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.
Immigration
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Has Shane Jones Just Saved NZ First?
Gaurav Sharma (Spinoff): How Shane Jones’ fire is burning New Zealand’s Indian community
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Immigration fiasco hints at coalition fractures to come
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): NZ First’s Shane Jones on a collision course with Labour over immigration
Sandeep Singh (Indian Weekender): Racist comments against Kiwi-Indians are not representative of New Zealanders
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Bending the rules on visas is wrong
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Shane Jones isn’t racist – he has a point
Dileepa Fonseka (Newsroom): Ardern backs down over ‘racist’ partnership visa change
Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern steps in to resolve partnership visa standoff
Collette Devlin (Stuff): PM Jacinda Ardern wants visa policy affecting arranged marriages reversed
Jo Moir (RNZ): Govt asks immigration changes be reversed back to status quo
Katie Bradford (1News): Controversial partnership visa decision set to be reversed by Immigration New Zealand
Zane Small (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern tells Immigration New Zealand to ‘reverse’ partnership visa changes
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Immigration lawyer says Shane Jones’ language ‘needs to be stamped out immediately’
RNZ: Checkpoint: NZ resident returning to India after wife’s visa declined
Jason Walls (Herald): Minister Shane Jones floats plans of an NZ First anti-immigration policy ahead of the election
Māori TV: Shane Jones: How many new ‘Kiwis’ do we want?
RNZ: Shane Jones to push immigration policy after battle with Indian community
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Shane Jones invited to Indian community meeting to watch Bollywood movie, have ‘intellectual discussion’
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Officials reject Christchurch rebuild worker’s visa because of leukaemia
Guy Williams (ODT): Mother fears having to leave her young children behind if forced from NZ
Winston Peters’ privacy breach lawsuit
Bryce Edwards (RNZ): The Winston Peters case and the politicisation of the public service
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Minister told husband, sister about Peters’ super
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Peters ‘indignant and defensive’ in call to ministry over error, court told
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Winston Peters was ‘indignant and defensive’ when told of Ministry of Social Development error, court hears
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Winston Peters ‘indignant and defensive’ at news of pension overpayment, court hear
Zac Fleming (Newshub0: Winston Peters ‘indignant and defensive’, Ministry of Social Development staffer tells court
Newshub:Journalists refuse to reveal source of Winston Peters leak
National Party
Claire Trevett (Herald): The stress-testing of National’s Chris Luxon and the John Key factor (paywalled)
RNZ: Simon Bridges defends Christopher Luxon over support for ‘no jab, no pay’ extension
1News: Luxon part of National’s ‘fresh talent’ after spate of MPs leave since Bridges became leader
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): National leader Simon Bridge’s women’s troubles as Maggie Barry retires
Brent Edwards (NBR): ACT says it’s National’s only friend (paywalled)
Climate change
Richard Harman (Politik): National caucus meets late over climate change
Paul Duignan (Stuff): Citizens’ assembly should think the unthinkable about climate change
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Methane-detecting satellite to be controlled from NZ
RNZ: Govt invests $26m in methane-measuring from space
Anna Whyte (1News): NZ to contribute $26m, to be control destination for climate change space mission
Boris Jancic (Herald): New Zealand to fund methane satellite mission
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Cheat sheet: New Zealand is launching the climate change effort into space
Zane Small (Newshub): New Zealand to host international space mission tackling climate change
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): NZ to help send satellite to space in hope of it eventually measuring agricultural emissions
Julie Iles (NBR): Coalition helps fund methane-monitoring satellite (paywalled)
Zane Small (Newshub): Insults fly at Zero Carbon Bill reading as MP takes shot at ‘obnoxious’ Shane Jones
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Duncan Garner, James Shaw butt heads over climate change emergency declaration
James Shaw (Spinoff): Trump is swimming against the tide of history. Let’s rally behind the real leaders
Steven Cowan: New Zealand needs a Green New Deal
Rodney Hide (NBR): Inventive stunts and Chicken Little alarm (paywalled)
Conservation, environment
Katrina Goddard (Stuff): Ministers have the fate of entire Māui dolphin species in their hands
1News: World’s rarest gulls find home in ruins of building destroyed in Christchurch earthquake
Johnny Blades (RNZ): West Papua solidarity group critical of NZ land sale
Transport
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Raft of problems with IT systems overhaul revealed
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland’s Light Rail: Project hit the buffers when NZTA took over, former AT chair says
RNZ: The Detail: Is Auckland’s light rail plan off track?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Collateral damage – City Rail Link ghost town (paywalled)
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington mayor’s latest roadblock: Congestion charging
Mandy Te (Stuff): Greater Wellington Regional Council open to congestion charge debate
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Proposal to lower central Wellington speed limits to 30km/h
Police, justice, corrections
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Police launch stratregy to reduce Māori re-offending by 25 percent
RNZ: Reducing number of Māori in the justice system by healing a ‘severed relationship’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 5 years and finally justice: NZ Police formally apologise & settle for breaching my civil rights
David Fisher (Herald): ‘Bomber’ Bradbury gets apology from police after exploit used to access bank records, driving him to the edge (paywalled)
Auckland University: Q+A: Could working with gangs help reduce crime?
Sahiban Hyde (Hawkes Bay Today): Hastings backpackers bought: Corrections says released inmates need to be housed somewhere (paywalled)
Abuse in care inquiry
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Royal Commission hearing: Psychologist says some children better off in state care
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Survivor raped multiple times in care despite concerns raised
Fireworks
Press Editorial: Is it time for a fireworks ban?
Stephen Forbes (Stuff): Auckland Council and LGNZ continue campaign to ban sale and private use of fireworks
Herald: Fireworks fright night: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wades into Guy Fawkes debate
Zane Small (Newshub): ‘It sounded like a warzone’: Jacinda Ardern to raise firework concerns with councils
1News: Fireworks call outs around the country put fire crews under ‘a lot of stress’
1News: Nearly 90 fireworks related call outs across the country with large blaze on Auckland’s Mt Wellington
RNZ: Auckland’s volcanic cones to be closed during Guy Fawkes
1News: Public access to Auckland’s volcanic cones to be banned on Guy Fawkes due to fires
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): All maunga in Auckland closed following Guy Fawkes fire
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Fireworks are dangerous, but that doesn’t mean we should ban them
Health
1News: ‘Stretched services’ in rural health sector sparks call for commissioner role
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Health authorities ‘overrun’: Govt promises more money as measles epidemic grips south Auckland
Jenny Meyer (RNZ): Relaunch of MMR in Samoa a huge task – Health Ministry
RNZ: UN agencies tell Pacific to vaccinate against measles
RNZ: Researchers to look at Pacific genetic link to gout, diabetes
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Diabetes in Pacific people possible result of evolutionary protection from malaria
1News: Government claims ‘breakdown of communication’ as Mike King says he was declined funding for Gumboot Friday initiative
Scott Palmer and Fiona Connor (Newshub): Mike King says Gumboot Friday charity denied more funding from Ministry of Health
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Ministry declines funding for Gumboot Fund counselling service, Mike King claims
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Young women ‘vast majority’ of rising self-harm incidents in New Zealand
Juliette Siversten: Just Listen podcast: Feeling anxious or anxiety disorder?
Herald Editorial: Hear our voices, we entreat (paywalled)
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): Deadline looms for nuclear veterans and descendants study
Insurance
RNZ: Government should review quake insurance role – Wellington mayoral taskforce
Rob Stock (Stuff): Ignorance, dishonesty, bullying insurers behind ‘withdrawn’ insurance claims
Foreign affairs and trade
Guy Trafford (Interest): What has been won (and lost) in the recent signing of the RCEP, and the upgraded China free trade deal
David Farrar: Two minor trade gains
RNZ: PNG PM’s visit to NZ deferred
Media
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Ad-free TV One ‘most popular’ option for Broadcasting Minister, says lobby group
Scott Palmer ((Newshub): Research shows majority of Kiwis want TVNZ ad-free
Local government
David Fisher (Herald): Legal challenge over election – ousted candidate sought to challenge rivals in court (paywalled)
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): Murupara-Galatea looks at options
Catherine Groenestein (Stuff): Community board candidate got elected but nobody believes him
Damian George (Stuff): Ousted mayor Justin Lester’s request for a vote recount challenged by incumbent
Ian Telfer (ODT): Listen: Post-election sit-down with Mayor Hawkins
Education
RNZ: MPs urged to set minimum staff-to-student ratios in uni hostels
Lee Kenny (Stuff): Single eastern European country tied to med student work placement deception
Derek Cheng (Herald): Kelvin Davis accused of ‘atrocious’ behaviour and ignoring Treaty obligations
Mandy Henk (Spinoff): How paywalls are poisoning public-interest research
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Polytechs struggling to keep doors open
Brittany Keogh (Stuff): Period poverty: Nearly 100,000 girls at risk of missing school
Hawkes Bay Today: Iona College matrons strike over pay and working conditions
Primary industries
Pattrick Smellie (Herald): Pressure on Jacinda Ardern over water quality amid farmer well-being concern (paywalled)
Andy Thompson (Herald): The Country: Jacinda Ardern’s message for farmers upset by viral video
Employment stats
Liam Dann (Herald): Jobs market may be worse than it looks (paywalled)
RNZ: Unemployment up to 4.2%, wages rising strongly
1News; Unemployment rate goes up after 11-year low
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): September quarter labour market data unlikely to be a game-changer for the RBNZ
No Right Turn: 11,000 employed under Labour
Child welfare
Melanie Reid and Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Uplift mother gets second child back
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Oranga Tamariki apologises to dead boy’s dad for not hearing him
Katie Todd (RNZ): Autistic boy, 5, in hospital twice before death
2degrees
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 2degrees red-faced after Commerce Commission calls it out for cheating
Chris Keall (Herald): 2degrees caught cheating with broadband test
Disaster preparedness
Lisette Reymer (Newshub): ‘It could happen tomorrow’: Scientists prepare for New Zealand’s next big earthquake
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Why do a worrying number of us not know what to do before tsunami waves arrive?
James Shaw assault
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Man who attacked Greens co-leader James Shaw over abortion stance sentenced to prison
Stuff: Man who attacked James Shaw got jail because he would not agree to home detention
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Man who punched Green Party co-leader James Shaw sent to prison
Rocket lab
Chris Keall (Herald): Space Minister Phil Twyford defends Rocket Lab’s ‘entertain the mega rich’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): No harm found in putting on fake ‘shooting star’ shows, says Space Agency
SkyCity convention centre
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): SkyCity convention centre handed back to Fletcher Construction
AAP: Completion date for SkyCity’s convention centre to be revealed next February
Insolvency law reforms
Nicholas Pointon (RNZ): Ponzi scheme victims furious no reforms announced
Susan Edmonds (Stuff): First finance companies, then Ross Asset Management: Investor wants justice
Demographics
Keith Ng (Herald): Interactive: Do Kiwis choose to live in racially diverse neighbourhoods? Researchers find a surprising answer
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): ‘No hustle and bustle’: the only place in New Zealand where population is falling
Cash
1News: ‘Still a role for cash’ Reserve Bank says, despite Kiwi consumers’ preference for electronic payments
Maddy Lloyd (1News): Concern for elderly with future of cash up in the air
OK boomer
Stuff: Did Green MP Chloe Swarbrick kill the ‘OK boomer’ meme?
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Chlöe Swarbrick explains what ‘OK boomer’ means
Herald: NZ Parliament’s on-point response to ‘OK boomer’ TV gaffe
Other
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern has a huge edge on social media, but will it win her votes
Kate MacNamara (Stuff): The Reserve Bank should do nothing for the economy; the Government should not
Dara McNaught (Herald): Superannuitants caught in the trap of poverty (paywalled)
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): West Coasters to gather in opposition to ‘one-size-fits-all’ Government policies
No Right Turn: Boycott this democratic fraud
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Police Minister questions if fewer banned firearms in community than expected
Mitchell Alexander (Newshub): Bill would force political candidates to disclose criminal convictions
ODT: Tiwai Point: Time wasted before the inevitable
1News: Plaque commemorating victims of 1918 influenza pandemic unveiled in Wellington
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): A commemoration for the 9000 lives lost in 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Martin Hawes (Interest): Incentives to ease a burden
Rino Tirikatene (Southland Times): When the regions thrive, Māori thrive
Ryan Boswell (1News): Māori claim to Sydney land dismissed by Australia’s Federal Court
Jono Edwards (ODT): 109 inquiries about no or low-interest loan scheme
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): ISPs split over blocking resurrected 8chan
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Emergency call-outs drop after te reo Māori safety programme introduced
RNZ: Samoa Govt anticipates new seasonal work openings abroad
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Travellers should boycott Cook Islands over anti-gay law, Pacific leader says
Ryan Boswell (1News): Kiwi refugee accused of people-smuggling denied bail in Australia
1News: Charles and Camilla to visit Waitangi, Kaikōura during New Zealand trip this month
Alice Webb-Liddall (Spinoff): Signs, songs, stumps, symbols: A history of protest in Aotearoa in 350 objects
