NZ Politics Daily - 16 September 2017
16 September 2017
Today's content
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Election campaign
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): There's nothing cuddly about this election campaign
Weekend Herald editorial: Strategic voting looks dicey as polls narrow
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): All aboard the election porky train
John Roughan (Herald): The head is arguing against a change
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret diary of the election campaign
RNZ: Police brought in over rogue anti-Labour tweets
Russell Harding (Stuff): Poll dancing and election exhaustion
Kiran Dass (Herald): Music to watch, politicians go by
Michael Wright (Stuff): A beginner's guide to 2017 election campaign billboard vandalism
Samuel White (ODT): Kaitangata man makes fun of National politicians
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the beltway: Who starred and who stumbled in politics this week
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Election 2017 on a knife edge
Matt Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Editorial: The messy business of deciding who to vote for
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Little chance of system change, but change in government is a good place to start
Vernon Small (Stuff): Politically Correct: The never-ending campaign trail
Carrick Graham (Stop Press): Political influence beyond the election
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Election 2017 Live: Polls, Saudi sheep and ACT
Election issues and policies
Herald: Would you be better off under Labour or National?
Zane Mirfin (Stuff): Outdoor issues need to be discussed inside the house
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Newshub poll: Almost half of voters will consider climate change policies
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Election policy roundup: Transport, health, tax, environment and housing at a glance
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): CTU asks for detail on labour law plans
Sally McKechnie and Kasia Ginders (Simpson Grierson): By road, rail, and sea…the promises do come: Transport at the 2017 Election
Sally McKechnie (Simpson Grierson): Striking a balance: Immigration at the 2017 election
Brian Fallow (Herald): Crunch time for Budget numbers
Max Rashbrooke and Lisa Marriott (Newsroom): It’s time to talk about capital gains tax
Liam Dann (Herald): Economy Hub: What's the most important economic statistic?
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Rural/urban divide 'encouraged' by water tax policies - farmer
Callum McGillivray (Stuff): Labour and National candidates view immigration as key component to economy
Chris Chang (1News): Two-thirds of Kiwis in favour of euthanasia for patients with terminal illness, Vote Compass results show
No Right Turn: National: climate freeloaders
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: Running the numbers on water
Lamia Imam (NZ Co-op): A Policy A Day: Addressing Homelessness
Audrey Young (Herald): Maori Party calls on Labour to sort out water ownership before taxing it
Voting behaviour
Glynn Compton (Libertas Digital): No youthquake yet but there is a greyquake
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What is happening to our Politics? Youth have become a class and Jacinda is its champion
Dave Nicol (Stuff): Increase in advance voting could see changes to electoral advertising rules
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Vote
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 'Please Nana get enrolled'
Jo Lines-Mackenzie (Stuff): TV vacuum for first time voters
Richard Arnold (The Spinoff): Polls 101: a statistician on truth and fiction in opinion polling
Harkanwal Singh (Herald): Herald Election Forecast predicts Labour victory - and outcome of every electorate battle in New Zealand
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Labour MP questions validity of poll that favours National
Electorates
Julien Lee (Stuff): Is the heartland of New Zealand rebelling?
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Election 2017: Three weeks on the campaign trail in Christchurch
Michael Wright (Stuff): Christchurch East: National versus Labour – and the vandals
Labour
John Armstrong (Herald): How Jacinda's cunning plan fell apart
Eleanor Ainge Roy (The Guardian): 'I've got what it takes': will Jacinda Ardern be New Zealand's next prime minister?
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Voters deserve better on Labour tax plan
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour still committed to urgent housing action despite tax backdown - Ardern
Jo Moir (Stuff): She's on the home straight - where to from here for Labour's Jacinda Ardern?
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Ardern wants to lead Labour for at least three elections
Richard Swainson (Stuff): Finally, an election of contrasts
Virginia McMillan, Aaron van Delden & Fiona Thomas (NZ Doctor): Health in election 2017: David Clark - Labour
National
Steve Braunias (Herald) On the road with 'Hungry Bill'
Bernard Lagan (Listener): Bill English: On his own terms
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): John Key's election fever dreams
Stephen Franks: China can count on NZ elite’s fear of ‘racist’ slur
Minor parties
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Election no two-horse race
Senate SHJ:
Newshub: ACT leader David Seymour's bold fashion throwback
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Winston all over the show
Clint Ulyatt (Stop Press): What motivates an ad wanker to become political?
Jackson Thomas (Stuff): TOP candidate says orange guy needs to get with the times
Greens
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Don't underestimate a 'Green with its' back against the wall'
Isaac Davison (Herald): Former Green co-leader Metiria Turei returns to campaign spotlight
David Kennedy (Local bodies): What vote will deliver the change we need…?
Saudi Sheep scandal
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Did Murray McCully mislead Parliament?
Tim Watkin (RNZ): Saudi sheep deal: The two-year hunt for the 'legal advice'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Saudi sheep deal: Govt accused of cover-up
Winston Peters' superannuation leak
Herald: Winston Peters' superannuation leak: Ministry of Social Development clears staff
Stacey Kirk and Vernon Small (Stuff): Ministry of Social Development, Internal Affairs find no evidence of Winston Peters' pension leaker
ACC
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Privacy and profiling fears over secret ACC software
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): ACC needs independent oversight - Labour
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): No privacy issues with ACC prediction model, says minister Michael Woodhouse
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): New information about controversial ACC prediction tool released
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Years later, ACC discloses its tool to target long-term claimants
Te reo Māori
Laura Walters (Stuff): Māori Party says Labour's te reo plan lacks vision, courage, aspiration
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): RNZ listener takes offence to 'over Māori-fication' of the station
Rosemary McLeod: Māori are changing Pākehā, just as Pākehā changed them