NZ Politics Daily - 22 October 2017
22 October 2017
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Coalition government
David Slack (Stuff): What I saw at the day of judgment
Vernon Small (Stuff): The longest day of a very long campaign - 17 hours that decided the new government
Richard Harman (Politik): NZ First gets huge fund to spend in provinces
Andy Fyers (Stuff): How the Labour-NZ First-Greens deal compares to previous coalitions
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of Winston Peters
Audrey Young (Herald): Lack of unity new Govt's Achilles heel
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Get ready for the Jacinda Ardern honeymoon
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern's first job: smooth the divisions
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the beltway: 26 tedious days, then a bombshell
Jane Clifton (Listener): Minority Rules: Who will be the first voted off Coalition Island
Southland Times Editorial: Dealer takes two
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): A new start for NZ
Mark Sainsbury (Newshub): Change is coming, just deal with it
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Ardern knew when to hold 'em; English knew when to walk away
Rod Oram (Newsroom): With new leadership comes a fresh agenda
Giovanni Tiso (Overland): New Zealand has a new government – where to now?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Dark Transactions: Winston Peters Decision To “Go Left” Has Already Set His Enemies In Motion
Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): New Zealand Democracy; looking backwards and forward
Stephanie Rodgers (RNZ): After the sigh of relief, time to set a decisive course
Claire Robinson (RNZ): Labour-NZ First govt: How did it get to this?
Duncan Garner (Stuff): The accidental prime minister and the Utopian expectations
Tova O’Brien and Matt Burrows (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern performed 'near-miracle' to win election - Helen Clark
Richard Prebble (Herald): Jacinda Ardern will regret this coalition of losers
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Losers Take Power
Bryan Gould: Our democratic process worked
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): What I want from a Labour/NZ First/Green Government
Russell Brown (Public Address): All Change
Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Peters pantomime mockery of democracy
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Winston Peters' influence will weaken South Island's voice
Lynn Prentice (Standard): NZ First: We could and should be doing better
Alison Mau (Stuff): Do nothing in the first 100 days, Jacinda
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Winners and losers of the new Government
Kerre McIvor (Herald): So let Jacinda Ardern do this
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Exclusive Jacinda and Winston goss from 'Married At Not Quite First Sight – The Beehive Bachelor Coalition Edition'
Glen Scanlon (RNZ): Fisherman Clarke thrown in the deep end
Tess Nichol (Herald): Gayford on Jacinda Ardern's new role: 'I've got to make sure she's getting enough sleep'
Dan Satherley and Mitch McCann (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern's parents knew 20 years ago she'd be Prime Minister
Ministerial roles
Vernon Small (Stuff): Predictable line up of ministers as Ardern ministry starts to take shape
Frances Cook (Herald): Next PM Jacinda Ardern's Labouring weekend
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern picks up pace to form the new government
RNZ: How Jacinda Ardern will spend her long weekend
Claire Trevett (Herald): Woman drought in Jacinda Ardern's Cabinet, with just one third of her ministers female
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Gender imbalance in new Government's top jobs
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s Ministers
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s Cabinet has fewer women than National’s
RNZ: Green Party announces ministers
RNZ: Climate Change Minister not being 'downgraded' – Shaw
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Leak: Greens' ministerial roles revealed
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Sensible decisions by Greens on Ministers
Policy
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Sixth Labour govt: What's in store for NZ
Dan Satherley (Newshub): What Labour has planned in its first 100 days, and how likely it'll happen
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern commits to 100-day plan, with one exception
Herald: Policy under the new Government: What we know so far
Herald: New PM-elect gives Kiwis insight into what new government will look like
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Jacinda Ardern confirms new government will dump tax cuts
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Will Labour-NZ First coalition bring a new era in regional development?
Geoff Vause (Marlborough Express): The role of regions, and looking after them
Adele Redmond (Stuff): New government brings policies marking massive changes in education
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Free university study just months away
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's coalition government to bring back the forestry service
Stuff: Winston Peters offers a helping hand to local councils
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): What a Labour government means for your money
Peter Griffin (Herald): What will a change of government mean for science and the environment?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): New era for public broadcasting anticipated
Herald: Rugby: Hope for free, live TV tests
Max Towle (The Wireless): What can young people expect from a Labour-NZ First coalition?
RNZ: Ardern confirms Labour's immigration target to hold sway
Matthew Theunissen (Hreald): New Government could cut immigration numbers 'overnight'
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Fed Farmers: migration policies a concern
Philip Matthews (Press) Editorial: Labour knows what it must do for Christchurch
Michael Wright (Stuff): What does a new Government mean for the Canterbury rebuild?
Newshub: Quake-shaken Christchurch kids in line for more help
Maja Burrymaja (RNZ): Pike River families 'ecstatic' new govt committed to re-entry
National
Rob Hosking (RNZ): National needs to be a 'practical and sceptical' opposition
Jo Moir (Stuff): Nice while it lasted - who is heading for the door in the National camp
Weekend Herald editorial: English's safe hands on finance a worthy legacy
Henry Cooke (Stuff): If Bill English goes, these people are his likely replacements
Nicholas Jones (Herald): It's English's call on leadership: National MPs
Brad Flahive and Laura Walters (Stuff): Bill English dejected but appreciative of his staff
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Will Bill English call it quits on politics?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Goals for National
RNZ: Expect a vigorous opposition, former MP says
Herald: From election night victory speech to opposition
Greens
Simon Maude and Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary put on ice by NZ First, catching Greens unaware
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): After 20 years on the fringes, the Greens now have a taste of power
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Greens policy grab-bag: Where are they rousing for a shakeup?
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The Greens' 10 big policy gains
I’m no fox: Greens getting a great deal in the sixth Labour government
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Greens make a triumphant return to Parliament
Cannabis referendum
Katie Kenny (Stuff): The cannabis debate: What are the costs and benefits of legalising it?
Adriana Weber (RNZ): Move to reform cannabis laws meets supporters, opponents
Matt Burrows (Newshub): Referendum on 'obsolete' cannabis law 'long overdue' - Drug Foundation
Simon Maude (Stuff): Beware the smoke and mirrors around the pot legalisation debate
RNZ: The Greens' drug reform policy
Herald: Kiwis to vote on changing cannabis laws
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Cannabis referendum part of Greens' deal
Herald: Cannabis referendum: What it could mean for stoners
Economic direction
Dan Satherley and Lisa Owen (Newshub): Homelessness proves capitalism is a 'blatant failure' - Jacinda Ardern
Ellen Read (Stuff): Coalition result unlikely to trouble markets for long
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Ardern, Robertson need to reassure business
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): The state of the economy the new govt inherits
Rob Stock (Stuff): NZ Super Fund repayments to restart under Labour coalition government
Liam Dann (Herald): No 'new Government hangover'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Contrast the difference
Australian reaction
Herald: NSW Premier's Jacinda comments 'snarky and graceless'
Bianca Hall and Fergus Hunter (Sydney Morning Herald): Australia's foreign minister fumes over Jacinda Ardern controversy, PM steps in
Paul Karp (Guardian):Julie Bishop doesn't need to apologise to Jacinda Ardern, Turnbull says
Herald: Does Aussie foreign minister need to apologise to Ardern? Turnbull says 'no'
Other international reaction
1News: Jacinda Ardern's rise 'to the top of the food chain'
Herald: UK PM Theresa May congratulates Jacinda Ardern on being Prime Minister-designate
Newswire: Trump administration congratulates Ardern
International coverage
Brittany Keogh (Herald): Jacinda Ardern confirms to curious Australian journalist her last name is said 'Ah-durn'
Financial Review: New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern proposes a U-turn to a more pro-active government
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern sets out priorities: climate, inequality and women
The Economist: New Zealand’s Labour Party turns defeat into triumph
David Tweed (Bloomberg): New Zealand gets read to appoint world’s youngest female leader
Anna Livsey (Guardian): The 7%: Jacinda Ardern joins select group of women in power
Election and Parliament
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MPs funding
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Policy costings
Environment
Russell Brown (Public Address): The climate changed
Pat Deavoll (Stuff): Rural sector faces regaining public confidence to operate in the future
Andrew McGiven (Stuff): Return to subsidies will not solve climate change issues
Lyn Webster (Stuff): Planting trees on dairy farms not a simple solution to cutting carbon emissions
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Kea or Kākāriki? Bird of the Year contest gets New Zealand in a flap
Housing
Herald on Sunday editorial: A slew of solutions for our housing woes. Which suits you?
Liam Dann (Herald):Housing is the new Government's biggest challenge
Herald: Eleven solutions to the housing shortage
Health
Cherie Howie (Herald): Life and death on the front lines of teen health: Why we have health clinics for our poorest school kids
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Details of how former CEO spent public money on two women to be kept secret
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Ministry of Health throws support behind vaping as a way to quit smoking
Damien Grant (Stuff): Council should butt out when it comes to smoking policy
Stuff: Former battered baby is allowed a second ACC appeal
AUS-NZ relations
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Politics puts Aussie uni fees hike for NZers on hold
RNZ: Australian govt still plans to overhaul citizenship laws
Education
Laura Tupou (RNZ): Students hoping to fill skill shortages
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Parents decry 'undemocratic' changes at Auckland Kindergarten Association
Evening Report: Top award for Māori, Treaty and colonial historian with new focus
Other
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Rod Oram: 30 years on, could markets crash again?
RNZ: Napier council Māori seat roundly rejected
Alice Peacock (Herald): Tirade from rest home owner 'appalling'
Mark Jennings and Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Papers shed light on Yang’s past
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Social media no competition to journalism – ComCom
Jess Berentson-Shaw and Emily Beausoleil (Stuff): Social media has arguably democratised discomfort
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Sexual harassment an epidemic
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): OIA: unexpected bouquets and brickbats