NZ Politics Daily - 21 September 2017
21 September 2017
Today's content
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1News Colmar Brunton Poll
Colin James (RNZ): National overtake Labour in latest election poll
Harkanwal Singh (Herald): Vote 2017: Herald Election Forecast has National ahead
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll
TVNZ: Watch: National takes huge lead in bombshell 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll
Vernon Small (Stuff): Bill English has every reason to smile as Labour lead reversed in 1News poll
Wayne Mapp (Newsroom): The three factors driving the swing back to National
Isaac Davison (Herald): New poll: National soars, Labour slumps, New Zealand First on brink of 5% threshold
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): National surges ahead of Labour in new poll, with NZ First struggling but crucial
TVNZ leaders debate
TVNZ: Watch: Leaders Debate analysis - Bill English wants to knock Winston out … and he's almost done it
TVNZ: Final leaders' debate between English and Ardern pulls in over one million viewers
Herald: The verdicts on the final Bill English vs Jacinda Ardern leaders' debate
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The final leaders debate was tetchy. But who won?
Andy Fyers and Katie Kenny (Stuff): Truth or fable: Fact-checking the final leaders debate
Spinoff: The final battle: A fight to the death in the last English-Ardern debate
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): A sit-down without a knockdown
David Slack (RNZ): Debate a reality TV spectacle
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Ding ding as Ardern, English square off again
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Subdued final debate ends on scrappy note
RNZ: The debate's top five moments
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Final leaders' debate: Jacinda Ardern believes Kiwis want change despite new poll
Election
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): The Spinoff Predictometer: Which candidates will win on Saturday?
Patrick Gower (Newshub): National playing 'post-truth politics'
Vernon Small (Stuff):'Negative' attacks on tax give National a boost, but leaders say race still close
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Bill English ignoring reality of MMP - minor parties
Richard Harman (Politik): The stark choice
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Kissing babies, shaking off social justice
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Don't bother waiting up. Advance votes will tell you who won
Herald: Age no barrier for Jacinda Ardern, new poll says
Dean Knight (Newsroom): A system based on confidence
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Election day weather: what's the forecast and who will it benefit?
Herald: Blue skies for dry trip to polling booth on Election Day
Ella Henry (RNZ): Election 2017: Game of Taniwha
RNZ: Voters mark Suffrage Day with record turnout
Claire Robinson (Herald): Early signs were there but will we have a 'youthquake?'
Anthony Hua (Herald): Youth would vote if they thought their voice was heard
Max Towle (RNZ): Why I was an idiot for not voting last election
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why I'm voting for the first time
Leonid Sirota (Pundit): Not That Kind of Voting
Northern Advocate: Grieving family say young Northland leader's vote should count
Asher Emanuel and Ollie Neas (Spinoff): Don’t vote based on policy, say the people who created Policy
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): English looking ahead but rival is a sensation
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): A final, brief election thought
Max Harris (Newsroom): Personal values matter this election
Zac Painting (Stuff): Greed, not taxes, will ruin this country
Richard Prebble (Herald): It will be a Government of pale pink or red-green
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Let’s make sure the Greens get well over the threshold
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Labour and National housing plans 'cynicism, no substance': Expert
Herald Editorial: Labour should leave the Reserve Bank alone
Calum Henderson (Spinoff): The children of New Zealand just gave our politicians a roasting
Tim O’Connell (Stuff): What do Kiwi 7-year-olds know about elections?
Giovanni Tiso (Bat Bean Beam): The loneliness of the election hoarding
Newsroom: Election photos: The campaign at a glance
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Polling staff can take polling boxes home
Campaign trail
Mei Heron (RNZ):A tale of two campaigns: Food banks and corporate offices
Jo Moir (Stuff): Bill English isn't leaving anything in the tank with 72 hours of campaigning to go
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill English goes fishing for votes - in the wrong places
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern vows clampdown on loan sharks and boarding houses
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Almost 1000 attend a FIRST union rally with Labour and Green Party leaders
Water
Newshub: Most Kiwis want farmers to pay for water
Jill Galloway (Stuff): Labour politician walks out of Manawatū farmer water forum after being 'physically pushed'
Stuff: Editorial: Water issues have boiled over
Pattrick Smellie: Quality, not quantity, is the real water debate
Benedict Collins (NRZ): NZ First won't support water tax policies – Peters
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Winston Peters won't support Labour's water tax plans
Political ad complaint
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Complaint over National's 'Let's tax this' ad not upheld by BSA
RNZ: No facts in cleared National ad – BSA
TOP
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Gareth Morgan, In His Own Words
Mike Joy (Spinoff): Mike Joy on the TOP endorsement (UPDATED)
Spinoff: TOP and Sean Plunket on the Mike Joy endorsement saga
Nicholas Jones (Herald): 'Voters cannot be this thick': Gareth Morgan on 'Jacinda effect'
Māori Party
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Te Ururoa Flavell's fight to keep the Māori Party alive
Anna Rankin (Newshub): New Zealander of the Year Dr Lance O'Sullivan wants ministerial role
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Strategic voting top of mind: Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox
NZ First
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Winston Peters 'confident' of winning Northland
TVNZ: 'These pollsters get it wrong' - Winston Peters says NZ First has more support than indicated
Newshub: Winston Peters has revealed his favourite other politician
Julian Lee (Stuff): Is New Zealand's hidden protest vote going to New Zealand First?
Pipeline puncture
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Politically correct: Oil on troubled waters three days out from election
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): NZ makes its own oil. So why are we paralysed when a pipeline breaks?
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Infrastructure an 'enormous' gap in governance – industry
Raybon Kan (Herald): Digger hitting a fuel line an on-brand Kiwi crisis
MSD fake names
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Public service boss Peter Hughes defends welfare chief Brendan Boyle over fake names
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Beneficiary to sue Ministry of Social Development over fake names
Stuff: MSD faked names and signatures in benefit reviews
Edward Gay (RNZ): MSD staff used false names, fearing attacks
No Right Turn: Rotten to the core
Health
Finlay Macdonald (Noted): The real emergency in New Zealand's health system
Jackie Cumming (The Conversation): New Zealand’s health service performs well, but inequities remain high
China and NZ
David Fisher and Matt Nippert (Herald): Revealed: China's network of influence in New Zealand
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): The political cone of silence, with slurs
Herald: Don Brash refutes allegations China has influence on New Zealand politics
Other
Pat Veltkamp Smith (Southland Times): Welcoming newcomers. Who's job is that?
RNZ: English defends immigration rules after suicide claim
Rebekah Graham (Spinoff): No, poor NZ families don’t just need to make ‘better choices’
Jim Tucker (Stuff): My Muldoon moment and other election day memories
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): 1969: The “Nearly-But-Not-Quite” Election
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): The Block NZ is the perfect way to learn about NZ’s broken tax system