NZ Politics Daily - 14 September 2017
14 September 2017
Today's content
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Spending and tax
Audrey Young (Herald): Labour tidies up tax policy, will delay new changes until 2020
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Election: Labour backs down on tax, will not introduce anything new until after 2020 election
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Election 2017: A rough guide to Labour and National's spending plans
John Armstrong (TVNZ): Opinion: Labour not ducking tax issue, but it's dangerous ground
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour under the gun to release details of where its tax working group may go
Alex Tarrant (Interest): National may have steadied the ship this past week with its tax attacks on Labour
Vernon Small and Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Politically Correct: Election campaign turns into an all-out war
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): 'Desperate liars' - Jacinda Ardern takes aim at National
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Dead cats and the 'unprecedented' election of 2017
Matthew Trundle (Stuff): Taxation: The future of society lies in the past
Opinion polls
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Newshub poll: New Zealand's top election concerns
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Kiwis want retaliation over Australian rights
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Q+A: What should we make of political poll results?
Jamie Morton (Herald): Q&A: The science of... political polls
ODT Editorial: The poll that really counts
Nicholas Jones (Herald): 'I never was a believer in notion of stardust': Jacinda Ardern on polls
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): This is still a fight: Some thoughts on the Newshub-Reid Research Poll
RNZ: 'Crap' polls don't reflect NZ First's position – Peters
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll
Voting and MMP
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): MMP maths: How party vote percentages become seats in parliament
RNZ: Advance voting draws record numbers
RNZ: Protest over prison voting ban
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Voting a 'basic human right', but one that not all New Zealanders have
Michael Hayward (Stuff): What happens if a candidate dies now that early voting has begun?
Audrey Young (Herald): How to make Kiwis vote
Janice Rodrigues (National Library): Bring Elections 2017 into the classroom
Election
Barry Soper (Herald): Anything goes in this cliff-hanger of an election
Amanda Jane Robinson and Simon Shepherd (Newshub): Campaigns turn nasty as National, TOP release attack ads
Steve Maharey (Herald): Ardern winning but wounded Nats fight on
Raybon Kan (Herald): Election tension resting on a butter-knife edge
Liz Koh (Stuff): How do your values fit with your vision for the country?
Charlotte Cooke (Stuff): Politicians face The Elevator Pitch
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: A superannuation special
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: All just spin?
Richard Mays (Manawatu Standard): Te Radar addresses the politically engaged at Massey University
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Beyond the headline Facebook stats is Bill English winning?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Prime Minister dominates Facebook conversations, but not his party
Stuff: Media Take: Election's seen 'a complete shift', says Jack Tame
Daily Blog: The Daily Blog Announces The KIWI FAIR GO DEBATE In a real democracy, everyone gets a voice.
Newshub: Chair of suicide political panel 'disappointed' by ACT and National
National
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English gets emotional on campaign trail, but it's not about 'out-emoting' Jacinda Ardern
Herald: Paula Bennett hits back at queries over her benefit stance
Philip Chandler (Mountain Scene): Todd Barclay heads to London for work
Stuff: Some prisoners eligible for earlier release under National
Newshub: National Party to cut jail time for low-risk prisoners
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National policy would see jail time cut for low-risk prisoners
David Fisher (Herald): 'Longest day' for defence minister as campaign gets dirty
David Fisher (Herald): The dusty road, the secret taping and the National MP who had to say sorry
Jian Yang controversy
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Is he a spy?
Audrey Young (Herald): The truth is all that really matters
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National MP didn't name Chinese military institutes in citizenship application
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): National MP: I taught Chinese spies
Newsroom: National: no idea of SIS inquiry into Yang
Stuff: National MP Jian Yang slams 'defamatory' claim he was trained by Chinese spies
Herald: National Party MP slams allegations as a smear campaign and defamatory
RNZ: National's Chinese MP lashes out at 'smear campaign'
Jacqui Stanford (Newstalk ZB): National MP says 'spy' story racist
No Right Turn: Toxic politics
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So National’s Blue Dragons might be Red Dragons? How National are utterly compromised to China
RNZ: National MP confirms he taught 'spies', denies he is one
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): National Party MP Jian Yang admits training spies
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): National Party MP Jian Yang refutes 'Chinese spy' claim
Labour
Richard Prebble (Herald): The Jacinda tidal wave has gone out
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour accuses National of scaremongering amid claims China FTA will need to be renegotiated
Claire Trevett (Herald): Pike River families give their blessing to Jacinda Ardern as she visits region where Labour started
Jo Moir (Stuff): Ardern reveals Little asked her to take over leadership six days before resigning
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern makes it personal
Claire Trevett (Herald): Hospital apologises to Jacinda Ardern over her grandfather's discharge
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern says 85yo grandfather told to leave hospital
RNZ: Ardern: 'Not good enough' for DHB to discharge grandfather
Laura Walters and Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Ardern says hospital pressured granddad to leave. Don't bring him into it, says minister
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Health Minister Jonathan Coleman is out of touch
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern visits Pike River, reiterates recovery pledge
Greens
Richard Harman (Politik): Labour continues its campaign against the Greens
Mei Heron (RNZ): Green Party fights as poll bodes ill
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Green Party announces universal post-graduate student allowance policy
Mei Heron (RNZ): Green Party promises to raise student allowances
TOP
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Gareth Morgan blames landlines for poor polling, claims he'll win 5-10 percent
Meg Williams (Spinoff): ‘Oh, you’re a Greenie, are you?’ A millennial goes on a date with Gareth Morgan
Policies
Ged Cann (Stuff): Five environment policies - and where each party stands on them
David Fisher (Herald): Vote 2017: Party promises for tackling New Zealand's shocking youth suicide rate
TVNZ: Election policy comparison - health: What the major political parties will do for you
Patrick Thomsen (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Pasifika Advancement
Virginia Larson (North and South): Is a universal basic income really so bonkers?
Electorate battles
Jono Galuszka (Manawatu Standard): NZ First candidate takes a swing at Labour, Greens tax policies
Bay of Plenty Times: Mangroves draw the ire of Winston Peters in Whangamata
Voting declarations
Lyn Prentice (The Standard): I’m off to vote today
Crankville: Vote: 2017
No Right Turn: Party vote: left
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Because I love Jacinda, I’m Party voting Green
Steven Cowans (Against the current): Why I’m not voting. Again.
Lizzie Cook (Daily Blog): I will not vote Labour
Employment
Catriona MacLennan (Newshub): Living wage doesn’t kill jobs, it creates them
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Labour's fair pay agreements policy of concern to employers
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Manufacturers' wishlist: Immigrants and tradies to ease skills shortage
Parliament
Chris McDowall (Spinoff): A visual history of the New Zealand parliament
Newstalk ZB: Parliamentary staff given code of conduct
Herald: 'Lazy' Canterbury girl became political powerhouse - New Zealand's first woman MP remembered
Welfare
Tom Baker (Herald): Why can't we have a user-friendly welfare system?
Martin Johnston (Herald): Cradle to grave in New Zealand - was the Welfare State born in 1938?
Other
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Fuji Xerox to remain 'voluntarily suspended' from government contracts
Lloyd Burr: Injustice in paradise at Pike River
ODT Editorial: Back to the future for cathedral
Press: Ailing Jim Anderton 'delighted' Christ Church Cathedral to be restored
Sam Sachdeva and Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): China’s soft power push