NZ Politics Daily - 30 October 2017
30 October 2017
Today's content
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Government
Vernon Small (Stuff): Gale-force winds of change are set to start blowing around the Beehive
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern hasn't put a foot wrong yet as new Prime Minister
Claire Trevett (Herald): Two's company: What now for Winston and NZ First
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): An air of Lange around Ardern
David Slack (Stuff): This government looks a good bet
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Can Jacinda Ride “Hirschman’s Cycle” Without Falling Off?
Bryan Gould: Remember who voted you in
Shane Te Pou (Newsroom): Labour’s cautious approach won’t cut it
Rod Oram (Newsroom): The three key ministers for the economy
Duncan Garner (Stuff): The 10 Government ministers that really matter
Newshub: Spending plans 'totally affordable' - Jacinda Ardern
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern not talking over policy costs
Nicholas Boyack (Stuff): Former hardman Trevor Mallard confident he will be Speaker
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): 'I helped my mum clean schools' - NZ's first Tongan-born Cabinet minister Jenny Salesa reflects on family's sacrifice, homelessness
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Five areas in the Government agreements where language matters
1News: Willie Jackson says 'it's a waste of time' answering Hone Harawira's 'skunk' insult
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): Foreshore and Seabed
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the Beltway: Who's up and who's down in politics this week
Tracy Watkin (Stuff): Pedal to the metal in Jacinda Ardern's first week
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Week in review: A new morning in New Zealand
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of NZ politics
Cherie Howie (Herald): How not to fall out with your friends and family over politics
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern needs to protect herself from the liberal left
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Labour Stumbles Back Into The Unhappy Shire
Peter Dunne (Interest): Our new government ought to study the lessons of the Third Labour Government to avoid its fate
Peter Wilson (Newstalk ZB): Now Labour have got their chance, voters expect them to deliver
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): PM gets 'hugely warm reception' at first public outing
Emily Ford and Christopher Harrowell (Stuff): South Auckland get five ministers in the new government
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Rocking the feel-good factor and Freddy's Drop
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Obsession with prime minister's looks shows we haven't come far
Paul Little (Herald): The first week - words into action
Russel Harding (Nelson Mail): Feasting out on a new political diet
Laura McQuillan (RNZ): Ardern’s tweeting cat: Who’s behind it?
National
Finlay Macdonald (RNZ): National's first 100 days in opposition 'worth watching'
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The three stages of electoral loss: Reality yet to set in for National
Wayne Mapp (Spinoff): National faces a crucial decision: what kind of opposition will it be?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Socialism and Populism: The Party is Just Beginning!
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Why National's not having a sulk – yet
Matt Nippert (Herald): Three unanswered questions about our spy-trainer MP
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): One on one with National's electoral genius and intellectual property expert Steven Joyce
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Release cost of coalition agreements: National
RNZ: Joyce tells govt to front up on policy costings
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Rapper's delight is win for all artists
Newshub: Eminem to donate National Party money to hurricane victims
Herald: Eminem to donate National Party court damages to hurricane relief
Spinoff: MAXCLUSIVE! Max Key* destroys Eminem career in diss track
Greens
Herald Editorial: Greens may be the most coherent force in this Government
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Greens' roller coaster stops in Government: 'Nothing short of remarkable'
Mei Heron (RNZ): Green coffers bare after election campaign
Matthew Whitehead (Standard): Why is James Shaw our new Minister for Statistics?
Election and parliament
Claire Trevett (Herald): How vote splitting shape the electoral map
Jarred Williamson (Manakau Courier): The numbers: Major Parties, Maori Party vote up in south Auckland but turnout takes a fall
Victoria Woodman (Newsroom): Now it’s over … a celebration of MMP
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Bill English's big bill: Former PM spends almost $100,000 on campaign travel
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill English's travel costs soar during campaign
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): New details on Labour intern scheme
Stuff: How PM Jacinda Ardern's wages stack up against other world leaders
Curia: Roy Morgan poll October 2017
Women political leaders
1News: Women lead all branches of NZ government for first time in 11 years
Laura Walters (Stuff): Women leaders prioritise social issues, govern differently
Laura Walters (Stuff): Female political leaders have been smashing glass ceilings for ages
Fiona Barber (Herald): She's not a 'girl', she's the PM
Theresa Gattung (Stuff): Why women-only movements are no bad thing
Employment
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Minimum wage hikes won't kill jobs - Grant Robertson
RNZ: Economist calls for greater living wage uptake
RNZ: Cleaners shouldn't be 'undervalued' says living wage employer
Liam Dann (Herald): The problem with raising wages
Natasha Burling (Newstalk ZB): Government looking at work-for-dole scheme in regions
Mike Hosking (Herald): Work for the dole a 'no-brainer'
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Day two and Work for the Dole could create trouble for new government
Richard Meadows (Stuff): Budget Buster: Beyond the 'he said, she said' of the gender pay gap
Richard Swainson (Stuff): If the too-highly-paid are worth every cent let them prove it
Stuff: Labour proposes to get the ball rolling to repeal the 'Hobbit law'
Greg Presland (Standard): The repeal of the Hobbit law
International relations
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Disgraced Kuwait ambassador's secret return to New Zealand
RNZ: Disgraced Kuwait ambassador's return to NZ
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Brownlee to Peters: 'Good luck'
Newshub: Bill English hopes ties with Australia improve
Laura Walters (Stuff): Winston Peters hasn't given up hope on North Korea
RNZ: Papuan Liberation Movement appeals to NZ's Ardern
Herald: Governor-General to represent NZ at centennial of Battle of Beersheba
RNZ: Spy watchdog still investigating NZ's CIA link
Tony Wall (Stuff): Calls to expel Iran diplomat from NZ after fiery anti-Israel speech 'fuels radicalism'
Economy and trade
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Not everyone wants to climb the ladder
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Confessions of a reformed right-winger
Audrey Young (Herald): David Parker targets trade deal and bar on house sales to overseas buyers
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Big deals in doubt after foreign sales crackdown
Richard Harman (Politik): Parker "reasonably confident" he can avert TPP crisis
Reesh Lyon (RNZ): EU trade deal presents wide-ranging benefits - trade analyst
RNZ: European Parliament votes for trade deal with NZ
The Standard: The new government and the TPPA-11
Dan Satherley and Lisa Owen (Newshub): Finance Minister Grant Robertson won't cut 'core' spending if economy tanks
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Grant Robertson blunders on costs, surpluses on The Nation
John Roughan (Herald): Capitalism's human faces suffer when governments interfere
Herald: Coalition deal: Is our new R&D goal realistic?
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Low-spending households face increased inflation, Stats NZ says
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Rising rent costs mean poorer households face much higher inflation
Mike O'Donnell (Stuff): Social enterprise's time has come
Tom Pullar Strecker (Stuff): Lots on the plate for tax system, Deloitte warns
Foreign ownership and housing
Herald: Jacinda Ardern: We're finalising ban on overseas home buyers
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand may tighten law that allows mega wealthy to buy citizenship
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Overseas Investment Office fronts up over price suppression for Walter Peak
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): NZ drops down China property buyer rankings
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Reflecting on foreign ownership
The Standard: Overseas land sales, Landcorp land sales, and the environment
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Foreign buyer ban unlikely to impact house prices
Monique Steele (Press): Social housing a 'long time coming' for beneficiaries after nine-month house hunt
RNZ: First home-buyers 'readjusting expections to get into market'
Health
Geoff Vause (Marlborough Express): EU decision casts shadow over widespread use of glyphosate weedkiller in NZ
RNZ: Auckland council reconsiders weedkiller use
Press Editorial: Health relationships must be repaired
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Healing the fractured CDHB and ministry relationship a priority, new Health Minister says
Cate Broughton (Stuff): New Health Minister wants answers on slow surgical mesh injuries response
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Kiwis more likely to see a psychologist in prison than in mental health system
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Cannabis referendum: 10 things the Government needs to consider
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Ardern warns over sugar and salt levels, but wants to work with food industry
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Food and drink giants told 'all options are on the table'
Newshub: Eliza McCartney vaults into anti-sugar campaign
ODT Editorial: Naive opposition to charity presence
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Ronald McDonald House serves a genuine need, brilliantly
RNZ: Plea for govt to follow through on efforts to boost organ donations
Newshub: Call for anti-HIV drug to be funded
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): $25k for Māori researcher tackling health inequities
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Labour's education plans revealed: Primary school league tables axed, big NCEA shakeup
Simon Collins (Herald): Govt will act on teacher shortage crisis before Christmas – Hipkins
RNZ: Minister begins planning for te reo in schools
Max Christoffersen (Waikato Times): That critic and conscience thing . . .
Simon McCallum (Standard): Free Education – how to pay for it
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): It’s on taxpayers not Jacinda
Auckland
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour's Phil 'Mr Fixit' Twyford fixated on Auckland's housing and transport woes
Bernard Orsman (Herald): South Auckland satellite city gives Government room to expand
RNZ: Phil Goff defends fuel tax idea
Ella Prendergast (Newshub): People want change, but don't want to pay for it – Goff
Matt Burrows (Newshub): Where you can beat the Auckland fuel tax
1News: Oil companies could have the say on who pays Auckland fuel tax, National warns
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): How to calm down if you’re mad at the Auckland fuel tax
NZ Herald editorial: Tackle council costs before taxing petrol
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Good comms, bad comms: assessing how Auckland Council spends its $45m communications budget
RNZ: Jobs could go at Auckland Council
Bernard Orsman (Herald): $45m bill for communications at Auckland Council
RNZ: $32m could be cut from Council comms budget – review
Herald: Ratepayers' Alliance slams council comms costs revealed in report
Primary industries
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): New Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor warns of threat to primary industries
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Green Party's Shaw reveals leached nitrate levy policy is off the table - for the time being
Emily Heyward (Stuff): Marlborough Express
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Recreational fishers applaud move to dismantle MPI
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): We don’t need more ministries
Poverty
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Spinoff): Labour promises a bold approach on poverty. But will it be bold enough?
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): CYFS overhaul to Ministry for Vulnerable Children cost more than $17 million
Jenny Suo (1News): 'It's really hard' - Kiwi mother praises Jacinda Ardern for her commitment to reducing child poverty
Media
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 'Fanciful' to suggest media merger would stifle public discourse, court told
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Maniapoto Leader Tipped For Maori Television. Changes Ahead.
Mark Reason (Stuff): Free-to-view sport should be every Kiwi's cultural right
Steven Cowan (Against the current): The cone of silence
Jihee Junn (Spinoff): The plot to make TVNZ cool again
Anti-racism and National Front protests
Jonathan Milne (SST): National Front or Iran diplomat, we meet hate with common sense
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Clashes outside parliament as protesters face National Front
Collette Devlin (Stuff): National Front members chased away from Parliament
RNZ: Counter protesters turn away National Front
Infrastructure
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Govt urged to avoid 'boom-bust cycle' with infrastructure
Audit Blog: Working together to address water management challenges
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Building momentum to accommodate Auckland's growth
Iain White and Alexandra Keeble (Spinoff): Imagine Edgecumbe, but far more often: Climate-proofing our valuable water infrastructure
Herald: Infrastructure Top 10
Paul Goodwin (Herald): Green finance looks too good to ignore
Stephen Selwood (Herald): Independent oversight of infrastructure needed
Patrick Brockie (Herald): Singing from the same hymn sheet
James Penn (Herald): NZ faces challenges as it moves to address a patchwork system of regional water infrastructure
Welfare
Catriona MacLennan (Newsroom): 12 ways the Government can help beneficiaries
Eva Corlett (RZ): MSD argues solo mum's loans were income
Craig Hoyle (Auckland Now): Solo mum faces court after borrowing money to keep her family afloat
Local government
Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): Mood swing favours Māori wards in Palmerston North
Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): Palmerston North council 'brave' in its quest to assure Maori representation
Newshub: Whāngārei District Council votes against Māori Wards
RNZ: Water row: 'We are going to exercise our rights'
Damian George (Stuff): Fifty per cent public transport discount for blind and disabled; $100,000 added to ratepayer bill
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): New government inspires 11th-hour trolley bus rescue bid
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Trolley buses cost $6m more a year than diesel – council
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Trolley bus supporters hope for 11th-hour reprieve
RNZ: Unanimous council support for Queenstown housing developments
Julian Lee (Stuff): The controversial mayor who insists on being called 'Your Worship'
Immigration and refugees
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Deported Indian students appeal for Labour's help
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Rally challenges govt to act on migrant student issues
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Deported Indian students' supporters call on new government to let them return
Rachel O’Connor (Spinoff): Now that we’ve raised the refugee quota, it’s time for us to act on it
David Hall (Spinoff): 10 ways for the new government to be smarter about immigration
NZ wars
Vincent O’Malley (RNZ): Remembering the Northern War
John Boynton (RNZ): NZ wars about 'coming to terms with our past'
RNZ: Exhibition remembers NZ War casualties
Martin Johnston (Herald): Story of Waikato village killings leads to annual commemoration of the New Zealand Wars
Environment
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Greenpeace launches marine sanctuary campaign
Nicol Horrell (Southland Times): Will campaign rhetoric line up with Govt reality?
Civil defence and earthquakes
Collette Devlin (Stuff): High-rise buildings in Wellington and Auckland fail earthquake standards
RNZ: Cost of moving Franz Josef $300m
Johnny Moore (Press): The Christchurch rebuild king is dead. Long live the king
Women’s rugby
Dan Satherley, Lisa Owen and Mitch McCann (Newshub): Black Ferns deserve better pay - Sports Minister Grant Robertson
Michael Daly (Stuff): New government to have pay equity conversation with NZ Rugby
RNZ: Women's rugby stars deserve to be paid – Labour
Australian citizenship ruling
Press Editorial: Accidental Kiwi Barnaby Joyce caught out by archaic law
RNZ: NZ citizenship topples Australia's deputy PM
RNZ: Australian citizenship ruling no surprise – Dunne
Peter McKenzie (Newsroom): NZ citizenship ruling a crisis for Australian politics
Other
Sam Warburton (Interest): The rising road toll: why transport provision is responsive to government rather than the individuals, families, businesses and communities that use it
Adam Dudding (Stuff): Sean Plunket and the art of never being wrong
RNZ: District mayor supports Pike River re-entry
RNZ: Treaty Minister prepares to tackle stand-off
1News: 'Easily we call him our friend' - praise for Chris Finlayson from iwi leaders, political opponents
Herald: Empty-nest parents a growing factor in future family statistics
Stuff: Childless couples and empty-nesters the future for NZ
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): NZ’s criminal costs: should prisons be abolished?
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Police U-turn over anti-depressant recruitment police applauded
Newshub: Police to remove stand-down period on recruits taking anti-depressants
Nelson Mail: Why we should back the police
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Will the new government act on abortion? Campaigners want law change soon
Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir (Bloomberg): Iceland's Jacinda Ardern: Election a tight race as young left-wing woman bids for power