NZ Politics Daily - 2 November 2017
2 November 2017
Today's content
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TPP and foreign house buyer ban
Rob Hosking (RNZ): Labour TPP stance harks back to Maharey
Newshub: 'Significantly increased' chance TPP will be signed
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): What happened without a foreign ban and CGT
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Is The Government’s TPP “Solution” Too Good To Be True?
Dominion Post Editorial: A ban on foreign house-buyers is not xenophobic
Nigel Stirling (AgriHQ): Groser backed Labour trade policy
Simon Shepherd (Newshub): Foreign buyer ban 'too late' - real estate agents
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Real estate agents say horse has bolted and foreign buyer ban too late
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Government to make it tougher for foreigners to buy New Zealand farmland
RNZ: Foreign home-buyers ban: 'If you don’t do it now, you can never do it'
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Foreign buyer ban will affect small proportion of property sales
Stephen Parry (Daily Blog): It’s Our Future: Now is the time for Labour to make good on its criticism of the TPPA
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Signing the TPP will undermine any real fight against climate change
Housing
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Māori Home Ownership in Tāmaki Makaurau: Is Auckland's future an economically gated Pākeha community?
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): House prices drop around the country
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Auckland house prices fall for the first time in six years
Employment
Herald: Sweeping changes to empower workers, unions in coming weeks
Aimee Shaw (Herald): Industry-wide strikes impossible under Fair Pay Agreements – Govt
ODT: CEO pay increases at five times average rate
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Salaries of CEOs too high, researcher says
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): CEO pay increasing 5 times faster than workers: study
Stuff: New Zealand workers' income is rising, but remains behind many developed countries
Daphna Whitmore (Redline): A living wage – time to shift the boundaries and think global
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Economist says Government review of unemployment measures 'a bit nonsense'
BusinessDesk: NZ third-quarter unemployment sinks to nine-year low
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Unemployment falls to eight-year low as job creation surges
RNZ: Unemployment falls as wages rise from equity deal
No Right Turn: National’s final score: 21,000 unemployed
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Huge boost in employment
Dean Nathan (Māori TV): Māori landowners urged to make their lands available for forestry
Kylie Klein-Nixon (Stuff): Hobbit law repeal: How did we get here?
Paula Hulburt (Stuff): Sharing's caring: Civil servants share sick leave with colleagues
Pay equity
Herald: Industry-wide strikes impossible under Fair Pay Agreements – Govt
RNZ: Govt to remove 'barriers' in pay equity legislation
The Wireless: National’s pay equity legislation is being canned
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Govt's pay-equity focus may fuel wage inflation
1News: National's equal pay law to be ditched as Labour stamps its mark on several policies
1News: Government to sink law preventing more women claiming equal pay
Election and parliament
Laura Walters (Stuff): Young voter turnout up by 6.5 per cent
Susan Strongman (Wireless): Youth voter turnout gets a big bump
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): More youth turn out to vote in NZ General Election
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Greying population and youth tremor sees middle age voter squeeze
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): No youthquake
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Mainstream media claim no Youth Quake (cough, cough – bullshit)
Pete George (Your NZ): Voter turnout by age group
Andrew Geddis (Policy Options): Compromise and negotiation are part of New Zealand politics, with its mixed-member proportional system. This time it resulted in a coalition government
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The irascible Trevor Mallard
Alex Braae (Soundcloud): Part 1 - The Light Effect
International relations
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Global catastrophe can be avoided
Pattrick Smelie (Stuff): Political ascent a more calculated affair in the East
RNZ: Development projects 'need to be at heart of NZ aid'
RNZ: NZ and Aus assist with water for volcano-affected in Temotu
International coverage of government
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern more politically powerful than Hillary Clinton
Herald: Jacinda Ardern named as one of the world's most powerful women
RNZ: Jacinda Ardern speaks to CNN in first international interview as PM
Gas exploration
Press Editorial: Drilling for fossil fuels not worth the costs of climate change
Ben Aulakh and Al Williams (Timaru Herald): Oil and gas field could pump millions into South Canterbury economy, report shows
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How will Labour deal with a massive gas find?
Farming
Jamie Morton (Herald): Federated Farmers drop Northland GMO appeal
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Time short to face 'threat' of synthetic proteins
NIck Beeby (Spinoff): ‘Alternative proteins is not a new concept’: Beef + Lamb NZ on the threat of synthetic meat
John Small (SmallTorque): Synthetic Protein & Pastoral Farming
National
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Jian Yang again/still
Susan Strongman (Wireless): What’s it like to be young and blue?
Spinoff: ‘Props to the Spinoff’: Max Key watches our Max Key vs Eminem track
Media
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Labour MP Louisa Wall takes Fairfax to High Court over 'offensive' cartoons
Sam Hurley (Herald): Labour MP argues Fairfax cartoons were 'insulting' of Maori and Pacifika
Brent Edwards (RNZ): Malta death shows 'open season' on journalists
BusinessDesk: Fairfax NZ acquires Neighbourly website
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Mayor Phil Goff targets council communications for savings
Todd Niall (RNZ): How the Auckland Council could save $30m a year
Grant Bradley (Herald): Bed tax targets question Auckland Council spending
Māori TV: Waipa mayor says no Māori voice on Council
Damian George (Stuff): Ratepayers, commuters to pay for students' public transport fare discounts
Ben Peterson (LeftWin): Love light rail? Hate the petrol tax.
Jono Edwards (ODT): Maori seat a thorny issue at ORC table
David Loughrey (ODT): DCC curtails confidential agreements
Education
Brad Flahive (Stuff): One in three Kiwi children suffer bullying at school
RNZ: 50 jobs to go at NorthTec
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Govt change: charter schools optimistic
Alwyn Poole (Herald): Charter schools are helping children who struggled previously
Stuff: Police Studies NCEA in Rotorua a nationwide first
Justice and police
Herald: Three strikes law not working, says Justice Minister Andrew Little
Maddison Northcott (Stuff): Andrew Little says three strikes law will be repealed
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Three strikes law to be repealed by Justice Minister
No Right Turn: The end of "three strikes"
Mike Hosking (Herald): Blind ideology - criminals should be kept in prison
Adam Goodall (Spinoff): Judges have been talking about the ‘justice gap’ crisis for years. Are we beginning to listen?
Mei Heron (RNZ): Government wants foreign police officers on fast-track
Welfare
Craig Hoyle (Auckland Now): Campaigners call for welfare overhaul following court action against solo mum
Catriona MacLennan (Herald): Women shouldn't lose benefits for not naming dads
Whānau Ora
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Whānau Ora portfolio independent of Māori Development Minister not what I envisioned- Dame Tariana Turia
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Whānau Ora review priority for Government's first 100-days
Māori politics
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): A new chapter for Ngāi Tūhoe
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Ngāti Wai Trust Board 'not fit for purpose'
Graham Cameron (Spinoff): Trudeau’s lesson for Ardern: Inspiring words are not enough
Abortion
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): No abortion changes until 'well into next year'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): When will Ardern move on abortion?
Defence
Laura Walters (Stuff): Ron Mark goes off-script to promise more money to RSA
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Defence Minister talks funding after stage 'whisper' to PM
Other
David Williams (Newsroom): The difficulty of prosecuting over CTV’s collapse
Gehan Gunasekara (Herald): Reform of pre-internet Privacy Act must be a top priority
Todd Niall (RNZ): Ports of Auckland reveals '30-year masterplan'
Herald: Bishop Brian Tamaki hits out at gay community
Dylan Kelly (Spinoff): On a new government, kindness and the (unfinished) legacy of my mother, Helen Kelly