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
LABOUR’S TAX POLICY, FOOD PRICES
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): On tax, Labour looks to govern by focus group
Luke Malpass (Post): GST off fruit and vege: The idiot cousin of Labour’s craven desperation (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour tax policy: how do you like them (GST-free) apples? (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Desperate and disappointing Labour (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Labour’s very clever class politics (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Chris Hipkins and the church of apples
Susan St John (Daily Blog): So this is the best we can expect from the Working for Families (WFF)review?
William Hewett (Newshub): Brad Olsen says Labour’s GST policy puts economic credibility at stake
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Chris Hipkins shaking off Jacinda Ardern, taking Labour back to the old school
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins defends GST off fruit/veges as experts claim policy fails poorer Kiwis
Bridie Witton (Post): Tax-free fruit and veg policy panned by economists, public health experts (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): How much would GST removal really save New Zealanders?
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour’s tax policy under fire as ‘miserly offering’
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Chris Hipkins chooses tinkering over transformation with tax policy
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Labour’s full policy includes the GST exemption, boosted tax credits for working families, but no wealth taxes
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Chris Hipkins explains why Labour GST policy limited to fruit, veges
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Labour’s promise of GST off fruit and veg – what would be covered, what would not
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Labour promises to remove GST from fruit and vegetables, boost Working for Families
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): How Labour’s GST policy would work – what is included?
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Labour to cut GST on fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables from April
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Property owners to foot the bill for Labour’s tax policy (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): One simple GST tweak to put Labour on the front foot
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Sasha Borissenko (Herald): What will putting supermarkets under the spotlight change? (paywalled)
Emily King (RNZ): Hungry for change: Fixing Aotearoa’s broken food system
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): Grocery food prices increase by 11.9%
Melania Watson (Newshub): Food inflation slows but prices still 9.6 percent higher than last year
Rob Stock (Post): Shopper ‘resistance’ is helping slow racing food price rises (paywalled)
TAX
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Unfair tax system: Where is the will from politicians to fix it? (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Tax warning: Accountants want low-income trusts to be exempt from rate hike (paywalled)
Warren Couillault (BusinessDesk): Tax, tax and more tax (paywalled)
ELECTION
Chris Trotter (Interest): The radical consequences of doing as little as possible
Vernon Small (Stuff): Winston Peters is back, but is he in or is he out?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Poll plonks Winston Peters onto stage of Christopher Luxon’s election pantomime (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Post): Peters has a knack for collecting the disaffected – but has he gone too far this time? (paywalled)
Simon Shepherd and Gray Gibson (Newshub Nation): Sitting minor party leaders David Seymour, Rawiri Waititi and James Shaw reveal negotiation priorities – what happens if Government can’t be formed?
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of … the Abominable Winston Peters (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): What the parties are saying about Winston Peters (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Act-NZ First coupling a headache for National (paywalled)
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Ruling out NZ First now would martyr Winston Peters
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Chemtrails, 9/11 and vaccine nanobots: The digital trail of NZ First’s could-be MPs
RNZ: NZ First calls for October vote on four-year parliamentary terms
Damien Grant (Stuff): Will National and ACT’s ‘strained relationship’ hurt their election chances?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): ACT’s top six: The faces and aspirations aiming for government
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): National MP Sam Uffindell blasted for sexism over supermarket habits
Trent Doyle (Newshub): National MP Chris Penk apologises for criticising former Today FM host Tova O’Brien
Janet Wilson (Post): The election where the ‘rational’ choice may be not to vote at all (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Do we need better leaders?
Simon Shepherd (Newshub): Expert on why re-election would be ‘devastating’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 2 months until 2023 Election – Winners, Losers, Predictions and chance of a hung Parliament snap election
Giles Dexter (RNZ): The Green Party’s path to power
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Auckland MPs go head-to-head on the revenue crunch
David Farrar: Some good debates
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Political landscape a mixed blessing (paywalled)
Sarah Sparks (Herald): Raukawa-Tait’s Rotorua election run will take Te Pāti Māori to new horizons
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Vandals, thieves enter election campaign – and no, Ed Sheeran isn’t running
Caroline Williams and Gabrielle McCulloch (Stuff): Auckland political candidates’ election billboards spotted going up early
POLITICAL WEEK IN REVIEW, PARLIAMENT
Luke Malpass (Post): Labour’s not dead, but it’s lurching into last-gasp territory (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Election Watch: Last hurrah before election a time to tie up loose ends (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): Inside Parliament: Is a school phone ban red tape for kids?
Audrey Young (Herald): Best and worst of the week in politics – Labour pays for nightmare run; Christopher Luxon sets the agenda (paywalled)
Michele Hewitson (Listener): The prize for political faux pas of the year goes to… (paywalled)
VIictor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode for .. the Prime Minister
Newshub Nation: Backstory: Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer shares her storied past
Georgina Campbell (Herald): MP Ginny Andersen’s sharp rise: New Justice Minister on family and politics (paywalled)
Catherine Milford (Woman’s Weekly): Tāmati Coffey on the Beehive, babies and a blessing: ‘Our life-changing miracle’
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Parliament’s new ‘Te Kāhui Mōuri’ cost $500,000
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Steven Joyce goes ‘on the record’ with new political memoir
Audrey Young (Herald): Steven Joyce’s new book: Being part of Key’s inner sanctum and THAT sex toy incident
YOUTH VOTE, LEADERS
Tess McClure (Guardian): Youthquake rumbles to a stop? Support for the left falls among New Zealand’s young voters
Simon Shepherd (Newshub Nation): Youth leaders’ opinions on New Zealand’s most pressing issues
Newshub: Climate change action should be informed by mātauranga Māori, says Te Pāti Māori candidate Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY, TRADE
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Politics Of National Security
Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public for the first time is the right move
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Pick Pacific partnership over power games with China and US (paywalled)
RNZ: NZSIS’s first unclassified threat assessment targets competition, public trust, technology
Adam Pearse (Herald): China, Iran and Russia conducting foreign interference in NZ – new security intelligence report
Jamie Ensor and Lloyd Burr (Newshub): New Zealand spies call out foreign interference, including by China, in first-of-its-kind report
Thomas Manch (Stuff): China, Russia and Iran interfering in New Zealand’s democracy, SIS says
Felix Desmarais (1News): Spy agency says China, Iran and Russia interfering in NZ
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Spies say interference in NZ linked to Chinese intelligence
Tess McClure (Guardian): New Zealand intelligence report accuses China of ‘foreign interference’
John Moremon (The Conversation): The ‘number 8 wire’ days for NZ’s defence force are over – new priorities will demand bigger budgets
Laura Walters and Gray Gibson (Newshub Nation): Progress for Afghanistan evacuees but painstaking wait to reunite with families remains due to massive backlog
Conor Whitten (1News): Sunday: Kiwi’s fatal ‘accident’ in Ukraine may really be Russian war crime
Philip Matthews (Post): Was a Kiwi hero executed in Ukraine? (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Kiwi humanitarian Andrew Bagshaw is possible war crimes victim, family says
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour and environmental standards an important part of FTAs (paywalled)
CLIMATE CHANGE, BLACKROCK DEAL
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Is the Government’s $1b decarbonising fund working?
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s star power shines on in BlackRock deal (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): What is BlackRock, the investment giant supercharging New Zealand’s green energy sector?
Madison Reidy (Herald): ‘Why would you care?’ Sir John Key says don’t fret about foreign money (paywalled)
Steven Cowan: Blackrock: Making money out of the climate crisis
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): New Zealand’s path to a green power future
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Explained: Why NZ’s cities need to get ‘spongier’ – and fast
Tina Morrison (Post): Fonterra is getting ready to tackle its biggest source of emissions – farmers (paywalled)
TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE, PPPs
Max Rashbrooke (Post): The trouble with PPPs ‒ problems, pitfalls and pain (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On gender posturing and mis-using PPPs in public health
Tom Hunt (Post): Let’s Get Wellington Moving staffers earn on average $148,000 a year (paywalled)
Neil Holdom (Taranaki Daily News): Billion dollar roading schemes, the election and the lack of a ‘long term’ blueprint for New Zealand’s infrastructure
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Tasmania, and how megaprojects can setback dreams (paywalled)
HOUSING
Mary Williams (ODT): ‘Fed to the sharks’: Life inside Dunedin’s boarding houses
Mary Williams (ODT): Stuck at the bottom of a broken system
Mary Williams (ODT): No bed, no heating and $440 a week
Mary Williams (ODT): Exposed: Abandoned in Dunedin’s houses of horror
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Costly council mistake ruins social housing dream (paywalled)
William Hewett (Newshub): Greens say Clean Power Payment will save households over $1000 a year on energy bills, slash carbon emissions
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Green Party proposes a $6k grant and $30k loan for household energy upgrades
RNZ: Greens announce climate-focused clean power policy
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Greens pledge $6K clean energy grants, $30K interest free loans
Rob Stock (Post): Green Party’s ‘zero carbon’ loans will compete with banks’ no-interest energy efficiency home loan top-ups (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how landlords set your rent
Miriam Bell (Stuff): The dangers of direct debit and water charges
HEALTH
Michael Wright (Post): Why is our health system so f@#%&*? (paywalled)
Ian Powell (BusinessDesk): How health went from the Simpson review to a Simpsons-style farce
Alex Spence (Herald): Doctor accuses Te Whatu Ora of ‘conspiracy’ to avoid public scrutiny of unsafe radiology practices
Maddison Gourlay (Timaru Herald): ‘A single solitary doctor simply cannot be found’: Ōamaru ED closing for two nights
Jo Lines-MacKenzie (Post): Father of two who’s spent his life serving the public told to consider Australia for funded cancer treatment (paywalled)
Mike King (The Common Room): Mental Health: We need change now
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Suicide survivor creates crisis kit to help those ‘let down’ by system
MEDIA
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Willie Jackson says he didn’t decide to end journalism fund, hopes alternative funding will arrive
RNZ: Mediwatch: Calling it quits after 30 years
Simon Plumb (Stuff): Watchdog tells TVNZ to explain why it tried to spin the Kamahl Santamaria scandal as a ‘family emergency’
EDUCATION
Herald Editorial: Hold the phone – schools have more to deal with (paywalled)
RNZ: Plea for politicians to offer intelligent education policies, more funding instead of ‘clickbait’
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Schools should decide cellphone bans, not government, principal says
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Schools brace for higher power bills as they replace fossil fuel burners
BANKS
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): It may seem underwhelming, but the significance of a banking competition market study shouldn’t be underestimated
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): What New Zealand’s big four banks are doing about text scams
1News: Scam activity rises 13%, but Kiwis becoming ‘more scam savvy’ – BNZ
Ged Cann (Post): Ex-bank ceo warns ‘grandfathering’ used to keep lazy money on low interest (paywalled)
ECONOMY
David Hargreaves (Interest): The RBNZ won’t be changing the OCR – but will it change its outlook?
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): OCR decision looms: Here’s what the Reserve Bank will be weighing up
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Reserve Bank tipped to play it cool on Wednesday (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): The RBNZ will watch, worry and wait (paywalled)
CO-GOVERNANCE
David Fisher (Herald): Inside Julian Batchelor’s long-simmering property spat before his divisive co-governance tour (paywalled)
Scottie Reeve (Post): Why this priest stood up to the Stop Co-Governance tour (paywalled)
CRIME, POLICE
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Kaoss Price was tried in the unforgiving court of public opinion. But what about the police?
Sara Salman (E-Tangata): How crime news harms us all
RNZ: ‘You had to be strong within your own Māoriness’ – Iwi liaison marks 50-year career in the NZ Police
NELSON TENTHS
Kerensa Johnston (E-Tanagata): The Nelson Tenths : A story of unmet obligations
Sandy Morrison (E-Tanagata): ‘We are not going away’
1News: Historic Nelson Tenths property claim heads back to court
BUSINESS
Dita De Boni (NBR): ‘About time’ says campaigner as Govt mandates pay transparency (paywalled)
Alison Mau (Post): Gender pay gap policy may be too little, and much too late (paywalled)
Rebekah Armstrong (NBR): What does proposed modern slavery legislation mean for business? (paywalled)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Millions may be lost as airport share sale lags
Conor Knell (Post): Local government not for people who aren’t ‘old, white and cashed up’ (paywalled)
OTHER
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Ministry of Social Development’s $2.6b transformation: what would we get for the money? (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll shows New Zealanders split on rolling out bilingual road signs
Andrea Vance (Post): Crushed: Locals want to halt a quarry plan, but say fast-track process silences them (paywalled)
RNZ: Wildlife tour plans pulled after DOC raises concerns about protection of Hector’s dolphins
Janet McAllister (Herald): Who is running New Zealand’s key cultural institutions? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Aquaculture a priority for New Zealand First (paywalled)
Benn Bathgate (Post): ‘Out of proportion’ – Bishop accused of gaslighting abuse victim (paywalled)
