NZ Politics Daily - 16 October 2017
16 October 2017
Today's content
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Coalition negotiations
Dan Satherley (Newshub): English's 'defeatist' AM Show interview: Is it a sign Ardern will be PM?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Coalition talks have 'some time to go' – English
1 News: Winston 'is not putting a completed agreement to the NZ First discussions', says Bill English
RNZ: Govt formation could take until end of week – English
Audrey Young (Herald): Peters' party set to assess threats as well as gains
Audrey Young (Herald): What are the options in front of Winston Peters and what do they mean?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Winston Peters is a product of electoral system
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): It's difficult to know if Winston Peters is offering a crown or a poisoned chalice
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Playing a mug's game: second-guessing Winston Peter
Newshub: Bill English or Jacinda Ardern? Meet the next Prime Minister
Laura Walters (Stuff): Will Winston Peters go left or right after Monday's meeting?
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Outgoing NZ First MP: 'I feel the winds of change'
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): We're not secretive, says board of NZ First
Laura Walters (Stuff): Three weeks to negotiate coalition agreements, just hours to sign them off
Newshub: Three weeks on from election, NZ First set to decide next Government
Richard Harman (Politik): In a long Northland tradition
Claire Trevett (Heald): Leak from talks reveals Greens' Kermadecs deal
The Standard: Into the Vortex of Confirmation Bias: why we won’t be able to figure out which way Winston will go…
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): No place for logic in absurd theatre of Waiting for Winston
Press Editorial: New Zealand needs to know who will govern it
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Lest haste towards a deal with NZ First
Claire Trevett (Herald): Keep calm and wait on ...
Vernon Small (Stuff): Below the Beltway: In Winston Peters-induced limbo, no leader looks good
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Reining in a kingmaker requires integrity above politics. Are our lot capable?
RNZ: NZ First board set to consider possible coalition deal
Herald: Winston Peters goes to ground while Jacinda Ardern joins Diwali Festival
Herald: Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern reacts to Auckland Diwali Festival leadership mix-up
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Why I'm enjoying Winston's waiting game
Newshub: Winston's choice: Labour or National? A puppy predicts
RNZ: Coalition talks 'incredibly productive' – Ardern
Herald on Sunday editorial: Nameless people get to chose the government
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): The new Winston Peters is a team player
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Legacy on line - 'King' Winston before country?
John Roughan (Herald): Peters looks intent on turning the clock back
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Winston Peters' broken promise to NZ
Rachel Smalley (Herald): A vote for Peters was a vote for yesteryear
Peter Wilson (Herald): Why bother voting? The election results are irrelevant
1News: What happens once NZ First decides on preferred coalition partner? 1 NEWS' Katie Bradford explains
Newshub: How NZ First will make its decision
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Leaders head home for a weekend of waiting
Mei Heron (RNZ): New Zealand First board meeting on Monday
Herald: Winston Peters: Caucus, board meeting will be Monday
Soumya Bhamidipati (Dominion Post): Flashback -The whisky talks: from 1996 to 2017
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): NZ First's Dear Leader sets the agenda for his board
Herald: Election 2017: Timeline of key events
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand election result 'held hostage' by anonymous board of minor party
Election and Parliament
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s Party Vote
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): National’s Party Vote
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): TOP's most and least valuable electorates
Dominion Post Editorial: We need an expert body to cost election promises
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What the parties talked about
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Dainties and Chains: Progressive MPs and the “Wellington Bubble”
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): An Expression Of Democratic Interest.
Damien Grant (Stuff): People power a complete myth
Ian Harris (ODT): Out with the old and in with the new
Meg Williams (RNZ): Golriz Ghahraman on discrimination, hate, and white dudes on Twitter
Electoral Commission: 2017 General Election Writ Returned
The Standard: First Past the Post nostalgia
RNZ: Tributes paid to Parliament's Māori language translator
Environment
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): The angry sea wll kill us all: our disappearing neighbours
Rod Oram (Newsroom): ‘Open your eyes to create a climate legacy’
Lynn Williams (Te Whare Whero): Clean and Green
Herald Editorial: We can replace the supermarket bags - NZ Herald
Stephen Lenihan (Newsroom): Auckland must prepare for climate change now
Meat Industry
RNZ: 'Heartache' as ministry orders culling of 4000 cattle
Herald: Cows slaughtered after Mycoplasma bovis outbreak will be processed for food
RNZ: 'Absolutely no risk' in culled cow meat
Herald: Fonterra confident dairy will always trump synthetic alternatives
Urewera raids
Mihingarangi Forbes (RN): Pair at centre of Urewera terror raids seek pardon
John Minto (Daily Blog): Urewera 10 years on – any lessons to remember?
Jo Lines-Mackenzie (Stuff): Tuhoe community 10 years after the Urewera raids
Jared Savage (Herald): Terror raids: Tame Iti on 'letting it go' 10 years after the police raids on Ruatoki
David Fisher (Herald): Terror raids: Rangi Kemara 'screaming into the void'
Rangi Kemara (Spinoff): Extract: the day the raids came
RNZ: Tūhoe still carry emotional impact of raids
Newshub: Urewera raids: The lawyer who saved the innocent
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Salary scandal sours Goff's first anniversary as Auckland Mayor
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Auckland votes – finally – to look hard at moving its port
Carla Penman (Herald): 'Wholesale slaughter' of Auckland's tree
Matt Zwartz (Paperboy): An Auckland manifesto for our next government
RNZ: Goff's visitor accommodation rate take keeps falling
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): A Wellington City Deal?
Lois Cairns (Press): City council turns tap off charging for water
Emile Donovan (RNZ): $980k CEO payout questioned
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Auckland primary teacher shortage hits new record
Karoline Tuckey (Stuff): High cost of living pushing students out of tertiary study, advocates say
Health
Southland Times Editorial: The figures aren't good
Lynn Willliams (Te Whare Whero): More on the question of obesity
Max Molyneux (Newshub): Medicinal cannabis better than prescribed drugs, claims health professional
RNZ: Time to Talk, say Māori rangatahi
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Mental health support needed for farmers
1News: Why is synthetic cannabis killing Kiwis more than anyone else in the world?
ODT: Queenstown GP's change to oath approved
RNZ: NZ doctor's Hippocratic Oath change passed
Sarah Harris (Herald): Denied abortion: Woman discovers pregnancy at 4 months, 2 weeks
Justice
RNZ: Prison group campaigns against solitary confinement
David Garrett (Kiwiblog): Guest Post:“Life” imprisonment in New Zealand vs. Australia and the UK
Housing
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): 'It's easy to turn a blind eye to homelessness'
Jessie Casson (Stuff): Daniel Davidson is a Housing First success story
Katarina Williams (Dominion Post): Taxpayers shell out $73m to fix meth-contaminated state homes
Nikki Macdonald (Stuff): Is the short stay rental boom worsening the housing shortage?
Sean Plunket
Newshub: Sean Plunket resigns as member of the Broadcasting Standards
RNZ: Sean Plunket resigns from BSA
Social Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Turning away from toxic Twitter
1News: 'It's so dangerous' - social media a driving force behind mental illness according to experts
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): The lethal truth about online abuse
International relations
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Australia immigration law costly to NZers
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Australia in North Korea's sights: US Ambassador to NZ warns
Welfare
RNZ: Insight: The rub between WINZ and beneficiaries
RNZ: Insight: A Safety Net with Holes - Scout's story of WINZ
Jeni Cartwright (CPAG): When is MSD going to give up its damaging and arcane views towards sole mothers who repartner?
Victoria White (Hawke’s Bay Today): Reports of runaway youth sleeping rough in Napier
Newshub: Runaway kids sleeping rough on Napier beach
Police
Bevan Hurley, Sam Sherwood and Michael Haywood (Stuff): Parents upset at police access to blood samples taken from babies
Herald: Police label wanted woman fat, refer to her as a man
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): This is what happens when you call *555 to report bad driving
1987 stock market crash
Liam Dann (Herald): How the 1987 crash changed my life
Liam Dann (Herald): The 1987 crash - could it happen again?
Tax
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Capital gains tax could help form fairer system for New Zealand: Healy
No Right Turn: Even the IMF thinks we should tax the rich more
Other
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Why we never do what we'd like to do
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): StuffMe’s last gasp
Greg Clydesdale (Stuff): Innovation – not immigration – should drive our economic growth
RNZ: Māori forestry firm claims regional development stardom
1News: Food prices spike in 2017 - but avocados and tomatoes will get cheaper soon
RNZ: Green light for red zone pathway
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Capitalism kills and maims daily
Steven Moe (Spinoff): Why Social Enterprises need ‘new clothes’