NZ Politics Daily - 15 September 2017
15 September 2017
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1News Colmar Brunton Poll and forecasts
Colin James (RNZ): Nothing between top two in poll averages
Harkanwal Singh (Herald): Vote 2017: Herald Election Forecast predicts Labour victory - and outcome of every electorate battle in New Zealand
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Election Forecast update – things are tightening
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern 'not willing to accept poll numbers' despite four point lead over National
Andrea Vance (TVNZ): Video: New poll shows Winston Peters no longer king or queen-maker as party support slumps to six per cent
Audrey Young (Herald): Poll projects more coalition options for Labour
Audrey Young (Herald): New poll: Labour out in front, but NZ First has fallen
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Rollercoaster polls to match rollercoaster election
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Hold the Jacindamania obituaries: Labour retains lead in TVNZ poll
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour steady in lead in fresh TVNZ poll
RNZ: Latest poll: Labour + Greens have the numbers
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Patrick Gower (Newshub): Labour in front, Greens still in - Colmar Brunton poll
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The diverging polls
Stuff finance debate
Katie Kenny and Andy Fyers (Stuff): Truth or fable: Fact-checking the Stuff finance debate
Henry Cooke and Andy Fyers (Stuff): How National and Labour's plans would affect five Kiwi families
Jenesa Jeram (Stuff): Steven Joyce and Grant Robertson's financial debate failed to demonstrate their own differences
Tax
Southland Times Editorial: The tactics of tax attacks
Philip Matthew (Press): Editorial: Labour's tax clarity is welcome
Herald Editorial: Ardern's backdown carries a cost
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern's credibility dented by 'hopeless' tax strategy
Vernon Small (Stuff): Read my lips, no new taxes, says Labour
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour's handbrake turn on tax working group comes none too soon
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Politically Correct: Labour's big backdown
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern doing a John Key with tax U-turn
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Come on Labour – please stop digging holes!
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Labour hits pause at 23.59 on Doomsday Clock
Newshub: Labour - no new taxes in first term
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Tax brakes: Labour eases up on working group changes
Liam Dann (Herald): Those seven Labour taxes - what's left in play?
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour under the gun to release details of where its tax working group may go
Toby Manhire (Stuff): Of tax U-turns, captain’s calls and clusterfucks
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Tax was always going to be Labour's Achilles Heel
Ryan Bridge (Newshub): Why vote Labour?
Joe Pagani (Newsroom): Time for Jacinda Ardern to make some enemies
Steve Cowan (Against the current): Let’s not do much
Gwynn Compton (LIbertas Digital): Political disaster for Labour as Grant flops after Jacinda's flip on tax
Greg Presland (The Standard): Lets talk about tax policy
No Right Turn: Labour's tax back-down
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): GST changes for internet shopping could come in under Labour or National
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s panicked u-turn
David Farrar (Kiwilblog): Labour’s arrogance on tax
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How much extra tax is Labour going to impose?
National
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Fruit worker takes on Bill English over minimum wage
Laura Walters (Stuff): National feels the squeeze from low-paid packhouse staff
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English grilled by workers about minimum wage
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Bill English grilled on wages in Gisborne
RNZ: Nats pledge to sell Landcorp land to young farmers
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): National promises to allow farmers to buy state-owned land
Herald: National offers state-owned farms to young farmers
RNZ: Iwi warning over National farm sale plan
Dasha Kuprienko and Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Todd Barclay selling home for large profit before heading overseas
No Right Turn: This should have happened a long time ago
Herald: Paula Bennett's message to political comedian: 'We need to get together'
Jian Yang controversy
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Questions hang over National MP’s vetting
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): On standards in public life, and Jian Yang
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Winston Peters brings dog whistle to Dunedin, calls for inquiry into Jian Yang's spy links
Saudi sheep scandal
Tim Watkin (RNZ): Saudi sheep deal: MFAT didn't provide legal advice on lawsuit risk
Iaac Davison (Herald): Saudi sheep deal: No evidence of legal threat from Saudi businessman
Stuff: No legal advice given on Saudi sheep farm lawsuit risk – MFAT
Greg Presland (Standard): #sheepgate: National paid out money to settle a non existing dispute without legal advice
No Right Turn:A bribe predicated on a fantasy
Labour
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Labour softens KiwiSaver compulsion stance
ODT: Massive crowd greets Ardern at Otago Uni
Brendon McMahon (Greymouth Star): Jacinda Adern feted like a rock star by West Coast Labour Party faithful
Claire Trevett (Herald): Ardern unveils West Coast development plans
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern navigates out of tax whirlpool as campaign hits whitewater
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Labour says landlords are 'scaremongering'
Eleanor Wenman (Stuff): Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce anti-Labour tweet came from 'disgruntled' service provider
Richard Swainson (Waikato Times): Finally, an election of contrasts
Greens
Herald: Shaw: Prospect of a Labour-Greens coalition without NZ First 'makes me very happy'
Alex Tarrant (Interest): James Shaw says the Greens are in the fight of their lives; talks moxnetary policy, income, savings and capital gains taxes, potential Cabinet posts and Kiwibank
Dene McKenzie (ODT): Green role in primary industries
Simon Collins (Herald): Greens want te reo Māori in all schools by 2030
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The Greens' plan to bring te reo Māori to years 1 to 10
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Greens pledge $160m for compulsory te reo
Stuff: Greens lay out plan for compulsory te reo Māori in all schools
NZ First
Jo Moir (Stuff): Winston Peters has made a career out of going around in circles with the media
RNZ: The Leader Interview - Winston Peters
Michael Daly (Stuff): A $2.3 billion mistake was made by someone in NZ First, but it wasn't Winston Peters
Richard Harman (Politik): Winston - down - and even possibly out
Jenesa Jeram (Stuff): Winston Peters' prostate exam idea a flawed anti-election bribe
Māori electorates
Rawiri Taonui (Waikato Times): Labour, Greens and the Maori-Mana accord
Jon Stokes: (Herald): Maori Party fighting the Labour resurgence
Taroi Black (Māori TV): Chasing the votes in the Waiariki - a hunger of a different kind
Māori TV: Election Aotearoa: We need to vote strategically – Te Ururoa Flavell
Māori TV: Election Aotearoa: I’m not in it for the fame – Tamati Coffey
Leo Horgan (Māori TV): Rangatahi hold key to Coffey's political future
Aroha Awarau (Māori TV): Flavell to Coffey - "Helping families is not a popularity contest"
Māori TV: Jaye Glam has some advice for Waiariki and Hauraki-Waikato candidates
Election
Jon Johansson (Stuff): The big crunch - minor party struggles
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): A changing of the guard is on the way
Mike Watson (Stuff): Handshakes, hoardings and hard work crucial for voter's tick
Toby Manhire (Herald): What the parties are really saying
Mei Heron (RNZ): Fewer young people enrolled than 2014
TVNZ: Vote Compass: What are New Zealand's young voters concerned about?
TVNZ: Political system needs to change to get more young people voting, says youth organization
Disabled Persons Assembly NZ (Public Address): Is the tide turning for disabled floater voters – or are we becalmed?
Phil Duncan (Redline): What yesterday told us about National and Labour
Pete Burdon (Media Training): My advice for Ardern and English in last week
Tim Watkin (RNZ): Tax attacks & the price of Winston
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): If the election is driving you to drink, there’s now a podcast for that
Housing
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff):New breed of swing voter emerges in Auckland as housing splits polls battleground
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Landlord claims: Fair warning or scaremongering?
RNZ: Landlord's rent survey 'scaremongering' – Labour
Herald: 73.6 per cent of landlords plan rent rises if Labour wins
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Tony Alexander warns real estate agents that many will need to find new jobs
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Labour to expand Auckland city boundaries for affordable housing
Policy
Brian Fallow (Herald): Two tracks to lower emissions
Herald: Vote 2017: The Big Issues - watch a rundown of the parties' water policies
Mark Hanna (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Informed Consent in Healthcare
Electorate battles
Safia Archer and Soumya Bhamidipati (Dominion Post): Wellington Central Electorate: Buses, housing among hot topics for voters
Andre Chumko and Laree Taula (Dominion Post): Housing, homelessness key issues for Hutt South voters
Jake McKee Cagney and Callum Roberts (Dominion Post): Jobs, transport and housing key issues for Ōtaki Electorate
Martin van Beynen (Press): Hey voters, are you tired of wildly oscillating polls? OK, here's another
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Kingswood Election Tour: Jacinda Ardern's home town of Morrinsville keeping faith in dairy
Oliver Lewis (Marlborough Express): Labour candidate Janette Walker on 'working at the coal face'
Jennifer Eder (Marlborough Express): 'Selfies, smiles and substance': Will personality or policy sway Blenheim voters?
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Green Party, National focus on people in hardship at Nelson meetings
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): TOP candidate's pitch for Dunedin North
Health
Margaret Brunton (Stuff): Health sector under-funding is unfair on patients and medical staff
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Health Minister Jonathan Coleman's arrogant, out of touch
RNZ: HB investigates 93-year-old's death after hospital discharge
Trade
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff):In trade, you can't always get what you want
William L Jobson (Werewolf): TPP Or Not TPP
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): National’s Mickey Mouse policies on trade
Stuff: European Union to race Britain for New Zealand, Australia trade deals
Other
Laura Tupou (RNZ): Migrant worker describes 'modern day slavery' scam
Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold (Stuff):No Hit & Run raid inquiry despite dead girl's parents' demand
John Drinnan (Herald): Labour's plan to plus-size Radio NZ
Matt Vickers (Herald): I don't agree with Simon O'Connor's comments on suicide