Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.
Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards.
Climate change
Marilyn Waring (Stuff): My generation has failed young Kiwis, but the student climate strike gives me hope
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Greed Is Not Good – But It Can Make Good Things Happen
University of Auckland: Uni scientists: Why we’re marching for climate action
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Why I’m striking tomorrow
Chris Trotter: The Curse Of Cassandra
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate striking kids’ plea to adults: march with us
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): Student climate change strike: Why young Kiwis are demanding more action
Don Rowe (Spinoff): General strike for climate: everything you need to know
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Students prepare for climate strike: ‘When we look back, we’ll be on the right side of history’
Lee Kenny (Stuff): Friday’s climate strike will be the biggest yet, organisers say
1News: Thousands set to attend climate strikes around New Zealand
Southland Times Editorial: Climate strike is not youthful idealism. It’s survivalism
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AP: ‘We’re all in big trouble’: UN climate panel outlines dire future in new report
RNZ: Climate change report underlines sea level rise threat
1News: Harmful impact of climate change will have big flow on effect for NZ’s tourism industry
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Meh
Steven Cowan: Greta’s new best friends
Rodney Hide (NBR): Parliament redundant under climate czar (paywalled)
Stuff: Greta Thunberg: ‘Haters’ will say anything to avoid taking action on climate change
Canterbury University – a boy dies, unnoticed
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Concerns about student found dead at university hall raised months earlier
Joel MacManus (Stuff): An absolute disgrace
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Student accommodation life ‘being in there you are just a number
Sam Sherwood and Lee Kenny (Stuff): Campus Living boss promises to ‘find out exactly what happened’ to student
Katie Todd (RNZ): Vice Chancellor: ‘We are extremely sad, we find it devastating’
Newshub: Head of University of Canterbury vows to leave ‘no questions left unanswered’ following student death
1News: University of Canterbury VC says ‘no question will be left unanswered’ around student’s death at campus residence
Emma Russell (Herald): Dead for weeks: University, campus services provider promise thorough investigation of what went wrong
RNZ: Students call for minimum hostel standards after death at Canterbury University residence
Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): After student’s body found at Canterbury university hall, questions asked of Campus Living Villages
Local government
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): No-one wants to stand in our local elections. No seriously, it’s bad
Matthew Whitehead (Standard): How to vote in STV
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland council election: Slow start to voting
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Labour and de facto National ticket fight it out in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Stuff): Local body elections: Marae push for increased turnout in area of low representation
Jihee Junn (Spinoff): Auckland Council’s plan to reduce its emissions, from farms to fleet
Simon Collins (Herald): ‘We need to learn to share’: Cr Penny Hulse says goodbye to council (paywalled)
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Penny Hulse wraps up her council career with a plea to end petty politics
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Sir John Walker bids farewell to Auckland Council
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): “Poor Leadership” prevented council from helping Tauranga Moana
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Fight over turning a lawn into a carpark at Hamilton Gardens
Zizi Sparks (Rotorua Daily Post): Election 2019: Rotorua Lakes Council mayoral candidates talk growth and planning (paywalled)
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): City council candidates totting up modest campaign budgets
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): 19 to four: How Wellington’s wannabes will vote on Shelly Bay development
RNZ: Wellington mayor hopefuls concerned about range of issues
Grace Stanton (1News): Racist letter leaves Hutt City Council candidate ‘shaken’ but determined to continue standing
Lana Andelane (Newshub): Anonymous ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ letter sent to Hutt City council candidate, Shazly Rasheed
Herald: Anonymous racist letter targets Hutt City Council candidate Shazly Rasheed
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): ‘Nightmare’ project or ‘crisis’ averter?: Bypass heats up mayoral debate
Skara Bohny (Nelson Mail): Queens Gardens public toilets cost more per square metre than Auckland houses
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Christchurch councillors reveal when they knew of Swiggs’ ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
Devon Bolger (ODT): Will the Deon Swiggs scandal affect how people vote?
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Meet the candidates: Christchurch’s lesser-known mayoral hopefuls reveal their policies
Alice Geary (Timaru Herald): South Canterbury districts record about 8 per cent early voting response
Joanne Carroll (Press): Review into ‘shoddy’ event rejected during heated Westland District Council meeting
Chris Morris (ODT): Opportunities seen in climate change
Chris Morris (ODT): Cr’s claim CCTV clip had audio rejected
Chris Morris (ODT): Bid to float candidacy flounders
Luisa Girao (ODT): Infrastructure and increasing population to the fore in Southland
Parliament
Richard Harman (Politik): Bridges objects to his own rule (and Greek philosophy)
Yvette McCullough (RNZ): National likens ban on attack ads using parliamentary footage to ‘gagging order’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Speaker cracks down on Parliament TV footage from being edited for attack ads
Jason Walls (Herald): House Speaker Trevor Mallard is cracking down on MPs using Parliament’s footage for attack ads
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard slaps down Parliament TV political adverts in contentious ruling
Jo Moir (RNZ): Speaker tells political parties to quit attack ads
Dan Satherley and Heather McCarron (Newshub): Greens back lowering voting age to 16
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Greens support ‘switched on’ young people demanding to be heard by politicians and vote at 16
Anna Whyte (1News): Should 16-year-olds vote? Greens push to lower voting age
Boris Jancic (Herald): National MP Nick Smith MP grills schoolkids about accused Christchurch gunman
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 1 – Metiria Turei
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 2 – Tariana Turia
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 3 – Tuariki Delamere
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 4 – Sandra Lee
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 5 – Tau Henare
RNZ: Matangireia: Episode 6 – Marama Fox
Ardern in New York, foreign affairs
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern scatters diplomatic stardust in New York (paywalled)
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Marketing expert rates Jacinda Ardern’s New York trip ‘eight to nine’ out of 10
Gordon Campbell: On the media falling out of love with Jacinda Ardern, and other climate change concerns
Derek Cheng (Herald): Diary of Jacinda Ardern’s trip to New York (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The puzzling UN: a glowing orb and snipers under sunshades
1News: At Gates Foundation event, Ardern calls on other nations to copy NZ’s wellbeing Budget
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Jacinda attacks identity politics while begging for neato neoliberalism – the confused philosophy of NZ at the UN
1News: Watch: Crowd gives Jacinda Ardern rapturous response during ‘surprise’ appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Zane Small (Newshub): The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert has ‘special place’ in his heart for Jacinda Ardern
Derek Cheng (Herlad): Jacinda Ardern to make cameo appearance on Colbert show
Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern appears on The Late Show again, and now Stephen Colbert’s coming to NZ
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Late Show comedian Stephen Colbert to visit New Zealand
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Late Show with Stephen Colbert to film in New Zealand
Jenna Lynch and Zane Small ((Newshub): PM Jacinda Ardern meets US actress Renée Zellweger backstage at The Late Show
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1News: Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte to visit New Zealand next month
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte coming to New Zealand
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
RNZ: Sex offender at Royal Commission: Commissioner says waiting to tell group was ‘only practical option we had’
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Another day, another embarrassment for state abuse inquiry
Operation Burnham inquiry
Boris Jancic (Herald): More top NZDF officers called to front over ‘buried’ file
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Inquiry to probe documents locked in Defence Force safe
Immigration
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Strawberry growers still concerned as immigration minister announces 3000 additional overseas workers over two years
Anna Whyte (1News): Government lifts restraints on recruiting overseas seasonal workers amid shortage complaints
Jo Moir (RNZ): More visas for temporary seasonal workers
Zane Small (Newshub): Immigration Minister boosts cap on temporary visas for seasonal workers
Adam Burns (ODT): RSE increase welcome but more needed
Yael Shochat (Spinoff): A restaurant owner on how immigration changes will hurt her industry
Ihumātao
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Ihumātao protesters chant at final Auckland Council meeting
Ella Prendergast and Dan Satherley (Newshub): Ihumātao occupiers take protest to Auckland Town Hall
Mare Haimona-Riki (Māori TV): Pania Newton calls Auckland City Council to protect Ihumātao
Primary industries
Alice Geary (Stuff): Farmer confidence at lowest level in three years
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Southland farmer pens powerful open letter to Jacinda Ardern
Rebecca Black (Stuff): Milk powder without cows joins animal-free mega trend
Heather Bray and Rachel A Ankeny (Stuff): Dairy farmers don’t like it but plant drinks have long been called ‘milk’
RNZ: Australian ‘manuka’ honey producers get government support
Jordan Oppert (1News): New Zealand pig farmers on high alert as African Swine Fever spreads globally
Fonterra
John Anthony (Stuff): Fonterra’s financial turmoil: A history of costly mistakes comes back to haunt dairy giant
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Can Fonterra find a fresh future from a curdled past?
Herald Editorial: Could Fonterra still be our national champion? (paywalled)
Maria Slade (Spinoff): Fonterra gets back to basics as it tries to move on from $605m loss
Andrea Fox (Herald): Less is more in Fonterra’s new business strategy as it aims be our promised national champion (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): Fonterra looks for modest improvements in 2020 year
1News: Fonterra announces closure of Kāpiti Coast plant, hours after reporting $605m loss
Jane Matthews (Taranaki Daily News): Fonterra creates jobs in South Taranaki after job cuts, $605 million loss announced
Andrea McRae (RNZ): Fonterra may need to be held accountable, says Waikato farmer
Robin Martin (RNZ): Fonterra results ‘extremely disturbing’ – farmer
1News: Fonterra’s financial woes were ‘strongly signalled early on’, Canterbury farmer says
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fonterra boss Miles Hurrell paid half Theo Spierings’ salary
Herald: Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell’s new pay
Herald: Fonterra posts $605m loss, turns business upside down
RNZ: Fonterra posts $605m net loss in annual results
Education
Elena McPhee (ODT): Prof Jim Flynn puzzled by book’s rejection
David Williams (Newsroom): Students punished for ‘offensive’ law revue
ODT: University to spend more than $1.2m to lower energy use, emissions
RNZ: Some high decile schools could get more funding under new model – minister
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Northland principals happy with school decile changes (paywalled)
Melanie Earley and Caroline Williams (Stuff): South Auckland school brawl: pupils won’t be punished until police conclude investigation
Dita De Boni (NBR): We can’t outlaw private schools, can we? (paywalled)
Northern Advocate: Kamo High School’s board of trustees resigns en masse (paywalled)
Jessica Long (Stuff): Early childhood teacher calls on Government for pay parity with kindergarten educators
Health
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Auditor General’s damning findings into Waikato DHB’s SmartHealth
Natalie Akoorie (Stuff): HealthTap procurement lacked planning, clarity, oversight says Auditor-General
RNZ: Waikato DHB’s $26m IT blunder highlighted in new report
Libby Wilson (Stuff): New Waikato nursing school could have first batch of students in 2021
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Calls for law changes as Auckland’s obesity rates triple in one generation
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Parents left pondering what constitutes ‘vulnerable’ as children are turned down for measles vaccine
Dubby Henry (Herald): Measles outbreak: School holiday warning but authorities ‘cautiously optimistic’
Celia Devenish, Samantha Murton and Jackie Edmond (Stuff): Universal funding needed to make the right contraception choice
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Pharmac poised to fund long-acting contraceptive Mirena
Mike Houlahan (ODT): More left ED without treatment
Karen Brown (RNZ): Strike to make patients needing X-rays ‘wait longer’
ACC
Brent Edwards (NBR): Minister happy with ACC despite $8.7b deficit (paywalled)
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Māori miss out on ACC treatments
Environment
David Williams (Newsroom): Ructions within DoC’s corporate arm
Julia Talbot-Jones (Newsroom): How to have quality freshwater and plenty of it
Pam Jones (ODT): 100 tonnes of recycling trucked out of district
Danielle Clent and Denise Piper (Stuff): Code brown: Beach swimming spots to avoid in Auckland, Northland during September school holidays
Economy
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern – lead us from this mood of gloom (paywalled)
Brian Fallow (Herald): Need a boost? Try cutting GST (paywalled)
Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Reserve Bank says low interest rates ‘an opportunity’
Michael Reddell: Some IMF modelling on NZ
Housing
Indira Stewart (RNZ): Hundreds evicted from Tamaki state housing for redevelopment
Greg Ninness (Interest): 2018 Census data: Percentage of unoccupied homes falls in most centres but rises in Auckland
Transport
Grant Bradley (Herald): Jetstar’s flight from the regions: Unpacking the baggage (paywalled)
Harry Lock (RNZ): No successor to swoop in on Jetstar’s regional flights
Police
ODT Editorial: Police workplace bullying claims
RNZ: Police should have abandoned chase before shoving car into wall – IPCA
Other
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): No more distraction, let’s see action and compassion
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt soft on insurers in regulatory revamp
Tony Wall (Stuff): Grey Power has been stung with a hefty bill for failing to pay income tax
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Never again? The case of James Whakaruru
Jason Walls (Herald): Parents of hit-and-run victim Nathan Kraatskow ask MPs to tighten home detention rules
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): StatsNZ to do a better job to collect iwi data after ‘failed’ Census
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Rua Kēnana one step closer to being pardoned
Renee Manella (Stuff): Mothers kept single by Government rules about relationships for beneficiaries
RNZ: Too few consumers switching mobile provider – watchdog review
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Tourism industry must prepare for Alpine Fault rupture, warns MP
Liam Dann (Herald): Economy Hub: Paul Goldsmith black-belt finance spokesman (paywalled)
Press Editorial: Has Godzone turned Godless?
Brittany Keogh (Stuff): Conversion therapy: one in six trans, non-binary people say a professional tried to change them
Paul Hunt (Stuff): Inclusivity in the Age of Anger
Sophie Bateman and Sam Harvey (Newshub): How socialist urban design will save New Zealand from climate change
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Air New Zealand boss Christopher Luxon departs, remains quiet on potential political future
Herald: Countdown won’t sell fireworks this Guy Fawkes
