Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.
Monday’s content
Oranga Tamariki, state care of children, adoption
Bonnie Sumner (Newsroom): Māori unite to declare ‘enough is enough’
Bonnie Sumner (Newsroom): A sense of injustice too large to fathom
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Spinoff): The call from the hui was loud and clear: give us back our kids
Hayley Jacobsen and Dan Satherley (Newshub): Huge support for Māori-led inquiry into Oranga Tamariki
1News: Protest march to Parliament planned over state’s uplift of Māori babies
Laine Moger (Stuff): Māori inquiry into Oranga Tamariki: ‘We have a right to stand up for our babies’
Māori TV: Māori Midwives fed up with laws which dehumanise mothers
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Oranga Tamariki: Māori leaders issue strong call to action over uplifts
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki inquiry hui grows, forced to find larger space
Bonnie Sumner (Newsroom): Hui on child uplifts has to limit attendees
Michael Neilson (Herald): Baby uplifts: Māori-led Oranga Tamariki inquiry launches at Auckland hui
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Māori unite in hui today to discuss inquiry into Oranga Tamariki
Astrid Austin (Hawkes Bay Today): Number of children uplifted in Hawke’s Bay has increased (paywalled)
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): ‘Tikanga before taking’ a focus of Māori-led Oranga Tamariki inquiry – Jackson
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Oranga Tamariki uplifts ‘too brutal’ – Willie Jackson
Stuff: Judith Collins: ‘Just stop beating up kids’
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David Fisher (Herald): How Oranga Tamariki bungled the handling of baby brought to New Zealand by drug traffickers
Sam Sherwood and Blair Ensor (Stuff): Questions raised about whether red flags missed before West Coast child’s death
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity
Climate Change, clean cars scheme
John Armstrong (1News): Jacinda Ardern’s eco-warrior, emissions cutting image is a ‘charade’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): We don’t need a climate emergency. We need a climate war
Richard Harman (Politik): Government risks showdown with farmers
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Extinction a harder case than climate change?
Alice Angeloni (Stuff): Kiwis suffering depression, anxiety and hopelessness because of climate change
Joanna Santa Barbara (Stuff): Have your say on Zero Carbon Bill
No Right Turn: Climate Change: We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Alexandra McNeill (Spinoff): One thing you can do right now to help end the climate crisis
RNZ: World has “stuffed up” on climate change – Niue Premier
RNZ: Bridges: Clean vehicles plan would cost up to half billion dollars
Listener Editorial: We like big vehicles and we cannot lie
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Crucial moves on cutting car and truck emissions
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Rise of a Kiwi icon – How New Zealand’s love affair with utes grew
Andrea Black: Emissions, Feebates and Fringe Benefit Tax
Mike Watson (Taranaki Daily News): Preparing for a new future in Taranaki
Jihee Junn (Spinoff): Land of coal-fired milk powder and honey: Is NZ really as ‘green’ as we think?
Alice Angeloni (Stuff): New Zealand couples concerned for planet choose childless futures
Jamie Morton (Herald):2050 climate: Wellington becomes Auckland, Auckland becomes Sydney
ODT Editorial: Why whaling nations refuse to budge
Environment and conservation
Adelia Hallett (Stuff): How we’re all paying the bill for years of environmental neglect
Nicholas Pointon (RNZ): Opposition to chopping down 300-year-old West Coast rātā
Tim Miller (ODT): Six years’ work to sort toxic stockpile
Mike Cranstone (Whanganui Chronicle): Conservation comment: Pines death to NZ life forms
John Mccrone (Press): Unfinished business: Hitting Canterbury’s air quality targets may not be good enough
Ella Prendergast and Dan Satherley (Newshub): Can Stewart Island become the biggest pest-free island in the world?
RNZ: Deal signed to make Rakiura predator free
RNZ: Hundreds of native fish die in botched transfer
Jono Edwards (ODT):Great Walk decision welcomed
Jono Edwards (ODT): Southland’s Hump Ridge Track named next Great Walk
RNZ: Take a walk on the southern side: ‘Great’ Hump Ridge Track
Albert Redmore (Newshub): Meet New Zealand’s next ‘Great Walk’ winner
Mike Watson (Stuff): Signs and big fines no deterrent to dog owners in national park
Fiona Connor (Newshub): Sustainable Coastlines founder Sam Judd
Firearms
RNZ: No gun registry means unknown number of guns out there – Stuart Nash
Dan Satherley and Hayley Jacobsen (Newshub): Successful buyback event will inspire others to hand their guns in – Nash
Jonathan Guildford (Stuff): Government’s first gun buy-back scheme secures banned weapons worth $1 million
Herald: Gun owners hand in $1 million of weapons in buyback’s first weekend
Martin van Beynen and Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Government’s gun buy-back scheme off to a flying start as hundreds hand in their semi automatic
Martin van Beynen and Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Government’s first gun buy-back event declared success
RNZ: Gun owners hand over firearms at first buyback event in Christchurch
Newshub: Police fork out more than $400,000 to gun owners at first buyback
Amber Allott (Herald): Gun buyback: More than 400 guns and parts worth $433,000 handed in
1News: Police pay nearly half a million dollars in first gun buy back event
1News: Many Christchurch gun owners vow to stay home as buyback collection begins today
RNZ: Gun buyback: Public fully in favour, professor says
Ella Prendergast and Dan Satherley (Newshub): Gun buyback taking ‘the least-dangerous guns out of circulation’ – David Seymour
RNZ: Resentment at gun buyback prices simmers ahead of first collection event
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Latest gun campaign doomed to misfire
Māori health
Newshub: The Hui: The challenges Māori face getting cancer treatment
Alex Loo (Manawatū Standard): Mulhollands’ Māori health inquiry submission to focus firmly on drug funding problems
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Tobacco company targeting Māori for money – minister
RNZ: Rheumatic fever rates in Northland: ‘It’s just so sad
1News: Rheumatic fever reporting systems need improvement, audit suggests
Health
Lisette Reymer (Newshub): Government accused of pandering to alcohol industry
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Inaction on alcohol a ‘glaring exception’ from mental health recommendations – expert
1News: Alcohol regulation ‘low-hanging fruit’ which Government can easily enact, expert says
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Disability services hit by rising costs and funding freeze
Jamie Morton (Herald): Why are so few Kiwi cancer patients in clinical trials?
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Why does cancer treatment work only for some people?
ODT Editorial: Protecting Pharmac and cancer treatment
1News: ACC revokes cover for woman who was surgically injured
RNZ: Pasifika people front and centre in health programme
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Midwife calls SDHB decision not to supply gas for pain relief at hubs for birthing mothers ‘barbaric’
RNZ: New ‘nimble’ rural ambulances mean quicker response – St John
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Private hospitals partnership plan for elective surgeries stymied by Government
Medicinal cannabis
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Newshub Nation: ‘Reefer madness’ has held up medicinal cannabis – Chloe Swarbrick
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Newshub Nation: Medicinal cannabis law could encourage criminal activity – National
Finn Hogan and Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Newshub Nation: It’s a mistake not to let GPs prescribe cannabis – UK expert
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Medicinal cannabis ‘false hope’ for chronic pain sufferers – pain doctors
Local government
Rob Mitchell (Stuff): Local bodies under pressure as central government moves in
Brent Edwards (NBR): Why voting in local body elections does matter (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The creeping influence of party strategists at local body elections
Tim Cadogan (Southland Times): Elections 2019 – get into it
Lee Kenny (Stuff): Christchurch City Council chief executive’s salary just higher than PM’s
Jonathan Guildford and Lee Kenny (Press): Christchurch City Council chief executive role ‘job of a lifetime’
Bevan Hurley (Stuff): John Banks hires powerful campaign team as he eyes a run for Auckland mayor
Bernard Orsman (Herald): John Banks considering Auckland Mayoralty: Phil Goff’s reign like ‘grandma’s boiled cabbage’
Dan Satherley and Hayley Jacobsen (Newshub): John Banks considering third go at being Mayor
Victoria Young (NBR: Third time lucky for John Palino’s mayoral hopes? (paywalled)
RNZ: Shelly Bay land sale: Legal action lodged against iwi
Steve Kilgallon (Dominion Post): Centre-right ‘Wellington Party’ to contest council elections
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Glenda Hughes: The unlikely conservative
RNZ: Quake proofing the capital’s library could cost $100m
RNZ: Wellington library to remain closed for more than a year
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Wellington Central Library’s future: $100m ‘guesstimates’ on work, mayor pledges to save and add Capital E
RNZ: Westland District Council defends financial mismanagement criticisms
Zizi Sparks (Rotorua Daily Post): Election 2019: Rotorua mayoral candidate Reynold Macpherson lodges police complaint (paywalled)
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): Marlborough publishes election handbook to keep candidates on the straight and narrow
Skara Bohny (Stuff): Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese is running for re-election
Transport
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): NZTA leaked report paints a picture of demoralisation and chaos for staff
Ben Strang (RNZ): Ex-NZTA boss faulted over innovation unit’s ‘extensive disregard’ for processes
RNZ: Vehicle inspector suspended from issuing WOFs due to poor safety checks
Dileepa Fonseka (Dominion Post): Mayor lights the path to ‘Wellington Transport’ but will it get Wellington moving?
Damian George (Stuff): What can frustrated Wellington bus commuters expect over the next year?
Dileepa Fonseka and Damian George (Dominion Post): The big change over: Wellington’s bus network a year on
Damian George (Stuff): Sorry to those typing angry tweets to Metlink, but my bus service is currently pretty good
Simon Wilson (Herald): 25 questions for Auckland Transport – congestion, safety, cycle lanes …
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Roads mess could cost election (paywalled)
RNZ: E-scooters between ‘rock of the footpath…hard place of the road’
Janika ter Ellen (Newshub): Police warn of potentially ‘catastrophic’ consequences of pointing lasers at aircraft
Parliament
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Still fatigued from the last election? Gird your loins for 2020 – parties deep in planning
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: Electric cars and medicinal cannabis
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): New Zealand Jewish Council accuses Green Party MP of ‘antisemitism’
David Farrar: Green MP claims Jesus wasn’t Jewish
Martyn Bradbury: The Green Party are many things, antisemites are not one of them
David Slack (Stuff): Shane Jones’ commercial chiropracty could leave the backbone of the economy in pain
Annabel McCarthy (RNZ): Call to lower voting age from Youth MP
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Curran shows she is back in business
1News: Sunday: Tim and Tamati’s baby journey
1News: Baby name announced for Tāmati Coffey and husband Tim Smith
Education
Derek Cheng (Herald): Govt policy on parent donations for school camps: OK for some, not OK for others
Amanda Saxton, Tim Newman and Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Lagging salaries, 50-hour weeks, and an ever-changing role: This is why principals are striking
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Māori students are capable – it’s the education system that’s broken, principal says
RNZ: Large decrease in men enrolling in polytechs and universities
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Wintec battles student visa delays
Ray O’Brien (ODT): Polytechnic ecosystem fertile ground
Foreign affairs and trade
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom):European Union raises PGF concerns with NZ
RNZ: Peters insists focus remains on Australia deportation policy
Zane Small (Newshub): Australia has ‘no intention’ of reviewing deportation law – Foreign Minister Marise Payne
Melissa Chan-Green (Newshub): Indonesia’s relationship with the Pacific ‘fine’ – Foreign Minister
RNZ: Protest at Indonesian trade show in Auckland
1News: Winston Peters shows off drumming skills, delivers speech at Pacific Expo in Auckland
Nick Perry (AP): Why is China pouring money into Tonga?
Housing
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): Christchurch social housing: Calls for change as waitlists soar
RNZ: Pensioners left waiting for more than two years for council housing
Newshub: Fears historic Auckland park will be turned into housing
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Kaingaroa settlement receives $2.4m for redevelopment
Cherie Howie (Herald): Our shrinking backyards: Death of the quarter-acre dream
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Christchurch man fighting Ray White over cold, mouldy home
Simon Kennedy (Bloomberg): New Zealand housing market at risk of crash, Bloomberg research shows
Stuff: New Zealand at risk of a house price crash: Bloomberg
Christchurch, mosque shootings
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Has Christchurch really changed? (paywalled)
Boris Jancic (Herald): ACC needs to change after failure in Christchurch: Greens
Anna Leask (Herald): Mosque survivor four months on: Still haunted, but ‘it’s getting better’ (paywalled)
Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Broadcasting watchdog targets ‘harm’
Jennifer Duke (Sydney Morning Herald): Broadcasting Christchurch massacre footage escapes punishment in Australia
Glen McConnell (Stuff): TVNZ has angered many for its doco That’s A Bit Racist. Good job, TVNZ
Justice
Deena Coster (Stuff): Young girl and family’s faith in justice system shattered after sex case dismissed
Blair Jackson (Stuff): Social media ‘contaminating justice system’ and leading to wrongful arrests, say lawyers
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): Professional drivers that kill should be held to a higher account than other drivers, Justice Minister says in wake of recent sentencings
David Fisher (Herald): Charged with causing two deaths – how the young American tourist found evidence which allowed him to walk away from police (paywalled)
Lane Nicholas (Herald): Call for law change after child sex accused worked as real estate agent
Royal Commission into historical state care abuse
Alison Mau (Stuff): Inquiry into abuse in state care orders security checks for vulnerable women
Alison Mau (Stuff): State care abuse inquiry’s gang connections the latest hurdle for vulnerable participants
Primary and extractive industries
Bruce Munro (ODT): No time to ignore ‘blood phosphates’
Mike O’Donnell (Stuff): You can’t blame Westland’s farmers for selling out
Herald: Log price crash: The ‘perfect storm’ facing NZ’s forestry industry (paywalled)
Taranaki Daily News: Battle for consent to mine iron sand in South Taranaki will head to the Court of Appeal in September
1News: Egg producers warn consumers of supply shortages, high prices as NZ goes cage-free
R&D funding
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Government boosts R&D funding for developing firms
Zane Small (Newshub): Business hasn’t made profit yet? You’re eligible for more R&D funding
Banking sector, FMA
Rob Stock (Stuff): Daughter complains over ANZ bank manager’s deathbed visit to her mother
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): The Taranaki farmers who took on a $81bn bank – and won
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Finance regulator accused of conflict of interest failure (paywalled)
Vodafone
RNZ: Checkpoint: Woman says she was kicked out of Vodafone for speaking Samoan
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Customer claims she was kicked out of Vodafone store for speaking Samoan, worker suspended
Animal welfare
Hayley Jaobsen and Dan Satherley (Newshub): Activists hope to chase away Wellington Steeplechase fans
RNZ: Discoloured chicken meat can be safely consumed – Pak’nSave
1News: Vegan vigilantes defacing meat products a concern for supermarkets
Tourism
Katie Fitzgerald and Karen Rutherford (Newshub): Government announces $12m boost for tourism infrastructure
RNZ: $1m funding boost to keep Northland beach ‘one of world’s best’
Emma Cropper (Newshub): Rotorua motels under pressure for taking in the city’s homeless
Industrial relations
1News: Auckland H&M workers suspended after sticker protest for living wage
RNZ: Farmers stores refuse to budge on workers’ pay claims
Police
Liu Chen (RNZ): Chinese family question assault response: ‘The communication got broken somewhere’
Isaac Davison (Herald): Police announce three new helicopters for Auckland’s skies
RNZ: New helicopters to update police air support
Mikhail Khimich
Cass Mason (Newsroom): Whatever happened to our ‘billionaire’ Khimich?
Cass Mason and Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Companies Office questions over Waiwera firms
Other
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Why City Air Makes You Free – And Bad
Michael Hayward (Stuff): EQC inquiry unlikely to identify failures without investigative approach, group warns
John Roughan (Herald): A topic giving the Prime Minister nightmares (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): What NZ can learn from Scandi noir’s The Bridge, Copenhagen and Malmo (paywalled)
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Auckland communities divided over scrapped ethnic issues ministry
Murray Horton (Daily Blog): Time to recognise Rocket Lab for what it is
Andrea Fox (Herald): Late invoice payments: does NZ Inc need an ethics code – or Govt measures?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Why New Zealand’s population might soon be in decline
David Herkt (Stuff): A Conversation with my Country: Alan Duff scrutinises contemporary NZ in new book
Liam Dann (Herald): Unlikely rock stars – The economy vs the Black Caps (paywalled)
1News: Manufacturing sector’s ‘nostrils just above the water line’, analyst says
E-Tangata: Human Rights Commission: It happened here — a snapshot of hate crime in New Zealand
Kim Hurring (Newshub): Strong opposition from residents near site of proposed Mt Erebus national memorial
Emma Cropper (Newshub): Matata residents will find out fate of town on Tuesday
Scott Palmer (Newshub): Waitangi manager outraged over video starring white men with faux moko
RNZ: Port Hills’ blaze review: Fire service improvements a year away
RNZ: Earthquake-prone buildings changes to help provinces
Kereama Wright (Māori TV): The battle over Te Tumu Kaituna 14: converting Māori freehold land to general title
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Privatising New Zealand’s Coastline – Beach by Beach
Alice Geary (Stuff): Tekapo or Takapō? One of NZ’s world famous lakes could be in for a name change
Albert Redmore (Newshub): Lake Tekapo, one of New Zealand’s most famous lakes, could be changing its name
John Gibb (ODT): ‘Shark spy’ project receives $19k grant
