NZ Politics Daily - 13 October 2017
13 October 2017
Today's content
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Coalition negotiations
Audrey Young (Herald): No pressure Winston but the clock is ticking
John Armstrong (1News): NZ First is bound to end up being a small tail on a very large Labour or National dog
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): What does Winston Peters want his legacy to be?
Vernon Small (Stuff): That was then, what now? The 1996 NZ First - National deal
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Winston Peters 'totally owning' National and Labour - Patrick Gower
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Government negotiations are a complete circus
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Black Friday coalition? Not likely
Herald: Former NZ First MP says Winston Peters will go with Labour
Herald: NZ First MPs meet to decide which party to join for next government
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Kelvin Davis and Paula Bennett defend Winston Peters after decision delayed
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): NZ First has prided itself on transparency, so why are their board members a secret?
Richard Harman (Poltik): Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Brian Edwards: Is this Democracy?
Mike Hosking (Herald): Whack-a-mole Winston Peters has lost me
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution – Or Not?
Caleb Morgan (Cut Your Hair): MMP doesn’t make king/queenmakers; the concept of voting does
Jo Moir, Vernon Small and Laura Walters (Stuff): Winston Peters wraps up policy negotiations with National and Labour
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters' final promise: NZ will know who's in driver's seat before next week ends
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Who's deciding: NZ First board list revealed
RNZ: NZ First board will consider both Labour and National deals
RNZ: NZ First wraps back-to-back meetings
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters delays NZ First board meeting due to funerals
Sam Sachdeva and Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Negotiations close but result unclear
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): John who? The faceless few who get to decide the next Government
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Winston won’t even reveal who is on his board
Herald: Peters: Coalition deal Saturday at earliest, refuses to reveal NZ First board
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Winston Peters doubts we will have a decision this week as NZ First board have to meet in person
Alex Tarrant (Interest): NZ First board might not meet until weekend or even Monday to discuss which deal to agree to, Peters says
RNZ: NZ First 'unlikely' to meet before weekend – Peters
1News:'Greens are totally powerless' – Is NZ First and the Greens in coalition just too tricky?
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Implications of a new government for monetary policy
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Play It Again, Winston: An Article Written 12 Years Ago For "The Independent"
Election result and parliament
Stephen Beban (Spinoff): Third parties under MMP: A comprehensive retrospective
Gwynn Compton (Liberatas Digital): Green Party's most and least valuable electorates
Herald: Four of 10 closest seats change political stripes
David Farar (Kiwiblog): National’s Party Vote
Matt Nippert (Herald): Jian Yang didn't disclose Chinese intelligence connections in citizenship application
Alex Birchall (Marxist Academic): On the 2017 New Zealand Election
Health
Matthew Salmons (Press): A family's pain: 'We're not valuing good mental health like we should'
Tina Law (Press): First recipients of Christchurch 'resilience' fund to be decided this week
Pam Jones (ODT): Time for health shakeup
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): Taumarunui peaks in smoking and obese pregnant women
Rachel Thomas and Tom Hunt (Stuff): New Zealand retains bronze in OECD obesity stakes
Press Editorial: No easy solution to obesity problem
Leighton Keith (Taranaki Daily News): Taranaki woman wins 12-month fight to be given medicinal cannabis
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Kiwi doctor leads shift to address burnout for fellow doctors the world over
Karen Brown (RNZ): Queenstown doctor key in change to Hippocratic Oath
Road toll
Rhys Jones (Herald): Cars are to us what guns are to Americans
Sam Warburton (Interest): Public debate over the road toll is welcome but it has taken horrific accidents and many deaths to trigger it
Housing
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Housing NZ questioned over Irish prefab plans
Lois Williams (RNZ): Teaching the homeless to build new homes
RNZ: Lowest Sept house sales in six years – REINZ
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Predictions real estate agents will drop out as house sales plummet
Migrants and refugees
Emile Donovan (RNZ): Migrant worker bans: 70 firms fall foul of new rules
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): NZ grants residence to trans woman abused in UK
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): British transgender woman given residency in 'safer' New Zealand
James Roque (Stuff): Duncan Garner's column feeds fears immigrants will never feel welcome
Environment
Stuff: The decline of glacier ice volumes in New Zealand
Brian Fallow (Herald): Rising sea level will cost us all
Victoria University of Wellington (Newsroom): Environment watchdog’s final words of warning
ODT Editorial: A plethora of plastic
Pat Barrett (Stuff): Te Araroa Trail - is it paradise lost?
Education
Adele Redmond (Stuff): New Zealand schools need to teach more life skills, parents say
Stuff: Auckland tertiary school for foreign students loses NZQA accreditation
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): University of Waikato offers students degree overseas
Margot Taylor (ODT): University’s job cut plan labelled ‘drastic’
ODT: Uni staff face months of uncertainty
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): University of Otago confirm mass job losses
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): University of Otago CCTV won't be used for 'students being students'
ODT: Uni going ahead with CCTV plan
Food prices and production
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Research details packaging chemicals found in food
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Synthetic foods to have 'major impact' within 10 to 15 years - Sir Peter Gluckman
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): Challenges and opportunities in clean, green synthetic foods
BusinessDesk: Dairy drives NZ food prices higher as butter hits record
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Food prices on the up as cost of butter surges
Sean Plunket’s tweet
RNZ: Urgent BSA meeting over Plunket tweet
Herald: Sean Plunket's Weinstein comments to go before broadcasting standards regulator with 'urgency'
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Sean Plunket under scrutiny over Harvey Weinstein tweet
Susan Strongman (RNZ):A celebration of social experiments
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Council chief executive Stephen Town defends high salaries
James Pasley (Central Leader): Heads should roll over 104 business class flights, councillor says
Sam Strong (Press): Buller District councillor loses job on 'gagged' council after Australian citizenship revealed
Sam Strong (Press): Buller District Councillor Martin Hill not New Zealand citizen, loses job
Greymouth Star: Another councillor fails citizenship test, forcing by-election
Sadie Beckman (Horowhenua Chronicle): Email screening policy voted in
Sam Strong (Press): Westland District Council confirms new contract for upgrades of water treatment plants
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Petition to lift bus drivers' rate to living wage to be delivered to council
Media
Herald: Rainbow hues signal NZME's diversity
Herald: Newstalk ZB host Rachel Smalley leaving after 'stellar run'
Other
Philippa Tolley (RNZ): Lawyer urges independent benefit reviews
Shannon Haunui-Thompson (RNZ): Ten years on from the Urewera raids
Phil Pennington (RNZ): More NZers detained as Aussie minister revives old law
David Stevenson (Herald): We should recognise the North's suffering in the Korean war
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Pacific Aerospace guilty of unlawful exports to North Korea
Sam Mahon (Stuff): The politics of art: Sam Mahon defends his defecating Nick Smith sculpture
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): The million-dollar earners in New Zealand's agriculture businesses
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Green MP off to a fine start
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Remoteness….occasionally a benefit
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): Why our Super Fund just got compared to the All Blacks
Philip Blenkinsop (Stuff): European Union MPs back free trade deals with New Zealand, Australia
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Quarries closed over fertiliser asbestos scare
Janna Sherman (Hokitika Guardian): Ross residents rejecting tap water
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Residents still on guard in Wellington's safest suburbs