NZ Politics Daily - 20 September 2017
20 September 2017
Today's content
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Election
John Armstrong (TVNZ): Opinion: Betting on election outcome a fool's game, but scenarios don't look good for Bill English
TVNZ: Watch: The most right and left-leaning places in NZ revealed - where does your town fit?
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Which New Zealand are you voting for?
TVNZ: Vote Compass: What New Zealanders think about... foreign policy
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): What our Policy tool’s data vault has to tell us about election 2017
Barry Soper (Herald): Unprecedented, unusual election
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Video: The election as explained by social media
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Politically Correct: No magic rabbits left on the campaign trail
Herald: Call for rule change so young Northlander's vote is counted
Siobhan Wilson (RNZ): Rangatahi at the forefront of Māori roll registration
ODT: Poll shows election could be decided by young voters
Karoline Tuckey (Manawatu Standard): Trio has wake-up call for young voters planning to sleep through election
Thomas Heaton (Stuff): New Zealand politicians share their post-election celebration meals
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Herald): New Zealand's general election: all you need to know
David MacDonald (The Conversation): Lessons for Canada in New Zealand’s Indigenous-friendly electoral system
RNZ: Leaders continue campaigning as early votes flood in
Newshub: Decision 17: Record-breaking early votes cast
ODT: Over 500,000 early votes cast
Laine Moger (North Shore Times): Young voters on Auckland's North Shore keenest to vote
Isaac Davison (Herald): Jacinda Ardern makes final plea for youth to turn up to vote
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Election 2017 scenarios and implications: interest rates
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Why women will decide this election
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): The only votes that count is the party vote – except in………
Geoff Neal (Herald): Seven election questions no one seems to be asking
Peter Cullen (Stuff): Political neutrality important for public servants
Michael Daly (Stuff): Women celebrate Suffrage Day with a visit to the polling booth
Stuff: Media Take: Some politicians are beyond satire
ODT: Election 2017: The policies at a glance
Laura Walters (Stuff): Election: Advance voting ballot boxes taken home by electoral officials
National
RNZ: Bill English on Nine to Noon
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): In an election that's down to the wire, every handshake counts
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): What’s going on with the business case for the proposed new highway to Whāngārei?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill English: National committed to doing more for environment
Patrick Gower (Newshub): National guilty of biggest campaign lie
Herald: Bill English stops in at the chocolate factory
Olivia Caldwell (Stuff): How does Prime Minister Bill English rate in the Stuff sports quiz?
Newshub: Steven Joyce still backing Labour's alleged $11.7b fiscal hole
RNZ: Privacy complaint over Bennett campaign text
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra):A near-complete cone of silence
Lyndon Hood (Werewolf):From the Hood : The Campaign Strategist’s Lament
Labour
Toby Boraman (Massey University): Opinion: NZ politics’ soft neoliberal underbelly
Graham Adams (Noted): Election 2017: Ardern Derangement Syndrome
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘My final, final plea’: a day in Whanganui with Jacinda Ardern
Steve Maharey (Herald): Win or lose Jacinda Ardern has made her mark
Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold (Stuff): Labour promises to boost Teina Pora's compensation if elected
Jo Moir (Stuff): Election: Annette King happy to be Jacinda Ardern's 'aunty'
Jo Moir (Stuff): Clarke Gayford says the attention on Jacinda Ardern just keeps going up a gear
Jody O’Callaghan (Press): Staunch Labour supporter leaves dying message ahead of elections
Herald: Jacinda Ardern's grandmother dies
Anthony Robins (Standard): Why I voted two ticks Labour
Minor parties
Mike Hosking (Herald): Mike's Minute: Desperate moves in the face of a Greens cataclysm
Don Rowe (Spinoff): Lance O’Sullivan explains why he is running for the Māori Party in 2020
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Spinoff):I thought you had my back, Marama?
Branko Marcetic (Spinoff): Winston’s history: what can we learn from the NZ First deals with National and Labour?
Newshub: Inside Winston Peters' brain with Paddy Gower
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Act to deliver billion dollars in mock currency to education union
Herald: David Seymour: 'I can't afford my own house in Auckland'
Herald: What happened to the Conservative Party?
Electorate battles
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Hone Harawira dismisses 'rubbish poll' showing Labour ahead
Dominion Post: Long a Māori party stronghold, Te Tai Hauāuru is now in Labour hands
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Tirikatene strong, but Turei campaigning hard
Dominion Post: Big names go head to head in the nations biggest electorate: Te Tai Tonga
Dominion Post: Labour Party's Meka Whaitiri aims to retain Ikaroa-Rāwhiti seat
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Political commentator discusses Te Atatū's chances of getting four MPs
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Meet Auckland's likely new MPs
Dane Ambler and Meriana Johnsen (Stuff): With long serving MP Annette King out of the race, Rongotai Electorate will choose a new MP this election
Jennifer Eder (Marlborough Express): PM's coffee break gatecrashed in Blenheim
Michael Wright (Stuff): Gerry Brownlee's very low-key plan for re-election
TVNZ: Greens 'desperate' thinking they can win Nelson says veteran National incumbent Nick Smith
Dene Mackenzie (ODT: Contest of potential health ministers
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Labour pushing hard to win back party vote
Punctured pipeline
David Fisher (Herald): PM's key infrastructure plan didn't include fuel pipeline to Auckland
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand jet fuel 'debacle' disrupts election campaign and chokes off exports
Press Editorial: The battle of the bowser bulge
Brian Rudman (Herald): Judith Collins' pipeline to promotion springs leak
Richard Harman (Politik): Collins ready to get tough on av gas
Lois Williams (RNZ): Swamp kauri mining at fuel site was years ago – neighbours
Auckland Now: Auckland's rapid growth blamed for fuel crisis
David Fisher (Herald): Fuel crisis: Government workers told to cancel air travel
Health
Vernon Small (Stuff): DHB deficits to stay under wraps until after election, Health Ministry says
Michael Daly and Adele Redmond (Stuff): Child sex abuse, overweight children drag down New Zealand's health ranking
RNZ: DHBs critically underfunded, opposition parties say
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Pouring money into a broken health system
RNZ: Govt not to blame for 'terrible' Southern DHB delays – Coleman
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Chronic needs 'fall between the cracks' in mental health
Water tax
Jamie Gray (Herald): Fonterra unit encouraged farmers to attend Morrinsville march
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Over half of Kiwis want all water users to pay, Water NZ survey shows
RNZ: Ardern 'holding firm' on water tax despite protest
TVNZ:Ardern denies there is an 'urban-rural divide' after Morrinsville protest
ODT: Farmers point to unintended consequences
NZ Herald editorial: Farmers should know they are still appreciated
Housing
Phil Pennington (RNZ): 'We talk about the housing crisis ... what about the people crisis?'
Phil Pennington (RNZ):Leaky homes leading to 'pure desperation'
No Right Turn: How WINZ got social housing costs so wrong
Philippa Howden-Chapman (Dominion Post): Without standards, renters get less for more
Other
John Boynton (RNZ): Rotorua whānau go without food to pay bills
RNZ: Politics: Are National Standards degrading Arts and Music education?
RNZ: Why the NZ history we're teaching matters
Theresa Gattung (Herald): New Zealand needs a strong pipeline of female talent