NZ Politics Daily - 26 September 2017
26 September 2017
Today's content
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NZ First and coalition negotiations
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The long hard road to get into Winston Peters' good books
Richard Harman (Poltik): The delicate balancing act
Herald: ‘Trying to con the public': What Winston Peters really thinks of National
Audrey Young (Herald): Which way will Winston Peters jump?
Vernon Small (Stuff): Reading the road signs: What will decide Winston Peters' next government
Patrick Gower: Meet the backroom operators wooing Winston Peters
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Wooing Winston: National, Labour pick their teams
Bevan Rapson (Noted): After the election campaign highs, Winston Peters brings the buzz-kill
RNZ: Former PM Jim Bolger on how to deal with Winston Peters
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Bill To Winston - 'Let’s Do This'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Winston Peters: How the kingmaker has ruled - and fallen – before
Emma Hurley (Newshub): What if Winston Peters doesn't go with Labour or National?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How does NZ First survive?
John Ryall (Newsroom): What NZ First could do for wages
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Winston Peters finds freedom in Whananaki
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): NZ First negotiations: What's on the table?
Laura Walters (Stuff): The coalitions that could form NZ's 52nd Government and how likely they are
Jo Moir (Stuff): The NZ First MPs on the brink of ministerial portfolios as Winston Peters prepares to cut a deal
Brent Edwards (RNZ): We know Winston, but who're NZ First's other MPs?
Lyn Prentice (Standard): Consider the people of New Zealand First
Southland Times Editorial: All those surely-not options
Alan Duff (Herald): Good luck getting a read on Winston Peters
Michael Cox (Stuff): National and Labour should sideline Winston Peters
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Winston Peters plots a path as kingmaker
Jo Moir (Stuff): Next government in Winston Peters' hands, as Northland rejects the party leader
Pete George (Your NZ): What now for forming a government?
Herald: Winston Peters: 'All roads lead to Russell'
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Winston Peters says NZ First holds balance of power, and won't be hasty with it
Martin Johnston (Herald): The northern MP who kept the country guessing after uncertain election result
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Pike River re-entry 'possibly' next year after election results, families say
National
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English not worried about grudges Winston Peters may hold
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): National purging those connected to Winston Peters pension leak
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Revealed - Winston Peters claims first scalp from National
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National Party's most senior adviser resigns
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Bill English's chief of staff quits - but wants NZ First deal first
Herald: Bill English's chief of staff Wayne Eagleson quits
Herald: English calling Peters a maverick 'not very smart
Michael Daly (Stuff): Bill English expects 'tense' negotiations with Winston Peters and NZ First
Rob Stock (Stuff): Can National and NZ First bridge the gap over NZ Super?
Michael Wright (Stuff): The 'dead cat' masterstroke that may just win National the election
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): National's Auckland firewall visualised
RNZ: National's grip on Akl, provinces tipped election – analyst
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Rating the election nights
Shabnam Dastgheib (Auckland Now): A National-led government promises $2 billion boost for congested Auckland
Alison Mau (Stuff): National stuck to the 'fiscal hole' all the way, because they had to
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Bill English held a press conference to say he hates everyone but electoral law made it illegal to report until now
Labour
Claire Trevett (Herald): Three-way talks with NZ First and the Greens not on cards, says Labour leader Jacinda Ardern
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour tamps down talk of booting out Greens
Vernon Small (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern sees 'shared values' with NZ First ahead of talks
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern can't say who is in negotiation 'box seat'
RNZ: No referendum on Māori seats: Ardern
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern to call Winston Peters later this week
Herald: Labour to examine Auckland performance
Claire Trevett (Herald): Vote 2017: More than just a new coat of paint for Labour
Gwynn Compton (Liberatas Digital): The Jacinda effect visualised in Auckland
Simon Louisson (Standard): Labour won’t regain power until it wins the tax debate
TVNZ: Watch: Jacinda Ardern cheered on by public at Wellington Airport after touching down
Vernon Small (Stuff): A sense of frustration, anger mixed with quiet pessimism in Labour ranks
Justin Latif (Stuff): Labour MPs remaining relentlessly positive despite 10 point deficit
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Skirting the law: Was it legal for Jacinda Ardern to walk around malls all day wearing a bag over her head?
Greens
Vernon Small (Stuff): Greens stress a three-way coalition more stable than a minority government
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The Green Party also hold the balance of power, but they don't seem to want it
Audrey Young (Herald): Nothing stopping Greens from approaching National
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Greens have decisions to make about their future focus
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The sad fate of the Māori party shows the Greens what awaits pragmatists
Rachel Smalley (Herald): Shaw thing - why the Greens should swing in behind National
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Greens rely on special votes to get Golriz Ghahraman into Parliament
Catriona MacLennan (Newsroom): Let 2020 be the year of the ‘povertyquake’
Dani McDonald (Stuff): AM Show host Mark Richardson's advice to Green Party leader: 'Be a risk-taker'
Māori and Mana Parties
Stuff: Māori Party founder Dame Tariana Turia plans return to help save the party
RNZ: Ousted Māori Party considers next steps
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Māori Party's loss cuts deep
Shannon Haunui-Thompson (RNZ): What happens without a Māori voice?
NZ Herald editorial: Can the Maori Party survive?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): NZ voted for return to 'the age of colonisation' - Marama Fox
Māori TV: Nanaia Mahuta calls for Māori King's advisors to stand down
Māori TV: Fox defiant after losing Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): “It is not the end. Ka whawhai tonu mātau,” says Dame Tariana Turia
Tepara Koti (Māori TV): Who are our Māori Members of Parliament now?
Māori TV: Mana Movement claims independent Māori voice has been lost in parliament
Māori TV: Marama Fox still has faith in the Māori Party
Leo Horgan (Māori TV): Māori have ‘gone back like a beaten wife to the abuser’ – Marama Fox
Newshub: End of Māori Party a good thing - Don Brash
Benn Bathgate and Elton Smallman (Stuff): Dr Lance O'Sullivan's prescription for Māori Party revival
Mike Hosking (Herald): The case to scrap the Maori seats
Matt Burrows (Newshub): Māori seats only benefit 'elite Māori' - Don Brash
Damon Salesa (RNZ): The Māori Party’s Pacific path
Kahu Kutia (RNZ): What is a government without the Māori or Mana parties?
Mike Watson (Stuff): Labour's Rurawhe's defence too strong for Māori Party hopeful Howie Tamati
RNZ: Māori Party fails in bid to return to Parliament
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): The Māori Party is out: Labour wins all Māori electorates
Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): What New Zealand’s vote means for Maori – and potentially First Nations in Canada
Herald: Gareth Morgan: This is not the end for The Opportunities Party
Lucy Swinnen (Stuff): Party 'for a fairer New Zealand' falls flat, as Gareth Morgan's TOP falls far short of 5 per cent
Election
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Look what you’ve done, New Zealand
Guy Williams (Stuff): The best, worst and weirdest of the 2017 election
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Election-night party at Dave's place
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): All the people I’m extremely mad at after the election
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): National tears Helen Clark’s dream to shreds
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Election 2017: It was a fiscal hole-in-one for Bill English
Stuff: Editorial: Extra time and Peters steps up
Richard Prebble (Herald): Ardern's tax call was a huge blunder
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Steven Joyce and the dead cat
Ric Stevens (Stuff): Tough going for minor parties after two decades of MMP
Bryan Gould (Herald): Let's hear fresh minds on old issues
Steve Liddle (Herald): Election leaves plenty to improve in democracy
Wyatt Creech (Pundit): A new beast of a government, whichever way Winston goes
David Slack (Stuff): All you need is votes
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's 'relentless positivity' campaign was naive at best
Graham Cameron (First we take Manahattan): Election reflections. NB potentially unpopular.
Cut Your Hair: After the election trauma: disappointment, anger, fear, hope
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Vote result great for real estate agents
Stephanie Rodgers (Boots Theory): So … what’s next?
Rodney Hide (Herald): We're all winners with our democracy
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): I'm comfortably numb... until it's time to move on
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Stability and decisiveness: What business wants from the coalition
Liam Dann (Herald): Markets will cope with election uncertainty
Jamie Gray (Herald): NZ financial markets seen taking election result in their stride
Opinion polls
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Election: How did the polls perform?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How the pollsters did provisionally
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Bugger the pollsters? Not this time
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Newshub's poll is vital and correct
Herald: The polls correctly pick election result
David Cohen (RNZ): Might as well face it, you're addicted to polls
Media
Stuff: Journalist David Beatson dies after long illness
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): A guide to political punditry
Stuff: TV stations reckon they are the big election winner
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): The election on TV: biscotti, bake sales and Heller's sausages
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Bored Auckland central bars switch screens to election results
Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Media industry still figuring out how to make money in digital age
New and departing MPs
Mei Heron (RNZ): New MPs: 'It's been a big road to here'
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Fresh and fresher faces learn about life as an MP
TVNZ: Election delivers fresh crop of new MPs ready to make their mark in Parliament
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Vote 2017: Fresh new face of NZ politics
Kelly Dennett (Herald): Vote 2017: Goodbye and Haere ra - Farewell to some much-loved politicians
Results
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Winston kingmaker, Māori Party gone, no youthquake, Labour, Green, NZ First government
Brian Easton (Pundit): Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Fossicking in election statistics
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The 52nd New Zealand Parliament
Tess Nichol (Herald): Just 14 votes: New Zealand's lowest-polling candidate
Regional results
Michael Wright (Press): Will another National Government mean anything different for Christchurch?
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): South elects three new MPs
Auckland Now: National survive scare from Labour rookie to win Auckland - and the country
Delwyn Dickey (Auckland Now): Young voters still under represented in election result
International coverage
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Both National and Labour need New Zealand First’s nine seats to form government, in negotiations expected to take weeks
Eleanor Ainge Roy and Kate Shuttleworth (Guardian): New Zealand gets hung parliament as Jacinda Ardern falls short
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Winston Peters: who is the man who will decide New Zealand's next prime minister?
Toby Manhire (Guardian): Ardern's New Zealand election bid punctured by post-truth politics
Richard Shaw (Guardian): The 2017 New Zealand general election will always belong to Jacinda Ardern
Truth, allegiance and values
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): The tribal nature of our politics
Max Harris (Newsroom): Personal values matter this election
Anna Connell (Newsroom): Quid est veritas? What is truth?
Farming
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Fear and loathing in the farming press
Craig Hickman (Newsroom): Why farmers are breathing a sigh of relief
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Egg farmers face financial ruin to switch to cage free, producers federation says
Theo Spierings paid $8.32m this year
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings paid $8.32m this year
RNZ: Acceptance of inequality at heart of CEO pay – researcher
Herald: Winston Peters takes aim at 'fat-cat' Fonterra boss Theo Spierings
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Fonterra CEO's 'fat cat' pay shows need for action - Winston Peters
RNZ: Fonterra defends CEO's $8.3m pay packet
Other
Colin James (ODT): The big issues beyond the coalition gavotte
Liam Dann (Herald): Ten things for a new government to worry about
John Holt (Spinoff): Why is New Zealand a low wage economy?
Julie Iles (Stuff): Combatting inequality, does minimum wage help or hinder?
Simon Moutter (Herald): Facing uncomfortable truths about diversity
Martin van Beynen (Press): The sensitive new male leader has arrived
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): 'The fight will continue': Water quality to remain an issue under new National Government
Paul Little (Herald): Governor-General's role should be reviewed