NZ Politics Daily - 23 November 2017
23 November 2017
Today's content
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Education
Jessica Long (Stuff): Education Ministry turns down teachers' call for immediate 5pc pay rise
Peter Lyons (Herald): Treating education as football unfair and wasteful
Toby Curtis (Herald): Charter schools worth preserving
Simon Collins (Herald): NCEA Level 1 maths exam 'not that hard'
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Girls outclass boys as NZ ranks top 10 for collaboration
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Government reverses rule allowing kids to start school at 4
Mei Heron (RNZ): Fifth birthday school starts back on table
1News: Children won't be able to start school until they're five under planned changes by new Government
Jo Moir (Stuff): Government to take away option for children to start school at four years old
Jo Moir (Stuff): Politicians fight it out over children starting school eight weeks before they turn five
Herald Editorial: No fees will mean fewer places for foreign students
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Labour bars Australians from fees-free study
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt reveals costings for student allowances boost
Laura Walters (Stuff): Student allowance and living cost rises come in at $200m a year
Herald: Labour releases costings on university plans
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Increase to Student Allowance to cost $700m
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): How much will the boost to student allowances cost?
Newshub: Govt needs to front up with policy costs - Steven Joyce
Government
Liam Fitzpatrick and Casey Quackenbush (Time): Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 37-Year-Old Leader, Rolls Up Her Sleeves
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Understanding New Zealand First through the power of poetry
Laura Walters (Stuff): Former Labour chief of staff moves to left-wing lobby firm after four years
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): What’s happened to the Greens?
Housing
John Edens (RNZ): How can rates go up in a market slowdown?
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Rates bill concern spreads to regions
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Please pray for these Aucklanders whose homes are making too much money
Tim Brown (RNZ): Landlord relieved after court rules against tenant
Newshub: Farmers want Pukekohe housing growth stopped
Migration and refugees
1News: Watch: Jacinda Ardern says Government's immigration plan will serve Kiwi workers and students
Liam Dann (Herald): Migration over the peak - tipped to fall further
RNZ: High migration numbers curbed by departures
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Boosting labour inspectorate a priority – Minister
Rosemary McLeod (Press): Treading warily in aftermath of Tampa
RNZ: UN urges Australia to solve Manus Island crisis
Economy and Forbes article
Liam Dann (Herald): What Recession? Local economists pick good growth
Herald: NZ 'recession likely', says Forbes contributor
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Communist In All But Name! Is Jacinda About to Oversee the Second Peaceful Transition to Kiwi Socialism?
Mike Hosking (Herald): Why Forbes is right and wrong about an NZ recession
Michael Daly (Stuff): Steven Joyce sticks to $11.7 billion hole in Government budget
Health
John Campbell (RNZ): Murray spent 140k on travel at Canadian health authority
Karen Brown (RNZ): Waikato DHB withholds draft audit report
Karen Brown (RNZ): Second manager at Waikato DHB resigns
Herald: Put sugar levels on the label, advocates tell Government
Northern Advocate: Failure to listen delaying diagnosis of deadly illness, says GP
Herald: Strawberries with hint of funds cream
Environment
Richard Harman (Politik): Greens and NZ First likely to have water fight
Herald: Govt denies backtracking on planting 1 billion trees
No Right Turn: Climate change: Fudging on trees
RNZ: Toxic smelter waste must go – campaigner
No Right Turn: Against the Te Kuha mine
Adriana Weber (RNZ): Dairy strategy prioritises environment, animal welfare
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is it time to end big Dairy in New Zealand?
Employment
RNZ: Worker perks on offer as labour market tightens
Mark Hathaway (1News): 'We definitely need them' - older employees important, but at higher risk of suffering workplace injuries
Media
Sam Hurley (Herald): 'Insulting' newspaper cartoons prompt legal debate over racial friction
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Controversial Fairfax Media cartoons could have made racism against Māori worse, panel member says
Bryan Gould: Why is Mike Hosking so hard to watch?
Kylie Klein Nixon (Stuff): Tony Veitch announces his return to TV after bashing his girlfriend got him fired
Madeleine Holden (Spinoff): Why is Sky bringing Tony Veitch back to our TVs?
Joel MacManus (Critic): Sky 'Not Concerned' About Convicted Abusers On TV
Auckland
RNZ: Council luxury travel spend could go to Auditor-General
RNZ: Business class trips for staff irks Auckland councilor
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Travelling mayor means business
James Pasley (Stuff): Auckland producing more greenhouse gas emissions as a whole, but less per capita
RNZ: Auckland Council could avoid fuel tax - National Party
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Wharf’s $10m ‘dolphin’ back to bite Goff
America’s Cup
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Why is Grant Dalton so unpatriotic? And other vital questions about the America’s Cup
Todd Niall (RNZ): America's Cup: Big decisions due today
Mike Hosking (Herald): Don't dare turn this into the America's cock-up
Joel Cayford (Herald): Team NZ's option biased to private development
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): 'If we don't extend into the harbour, we lose the Cup'
Ellen Read (Stuff): America's Cup: Yacht race versus all other council spending
Zimbabwe
Dominion Post Editorial: Will Zimbabwe just trade one butcher for another?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Robert Mugabe's brutality understated
Nicholas Jones (Herald): New Zealand looks forward to return of democracy in Zimbabwe
1News: Watch: 'Pleasing to see change afoot' – Jacinda Ardern welcomes ousting of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe
Christchurch
David Williams (Newsroom): Bargain builds are over, government warned
Press Editorial: An opportunity in set-back for Christchurch's metro sports facility
Offensive message and Hamilton Council
Herald: Hamilton city councillor Mark Bunting's sexual joke leads to disciplinary hearing
Libby Wilson and Phillipa Yalden (Stuff): Council's cringe crew - lewd message the latest in string of embarrassing Hamilton City Council moments
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Explicit joke reignites claims of sexism on council
Melanie Bracewell (RNZ): A handy guide to sending 'funny' messages to women
Destiny Church
Anna Loren (Stuff): Destiny Church charities to be removed from Charities Register after failing to file annual returns
Dubby Henry (Herald): Destiny charities to be stripped of tax-exempt status
RNZ: Destiny Church charities deregistered
Other
Alexander Gillespie (Herald): We get good and bad grades on global rankings
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Six years after then Commerce Minister Simon Power detailed extensive problems with NZ shell companies, the problem persists
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters confident of Pike River re-entry
John Moore (Liberation): Pike River and the anti-Establishment zeitgeist
Edward Gay (RNZ): Crown seeks third murder trial for Malcolm Rewa
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Ngapuhi express views to new Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ fire officials using scare tactics – engineer
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Baby boomers buck 'self indulgent' beliefs
Stuff: Jordan Williams might be victim of his own success in defamation case