NZ Politics Daily - 6 November 2017
6 November 2017
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PM’s Australian visit and Manus Island refugee crisis
Ric Stevens (Press): Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull should accept Jacinda Ardern's refugee offer
Mike Hosking (Herald): Why we shouldn't take Manus Island refugees
RNZ: PM says she'll keep tabs on Manus Island
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won't bypass Australia over Manus
Greg Presland (The Standard): Australia, you’re being a d**k
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Politics for Jacinda Ardern is a bed of red roses
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Turnbull's warm welcome for Ardern underscores continuity in trans-Tasman relations
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): New Zealand tit for tat on Aussies breaks with tradition
Claire Trevett (Herald): Ardern in Australia: Manus Island offer still on table, says PM
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern fails to persuade Malcolm Turnbull on student fees
Claire Trevett (Herald): Key bromance haunts Jacinda Ardern's first Australia visit
1News: Watch: 'It's our Hamilton heritage' - Jacinda Ardern and Malcolm Turnbull 'hit it off'
Newshub: US deal a lie, choose NZ - Manus refugee
RNZ: With NZ offer rejected, Manus refugees doubt US resettlement prospects
Herald: Jacinda Ardern meets with Malcolm Turnbull, rebuffs Manus Island offer
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull rejects Ardern's refugee offer - for now
Amanda Jane Robinson (Newshub): Australia not taking up NZ refugee offer 'at this time'
Michael McGowan and AAP (Guardian): Turnbull says he will consider NZ refugee deal only after US resettlements
Newshub: 'Only fair' to raise fees for Australian students – Ardern
RNZ: Ardern doesn't rule out uni fees retaliation
Bernard Lagan (Noted): Why Malcolm Turnbull may be unnerved by Jacinda Ardern
Alison Mau (Stuff) Tampa rescue is point of pride – but we're too gutless to do it again
Claire Trevett (Herald): Plenty on Ardern's plate in OZ
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Ardern seeks to 'reaffirm' trans-Tasman relationship
Herald Editorial: Ardern will be under the Oz spotlight
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern on a whirlwind charm offensive over high-pressured brunch
Mitch McCann (Newshub): Meet the Kiwi giving jobs to Australia's criminal deportees
Stuff: Malcolm Turnbull set to reject Jacinda Ardern's Manus Island refugee offer
Claire Trevett (Herald): Manus could be PM Jacinda Ardern's 'Tampa moment': Australian lawyer
Herald: Jacinda Ardern: 'Hard to ignore human face of Manus Island crisis
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern reconfirms offer to take 150 refugees from Australian detention centres
Daphna Whitmore (Redline): Manus Island: “It’s f******* disgraceful”
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Is a Green MP calling Labour complicit in human rights violations?
Trade
Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern takes another step towards the TPP
Bryan Gould: The TPPA – not just a free trade deal
Jane Kelsey (Daily Blog): National’s TPPA is not OK. We voted for change!
Newshub: NZ not alone on ISDS clauses - Jacinda Ardern
Matt Nippert (Herald): Winston Peters' plans to reopen trade with Russia raises alarm from Europe
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Winston Peters' plan to reopen trade talks with Russia called 'puzzling'
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What Winston is actually doing with Russia?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Nippert scrutinises Winston’s push for Russia deal
RNZ: Health groups worried about TPP negotiations
Government
John Armstrong (1News): Jacinda Ardern will find 'doing the right thing' gets harder the longer she's PM
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Another winter of discontent?
Audrey Young (Herald): Grant Robertson: Finance Minister more than Dr No
Anthony Hubbard (Stuff): Shane Jones - Minister of Trees
Jo Moir (Stuff): Andrew Little committed to getting Ngapuhi a settlement and learning Te Reo
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Labour's new broom lightweight, but sweeping clean
Simon Draper (Stuff): Asia-Pacific challenges for Ardern's government
Alastair Paulin (Stuff): Week in review: The 100-day race is on
Karl du Fresne: The first 100 days: a better way
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): The Government's rush has the smell of a pay day for lawyers
Parliament and democracy
Max Rashbrooke (The Good Society): Does the new government mean open government?
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National clashes with Labour: 'erosion of democratic rights'
1News: Parliament to sit until close to Christmas so Government can push through 'first 100 days' agenda
Laura Walters (Stuff): Australian left-wing lobby firm Hawker Britton hiring in New Zealand
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters' new right-hand man faces 'steep learning curve'
The Standard: Let’s do this
Election
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Party vote performance in each age bracket
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): The influence of age on party vote preferences
Bryce Edwards (Liberation): No real youthquake in 2017
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Another $430,000 from Gareth
The Standard: Labour and rural voters
Greens
James Shaw (Green Blog): Confidence and Supply = ???
James Shaw (Green Blog): 20 Goals for a Green Government
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Marama Davidson needs to be the new co-leader of the Green Party
National
Audrey Young (Herald): Collins' stocks rise with Nationals
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret Diary of The Opposition
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Gerry Brownlee shows National is set to play rough
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Rob Hosking on National
Greg Presland (Standard): Jian Yang and his residence application
TOP
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Gareth Morgan poured $2m of his own money into TOP
RNZ: Morgan spent more than $2m on TOP election campaign
Housing
Newshub: No means testing for KiwiBuild homes
Newshub: Community housing provider sceptical of KiwiBuild
ODT Editorial: Labour’s housing ban a winner
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Who's to fear most – foreign buyers or talkback hosts?
Jessica Mutch (1News): New Zealand housing crisis a 'domestic story' not a foreign buyer made problem – economist
Henry Cooke (Stuff): 'We've inherited a disaster': Official figures show 45,000 home shortfall in Auckland
Corazon Miller (Herald): MBIE figures show nationwide housing shortage of 71,000
Economic direction
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Slower growth and early spending plans could push Government borrowing higher
Ana Nicolaci Da Costa and Charlotte Greenfield (Reuters): Government may fast-track RBNZ reforms
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Capitalism has failed
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): On calling out the excesses of capitalism
Police
Derek Cheng (Herald): Stuart Nash rejects plan to actively hire police from overseas
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Māori communities concerned about foreign police plan
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): More cops won't make our communities safer
David Fisher (Herald): Dotcom wins settlement from police over the 2012 dawn raid which saw him arrested
RNZ: Dotcom wins confidential settlement for dawn raid in 2012
Stuff: Kim Dotcom reaches settlement with police over 2012 'Hollywood-style' dawn raid
Justice
Herald: Govt wants to axe new prison and lower prison muster
RNZ: Govt review to look at how to control prison population
Liam Martin (Spinoff): The fate of NZ’s mega-prison will be the first big test of Labour’s commitment to reform
Laura Walters (Stuff): Just three cars destroyed under 'Crusher' Collins' law
Education
Jo Moir (Stuff): Education minister's shakeup will scrap National Standards and review NCEA
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Uniform rort? Crackdown on 'covert' school fundraising
Simon Collins (Herald): Is this the future of NCEA?
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 330 NZ schools sitting half empty
Jody O’Callaghan (Stuff): School expelled an autistic 9-year old boy after system failed him, mum says
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Education for troubled children – until they threaten our own kids
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Govt to revise teacher collaboration pay
RNZ: Govt reviews six contracts for new charter schools
Georgia Forrester (Stuff: Labour's axe hovers over new partnership schools
Herald on Sunday Editorial: Work habits are learned at home
Ian Telfer (RNZ): Surge in mental health needs at Otago University
Eleisha Foon (Newshub): Employers call on new Government to help with apprentice training
Debrin Foxcroft (WesternLeader):'New Zealanders don't react to compulsion very well'
Health
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Too broke to refer heart patients
Herald: Waikato DHB chairman Bob Simcock won't resign
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Receipts for former health chief Nigel Murray show big travel sprees
RNZ: 'Utter lack of governance' at Waikato DHB – Union
Natlie Akoorie (Herald): Investigation launched into former Waikato DHB chief Nigel Murray's spending
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): What do former Waikato DHB chief Nigel Murray's expenses reveal?
RNZ: DHB board chair won't resign over spending
Sarah Robson and Karen Brown (RNZ): Waikato DHB refuses to release spending report
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): DHB chief's $200,000 spending costs to be investigated
RNZ: Otago mayors back Ronald McDonald House in Dunedin
Katie Bradford (1News): 'We can look and learn from lessons of the past' - Government signals overhaul of NZ mental health system
Dave Macpherson (Daily Blog): Cops the de facto mental health crisis go-to agency
Employment
Emile Donovan (RNZ): Labour inspector numbers set to double in 3 years
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Cost no excuse to pay women less - Jacinda Ardern
1News: 'The gender pay gap still exists' - Julie Anne Genter says only government policy can close the gap
Stuff: Julie Anne Genter: Govt can close gender pay gap in public sector within four years
Katie Kenny (Stuff): New Zealand holds onto 9th place for gender parity, gap widens globally
RNZ: Rugby not alone in gender pay gap
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Govt undermining neutrality of Stats NZ
Sexual abuse and harrassment
RNZ: New figures on sexual abuse prompt renewed calls for inquiry
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Has social media changed the way we think about sexual harassment?
Helen King (Stuff): Rally organised to destroy New Zealand's 'culture of misogyny'
Herlad: Young Asian Feminists Aotearoa organise rally to stop sexual violence
International relations
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Expel 'hateful' Iranian diplomat: National
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Opposition calls on Foreign Minister Winston Peters to expel 'hateful' Iranian diplomat
Media
Herald: Weekend Rewind: Happy 80th birthday Brian Edwards
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Downsizing your daily papers
RNZ: New Māori Television chief executive named
Stuff: Māori TV names new chief executive
Environment
Alexa Cook (RNZ): 'Accept where we're weak' - farming industry group
John Boynton (RNZ): Office for Whanganui River, legal person, inaugurated
Sarah Thomson (Spinoff): I took the climate change minister to court and won – kind of. Now I’m looking at you, James Shaw
Tracy Neal (RNZ):Anti-poison group say legal bill won't stop them
Auckland
Simon Collins (Herald): 'Let Auckland spread out': Twyford wants to drop urban boundary
RNZ: Goff: 'We don't want the city to sprawl out forever'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Five ways the Labour Government will change Auckland
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Port leaders need the power to persuade
RNZ: Akl Council launches real-time water quality tool
Fireworks and Guy Fawkes
Newshub: Fireworks sales are booming, but so are concerns
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern keeps 'watchful eye' on fireworks situation
Stuff: PM Jacinda Ardern concerned by pop-up firework sales
Alexander Gillespie (Stuff): Searching for our own Guy Fawkes
Other
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Minister of Fisheries faces a big job inspecting the sector
David Fisher (Herald): This is how our security services expect terrorism to strike New Zealand
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): What it means to be a Kiwi
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Next move Labour in the super game
Christina Persico (Stuff): National Parihaka Day back on the table
Heeni Brown (Māori TV): Harawira to prioritise community initiatives
Paul Thomas (Listener): The last Muldoonist has his final stand in Government
Lee Scanlon (Westport News): Buller council failed to cut wage bill
Newshub: Destiny accused of stalling over charity status
Narelle Henson (Waikato Times): Crisis of secularism as faithful grow in number