NZ Politics Daily - 18 September 2017
18 September 2017
Today's content
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Water use and environment
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Dairy farms use equivalent water of 60 million people, experts say
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Councils issue nearly twice as many pollution notices – and worst dairy farms are still to pay fines
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): New Zealand doesn’t have an urban-rural divide – but National’s trying its hardest to create one
No Right Turn: Too many cows
Jane Patterson (RNZ): English denies exaggerating water tax's impact
Herald: Farmers protest against Jacinda Ardern's tax policies
Claire Trevett (Herald): Farmer calls Jacinda Ardern claim 'bollocks' ahead of protest in Morrinsville
Herald: Jacinda Ardern takes proactive stance on planned Waikato farmer protest
Stuff: Labour leader attempts to ease farmers concerns ahead of protest
Newshub: Decision 17: Angry farmers to rally in Morrinsville
Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern: I need to prove myself
Greg Presland (Standard): Fear and loathing in Aotearoa
Anthony Robins (Standard): When scaremongering becomes self-parody
Public Health Expert (University of Otago): Climate Change and Recent Actions of NZ Political Parties
The Standard: Closing the loops on oil spills and broken pipe lines
Election
Phil Quin (Newsrroom): English and Joyce’s reward: a Labour win
Bryan Gould: Will we go forward with the clocks?
John Minto (Daily Blog): Voting involves a moral choice
Oliver Chan (Impolitikal): Stop eating your greens
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Polling booth staff mislead and confuse Māori voters
Amanda Jane Robinson (Newshub): Complaints laid against election staff
RNZ: Labour worried some unenrolled voters turned away
Pete George (Your NZ): Has advance voting gone too far?
TVNZ: Sign language version of final Leaders' Debate on TVNZ confirmed
Vernon Small (Stuff): Social media and early voting may be changing the election rule book
Claire Robinson (Spinoff): John Key’s face used to dominate election media. How about Ardern v English in 2017?
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Voters decide with their hearts and not their heads
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Yin and yang of election politics
Matt Heath (Herald): Forget It, Orange Election Guy freaks me out
Ben Mack (Herald): Why are Kiwi elections so weird?
Matthew Brockett (Bloomberg): Too-Close-To-Call New Zealand Election Spooks Financial Markets
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): The Pop Quiz: PM contenders play with matches in Korea and Middle-East powder-kegs
National
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): English calls it: ‘We’re going to win’
Newstalk ZB: Bill English faces Mike Hosking during this morning's Newstalk ZB Leaders' Breakfast series
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Will All Blacks win translate into votes?
Audrey Young (Herald): Consolidation for National as Bill English focuses on policy
Dan Satherley (Newshub): National attack ads on tax 'not a lie' - Paula Bennett
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Quakes, GFC slowed efforts to close inequality gap – Bennett
Newshub: Kelvin Davis an 'embarrassing' Labour deputy - Bill English
TVNZ: Bill English says National's families policy will lift '50,000 children above that poverty line'
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English won't return to Waitangi unless changes are made
RNZ: English unlikely to return to Waitangi for celebrations
Vernon Small (Stuff): Another day on the campaign trial, another encounter with a giant weta
Judy McGregor (Newstalk ZB): Living wage policies show National's true face
ODT Editorial: Barclay’s departure not lamented
Labour
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern says it will all be down to turnout, urges young to vote early
Claire Trevett (Herald): 'Bogan' Ardern exhorts young people to enrol
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): A mood for more than mere change
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Hutt Chamber of Commerce left looking like a bunch of tweets
Katie Pickels (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern channels 'that bloody woman' Kate Sheppard
Pete George (Your NZ): Identity politics: Is Jacinda the new Mabel?
AAP: Jacindamania sparks Aussies' interest
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Has any Labour front bencher ever had a job in the private sector?
Greens
Patrick Gower: Desperate Greens drop fake news 'poll' in Nelson
Newshub: Could the Greens wrest Nelson from Nick Smith?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour and Greens' Nelson candidates breathing down Nick Smith's neck – poll
Warren Gamble (Stuff): Advance voting popular as candidates dispute Green poll
RNZ: Greens target capital gains tax but Labour won't budge
Isaac Davison (Herald): Rentals to have WOF by 2019 under Green policy, landlords may get demerit points
RNZ: Greens pledge to extend rights of renters
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): The Green Party leads rally to end poverty
Damian George (Stuff): Transport minister says Greens' light rail cost estimate way off track
Other minor parties
Bay of Plenty Times: New Zealander of the Year announces election plans
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Labour's Māori MPs are 'whipped' - Marama Fox
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Maori Party wants clarification on water
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): NZ First wants to clean up corporate NZ’s ‘Wild West’
In the Balance: NZ First in Crisis?
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Screaming into the void with Gareth Morgan and TOP
Electorate battles
David Fisher (Herald): Northland: National vs Winston Peters in a contest of promises made and kept
Sean Nugent and Emma Hatton (Dominion Post): Youth engagement and employment key concerns in Rimutaka Electorate
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Christchurch students more engaged in election than ever before
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Does Labour’s Man In The Wairarapa Have A Gaping Gulf Betwixt Rhetoric And Reality?
Caley Callahan and Thomas Mead (Newshub): Sky-high election hoarding puts Labour MP in political pickle
John Lewis (ODT): Merriment sets scene for serious policies
Policy
Heather Roy:Health Policies – comparison of the political parties plans
Disabled Persons Assembly (Public Address): Disabled floater voters: Employment and Income
Richard MacManus (Stuff):Let's tech this: Labour takes on National in ICT
Niki Bezzant (Herald): Where are the food policies this election?
Auckland airport fuel crisis
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Auckland's fuel supply vulnerability is well known, and serious
TVNZ: Fuel pipeline damage: Govt was warned of vulnerability five years ago
TVNZ: Refinery boss says 'NZ doesn't need to be embarrassed' about damaged pipeline
RNZ: 'I think that people will see this as a very rare occurrence'
Stuff: Paula Bennett and Judith Collins lament Auckland Airport jet fuel crisis
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Auckland airport jet fuel woes: Labour says National has 'let down' Kiwi travellers, businesses
Herald: Government knew of jet fuel supply concerns: Labour party
Housing
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Leaky homes crisis hitting poorer families
Newshub: Shame on those that let housing crisis happen - Duncan Garner
Brenda Harwood (ODT): Housing top issue for many
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Wellington City Council 'pursuing housing as a matter of urgency'
Joanna Wane (North and South): Running on empty: The 'ghost homes' in Auckland's housing crisis
Other
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Kellie Edmonds is a solo mum of five with a full-time job
Peter Aimer (Kotuitui): A bark but no bite: inequality and the 2014 New Zealand general election
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Patients left waiting as Wellington nurses and midwives struggle under pressure
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Insight: NZ's Mental Health at Breaking Point?
John Boynton (RNZ): Māori history school curriculum launched
Salient: The Politics of Caring: Interview with Max Harris
Megan Whelan (RNZ): Insight: Women’s Work and the Gender Wage Gap
Michele A'Court & Jeremy Elwood (Stuff): It's time for a suffrage celebration
John Boynton (RNZ): Māori Parliament's 100 year anniversary celebrated
Massey University: Social change takes time and bravery