canterbury economy ‘lacklustre’ as rebuild continues slowing
Stuff: Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust faces $549,000 legal costs claim
Gia Garrick (RNZ): New law introduces strict controls on brokering firearms
Matt Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Respect for police authority is greater protection than body armour
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The real toll of the great NZ heatwave? Batshit opinion columns everywhere
Zoe Madden-Smith (Vice): We Asked the Mongrel Mob Why the Predominantly Māori Gang Uses Nazi Symbolism
RNZ: Govt to spend $30m on fixing broken payroll system
Zane Small (Newshub): DNS Flag Day: Global change to Internet could disturb unprepared websites
Tainui Stephens (E-Tangata): The Boss Is Dead: A tribute to Hiwi Tauroa
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Robyn Bargh: Building the wall of tino rangatiratanga
Buddy Mikaere & Cliff Simons  (E-Tangata): Humanity and honour at Gate Pā
RNZ: Smoky crematorium distresses families in Taranaki
Marc Daalder (Spinoff): The furious world of New Zealand’s far right nationalists
Lucy Bennett (Herald): What ever happened to David Cunliffe? We catch up with politicians who have left
Derek Cheng (Herald): Security called to calm gym stoush involving Police Minister Stuart Nash
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): New Zealander at heart of latest Brexit stoush
M Claire Dale (Newsroom): Time to address our rapidly ageing population

Barbara Sumner
Barbara Sumner
https://www.barbarasumner.nz/
Barbara Sumner is an award-winning documentary producer turned writer of fiction for women. Her documentary This Way of Life was shortlisted for an Academy Award, she has won multiple awards for her films and an international journalism prize.

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