NZ Politics Daily - 1 November 2017
1 November 2017
Today's content
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Foreign buyers ban, TPP, and housing
Audrey Young (Herald): Joyce on a hiding to nothing over TPP
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern goes for 2-for-1 ban and TPP deal
Newshub: Labour's foreign housing ban 'symbolism' - Patrick Gower
Vernon Small (Stuff): Foreign buyers ban in, Labour points finger at Nats for 'misleading' over free trade clash
Richard Harman (Poltik): Did National play politics with MFAT's TPP advice?
Mike Hosking (Herald): Foreign house buyer ban 'xenophobic bollocks'
Bernard Hickey and Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Labour’s first act is to ban foreign buyers
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Push for ISDS change presents TPP hurdle
Jenny Woods (Newstalk ZB): Steven Joyce: Labour's housing plan 'not ready for prime time'
Newswire: National hits out at foreign buyer ban as 'half-cooked idea designed to solve a political problem'
Sam Thompson (Newstalk ZB): Govt's new housing policy concerning exporters
1News: National 'misled' Kiwis into thinking stamp-duty could control foreign buyers - David Parker
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Foreign home buyers to be banned – PM
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour will make all existing homes 'sensitive', effectively banning foreign buyers
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Government to act swiftly to ban foreign home buyers
Adriana Weber (RNZ): Foreign home-buyer ban: will it make any difference?
Laura Walters (Stuff): How much of a difference will the foreign house buyers ban make?
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): The pointlessness of a foreign buyer ban
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Welcome Labour u-turn on TPP
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Making progress on housing?
Corazon Miller (RNZ): New Zealand's number of homes for sale has halved in 10 years
Corazon Miller (Herald): Glen Innes beneficiary's house demolished within days of her leaving
Newshub: Housing Minister Phil Twyford open to buying more motels for homeless
International relations
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Ardern and Turnbull set for tough first date
Brian Rudman (Herald): Time for a little gunboat diplomacy
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Ardern to have first overseas visit as PM
Nicholas Jones (Herald): New Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern prepares for first trip abroad
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern to meet Malcolm Turnbull this weekend
Herald: Jacinda Ardern to meet German President next week
Susan Devoy (Spinoff): ‘This is who we do not want to ever become’ - anti-Semitism in New Zealand
Newshub: Holocaust deniers are liars - Dame Susan Devoy
Coalition government
Herald: Jacinda Ardern talks feminism, climate change in first international TV interview
RNZ: NZ's Pacific minister confident of influence in Cabinet
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): H2: Helen Clark's top advisor returns to Labour Party
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Who Is Craig Renney, And What Is He Advising Grant Robertson To Do?
Pete George (Your NZ): Johansson appointed NZ First chief of staff
Pete George (Your NZ): Chief of Staff turnover
Bryce Edwards (liberation): Top tweets about Jon Johansson becoming NZ First Chief of Staff
Newshub: Justice Minister Andrew Little to repeal three strikes law
Press: Andrew Little: Govt may waive health and safety laws for Pike River re-entry
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Defence Minister talks funding after stage 'whisper' to PM
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): 'Full-time feminist': Julie Anne Genter vowing systemic change to close gender pay gap
National
Southland Times Editorial: Barclay still has a lot to live down
Herald: National Party calls for donations for 'fighting fund'
Immigration and refugees
RNZ: Dramatic fall in skilled immigrants applying to be residents
Charles Anderson (Guardian): New Zealand considers creating climate change refugee visas
RNZ: NZ considers developing climate change refugee visa
Economy and business
Newshub: Capitalism 'a success', but things must change – economist
Anna Campbell (ODT): Making a profit for the better
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Robertson 'very confident' about state of NZ economy
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Finance Minister says dollar fall typical of when governments change
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Businesses drop in confidence after change in government
Laura Walters (Stuff): Bill English gets to work picking apart new Government's fiscal capability
Rebecca Stevenson (The Spinoff): The Māori economy is small business, too
Newswire: Latest diversity survey finds fifth of NZ business leadership teams mostly men
Farming
Rachel Stewart (Herald): BigAg must wake up to synthetic threat
Alexa Cook (Stuff): 'Stop whinging', farming sector told
Environment
Lucy Warhurst (Newshub): Climate change: Sea level rise inevitable
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Move Department of Conservation offices to Nelson, city councillor says
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): 'We have a biodiversity crisis' - new Minister of Conservation says things will change
Health
NZ Herald editorial: Food industry faces a shakeup in push for healthier choices
Natlie Akoorie (Herald): Health Minister to seek answers over Waikato DHB spending
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Fund for next-generation medicines investigated
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Invoices altered in rogue Waikato DHB-Chiefs deal
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Sallies fight bottle store across the road from their alcoholics treatment centre
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Regional Public Health door-knocks over proposal for new bottle store in Wellington
Stuff: Court challenge seeks greater restrictions on supermarket alcohol areas
Ben Aulakh (Stuff): Health Board chair says more money no guarantee of hospital rebuild
Stuff: South Canterbury bowel cancer screening could save Māori lives
Education
Thomas Coughlan: Decolonising the curriculum
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): NCEA under review: current approach missing the mark
Herald: Cutting foreign student visas could hit 10,000 jobs: ITENZ
Max Towle (RNZ): Are high schools safe places for LGBTQI youth?
Jessica Long (Stuff): Nit Buster programme at 110 schools axed
Karoline Tuckey (Stuff): Trust connecting children and computers set to expand
Jane Matthews (Stuff): The technology-free class where the kids choose the lessons
Police
Jo Moir (Stuff): Police Minister Stuart Nash looking to up police pay and recruit more women
Herald: New Government aims to add 1800 new police officers over three years
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Police Minister Stuart Nash: Adding 1800 police 'achievable'
Transport
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): How to pay for an uncongested Auckland
Victor Komarovsky (Stuff): Capital opportunity to save city trolley buses
Eric Frykberg (Stuff): New govt won't intervene on Wellington's trolley buses
Laura Macdonald (Newshub): Wellington's iconic trolley buses to go
Herald: Wellington public transport fare reduction 'massive' for students
Caroline Shaw (Public Health Expert): Walking and cycling for transport is good for physical activity levels in Kiwis!
Local government
Mike Watson (Stuff): Regional council says no to Maori ward but yes to poll if ratepayers demand it
Lois Williams (RNZ): Two more councils vote against Māori wards
Maja Burry (RNZ): West Coast ex-CEO paid $85k severance
Media
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): What will the new government do to our beloved TV?
Diana Wichtel (Listener): Here is no news: A retrospective on coalition night television
Kylie Klein-Nixon (Stuff): Mark Richardson on The AM Show: Relevant, or just rarking us up for the hell of it?
Newsroom: Newsroom investigation wins journalism award
Herald: Kate Hawkesby to host Newstalk ZB's Early Edition
Ellen Read (Stuff): Fairfax plans to take papers compact
Other
Kurt Bayer (Herald): New Canterbury rebuild minister Megan Woods keen to crack on with rebuild
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Thousands overpaid pensions, nine prosecutions
Geoff Vause (Marlborough Express): Cycle trail supporters not expecting political headwind from new Government
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Māori tattoos being sold in US a 'cultural rip-off'
Erin Speedy (Newshub): US store accused of cultural appropriation over temporary Māori tattoos
Dominion Post: It's time for an honest debate about abortion law
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour seems to think McCarten is lying over their intern scheme
Kirk Hope (The Spinoff): No to elections: maybe we should only have them every four years?
Jamie Morton (Herald): The 'selfie generation' aren't so selfish after all, entitlement study finds