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
MEDIA REGULATION AND CODE OF CONDUCT, BROADCASTING
Glenn McConnell (Post): ‘The cost will be everyday Kiwis’: New media regulation concerns civil society (paywalled)
Jonathan Ayling (Stuff): Media regulation plan – a censor’s greatest dream
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media regulation: New super-power government body set to rule over news and social media content; film, gaming classification (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Internal Affairs sets out big plans to regulate harmful content on social media
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Decades-old legislation unsuitable for policing internet era, critics say
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Consultation opens on proposals to make online spaces safer
Dewi Preece (1News): Regulator proposed to protect NZers from harmful online content
William Hewett (Newshub): Department of Internal Affairs announce new regulations for safer media and online platforms, says current systems ‘not strong’ enough
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): How a new proposal could change online safety in New Zealand
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What lunatic inside DIA decided to launch a ‘Ministry of Truth’ 5 months before an election?
David Farrar: Press Gallery changing the rules
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Jack Tame marries Mava Moayyed; Sean Plunket’s Press Gallery showdown; Outdoor advertising firms in ‘frenzy’ over huge AT contract (paywalled)
Antje Deckert and Juan Marcellus Tauri (The Conversation): Did ‘wokeness’ cancel Police Ten 7? New research suggests racial stereotyping was the real culprit
Shayne Currie (Herald): Stuff leadership changes: Sinead Boucher steps down as CEO, becomes executive chair; Laura Maxwell to take reins
Dita De Boni (NBR): New CEO and senior MDs vow to take Stuff into the AI era (paywalled)
Stuff: New leadership group for the next generation of Stuff announced
PRESCRIPTION CHARGES
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Opinion: The real barriers to contraception are not $5 prescription fees (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (Blue Review): Why people hate the media: Part Deux
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): National’s contraception stance: Insisting on prescription fees creates a big problem for women voters (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Contraceptive landmine: National promises improving access as Labour goes for ‘hyperbole’
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): National’s Nicola Willis lets loose at Labour getting ‘down in gutter’ after Christopher Luxon’s contraception comment
Russell Palmer (RNZ): National brands Labour’s Handmaid’s Tale tweet as ‘appalling’
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Nicola Willis accuses Labour of ‘baseless attacks’ after meme on prescription policy
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Nats slammed in contraception price hike debate
GOVT BUY-OUT FOR CYCLONE, FLOOD HIT HOME OWNERS
Luke Malpass (Stuff): Grant Robertson tells it like it is on cyclone buy-outs and insurance
Jo Moir (Newsroom): No fast answers for cyclone-affected properties
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): The Government should buy out weather affected homes
Raphael Franks (Herald): Cyclone Gabrielle, Auckland floods: Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson confused over ‘funding split’ of Govt’s red-sticker buyout scheme
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Cyclone Gabrielle: Buyout for worst-hit homes leaves thousands of houses in other categories in limbo
Rob Stock (Stuff): Government’s buyout plan ‘hope-inducing,’ owners of flooded homes say
1News: Heartbreak and hope: Esk Valley locals react to buyouts
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Cyclone Gabrielle buyout plan: Esk Valley locals want more answers
Alexa Cook (Newshub): Cyclone Gabrielle: Esk Valley residents upset after learning of buyouts for worst-hit areas via email
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Adam Pearse and Gary Hamilton-Irvine (Herald): Cyclone Gabrielle: 700 homes unliveable, 10,000 need flood protection – Govt and councils to offer voluntary buyout
Marty Sharpe and Bridie Witton (Stuff): Hundreds of homeowners to get voluntary buyout offers for cyclone-hit properties
1News: Voluntary buyout to be offered to 700 cyclone, flood-hit home owners
Dan Brunskill (Interest): The total cost of buying flood risk homes could be $1 billion but critical details still awaited
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Central government will help fund local councils to buy homes in high flood risk areas hit by cyclones and floods
RNZ: Cyclone recovery: About 700 properties likely too risky to rebuild – Ministers
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Buyout offer for cyclone red-stickered homes (paywalled)
Tom Taylor (RNZ): Eleventh-hour rates relief for Aucklanders with uninhabitable homes
PARLIAMENT
Edward Willis (Spinoff): Jan Tinetti and the privileges committee, explained
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Jan Tinetti’s day in Parliament’s court: Powerful Privileges Committee requests minister to face MPs in open session
RNZ: Education Minister Jan Tinetti to face questioning over contempt accusation
Giles Dexter (RNZ): National MP apologises for saying Commerce Commission ‘need a bullet’
ELECTION
Jack Tame (1News): Forget kindness – Labour has a new strategy this election
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Awkward choices ahead – why voters should keep a close eye on minor parties this year
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Chris Hipkins’ image is fraying at the seams (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Political positioning, law and order and MMP machinations
Steven Cowan: Chris Hipkins: Disconnected
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Nearly 6700 voters go to Māori roll, how are things looking toward election time?
Ethan Griffiths (Open Justice Reporting): Sue Grey and Brian Tamaki launch High Court action over election campaign funding
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Left-wing Green Party members lose leader Nicole Geluk-Le Gros
David Farrar: Principled and unprincipled defections
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s budget has fallen apart over airport shares sale (paywalled)
Delphine Herbert (RNZ): ‘Blackmail’ by mayor over budget – Auckland councillor
RNZ: ‘He’s not worried about the pledge I made’ – Auckland councillors hit back at mayor
Herald: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown takes pot shots at councillors during a shambolic meeting to shore up airport share sale
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s final budget plan offers airport shares tradeoff
Dita De Boni (NBR): Mayor threatens councillors: sale of Airport stake or austerity (paywalled)
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Wayne Brown’s budget refresh – what’s changed?
RNZ: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown unveils his plans to address budget hole
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Brown calls for councillor loyalty – and media to stay away
1News: Wayne Brown media exclusion ‘an affront to democratic process’
RNZ: Wayne Brown’s media ban attempt for Auckland Council budget speech an ‘insult to voters’ – Media Freedom Council
Erin Johnson (Stuff): ‘Insult to voters’: Media Freedom boss pans Auckland mayor’s office for cherry-picking journalists
William Hewett (Newshub): Mayor Wayne Brown snubs major New Zealand media organisations for Auckland Council update
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): And so we howl again, into the void: Where is Wayne Brown?
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Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington mayor Tory Whanau claims she was heckled and booed at public meeting (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Wellington’s mayor Tory Whanau to make her diary public (paywalled)
Erin Gourley (Post): Wellington City Council agrees on 12.3% rates increase with just three councillors opposed (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch rates rise steeper than forecast at nearly 8% (paywalled)
Brendon McMahon (Local Democracy Reporting): $500,000 spending on consultants needed for West Coast’s TTPP
Olivia Caldwell (Stuff): Watch: A chat with Gore mayor Ben Bell and the great southern cheese roll bake-off
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Conspiracy theorists, including former mayoral contender, hijack council forum
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): Horowhenua’s land value rating system continues after close vote – rates up 7 per cent
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Planning for urban growth adds to Palmerston North rates bill
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): Horowhenua council votes to dump Levin Landfill
ECONOMY, INEQUALITY
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Extinction Of Rebellion
John Minto (Daily Blog): A different approach to the wealth crisis
Josie Pagani (Stuff): Don’t waste a good crisis, fix productivity
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): Baked beans on toast for dinner, no more snacks: How we are changing our grocery habits to stay afloat
Jonathan Barrett (The Conversation): Making NZ’s tax system fairer is a good idea – but this proposed new law isn’t the answer
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Has the Reserve Bank become politicised?
Liam Dann (Herald): Immigration is running hotter than ever – is that good or bad news for the economy? (paywalled)
BUSINESS
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Rio Tinto books $122 million profit from NZ aluminium smelter
Rob Stock (Stuff): Regulator takes action alleging Medical Assurance Society over-charged customers
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): Financial sector urged to phase out terms like ‘credit’ and ‘debt arrears’
Herald: Air New Zealand accused of greenwashing by Consumer NZ, airline says allegations are ‘unfair’
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
James Halpin (Stuff): ‘Putin’s chef’ confirms plans for Chatham Islands in cryptic email to Stuff
1News: ‘Bizarre’: Chathams mayor on alleged Russian interest in islands
Richard Harman (Politik): The Commonwealth, cricket and curry (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Trade Minister globetrotting on free trade (paywalled)
1News: UK hails first post-Brexit trade deals with NZ, Australia
Jack Smylie (NZ Review of Books): The China Tightrope
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TRANSPORT
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Auckland Harbour Bridge trembles when crowds walk on it, documents show
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government tips extra $252m into beleaguered road programme (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Public Service Watch: Let’s Get Wellington Moving, the capital’s greatest oxymoron (paywalled)
Jordan Dunn (RNZ): Auckland Transport stands firm on refusal to set up train service for northwest
POLICE, CRIME
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: What’s behind the spike in crime?
1News: NZ police force the ‘largest it has ever been’ – minister
EDUCATION
Fiona Ellis (ODT): University in downward spiral, vice-chancellor says (paywalled)
Wiliam Hewett (Newshub): Secondary teachers’ union slams Ministry of Education for new pay offer, says Govt only listens to industrial action
ENVIRONMENT
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: What next for NZ’s big emitters?
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): What is deep sea mining, and how could it alter a vital ecosystem?
LOAFERS LODGE FIRE
Arena Williams and Stuart Smith (Stuff): Those struggling to find dependable housing are some of the most vulnerable
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Loafers Lodge fire: Rotorua Mayor wants urgent action on fire safety after tragedy
Herald: Loafers Lodge fire: Man charged with five counts of murder
HEALTH
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Government slammed for not lifting breast cancer screening age despite promise
Brittany Keogh and Rachel Thomas (Post): Third of 6-month-olds unvaccinated as rates continue to fall (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Post): Ownership matters in the provision of health (paywalled)
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Wakari Hospital under pressure (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Seismic future looking brighter for Hutt Hospital (paywalled)
Shane Jones (Herald): World Health Organisation needs reform – not fattening (paywalled)
Chris Schultz (Spinoff): All your questions about legal prescription weed, answered
OTHER
Graham Adams (The Common Room): “Co-governance for your deck!”
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Emergency fuel stock law change introduced to Parliament
Ben Moore (BusinessDesk): Kiwibank too small to keep up on open banking (paywalled)
Herald: Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford celebrate their ninth anniversary: ‘Endless love and support’
