Politics Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – 29 November 2017 – Today’s content
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. [caption id="attachment_297" align="aligncenter" width="1600"]
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Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Coalition documents and open government
Dominion Post Editorial: The new Government already seems to be ratting on its promises about openness
NZ Herald Editorial: Public should see these coalition ‘notes’
Otago Daily Times Editorial: Open government; not just yet
Audrey Young (Herald): National hammers Ardern and Peters over confidential coalition agreement
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The shape-shifting NZ First-Labour document
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Political revelations writ large
1News: Watch: Winston Peters has Parliament laughing arguing coalition document shrunk because of ‘changed font’
1News: ‘It’s in the public interest’ – Bill English calls for release of coalition document
Newshub: Government’s longer coalition deal needs to be released – Bill English
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Reform of the OIA
Greens
Phil Quin (Newsroom): The Green MP and the genocide hearings
Phil Quin (Stuff): Green MP Golriz Ghahraman pictured smiling in photograph alongside Rwandan convicted for inciting genocide
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Contra Quin: Ghahraman still did nothing wrong
Andrew Geddis (Stuff): Rwanda criticisms against Golriz Ghahraman don’t stack up
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Greens repeat history while fudging it over
Emma Hurley (Newshub): New Zealand Law Society defends Golriz Ghahraman
Mike Hosking (Herald): Green MP Golriz Ghahraman idealistically delusional
Newshub: Golriz Gharaman’s explanation ‘not good enough’ – Duncan Garner
Newshub: ‘I’ve been so open’ – Golriz Ghahraman
Herald: Profile on party website of MP who defended Butcher of Bosnia now changed to be more accurate
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Golriz Ghahraman denies work defending war criminals was ‘hidden’
1News: Video: Defiant Green MP Golriz Ghahraman defends her work for UN in Rwanda after ‘genocide denier’ allegations
Newstalk ZB: Green MP unapologetic for posing with genocide accused
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Quin’s demolition of Golriz highlights far deeper crisis within Greens
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): I loath to agree with David Farrar, but he’s right about Golriz Ghahraman
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The case for the prosecution and the defence
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): So where is Mashhad
Lynn Prentice (The Standard): Phil Quin: our media’s goto dogwhistling Aussie
The Standard: Thank-you Golriz
Liam Hehir (Medium): Defence lawyers and lobbyists
Herald: Greens ditch earlier plan to horse-trade over waka-jumping bill
Liam Hehir (Medium): Greens all set to roll over on waka jumping law
Housing
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Reserve Bank to ease home lending restrictions
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Only slight loosening of LVRs
Newshub: Loan-to-value ratio restrictions to be eased from 2018
RNZ: Loan-to-value ratios to ease in January
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Don’t count your LVR chickens
Claire Trevett (Herald): Hope on horizon for home buyers struggling with deposits
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Getting a loan may still be tough, even without Reserve Bank rules
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Finance Minister Grant Robertson keen to see end to Reserve Bank’s brakes on housing
Interest: Most people think house prices will decline or stay the same over the next 6 months and new government will have a positive impact on housing market
Anne Gibson (Herald): ‘Perfect storm’ of rent rises to hit market, Property Institute says
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): No magic bullet for housing but better renting, more stock may help
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Housing policy and prospects
Mike Hosking (Herald): Labour already all mouth, no action on building houses
Environment and oil
Robert McLachlan (Conversation): A fresh start for climate change mitigation in New Zealand
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Law change on oil exploration signalled as Amazon Warrior reaches NZ waters
No Right Turn: Time to put the environment into the Crown Minerals Act
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On the political risks of the rising price of oil, and Harry/Meghan
Grant Bradley (Herald): Big oil player quits New Zealand as offshore activity dries up
BusinessDesk: Anadarko to leave New Zealand
Benedict Collins (RNZ): EPA irrigation views ‘bizarre’
Ged Cann (Stuff): The long, lonely life of a plastic bag: New Zealand’s single-use bag problem
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Bad marks for NZ approach to core subjects
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Rise in truancy rates ‘atrocious’
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Travel bill surges as correspondence school moves online
Jo Moir (Stuff): New school starting age announced ahead of Cabinet approval
Tom Furley (RNZ): Tutoring company boss faced similar complaints in Australia
Health
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato DHB chairman Bob Simcock steps down
Herald: Waikato DHB chairman Bob Simcock resigns
RNZ: Embattled Waikato DHB chair resigns
RNZ: SFO inquiring into former Waikato DHB boss’ spending
Peter Davis (Stuff): More data needed to reveal health of our hospitals
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Evening junk food ads greatest risk to children – academic
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Dunedin staffing issues cause free annual dental check-up delays for children
RNZ: ‘My son died…will they listen now?’
International relations and trade
RNZ: ‘No guarantees’ for red meat trade post-Brexit
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters delivers verdict on Australian Prime Minister
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Officials told Cabinet renegotiating TPP could be ‘very difficult’
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Why do our politicians ignore PRC influence?
Phil Pennington (RNZ): ‘Arrogant indifference’ after NZ detainee’s death
Overseas buyers
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Government to tighten rules around foreign farm buyers from December 15
RNZ: Tighter restrictions on farmland sales to overseas buyers
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt to reveal plan for foreigners buying NZ farmland
Herald: Govt to clarify rules for selling farmland to overseas buyers
Media
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Sometimes hate speech trumps free speech
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Newspaper circulations fall again
Bill Ralston (Listener): The Jack-Jacinda interview was the silliest ever done on TV – believe me
Clare de Lore (Listener): Guyon Espiner talks frankly about politicians, te reo and whanau
Winston Peters legal action
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Peters seeks money from two journalists
Herald: Peters seeking monetary damages over Super leak
Poverty and welfare
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Public Address): Poverty, and mistaking symptoms for causes
Jenesa Jeram (Herald): Labour should not ditch National’s welfare measure
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): New Zealand’s household wealth on the rise, but inequality high
Treaty of Waitangi
John Boynton (RNZ): Ngāi Tahu success a lesson for iwi
Scott Hamilton (Spinoff): Treaty of Waitangi denialism: a long, dark and absurd history
Stuff: A Waikato kaumatua calls for apology from Sir William Gallagher
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Protester dressed in KKK outfit marches into Gallagher Group’s Hamilton office
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): Will the real Sir William Gallagher please stand up
Transport
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Energy minister exploring fuel-price options
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Little the Government can do to pull down petrol prices pre-Christmas
Matt Lowrie (Spinoff): How a long-delayed report reveals the true value of rail to New Zealand
Local government
RNZ: Phil Goff responds to report criticising council handling of Māori issues
Shannon Haunui-Thompson (RNZ): Akl Council misses Māori wellbeing opportunities – report
Brian Rudman (Herald): Is nurturing Auckland’s heart and soul still in the brief of our city fathers?
Kelley Tantau (Stuff): Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta: ‘People are sick of being poor’
Helen Harvey (Taranaki Daily News): New Plymouth council looking at selling half a golf course for housing
Newshub: Wellington residents plan to pay beggars to pick up cigarette butts
Paid Parental Leave
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Nats celebrate consensus on parental leave
Newshub: Government needs to ‘listen to the public’ over Paid Parental Leave – Bill English
Erebus memorial
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern gives green light for Erebus national memorial
Jo Moir (Stuff): Government will pursue national memorial to commemorate the Erebus disaster
RNZ: Erebus tragedy: Calls for national memorial
Other
David Fisher (Herald): John Key, mass surveillance and what really happened when Edward Snowden accused him of spying
Richard Harman (Politik): National leaves Labour with a $20 billion bill
Katie Kenny (Stuff): New data on state care harm is cause for an inquiry, Children’s Commissioner says
Andrew Gourdie (Newshub): Are Team New Zealand holding us to ransom?
RNZ: Agency bans quad bikes after worker death
RNZ: Doctors still barred from Manus Island transit centres
RNZ: Iwi panels for offenders to be expanded
RNZ: Post Shop owner dumped by Kiwibank after robberies
RNZ: Royal engagement announcement ‘incredibly exciting’ – PM
Nicholas Jones (Herald):Jacinda Ardern congratulates Prince Harry, Meghan Markle on engagement
Newshub: New Zealand not ready to discuss becoming a republic – Prime Minister
Karl du Fresne (Manawatu Standard): Kiwis too quick to discard rich and important New Zealand history
Matt Burrow (Newshub): GCSB refuses to provide proof Bill English is not a rock
Stuff: Man sues police after claiming John Key agreed to buy him dinner]]>
