New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project.
Today’s content
MEKA WHAITIRI DEFECTION, ELIZABETH KEREKERE RESIGNATION
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The Greens will be fine – but Chris Hipkins should be worried (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): The reality after the resignations (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Parties playing nice for the sake of coalition (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Post): Quitting her seat would be the right thing for Meka Whaitiri to do (paywalled)
Thomas Cranmer: Meka Whaitiri’s Departure from the Labour Party: A Wake-up Call for the Māori Caucus
1News: Q+A: We should’ve looked after Meka Whaitiri more – Willie Jackson
Janet Wilson. (Stuff): Whaitiri defection solidifies Te Pāti Māori kingmaker position
Liam Hehir (Blue Review): Schrödinger’s MP and the Electoral (No Integrity) Amendment Act
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Meka defection: Winners, Losers and Predictions
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Meka Whaitiri mess is a disgrace
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Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Kerekere gone from Greens but identity crisis remains
Liam Hehir (Blue Review): Party hopping: why list MPs are not shackled to parties
Steven Cowan: The Green Party: At war with itself
RNZ: Watch: Green Party co-leaders respond to resignation of MP Elizabeth Kerekere
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘Some untruths were told’ – Marama Davidson and James Shaw confront Elizabeth Kerekere allegations
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Green Party co-leaders knew of ‘concerns’ about Dr Elizabeth Kerekere before ‘crybaby’ message
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘Green Party members process Elizabeth Kerekere’s resignation
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Elizabeth Kerekere quits Green Party, takes aim at co-leaders
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere resigns from party
Felix Desmarais (1News): Elizabeth Kerekere quits Green Party, will ‘retire’
David Farrar: Kerekere slams Greens co-leaders
PARLIAMENT, ELECTION
Andrea Vance (Post): How former party hacks are skewing the national debate (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): The biggest threats to PM Chris Hipkins’ honeymoon right now are the health and economic blizzards of winter (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Stuff): Chris Hipkins’ Labour starts to fray at the edges
Thomas Manch (Post): Govt to make pre-Budget announcements as Parliament reels from defections (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On the Coronation, Bishop, Checkmated and Jumping Ship
Grant Duncan: On how to become a republic, and the defection of Meka Whaitiri
Felix Desmarais (1News): Analysis: The battleground electorates to watch this election
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 6 Months until 2023 election – Political Battlefield Analysis Special
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The most Left Wing Government since Savage vs the most Right Wing Government since Lange – what is at stake this election
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Co-governance to cost of living – what are the big issues for Māori voters?
Luke Malpass (Post): Why the suits fits for Michael Wood (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week In Politics: Meka Whaitiri – why did she do it?
Claire Trevett and Adam Pearse (Herald): Beehive Diaries: Chris Hipkins and Chris Luxon go to London, Meka Whaitiri goes to Te Pāti Māori and the MP who said he was a fox
Sapeer Mayron (Stuff): Rotary Club investigating after Jacinda Ardern mask attached to toilet seat
Herald: Simon Bridges made chairman of commercial and residential services company CC Group (paywalled)
CORONATION
Colin Peacock (RNZ): A constitutional conundrum – or simply a king-size spectacle?
Andrew Butler (Stuff): Myth busting the ‘should NZ become a republic’ discussion
Tracy Watkin (Sunday Star Times): There’s a case for keeping the monarchy, even if you’re not a royalist
Niva Chittock and Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): King Charles’ Coronation resurrects New Zealand republic debate
Post Editorial: It’s complicated: What to make of a new monarch for New Zealand (paywalled)
Rachel Sadler and Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): ‘Some learnings’ for Phil Goff after he offended Māori King with coronation comments – Carmel Sepuloni
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): ‘Phil Goff must stand down’: Tukoroirangi Morgan calls out high commissioner as inappropriate for ‘position of this mana’
Te Rina Kowhai (Newshub): Calls for Phil Goff to quit after offending Māori King with coronation comments, forgotten karakia
Kereama Wright and Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): King Tuheitia presents King Charles with taonga ahead of coronation
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): Why Phil Goff’s dismissal of the Māori king was more than a faux pas
RNZ: High Commissioner to the UK Phil Goff offends Māori King with coronation comments, forgotten karakia
1News: Tensions flare as Māori King offended by Govt at coronation event
Tamara Poi-Ngawhika (BusinessDesk): The indigenous’ call for an apology from British monarchy is a ‘pipe dream’
Herald: King’s coronation: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins reflects on trip to London
RNZ: Atmosphere at King Charles’ coronation was ‘quite phenomenal’, PM Chris Hipkins says
William Hewett (Newshub): King Charles III’s coronation: Moment Prime Minister Chris Hipkins appears in TV coverage
Benjamin Plummer (Herald): King Charles’ coronation: Anointing screen to NZDF march – Kiwi’s contribution to the coronation
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): King Charles III’s coronation: New Zealanders mark occasion with tea parties, punk concerts
RNZ: Tree plantings, gun salutes mark King Charles’ Coronation in New Zealand
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
1News: Q+A: Taiwan urges NZ to invest in Pacific, warns of China’s ‘ambition’
Thomas Manch (Post): Two ACT MPs to travel to Taiwan after cross-party group decides against trip (paywalled)
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Wild card entries complicate the trade game (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Boring meeting underlines strength of NZ – UK relationship
Herald: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ BBC interview: Māori politics, future republic, UK trade and sausage rolls
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Here’s what the NZ-UK free trade agreement means for you
Gerhard Uys (Post): Red meat, wine and fruit to get boost from UK free-trade agreement (paywalled)
1News: Hipkins meets with UK PM, sharing tray of sausage rolls
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Prime Minister Chris Hipkins meets Rishi Sunak ahead of coronation
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government to announce Defence boost, hoping to retain staff
Thomas Manch (Post): Budget to include more than $240m for defence assets (paywalled)
ECONOMY, TAX
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Is degrowth the planet’s saviour or a left-wing menace? (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Budgeting The Merry Month Of May
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Monetary policymakers are hoping for a no-thrills budget that helps them dampen inflation
Liam Dann (Herald): With numbers this good, why does the economy feel so bad? (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Don’t need a weatherman to feel these winds (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Ex-Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker on how quantitative easing has exposed government finances to rising interest rates
Jean Edwards (RNZ): Struggling families ‘stuck’ using buy now pay later for essentials
Molly Swift (Newshub): Price battle: How New Zealand’s grocery prices compare to rest of the world
William Hewett (Newshub): Latest grocery data shows another 10 percent rise in supply costs, Kiwis facing ‘very expensive environment’
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Tax cuts are coming, who should get them? (paywalled)
Aimee Shaw (Post): Richlister questions legitimacy of report on tax bills of wealthy (paywalled)
Bryce Wilkinson (NZ Initiative): When debating tax, don’t forget spending quality
Sam Stubbs (Stuff): Why raising GST could be the easiest way to make the rich pay more tax
Terry Baucher (Interest): Tax break for flood hit taxpayers and the tax implications of renting a room to a flatmate
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Brianna Mcilraith (Post): Big business profits concern New Zealanders, survey shows (paywalled)
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Revealed: The huge cost of the Government’s shelved Income Insurance Scheme (paywalled)
Alka Prasad (Herald): ERA finds Wendy’s failed to pay workers for public holidays
Tom Pullar Strecker (Stuff): Telcos bristle over plan to force them to display customer service rankings
Amy Williams (RNZ): Supermarkets lose Supreme Court battle to extend alcohol sales hours
Rob Stock (Post): ANZ’s 14% cash profit boost came from households paying more (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ANZ NZ’s half-year profit falls despite strong rise in income, led by net interest income, and lower expenses
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Outrage you can bank on (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Stuff): Fresh wave of shock as Latitude sends out last wave of cyberattack notifications
HEALTH
Alex Spence (Herald): 94 hours in A&E: Health and Disability Commissioner calls for action on overcrowding in psychiatric units (paywalled)
Alex Spence (Herald): 94 hours in A&E: Doctor raises alarm about ‘longest ever wait’ for bed at Auckland Hospital (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): ‘Running for our lives’: Te Whatu Ora staff losing faith in their employer (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Winter health plan leads transition to new model of care
Ian Powell: Is a horrendous winter from hell coming?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Staffing woes menace Te Whatu Ora winter health plan
Stephen Forbes (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Can’t flog a dead horse’: Health worker sceptical of winter plan
1News: Q+A: Govt hints at more help for medical students amid shortage
1News: MMR vaccine drive on for Auckland as measles cases discovered
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): Measles outbreak: Teachers to have blood tests to check immunity before they return to school
Teuila Fuatai (E-Tangata): ‘We’re tired of being resilient’
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Cost of dental care forces abuse victim to live with broken teeth
George Laking (Newsroom): Why NZ should not copy Australian vape clampdown
Hamish Bidwell (Hawke’s Bay Today): Political tit-for-tat starts in Tukituki as Nats claim Labour over-egging hospital proposal
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Dr Sue Crengle: Our health inequities and colonisation
Teuila Fuatai (E-Tangata): South Auckland deserves more than a “short-sighted, short-term fix”
RNZ: WHO Covid-19 status change makes no practical difference to management of cases- Baker
Herald Editorial: Covid officially downgraded, but what about the next pandemic? (paywalled)
Karen McBride-Henry (Newsroom): The high cost of ‘disability-blind’ health policies
Andrew Shelling (Newsroom): Health workers urge regulation of genetic discrimination
Brianna Mcilraith (Post): NZ’s first dried medicinal cannabis flower verified (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Lane Nicholas (Herald): Public transport disaster: Our troubled trains system and KiwiRail’s horror week (paywalled)
Emile Donovan (Stuff): Newsable: Jaundiced public transport down to ‘decades of underinvestment’
Julie Jacobson (Post): Transport woes catching as capital’s commuter chaos continues (paywalled)
Vita Molyneux (Herald): Interislander Kaitaki ferry failure caused by failure of expired ‘safety critical’ equipment
Tom Hunt (Post): Interislander knew ill-fated Kaitaki ferry had missed safety critical work (paywalled)
Brian Roper: Remuera-dwelling Tesla drivers – Where are the clean car rebates going?
Guy Trafford (Interest): Taxation in transport sector to change behaviour, but no good options to do the right thing
Sapeer Mayron (Stuff): Auckland Transport feared wonky road markings were a ‘serious reputational risk’
IMMIGRATION
Barbara Dreaver (1News): Opinion: Immigration has a lot to answer for over Pasifika treatment
Barbara Dreaver (1News): Pasifika leaders share dawn raid concerns, Govt apologises – again
Lydia Lewis (RNZ): ‘We are still being dawn raided’, Tongan community leader tells public meeting
HOUSING
Geraden Cann (Stuff): Mortgage rates have exceeded what many borrowers were stress-tested at
Miriam Bell (Stuff): How Ockham Residential is helping deliver Kiwibuild 2.0
Geraden Cann (Stuff): Property investors losing one of last ways to keep interest deductibility
Rosa Hehir (Critic Te Ārohi): Landlords are (Once Again) Pressuring Students to Sign Early
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Simon Wilson (Herald): Eden Park, emissions and the forest in a football stadium (paywalled)
Brian Finn (The Bounce): Eden Park 6.8: The ‘billion-dollar’ folly
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Auckland’s austere future: dodging debt by a thousand cuts
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Urban Auckland has become a haphazard mess
Luisa Girao (ODT): Southland councillor Peter Kett apologises for ‘offensive’ remarks
Kiri Gillespie (Herald): Tauranga City: Poll shows people want an early council election (paywalled)
Craig Ashwroth (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘It’s mana enhancing’: Council backs calls for more Māori art despite ‘artistic freedom’ opposition
MEDIA
Tom Pullar Strecker (Post): RNZ boss Paul Thompson sets out how it could spend its $26 million budget boost (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Duncan Garner: 49, divorced and living with his mum
James Halpin (Stuff): MediaWorks tease new radio station as Duncan Garner gets podcast
Shayne Currie (Herald): Lunch with … Paddy Gower: The Three star on his new show Paddy Gower Has Issues, reporting, empathy and regrets (paywalled)
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): Further job cuts planned at Stuff (paywalled)
Daniel Dunkley (BusinessDesk): School Road Publishing acquires North & South magazine (paywalled)
EDUCATION
Alwyn Poole (Herald): Elections are about the economy but education is the flip side of the same coin (paywalled)
Wei Shao (Post): Four years abroad: the benefits and sacrifice of Chinese kids attending NZ schools (paywalled)
Brodie Stone (Northern Advocate): Northland educator says Ministry of Education restraint policy problematic (paywalled)
ODT: David Clark takes Otago University role
ENVIRONMENT
Robin Martin (RNZ): Miners, environmentalists at odds over government’s seabed inquiry
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Govt kicks Māori party seabed mining bill into touch (paywalled)
No Right Turn: More foot-dragging from Labour
Pat Baskett (Newsroom): NZ faces a third Fossil of the Day award
1News: Scientist studies how much construction plastic ends up in landfill
EXTREME WEATHER, NATURAL DISASTERS
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Govt to pick up some flood retreat costs insurance firms can’t cover
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Hastings post-cyclone recovery bill set to top $2 billion
Ethan Te Ora (Post): The perfect Wellington storm could test even our best-laid emergency response plans (paywalled)
DISINFORMATION PROJECT, HATE, CULTURE WARS
David Fisher (Herald): The debate over trans rights and women’s spaces – the voices turning up the volume (paywalled)
Gabrielle McCulloch (Stuff): ‘Awful and targeted’: Librarians, teachers fear bitter culture wars reaching NZ
Hanna McCallum (Post): ‘I could see this coming’: Transgender community and allies anticipated rise in hate (paywalled)
Bob McCoskrie: The Disinformation Project’s Missing Information
JUSTICE
Thomas Manch (Post): ACT wants $500m new juvenile detention facilities (paywalled)
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): A better way to deal with lawyers’ misconduct (paywalled)
Blair Ensor (Post): The 501 advocate, the legal action and the empty bank account (paywalled)
OTHER
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Nanaia Mahuta’s husband Gannin Ormsby fails in bid for formal apology over terminated DoC contracts (paywalled)
Warren Gamble (Nelson Mail): Perceived conflict of interest involving minister and port project did not eventuate, watchdog finds
Siena Yates (E-Tangata): Margaret Mutu: Call it what you want, co-governance isn’t going away
Charlie Mitchell (Post): The collapse of New Freeland, the sovereign citizen Utopia that wasn’t (paywalled)
RNZ: Work and Income quietly removes ‘sleeps over’ as listed reason to not grant benefits
Jared Savage (Herald): Corruption scandal: Police investigate ‘tangled web’ of alleged international money laundering after $18m sent from Bahamas to New Zealand (paywalled)
