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

MICHAEL WOOD AIRPORT SHARES CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Matthew Hooton (Herald): End of the line for lethally arrogant Labour — and Auckland light rail plans (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National MPs correct interest register, as investigation into Michael Wood launched
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Michael Wood shares shambles: Jacinda Ardern previously aware of shareholding, was once told he had got rid of them
Jessica Mutch McKay (1News): This is not Labour’s week
ODT Editorial: Full disclosure and all too busy lives (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Chris Hipkins has tough decision to make as Michael Wood’s reputation ‘very tarnished’ – former United Future leader Peter Dunne
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Michael Wood denied any other pecuniary interests, in email to Newsroom
Felix Desmarais (1News): Michael Wood sells Auckland Airport shares
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Michael Wood confirms he’s finally sold his Auckland Airport shares
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Green font and formatting to blame for Michael Wood’s Auckland Airport shares declaration blunder
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Top official launches inquiry into Michael Wood pecuniary interests after shares shambles emerges
RNZ: Parliamentary inquiry to be held into Michael Wood’s handling of his business affairs
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Parliament’s Registrar opens inquiry into Michael Wood’s Auckland Airport share disclosure
RNZ: Parliamentary inquiry to be held into Michael Wood’s disclosure of assets, other financial interests

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown faces an alternative to selling airport shares when budget meeting resumes today
Dita De Boni (NBR): ‘Dipshit’ councillors clap back at Akld mayor over airport shares (paywalled)
Felix Walton and Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Auckland Council fails to decide on budget, will reconvene Friday
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Auckland budget: Councillors back to the table on airport shares
Justin Hu (1News): Auckland budget: Wayne Brown compromises on airport shares sale
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): No full airport sale but councillors ‘going to have to swallow a dead rat or two’
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Tainui makes an audacious play for Auckland Council’s Airport shares – as Ngāti Whātua puts port deal on the table
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Tainui asks gov’t to buy council shares in airport, for unresolved treaty claims
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Auckland Council’s budget meeting to roll into Friday
Emma Stanford (RNZ): ‘Good decisions take time’: Auckland councillors back to budget debate
Nick Truebridge and Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Councillors Julie Fairey, Chris Darby and Wayne Walker given green light to vote on Auckland Airport shares sales
RNZ: Auckland budget: Councillors with stake in airport can still vote on share sale
Erin Johnson (Stuff): 3 Auckland councillors can vote on budget, despite airport shares links
Newshub: Councillor Wayne Walker declares $3 million in Auckland Airport shares on day of sales vote
Robert MacCulloch: The Auditor General give incorrect legal advice on Councillor Fairey’s Auckland Airport shareholding
RNZ: Auckland Airport shares: D-Day for Mayor Wayne Brown’s budget hopes
Herald Editorial: Airport at the centre of attention (paywalled)
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Erin Gourley (Stuff): Wellington council plan to focus on improving rentals, ending homelessness
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Wellington council to pilot official rental housing inspection service
Rachael Kelly (Stuff): Gore District Council chief executive breaks his silence on bullying claims
Tim Brown (RNZ): Councillor boycotted retreat over charges against Gore mayor’s assistant
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Upper Hutt council loses its controversial boss (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): Porirua council confirms 9.7% rates increase with three councillors opposed (paywalled)
Piers Fuller (Stuff): South Wairarapa mayor refuses to publicly apologise to staff after criticising them
RNZ: Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell gives birth, takes swipe at state of health system
Luisa Girao (ODT): Sir Tim’s partner Asha Dutt throws hat in ring

ELECTION
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): A new poll plots the crunchy terrain for the election ahead
Luke Malpass (Post): National considered more capable on top three areas voters care about: Ipsos
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: David Seymour on what Act wants from National and his coalition expectations
Newshub: The Opportunities Party gunning to take Labour’s seat in Christchurch electorate
Josie Pagani (Stuff): When politicians over-promise and under deliver, democracy dies a little bit
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Temperature turns up on Michael Wood after probe launched, Jan Tinetti grilled, Christopher Luxon makes off-colour joke
Brent Edwards (NBR): Errant ministers, airport shares, bureaucracy and infrastructure
Anna Whyte (1News): PM Chris Hipkins returns to Wellington to face the political storm (paywalled)
Jack Tame (1News): Luxon wasn’t seriously urging us to have babies
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Christopher Luxon has a point: New Zealand needs more people
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Is Luxon saying we need more babies controversial?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Christopher Luxon urges Kiwis to have more babies, saying it ‘would be helpful’
Bridie Witton (Stuff): National leader Christopher Luxon says we should ‘have more babies’

PARLIAMENT
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): The top five most complained about ministries when it comes to Official Information requests
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): A hard balance to strike between revolving door politics and old timers
Lamia Imam (Post): What do we want from our politicians? (paywalled)

JAN TINETTI
Jacqui Van Der Kaay (Democracy Project): The privilege of power
RNZ: Jan Tinetti tells Privileges Committee she regrets delay in correcting statement
Felix Desmarais (1News): Tinetti says she had ‘absolutely no intention to mislead’ Parliament

HOUSING
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington council drew up a housing list after Loafers Lodge fire. Why we still can’t see it (paywalled)
Sarah Robson (RNZ): The Detail: Men without a safe place to call home
Eric Crampton (Newsroom): On the housing crisis Labour and National need to grow up (and grow out)
Don Brash: In defence of “urban sprawl”
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Kāinga Ora needs to be more upfront about its plans
Matt Porter (Mountain Scene): ‘Horrendous situation’: Queenstown council under fire over vacant cabins
RNZ: Queenstown council-owned cabins empty, despite rental crisis
Don Franks and James Robb: The Housing crisis and how workers can solve it
Cameron Murray and Tim Helm: The Auckland myth: There is no evidence that upzoning increased housing construction

POLICE, CRIME
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): New retail crime unit has ‘about eight’ cops in it, Police Commissioner and Minister reveal
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Eye-rolling aplenty at politicians’ ram raid select committee full of tit-for-tat point scoring

HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Health data out of date after inaccurate figures pulled from Te Whatu Ora website
Janet Hoek, Jude Ball, Richard Edwards, and Anaru Waa (Public Health Communications Centre): Do Aotearoa’s new vaping regulations go far enough?
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Govt to announce Māori will lead efforts to tackle rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Call for government to protect pēpi against alcohol-related harm
RNZ: Pharmac to switch from Herceptin to cheaper breast cancer treatment
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Alzheimers NZ calls for urgent cash injection
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): Study shows positive outcomes in prioritising Māori and Pasifika diabetes treatments

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Thomas Manch (Post): ‘We do not seek a new Cold War,’ senior US diplomat promises Kiwi audience (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Nanaia Mahuta says New Zealand will partner ‘not exclusively with those mirroring our views’
Jeremy Moses and Sian Troath (The Conversation): AUKUS is already trialling autonomous weapons systems – where is NZ’s policy on next-generation warfare?
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Ministers meet for first Australia New Zealand Climate and Finance summit
RNZ: New Zealand and Australian ministers meet for first Climate and Finance summit
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ pushed to take stronger stance on Iran

BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT, MIGRANT WORKERS
John Weekes (Herald): Modern slavery: Anger at lack of action as EY, union, National all call for better law (paywalled)
1News: Unable to find Kiwis, employers are hiring from overseas
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Uber granted right to appeal drivers’ employment status
Hanna McCallum (Post): Public Service Watch: Strippers fighting for better contractor rights – radical, or not?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Ministers still not ready to release supermarket break-up advice (paywalled)
Kate Hawkesby: Calling out supermarkets on dodgy pricing may work, but I’m concerned it won’t
Ian Powell: Affectional empathy and the living wage
Rob Stock (Stuff): AA Insurance becomes latest insurer facing court action
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): FMA files court proceedings against AA Insurance for allegedly overcharging tens of thousands of customers
Jamie Gray (Herald): Tiwai Point: NZ’s biggest power user becomes its biggest battery (paywalled)

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Agricultural emissions plan in jeopardy as National walks back support
Monique Steele (RNZ): Federated Farmers issues list of demands for next government
Herald: Federated Farmers’ 12 policy changes for NZ’s next government

EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Majority of universities report deficit for 2022, call for government to reinvest savings
Colin Jackson (Stuff): Time for radical action to save our universities
Tim Scott (ODT): Slip-up announces uni cuts prematurely
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): University of Otago programmes at risk of cuts begin to emerge
Geroge Heagney (Manawatū Standard): University staff feel ignored over Massey restructure decision
Elizabeth Rata (World University News): Indigenisation threatens the university’s very foundations

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Bernard Hickey: The holes (still) in National’s (not so) new infrastructure policy
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Local government wants certainty over $6b fund (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Congestion charging love-in among politicians (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Business welcomes Govt step to get cities moving with congestion charges
Tina Morrison (Stuff): Air NZ lifts profit forecast a second time, says airfares likely to ‘moderate’ from current peaks
Grant Bradley (Herald): Battle lines redrawn: Why airlines and Auckland Airport are back at war over pricing (paywalled)
Will Mace (NBR): Air NZ, Qantas demand pause in Auckland Airport development (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): KiwiRail confronted over passenger ‘safety risk’ in century-old tunnel
Rob Campbell (Herald): I’m all for infrastructure but what about nation building?

CYCLONE GABRIELLE
Nick Wilson, Ben Payne, John Kerr, and Matt Boyd (Public Health Communications Centre): Embracing downward counterfactual analysis to navigate future cyclones
Ian Powell: Timely public health advice over Cyclone Gabrielle requires action
Henry McMullan (1News): Vital Gisborne transport link nears completion, PM checks in
1News: ‘A nightmare’ – Hawke’s Bay locals ‘in limbo’ months after cyclone
Matthew Rosenberg (RNZ): ‘Just don’t give up’: Gisborne residents brace for winter in temporary accommodation
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Tenants now eligible for payouts from Napier’s Cyclone Gabrielle Mayoral Relief Fund

ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Jonathan Milne and Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Conservation Dept can file $100m contingency claim to remediate Ruapehu skifields
Angela McGaughran (The Conversation): New Zealand needs to up its biosecurity game to protect the country from the next devastating pest threat 
Brendon McMahon (Local Democracy Reporting): Conservation Minister outlines expectations to West Coast board

OTHER
Thomas Cranmer (The Common Room): From comrade to Dame in a New York minute
Samuel Hume (Arena Online): World’s biggest spying alliance issues warning about spying
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Falling tax revenue causes the Government accounts to dip further into the red for the first 10 months of the financial year
Brent Edwards (NBR): Slowing economy impacts Government’s books (paywalled)
RNZ: NZers in Australia looking forward to citizenship status
David Harvey: Regulating the Printing Press
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Kate Hawkesby on Willie Jackson’s ‘lame’ awards dig; Today FM stars’ employment action; Ian Smith backs Justin Marshall (paywalled)
Jerry Coyne: The indigenization of New Zealand’s Space Policy