NZ Politics Daily - 17 October 2017
17 October 2017
Today's content
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Coalition negotiations
Audrey Young (Herald): Decision is looming large... maybe
Barry Soper (Herald): Will there be an announcement from Winston Peters today?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill English: More talks ahead as NZ First decides on government
Andy Fyers (Stuff): These are the voters who gave Winston the keys to power
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Progress being made MP Shane Jones says: References Bible proverb relating to a King's throne being established forever if he is fair to the poor
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Winston Peters loathes backroom dealing, apparently
Steve Maharey (Pundit): This is it - a government - soon – maybe
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): What each party needs to do if in Opposition
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Five big challenges for the next government
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): 10 things Auckland desperately needs from the new government
Matt Burrows (Newshub): English, Ardern should 'cut the crap', accept they're 'lapdogs' - Patrick Gower
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Government still some time away
RNZ: Labour-Greens 'pretty much ready to go' – Ardern
RNZ: 'Considered' coalition process important – Ardern
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern 'confident' in negotiation talks - but wink was unintentional
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): NZ First board to meet again tomorrow
Laura Walters (Stuff): Politically Correct: Three weeks on and still no Government
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Governing deal talks live: ‘Hold your horses’
RNZ: Former NZ First MP picks change of government
Newshub: 'You aren't the public' - NZ First leader Winston Peters dodges media, makes hasty dash to taxi
1News: Greens put 'getting rid' of National above the environment, after teal-deal refused– Bill English
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Sir John Key gives his take on forming a new government
Ben Mack (Herald): As an immigrant, I'm terrified of Winston Peters
Health
Karen Brown (RNZ): Patient waited 'double the optimal time frame' for acute surgery
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Pensioner forced to wait four days for urgent hip surgery
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Staff shortages hit Wgtn mental health services
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): 'It can no longer continue': mental health service cuts beds over staff woes
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Three staff raised concerns at Waikato DHB chief executive Nigel Murray's spending
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato DHB bullish about accreditation, but more challenges loom
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Abortion denied at 18 weeks
Housing
Jo O’Brien (RNZ): Seriously ill man says Tauranga social housing provider threw him out
Aaron Leaman (Stuff):Super city rents drive patients to seek out cheap Waikato accommodation
Amanda Saxton (Auckland Now): Bailiffs to come for Niki Rauti, who's fought for a year to stay in social housing
Education
Tristram Clayton (Herald): Quarter of kids in low decile schools need food support
Simon Collins (Herald): Cheapest university fees hit $6000 a year
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Immigration NZ investigates educator over receipts
Simon Collins (Herald): Tenacity, teamwork may replace rote learning in Kiwi schools
Ben Flood (Rotorua Daily Post): Kaitao Intermediate ensuring positive behaviour in pupils
NZ Herald editorial: Push back toward on-job learning looks to be win-win
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): The new work order
Justine Munro (Herald): New work order requires education shake-up
John Boynton (RNZ): Corporate pathway expanded for Māori and Pasifika graduate
Environment
Conan Young (RNZ): Concerns raised over nitrates' effects on babies
RNZ: Aust to face heat over new coal mine at Fiji climate meeting
John Lang (Briefing Papers): The Zero Carbon Act
RNZ: Call for councils to take over cat management from SPCA
Media
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Commerce Commission 'overstepped its mandate' when declining NZME Fairfax merger
BusinessDesk: Judge gets Facebook 101 at StuffMe hearing
International relations
Colin James (ODT): A turning point in our international positioning?
RNZ: New Zealand mum about Fiji expulsion threat
Other
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Anti-prison group campaigns to ban solitary confinement
Maja Burry (RNZ): Christchurch not ready to take refugees – INZ
Newshub: Is it offensive to ask someone where they're from?
Steve Carle (Hawke’s Bay Today): Manawatu Gorge will never reopen - NZTA
Mike Hosking (Herald): Revealing salaries is petty and futile
1News: Is New Zealand's law governing property when relationships break down fit for purpose?
Stuff: Details emerge of defamation case settlement between former Conservative Party members
Brian Easton (Pundit): Sue Bradford: Constant Radical
Dominic O’Sullivan (The Conversation): Why the Indigenous in New Zealand have fared better than those in Canada