NZ Politics Daily - 3 October 2017
3 October 2017
Today's content
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NZ First and coalitions
Vernon Small (Stuff): Winston Peters' crossbench option would have National sitting uncomfortably in seat of power
Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston Peters calls NZ First caucus meeting ahead of opening talks with major party leaders
Herald: Labour leader Jacinda Ardern won't sideline Greens in coalition negotiations
NZ Herald editorial: Five days is too tight for a good government agreement
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Did Bill English call Peters' bluff or was it the other way round?
Laura Walters and Vernon Small (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern, Winston Peters agree to catch up after Peters returns Bill English's call
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Watch: 'Things are really starting to crank up now' – English and Ardern both speak to Winston
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): NZ Politics playing out like Tinder
Herald: Peters plays the field, will meet Labour this week too
Claire Trevett (Herald): 'Courteous' Winston Peters returns Bill English's call
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Hello, is it me you're looking for?
RNZ: Peters puts English on hold
TVNZ: 'There has to be some chemistry' – Former PM reveals what it takes to work with Winston Peters
Mike Yardley (Stuff): The futility of trying to read Winston's tea leaves
Bryan Gould (Herald): Labour has much to gain from wooing Winston Peters
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): The price of a NZ First coalition: Free-to-air sport?
Herald: Free-to-air sport may be another 'bottom line' for Winston Peters
Mike O'Donnell (Stuff): Please don’t make immigration a bargaining chip
Pii-Tuulia Nikula (Briefing Papers): Grand Coalitions: Finland and New Zealand
National –Greens deal
Richard Harman (Politik): Why National won't be able to deal with the Greens
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): All this ‘teal deal’ talk is empty posturing
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Why the Greens won't, and can't, go with National - Russel Norman
Chris Trotter (Stuff): What will it take for the Greens to 'make a difference'?
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): What the Green Party has achieved in 18 years
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Politically Correct: Green Party won't pick up the phone
TVNZ: Calls for Greens to consider National, as Bill English admits he's 'open-minded' about it
Jane Clifton (Listener): Is a Greens-National coalition actually viable?
David Hay (Sophocrat): Credible Threat: A National-Green coalition
I’m no fox: More ridiculous coalition arrangements weighed up
MMP
Michael Wright (Stuff): It's time to ditch the MMP threshold
Hans Grueber (Herald): Nothing says the largest party has moral right to govern
Terry Dunleavy (Herald): Tyranny of the minority the elephant in the political room
TVNZ: After eight MMP elections, concern over undue power given to small parties remains
Linkwater counting error
Ric Stevens (Press Editorial): Linkwater's vote counting blunder the exception that proves the rule
Laura Walters (Stuff): Vote counting errors unlikely to change make-up of Parliament
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): The small rural township that stood up and was counted ... incorrectly
Newshub: 123 votes for National wrongly given to Māori Party
RNZ: 'Data entry error' in a true blue town
Voting data
Matt Burrows (Newshub): Digging through the data: The election's weirdest voting-booth stats
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What the data tells us: Māori and Pacific voters throw support behind Labour
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): It's not the size of the dog that matters - The electorate swings that matter
David Chaston (Interest): For those who like the raw numbers, here is a summary of the 2017 election votes counted and preliminary seats won, compared with other recent general elections
Critic: National Comfortably Win Party Vote at Two Uni Campuses
Electorate contests
Newshub: Signs of change in Waiariki
Damian George (Stuff): Insight: How did Chris Bishop snatch Hutt South from Labour's perennial grasp?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How Bishop won Hutt South
Kelley Tantau (Stuff): Hamilton had 'most to lose' with change of government
Māori Party and Māori seats
Colin James (ODT): What form will the next Maori party take?
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Kīngitanga and politics uncomfortable bedfellows
Dominic O’Sullivan (Newsroom): Māori seats should be up to Māori
Election
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Final list of major donors
Isaac Davidon (Herald): TOP election campaign costs rise to $1.7 million
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Difference Between Jeremy And Jacinda, Is The Difference Between Government And Governance
Pete George (Your NZ): How to Start a New Political Party
Health
Alan Duff (Herald): Plunging headlong into early graves
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Hurt & Hope: Has the Government failed to respond to mental health demand post-quakes?
Tom Furley (RNZ): Auckland mumps cases rise 'on a daily basis'
Employment
Dan Satherley (Newshub): MPs' pay hikes 'ripping off taxpayers'
Sam Kelway (TVNZ):‘It's quite disheartening' – teacher frustrated by lack of opportunity in workforce for people with disabilities
Sarah Harris (Herald): Handful of rest homes close after pay equity deal
Farming and fishing
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Fonterra failing basic tests
Lois Williams (RNZ): Northland hapū and conservationists fight for river access
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Māori fishers getting shafted - Shane Jones
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Teachers kicked and bitten by students
Sarah Longbottom (Spinoff):‘Before you teach me, you have to reach me’: The case for better alternative education
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Poor returns to tertiary education
Other
Terry Baucher (Interest): Any political party wanting a fairer, more productive New Zealand needs to address the issue of the taxation of capital
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): Introducing The Spinoff Ātea, an online community for Māori perspectives and insight
Herald: North Korea poses 'direct danger' to NZ, US ambassador Scott Brown warns
RNZ: Dual citizenship floated for Cook Islanders
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Immigration: Overstayer numbers have nearly halved from ten years ago
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Market sorts out climate change. Yeah right...
Phil Pennington (RNZ):Council boss ignores pleas to turn protester's water on
Brian Easton (Pundit): In Praise of Public Servants
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Fraudster's business partner shredded fake invoices
Matt Nippert (Herald): Investigation into charity trust supporting Maori King sharpens focus
Guy Williams (Stuff): The excruciating pain of talking to old people about politics
Herald: Te Puni Kokiri staff speak only te reo Maori for a month
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 'Voluntary suspension' for Fuji Xerox no longer voluntary
Anna Leask (Herald): Auckland police cells 'decommissioned' in favour of new unit at Mt Eden Prison
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Foreign Investment - the random number generator strikes again
Newsroom: Why NZ firms are missing opportunities