NZ Politics Daily - 9 October 2017
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Today's content
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Coalition negotations
Jack Vowles (Newsroom): Not a moral right to govern
Audrey Young (Herald): Why English put the boot into the Greens
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters is still comfortably sitting in the dealer's seat
Press Editorial: Is Winston Peters centre stage in his party's swan song?
ODT Editorial: Now the real talks begin
NZ Herald editorial: Both sides now offer a viable majority
Rob Hosking (RNZ): No 'mandate for drastic change', just 'some dissatisfaction'
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Major parties acting like subservient wimps
Claire Robinson (Spinoff): Election 2017: a vote for the status quo
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Schrodinger's election
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Seats lost after nine years of Government
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Winston Peters gets down down to business
Audrey Young (Herald): At a glance: coalition talks explained
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Greens don't understand their position - Bill English
Dan Satherley (Newshub): What does Winston Peters want as his legacy?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour to meet with Greens and NZ First today
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Four days until a new Government? Talks to go into the night
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Coalition discussions continue 'policy by policy'
Newshub: Coalition talks to last 'all day and into the night' – Peters
1 News: Long day of coalition talks ahead but Winston Peters on track for Thursday announcement
Jo Moir, Vernon Small and Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Formal negotiations kick off with National with behind-the-scenes work well under way
Patrick Gower (Newshub): 'Fine' negotiations as beginning coalition talks come to a close
Interest: 'Policy is everything,' Kingmaker Winston Peters says after first heavy round of talks held Sunday
Audrey Young (Herald): New Zealand First Party's nine MPs - and the jobs that might suit them
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Peters says negotiations 'very constructive'
Nicholas Jones (Herald): 'We got a lot of work done': NZ First starts talks with National and Labour
Newshub: Coalition negotiations with NZ First underway
Jogai Bhatt (Newshub): Paula Bennett joins Nats' coalition talks team
1News: A blue-green deal would be 'very difficult', says Russel Norman
Newshub: Decision 17: What next for Māori?
Peter McKenzie (Newsroom): The evolution of a lose-lose situation
Emma Espiner (Newsroom): National: the Opposition from Hell
Laura McQuillan (RNZ): Ardern's potential to be a celebrity leader
Matthew Brockett (Bloomberg): New Zealand Opposition Parties Strengthen Hand in Final Vote Count
Special votes and final result
Colin James (RNZ): Poll predictions prove practically precise
RNZ: Every vote counted and recounted
1News: Special vote breakdown: The highest number ever saw Labour rise from past slump
Michael Wright (Stuff): Election analysis: Why did the special votes swing so far Left?
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ Election 2017: Five interesting facts about the vote
Pete George (Your NZ): Power by percentages
Greg Presland (The Standard): Why Labour may form the next Government
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What the Specials mean for the election result
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Lizzie Marvelly’s compulsory voting idea isn’t a solution
Sara Meij (Stuff): O'Conner MP of West Coast-Tasman and Smith MP of Nelson after special vote count
Jennifer Eder (Marlborough Express): Official election results show high voter turnout in Kaikōura electorate
MMP
Bryan Gould: How MMP is meant to work
Heather Roy: MMP doesn’t stand for Moral Mandate Presides
Heather Roy: Trainer Wheels Off – Time to abandon the MMP Threshold
Parliament and New MPs
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The 52nd New Zealand Parliament Demographics
Anna Connell (Newsroom): Only 170 years to go, sisters
Pete George (Your NZ): Greens and Cabinet gender equality
RNZ: Meet the country's newest MPs
Matt Shand (Stuff): Newest Labour MP hurriedly writes resignation letter
1News: Meet NZ's newest MPs – From the frontlines of women's refuge and human rights, to parliament
Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): Newest Labour MP Angie Warren-Clark 'keen to get stuck in'
Environment
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Converting our values into action on climate change
Jamie Morton (Herald): How will climate change hurt our ocean species? Scientists investigate
Julie MacArthur (Newsroom): The problem with trickle-down sustainability
Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Brent Edwards signs off at RNZ
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Turning up the noise on an unlikely 'teal deal'
Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): Is undisclosed, paid PR the new normal in politics?
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Stuff buys 49 per cent stake in electricity firm energyclubnz
IRD and psychometric tests
Adriana Weber (RNZ): Psychometric tests in IRD restructure 'offensive'
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Union takes Inland Revenue to court over 'offensive' psychometric testing
Trade
Richard Harman (Politik): NZ threatens trade war with Britain
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): TPP under threat from coalition talks
Food prices
1News: 'Two chains dominate the supermarket sector' - Unions back Labour's promised inquiry into food prices
1News: Watch: Suppliers of vegan products struggling to keep up with demand from Kiwis
Anan Zaki (Marlborough Express): Marlburians spending more on groceries than anywhere else in New Zealand
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Tertiary enrolments fall as cost of living rises
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Teachers fight to fix education system
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Home-based early-childhood educator Oak Tree shuts down for failing to educate
Housing
Liam Dann (Herald): The best place to work and buy a home in NZ
Rod Oram (Newsroom): BNZ CEO calls for capital gains tax
Herald: Property owners taking a hit leaving the housing market
Health
Zahra Shahtahmasebi (Critic): What is behind New Zealand’s high suicide rate?
RNZ: Samoan women urged to seek medical help early
NZ Defence Industry Association Forum
Alex Braae (Spinoff): ‘Blood on your hands’: activists get ready to protest the weapons expo
Jessie Anne Dennis (Spinoff): The weapons expo is a marketplace for misery
Immigration and migrant workers
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Duncan Garner quits 'foul and putrid' Twitter after 'violent' response to Kmart column
Stephanie Rodgers (Boots Theory): The immigration “debate”
Joseph Nunweek (Spinoff): Duncan Garner went to buy undies at K-Mart and came back in agony for NZ’s soul
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Duncan Garner: I’m not racist but…
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Duncan Garner’s Kmart checkout metaphor is actually delightfully perfect
RNZ: Significant drop in Tongan and Samoan overstayer figures
RNZ: Multicultural Nelson prompts research
Poverty
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Poverty amid prosperity, what businesses are doing to help
Susan Edmunds (Stuff):No simple answer to help New Zealand's poor
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Poverty policy's terrible tradeoffs.
Local government
Herald: Phil Goff's $239 million cash grab for GST paid by Auckland ratepayers
RNZ: Goff wants to use GST on rates to boost council revenue
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Giving up Guy Fawkes festival just a clever Catholic plot
CEO pay
Peter Dornauf (Stuff): Lacking leadership at every turn
Paul Glass (Herald): Executive remuneration - a runaway train?
Other
Louise Edwards (The Press): Funding is not enough - charities need to empower people
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Cook Islands faces its 'worst case scenario', being granted developed country status
Herald: Brian Tamaki speaking event cancelled after activists plan 'big gay party’