19 September 2017
Today's content
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Election
Colin James: Transformation, big tweaks or steady does it?
Richard Shaw (Stuff): So, how do we actually form a government after we've voted?
Audrey Young (Herald): Expect the unexpected
Herald: Why you should vote for me: Leaders in their own words
Jack Vowles (Newsroom): Has poll failure come to New Zealand?
Jon Johansson (Stuff): Battling the zeitgeist
Ben Thomas (Herald): New government must address mood of change
Simon Maude (Stuff): Voting at supermarkets past its best-by date come election day
Siobhan Wilson and Sarah Robson (RNZ): 'Weird' election advertising rules challenged
Herald: Politics lecturer claims Maori voters have been 'sabotaged' through 'misinformation'
TVNZ: Electoral Commission staff 'ignorant and unprepared' for helping Maori voters, says academic
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Just when will the fat lady start singing this election?
No Right Turn: It’s going to be a short election night
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Election night: survival guide
RNZ: Election17: Wondering what to do on Saturday night?
Herald: Make your voice count on election day
Herald: Everything you need to know about MMP
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What happens if you're not enrolled to vote and get caught?
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Youth enrolments up, still more needed and turnout to beat greyquake
TVNZ: Startling to hilarious: The first TVNZ appearances for Bill, Jacinda, Winston and Hone
Peter Dornauf (Waikato Times): Freedom of speech is fundamental
Brian Easton (Pundit): An Alternative to Neoliberalism?
Alan Duff (Herald): Election is anyone's guess
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Wild carnival ride of election campaign shows plugged-in voters
Max Harris (Spinoff): You can go shopping with values: Max Harris on the politics of love
Jessica Long (Stuff): English and Ardern's final debate to be interpreted in silence for deaf community
Herald: Final leaders' debate to include NZ Sign Language
Tom Sainsbury (Spinoff): Kiwis of Snapchat: Bill English and Jacinda Ardern face the end
Toby Manhire (Herald): The election alphabet
Steve Braunias (Spinoff): Election 2017! There’s a book in this (maybe)
Benedict Pringle (Political Advertising): Sweet As! The drama of New Zealand’s general election
Water and environment
Chris Trotter (Stuff): When the country goes to (cow) town
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Tinkerbell the pretty communist and other things the dairy farmers said
Claire Trevett (Herald): Farmers rip water tax as cow of idea
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Mudslinging in Morrinsville as fed-up farmers call out 'attacks' on rural NZ
Isaac Davison (Herald): Jacinda Ardern downplays impact of water tax as farmers protest in Morrinsville
Claire Trevett (Herald): Morrinsville farmer not impressed with Labour's plan for water tax
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern laughs off 'pretty communist' protest sign
Herald: Clark hits out over Ardern 'prett89y communist' attack
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Patrick Gower (Newshub): Farmers boo Winston Peters at protest against water tax
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern says rural-urban divide doesn't exist
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Politically Correct: Farmers kick up a stink over water
Jamie Mackay (Herald): Once upon a time, when farming was legal
Graham Cameron (First we take Manhattan): Fear and loathing in Morrinsville: the corporates hiding behind our farmers
Jamie Morton (Herald): Q&A: Predator-free NZ's tricky ethical issues
Labour
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Sooner or later Labour will retake the Beehive - then what?
Herald: GST on food to stay but Jacinda Ardern wants inquiry into high food prices
Audrey Young (Herald): How cards might fall at Jacinda Ardern's top table
Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Why Jacinda needs to lose this election
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Fair pay possible without strikes, Labour says
Isaac Davison (Herald): Tale of two cities for Labour leader Jacinda Ardern in eventful day
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): A day on the campaign with Jacinda Ardern
Simon Collins (Herald): Willie Jackson's new charter school upsets wharekura
David Farrar (KIwiblog): What will Labour’s industrial relations policy mean for businesses
National
Richard Harman (Politik): English avoiding Peters and dealing with poverty
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Ten Reasons For Not Voting National
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English questioned on water and transport during campaign day in Napier
Newshub: Nats release a five-point economic plan
Minor parties
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters knows his business
Mike Bain (Stuff): Winston Peters: National won't give you anything unless it has to
David Fisher (Herald): Hone Harawira uses new poll to call for tactical voting to get him and Labour's Kelvin Davis in
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Green Party leader James Shaw backs poll 'indications' for Nelson seat
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Shaw hails Greens' promises as '100 per cent credible' after independent analysis
TVNZ: Greens in last minute bid to wrestle Nelson seat from Nick Smith
Newshub: Greens commit to $23m Nelson cycleway
Newshub: Greens release their fiscal plan
RNZ: NZ Tongan leader concerned about royal backing of Maori Party
Rob Stock (Stuff): TOP's plan to tackle New Zealand's 'competition problem'
Electorate battles
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The battle to boost the regions
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Bill English trying to pull in support for Tukituki candidate
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Poll: Labour holding onto Tāmaki Makaurau electorate
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Getting people to the polls the focus as the election campaign winds down
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Labour candidate's dramatic gatecrashing of English's campaign
Herald: Local labour candidate gatecrashes Bill English's campaign at Blenheim café
Punctured pipeline
Audrey Young (Herald): Airport fuel crisis make or break for National Party
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Goodwill on the campaign trail tested by fuel crisis
Southland Times Editorial: Them's the breaks?
Press Editorial: Burst pipe shows importance of having a plan B
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Petrol industry spokesman urges Auckland motorists to keep calm and carry on
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Government agencies move in on Auckland Airport fuel crisis
Herald: Airport fuel crisis: Defence Force called in to help shortage at Auckland Airport
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Govt 'short-sighted' to ignore officials over pipeline
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English: No requests for help made over airport fuel crisis
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Thousands stuck in New Zealand after digger punctures airport fuel pipe
Women’s suffrage
Martin Johnston (Herald): Women outstrip men at the ballot box, starting after first Suffrage Day
Frances Cook (Herald): 'We fought for the right to vote, use it': NZ marks 124 years of women's suffrage
Jackie Blue (Spinoff): In honour of all the women who came before you, and those after – for goodness sake, vote
Charlotte Macdonald (RNZ): Sprinting to the polls: Suffrage Day's 124th anniversary
Barbara Brookes (Stuff): On Suffrage Day, the long road from a house to the House
Jennifer Dann (Herald): Twelve questions with Vanisa Dhiru
Health
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Number of New Zealand children hospitalised with malnutrition doubles as food costs bite
RNZ: Southern DHB's life-shortening failure
Stuff: New Zealand's cancer death gender gap
Housing
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Housing is the critical issue for the election
Newshub: National's housing spokesperson doesn't know how many houses built in Auckland
Other
Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold (Stuff): Teina Pora has been ripped off – again
Charles Crothers (Briefing Papers): Limits to growth?
Jeremy Olds (Stuff): New Zealand gets a newspaper for the homeless, by the homeless
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Expert calls for inquiry into Chinese ‘threat’