NZ Politics Daily - 17 September 2017
17 September 2017
Today's content
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Election
The Economist: Labour’s new leader shakes up New Zealand’s election
Horizon Research: Main parties in dead heat
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): The last pitch: National leader Bill English answers tough questions from Jacinda Ardern, voters
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): The last pitch: Labour leader Jacinda Ardern answers tough questions from Bill English, voters
John Drinnan (ZagZigger):Is It Wrong To Want Neutral Reporters?
Grant Duncan (Stuff): Revealed: Who New Zealand wants running the country
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): My electorate predictions
Martyn Bradury (Daily Blog): Electoral Commission undermining of Maori rights – complaints nationwide
Willie Jackson – Urgent: Maori and youth voters being abused by Electoral Commission staff – know your voting rights!
RNZ: Advanced voting record broken again
Phil Smith (RNZ): Election17: What on earth is my second vote for?
RNZ: Election17: Who on earth do I vote for?
Stuff: Pizza, beers, and a spiffing outfit: What the leaders will be doing on election night
Bevan Rapson (North and South): Election 2017: A series of carnival sideshows or history in the making?
Brian Edwards: Going, Going, Nearly Gone!
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): A guide to blowing an election in a few easy steps
Liam Dann (Herald): Why aren't food prices an election issue?
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Tax is love
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): There's not enough money in the world to persuade me into politics
Richard Meadows (Stuff): Budget Buster: What could you get out of the election cash splash?
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Awakening the sleeping dragon could determine the next Government
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Political leaders 'patronising' to young family and their dream of owning a home
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Powerful land buying body an option within both main parties' policies
Herald Editorial: Good to see PM contenders through partners' eyes
TVNZ: Vote Compass: How do the party leaders rate on the 'likeability' scale?
Herald: Why my partner should be the next Prime Minister
Stuff: Politicians read aloud mean tweets
Spinoff: Politicians Read Mean Tweets
Shaun Bamber (Stuff): Schoolkid interviewers put our political leaders through the wringer
Thoughts on voting
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): The test of a good Prime Minister is not being the best Trivial Pursuits player at a dinner party
Rodney Hide (Herald): Too close to call after roller-coaster campaign
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Avoid the posturing and promises... vote early
David Slack (Stuff): Vote like your life depends on it
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Five things to consider before you vote
Lynda Hallinan (Stuff): Protests may not always change the world, but elections can
Paul Little (Herald): Vote for the New Zealand you want
Jack Tame (Herald): Millennials - just get out and vote
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Election a drag race to the finish
Damien Grant (Stuff): Party of ideas can be a hard Act to follow
Rod Oram (Newsroom): ‘Why new leaders and policies are needed’
Mark Boyd (Stuff): Talkin' bout my generation – or is it time for the Young Ones?
National
Audrey Young (Herald):Bill English takes aim at Labour over rural-urban relations
Samantha Motion (Herald): Prime Minister 'preaches to the converted' in Te Puke
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English comes face-to-face with a weta on Reporoa school visit
TVNZ: Watch: 'That is incorrect' - Jacinda Ardern hits back at National's claim superannuitants better off under them
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): PM promises four lanes for Rotorua airport road
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): As bad as having a former KGB officer in Parliament?
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): The haunting of Murray McCully
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The unbelievable Saudi Sheep Bribe should disqualify National from Government
Labour
Brian Edwards: Labour’s New Tax Plan: A Helluva Lot to Ask
Greg Presland (Standard): The Herald reverts to type
Herald: Labour would work with Winston but Greens preferred partner: Willie Jackson
Ceinwen Curtis (RNZ): Labour & Greens open to working with NZ First
Mark Sainsbury (Listener): Jacinda Ardern: Running on instinct
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's charm a winner in Otara
Herald: Labour to look at reviewing bail laws, National minister says there's no need
Herald: Labour puts rheumatic fever back in spotlight at Otara Markets rally
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Labour sets rheumatic fever elimination target
RNZ: All children to have integrated te reo learning – Labour
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): More affordable homes could just mean fewer other options
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Elderly need Aged Care Commissioner: Labour
Brittany Baker (Stuff): Labour leader Jacinda 'Arrr-dern's' unexpected pirate encounter
Herald: Pirates interrupt Jacinda Ardern's tour of New Plymouth
Henry Cooke (Stuff): How Marie Ardern got her niece Jacinda into politics
Minor Parties
Julian Lee (Stuff): Peters vows to crack down on highly paid corporate executives
Julie Iles (Stuff): NZ First's coalition bottom line, KiwiFund, deemed 'highly undesirable'
Newshub: Capital gains tax now, Greens demand
Isaac Davison (Herald): Metiria Turei back on campaign trail with Greens
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Metiria Turei takes a swipe at Jacinda Ardern in first public speech since stepping down as co-leader
RNZ: Turei tells Green's poverty rally welfare system broken
Newshub: Māori Party launch Auckland plan
Rob Stock (Stuff): Maori Party's Iwibank aspiration
Tony Wall (Stuff): Hone Harawira says synthetic cannabis dealers 'building a fortune from misery'
Policy
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Broadcasting buried in policy parade
Lauren Watson (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Mental Healthcare
Etta Bollinger (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Inclusive Education
Environment
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Councils issue nearly twice as many pollution notices – and worst dairy farms are still to pay fines
RNZ: Climate action lacking for all but Greens – review
Charlie Mitchell and Joel Ineson (Stuff): 'The people's ECan': protesters occupy regional council
Alison Mau (Stuff): Morrinsville – where the politics is getting dirtier than the worst farm stream
Other
Isaac Davison (Herald): Foreign Affairs Minister Gerry Brownlee condemns North Korea's missile test
Stuff:Auckland District Māori Council's election ruled 'unlawful'
Matt Nippert (Herald): Kiingitanga probed over claimed irregularities
Tom Pullar Strecker (Stuff): IRD admits it was wrong to withhold submissions on multinational tax reforms
Narelle Henson (Waikato Times): Complex matters of life and death
Emile Donovan (RNZ): Law's glass ceiling exposed by numbers