NZ Politics Daily - 2 October 2017
2 October 2017
Today's content
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Coalitions and NZ First
Dan Satherley and Lisa Owen (Newshub): What Winston Peters will do, according to those who know him
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Winston Peters is in the box seat, and don't we know it
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters: 7 per cent of the vote, 100 per cent of the power
Duncan Garner (Stuff): The megalomaniac reigns all over National's parade
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Yesterday's man holds all the cards
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Winston and the ill-behooving menu
John Roughan (Herald): A personality cult decides our next government
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Hail Caesar - calling the tune with just 7.5%
John Armstrong (Herald): Winston Peters' ultimate bottom line
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret Diary of Winston Peters
Russell Harding (Stuff): Status quo has put Peters right where he likes to be - front and centre
Listener: Editorial – Winston Peters has 7% support yet 100% of the power – that feels wrong
Simon Maude (Stuff): Major Auckland iwi supports Winston Peters' election port promise
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Last Thing Progressive New Zealand Needs Is A Coalition Of Contradictions
Tony Verdon (Herald): Winston Peters: Politician, family man and enigma
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): As MMP reality sets in, Labour-NZ First-Green Government looks more likely
Alex Tarrant (Interest): As National and Labour fight for NZ First’s attention, the battle for the fiscal high ground remains politically relevant
Deborah Hart (Newsroom): The art of striking a good deal
Herald: Winston Peters didn't answer Bill English's calls
Laura Walters (Stuff): Winston Peters snubs Bill English's call
Greg Presland (The Standard): The Herald doesn’t want Winston to go with Labour
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): National will have to raise social spending - Trotter
Audrey Young (Herald): Safe room likely on agenda for coalition talks
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Could NZ First decide to sit on the cross benches and give support issue-by-issue?
TVNZ: Who will Winston pick? Labour's Kelvin Davis thinks 'right now it's 50-50'
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Walk away, It's a devil's bargain for Labour
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Only middle class activists would wait another 3 years to change the Government
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): This political dating game is purgatory
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): The art of the deal: Expert negotiators weigh in on how to handle Winston
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Comparing the negotiating teams
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Winston Peters might be right: is the future of the Auckland port up north?
Kelly Dennett (Herald): While Winston decides, let there be icecream
Sandra Lee-Vercoe (E-Tangata): Labour and Winston aren’t a bad fit
Richard Pamatatau (E-Tangata): Will they make room at the cabinet table for Pacific talent?
Michael Reddell (Newsroom): How NZ First could achieve its migration cuts
Greens
Danyl Mclauchlan (The Spinoff): Inside the campaigns: how the Greens survived Jacindamania
Nandor Tanczos (Spinoff): The Greens need a new strategy. One day that has to include talking to National
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Between a rock and a hard place? Welcome to politics
Richard Harman (Politik): The dubious campaign to woe the Greens
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How a National-Green coalition could work
Isaac Davison (Herald): Green refusal to work with National 'pathetic' - Bolger
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Greens have a responsibility to talk to National: Jim Bolger
1News: 'Talk to both sides' - Greens should 'step up' and negotiate with National, says former PM
The Standard: Resistance is futile …
Isaac Davison (Herald): As New Zealand waits for a new Govt, more come out in support of National-Green deal
Pete George (Your NZ): Nandor Tanczos on Greens and National
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Honour above the environment? Greens hold a deck of aces they're refusing to play
Pete George (Your NZ): Greens dirty on dealing with the devil
Pete George (Your NZ): Time for a Green alternative Eco-Eco party?
Pete George (Your NZ): Why should smaller parties bother, especially the Greens?
Matthew Whitehead (Le Matt Juste): On that stupid coalition deal…
NZ Herald: Nandor Tanczos says Greens must deal with National - but not now
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): The Green Party dilemma: the environment's so mainstream and it's both good and a challenge
Catherine Delahunty (Women’s writing collective): Tea with Metiria
David Hay: Doing green or being green
Election review and outcome
Madeleine Holden (The Spinoff): The many styles of sexism in Election 2017: a retrospective
Paul Young (Newsroom): How special votes could change the election
Scott Palmer (Newshub): New Zealand election's biggest campaign mistakes
Karl du Fresne (The Spectator): Split NZ
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): The extent to which the migrant vote has propped up National, particularly in Auckland's traditional Labour strongholds
Paul Tankard (ODT): Is this to be the spring of our discontent?
Chloe King: Fxxk the 2017 General Election Result
Stuff: Electoral Commission working through election day complaints, including Sean Plunket's tweet
Anthony Robins (The Standard): Nats fought a FPP campaign and blew it – Labour went with MMP…
Pete George (Your NZ): Revised election statistics, turnout down
Mike Williams (Hawke’s Bay Today): Election predictions risky
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): If 2017 was a vote for change so was 2005
Frank Newman (NZCPR): Election 2017 – the winners and losers
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Election 2017 – Roundup
Andrew Geddis (RNZ): Special votes: why the wait?
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): National edges out Labour on Facebook during election
Herald: Maori Party's Marlborough Sounds landslide swept away by error correction
Brenda Harwood (ODT): Tirikatene proud of Maori seat victories
Shawn McAvivnue (ODT): Clark 'chuffed' at party vote rise
Shawn McAvinue (ODT) Labour's gains thrill Curran
Brendan Harwood (ODT): Woodhouse relaxed about coalition talks
Andrew Austin (Hawke’s Bay Today): Voting patterns tell the tale in the very political Hawke's Bay battleground
Māori politics
Moana Maniapoto (E-Tangata): Why I’m not a party girl
Graham Cameron (E-Tangata): The mātauranga divide decided the fate of the Māori Party
Morgan Godfery (The Spinoff): The end of ‘neither left nor right, but Māori’
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The who, how, why and ramifications of killing the Māori Party
Jo Moir (Stuff): Labour's clean sweep of Māori seats sealed Māori Party's fate - what went wrong and will it return?
Newshub: Signs of change in Waiariki
MMP and constitutional arrangements
1News: After eight MMP elections, concern over undue power given to small parties remains
Pete George (Your NZ): Is MMP working?
John Innes (The Standard): We need a new version of MMP
Damien Grant: Joyce the genius should have saved us from this mess
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Without an election result, who's in charge right now?
Environment
Venetia Sherson (North & South): Why is New Zealand so far behind the movement to ban plastic bags?
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Leading environmentalists' plea to the next Government
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Explainer: What a zero carbon act means for New Zealand
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): The state of the environment, 20 years after 'blockbuster' report
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Political party leaders urged to protect environment
MP salaries
TVNZ: Fresh batch of MPs land $163k salary after pay rise is awarded
Rob Stock (Stuff): Life hacks from the Beehive: saving on an MP's salary
New and departing MPs
Herald on Sunday editorial: We should get to know new MPs
Herald: The diary of a newbie kid - first week in parliament for new MPs following the election
Marama Fox (Stuff): I've packed up my office, paid my phone bill, given notice on my flat – now some advice for young MPs
Theo Spierings and CEO pay
ODT Editorial: Leapfrogging CEO remuneration
Ellen Read (Stuff): It's time to change
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Fonterra a cash cow - for some
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Theo Spierings: An Icon of Inequality
Destiny church
RNZ: Destiny School applies for help from KidsCan
Auckland Now: Tax-exempt Destiny Church's private school on waiting list for help from KidsCan charity
Education
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Education the forgotten election issue
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Universities need 'revamp' as degrees lose their lustre
Simon Collins (Herald): Primary teachers pin hopes on NZ First or Greens becoming part of next Govt, says NZEI
Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Party leaders picking on the media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Too much talk about too few polls?
Wallace Chapman (Spinoff): Goodbye to an ‘old friend’: Back Benches
Integrity issues
Beith Atkinson (Integrity talking points): NZSIS comes in from the cold – spying with integrity
Beith Atkinson (Integrity talking points): New Zealand continues to score well in Worldwide Governance Indicators
RNZ: Council executive's $400,000 severance
Other
Bryan Gould: Events in Saudi Arabia do not often hit the headlines in New Zealand
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Remember that time Labour identity politics activists tried to expel Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor
Pete George (Your NZ): Is the centre a small party graveyard?
Jihee Junn (The Spinoff): Will Labour’s fair pay policy really bring New Zealand to a standstill?
Peter Wilson and Julie Fry (Newsroom): Immigration: there has to be a better way
Sara Vui-Talitu (RNZ): Is the 'NZ dream' living up to Pacific expectations?
Janine Hayward and Chris Rudd (ODT): Similarities and differences to 1966 election
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Wellington City Council cancels Guy Fawkes and moves fireworks Sky Show to Matariki
Tess McClure (Vice): Homeless Mothers of New Zealand
Simon Day (The Spinoff): Social enterprise: the future of capitalism?