NZ Politics Daily: 28 September 2023

NEWSHUB LEADERS’ DEBATE
Spinoff: Leaders’ debate #2, election 2023: the verdicts
Claire Trevett, Shayne Currie, Audrey Yount and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Who won Newshub leaders’ debate? The verdicts on Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Herald): Christopher Luxon bores himself to sleep at Newshub debate (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsrom): Hipkins steps up yet leaders lack human touch in debate
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): More gameshow than gamechanger
Luke Malpass (Post): Debate shows that Hipkins won’t go down without a fight (paywalled)
Newshub: Did Chris Hipkins or Christopher Luxon win the Newshub leaders debate?
1News: Latest Hipkins v Luxon debate: Former Cabinet ministers’ verdicts
RNZ: Newshub leaders’ debate: The new commitments and refusals to rule out
Derek Cheng (Herald): Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon come to life in fiery leaders’ debate
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): The crescendo of Chrises: Epic debate a shot in the arm for the campaign – and Hipkins
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Hipkins vs Luxon: The one word Christopher Luxon said 76 times in Newshub’s debate
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Hipkins goes in for the kill
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Plenty of huff and puff as leaders battle to get their jabs in
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Debate moments: Chris Hipkins says he’s not holding back, Christopher Luxon admits ‘clanger’
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Newshub Leaders Debate: Chris Hipkins hits Christopher Luxon with NZ First candidate quote, Winston Peters responds
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Newshub Leaders Debate: Chris Hipkins, Christopher Luxon reveal if they’ve taken MDMA
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Finally – where has this Chippy been!
Marc Daalder, Matthew Scott and Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Fact check: Did Hipkins and Luxon say anything false?
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Leader’s Debate: Paddy Gower and the Chrises on the most powerful drug of all – politics

1NEWS VERIAN POLL, NEWSHUB-REID RESEARCH POLL
1News: Poll: Luxon likely to need that coalition phonecall to Peters
RNZ: Major parties dip further, NZ First and Greens up – 1News-Verian poll
Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): The centre/right bloc leads as NZ First rises (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Does Christopher Luxon or Chris Hipkins understand Kiwis’ struggles best?
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll reveals who Kiwis trust more to be Finance Minister

WELFARE
Gordon Campbell: On the cynical brutality of the centre-right’s welfare policies
Hanna Wilberg (The Conversation): Forcing people to repay welfare ‘loans’ traps them in a poverty cycle – where is the policy debate about that?…

NZ Politics Daily: 27 September 2023

ELECTION
Gordon Campbell: On whether Winston Peters can be a moderating influence and bashing beneficiaries, again
Jessica Mutch McKay (1News): Measuring the mood on the campaign trail
Richard Prebble (Herald): It’s a National landslide in the electorates, but what about the vote that really decides? (paywalled)
Philip Crump (Newstalk ZB): Luxon woos disaffected Labour voters (paywalled)
The Facts: 77% of Kiwis believe NZ is becoming more divided, & many want more discussion
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The winners and many losers of our major parties’ health and education policies (paywalled)
Russell Wills (Herald): Child poverty – the forgotten issue in the NZ election (paywalled)
David Burton (Post): How will workers benefit from election promises this year? (paywalled)
Tracey Lee (Spinoff): The power and potential of the overseas vote in Election 2023
Herald: How Australia could sway New Zealand election
1News: Are the Aussies trying to decide the outcome of our election?
Herald Editorial: Early voting the beginning of the end to long election (paywalled)
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Who’s who in the Election Fringe Festival
Rachael Kelly (Stufff): Liz Gunn’s NZ Loyal to contest election with two on its party list
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): The clear message across seven pollsters
Audrey Young (Herald): What Christopher Luxon really means when he says he’d rather work with Act than NZ First (paywalled)
Claire Mabey (Spinoff): Election 2023: The health policies in two minutes
Anna Sargent (RNZ): First-time eligible voters weigh in on the pressure to decide
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): ‘Lack of civic education’ in NZ schools failing Pacific, Māori students
Kevin Norquay (Post): When an image problem is the last thing a politician wants (paywalled)

WELFARE
Russell Palmer (RNZ):Welfare experts group members criticise National’s beneficiary policy
Mihael Neilson (Herad): National Party sanctions benefit policy goes against evidence – expert, WEAG says (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘Punishing people for their poverty’: Advocates see trouble with National’s ‘traffic light’ plan to cut benefits
RNZ: Checkpoint: National says traffic light policy for beneficiaries driven by ‘love’
RNZ: National Party reveals traffic light system for Jobseeker beneficiaries
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): National promises to introduce benefit sanctions with traffic light system
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Luxon’s red light for beneficiaries
Thomas Manch (Post): National to crack down on beneficiaries, Labour warns of poverty
Felix Desmarais (1News): NZ First would put limit on time spent on main benefit
RNZ: NZ First announces time limit for Jobseeker beneficiaries
Michael Gordon (Local Knowledge): Why are Jobseeker benefits still so high?
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Money for everything – and your kids for free
RNZ: Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment, extend to all under three
No Right Turn: Competing on cruelty

NZ Politics Daily: 26 September 2023

NEWSHUB-REID RESEARCH POLL
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: NZ First in powerful position as ACT support crumbles, Labour’s catastrophe continues
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Kiwis think National-ACT-NZ First Government would be chaos
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Poll analysis: Labour at risk of political armageddon, losing high-profile MPs
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Greens the winners in latest poll
RNZ: Peters returns as Kingmaker under Newshub-Reid Research poll
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Winston Peters, New Zealand First and Green Party big winners in new poll, Labour and National down
Chris Knox and Thomas Coughlan (Herad): Poll of polls – Labour has 0.2% chance of being in government, worst result for main governing party since Great Depression (paywalled)
Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): Election 2023: The centre/right bloc holds lead as NZ First rises (paywalled)

NATIONAL-NZ FIRST-ACT COALITION
Peter Dunne (Post): The potential for chaos all round as Luxon invites NZ First to the table (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Bowing to the inevitable: Winston Peters returns (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Luxon’s call on NZ First could come back to bite him
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Peters, 78 not out, reaches towards history
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): What lies behind Luxon’s change of heart on NZ First?
RNZ: Checkpoint: Sir John Key to Chris Luxon – ‘I would advise him to rule Winston in’
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Gambler vs CEO
Grant Duncan: Coalitions of delight
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Christopher Luxon insists he can handle Winston Peters, and he may need to
Richard Harman (Politik): Big money brings Winston back (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herad): Why Christopher Luxon made New Zealand First coalition call (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): What Christopher Luxon wins and loses by ruling Winston Peters in (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Christopher Luxon implies National-ACT-NZ First government would be unstable
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon moves to deal Peters out of the post-election game (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): What Winston wants if he reaches the Cabinet table (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): NZ First’s Winston Peters back in kingmaker position according to latest poll
Anna Whyte and Glenn McConnell (Post): Poll indicates a call to NZ First could be on the cards for Luxon (paywalled)
1News: ‘Voters will decide’ – Peters on potential coalition with ACT, Nats
Brent Edwards (NBR): Winston Peters is waiting for the phone call (paywalled)
RNZ: National Party confirms it could work with NZ First
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Luxon says he would form a coalition with New Zealand First
Guardian: New Zealand election: Luxon says National open to NZ First coalition
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Winston Peters vs David Seymour: their 15 most venomous insults, ranked
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): ‘Don’t come the dingo with me’: Peters zeroes in on Aussie-owned banks and supermarkets
No Right Turn: A coalition of racism, cruelty, and chaos…

NZ Politics Daily: 25 September 2023

NZ FIRST, COALITION WITH NATIONAL
1News: National’s Christopher Luxon would work with NZ First if he has to
William Hewett (Newshub): National’s Christopher Luxon says he’ll work with Winston Peters, NZ First after election if he needs them
Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston is in – National leader Christopher Luxon will pick up the phone to NZ First leader Winston Peters if he really needs to
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon to voters: We’ll go with Winston, but only if we have to
Newstalk ZB: David Seymour: ACT leader unsure if he can work with Winston Peters
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters gets scrappy as Christopher Luxon goes cold on coalition talk (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Christopher Luxon tells Kiwis to read between lines as coalition questions continue
Michael Neilson (Herald): Winston Peters in Epsom, David Seymour’s hood, raising potential headaches for Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Cass Mason (Newsroom): A country for old men
Luke Malpass (Post): Winston Peters and the great coalition jockeying game (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Pity Luxon as Peters and Seymour react like Mentos and Coke (paywalled)
Ben McKay (AAP): Winston Peters lashes out at corporate Australia on campaign trail
Newshub: The Project: Winston Peters labels Green Party as ‘communists’ but praises James Shaw in game of ‘kiss, kick or marry’ on The Project

ACT
John Campbell (1News): Striving to comprehend the multi-headed creature that is ACT
Tess McClure (Guardian): How David Seymour hopes to move New Zealand to the right
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): ACT throws National’s tax plan on the bonfire (paywalled)
1News: Pharmacists fear reversing pseudoephedrine ban could endanger workers
RNZ: ACT reveals seniors policy including reversing pseudoephedrine ban

CO-GOVERNANCE
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): A referendum on co-governance would return a big, fat no (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Labour can’t understand they’ve divided this country
Elise Johnson (Post): A warning from Brexit Britain on divisive referendums (paywalled)
Perry Wilton (Newshub): Major shouting match in Auckland as Stop Co-Governance movement clashes with counter-protesters

ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Forget the ‘squeezed middle’, what’s on offer for the squashed poor? (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): The election’s great beneficiary vanishing act (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ‘Not clear’ why beneficiary numbers stubbornly higher than pre-Covid
TVNZ: Q+A: Exclusive polling: How Kiwis feel about paying for poverty, climate change
Vernon Small (Post): The distorted truth about the economy (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): The economic results are in pre-election, have you made up your mind? (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Duelling fiscal plans: Labour-National economic rivalry comes to a head
1News: Q+A: Robertson, Willis clash on finance policy in fiery debate
1News: Q+A: Willis on house price-income ratio: ‘Targeted to be much lower’
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Nicola Willis brings the printouts to an ill-tempered Q+A finance debate
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Q+A Review: Nicola Willis destroyed by Grant Robertson in angry Finance Debate
Dan Brunskill (Interest): We asked twenty economists how they would define a recession in New Zealand
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): So many big promises, so little money in the bank (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Has There Been External Structural Change?
Fair Policy Commentary): The planned amendment of the Reserve Bank’s mandate: The National Party’s most significant programme element and no one talks about it
Mike Williams (Hawkes Bay Today): What makes anyone think National could run the economy better than Labour?
Steven Joyce (Herald): Not so much a recession as an absence of growth (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): More interest rate rises ahead? How the experts split
Herald: Westpac index finds consumer confidence plummets further

ELECTION
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Market research, rather than principle, is driving the pledges of our mainstream parties (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Post-truth or recycled lies?
Damien Grant (Stuff): Can we believe political slogans?
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Gone are the days of political leaders being mobbed
Janet Wilson (Post): After the not-so-great debate, look for panic to kick in (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Post): Can Labour bounce back just weeks out from the election? (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon is going 100kph on campaign trail
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 3 Weeks until Election: TDB Battlefield Analysis
Craig Hoyle (Post): Exclusive Brethren lessons suggest Destiny should beware meddling in politics (paywalled)
Newshub: Don Brash’s Hobson’s Pledge returns fire with attack ad taking aim at Chris Hipkins
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Election 2023 profiles: Who are Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw?
Newshub: Chlöe Swarbrick’s witty response to sign vandalised with ‘woke lesbo’ wins praise
Holly Bennett (Newsroom): I don’t want Te Pāti Māori choosing my electoral roll
Listener: Jane Ussher’s political portrait of Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour MP concedes election, Chris Hipkins’ trust win, Winston Peters sets the tone at minor parties’ debate (paywalled)
RNZ: Focus ion Politics: On the campaign trail, week three: Debates, polls, sausage and cheese rolls
Herald: Beehive Diaries: Chris Luxon’s scorecard, a win for Chris Hipkins, what to watch for next week (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: Leaders’ debate fails to catch fire
Brent Edwards (NBR): TV debates, TV polls, Auckland’s plan and out of recession
Eric Frykberg (Interest): ACT launch implodes, Winston Peters shows responsibility, and the Greens and Labour squabble over solar power
Michele Hewitson (Listener): Pre-election performances career from farcical to fatiguing (paywalled)
Alison Mau (Post): Minor leaders inspire cracking TV, and deserve more voice in election debates (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Herald): The political parties’ porkies behind the recession, prison and gangs (paywalled)
Earl Bardsley (Post): The risk of becoming the ‘blackout nation’ (paywalled)
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Why are ACT and Greens supporters more likely to work from home?
Federico Magrin (Stuff): Direct democracy, the political system minor parties are raving about
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Why David Seymour despises TV shows about politics
Spinoff: Sick of tame leaders’ debates? Watch this Youth Wings one instead
Donna Miles (Post): Are you a hobbit, a hooligan or a Vulcan? (paywalled)

ELECTORATES
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘My heart couldn’t take it any more’: How Northland has become a hotbed of frustration, anger and distrust
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): Who dares challenge Chlöe? The race for Auckland Central
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Electorates to watch: Candidates fight for face time in Whanganui
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata Reports 3: Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
Justin Wong (Post): Public service spending in the spotlight at Mana electorate debate (paywalled)
Otago University: Q&A with Ingrid Leary and Ben Peters
David Hill (Local Democrac Reporting): Waimakariri election candidates tackle crime, healthcare and the cost of living

LABOUR
Duncan Garner (Listener): Why Labour only have themselves to blame (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Game on; Hipkins comes out punching (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Hipkins goes on the attack in rally speech
Molly Swift (Newshub): Chris Hipkins reaffirms stance on wealth tax as Te Pāti Māori reveals it as bottom line during Newshub Nation debate
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): More fiscal holes as Labour faces questions about GST policy
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Labour on attack over free school lunches as poll shows support for taxing wealthy more
RNZ: Labour promises to keep school lunch programme
Thomas Manch (Post): Postcards from the road: A week in the life of a Labour campaign (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins distances himself from former colleague dismissing bullying allegations against Shanan Halbert (paywalled)
RNZ: Hipkins defends Labour’s handling of Halbert concerns
1News: Chris Hipkins reveals ‘hardest moment’ of the campaign so far
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): One of New Zealand’s youngest candidates wants to hold the door open for young people
Vincent O’Sullivan (Newsroom): Short story of a Labour candidate

NATIONAL
Chris Trotter (Interest): Moving in the direction of the (new) Government
Brent Edwards (NBR): Still no sign of National’s fiscal plan and detailed costings (paywalled)
RNZ: National releases document laying out current economic plan
1News: National to spend at least $30m to reverse speed limit changes if elected
Claire Trevett (Herald): National leader Christopher Luxon takes leaf out of Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s book, declares war on road cones and speed limits
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): National wants to reverse speed limit reductions, minimise use of road cones
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): National promises to reinstate 100kph limit on State Highways
RNZ: Election 2023: National promises to end new speed limit reductions
Jamie Enosr (Newshub): Labour’s Chris Hipkins dismisses National’s speed limit announcement
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): National promises ‘laser sharp’ focus addressing competition problems (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of … Truckin’ Luxon (paywalled)

IMMIGRATION
Lincon Tan (Herald): Indonesian overstayers found living in a plywood shed and dilapidated caravan at New Windsor, Auckland property
Michael Neilson , Adam Pearse and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Govt moves on Dawn Raids, Labour unveils major immigration policy
Trent Doyle (Newshub): Government announces changes to Green List, seasonal employment, Recovery Visas
RNZ: Immigration rebalance: Green List expanded, restrictions on ‘dawn raid’ deportations
NBR: More roles added to green list to cope with skills shortages
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Immigration laws need stability, says adviser group
Casper McGuire (1News): Labour, National, ACT announce similar immigration policies
RNZ: Immigration in spotlight as similar policies announced
RNZ: National announces new parent visa category
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): Dawn Raids stories captured for future generations
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Migrant exploitation is the backbone of NZs low wage addiction
Mark Derby (Post): High-stakes rescue finds new life for Burmese refugee accused of ‘high treason’ (paywalled)

HOUSING
Ged Cann (Post): Mega Landlords: National wants to ‘rebalance market’ to help landlords (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Did National really just simply sell off state houses?
John Minto (Daily Blog): State housing fantasies and a tale of two graphs
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National declines to match Labour’s housing promise as campaign enters crucial week
1News: Labour promises another 6000 public homes if re-elected
RNZ: Labour promises 6000 more state houses if re-elected
Stuff: More public housing to regions over coming years, says Labour’s Megan Woods
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Chris Bishop calls Labour ‘recklessly irresponsible’ over housing promise, Megan Woods says ‘judge us on our record’
David Chaston (Interest): Gird yourself. Home loan rates will likely rise soon – again
David Chaston (Interest): Residential property auction sales rate drops to 43%
Miriam Bell (Post): Small-town tenants hit hard by rental pressures (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Forget the stereotype of the ‘typical’ landlord (paywalled)
Katie Townshend (Nelson Mail): Plan Change 29: How easy will it be to build six storeys?
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): Tiny homes, big problems

HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Wellington doctors told to stop referring women to specialists unless their condition is urgent
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘We are powerless here’: One night in the emergency department (paywalled)
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Junk food advertising a ‘major contributor’ to obesity
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): How ultra-processed food became a battleground
Rachel Thomas (Press): From car boot care to queues out the door, what broke after-hours healthcare? (paywalled)
Zoe Madden-Smith (Re: News): Nearly half of NZers can’t afford to go to the dentist
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom) The major health crisis ignored by election campaigns
Liu Chen (RNZ): Asian New Zealanders excluded from the mental health conversation
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Patients on beds in corridors: How will Whanganui Hospital cope with a growing population?
Michael Oehley (Waikato Times): How to make a doctor (paywalled)
RNZ: New Covid vaccines may arrive too late for latest variant
Amanda Gillies (Newshub): Blind woman Minnie Baragwanath calls for NZ to do better for people with vision and hearing impairments

THREE WATERS
Andrea Vance (Post): The circus moves on, but no-one is talking about the elephant in the ring (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Post): When bread and butter collides with transformation (paywalled)
Press Editorial: The need for water reform (paywalled)
Stuff: Investigation into Queenstown’s cryptosporidium outbreak intensifies, will leave ‘no stone unturned’
RNZ: Cryptosporidium outbreak: Health officials search for infection source

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): The multibillion-dollar climate hole faced by both Labour and National
Brent Edwards (NBR): Climate change agreement marked by disagreement (paywalled)
Evan Harding (Southland Times): Farming lobby group revs up ‘drive 4 change’ campaign, but Labour hits back
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Big Lies Climate Deniers, Groundswell, National, ACT and Corporate Farmers keep spinning about NZ emissions
Grant Miller (ODT): Climate action cards to be laid on the table (paywalled)
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): NZ’s hottest ever summer could be ahead – with fire, drought and sharks
Newshub: New LAWA data shows two-thirds of monitored New Zealand river sites rated poorly for E. coli
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): New Plymouth residents concerned despite milestone in battle to have toxic chemical plant cleaned up
Mike White (Post): Niagara shipwreck continues to deteriorate while politicians dither (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: River proposal go-slow (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Simon Brown (Herald): Trams, plans and parking fines: Wayne Brown has some new ideas for Auckland (paywalled)
Mark Thomas (Newsroom): Mayor Brown’s Auckland Deal is the real deal
Kevin Norquay (Post): Why can’t Wellington have nice things? (paywalled)
Trent Doyle (Newshub): Support for Māori wards in Tāmaki Makaurau low as Auckland Council submissions close
Catherine Hubbard (Nelson Mail): Māori ward ‘not true partnership’ but step in right direction, say iwi
Denise Piper (Stuff): Northland council considers security as claws come out over new cat rules

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Are $3 per litre petrol prices driving motorists towards EVs?
Frances Chin (Post): Wellington commuters take full fares in their stride (paywalled)
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Auckland rail: KiwiRail, Auckland Transport release plans
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Hybrid trains on the way for lower North Island
Kate Green (RNZ): Wairoa Airport runway extension gets boost from government

PUBLIC SERVICE
Nikitin Sallee (BusinessDesk): The public service: ‘just do it’ (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Govt department investigates AI job screening (paywalled)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PACIFIC
Mitch McCann (Newshub): Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta rebukes Russia, warns of Pacific destabilisation in United Nations speech
Mitch McCann, Reuters (Newshub): Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta to meet US President Joe Biden next week while at Pacific Leaders Summit
RNZ: Niue announces new scheme at UN to fund and protect its ocean
Lydia Lewis (RNZ): ‘We are at crisis point’: Climate warrior calls on US, UK to do more for climate action

BANKS
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Banking services study reveals negative opinions on state of sector
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): NZ banks are lagging on real-time payments and fraud protections. The Commerce Commission says it could force them to get on with it
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Consumer NZ fears consumers will be underrepresented in banking review (paywalled)
Grant Kemble (Stuff): Banks could do more to open doors to homeownership

NZ Politics Daily: 22 September 2023

ELECTION
Jack Tame (1News): For Christopher Luxon, the Winston strategy has changed
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Is this the long goodbye for Labour?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Greater Of Two Evils
Gordon Campbell: On chaotic coalitions, drinking water and useless debates
Max Harris (Post): Policies to push back against (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): ‘There are a lot of people saying, it feels odd… I don’t think I know who I’m going to vote for’ (paywalled)
Political Compass: New Zealand General Election 2023
Tim Watkin (RNZ): The electorate swing, Labour limbo and Luxon-Hipkins two-step
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): A week of prospects, protests and possibilities (paywalled)
Newsroom: Raw Politics: Hipkins’ strange failure to fire
Dita De Boni (NBR): Great divide between political parties on employment issues (paywalled)
Rebecca Rendle (BusinessDesk): Workplace relations policies – how do they stack up? (paywalled)
RNZ: Law and order debate sees fiery clash of policy
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): James Shaw’s unexpected solution to the cost of living crisis. Does it stack up?
Annie Te One (The Conversation): From ‘pebble in the shoe’ to future power broker – the rise and rise of te Pāti Māori
The Facts: Government confidence at record lows

NEWSHUB NATION POWERBROKERS DEBATE
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Zingers and grins light up multi-party debate
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): In zinger-filled debate, the minor parties prove they’re the most interesting
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Minor parties get fired up over crime and punishment
Farah Hancock (RNZ): How David Seymour and Winston Peters hogged the mic in the minor party leaders debate
Maree Mahony (RNZ): Cracks appear soon after show of unity from ACT, NZ First leaders
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Election 2023 debate moments: Marama Davidson, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer team up in facing bickering David Seymour, Winston Peters
Newshub: Political commentators on who was victorious in minor party debate
Adam Pearse , Michael Neilson and Claire Trevett (Herald): Fiery small leaders’ debate reveals Act and NZ First could work together
Luke Malpass (Post): The great minor party sorting session ‒ and Winston’s big night (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury Daily Blog): Newshub Nation Powerbrokers Debate: Marama and Debbie beat the snot out of David and Winston

ECONOMY, FINANCE DEBATE, COST OF LIVING
Rob Campbell (Post): It’s not just the economy, stupid (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Why National’s tax fantasy is dead (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Doubts about Robertson’s good news day (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Peters predicts being in government and a pre-Xmas mini-Budget
Katie Bradford (1News): Will GDP growth be too little, too late for Labour?
Herald Editorial: Economic good news may be too late for Labour (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Five things you need to know about GDP update
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Economy in 2024: ‘Next six months will be painful for households’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): GDP figures shows Reserve Bank may have failed to engineer its recession (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): The RBNZ won’t be spooked by the strong 2Q GDP (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Crisis? What crisis?
RNZ: June quarter 2023 GDP result: Economy grew strongly in the three months ended June
RNZ: New Zealand skirts recession with adjusted quarterly GDP figures
Dan Brunskill (Interest): New Zealand dodged technical recession, after all
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): New Zealand posts second-quarter GDP growth of 0.9 percent, no recession
Thomas Manch (Post): Labour lauds GDP figures, campaign rolls on (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): New GDP figures spark row over economy
Newshub: National accuses Finance Minister Grant Robertson of insulting New Zealanders over GDP figures
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR):It’s all a numbers game (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government launches review of one of NZ’s most important laws, after watchdogs complain about poor accountability (paywalled)
Jenny Ruth: More regulation likely to drive some non-banks to the wall

ELECTORATES
Deborah LaHatte (Whakaata Māori): Poll: Wiill voters punish Meka Whaitiri for waka jumping?
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates up for the fight as seat remains open for the taking
Jean Edwards (RNZ): Sarah Pallett, Hamish Campbell and Raf Manji vye for Ilam’s vote
Sinead Gill (Press): Is Christchurch Central safe for Labour or will it swing? (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (Newsroom): Brooke van Velden against the odds in Tāmaki
Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): Can National reclaim Nelson after Labour ended its 24-year run?

ACT
Tim Watkin (Pundit): National, ACT & NZ First: Delivering The Sun Or Just Beach Cricket?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Public service and KiwiSaver cuts propel Government to a larger surplus under ‘hypothetical’ Act budget
RNZ: Watch: ACT leader David Seymour reveals alternative budget
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Act’s alternative budget takes aim at public debt as well as public servants (paywalled)
Eric Frykberg (Interest): ACT reveals alternative budget
Brent Edwards (NBR: Act calls for responsible management in tough circumstances (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): ACT throw Gen X under the retirement bus

NATIONAL
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Chris Luxon stands firm on spilling any more beans on policy trade-offs ahead of election
Tom Taylor (RNZ): Checkpoint: Relative of victim of gang violence hits out at politicians in meeting
Michael Fallow (Southland Times): National would ‘hustle’ to revive international student numbers
RNZ: National promises to expand international student work rights
Michael Fallow (Southland Times): Luxon gets cheesy in deep south

LABOUR
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour’s Shanan Halbert labelled bully by multiple former employees
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour MP Shanan Halbert rocked by bullying allegations
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Chris Hipkins stakes job on promise to cut GST from fruit, veges next year
Adam Pearse (Herald): Disaster recovery unearths Chris Hipkins’ vintage Chippy in Hawke’s Bay

HEALTH
Metiria Stanton Turei (ODT): National policy contradicted by dog-whistling trail rhetoric (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Using Ethnicity in Health: Why being accused of racism in NZ is more important than doing anything about racism in NZ
Kevin Hague (Newsroom): The solution to institutional racism is 163 years old
Craig Ashworth (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Shattered’: Māori health board head says National plans a huge step back
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Steve Randerson (Herald): The alcohol industry appears to still have some politicians under its spell
Virginia Nicholls (Herald): How education can positively influence teens’ views on responsible drinking
Kristie Boland (Press): ‘Huge’ amount of unmet need missed when measuring healthcare performance (paywalled)
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): ‘Utterly demoralising’ – doctors strike over pay and conditions

TVNZ LEADERS’ DEBATE
Richard Prebble (Bassett, Brash & Hide): Who won the Leaders’ debate?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Thoughts on the leaders’ debate
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand election debate points to bipartisan agenda of austerity and war
Robert MacCulloch: Madness at TVNZ – is a formal apology owing to Chris Luxon from the academic “experts”?

PUBLIC SERVICE
Andrea Vance (Post): Environment Ministry pays $1m to consultants for cost-cutting restructure (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): WorkSafe chief executive Phil Parkes resigns
Laura Frykberg (1New): Up to 120 jobs could go at WorkSafe, chief executive quits
Brent Edwards (NBR): Unions disappointed in proposed cuts at WorkSafe (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZ First reckons it would bring public spending under control (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): ‘Rich’ Conservation Department is actually stretched and struggling
Maria Slade (NBR): Trade agency to slash budget as Covid funding ends (paywalled)

WATER QUALITY, THREE WATERS
Julia Talbot-Jones and Yigit Saglam (The Conversation): Freshwater quality is one of New Zealanders’ biggest concerns – water-trading ‘clubs’ could be part of the solution
Tumamao Harawira (Whakaata Māori): Muaupoko protests against Lake Horowhenua’s exemption from national water standards
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Lack of water treatment highlights urgency of Three Waters reforms – mayor
RNZ: Queenstown mayor gives update on cryptosporidium outbreak
RNZ: Queenstown cryptosporidium outbreak: Residents face ‘months’ of boil water notice
Joanne Naish and Sinead Gill (Press): Only three Christchurch water supplies have protozoa barriers, but council says risk is low (paywalled)

EDUCATION
Soumya Bhamidipati, (RNZ): ‘Devastated’: Victoria University axes 229 jobs and six courses
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): 140 redundancies, six courses gone at Victoria University as it tackles deficit
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): Massey University working to reduce big deficit
Tamara Poi-Ngawhika (BusinessDesk): Māori tertiary institution pulls out of startup programme
Tatiana Gibbs (Post): Mum’s plea for equal access to education for neurodivergent children (paywalled)

CLIMATE CHANGE
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Petone and other communities can’t be protected against climate change, says insurer (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): The climate change and environment policies in two minutes

BUSINESS
Grant Bradley (Herald): The big winners from the $1 billion taxpayer air freight scheme (paywalled)
Tamara Poi-Ngawhika (BusinessDesk): $2.7m investment in Māori businesses pays off
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Power firms show no immediate opposition to tougher rules on ‘bundled’ plans (paywalled)
Trent Doyle (Newshub): Why thousands of Aucklanders will get a $360 payout this week
Rob Stock (Post): Not guilty verdict in $750m insurance company collapse (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s communications boss Kate Lynch quits after barely six months in the job (paywalled)
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s chief press secretary Kate Lynch resigns
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Let’s Get Wellington Moving plan hits another roadblock
Justin Wong (Post): Porirua City Council rejects financial backing for adventure park (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Residents call for immediate halt to ‘unnecessary’ housing intensification plans (paywalled)

ORANGA TAMARIKI
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Oranga Tamariki review: Agency refers 28 complaints over staff conduct to police
Katie Harris (Herald): Oranga Tamariki review: Nearly two dozen residence staff removed and three charged since issues raised in June

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
RNZ: Pacific nations sign up to UN high seas treaty – ‘Ratifying and implementing’ next
RNZ: Statecraft in the Pacific

OTHER
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): Why Winston Peters should take over the Green Parrot Cafe
Piers Fuller (Post): Wellington’s venerable Green Parrot for sale (paywalled)
Newshub: Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern reveals what she misses most about politics, how life is ‘very different’ now
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Kim Hill on the leaders’ debate, leaving RNZ and her extraordinary career; Rupert Murdoch steps down; Radio stars settle with MediaWorks; Facebook news traffic plunges (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Courts clogged by self-represented litigants, lawyers say; solutions proposed
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Police Association president Chris Cahill: Time to put pressure back on the gangs

NZ Politics Daily: 21 September 2023

COALITION ARRANGEMENTS
Felix Desmarais (1News): Kiwis want to know if Luxon will work with Peters
Chris Trotter: Calling the big dog’s bluff
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Christopher Luxon doesn’t say what ACT policies National could adopt if in position post-election

ELECTION
Chris Trotter (The BFD): Who wants 20 Years of Woke?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chris Hipkins is running out of time, less than one week before first votes cast
Oliver Hartwich: Under NZ’s complex polling system, Labour’s weak polling raises the possibility of “list MP extinction”
Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): Racism and democracy: why claims of ‘division by race’ in the NZ election and Voice referendum need challenging
ODT Editorial: Vetting Zoo (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The latest charts and data on Election 2023
Michael Johnston (Newsroom): MMP system is complex and secretive
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: When a ‘wasted vote’ isn’t wasted
Brent Edwards (NBR): NZ First reckons it would bring public spending under control (paywalled)
Iain Lees-Galloway: Those who seek to govern us need to talk with us
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): Shop the fit: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): How to vote based on your zodiac sign

1NEWS VERIAN POLL, IPSOS SURVEY
Felix Desmarais (1News): Poll: National, ACT, retain slender advantage in path to power
1News: Luxon says foreign buyer tax questions aren’t impacting polls
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): National dips in new poll, but no Labour bump
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog):New TVNZ Poll shows how fragile Right Victory is – step up NZ Left!
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): A new poll reveals New Zealanders back National on almost every important issue

TVNZ DEBATE
Brent Edwards (NBR): News media loses election debate coverage (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Hipkins and Luxon may be more in touch with the public mood than drama-seeking commentators might like
1News: ‘Beige’ – Economist slams leaders’ ‘lack of ambition’ in debate
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Who will fact check the fact checkers?
Robert MacCulloch: TVNZ asked academics to “fact check” the leaders debate & the academics got it wrong
Ella Stewart (RNZ): The falsehood Christopher Luxon was allowed to repeat in the leaders’ debate
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Chris Hipkins said there is ban on fizzy drinks in primary schools, ministry says there isn’t
1News: Fact check: Leaders’ claims in the first debate put to the test
Herald Editorial: Luxon draws first blood in debate, leaving Labour playing catch-up (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Are you not entertained?
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Politics aside, was the Leaders’ Debate good TV?
Ani O’Brien (Plain Sight): The TVNZ leaders debate
Calum Henderson (Spinoff): Every sporting analogy used to describe the first TVNZ leaders’ debate

UPCOMING DEBATES
Gray Gibson (Newshub Nation): Powerbrokers’ Debate: Everything you need to know about David Seymour, Winston Peters, Debbie Ngarewa -Packer and Marama Davidson
Anna Whyte (Post): Minor parties prepare for debate showdown (paywalled)
Melenie Parkes (Stuff): Multi-party debate moderator Jack Tame says smaller parties could have more influence than ever before

NATIONAL
Morgan Godfery (Post): The only way we can pay for tax cuts is with a decade of austerity (paywalled)
Richard Harman: An ill wind (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): It’s about the economy – and getting results
Brent Edwards (NBR): National’s plan for a predictable regulatory environment (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party leader Christopher Luxon’s big mistake as he goes for the goat vote
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): National releases new attack ad reworking Labour’s own
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Luxon takes search for missing mojo to Auckland goat farm
1News: Watch: Christopher Luxon tries his hand at goat milking
RNZ: National’s Christopher Luxon fronts up on lunches, housing
Jonah Franke-Bowell (Waikato Times): Who is Ryan Hamilton? (paywalled)

LABOUR
Derek Cheng (Herald): Why Labour’s 30% prison reduction goal made no sense, and axing it makes no sense (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Post): Labour MP concedes his party will likely lose election (paywalled)
William Hewett (Newshub): Labour commits to building new hospital in Hawke’s Bay
1News: Labour promises new Hawke’s Bay hospital if re-elected
Thomas Manch (Post): Sun and silt as Hipkins heads to Gisborne (paywalled)
Robert MacCulloch: The PM falsely told the AM Show the new Grocery Commissioner can ensure GST cuts are 100% passed on
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff):MP Michael Wood speaks candidly about airport shares ordeal

ELECTORATES
The Hui: The Hui panel analyses Tāmaki Makaurau debate – and who they think won
The Hui: The Hui Māori electorate debate – Tāmaki Makaurau candidates
Liz McDonald (Press): Wigram, an electorate with a foot in both camps (paywalled)
Seni Iasona (Newshub): National’s candidate ‘not worried’ about ACT as Brooke van Velden vies for strong blue seat
Tumamao Harawira (Whakaata Māori): Housing, health and jobs key to Te Pāti Māori victory in Tāmaki Makaurau
Amy Ridout (Nelson Mail): Teacher steps in as sparks fly at Nelson candidate meeting

CLIMATE CHANGE, EXTREME WEATHER
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour alleges National needs a massive climate tax on households – they’re not entirely wrong (paywalled)
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): National MP who could be next climate minister says ‘social obligation’ can drive a cleaner NZ without cash subsidies
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): David Parker slates National as ‘vandals’ over planned emissions policies bonfire (paywalled)
Kim McVicar (NBR): Business and climate change: ‘NZ on edge of tipping point’
Brent Edwards (NBR): Plea from 50 specialists to politicians to put climate first (paywalled)
Kevin Trenberth (Newsroom): Beyond recycling, what to do about climate change?
Felix Walton (RNZ): New Zealand not alone in failing to meet climate challenge – UN
Amedlia Wade (Newshub): Chris Hipkins doles out cash for cyclone projects as Prime Minister, denies ‘electoral politics’ at play
RNZ: Government approves funding for flood resilience work in Tai Rāwhiti
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Wairoa Mayor wants National, ACT commitment on town’s post-cyclone recovery
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Political meddling in market won’t lower emissions, says Toyota NZ boss

HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Ministers were advised taking GST off fruit and vege would not lower prices
1News: Healthcare rivals cost of living as key worry in some regions
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): National and Labour promise not to let Pharmac fall off fiscal cliff
Ian Powell (Post): Singing a gloomy tune on health (paywalled)
Ian Powell: Getting the health system culture right; aligning moralities
RNZ: Employment Relations Authority asked to step in over senior doctor pay dispute
Rachel Thomas (Post): Patients find lab unlocked but empty during strike (paywalled)

EDUCATION
RNZ: Watch: ACT promises tender process for ‘failing’ schools, stricter early childhood education
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Act promises shake-up of ECE and schools
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Education Watch: Parties on the foundation of education, early childhood (paywalled)
Soumya Bhamidipati (RNZ): Te Pūkenga halves the number of jobs it plans to cut
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Te Pūkenga restructure has ‘broken’ people staff say (paywalled)
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Life as a social worker in Wainuiomata’s schools (paywalled)

ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Brent Edwards (NBR): Treasury criticises Productivity Commission report on inequity (paywalled)
Roger Partridge (Herald): The inequality debate we should be having (paywalled)
Mike Grimshaw (Plain Sight): It’s the economy – and the spirit, Stupid…
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: The shadow recession is not going anywhere for some time
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): New Zealand’s GDP growth likely increased in second quarter on robust migration – economists
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Improved current account deficit still leaves NZ vulnerable to credit rating downgrade (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Trade deficit narrows to 7.5% of GDP as exports recover
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Stubborn balance of payments deficit risks higher interest rates, says ANZ (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Balance of payments deficit dips under $30b for first time in a year
AP: NZ set to exit recession, data expected to show
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Mum feels like she’s failing as parents cut back on essentials during cost of living crisis (paywalled)
RNZ: Soaring fuel prices likely to hit summer holiday road trips
William Hewett (Newshub): High petrol prices could see interest rates increase – economist

MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: The danger in thinking it is safer to keep your mouth shut
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): NZ media is in a major slump. Will a National-Act government make it worse?
Ben Kepes (The Press): Can we regain what we’ve lost with journalism’s decline? (paywalled)
Roy Morgan: 2.8 million New Zealanders now read newspapers and almost 1.7 million read magazines
Amberleigh Jack (Stuff): Carol Hirschfeld has a new job at TVNZ

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland councillors block top transport job for wealthy businessman who donated to Wayne Brown’s election
Brendon McMahon (Local Democracy Reporting): Smaller councils face ‘considerable difficulty’ to meet audit deadline
RNZ: Queenstown cryptosporidium outbreak: Council served with compliance order for water treatment plant

TRANSPORT
Erin Gourley (Post): Divisive Wellington transport project faces legal threat (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Hutt cycleways cost $33 million per km and rising (paywalled)
Lauren Marrion (Spinoff): A thank you letter to the Robin Hoods of the Auckland Transport outage

WORKSAFE
Laura Frykberg (1News): Fears for workplace safety as WorkSafe job losses loom
RNZ: WorkSafe expected to cut more than 100 jobs

HOUSING
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): The most expensive districts to rent in Aotearoa as supply dwindles and demand surges
Melania Watson (Newshub): Trade Me data reveals the most expensive districts to rent in New Zealand
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Let Auckland decide on intensification, says new coalition
Catherine Hubbard (Stuff): Richmond’s plan for higher density housing

ENVIRONMENT
Manawatū Standard: Iwi fight for Lake Horowhenua to be included in freshwater standards
Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Otago council a step closer on Manuherekia River changes, no-one happy

MIGRANT WORKERS
Adam Burns (RNZ): NZ govt warns migrant workers of employment scams amid Immigration review
BusinessDesk: NZ to provide financial support to exploited migrants

DEFENCE
Charlie Mitchell (Press): Work begins on $70m military camp upgrade
Simon Ewing-Jarvie: A New Model Defence Force

CRIME
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Defining issues: What is the youth crime problem we’re trying to solve?
Bex Silver (Newsroom): Being ‘tough on crime’ is too easy – and ignores the evidence
Joanne Naish (Press): Dairy owners suspend meetings with police minister (paywalled)
Kristie Boland (Press): Tobacco retailers will feel ‘full brunt of crime’ once city outlets slashed to 13 (paywalled)

OTHER
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): IAG encourages customers whose properties were hardest hit by extreme weather earlier this year ‘to reside elsewhere’
Liz McDonald (Press): Uncertainty remains for on-sold EQC claimants (paywalled)
Katie Ham and Catrin Owen (Stuff): Protesters clash with police after court appearance of Posie Parker juice thrower
Stuff: Parliament protester lit and stoked fire, pelted police with concrete
Hamish McNicol (NBR): NZ Law Society should just do regulation, ADLS president says (paywalled)
Maria Slade (NBR): Sharp increase in scams ‘worrying’: Banking Ombudsman (paywalled)
Sally Wenley (RNZ): ‘Absolutely reprehensible’ – former Dilworth student on sexual abuse at the school
Paul Little (Listener): New Zealanders may be leaving for Australia in droves, but they’ll be back (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): Power list: Who’s who of New Zealand’s $2.4 billion wine industry (paywalled)

NZ Politics Daily: 20 September 2023

TVNZ LEADERS’ DEBATE
Spinoff: TVNZ Leaders’ debate #1, NZ election 2023: The verdicts
Claire Trevett, Audrey Young, Thomas Coughlan and Shayne Currie (Herald): The verdicts on Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon – Who won TVNZ leaders’ debate? (paywalled)
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Hipkins vs Luxon: The first leaders’ debate by the numbers
Matthew Hooton (The Australian): Low quality New Zealand debate shows leaders’ lack of seriousness (paywalled)
1News: Vote Compass: Who took out the first TVNZ Leaders’ Debate?
Luke Malpass (Post): First blood Luxon: A battle fought in National’s territory (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Leaders debate: The Chris’ning of the next Prime Minister
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon exceeds expectations in first debate
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Hipkins vs Luxon: What voters learned from the first head-to-head debate
Richard Harman (Politik): Hipkins – Luxon stalemate (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): First leaders’ debate light on new insights
Maree Mahony (RNZ): Hipkins’ and Luxon’s fast-paced debate fails to get pundits’ pulses racing
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): A few surprising things from the first leaders debate
Derek Cheng (Herald): Chris to Chris in the leaders’ debate: ‘What are you afraid of?’ versus ‘I’m not afraid of anything’
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): The Relieving debate
Steve Braunias (Herald): Searching for an ounce of charisma in the TVNZ leaders’ debate (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Did the leaders’ debate live up to the low expectations?
Jess Rayner (1News): First Leaders’ Debate: The big issues from Luxon v Hipkins clash
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Election 2023 debate moments: Christopher Luxon misspeaks, Chris Hipkins makes unexpected announcement, calls KiwiBuild ‘unrealistic promise’
1News: Experts give debate verdict: Hipkins waffly, Luxon dog-whistling
Molly Swift (Newsroom): Political commentators give verdict on who won Chris Hipkins, Christopher Luxon debate
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Leaders’ views clash on cost of living, crime
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): First Leaders Debate – A carnival of mediocrity where NZ was the loser
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Election 2023 first leaders debate: Voters might feel they’re the losers
Anna Whyte (Post): Leaders clash over core policy, find common ground in scrappy debate
1News: Full video: Your Vote 2023, First Leaders’ Debate
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Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Debate day is D-Day for Hipkins
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Hipkins brushing up his messages – and memory
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): What to expect from tonight’s election debate (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): How to watch the debate without losing your mind
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): All new 2023 leader debate bingo (or drinking game if you like)
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Chris Hipkins reveals ‘weakness’ as leaders prepare for first debate

MĀORI ELECTORATES
Deborah LaHatte (Whakaata Māori): Neck and neck race for Te Tai Hauāuru
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): Te Tai Hauāuru debate shows commitment to electorate will be the difference on election day
The Hui: The Hui panel analyses Te Tai Tokerau debate between Hūhana Lyndon, Mariameno Kapa-Kinga, Kelvin Davis
The Hui: As it happened: The Hui Māori electorate debate – Te Tai Tokerau candidates
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): The race to represent a battered region
Wena Harawira (Whakaata Māori): Peeni Henare seeks fourth term in Tāmaki Makaurau

ELECTION
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A Very hollow election
Steven Cowan: The illusion of democracy
Andrew Shepherd (Post): An election campaign of empty silences and emptier slogans (paywalled)
Glen McConnell (Stuff): Surprising amount of common ground found in infrastructure election debate
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Greens want to stop scrapping over small spending bucket
Nick Kelly: Understanding the New Zealand General Election 2023 – Historical trends and perspectives
Serena Solomon (Guardian): Why is Jacinda Ardern absent from New Zealand election campaign?
Graham Adams (The Platform): Is Ardern a liability for Labour?
Audrey Young (Herald): First leaders debate is Christopher Luxon’s to lose (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Big talk of big cuts on campaign trail ahead of first debate
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Kaupapa Māori polling places to counter voter discrimination
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Greens, Te Pāti Māori and TOP ace disability issues scorecard
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Former state care kids quiz politicians on their plans
Ben Thomas (Spinoff): Who is Karl Mokaraka?
Charlie Mitchell (Press): Liz Gunn’s party fails to register nearly all candidates (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Liz Gunn party only registers three candidates
Jonathan Leask (RNZ): Election candidates locked for hotly contested Rangitata sea
Anna Whyte (Post): Why these six candidates want to roam the halls of power (paywalled)

GREENS
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata episode 19: An interview with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): The Sure Things: ‘Steve from Spotify’ wants to bring activism to Parliament
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The former Wellington mayor set to swap the bush for the beltway
RNZ: Green Party wants free lunches expanded to 365,000 children
Newshub: Green Party promises to continue, expand free lunches programme paid for by wealth tax

LABOUR
Suze Wilson (The Conversation): Controlling the political narrative is key to winning the NZ election – no easy task for Chris Hipkins
RNZ: Labour’s Chris Hipkins shies from curbing spending promises
William Hewett (Newshub): Labour leader Chris Hipkins ‘concerned’ supermarkets not treating consumers well
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Chris Hipkins intervenes over another inaccurate post from MP, Labour launches new attack ad
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Labour dumps prison population reduction target
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s finally admitted reducing prison populations was a bad idea
Spinoff: Youth Wings: The Young Labour chair who refuses to be in a centrist party

NATIONAL
Gordon Campbell: On National’s (lack of) plans for El Nino
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Christopher Luxon reveals stance on fuel excise duty as petrol prices soar
William Hewett (Newshub): Christopher Luxon promises to ‘cut red tape’ with economic plan
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Nats promise to cut red tape, deregulate
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Matt Doocey: From National’s ‘toxic’ years to a mental health minister-in-waiting

NZ FIRST
Blessen Tom (RNZ): Indian-origin New Zealand First candidate withdraws from Auckland electorate race
Bob Jones: The Winston Dilemma

ECONOMY
Max Harris (Newsroom): Pulling tax from one part of teetering Jenga tower to place it in another
Richard Prebble (Herald): Mass immigration isn’t working. We need to get more Kiwis into jobs (paywalled)
Tim Hazledine (Newsroom): Show us the (maths behind the) money!
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Take the ideas from left, right and centre and it looks like half an economic plan (paywalled)

HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Off the Shelf: Sugar, salt and portion size limits pushed by health officials
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Rest homes forced to sedate dementia patients due to lack of psychiatrists
Adam Burns (RNZ): Donated air purifiers hoped to help asthmatics deal with Bromley’s ‘putrid smell’
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Queenstown businesses angry about delay as gastro cases double
Rachel Thomas (Post): Striking lab workers to picket employer’s future-shaping conference (paywalled)

PETROL PRICES
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): New Zealanders stuck in a ‘car dependency cycle’ as fuel likely to rise to record-breaking prices
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Petrol prices: 91 octane expected to rise to $3.50 a litre by Christmas
Susan Edmunds and Shilpy Arora (Stuff): Pain at the pump: ‘I can never afford to fill it’

KIWISAVER
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Are you missing out on money in your KiwiSaver?
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Hardship withdrawals and savings suspensions have jumped in the past year as households struggle with the high cost of living
Rob Stock (Post): Big bank ‘dinosaur’ KiwiSaver schemes struggle to hold onto savers (paywalled)

BANKS
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Bank pays nearly $30k after customer falls for fake website scam
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): Show me the (scammed) money: Banking Ombudsman says scammed New Zealanders lost on average $57,000

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
Aaron Ryan (Whakaata Māori): Napier: The most climate-change-vulnerable city in Aotearoa
Rob Stock (Post): Country’s largest insurer IAG begins insure ‘retreat’ from flood-prone homes
Barney Irvine (Herald): Five waste and recycling priorities for the next Government(paywalled)
RNZ: Fewer places to swim in Canterbury this summer, thanks to pollution

LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING
Julie Jacobson (Post): Secrecy surrounding mayoral trip to Asia criticised (paywalled)
Ellen Curnow (Westport News): West Coast councillor Allan Birchfield’s spat costs ratepayers $40,000
Kim Meredith (Local Democracy Reporting): Submissions low on introducing dedicated Māori seats to Auckland Council

EDUCATION, DILWORTH SCHOOL
Jessica Roden (1News): Future of NZ’s schools for students with high needs remains in limbo
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy ReportING): Reducing specialist teachers ‘shockingly irresponsible’
Laura James (1News): Calls for former Dilworth leaders to face criminal charges

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Why New Zealand will struggle to get a free trade agreement with India
RNZ: Forum foreign ministers address key priorities for the region

CRIME
Blair Ensor (Stuff): Family of bus exchange stabbing victim angry he was deported to New Zealand
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Checkpoint: AT says anti-social behaviour a growing issue after stabbing
RNZ: Albany Bus Station death tragic, Hipkins and Luxon say
RNZ: November opening planned for community hub tackling crime in Rotorua

OTHER
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: another Nats tax hole? OIA wins and fails, and more… (paywalled)
Mana Wikaire-Lewis (Whakaata Māori): Iwi looks at overseas partnerships to build cost-effective mobile houses
Soumya BhamidipatI (RNZ): Kim Dotcom fights decision to release hard-drives, passwords to United States FBI
Jordan Dunn (RNZ): Trans activist accused of assaulting Posie Parker applies to have charge dismissed
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): One positive from the pandemic
Sharon Brettkelly, (RNZ): The Detail: Tarras locals gear up for a fight over airport
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Post): Room for improvement in workplace gender identity decision-making (paywalled)
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Radio host Barry Soper off air and in hospital for major surgery
Matthew Slaughter (Stuff): Elizabeth Kerekere: The power of activism for the rainbow community

NZ Politics Daily: 19 September 2023

NZ FIRST
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Winston Peters on why he might get Nicola Willis’ job, and how Act is too soft on Treaty issues (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Peters wants National to pump the brakes on tax plan (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Peters rejects 2024 tax cuts; confirms he wants Treasurer role (paywalled)
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): The ‘accidental’ Māori; Peters slams Seymour
Fox Meyer (Critic Te Ārohi): Winston Peters: In His Reputation Era
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): NZ’s richest man backing NZ First again
Ian Allen (Stuff):‘I can’t get ahead of myself’: The NZ First candidate sitting at six

NATIONAL
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Luxon and media playing intense game of hide and seek
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Luxon will work with Peters, but only if he has to
Richard Harman (Politik): Luxon moderates (paywalled)
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): I don’t know why National is so wedded to these tax cuts
Robert MacCulloch: Who are Newshub’s “Highly Regarded Economists” trying to discredit the Nats?
Éimhín O’Shea (Spinoff): National’s no-cause eviction policy would hurt everyone, including landlords
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Greens welcome National backing carbon pledge it had said could cripple economy (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): National wannabe-MP fronts for grilling over anti-mandate comments as Labour candidate’s past vaccine remarks emerge
Adam Pearse (Herald): National candidate Ryan Hamilton claims party raised no red flags about anti-fluoride, anti-mandate comments
RNZ: Christopher Luxon confirms Ryan Hamilton to remain as National candidate
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon faces suggestions of hypocrisy over candidate Ryan Hamilton
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): National knew of candidate Ryan Hamilton’s controversial comments at selection

LABOUR
Felix Desmarais (1News): ‘We can turn these polls around’ – Labour’s campaign boss
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Labour says there’s ‘huge public benefit’ from offering solar panel rebates
RNZ: Labour launches rooftop solar and battery rebates, and community energy fund policy
1News: Labour announces new energy plan, says it could cut bills in half
Piers Fuller (Post): Solar subsidies backed but accessibility questioned (paywalled)
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): $4,000 subsidy to install solar panels – Labour
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Newsable: Solar panels are in the spotlight, but how costly are they?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour expects households could halve power use with solar panels (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour promises to raise wages and protect workers’ rights (paywalled)
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): Did Labour miss a trick in selecting their leader?
Felix Desmarais (1News): Labour candidate railed against HPV vaccine on social media

ELECTION CAMPAIGN, DONATIONS, DEBATES
Farah Hancock (RNZ): Billionaire Graeme Hart’s $700k in donations to right wing parties
Claire Trevett (Herald): TVNZ leaders debate – Chris Hipkins v Christopher Luxon, what’s at stake and what to expect (paywalled)
1News: What to know about tonight’s TVNZ Leader’s Debate
Anna Whyte (Post): Hipkins and Luxon quibble over expectations, hurl jabs ahead of first leaders’ debate (paywalled)
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Are the Chrises ready to face the heat?
Daily Blog: 9pm Live tonight Freeview 200: The Working Group/Taxpayers’ Union Post Leaders Debate analysis live from Backbenchers Pub
Rachel Moore (Stuff): The Great New Zealand Infrastructure Debate: What will the next Government build and where will the buck stop?
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Concerns over Māori treatment on polling day
Mike Yardley (Press): Ilam: Battleground seat or National birthright? (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Ready to step up, make a difference for NZ (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Against Electronic Income Management
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Act’s welfare policy is the kind of hardline stuff many of us want
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Spinoff): The many hats of Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Could Leighton Baker be toppled as leader of the Leighton Baker Party?
Newshub: The Project: When is it? Most searched political leaders, parties
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): When policy manifestos become lolly scrambles instead
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): Hipkins takes swipe at ‘coalition of chaos’, campaign trail disruption
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): This year’s election, in numbers
Nadine Anne Hura (Spinoff): Let’s make voting sexy again
Emma Wehipeihana (Spinoff): Why I’m opting out of the election this year
Caroline Williams (Stuff): 130 years of women’s voting in New Zealand, explained

COST OF LIVING, ECONOMY
Shamubeel Eaqub (Post): The false promises of cost of living solutions (paywalled)
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: Spinning the numbers while ignoring the threats
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): The case for a pre-Christmas mini-budget (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): On why business should vote Green (paywalled)
Ananish Chaudhuri (Post): To hold our politicians to account, we need to first understand what they’re promising
Rob Stock (Post): Truth-checking the ‘myth’ that sitting governments always lose recession-year elections (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Statistics to show recovery that feels like a recession (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Tone of election to be revealed in big data week
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Current account deficit to keep narrowing – slowly (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ‘Won’t be going to the beach much this summer’: Petrol price tipped to keep rising
Terry Baucher (Interest): Te wiki o te tāke: Looking at tax from all angles
Rob Stock (Stuff): India FTA unlikely, but business gives politicians blueprint for trade boost

EMPLOYMENT
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how much we need to earn to be happy (maybe)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ‘Time to ditch our obsession with degrees’: Here’s what tradies earn
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Covid pay rises: Who had the biggest benefit?
Rebecca Macfie (Newsroom): Nightmarish ACC dispute deals butcher a bad hand

PUBLIC SECTOR
Nikitin Sallee (BusinessDesk): The public service: stewardship beyond measure (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Axe hanging over WorkSafe staff (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): Creative NZ senior leaders ‘focused on own needs’, report finds (paywalled)

HEALTH
Phil Pennington (RNZ):Iwi health provider pays for staff health insurance, says public system too slow
Peter Davis (Herald): Aim to improve healthcare sits on political common ground (paywalled)
Ian Powell: When senior doctors snap
RNZ: ‘Vicious cycle’ of underfunding worsening New Zealanders’ mental health – psychiatrists
Melania Watson (Newshub): Man has left eye removed due to ‘severe infection’ after delay at Capital and Coast District Health Board

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland mayor Wayne Brown wants ‘new deal’ from next government
Rachel Maher (Herald): Auckland mayor Wayne Brown tells Wellington – stop planning, tax less
RNZ: Mayor Wayne Brown seeks cross-party agreement on Auckland Deal
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland Council to take last look at a new downtown stadium
Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): The case for celebrating Auckland’s anniversary on September 18
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington mayor Tory Whanau and council officials on $50,000 Asia trip
Julie Jacobson (Post): Cost of Wellington mayor’s Asia trip blows out
Dave Armstrong (Post): Where to now for Wellington’s water? (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington City councillor warns council needs to make big capital expenditure cuts
Brooke Black (Timaru Herald): Two senior leaders resign from Timaru District Council

HOUSING
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Landlords about to win biggest class war victory in NZ History
David Chaston (Interest): August sees no easing in near-record home loan unaffordability
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Five reasons the housing market is picking up again
Zane Small (Newshub): Kāinga Ora forced to close community event as locals protest south Auckland social housing development
Mare Haimona-Riki (Whakaata Māori): ‘Undoing 180 years of Crown-led housing solutions’
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Tsunami risk odds hover over 59-lot coastal subdivision proposed for Napier
Mike Dinsdale (Herald): Whangārei’s Almond Court flats being demolished for future hotel development

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Methane targets could put NZ on road to ‘zero warming’, report says
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Maximum heat standards needed to protect children and elderly – climate researcher
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): Māori and Pacific leaders propose legal personhood for whales at UN
Aroha Mane (Whakaata Māori): Māori leaders propose protecting whales in international waters at UN general assembly
Reto Blattner de-Vries and Te Ao o te Rangi Apaapa (Newsroom): Quarry highlights failings for Māori and the environment
Stuff: Why was Jacinda Ardern heckled on the other side of the world?
William Hewett (Newshub): Auckland Councillor feels ‘sorry’ for Jacinda Ardern for being heckled on street in Canada

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Luke Malpass (Post): Public to politicians: Don’t lower speed limits (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): Transport funding is an incoherent mess, but here is a solution (paywalled)
William Hewett (Newshub): Man who successfully took Waka Kotahi to court over pothole damage calls for more Kiwis to put pressure on agency
Nick Leggett (Stuff): Building a better future: Calling for a coordinated approach to infrastructure
Maria Slade (NBR): Transport Agency considers possible e-scooter ban (paywalled)

EDUCATION
Christine Braid (The Conversation): National wants to change how NZ schools teach reading – but ‘structured literacy’ must be more than just a classroom checklist
Joel Maxwell (Post): We’ve been illiterate for generations when it comes to educational racism (paywalled)
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Fear of ‘hasty’ decisions by Victoria University ahead of restructure (paywalled)
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Not hiring may save university nearly $4m (paywalled)

DILWORTH SCHOOL
Laura James (1News): Scathing inquiry finds Dilworth hid sex abuse claims, silenced survivors
John Weekes (Herald): Dilworth Old Boys ex leader on the ‘lost generations’ as sexual abuse review released (paywalled)
Elizabeth Binning (Open Justice Reporting): Dilworth sexual abuse: Sexual offending through the decades – what Dilworth really knew about the abuse
Edward Gay (Stuff): Dilworth inquiry finds extensive sexual abuse, violence and bullying over half a century at Auckland school

MEDIA
Colin Peacock (Mediawatch): TVNZ tightens its belt citing ad revenue slump
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Senior NZ Herald editorial staff to leave as NZME reshapes newsroom operation (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Shall we tell the advertisers?
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): A short interview with Todd Scott, the media baron who dreamed of being a citizen cop

OTHER
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): The Uzbek men lured by the Kiwi dream and left in poverty
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): $170 million Government-backed fund will help finance solar power installations (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Unclaimed money doubles to $400m in three months
ODT Editorial: Taser focus rather fuzzy (paywalled)
The Facts: Kiwi views on transgender issues
John Boynton (The Hui): Cyclone Gabrielle: Six months on in Te Karaka sees the uninsured do better than the insured

NZ Politics Daily: 18 September 2023

ELECTION, WEEK IN POLITICS
Chris Trotter (Interest): Failing to hold back the flood: The edgy politics of the twenty-first century
Andrea Vance (Post): Why the Great Uninterested aren’t buying what politicians have to sell (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Election 23: Shaping up to be just a tick box exercise? (paywalled)
Audrey Young (Herald): National and Act – where the policy differences lie (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Not since the depression have we seen a proposal like this (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Election gets six of the best
Luke Malpass (Post): The election is all over bar the shouting … until it isn’t(paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Everyone’s swinging and spinning. The campaign is getting feral
Grant Duncan: Bad uses of pre-election polling
Michael Wagener (The Blue Review): Polling 101: Chapter 3 – When can you trust the polls?
Bridie Witton and Anna Whyte (Post): ‘Bleak, selfish, petty’: Tensions flare on campaign trail as political parties scrap for every vote (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour eyes living wage for more workers, National and Act target immigration and welfare
Audrey Young (Herald): The National Party’s tax costings problem isn’t going away (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: On the campaign trail
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Beehive Diaries: Who is the best debater, and what’s Chippy been eating?
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Week 2 of the election campaign draws to a close with actual policy announcements and political theatre balancing out
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): The wild West of political ad attacks – but what are the rules? (paywalled)
Eugene Bingham (Post): Māori as political footballs – again – in the election campaign (paywalled)
K Gurunathan (Post): Straying from bipartisan Treaty understandings risks chaos (paywalled)
Tainui Stephens (E-Tangata): Weave the people
Steven Cowan: Zombie centrism stalks the land
Haimona Gray (Spinoff): How to run for parliament (and win)
Janet Wilson (Post): Watch out for the rabbit holes and doppelgangers left behind by Covid (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Election party and candidate registrations close with 20 parties listed
Simon Wilson (Herald): The weird and wonderful ways that party votes become MPs (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): New Zealand guide: Dates, parties, how to vote, what you need to know
Bob McCoskrie: Explaining the “wasted vote” – Is it really wasted?
Eddie Clark (Post): What we’re lucky we can take for granted (paywalled)
James Nokise (Post): Never underestimate the fickleness of the voting public (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Getting ready with Chlöe Swarbrick, as the MP turns drag king on the campaign trail
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): National not showing Act, NZ First cards yet

NATIONAL
Rebecca Wright and Molly Swift (Newshub): National’s Christopher Luxon explains the figures behind his controversial tax plan
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub Nation): Christopher Luxon still refusing to rule out NZ First coalition after Chris Hipkins says no to working with Winston Peters
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): NewsHub Nation destroys Luxon in Tax Interview – you have to see it to believe it
Michael Reddell: Marketing brochure?
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Christopher Luxon says he’s ‘absolutely’ being accountable to Kiwis amid tax questions, walk-offs
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): National’s Christopher Luxon walks off again amid more questions over tax plan
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Christopher Luxon looks like he has something to hide as he dodges tax questions
Claire Trevett (Herald): The questions Luxon won’t answer, Seymour waits and watches the polls (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: National takes incoming fire on its flagship policy (paywalled)
Press Editorial: National’s big tax gamble (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Another hole? Figures show National’s promise to reverse interest deductibility could cost more than planned for
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): National’s landlord tax break could cost $100m more a year
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Christopher Luxon continuously dismisses questions about how National’s tech plan could impact foreign buyers’ tax
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Nicola Willis says Kiwi don’t want Excel spreadsheets as pressure mounts for National to release foreign buyer tax costings
Mike Munro (Herald): Hole in Christopher Luxon’s tax bucket (paywalled)
Shaneel Lal (Herald): National’s Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis’ tax plan short on details
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): National’s tax dance is like watching Grand Designs
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Grant Robertson slams Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis’ ‘rubble’ claims of ‘rock-solid’ tax plan
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Christopher Luxon goes on a quest for top talent (paywalled)
RNZ: National leader Christopher Luxon reveals technology and visa policy
Ella Scott-Fleming (Newsroom): National’s red carpet for tech elite
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode for .. Baron Luxon

ACT
1News: Q+A: To target benefit frauds or tax evaders? ACT leader questioned
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Quit fixating on Winston Peters, says David Seymour
Mark Jennings (Newshub): Act’s high energy campaign launch turns into a fizzer
Toby Manhire  Act launch derailed by Angry Fence Man and physical assault on media
Andrea Vance (Post): Attempt to revive ACT’s flagging campaign fails to fire (paywalled)
Gabrielle McCulloch and Andrea Vance (Stuff): Watch: David Seymour’s ACT Party re-launch disrupted by persistent hecklers
Adam Pearse (Herald): Hecklers disrupt Act Party campaign launch during David Seymour’s speech
Newshub: Screaming heckler interrupts David Seymour speech, prompting jeering from crowd
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Did protester at ACT campaign launch use fake moustache to get inside?
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): ACT’s David Seymour denies using beneficiaries, Māori as political punching bag
Adam Pearse and Michael Nelson (Herald): Labour accuses Act of using Māori as political punching bag as protester derails campaign launch
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): ACT hammers home treaty referendum pledge at campaign launch
RNZ: ACT launches campaign with vow to end co-governance
Bernard Hickey: An interview with ACT’s David Seymour about housing
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Seymour needs to stop panic statements (paywalled)
RNZ: ACT leader David Seymour wants to see more drug addicts, sickness beneficiaries rejoin workforce
Brent Edwards (NBR): Act’s plan to get more beneficiaries back to work (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Act promises to cut waste and red tape to help boost productivity (paywalled)
Catherine Delahunty (E-Tangata): Only joking

NZ FIRST
Vernon Small (Post): Is the old warhorse saddling up for one last rodeo? (paywalled)
Otago University: VOTE2023: Q&A with Winston Peters
RNZ: Election 2023: New Zealand First releases party list
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): NZ First releases party list with conspiracy theorist at No 11
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): New Zealand First’s Winston Peters proves a crowd-pleaser in Levin
Spinoff: Youth Wings: Selling NZ First as a young person

LABOUR
Newshub: Labour should be worried about losing big names this election – Paddy Gower
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of Shipwreck Chippy (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour promises to raise wages and protect workers’ rights (paywalled)
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Labour pledges to establish a formal class actions regime
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Hipkins says Labour will extend free breast screening if re-elected
RNZ: Labour will raise breast screening age, develop endometriosis action plan
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Labour lists fresh policy, campaigns on National’s cuts

GREENS
John Campbell (1News): Just who the hell are the Greens?
RNZ: Greens promise five weeks’ annual leave
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Meet Lan Pham, the MP-in-waiting who loves native fish and hates politics
Rip Bhatia (Stuff): Sahra Ahmed was a mosque-attack first responder. Now, she’s running for Parliament

TE PĀTI MĀORI
Chris Wikaira (Newsroom): For Te Pāti Māori, it’s compromise or be compromised
RNZ: Election 2023 profiles: Who are Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Rawiri Waititi?
Tracey Tawhiao (Newsroom): Short story of a Te Pāti Māori candidate

ELECTORATES
Gray Gibson (Newshub): Newshub Nation Reid Research Poll: Labour’s Ibrahim Omer, Greens’ Tamatha Paul, National’s Scott Sheeran neck and neck in Wellington Central
Gray Gibson (Newshub): Wellington Central frontrunners – Labour’s Ibrahim Omer, Green’s Tamatha Paul, and National’s Scott Sheeran make their case for the electorate
Molly Swift (Newshub): Election 2023 hot seats: Three-horse race for Wellington Central with transport key focus for candidates
Arusha Bradley (RNZ): Ryan Hamilton: National’s anti-fluoride, anti-mandate MP-in-waiting
1News: Labour incumbents in 2 Wellington electorates facing stiff competition
1News: Hutt South electorate set to be the ‘Chris and Ginny show’
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Electorates to watch: the battle for Northland
Ryan Boswell (1News): Could West Coast-Tasman flip? National candidate confident

DEBATES
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Let the debates begin
Gray Gibson (Newshub Nation): Health Debate: Labour’s Dr Ayesha Verrall and National’s Dr Shane Reti clash over whether National will increase frontline health funding
Trent Doyle and Simon Shepherd (Newshub Nation): Political panel says Aotearoa is in safe hands no matter who is next Health Minister
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 8.30pm Live on Freeview 200: The Working Group/Taxpayers’ Union Post Leaders Debate analysis live from Backbenchers Pub

MEDIA
David Fisher (Herald): ‘I’m not a Russian agent’: RNZ journo behind ‘pro-Kremlin garbage’ tells his story (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Listener): Why I refuse to vote in a general election (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The media to follow this Election
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Stuff keeps Open AI at arm’s length
Amberleigh Jack (Stuff): Why won’t anybody talk about the deleted Duncan Garner and Dominic Harvey podcast?
RNZ: Media groups condemn alleged bribery attempt on RNZ Pacific journalist
Tracy Watkins (Post): A salute to Kim Hill and the golden age of the political interview (paywalled)
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): RNZ’s Kim Hill calls time on Saturday Morning show after 21 years

ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Charlotte Graham-McLay (Guardian): New Zealand voters search for relief from ‘shocking’ living costs as election looms
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): Meltdowns, dumped trolleys: Rise of food price anxiety in New Zealand
Liam Dann (Herald): Immigration boom creates headache for next government (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): What Is PREFU 2023 Really Telling Us?
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Economic credibility missing in action (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Economic doomerism for political benefit
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): National good for investors? Why this time it may not be so simple (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Out of ‘recession’ we go – but the economy is certainly not flying
Gareth Kiernan (Stuff): Treasury’s forecasts give a false picture of business-as-usual
Kirk Hope (Post): Election 2023 is ‘one for the books’ (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Decent chance recession we thought we just had could be called off on Thursday (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): NZ’s recession probably over: Was that it?
Liam Dann (Herald):: Odds of a soft landing? Seven big questions with S&P Global’s chief economist (paywalled)
Katie Bradford (1News):  Business Watch: GDP, tax, housing and leaders’ debate

MIGRANT WORKERS
Mike Treen (Post): Recent visa scandals are just the tip of the immigration iceberg (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Full-time staff monitoring migrant worker hire applications halve despite harrowing cases of exploitation
Kevin Norquay (Post): Seasonal workers’ pay is ‘life-changing’, but new rules put that at risk (paywalled)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Who will be New Zealand’s next foreign minister?
Audrey Young (Herald): Former prime minister Helen Clark joins select global group The Elders
Christine Rovoi (Stuff): Mahuta meets foreign ministers to discuss Pacific priorities
Caley Callahan (Newshub): Revealed: Most recent estimate of New Zealand’s veteran suicide rates

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Why Wellington’s ‘financial crisis’ is being kept secret (paywalled)
RNZ: Wellington Water on burst pipe: ‘We’ll always see failures in this type of network’
Kevin Niorquay (Post): Population influx has Auckland facing a double-edged sword (paywalled)
RNZ: ‘Incredibly wasteful’: 1936 brick building to be torn down for car park
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Former staff member calls on Gore District Council to release details of any payouts to Stephen Parry
Evan Harding (Southland Times): Invercargill mayor’s list of things to do before he steps aside
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Councillor’s shock announcement: He’s standing as an MP
Local Democracy Reporting: IT upgrade costs Rotorua council about $14.9m more than originally budgeted
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Booze ban for Wairarapa holiday hotspots

HOUSING
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Revealed: Emergency housing tenants owe government over $60m in unpaid rent
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Kāinga Ora ups the ante in race to build more homes
Geraden Cann (Stuff): Mega Landlords: investor stops buying after tax change, renovating instead
Ged Cann (Post): Mega Landlords: The father and son with more than 100 homes
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Bid to ditch Nelson housing intensification plan fails, more consultation sought

BUSINESS
Susan Edmunds (Post): Was the end of prompt payment discounts a rip-off? (paywalled)
RNZ: Manufacturing sector contracts for sixth consecutive month
RNZ: Sealord moves to acquire Christchurch-based Independent Fisheries
Kate Green (RNZ): Rail freight services from Napier Port back on track from Monday

HEALTH
Tim Tenbensel (Newsroom): Health targets may be good politics, but they’re not good policy
Luisa  Girao (ODT): Pressure in system creating inequality
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Action demanded on diseases at Paciifc health summit
RNZ: Midwives to vote on proposed pay equity deal
Lois Williams (Newsroom): Damning report into rest-home closure

EDUCATION
1News: Q+A: Children are taught ‘habits of poor readers’ – expert
Damien Grant (Stuff): The failure of New Zealand’s teachers
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Where did all the university students go this year? (paywalled)
Jerry Coyne: University of Auckland continues to promote indigenous ways of knowing while not allowing a promised debate between that and modern science

CLIMATE CHANGE, PROTEST
Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation):Another day, another roadblock: how should NZ law deal with disruptive climate protests?
Herald: Jacinda Ardern heckled on Canadian streets during her visit for Global Action Summit
Amberleigh Jack (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern heckled in Canada: ‘Leave the former prime minister alone’
Steve Urlich (Stuff): Economic prudence in the age of environmental tempests
Rachael Kelly (Stuff): Farmers to apply political pressure through new Methane Science Accord

OTHER
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Amazon celebrated ‘ambitious partership’ in letter to PM
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Health Ministry seeks review of contracts it has awarded to firm with links to Peeni Henare
RNZ: Posie Parker cancels trip to New Zealand over safety concerns
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Thank Jesus – Posie Parker cancels NZ visit and saves the Woke from themselves
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Interest in learning te reo Māori grows amid goal for one million speakers
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): Former leader of neo-nazi group met ex-soldiers in America prior to arrest on firearms charges
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Man who spent Covid-19 wage subsidy on gambling and adult entertainment to remain in jail
William Terite (Newshub): Māori experts frustrated with delay over bilingual road signs decision
Jane Phare (Herald): How come ‘sexist plonkers’ are still thriving in New Zealand? (paywalled)
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The burning question on rubbish

NZ Politics Daily: 15 September 2023

NATIONAL’S TAX POLICIES
1News: Nicola Willis: I’d quit as finance minister if my tax cut plan fails
Craig McCulloch and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Economists’ analysis rubbishes National’s foreign buyers tax numbers
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): ‘Beyond comprehension’ – modelling shows $2b hole in National’s foreign buyer tax
Miriam Bell (Stuff): Huge shortfall in National’s expected foreign buyer tax revenue
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): National’s foreign buyers tax falls $450m short, says economists’ review
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Three economists think National’s foreign buyers tax could come up $500 million short each year
Felix Desmarais (1News): Luxon needs to learn scrutiny is part of PM’s job
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National refuses to accept problem with tax plan, won’t say what it will cut if it doesn’t bring in enough money
Michael Reddell: How much revenue a foreign buyer tax might raise, and how and why it does (and doesn’t) matter
Gordon Campbell On the centre-right’s credibility problems
David Williams (Newsroom): Luxo presides over a kerfuffle in Kirwee
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The two Christopher Luxons
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova podcast: ‘Rock solid’ on foreign buyer tax – so will Nicola Willis resign if it doesn’t work?
Maree Mahoney (RNZ): Nicola Willis hits back over economists’ doubts on National foreign buyers tax numbers
Thomas Manch (Post): National Party leader Christopher Luxon unwavering as criticism of tax plan mounts (paywalled)

FINANCE DEBATE
Richard Harman (Politik): Willis under pressure in Queenstown (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Finance debate draws taxing admission from Nicola Willis
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Nicola Willis heckled by Grant Robertson, audience groans over foreign buyers tax claims
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Grant Robertson, Nicola Willis, David Seymour and James Shaw trade criticism in finance debate
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Great Debate sees unabashed election bribes and bad tidings for Wellington
RNZ: Candidates spar in Queenstown over spending, taxes
Katie Bradford (1News): Willis struggled in finance debate, but it didn’t matter
Stephen Minto (Daily Blog): Finance ministers debate, and show their mighty…flaws

PREFU, ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Tax cuts? It’s spending cuts we need (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell On the fictions about reckless government spending
Jack Tame (1News): Where’s National’s modelling and Labour’s GST talk?
The Facts: Core Crown debt interest is forecast to hit NZD $10 billion by 2027
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Robertson v Willis: Who do you trust to captain the coffers?
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Strong labour market, controlling inflation the focus for NZ – top economist
Hanna McCallum (Post): Fears of further hardship for those in welfare system (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Working for Families debt: ‘It all gets too much’

POLLS
Andrea Vance (Post): Voters want a referendum on co-governance – but not bilingual signs, poll shows (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Voters think National-Act-NZ First is a ‘coalition of chaos’ – poll
1News: Vote Compass reveals top issues on the minds of Kiwis
Adrian Beaumont (The Conversation): NZ election 2023: combined poll trends now show a clear rightward shift since June

ELECTION
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Delirious Hatred: The Dystopic Tendencies of Twenty-First Century Progressivism
Josie Pagani (Post): Time is running out for Labour to do the winning thing (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Spectre of defeat should spur Hipkins and Luxon, but where’s the passion?
Paul Trebilco (ODT): The body, and the body politic, needs to function harmoniously
RNZ: Growing Pasifika population in NZ equals greater electoral power
Ananish Chaudhuri (Bassett, Brash & Hide: Why Winston Peters will be returning to Parliament in October
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Checkpoint: Cost of living top of mind for people in Hokitika, as PM visits
Leonard Powell (RNZ): Roads, forestry slash, dental care: Tokomaru Bay on the election
Michael Neilson (Herald): Hipkins hits Labour country on West Coast, meets 91-year-old Nan Dixon; National’s Luxon in Christchurch defends tax plan
Brent Edwards (NBR): Quibbles over money, what’s affordable, polls, the campaign trail
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): What you need to know in politics: Polls, false claims and tax policy hole (paywalled)
Newsroom: Raw Politics Podcast: What pricked Act’s bubble?
RNZ: Photos from the campaign trail, Thursday 14 September
1News: TVNZ confirms election night coverage, debate times and dates
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Ex-cop turned barrister Tony Bouchier kicks Act’s Law and Order policy to touch
David Williams (Newsroom): The Sure Things: Act’s Laura Trask would kill off red tape ‘overkill’
Spinoff: How a ‘failed’ door knock earned Julie Anne Genter a new supporter
Newshub: The Project: Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer plays a game of ‘kiss, kick or marry’ based on Luxon, Davidson and Peters

NATIONAL
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): National’s shadow energy minister questions climate ‘crisis’ (paywalled)
Eric Frykberg (Interest): National Party pledges to end the effective ban on gene editing and genetic modification as well as making water storage schemes easier, if elected
RNZ: National to free up rules around rural water storage, growing crops
Brent Edwards (NBR): National would scrap red tape for farmers (paywalled)

LABOUR
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Labour to campaign on overhauling consent laws, put onus to prove victim said ‘yes’ to alleged perpetrator
Derek Cheng (Herald): Labour wants to enable class action law suits, review district court jury trials
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Chris Hipkins recommits to promise Labour made six years ago but hasn’t fulfilled

DEBATES
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Politicians promise to get New Zealand’s houses in order
Martin Bradbury (Daily Blog): Northland Debate: Winners and Losers
Conor Knell and Julie Jacobson (Post): Tamatha Paul shines through in genteel Wellington Central debate (paywalled)
RNZ: Toll roads, public transport key disputes in transport debate
Emma Stanford (RNZ): Auckland central debate centres on housing, crime, homelessness
Matthew Dallas (Manawatū Standard): ‘It’s outrageous’: Rangitīkei candidate makes 24-hour police presence in Feilding priority goal

POLITICAL DONATIONS
Bob Jones: Political Donations
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Is there a case for change? Putting a spotlight on NZ’s political donations as the election looms

PUBLIC SECTOR
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Ministry of Health reviewing contracts with firm linked to Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare, but no wider probe deemed necessary (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Chris Hipkins says agencies should embrace videoconferences after ministry plans $88k staff hui, cancels due to cost
RNZ: National targets Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ $50k post-Budget breakfasts spend
Molly Swift (Newshub): Ministry for Pacific Peoples under fire for spending over $50,000 on Budget breakfasts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Embattled community board chairperson apologises but won’t resign
Adam Burns (RNZ): Strath Taieri community board chairperson refuses to resign after racist insult
Tina Law (Press): Police find no evidence Christchurch mayor acted corruptly during the elections (paywalled)
Tina Law (Press): Nearly 1000 Airbnb-style landlords breaking new rules (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro ((Local Democracy Reporting): Airbnb owners in South Wairarapa may face new council charge

WELLINGTON
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Why movie mogul Peter Jackson is buying so much land
RNZ: Burst pipe leaves part of Wellington CBD without water
Frances Chin and Brittany Keogh (Post): Day-long water outage ‘huge frustration’ for businesses (paywalled)

HEALTH
Blessen Tom (RNZ): Dental tourism surges as cost of treatment in NZ climbs
ODT Editorial: Earlier diagnosis needed for doctors (paywalled)
RNZ: Clinical placements pose obstacle to plans to boost doctor trainee numbers – professor

HOUSING
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Workers living in cars the new normal in Queenstown
Jonathan Killick (Stuff): Queenstown man unable to get a house to rent living in a shack in the bush
Ged Cann (Post): Mega landlord sold 12 properties after tax change, will sell more if Labour wins (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): Latest REINZ housing market data suggest ‘momentum is building and that is likely to continue throughout the spring’, economists say
Herald Editorial: Signs of spring in property market but double-edged sword for first-home buyers (paywalled)

BANKS
Jenny Ruth: Should banks sit in moral judgement of customers?
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Farmers’ lobby group wants rural banking probe, suggests banks’ moves towards net-zero could reduce competition in agricultural banking
RNZ: Farmers call for next government to launch independent inquiry into rural banking

BUSINESS
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Ambitious tech project partnering US giant and govt agency founders
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): I will raise the bar if necessary – Grocery commissioner (paywalled)
Greg Hurrell (BusinessDesk): Government bets $12m on quantum-based research and industry (paywalled)

TRANSPORT
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Suspected cyberattack crashes Auckland Transport card network
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Waka Kotahi’s handling of train safety incidents under scrutiny
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Restore Passenger Rail protesters arrested after Wellington car dealership defaced
RNZ: Long-delayed Lower Hutt cycleway cost blows out four times original budget
Robin Martin (RNZ): Costs double for cycleway as New Plymouth council admits to maths fail
RNZ: 83pc of Wānaka locals oppose Tarras airport plan – survey

MEDIA
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): MediaRoom: ‘Editor’ at risk of becoming a dirty word
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Rugby book review row; Media lawyer poached; Top advertising industry leader on pitches, awards, economic landscape (paywalled)

POLICE, CRIME
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Police to introduce new tasers but monitoring and cost still unclear
Raphael Franks and Rachel Maher (Herald): Auckland news publisher Todd Scott tackles and holds thief in ‘citizen’s arrest’ – police tell him to let crook go

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, EXTREME WEATHER
Kaysha Brownlie (Newshub): New report calls for focus on warming impact of gases, not total emissions, to reach climate goal
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Disappointment native trees felled for Akl housing development
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): New strategy for wellbeing of Whanganui River to be unveiled
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Owners of cyclone-wrecked homes in Hawke’s Bay a step closer to buyouts
Monique Steele (RNZ): Government funding for silt removal drying up in Hawke’s Bay

ANIMAL WELFARE
Lisa Owen (RNZ): Checkpoint: NZDF investigating alleged animal abuse at Burnham Military Camp
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Number of dogs being put down in Aucklands doubles in last year

OTHER
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): Nanaia Mahuta: ‘Aotearoa deeply committed to our Pacific whānau’
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): ‘Illegal’ TV gambling ads difficult to address
Graham Adams (The Platform): River of Freedom flows into cinemas
Valerie Morse (Post): When deplatforming is a reasonable response (paywalled)
André Chumko (Post): Would a new Minister for Creative Economy help supercharge its success? (paywalled)
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Record breaking production of renewable electricity fails to alleviate worries over power reliability
Wena Harawira (Whakaata Māori): Tongariro National Park Treaty talks restart but dark clouds loom
Stuff: Late-night security exercise to be conducted at Parliament
Dita De Boni (NBR): Hollywood film and TV workers strike but Kiwi counterparts can’t (paywalled)
Rotorua Daily Post: Te Ururoa Flavell reveals prostate cancer diagnosis

NZ Politics Daily: 13 September 2023

PREFU
Matthew Hooton: Tax cuts now completely insane
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour and National share points over Treasury’s Prefu forecasts with austere times ahead (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Do we really want a government that spends only enough to ‘keep the lights on’?
Luke Malpass (Post): Prefu, the election and New Zealand’s troubled waters ahead (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Prefu reveals state of the books: The next government faces tough economic trade-offs (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Prefu: Looking behind the curtain can be unsettling (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Prefu past and present, Hughes next? and more … (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): To cut or not to cut (paywalled)
Brad Olsen (Post): The lights stay on, but there will be no home improvements (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Treasury’s forecast ‘about as bad as expected’ and that’s if all goes to plan (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): State of the economy in the eye of the beholder
Luke Malpass (Post): PREFU: It’s now a question of credibility for everyone (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): The Prefu fallout: ‘Better than expected’ or a ‘destructive legacy’
Craig Renney (Post): Data shows need for better conversation about spending (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Prefu, Befu and what it means for your interest rates
Michael Reddell: Pretend fiscal policy and immaculate disinflation
Robert Robert MacCulloch: NZ’s Big News Story should be “Treasury Pre-Election Update shows plummeting consumption per capita”
Liam Hehir (the Blue Review): In the Land of the Long Dark Cloud
John Weekes (Herald): Former PM recalls wild and wobbly times spawning Prefu, an ‘important part of our democracy’ (paywalled)
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Dan Brunskill (Interest): Treasury’s pre-election update shows little room for new spending, as National finalises its fiscal plan
Felix Desmarais (1News): Prefu: Economy ‘holding its own’ – Grant Robertson
RNZ: Country paying high price for Labour ‘mismanagement’ of economy – David Seymour
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): New Government financial update prompts anger from Opposition, Greens call for wealth tax
Amelia Wade (Newshub): New financial update leads to war of words between Government, Opposition
Brent Edwards (NBR): Opposition parties slam Labour’s fiscal and economic management (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Government books deteriorate further but migration a silver lining for businesses (paywalled)
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Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Immigration to the rescue – again (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update release, government books in better shape than expected
Dan Brunskill (Interest): PREFU: Future governments will have a very tight budget
Felix Desmarais (1News): Prefu: Government books opened ahead of election
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Recession to end but Govt surplus delayed a year
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Economy slowing with Treasury also forecasting inflation to stay higher for longer
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Deficit blows out this year; surplus delayed for a year (paywalled)

IMMIGRATION
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Immigration ‘could hit 100,000 new arrivals in a year’: Here’s what that means
Rob Stock (Stuff): Migration boom hits new high, but record number of New Zealand citizens leave country
RNZ: Record migration gains as more people take up work visas

ELECTION, POLLiNG
Guardian: Guardian Essential New Zealand poll: Winston Peters in position to become election kingmaker
Richard Prebble (Herald): Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins leaders debate will be campaign’s pivotal moment (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On Seymour acting up, and Labour’s lost cause
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Labour’s big pledge of free dental isn’t moving the dial for voters
Chris Knox and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Poll of polls shows Labour’s chances evaporating, National’s soaring (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Stuff’s Rolling Poll: A few thousand voters could have a dramatic impact
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Can Chris Hipkins and Labour recover from devastating Newshub-Reid Research poll?
Audrey Young (Herald): Even an economic miracle can’t save Labour now (paywalled)
Greg Presland (The Standard): The silver lining of last night’s poll
Liu Chen (RNZ): Beyond tokenism: Tackling the Chinese community’s poor representation in NZ politics
John Minto (Daily Blog): “Pills, Powder and Smoke” – drug policy for Election 2023
RNZ: Photos from the campaign trail, Tuesday 12 September

NATIONAL
Richard Shaw (The Conversation): After the election, Christopher Luxon’s real test could come from his right – not the left
Karl du Fresne: Matthew Hooton on Christopher Luxon
William Hewett (Newshub): Christopher Luxon warns Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment could see 30pct cut under National
RNZ: Kāinga Ora: Unruly tenants don’t deserve privilege of state house – Chris Bishop
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So National’s social housing plan is to kick tenants out making them homeless while ACT builds the prisons?

ACT
Adam Pearse (Herald): Minigolf with Act’s David Seymour – he’s found love and a new base (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Here’s the problem with ACT’s plan to scrap consents for building insurance (paywalled)
Spinoff: Young Act has all the answers

LABOUR
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata: Episode 18: An interview with Labour Leader Chris Hipkins
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Chris Hipkins enters the last chance saloon
David Williams (Newsroom): Labour bares teeth on campaign trail
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): The springtime chill in the air for Labour
1News: No action taken over Labour MP’s flyer – ASA
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Advertising watchdog dismisses complaint against Labour Northcote MP

NZ FIRST
RNZ: Winston Peters unconcerned he might stir up anti-Māori feeling
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Winston’s indigenous folly

ELECTORATES, REGIONS
RNZ: Northland electorate poll predicts clear defeat for Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Willis looks to end 39-year blue drought in Ōhāriu
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Auckland Central clash: Chlöe Swarbrick’s bid for history and the two candidates trying to unseat her
The Hui (Newshub): The Hui panel dissects Waiariki debate between Labour’s Toni Boynton and Te Pāti Māori’s Rawiri Waititi
RNZ: A visit to the birthplace of the Labour party, as it tanks in the polls
Leonard Powell (RNZ): Access to dental services, more teachers: Ruatoria on the election
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): The fight for the farming heartland of Rangitata

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): New Dunedin deputy mayor announced after shock resignation
RNZ: Dunedin mayor Jules Radich undermined council with off-the-cuff comments, councillor says
RNZ: Gore District Council scraps review into dysfunction
1News: Gore District Council drops independent inquiry over leadership stoush
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Lakes Council chief executive Geoff Williams retires with mayor’s backing
No Right Turn: Unlawful secrecy in Rotorua II
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Councillor refuses to declare conflict of interest due to research centre role

HOUSING
Paul Hunt: Chief Human Rights Commissioner: Communities have responsibilities for state housing (paywalled)
RNZ: The Detail: Landlords versus tenants
Geraden Cann (Stuff): Mega Landlords: 10% rise in properties owned by trusts in less than two years
Cameron Smith (Herald): Auckland’s rental squeeze: Desperate prospective tenants resort to bribes (paywalled)
Geraden Cann (Stuff): Mega Landlords: The property king and queen of Ōpōtiki

HEALTH
Ruth Hill (RNZ): ‘Covid is not done with us’: Coronavirus and the ongoing impact on immunity
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Doctors’ strike: ‘Woeful’ understaffing has ‘life and death consequences’ – ED doc
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Fears, frustrations and critical risks highlighted in report on Hawke’s Bay hospital
James Perry (Whakaata Māori): Rheumatic fever rates on the rise, Māori and Pasifika affected most
Eda Tang (Stuff): Government pulls plug on funding for Auckland-based rangatahi mental health programme

CLIMATE CHANGE
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Managed retreat to avoid climate risks
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Agricultural emissions
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Public transport
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Oil and gas exploration
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Lake Onslow power station and alternative
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Unlimited tree planting
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: The Clean Car Standard
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: EV discounts (aka the ‘ute tax’ or feebate)
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: E-bikes and e-scooters
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: Home insulation and heating
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Climate policy detail: The ‘GIDI’ fund (or boiler-swapping subsidies)
Baz Macdonald (Re:News): Are we acting like we’re in a climate emergency?
Amanda Bulman (Newsroom): How to solve a problem like Napier
Stuff: Restore Passenger Rail protester Rosemary Penwarden granted bail
James Cockle (Plain Sight): Rail protesters on side of rule of law

TRANSPORT
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Transport funding risks abound (paywalled)
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): Air New Zealand expects significant schedule changes amid engine issues
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Waiheke residents ‘marooned’ by ferry route exemption
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland’s new electric buses to go up a level – double deckers

EDUCATION
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): Election Watch: The future of tertiary education (paywalled)
Melania Watson (Newshub): Students in Wellington call for debt-free living costs outside Grant Robertson’s office
Alice Wilson (Herald): No child should be left out in the cold on literacy (paywalled)

CRIME
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Defendants on serious charges among those to get $75 Prezzy Cards to attend meetings
Zane Small (Newshub): Gang members breaching home detention with no further penalty on the rise
The Facts: 4:1 Kiwis want the ‘Three Strikes Law’ brought back (except Green voters)
Newshub: Labour’s Ginny Andersen says National pretending to be ‘tough on crime’

OTHER
Charlotte Graham-McLay (Guardian): Wellington divided as Peter Jackson land purchase halts housing plan
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): Hush money? NZ banks offer financial settlements to scammed customers if they agree not to talk about it
David Hargreaves (Interest): Higher fuel prices help drive Kiwis’ card spending
Eric Crampton (BusinessDesk): Reserve Bank credibility in question over ‘blackballing’ of experts (paywalled)
Madison Reidy (Herald): ‘Doesn’t make sense’ – Super Fund CEO’s departing wish
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Mahuta raises eyebrows with 9/11 tweet

NZ Politics Daily: 12 September 2023

OPINION POLLS
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Labour’s support collapses as National rockets into 40s
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Heartbreak for Chris Hipkins as Christopher Luxon climbs to match him on preferred-PM ranking
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Nearly half of Kiwis want Christopher Luxon to rule out Winston Peters
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour’s big bang promises fail to turn heads but David Seymour could be threatening chaos on the right
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour’s support collapses in latest poll: Is it over for Chris Hipkins-led Government? (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): National needs momentum – now (paywalled)
Jo Moir (Newsroom): Hipkins’ Hail Mary falls short in new poll
RNZ: Labour leader Chris Hipkins takes responsibility for party’s poor poll result
1News: Hipkins vows to ‘go for it’ as Labour hits rock bottom in polls
Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): The centre/right bloc now has a clear lead (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 5 Weeks until the 2023 Election: Winners, Losers + Predictions
Adam Pearse (Herald): National up, Labour plunges – new political poll reveals impact of first days on campaign trail
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): The polls four weeks out from election

NATIONAL COALITION PARTNERS
Matthew Hooton: Nats don’t want Nat-Act Govt, prefer NZ First or Greens
Derek Cheng (Herald): ‘Confidence-only’: An Act bluff or a real prospect of a policy-by-policy minority government?  (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon dismissive of prospect of ACT offering confidence-only deal
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): What the?
No Right Turn: This is not a “governing” arrangement
Dave Armstrong (Post): How will Wellington fare with a Nats/ACT government? (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Interest): Act’s message: Cheerfully libertarian? Or, radically right-wing?

ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Why Labour is so keen to paint this election as 2005 all over again
Audrey Young (Herald): Who’s running the campaigns and what have they got to spend? (paywalled)
Michele Hewitson (Listener): Attack ads are the political equivalent of unguided missiles (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton (The Blue Review): Blue cuts bad, red cuts better
John Plimmer (Spinoff): An advertising veteran judges the political party websites
Ella Scott-Fleming (Newsroom): Labour drags its social media heels
Michael Neilson (Herald): Māori Party’s Debbie Ngarewa-Packer takes the Herald surfing on Taranaki’s Surf Highway 45 (paywalled)
Herald: On the Campaign, September 11: What you missed on the election campaign today
Bridie Witton and Anna Whyte (Post): Storm clouds roll in on Labour after another bad poll (paywalled)
Post: Hipkins heads to Nelson while Luxon speaks at a retirement village (paywalled)
Leonard Powell (RNZ): Roads, petrol prices and kaimoana: Te Araroa on the election
Mike Hosking (Newshub): This weekend opened a gap in the election race
RNZ: Photos from the campaign trail, Monday 11 September
Daily Blog: 7pm Tonight live-streamed and simulcast Freeview 200 – Taxpayers’ Union Northland Electorate debate hosted by The Working Group
RNZ: What to expect and where to find RNZ’s election coverage
Stuff: NZ election 2023 live debates streaming on Stuff
Stuff: Stuff’s unrivalled election coverage is live from the campaign
Post: All the election news here (paywalled)
Bob McCoskrie: TVNZ’s ‘Vote Compass’ & its bias

PREFU, ECONOMY
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government opens the books with Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update – how bad is it? (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Campaigns brace for fiscal storm as Government opens its books (paywalled)
William Hewett (Newshub): Government to open its books, Cameron Bagrie warns deficits could become new normal
Andrew Patterson (Newsroom): Treasury pre-election outlook to show economy under increasing pressure
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Both main parties misreading business interests
Susan St John (The Conversation): The Labour-National consensus on family support means the election won’t change much for NZ’s poorest households
Jamie Gray (Herald): Ratings agency S&P gives its verdict on New Zealand economy (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Powerful Reserve Bank group appointments: Former board member Chris Eichbaum challenges public narrative (paywalled)

NATIONAL
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Luxon shoots himself in the foot, time and time again
Simon Wilson (Herald): Christopher Luxon and the truth about schools (paywalled)
1News: Willis defends tax policy from ‘frontline’ service funding slash claims
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): National’s plan to expand online censorship needs more scrutiny
RNZ: Older Kiwis will be better off under National, Nicola Willis, Christopher Luxon say
Eric Frykberg (Interest): National Party re-states its policy on the age of eligibility for NZ Super, only ACT agrees among other parties
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Road user charges for everyone not the answer
Kelly Makiha (Rotorua Daily Post):Rotorua MP Todd McClay makes emergency housing election promises, Labour says policy a ‘bad rehash’
1News: Mayor backs National’s vow to end motel emergency housing in Rotorua

NZ FIRST
Ian Allen (Stuff): Winston Peters to Air NZ: ‘So why don’t you change your name to Air Aotearoa?’
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Ugly’, ‘wrong’, ‘desperate’: Political leaders pile in to scold Winston Peters
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Labour, National Nelson candidates hit back at Winston Peters’ ‘ridiculous’ Māori are ‘not indigenous’ claim
1News: ‘He’s wrong’: Luxon disagrees with Winston Peters’ Māori comments
Peter Williams: Winston hits the spot – again
Mike Grimshaw (Plain Sight): The political theology of Winston Peters

LABOUR
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Chris Hipkins is up for the challenge, but could do with an energy drink
RNZ: Labour promises free cervical screening, as new self-test rolls out
Melania Watson (Newshub): Labour promises to make cervical screening free for all New Zealanders if re-elected
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Labour Party promises to fund new cervical screening self-test if reelected
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Advertising complaint laid against Labour MP over housing claims
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): The Sure Things: Gym owner Georgie Dansey relies on people power

PUBLIC SERVICE, SECTOR
Nikitin Sallee (BusinessDesk): The mysterious disappearance of Peter Hughes (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Will Brian Roche be NZ’s next top public servant? (paywalled)
Herald: Chateau Tongariro: The tangled web of cost and how taxpayers are enmeshed (paywalled)

MEDIA
Gavin Ellis: Radio and television will follow Marconi and Baird to the grave
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Stuff joins media firms blocking ChatGPT from learning from their content
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): NZ media cleared in Posie Parker coverage

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tommy de Silva (Spinoff): Should there be Māori seats on Auckland Council?
Todd Niall (Stuff): Aucklanders face a much bigger rates debate than the 7.7% they’ve just been dealt
Grant Miller (ODT): Sophie Barker resigns as deputy mayor
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Dunedin deputy mayor Sophie Barker resigns over working relationship with the mayor
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Under-fire chair to discuss ‘code of conduct matter’ after racist remark
ODT Editorial: No justification for racism (paywalled)
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Gore District Council to ditch its independent governance review
Rituraj Sapkota (Whakaata Māori): Masterton and Carterton district councils to keep talking on potential merger
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Councillor questions if Resource Management Act overhaul a ‘waste of time’
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): The southern mayor who fixes damaged election hoardings

TRANSPORT
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Wellington City Council plans rollout of AI sensors to monitor traffic
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland could be $111 billion better off by eliminating carbon emissions
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Review needed for Auckland rapid transit network (paywalled)
RNZ: Govt announces $12m boost to help with roading repairs at top of South Island
Melanie Earley (Stuff):Passengers stranded in Samoa after Air NZ halts flights describe ‘nightmare’ scramble to get home

BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Eliesha Moon (RNZ): Pay parity an electoral issue among South Island Pasifika
Tim Hunter (NBR): Trust the energy market, or not, that is the question (paywalled)
Susan Edmonds (Stuff): National win ‘could be good for financial markets’
RNZ: Five political parties ‘completely missed the mark’ when asked about issues of sole traders
RNZ: Multi-billion dollar facilities management industry calls for designated Cabinet minister
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Ruapehu bidder says fields don’t make financial sense
RNZ: Staff taking more sick leave, increasing cost to economy by $1b – survey

HEALTH
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Why NZ lags behind Australia on cancer treatment
RNZ: Checkpoint: Cancer patients have to travel for treatment due to doctor shortage
Ian Powell: Health leadership control culture threatens mental health services (and beyond)
Rob Campbell (Herald): The Pae Ora reforms, public health and making it work
ODT Editorial: Doctors and nurses needed, and how (paywalled)
Luke Bradford (Post): It’s time to stop underestimating the importance of our GPs (paywalled)
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Hope ‘game changer’ new HPV screening test could aid in eliminating cervical cancer
Rip Bhatia (Stuff): Government announces $114.2m to transform disability support services
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Reversal of cuts to Dunedin hospital hailed
RNZ: Covid-19 update: 3458 new cases, 15 more deaths

DENTAL CARE
Leonard Powell (RNZ): Biting issue: Waihau Bay locals ‘resort to pliers’ over seeing dentist
Fox Meyer (Critic Te Ārohi): An Inconvenient Tooth

HOUSING
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Nelson Labour, National candidates play blame game over housing crisis
RNZ: Rapid growth in number of people looking for rentals in last six months
Miriam Bell (Stuff): Huge spike in Auckland CBD rental demand
David Hargreaves (Interest): Latest QV House Price Index shows NZ houses nationally have had their first three-monthly increase in values since the start of the downturn in late 2021
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): QV: First quarter of house price increases since downturn began

TE REO MĀORI
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): Teachers need to embrace te reo Māori ‘if serious about equity’
Te Karere: From desolation to resurgence – te reo Māori in 2023
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Stuff): Business network launched in support of te Reo Māori

OTHER
Craig Kapitan and Isaac Davison (Herald): Billy TK trial: Jury finds failed Advance NZ political hopeful William Te Kahika guilty of election fraud
Graham Adams (The Platform): Posie Parker to test Hipkins on free speech
Hawkes Bay Today: ‘Lack of honest public debate’: Co-governance meeting planned in Hastings
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): Governments falling short of global warming pact
Erin Gourley (Post): Wellington faces highest level of water restrictions this summer (paywalled)
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): Fast-fashion jewellery store Lovisa was investigated for incorrect sick leave, underpaid wages
Nadine Roberts (Stuff): Far right activist arrested on firearms and ammunition charges

NZ Politics Daily: 11 September 2023

NATIONAL
Matthew Hooton: Why Luxon is still better than Ardern or Hipkins
Claire Trevett (Herald): National leader Christopher Luxon’s dire interview of no answers (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: Luxon unsure if he’ll lower rents on homes he owns despite policy promise
1News: Q+A: Luxon defends his tax policy in sparring Q+A interview
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Q+A Review: Luxon Interview Train wreck crashes into school bus and Petting Zoo
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National leader Christopher Luxon walks off amid questions about National’s tax plan
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National’s foreign buyers tax finds an unlikely sceptic
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis’ tax package out of touch with those feeling the squeeze (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On climate discounts, and corporates as children
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s challenge is to make governing an adults-only business (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Sword fights to anti-vaxxers, Christopher Luxon will do anything to win
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Christopher Luxon is looking and feeling like a Prime Minister
William Hewett (Newshub): National Party leader Christopher Luxon sword fights pirate who heckled him about needing wig to win election
1News: Watch: Pirate Luxon battles with sword on campaign trail
Jonah Franke-Bowell (Post): Luxon all business in Hamilton blitz (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Labour sceptical of National’s public housing plan
1News: ‘Talks a big game’: Labour, ACT criticise Nats’ social housing policy
1News: National pledge end to Rotorua emergency housing motels
RNZ: National plan ‘doesn’t fix housing crisis’ – Hipkins
RNZ: National promises end to emergency housing motels in Rotorua
Trent Doyle (Newshub): National Party pledges to end emergency housing motels in Rotorua if elected
Brent Edwards (NBR): National’s plan to end emergency housing and clean up Rotorua (paywalled)
RNZ: National announces its health targets and an immunisation incentive payment
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): National to go hard, early on vaccination
1News: National to bring back national health targets if elected
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Industry leaders worried at National Party plan to scrap Workforce Development Councils
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Jan Tinetti insists National has not thought through education announcement
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National’s education policy could potentially be a game changer
Felix Desmarais (1News): Nats vow to shake-up how Kiwi kids learn to read
Catherine Hubbard (Stuff): All vehicles to move to road user charges under National, including EVs

ACT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): ACT’s David Seymour floats confidence-only partnership – no supply
Richard Harman (Politik): Is Seymour serious; would he topple a National government? (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Did Seymour play a card he’s not been dealt?
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Newsable: David Seymour on his ‘confidence only’ coalition plans
Benedict Collins (1News): ACT loses another candidate just weeks out from election
Amberleigh Jack (Stuff): ACT Party loses another candidate weeks out from election
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): ‘I would never forgive him,’ says Act candidate’s elderly client
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of … Spaceman Seymour (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The Act roadshow rolls into Northland
RNZ: ACT’s housing policy promises to scrap consent process again
Stuff: ACT proposes to allow builders to opt out of council building consents
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Medium-density buildings would need to be approved by a super-majority of homeowners in many suburbs under Act’s housing plan
1News: ‘Build like the boomers’: ACT says supply key to housing crisis fix
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Act leader labels Grant Robertson a gangster
Shaneel Lal (Herald): Act’s productivity perspective on Pharmac medication and treatments will hurt minorities
The Standard: An ACT New Zealand
Andrews Gunn (Post): What would Jesus do at the polls? (paywalled)
Kirsten McDougall (Newsroom): Short story of an Act Party candidate

NZ FIRST
John Campbell (1News): Winston Peters, the ‘Whaddaya got?’ man
Catherine Hubbard (Stuff): Māori are ‘not indigenous’, Winston Peters claims
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Winston Peters claims ‘Māori are not indigenous’ during Nelson meeting with NZ First supporters
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: Winston Peters rides again

LABOUR
Luke Malpass (Post): Jacinda Ardern casts a long shadow over Chris Hipkins’ campaign (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Chris Hipkins and the Theo Spierings transformation syndrome (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Chris Hipkins says he has fire in belly as he launches round of attacks on National
Michael Neilson (Herald): Labour launches pledge card with nine priorities – one more than National
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Chris Hipkins brings back ‘traditional Labour pledge card’, takes aim at National’s ‘imitation’
1News: Chris Hipkins reveals Labour’s nine-point ‘pledge’ to voters
RNZ: Labour launches pledge card with nine election policy promises
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour leader Chris Hipkins on pork barrel politics, the polls and the problem with National’s hoardings (paywalled)
Michael Neilson (Herald): Labour leader Chris ‘Chippy’ Hipkins hits the Hutt for boost after tough week (paywalled)
Thomas Manch and Glenn McConnell (Post): Hipkins puts on a brave face in ‘heartland’ Ōhāriu (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Chris Hipkins channels a defeated All Blacks team to take on the team in blue (paywalled)
Felix Desmarais (1News): Labour promises energy efficiency retrofit rebates
Newshub: Labour announces $81.6 million rebate scheme for energy-efficient homes
Brent Edwards (NBR): Household subsidies to help cut costs, drive down emissions (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Finally one excellent Labour policy on housing!
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): ‘I believe we can thrive’: Hipkins wants Wellington humming (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour’s crime crackdown promise met with cautious optimism – but not from National
1News: Survivor supports campaign pledge to look at criminalising stalking
Lana Andelane (Newshub): Victims’ advocate Ruth Money calls timing of Govt’s promise of tougher stalking legislation into question, says she doesn’t ‘buy it’

GREENS
Vernon Small (Post): Greens election campaign off to a Shaw-footed start (paywalled)
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Nonsense and loathing on the campaign trail: an interview with the Green co-leaders
Michael Neilson (Herald): Greens’ oceans policy will demand 30 per cent of NZ’s marine spaces protected by 2030
Michael Neilson (Herald): Green oceans policy – ban on fishing trawling seamounts, biosecurity boost
RNZ: Greens propose Healthy Ocean Act, independent commission to protect oceans
Stuff: Greens propose Healthy Ocean Act, independent commission to protect oceans
Gray Gibson (Newshub): Newshub Nation Backstory: Green Party co-leader James Shaw reveals ‘lowest moment’ of his life, growing up with two mums, and what turned him green

TE PĀTI MĀORI
1News: Rawiri Waititi: ‘National, ACT want to see Māori die 10 years early’
1News: Te Pāti Māori address ‘failed system’ in new health policy
Michael Neilson (Herald): Māori Party want to abolish prisons by 2040, separate tikanga justice system to address inequities
1News: Te Pāti Māori promise prison abolition in new justice policy
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): Te Pāti Māori proposes ‘revolutionary’ justice system reform, pathway to abolishing prisons

ELECTION CAMPAIGN, WEEK IN POLITICS, POLLS
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Most new polls show National would need support from both the Act and New Zealand First parties to form a majority government
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour polls at 27pc in Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll for September
RNZ: New TPU-Curia poll: National, ACT remain in position to form government
Andrea Vance (Post): Who is winning the battle of Chris vs Chris? (paywalled)
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Front Page: Our electoral system and all the things that need to change
1News: Vote Compass: How do party policies line up with your views?
Bridie Witton (Herald); Undecided voters may decide the general election. Can the ‘two Chrises’ swing them?
Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ First rodeo, National-Luxon attack ads, Labour poll strain kicks in (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): One down, five to go: Campaigns start with epic highs and lows for both Chrises
Newshub Nation Panel: Political pundit Matthew Hooton unimpressed by Labour and National party policy in campaigns so far
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): The first big leaders’ debate, bar the PM
Audrey Young (Herald): Best and worst of the week in politics (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Beehive Diaries: Christopher Luxon’s ‘taste sensation’, Brown open to Wood revenge and who wins Chris of the Week?
Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: Promises, polls and attack ads
RNZ: Focus on Politics: On the campaign trail, week one: False claims and ad campaigns
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Election campaign week 1: Personal attacks, EVs, ACT’s voters from the past & much more
Post Editorial: Attack ads and fake news (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Labour in most need of some good news, change of fortune (paywalled)
Gwynn Compton (The Blue Review): Disinformation spread by political parties is still disinformation
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): As the week has progressed so have Labour’s false claims
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Lose with dignity, don’t lose dirty (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So what horror would a National ACT Government actually unleash upon NZ if they win?

ELECTORATES
Gray Gibson (Newshub): Newshub Nation Battlegrounds: Te Tai Hauāuru electorate a key target for Te Pāti Māori ahead of general election
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): The battle for Te Tai Hauāuru: Three wāhine MPs contest the seat
1News: Q+A: Tāmaki Makaurau, where a Cabinet minister could lose their seat
Tom Hunt (Post): Labour confirms Wellington Central poll but keeping results secret (paywalled)
Ryan Boswell (1News): Christchurch electorate of Ilam up for grabs this election
Finn Hogan and Gray Gibson (Newshub): Newshub Nation Battlegrounds: Labour MP scolds The Opportunities Party leader Raf Manji for splitting the vote in Ilam, Christchurch
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): O’Connor not complacent in Ōhāriu
Joel MacManus (Spinoff):From shouting down Winston Peters to running for National
Molly Swift (Newshub): Election 2023 hot seats: Tāmaki – Infrastructure front of mind for candidates as race heats up
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): How much does it really cost to run for Parliament?

ECONOMY, TAX, GOVT SPENDING
Janet Wilson (Post): Major parties playing politics with money we probably don’t have (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Is the economy good or bad? Lies, damn lies and statistics (paywalled)
Katie Bradford (1News): Business Watch: PREFU, retail spending and food prices
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Standard and Poor’s maintains NZ’s credit rating, forecasts just 0.2% GDP growth
Brian Easton (Pundit): Ignoring Tax Tradeoffs
Damien Grant (Stuff): Skycity had a nasty tumble, and Prefu could bring the same for NZ economy
Ged Cann (Post): National’s ‘optimistic’ tax plans could see more service cuts – economist (paywalled)
Jane Wrightson (Post): We need aligned political leadership when it comes to Kiwis’ future finances (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Election 2023 explainer: Labour’s record on the economy and what National wants to achieve
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour not yet saying if social insurance scheme – what National calls ‘jobs tax’ – is on cards next term
Amelia Wade (Newshub): National questions if Labour will be able to keep GST cut promise as Chris Hipkins barely mentions it on campaign trail
Terry Baucher (Interest): Government moves to fix a Cyclone Gabrielle related bright-line test issue. Harsh lessons about underestimating. Inland Revenue and politicians and a very esoteric area of tax law

BUSINESS, COST OF LIVING
William Hewett (Newshub): Latest grocery data shows good news and bad news as supply costs rise six percent
Sasha Borrisenko (Herald): Supermarket reforms – is that it? (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post):Ministers sidestep question of whether power firms have priorities right (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Rob Stock (Post): Bank mega-profits prompt call for ANZ and ASB to be broken up (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Rising interest rates: Here’s how banks justify the increases
Rob Stock (Stuff): Banks are failing to protect customers from scams
Felix Walton (RNZ): Buy now pay later schemes leaving young Kiwis ‘over-indebted’ – academic
Rob Stock (Stuff): Big business are under pressure come clean over their impact on nature and biodiversity
Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol (NBR): Is Air New Zealand in danger of doing a Qantas? (paywalled)

MEDIA
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Helpless Amnesiacs: The Media’s Dangerous Lack Of Historical Memory
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Advocacy angst as campaign begins – officially
Karl du Fresne: I defended the media then; I wouldn’t now
RNZ: Emile Donovan and Andrew Clark appointed to host RNZ flagship programmes

PUBLIC SERVICE
Michael Reddell: “He immediately repaid the money spent…putting the matter right at the first opportunity”
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Extra spending doesn’t always mean wasteful spending (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Time to cut back the public service bureaucratic blob (paywalled)

HEALTH
Rodger Tiedemann (Post): We deserve much more – and better – from Pharmac (paywalled)
Eugene Bingham (Post): Papers reveal friction between senior officials over controversial law (paywalled)
RNZ: Staff shortages result in Dunedin Hospital losing right to train new oncologists
RNZ: Cancer travel programme falling short – ‘It’s stopping people from accessing treatment’
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Why are we waiting? Inside the GP crisis (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Opioid access loosening blunder reversed (paywalled)
1News: ‘It’s personal’: The mates constructing support for mental health

IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Nick Truebridge (Newshub): Fears Immigration NZ’s policy could see victims of visa fraud and exploitation punished
1News: Govt steps in to help migrant workers stranded with no work
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): Scammed migrants in Auckland will soon be homeless

CLIMATE  CHANGE
Andrea Vance (Post): Clean, green or mean? Voters want climate action – but not if it hikes the price of fuel (paywalled)
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland councillor likens climate goal to unwinnable cricket match
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): ‘Corporate welfare’ now means less cost later, says outgoing EECA boss (paywalled)

HOUSING
Eye of the Fish: Vote Housing
Ged Cann (Post): Mega landlord numbers swell by a third but first-home buyers the real winners (paywalled)
Mary Williams (ODT): Homeless led to most unhomely lodgings
Ged Cann (Post): Mega landlord who predicted downturn will ‘sell-up and leave NZ’ if Labour wins (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland Council redundancy bill $8m and rising as budget cuts hit jobs
RNZ: New safety hubs don’t solve lack of police – community rep
Adam Pearse, Joseph Los’e and Maioha Panapa (Herald): Auckland crime: Safety hubs to address theft, anti-social behaviour in CBD
1News: Govt, council team up to tackle anti-social behaviour in Auckland
Erin Johnson (Stuff): Auckland mayor’s office dismisses union claim of price hikes for port users as ‘scaremongering’
RNZ: Privatising Ports of Auckland could see local users hit with $70 million in extra costs annually
RNZ: Auckland Council hopes for more submissions from Māori on seats
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Whanganui meeting calls for Māori wards and constitutional change
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Gore District Council won’t release details of potential payout to Parry
Vaneesa Bellew (Newsroom): ‘Counterproductive’ Gore council review set to be axed
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Gross violation’ by council in pensioner’s window wait – case worker
Emma Stanford (RNZ): ‘A house I can’t live in’: Flood-damaged home owner asked to pay rates
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Deputy mayor offers to pick up anyone struggling to find library with name gifted by Iwi
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Māori street name ideas shouldn’t be pocketed and ‘plucked’ from later, says iwi
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Survey leaves council no closer to sticky question of who pays for Sounds road repairs
Debbie Jameson (Stuff): Queenstown Lakes council’s Mike Theelen gets big pay jump as rates soar

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Lower Hutt infrastructure project rejects claim of billion dollar price-tag
Philip Matthews (Post): Christchurch’s ‘cars v bikes’: tribal war, or manufactured outrage? (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): We dig up 9 tonnes of gravel a year per person to build our roads (paywalled)
Lindsay Wood (Newsroom): Driving ourselves to destruction: road expansion is the highway to hell
Todd Niall (Stuff): Union fears safety risk in changes to platform staff at Auckland stations

THREE WATERS
Marnie Prickett (Newsroom): Water: What are National and Act doing in the shadows?
Ethan Te Ora (Post): Water summit as region on brink of crisis (paywalled)

OTHER
David Williams (Newsroom): Wage subsidy gets pass mark for engaging Māori – in inexplicable change
Edward Gay (Stuff): Billy Te Kahika found guilty of failing to declare donations
Newshub: Billy Te Kahika Jr found guilty of failing to declare political donations, keeping poor records
Alex Spence (Herald): Chris Hipkins ordered to apologise for breach of Official Information Act
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Prime Minister Chris Hipkins apologises over document release breach, says no one will be sacked
Leo Zaugg (1News): Offshore online casinos find way around NZ’s advertising laws
RNZ: Prisoners need support for stable housing to avoid reincarceration – report
Matt Nippert (Herald): Lord of the land: Sir Peter Jackson’s $350m property empire (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): The power and the passion: How Sir Peter Jackson changed the face of Wellington (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Violent remand population blamed for increased handcuff use
Andrea Vance (Post): Controversial tenure ends as former top Māori cop returns to police (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Post): Julian Batchelor and the apocalypse (paywalled)
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Anti co-governance activist’s legal threats against TVNZ
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): Human Rights Commission chief executive Meg De Ronde excited to honour Te Tiriti
Awanui Te Huia (E-Tangata):Want to support te reo Māori? Learn about colonisation
Eugene Bingham (Post) Secrecy over unanswered questions about Christchurch terror attack, four years on
Virginia Fallon (Post): Moon-landing, maggots and mental health: Survey set to take snapshot of Aotearoa (paywalled)
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): India steals political limelight ahead of election
Gianina Schwanecke (Post): New careers website to cost nearly $22m (paywalled)
1News: Iconic Kiwi actor laments ‘insulting’ proposed Vic Uni theatre cuts
Blair Ensor (Stuff): How a dying deportee may have led to changes at the infamous Christmas Island detention centre

NZ Politics Daily: 8 September 2023

ELECTION
Bernard Hickey: An interview with PM Chris Hipkins
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Labour source says party’s internal polling is ‘f…ed’
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Has Labour entered the killzone on its own internal polling?
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Minor parties gain as purple power fades (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Support for Chris Hipkins plummets, as Labour hits new low in poll
Adam Pearse (Herald): Labour drops in new poll as Chris Hipkins returns to Wellington
Luke Malpass (Post): Nearly two-thirds of voters think country going in wrong direction (paywalled)
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Can Labour turn its polling slide around?
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Labour’s Misinformation Crisis
Tim Watkin (RNZ): A campaign of fear and loathing? Nah, the facts matter more
RNZ: Labour removes false advertising over public transport for disabled people
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour accused of desperation after making repeated false claims about National
Vanisa Dhiru (Herald): Inclusion, equity and truth: The complex terrain of NZ’s election (paywalled)
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Chris Hipkins admits getting public transport info ‘wrong’ as another untrue Labour attack ad emerges
Andy Fyers (BusinessDesk): Election 2023: The right bloc now has a clear lead (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): Without Great Causes, no wonder we’re miserable (paywalled)
Matt Raskovic (Post): Populist policies a danger from left or right (paywalled)
Metiria Stanton Turei (ODT): Leadership is an essential political question for voters (paywalled)
1News: Housing, health, cost-of-living top of mind for Pasifika voters
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Analysis: Chris Hipkins needs to crank up a gear to stay in election race
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Chris Hipkins sets out how he would grow the economic pie
Amelia Wade (Newshub): National vows to boost immigration to help New Zealand economy
Derek Cheng (Herald): Christopher Luxon waves his magic wand over Queenstown
Andrea Vance (Post): If Luxon wants to win, he’ll have to strike out of safe waters (paywalled)
ODT: Mayor challenges Luxon on housing consent push (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Act MP-in-waiting did not publicly disclose censure over real estate deal
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Act leader David Seymour reveals election fleet – Big Pinky, Little Pinky, a private plane
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): All aboard ‘big pinky’: Act unveils candidate-emblazoned bus
Newshub: Watch Lloyd Burr quiz ACT candidates aboard ‘Big Pinky’
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Everyone running in Ilam needs to win
Maia Ingoe (Salient): Candidate Kōrero: Julie-Anne Genter
The Standard: Where is NZ First’s list?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour’s economic plan, goodbye ute charge, and a gloomy outlook
Glenn McConnell and Anna Whyte (Post): A new Great Walk and 300 more police latest political promises (paywalled)
Newsroom: Raw Politics: Things get personal
Herald: The Front Bench – Heather du Plessis-Allan, Barry Soper, Phil O’Reilly, Richard Hills on big political issues
Darren Bevan (Newshub): Newshub’s Decision 23 election coverage, live debate times and dates revealed
RNZ: Call for politicians to follow Google’s lead on AI advertising
1News: Flashback Friday: Watch the famous election ads from NZ’s history
Courtney Winter (Herald): How TikTok could be the social media platform to swing the election
Vaughn Davis (Post): My life as Orange Guy’s stepfather (paywalled)

PUBLIC SERVICE, STATE SECTOR
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Reserve Bank chair’s ‘totally inappropriate’ work with National Party
Michael Reddell: Just making stuff up: the chair of the RB Board and the blackball on expertise
Eric Crampton: Blackballing academics for the Monetary Policy Committee?
Richard Harman: Hughes bye date (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Head of public service announces he’s retiring five months early (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): High profile public servant Peter Hughes to retire in February (paywalled)

LABOUR’S CRIME POLICY, CORRECTIONS
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Labour ‘crackdown’ on gangs: Can police confiscate tractors? And is 300 new cops enough?
Thomas Manch (Post): Worsening crime ramraids its way into being a top election issue (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Labour’s crime crackdown promise met with cautious optimism – but not from National
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour’s gang convoy crackdown could be used for any large processions intimidating Kiwis
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour promises more cops, gang convoy crackdown, stalking law, re-announces new ram-raid offence
RNZ: Watch: Labour promises more frontline police, will explore making stalking a crime
Felix Desmarais (1News): Labour pledges 300 extra police officers, targets gangs and stalkers
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Prime Minister turns his eye to crime in Hamilton
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Labour considering new stalking offence with jail time attached
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Davis defends plans to put 12 and 13 year olds through criminal justice system
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): Released Māori prisoners turned away for housing amid stark stats
Matthew Hansen (Stuff): NZ Police unveil new electric car in celebration of ethnic diversity

NATIONAL’S TOURISM POLICY
Brent Edwards (NBR): Tourism spending will still be cut as part of National’s plan (paywalled)
RNZ: National’s tourism policy promises new Great Walk, holiday visas rework
Felix Desmarais (1News); Great Walk, changes to holiday visas pledged in Nats’ tourism plan

BUSINESS, COST OF LIVING, ECONOMY
Dita De Boni (NBR): Are 90-day trials set to return to all NZ workplaces? (paywalled)
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): What happens when prices keep rising, but your budget does not?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): One NZ ranked worst mobile provider in terms of customer service by ComCom
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): Commerce Commission issues its first rankings for mobile and broadband customer service. Here’s how they rated
Rob Stock (Post): Motorists be warned: insured values fall even as used car prices rise (paywalled)
Susan Edmonds (Stuff): The capital gains tax you don’t know you’re paying
Sam Stubbs (Post): Breaking the ‘vicious circle of mediocrity’ to make New Zealand rich again (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): We need more productivity
Brianna Mcilraith (Stuff): How consumers can protect themselves as more companies go bust
David Cunningham (Interest): New Zealand banks need to do right by their customers, and it starts with dropping mortgage rates
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Squirrel’s David Cunningham explains how interest rates are set and how banks have been able to boost their margins by about 20%
Rituraj Sapkota (Whakaata Māori): Ngāti Tūwharetoa drops bid for Ruapehu Alpine Lifts; reserves stance under its Treaty claim settlement

GAMBLING
Tim Hunter (NBR): How to invest in addiction (paywalled)
Liu Chen (RNZ): Shame, stigma fuelling increased Asian risk to gambling addiction

HEALTH
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Thousands waiting more than a year for planned medical treatment
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Emergency doctors call for 24 hour security staff at all New Zealand EDs
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Wellington Hospital staff worry for safety over reduced car parks in Newton
Rachel Thomas (Post): New breast cancer screening sites aim to prevent backlogs (paywalled)
Tony Wall (Stuff): Health agency keeping details of patient deaths secret from public
Piers Fuller (Post): Plans to build charity hospital near Basin Reserve (paywalled)

TRADE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): New Zealand faces dilemma over AUKUS ‘replicator’ drone swarm plans
Paul Buchanan: “Second image” issues in NZ foreign policy
1News: NZ trade delegation heads to China as its economy falters
Thomas Manch (Post): Canada claims ‘victory’ after NZ defeats its restrictive dairy trade policies (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom):Canadian diplomacy curdles when it comes to milk
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): NZ help needed to combat illegal fishing in Pacific

TRANSPORT
Anne Gibson (Herald): National calls $33m Auckland Light Rail building deal ‘a shocker’ (paywalled)
1News: Labour and National at odds as to how to get people into EVs
Conor Knell (Post): Can National start the second Mt Vic Tunnel as quickly as they say? (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Extending Warkworth to Wellsford, Cambridge expressways could boost New Zealand’s GDP by nearly $500 million per year – report
Herald: Two highway projects will each add ‘billions’ to economy, Simon Bridges says (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): A lesson in squandering public money
Andrew Williams (Post): Big increase in cyclists passing Basin Reserve (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Metlink scraps plans to electrify diesel buses (paywalled)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Palmerston North mayor Grant Smith fails to get rid of STV
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Upper Hutt, where Māori are almost politically invisible (paywalled)
Sue Teodoro (Local Democracy Reporting): Māori ward under discussion in South Wairarapa
Tim Scott (ODT): Board member won’t back toppling Williams over racism
Andrea Fox (Herald): Port of Auckland: The cost of rebranding after dropping ‘s’ from name is modest (paywalled)

EXTREME WEATHER
RNZ: Twyford calls for independent body to handle appeals for flood-damaged home categorisations
RNZ: Napier civic awards pivot to honour Cyclone Gabrielle heroes

HOUSING
Emma Stanford (RNZ): 1000 new state homes in Auckland every year described as a ‘stretch’, but doable
David Hargreaves (Interest): More FOOP? Or the return of FOMO? – What is it to be New Zealand?
Samantha Gee (RNZ): Nelson’s proposed housing intensification: ‘They are stealing our sunlight’

EDUCATION
Anna Sargent (RNZ): National’s Erica Stanford tells school to fight plans to slash roll, but won’t commit to keeping it as is
Gabrielle McCulloch (Stuff): ‘Slap in the face’: Government delays roll out of reduced class sizes for schools
Phil Pennington (RNZ): School building projects face delays and cost blowouts
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Fewer parents applying to home-school children following pandemic
Sarah Hearinga (Stuff): Students succeeding despite exploitative second jobs
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Massey University job losses would cut deep into Palmerston North

OTHER
Olivier Jutel (Newsroom): MPs’ report ignores track record of crypto boosterism
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: TVNZ boosts security for political reporters; Kiri Allan’s legal letter to media; the Christopher Luxon NZ Herald advertisement (paywalled)
Ethan Manera and Zoë Mills (Salient): Paddy Gower Just Wants to be a GC
Spinoff: ‘He actually hit me’: The moment Marama Davidson was struck by a motorbike
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Fresh High Court pokie claim filed against Internal Affairs
David Farrar: A good suggestion from the Clerk of the House
Edward Gay and Melanie Earley (Stuff): Billy Te Kahika says envelopes of cash for whānau – not a donation
RNZ: Moriori call for official week to celebrate indigenous language
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): Petition seeks support for official Moriori language week
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): How Rotorua halved early deaths from air pollution
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Cooks’ tourism industry upbeat, but anger persists over high air fares
Herald Editorial: Queen Elizabeth’s death, King Charles’ accession and the monarchy’s relevance a year on (paywalled)

NZ Politics Daily: 7 September 2023

ELECTION – OPINION POLLS
Andrea Vance (Post): Labour slumps to new poll low but numbers offer some comfort (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): National/ACT in pole position, but it is far from over (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Public hardens attitudes against government, crime
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Roy Morgan Poll – Left have male voter meltdown – ACT soar to 18%

ELECTION – NATIONAL AND ACT
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Discussions of coalition between ACT and National get testy as policy gulf grows
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): After a rough week, National needs to sharpen up (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): National leader Christopher Luxon rules out scrapping 39 percent tax rate if elected
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): National admits tax brochure case studies were fictional ‘scenarios’
Newshub: National ‘bluffing and blustering their way through their jiggery pokery’ tax cuts plan, Patrick Gower says
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Are we listening to policies or voting on a vibe?
Seni Iasona (Newshub): Economist reveals how National’s tax plan could tempt property investors to sell
David Williams (Newsroom): Living in a fishbowl with Luxo
Spinoff: Youth Wings: The political upbringing of a Young Nat
Morgan Godfery (Post): Is David Seymour New Zealand’s most dangerous man? Yes (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Women’s council Kate Sheppard led slams David Seymour’s claim she would have voted ACT
Tara Ward (Spinoff): More famous dead people who would definitely vote Act
Gabi Ladies (Spinoff): Shop the fit: Nicola Willis

ELECTION – LABOUR, ECONOMY
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Here’s to you, Mrs Hipkins
RNZ: Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces party’s five-point economic plan
Brent Edwards (NBR): Labour’s priorities for economic growth (paywalled)
RNZ: Chris Hipkins again aims to position Labour as ‘fiscally prudent’ in pitch to business community
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government books will show path to surplus – Hipkins
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Off to India: Labour outlines third term economic plan
Felix Desmarais (1News): Labour’s ‘five economic priorities’ if re-elected
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Prefu could show government debt as much as $10b off course by June next year (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour boosts its books with last-ditch digital tax (paywalled)
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Economist warns taxpayers may need to fork out to secure buyers of govt debt (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff):Labour and ACT’s very different solutions to fix the productivity crisis
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): Helen Clark’s advice to Labour in a ‘silly season’
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Analysis: Labour candidates’ misinformation undermines trust in Chris Hipkins
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour under fire for numerous examples of misinformation, Greens’ James Shaw edits social media to correct study history
Peter Williams: James Shaw (not) BA
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Labour’s Chris Hipkins says Willie Jackson made incorrect claim about National, ACT ‘in heat of moment’
Felix Desmarais (1News): Hipkins defends MP’s ‘incorrect’ minimum wage comments
Kathy Spencer (Herald): Pre-election policy frenzy is not the worst of it (paywalled)
Alex Holland (Bassett, Brash & Hide): Labour’s Failures

ELECTION – TOP
Seni Iasona (Newshub): The Opportunities Party wants to introduce 4-year terms, lower MMP threshold and voting age
Anna Whyte (Post): TOP promises ‘a different energy’ (paywalled)

ELECTION
Melanie Parkes (Stuff): Jessica Mutch McKay says election season is like ‘two Christmases in one year’
Kamala Hayman (Post): The Press Leaders Debate to be held at the Christchurch Town Hall (paywalled)
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Hypocrisy of calling CTU advert ‘dirty politics’ – let’s remind Millennial Newsrooms what dirty politics looks like again
Felix Desmarais (1News): Campaign trail: Hipkins tickles a robot, Luxon serves ice cream
Liam Hehir (Newsroom): In the swing seats: Why I vote one way and donate another
Anneke Smith (RNZ): On the campaign trail in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti with Labour’s Cushla Tangaere-Manuel and Te Pāti Māori’s Meka Whaitiri
Moana Maniapoto (Whakaata Māori): Shaw deflects personal trauma onto violent language directed towards ‘brown female MPs’
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Could a Dunedin poetry reading fall foul of electoral law?
Anna Harcourt (Re: News): Analysis: Which political party is using TikTok best
George Heagney (Stuff): Damage to election billboards a sure sign it’s election time
Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Only in Queenstown: vote for a Golden Retriever or Edmund Blackadder
Siobhan Downes (Stuff): How to vote if you’re travelling overseas during the election

HEALTH
RNZ: National, Waikato University planning third medical school ‘for years’ – Luxon
Sally Wenley (RNZ): Eight-week wait for skin cancer test results risking lives – doctors
Bernard Hickey: The Kaka Project for Election 2023: Universal dental care
Bridie Witton (Stuff): The politics of teeth: Should millionaires dip into the public purse for basic dental care?
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Vaping epidemic prompts cameras in school
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Closed for business: Are our schools restricting access to toilets?
Rachel Thomas (Post): Second doctors’ strike to go ahead next week (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Here’s the real reason for today’s health strike
Alex Spence (Herald): Senior doctors call for 24/7 security as ED crisis becomes ‘worst that we have ever seen’

PUBLIC SERVICE
Roger Patridge (Herald): The myth of public service neutrality (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): National will set consultant spending caps for each agency (paywalled)
RNZ: ACT’s David Seymour unveils red-tape review policy’s first four sectors

MEDIA
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Ten crucial revelations from New Zealand’s most important media data
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: NZ on Air Where are the Audiences research – the fall of linear television; the rise of a new audience (paywalled)
George Block (Herald): NZME super-injunction: Mystery foreign entities linked to Kiwi institution take Herald to Court of Appeal
Thomas Cranmer: Cranmer Unmasked (paywalled)
David Harvey: Who is Cranmer?
Thomas Cranmer: On Being Outed by BusinessDesk

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Mildred Armah (Stuff): Government admits it never meant to promise half price fares for disabled users
Liam Dann (Herald): Oil shock: Motorists should brace for more pain despite ComCom warning to petrol companies (paywalled)
RNZ: Commerce Commission issues ‘please explain’ to fuel companies on pricing anomolies
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Commerce Commission seeks explanation for retail fuel price ‘anomalies’ from fuel companies
Dita De Boni (NBR): ComCom asks companies to explain wide variation in fuel pricing (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Newsroom): Greens’ James Shaw takes shot at National’s plan to cut Clean Car Discount
RNZ: Watch: National Party will deliver 10,000 electric vehicle chargers by 2030, leader says
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): National promises $257 million for 10,000 new electric vehicle chargers if elected
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): National promises to abolish clean car discount and fee scheme (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Infrastructure investment generates wider benefits (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Plucky Foodstuffs takes bold stand against children on bikes
Erin Gourley (Post): Supermarket giant goes to court over Wellington cycleway (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Post): The rage is right, but its target is wrong (paywalled)
Miriam Bell (Post): Here’s how to transform urban areas: Lessons from a ‘city shaper’ (paywalled)

IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Immigration visa scams: Worry about accommodation for migrant workers, more victims found
RNZ: More migrant work visa scam victims identified
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Immigration u-turn over deporting migrant whistleblower with 18-month-old baby
Blessed Tom (RNZ): Indian and Chinese nationals have topped deportation figures since 2018
John Weekes (Herald): Visa system is a crazy and infuriating bureaucracy, crisis in food supply and air-conditioning looming, recruiter says

CLIMATE CHANGE
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Next prime minister must lead emissions cuts: Simon Upton report
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): How to successfully create the next national plan to cut emissions
David Williams (Newsroom): National to elevate climate minister
Olivia Wannan (Stuff): The Government misses out on $1B chance to raise revenue
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Carbon credit auction fails again, depriving Treasury of about $900 million
Dan Brunskill (Interest): An entire year’s supply of carbon units will be offered in the year’s final ETS auction and will be erased if unsold

EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Excellence, merit or not achieved? Teachers grade Labour’s efforts to fix education
Tumamao Harawira (Whakaata Māori): Te reo Māori on shaky school grounds under National
ODT: Editorial – Time to tick TEC off? (paywalled)
Bob McCoskrie: The public view of gender ideology that the media won’t share

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ODT Editorial: Gore CEO goes (paywalled)
Tim Scott (ODT): Williams could face action over racist slur
Tim Scott (ODT): Board chairman’s racial slur revealed
Karina Cooper (Herald): Kaitaia Airport: Government tells Far North District Council to ‘come to the party’
Erin Gourley (Post): Rates lower for businesses, higher for vacant land in council proposal (paywalled)

HOUSING
Simon Wilson (Herald): Labour, National and Greens commit to 1000 more state houses a year in Auckland (paywalled)
RNZ: Labour, Nats and Greens pledge 1000 new state houses each year for Auckland
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Just as TDB predicted! National will flog NZ houses to foreign buyers!
Robert MacCulloch: The Herald calls Luxon untruthful and bases its argument on false numbers
Peter de Graf (RNZ): Kāinga Ora downscales social housing plans in Kerikeri
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Plan to turn 16 homes into 41 (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Public Service Watch: Generational scrap over Hutt housing (paywalled)

BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
Rituraj Sapkota (Whakaata Māori): Workplace deaths and injuries higher for Māori
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Electric Kiwi takes complaint over ‘big four’ power firms to Commerce Commission
Rebecca Stevenson (Interest): Big four power gentailers are ‘screwing’ consumers, Electric Kiwi says
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Major telco faces embarrassment today when watchdog ranks customer service (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Newsroom): Govt wants high-value tourists, but tourism funding set to be cut
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Last spin of the loom: how carpet can salvage NZ’s dying wool industry
Kerstin Hagena, Alina Hagena and Luis Arevalo (Reimagining Social Work): Whānau Ora versus animal agriculture in the age of climate change

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Chris Trotter: Bob Semple’s Tank
Mick Hall (Consortium News): Unease Over New Zealand Overtures to US in Pacific
The Standard: This Election we need to talk About China
Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand wins dairy trade dispute with Canada (paywalled)
RNZ: Passengers give up seats to others as Niue-NZ flights lack capacity

OTHER
Baz Macdonald (Re: News): Who’s to blame for the cost of living crisis?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Auditor-General urges more debate on Treasury’s wellbeing report (paywalled)
Eric Crampton: Debating tax
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Crown takes second stab at NZ First prosecution
Edward Gay (Stuff): Billy Te Kahika supplied different figures in all four Electoral Commission returns
Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): ‘One of those glass ceilings we’ve shattered’ – Davis on new law in te reo Māori
Eda Tang (Stuff): Dame Tariana Turia, Dr Cathy Dewes, Patricia Grace recognised by National Iwi Chairs’ forum
Tema Hemi (Whakaata Māori): For government’s programme for the worst youth offenders to work, poverty must be addressed – youth worker
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): The Detail: Policing in a new era of crime
Niva Chittock (RNZ): Waimate waste-to-energy plant consent process now in hands of central government
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Labour may have missed the boat on science sector reform (paywalled)
Lianne Dalziel (Newsroom): The importance of dispute resolution mechanisms when disaster strikes
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Hawke’s Bay residents with untouched houses deemed unlivable fight to stay put
Mark John (ODT): 3 Waters go-live date protest renewed (paywalled)