NZ Politics Daily - 5 October 2017
5 October 2017
Today's content
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Winston Peters and coalition talks
Richard Harman (Politik): Winston faces a dilemma - policy or legacy
Dan Satherley and Patrick Gower (Newshub): Winston Peters to meet Pike River families
Jack Fletcher (Press): Winston Peters meeting with Bernie Monk to discuss Pike River before coalition talks begin
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Political limbo not Winston's fault
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Could New Zealand First's previous govt agreements be a blue-print and has NZ First has been sending smoke signals the last week?
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): The comprehensive list of Winston Peters' bottom lines
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Minimum-wage increases could be talking point during New Zealand First negotiations
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Industry prepares for immigration concessions
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters arrives at Parliament ahead of coalition talks
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Talks kick off today: National and Labour to meet Peters
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Coalition courting to commence
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Let the Government-building games begin
Laura Walters (Stuff): NZ First talks with National, Labour to begin
Newshub: Pre-coalition talks get underway
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ First will talk to National first
Herald: Jacinda Ardern on looming talks with Winston: 'There are some shared values'
Jo Moir (Stuff): Winston Peters to hold talks with National and Labour on Thursday
Greens
Wayne Mapp (Spinoff):Is there room for two Green parties in parliament?
Vernon Small (Stuff): No, honestly, National really did seem to be serious about a coalition with the Greens
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Green party vote analysis
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English meets with member of Green Party negotiating team - to talk rugby
Labour
Bryan Gould: Are we as brave as Labour in the 1930s
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Bryan Gould To Labour: This Is No Time For “Conventional Answers”
MMP
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What is confidence and supply… and how does it differ from a coalition?
Peter McKenzie (Newsroom): MMP: How does New Zealand stack up?
Pete George (Your NZ): Ditch the MMP threshold
Pete George (Your NZ): Is MMP too badly flawed?
Jake Bailey (Herald): Red or blue, we're still leading
New Parliament
Claire Trevett (Herald): The happiness of Nowhere Man David Seymour
Max Towle (RNZ): 'This is the House of Representatives and should have voices from all walks of life'
Jaden McLeod (Herald): Local Focus: Labour candidate in limbo
Jomo Galuszka (Stuff): What are politicians doing while we wait for a Government?
Election
Caleb Morgan (Cut your hair): Realistic possibilities for Parliament post-specials (all two of them)
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Owen Glenn donates to National, Labour - and offers money to New Zealand First
Brodie Fraser (Spinoff):Screw parliament: how you can create political change right now
Amelia Christensen-Rose (Waikato Times): Anxiety and heartbreak of voting for the first time in a general election
Environment
Jamie Morton (Herald): Exempt streams carry biggest pollution load
Pattrick Smellie (Business Desk): Businesses ready to move forward on climate change
Lynn Prentice (Standard): ETS is useless, scrap it
Luke Kirkness (Herald): Countdown to ditch single-use plastic bags by end of 2018
Southland Times: Southland Federated Farmers president has day in court
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): High-school teachers may lodge unusual claim for immediate 5 per cent pay rise
James Bentley (Herald): Election offered no answers to the teacher shortage
Herald Editorial: Most teachers no doubt deserve a hefty rise
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): PPTA wants the worst teachers paid $87,000 a year
Health
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Teen's suicide cited in schools' mental health project
Stuff Editorial: Time to pay to protect Kiwi kids from skin cancer
Karen Brown (RNZ): Pharmacists want more funding to carry out tests
Karen Brown (RNZ): Debt-plagued DHB's advice to UK 'ironic'
Slater, Graham, Rich defamation case
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Whaleoil, ex MP, PR man to face jury trial
Stuff: Whale Oil blogger, former MP, and PR specialist could face jury
Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): Carrick Graham and Slater Jnr’s PR attack blog smear campaign inches towards court – with Katherine Rich attached
Pete George (Your NZ): Sellman, Swinburn, Bradbrook v Slater, Graham, Rich
Auckland City Council
Don Brash (Herald): Maori wards are a solution looking for a problem
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mayoral meeting over controversial statue
Rainbow Youth video
Herald: 'It's deeply disappointing, but it's not gay': First Rainbow Youth video ad goes viral
Stuff: Kiwis are showing the love for an ad that challenges how we use the word 'gay'
Economy
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Winston knocks business confidence down, but not out
John Boynton (RNZ): Survey under way to gauge Māori financial attitudes
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Reserve Bank review delay fuels talk of Treasury 'power grab'
Other
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Blacklisted for exploiting migrant workers in NZ
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Independence of ACC disputes entity questioned
Graham Cameron (Spinoff):Independence in a post-settlement state: ‘Our system is designed to maintain colonising power’
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): How do Maori respond to the next wave of colonisation?
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Ministry of Transport fraudster Joanne Harrison refused parole
Lindy Laird (Herald): Ministry apologises after text alert test wakes Northlanders
Stuff: Māori Wardens feel pressured to join Scientology
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Wait, what? Can we just go back to that story about Police spying on prison activists?