Editor’s Note: Here below is Dr Bryce Edwards’ New Zealand Political Roundup – which analyses one prominent topic being debated in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Political Roundup for free here.
Items of interest and importance today
FAIR PAY AGREEMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Fair Pay Agreements Bill: Biggest shakeup to workplaces in generation coming from Government
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Fair Pay Agreements are a step closer to becoming law
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘Misinformation’ and kickback allegations, as Labour and National scrap on new employment rules
David Burton (Stuff): Are the proposed Fair Pay Agreements a good idea?
Anneke Smith (Stuff): Fair Pay Agreements Bill flies through first reading
Johnny Blades (RNZ): Parliament debates to touch business nerves
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): NZ Unions can win Fair Pay Agreements but can’t win middle class white collar unemployment holiday tax
No Right Turn: What is wrong with Labour?
Irra Lee (1News): Wood ‘comfortable’ with min wage despite wanting larger increase
UKRAINE
RNZ: Christopher Luxon wants NZ more in step with allies: ‘Our sanctions at the moment are relatively weak’
Herald: National leader calls Vladimir Putin a ‘war criminal’, wants NZ to help Ukraine anyway it can
RNZ: National Party leader Christopher Luxon labels Putin a war criminal, again urges ambassador’s removal
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): NZ sanctioning Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, other rich Russians ‘a great start, but not enough’ – Ukrainian-Kiwi lawyer
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Russian Embassy claims war crimes a ‘hoax’
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government urged to step up Russia sanctions effort, send lethal military equipment to Ukraine
Zane Small (Newshub): Ukraine war: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ‘absolutely accepts’ global security situation has ‘changed considerably’
John Weekes (Herald): Russia-Ukraine war: NZ Defence Minister asked to give Ukraine lethal aid – Cabinet said no
Russell Palmer (RNZ): National urges supplying javelin missile weapons to Ukraine
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, TRADE AND DEFENCE
Richard Harman: Undiplomatic relations; the Minister and the Ministry (paywalled)
David Fisher (Herald): This is why our NZSAS were willing to testify against Australia’s special forces (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Herald): NZ defence secretary raises Solomon Islands concerns with Chinese general
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Govt urged to adapt its approach to secure trade deal with India
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): David Seymour challenges Jacinda Ardern to lift defence spending
Richard Prebble (Herald): The big surprises Jacinda Ardern will see on her travels (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE
1News: Window of opportunity to turn climate change around – Shaw
1News: ETS should do ‘heavy lifting’ to tackle climate change – Luxon
Eloise Gibson (Stuff): Warning to NZ from major climate report: ‘The door is closing now’
RNZ: Climate change: IPCC scientist warns world ‘pretty much out of time’ to limit warming
Kirsty Frame (RNZ): IPCC report: Climate campaigner urges voters to push government and companies to act
Dita De Boni (NBR): NZ’s role in a ‘litany of broken climate promises’ – IPCC (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Climate change: Politicians like James Shaw are part of the problem
Robin Martin (RNZ): Company allowed to search for oil and gas off Taranaki coast despite ban
No Right Turn: Labour lied about banning offshore gas exploration
COVID
Michael Baker and Nick Wilson (Guardian): New Zealand’s Covid strategy was one of the world’s most successful – what can we learn from it?
Rachel Smalley (Today FM): The Government’s travel vaccine confusion
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Limiting Covid-19 spread: Principals worried about winter classroom ventilation
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Govt has learned no Covid lessons
Nikki Preston (Herald): What we know about the newest XE variant
RNZ: Wider surveillance testing to watch for XE variant of Covid-19, winter illnesses – Bloomfield
1News: ‘Business as usual’ for some Kiwis as vaccine passes scrapped
ECONOMY AND BUSINESS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Grant Robertson urges caution after Government books bounce back from Covid
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Government accounts continue to track better than expected
RNZ: Government finances resilient but Omicron impact yet to be felt
Brent Edwards (NBR): Treasury advised against business Omicron support payouts, papers show (paywalled)
HOUSING
Ashley Church (One Roof): No, government geniuses haven’t put the brakes on house prices
David Farrar: How is Kiwibuild going?
Bernard Hickey: Housing bottoming out (paywalled)
Kelly Makiha (Herald): Concerns as new Rotorua Kainga Ora homes eligible for out-of-town homeless (paywalled)
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, CO-GOVERNANCE AND THREE WATERS
Graham Adams (The Platform): Co-governance debate descends into a slugfest
Neil Reid (Herald): Frustrated mayor tells Jacinda Ardern ‘you have lost the people’
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Rawiri Waititi thinks Nats leader suffers from white saviourism
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
Kristin Hall (1News): How distrust and deceit turned Parliament into a battleground
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Fake quote said to be from Jacinda Ardern goes viral
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): Newsroom and MediaWorks form partnership
Dita De Boni (NBR): Treasury wanted stronger commercial disciplines for merged RNZ/TVNZ
Jenni Mortimer (Herald): Ratings wars: What John Campbell’s departure means for Breakfast
Stuff: John Campbell confirms he is leaving Breakfast
TRANSPORT
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland public transport at risk in funding ‘perfect storm’
Michael Neilson (Herald): Parliament debates road user charge subsidy, Greens slate policy over climate change impacts
Kirsty Wild and Alistair Woodward (Newsroom): Auckland public transport: Do it once and do it right
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Transmission Gully opens: Builder on the hook for $26 million worth of fines
HEALTH
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Auckland District Health Board workers at critical risk from fatigue – report
Zane Small (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fiercely defends vexed results of billion-dollar mental health spend
Laura Hooper (Stuff): Southern DHB chief executive Chris Fleming resigns
RETIREMENT
Duncan Garner (Today FM): The issue with retirement in New Zealand
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Retirement gap: Why women have 20 per cent less in KiwiSaver than men on average, and what can be done about it (paywalled)
Luke Kirkness (Herald): New Zealand Superannuation: Māori Party co-leader suggests lowering eligibility age (paywalled)
Stefan Dimitrof (Māori TV): Aged care commissioner will have to hit the ground running
PARLIAMENT
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Parliament occupation: Trevor Mallard will face scrutiny over protest reaction
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Parliament protest damage could top $1 million, lawn infested with rats and faeces
Dan Sheridan (Stuff): It won’t be me’: Tapsell rules herself out of Tauranga race
Phil Smith (RNZ): Decoding the names of bills
MOANA JACKSON
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): Moana Jackson – speaking truth to power
Maiki Sherman (1News): Moana Jackson’s dying wish for women to speak on marae
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (1News): Dr Moana Jackson’s fight for constitutional change will continue
POLITICAL HARASSMENT AND TOXICITY
Damien Venuto (Herald): The dangerous online world of the man charged with threatening to kill the PM
Verity Johnson (Stuff): The outing of an Internet troll showed women can win
Tina Law (Stuff): Councillor wants to meet online bully via restorative justice process
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Inaction on NZ ‘Nuremberg’ site sparks calls for overhaul of system ‘not fit for purpose’
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): The self-proclaimed ‘sheriffs’ who want to arrest the authorities
PRISONS
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Projected growth of remand prison population ‘alarming’
Tova O’Brien (Today FM): Maori prison population percentage highest since 2009
George Block (Stuff): Salacious and ‘derogatory’ Auckland prison blog taken down
