Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.
Tuesday’s content
Foreign affairs and trade
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): US trip another test for Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ diplomacy
RNZ: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemns Donald Trump’s attack on US congresswomen
Jason Walls (Herald): Foreign Minister Winston Peters will again travel to the US and is aiming to secure a trade deal
BusinessDesk: Winston Peters to meet top US administration hawks in Washington
Point of Order: Peters in the US: he can’t offer NZ ships (if asked) but maybe an Orion could be sent to the Gulf
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern set to meet Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Melbourne
Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to travel to Melbourne to meet with Scott Morrison
RNZ: PM Jacinda Ardern to meet with Australia PM Scott Morrison
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): NZ Defence Force plane breaks down ahead of Jacinda Ardern’s Melbourne trip
Boris Jancic (Herald): Stern words as New Zealand joins rebuke of China over Uighurs Muslims
RNZ: Indonesia making progress on West Papua with press junket – Peters
Mackenzie Smith (RNZ): Indonesia’s ‘Pacific Elevation’: Step up or power play?
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): New Zealand aid – where are we going wrong?
Environment and conservation
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won’t compare climate change to World War II
1News: James Shaw ‘frustrated and making progress’ on climate change action
Katie Fitzgerald and Ella Prendergast (Newshub): Zero Carbon Bill: Opinions still split as submissions close
Patrick Crewdson (Stuff): We asked about climate change coverage and got 15,000 responses
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Forests are fastest way to soak up carbon dioxide, but not all trees are equal
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Billion Trees policy is being rorted
Paul Gorman (Stuff): Native birds becoming confined to higher altitudes by climate and pests
Zane Small (Newshub): Pact Group: The Aussie packaging giant given multimillion-dollar Government grant in New Zealand
1News: Government gives $3m grant for 100 per cent recycled food packaging
Annabel Reid (Herald): Conservation dept faces threats to burn offices, poison staff, down plane
RNZ: $3m grant for NZ’s first 100% recycled plastic food packaging
RNZ: Parts of Coromandel to become safe sanctuaries for migratory birds
Kelley Tantau (Stuff): Native birds’ flight path protected with World Heritage Site status
Lucy Warhurst (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern welcomes godwit protection plan
RNZ: DOC on high alert after penguins ignored police, returned to sushi shop
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Penguins ignore police, return to sushi shop
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Penguins cross busy Wellington highway to visit train station
1News: Motorists warned to watch out for blue penguins hiding under Wellington sushi shop
1News: Local iwi promise retribution for vandals who chopped down sacred pou on Ninety Mile Beach
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): A possible, probable crayfish killer
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Youth climate strikers seek trade union support
1News: Fox River clean-up to get boost as more Defence Force vehicles and manpower sent to help
Mia Sutherland (Stuff): Climate change has dashed my dreams of motherhood
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Government’s plan to get us into electric vehicles is driven by blind ideology
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): This Government’s dangerously out of touch with rural people
Jill Whitmore (Herald): A zealot responds to climate change alarm (paywalled)
Local government
TVNZ: Q+A: Concerns lack of post boxes leaving those in poor communities unable to vote in local elections
Stuff: Mayor Phil Goff defends rates increases and cost blowouts
Todd Niall (Stuff): Phil Goff takes swipe at possible John Banks mayoral bid
RNZ: John Banks toys with another tilt at Auckland mayoralty
Alex Braae (Spinoff): 10 things you might have forgotten from John Banks’s back catalogue
Evan Harding (Southland Times): Recycling agreement arising from mediation would be ‘unlawful’: Lawyer
Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): Napier Port hopes to raise up $234m in an initial public offering of 45 per cent of the company
RNZ: Napier Port seeks to raise $234m in partial float
1News: Napier Port hopes to raise over $200 million on share market to ease congestion
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Tasman district voters to get say on council voting system
Dominion Post: Demolishing Wellington Central Library would mean loss of ‘fine piece of architecture’
Health
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Ministry ignored advice to boost measles immunisation of teens, young adults
Meghan Lawrence (Herald): Ministry apologise for denying carer’s benefit to mother of severely disabled daughter (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Age limit on cancer tests harms Maori
University of Auckland: Cancer – stacking the odds in your favour
Denise Piper (Stuff): Rheumatic fever rates among Northland Māori higher than reported – research
Bay of Plenty Times: Solving the loneliness epidemic – it’s not just older people who feel isolated (paywalled)
1News: Mother’s ACC battle leads to dozens more sharing their story
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Waikato DHB, doctor criticised over baby’s four trips to ED
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Waikato DHB failed to provide 6-month-old baby with adequate care, Health and Disability commissioner rules
RNZ: Baby repeat hospital admissions ‘red flag’ – health and disability commissioner
Dubby Henry (Herald): Baby hits head on cot, spends month in hospital with sepsis after doctors miss symptoms
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Siblings question care of sister who died soon after being found in emaciated state
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Northern Southland midwives to receive more support
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Plan to triage premature babies to reduce pressure on Christchurch neonatal unit
Education
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Kelvin Davis breaks from Labour, wants compulsory Te Reo in schools
Aroha Mane (Māori TV): Te Ahu o Te Reo: Govt launches $12mil reo program
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Educators sign up for pilot scheme to encourage more te reo in classrooms
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Te reo Māori in classrooms programme begins with 150 teachers
Josephine Franks (Stuff): ‘Teachers are teachers’: Early childhood teachers call for pay parity
Simon Collins (Herald): Slip-ups force three schools to rerun board elections
John Gibb (ODT): Advances sought in deaf education
Laura Walters (Newsroom): High-risk student visa applications cause delays
Tim Miller (ODT): Otago centre of expertise decision known by December
Caroline McCaw (ODT): One-size-fits-all focus will diminish us
Workplace safety
John Anthony (Stuff): Health and safety reform aims to reduce death and injury in high risk work places
Derek Cheng (Herald): Workplace safety rules ‘outdated and full of gaps’, Minister says
RNZ: Worker injury from machinery and falls focus of latest proposals
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Government seeks submissions on workplace fatalities
Mobil
Grant Bradley (Herald): Mobil slammed by MBIE over petrol station’s employment breaches
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Mobil fails to address illegal docking of workers’ pay
Vita Molyneux and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): South Auckland Mobil station must pay $20,000 for making employees pay for stolen petrol
RNZ: Mobil must pay over employee wage deduction for drive-offs
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
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Taking ‘evil’ guns from good people will make NZ safer – police
Jono Edwards (ODT): ‘Strong support’ seen for buyback scheme
Provincial Growth Fund
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Provincial Growth Fund questions grow faster than trees (paywalled)
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Berry farm gets government help to expand hydroponic operation
Stuff: Local council and government announce they will invest $3.6 million to boost tourism in Canterbury
Infrastructure
1News: Shane Jones rules out using private capital to fund schools, prisons and the public health system
Andrew Bevin (NBR): Time for infrastructure wake-up call (paywalled)
Housing
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National’s KiwiBuild complaint taken up by Auditor-General’s office
RNZ: The Detail: House prices are down but still out of reach
Ashley Church (Herald): Why the New Zealand housing market isn’t going to crash
Parliament
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Green MP Golriz Ghahraman guilty of clumsiness, not racism
No Right Turn: We should lower the voting age
1News: ‘I’m in a position where I can talk to some friends’ – MP and new dad Tāmati Coffey on updating surrogacy laws
State care of children
1News: ‘By Māori, for Māori’ – Oranga Tamariki hui reveals Māori want to look after their own
RNZ: The Detail: Māori plant flag over uplifted children
Luke Fitzmaurice (Pundit): When it comes to child protection & whānau, are we talking about the same thing?
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): The children come first: A day at the Oranga Tamariki hui
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Whānau Ora chair calls for leadership, not another partnership
1News: Protestors unite outside South Auckland branch of Oranga Tamariki
Justice, corrections
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Mosque shooting: Breivik jailers’ NZ visit was ‘highly valuable’
Jo Lines-MacKenzie (Stuff): Nursing behind bars: life as a nurse in one of the country’s biggest prisons
Cricket World Cup
Grant Robertson (Spinoff): Proud, devastated and robbed: Grant Robertson on watching the final at Lord’s
Herald: PM Jacinda Ardern on cricket heartbreak: ‘I feel nothing but pride’
Jo Moir (RNZ): ‘Traumatised’ PM wants heroes’ welcome for NZ cricketers
Zane Small and Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern and Phil Goff discussed ‘welcome home’ for Black Caps
Herald: Cricket World Cup: Black Caps’ return – Plan under way for welcome home reception
Waiwera firms, Mikhail Khimich
Cass Mason (Newsroom): The officer pushed out of police
Cass Mason and Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Companies Office questions over Waiwera firms
Overseas Investment Act breach
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): High Court orders overseas property developer to sell sensitive land in Albany
RNZ: Overseas firm fined $300k over purchase of sensitive land in Albany
Herald: Overseas-owned business to pay over $500k in fines for buying five hectares of Auckland land
Primary industries
RNZ: State-owned farmer voted to sell Westland Milk
Andrew Fox (Herald): Fonterra farmers take back control of director candidate selection
Transport
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington’s bus network: One year on (paywalled)
Damian George and Julie Iles (Stuff): Strathmore commuters still feeling the effects of Wellington bus network botch-up
Todd Niall (Stuff): Plan to reclaim Auckland’s streets from cars on a ‘slow slalom course’
Other
Chris Trotter (Interest): Thinking Big has been replaced by Talking Big
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): No Time For Shifting The Colonial Furniture
Trevor Richards (Spinoff): The birth of a movement that divided NZ – and changed us forever
Deena Coster (Stuff): Appeal against $200m Mt Messenger bypass resource consents gets under way
George Block (ODT): Montecillo staff call for management apology
Phil Pennington (RNZ): MBIE suspends Aust-based building products certifier
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Quake prone building changes just ‘tinkering on the sides’ – National
Jackie Edmond (Herald): Wiser words needed in abortion debate (paywalled)
Stuff: Stuff appoints new Political Editor to lead Parliamentary team
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Student says others should learn from her $8000 debt mistake
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Well-off oldies urged to donate winter payments to poor youth
Sara Vui-Talitu (RNZ): Voices: Refugees’ plea to NZ
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Five months on, green shoots appear in fire-ravaged Tasman
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): That’s A Bit Racist documentary film crew racially abused in South Island city, producer says
