NZ Politics Daily - 24 November 2017
24 November 2017
Today's content
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Tax working group
Richard Harman (Politik): The tax plan to change capitalism
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Another big tax switch to come?
Barry Soper (Herald): Don't expect anything radical
Herald: Details of Government's tax working group revealed
Sam Sachdeva and Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Tax Working Group ‘no revenue grab’: Robertson
1News: 'We are not setting out to grab revenue' – Government announces expert group to look at tax system
Laura Walters and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Sir Michael Cullen to head tax working group, GST changes possible
RNZ: Cullen to lead Labour's tax working group
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Sir Michael Cullen to chair Government's Tax Working Group
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government releases Tax Working Group details
David Hargreaves (Interest): Government releases details of Tax Working Group; Joyce says it's an 18-month-long rubber stamp for a Capital Gains Tax
Herald: Tax group's brief can include looking at taking GST off women's sanitary products
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Government to explore option of cutting tax on female products
Liam Hehir (Medium): Anyone gonna call Grant Robertson out on this?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Tax Working Group
Pike River
RNZ: Families 'ecstatic' over Pike River ruling
Frances Cook (Herald): Pike River families win fight against 'chequebook justice'
ODT Editorial: Next steps for Pike River
Andrew Dickens (Herald): Pike River court decision better than re-entering the mine
Danica MacLean (Northern Advocate): Northland brother of Pike River Mine victim hopeful of re-entry
Greg Presland (Standard): The Pike River Supreme Court decision – Helen Kelly would be pleased
RNZ: Pike River prosecution withdrawal unlawful - Supreme Court
Frances Cook (Herald): Decision not to lay charges against Pike River boss 'unlawful'
Martyn van Beynen and Sam Sherwood (Stuff): WorkSafe decision to drop RNZ: Pike River boss Peter Whittall charges 'unlawful': Supreme Court
Newshub: Pike River families win case against Worksafe in Supreme Court
No Right Turn: A bribe's a bribe
Forbes article and NZ economy
Toby Manhire (Herald): What the world is really saying about us
1News:'It's nonsense' - Former Reserve Bank economist rubbishes Forbes' claim NZ is heading for recession
Michael Reddell (Newsroom): Forbes’ gross caricature of our economy
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Committing pointless economic suicide?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Steven Joyce brushes off controversial Forbes article
Bryan Gould: Recession? Surely not!
Dan Satherley (Newshub): $11.7 billion hole perhaps 'too conservative' - Steven Joyce
Employment and workplace safety
Amelia Langford (RNZ): 'Lax approach' to local labour needs to go - Immigration Minister
Joshua Hitchcock (Spinoff): Māori unemployment: there is a way out
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 'What kind of employment agreement doesn't include wages?'
RNZ: 'Flagrant' breaches led to tank explosion death
Refugees
RNZ: Work to do on refugee offer - Winston Peters
RNZ: Beatings, arrests as police trash Manus centre in raid
Herald: Revealed: Rohingya to resettle in Myanmar
Government
Press Editorial: Is the new government honeymoon still on?
Laura Walters (Stuff): The Labour-NZ First-Greens grouping has hit 54.5 per cent support – poll
Herald: Labour, Greens surge in new Roy Morgan poll
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Andrew Little has some big changes in store
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Carmel Sepuloni: No short, sharp fix for stigma
Herald: Jacinda Ardern: Arts should not focus on commercial incentives
Bill Ralston (Listener): National MPs should try shutting up for a while – they might like it
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Funding error affects 90% of state-funded schools
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers restraining children 130 times a month
Illya McLellan (Stuff): Lack of primary level special education unit ends family's home ownership dream
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NZQA questions class contact time for foreign students
Don Rowe (Spinoff): Off course: the pricey private education which left its students indebted and fuming
Herald: Victoria University's controversial tax exemption
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): $50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Environment
Brian Fallow (Herald): What makes farming so special?
Benedict Collins (RNZ):'Everyone wants to see any job opportunity'
RNZ: Auckland myrtle rust case confirmed
Newshub: US professor condemns New Zealand's pest and possum ‘murder'
Seamus Boyer (Wairarapa Times-Age): A billion trees? No problem
Mike Hosking (Herald): A billion trees in 10 years? It's just not possible
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Waikato’s biggest landlord looks at water rights
Health
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): David Clark is a fan of free dental care, but says $8b health budget is 'pretty much spent'
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Petition pushes for Dunedin Ronald McDonald House: 'We know what is good for our children'
Alice Peacock (Herald): Report into bullying of senior medical staff reveals violence and intimidation
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Bullying rife among senior doctors, symptomatic of health system strain – union
Max Molyneaux (Newshub): Medicinal cannabis scam steals cancer sufferer's hopes
Newshub: Vape, don't smoke – expert
Emma Espiner (Newsroom): A fierce and frank fight for women’s health
Poverty and inequality
Herald: Lack of food driving up poor health and truancy rates, study indicates
Herald; Teachers and doctors call for cross-party work to end child poverty
John Sergeant: (Taranaki Daily News): An issue of neglect, not always poverty
Parliament
Jo Moir (Stuff): National and NZ First criticism of new parliamentary prayer sparks changes
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Select Committee Chairs
1News: Watch: 'Sorrow, anger, aroha' - Te Ururoa Flavell on Maori Party's election defeat
1News: Check out the amazing new graffiti mural in the basement of Parliament House
Regional development
Infometrics: Who will get Shane Jones’ pot of gold?
Herald: Bill English says $1 billion regional development fund is 'pathetic'
Herald: Listen: Bill English slams 'weak Government' on tax
Media
Russell Brown (Public Address): Harkanwal Singh: What really happened with those Chinese-sounding-names
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Jack Tame’s greasy pole of journalism
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Tony Veitch withdraws from Sky's new TV show
Spinoff: Good: Tony Veitch is no longer appearing on Sky’s new ‘hard-hitting’ panel show
Mark Longley (Newshub): Opinion: My advice to Tony Veitch
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Why Tony Veitch has no place on our screens
Herald: NZ Herald's daily audience hits 1 million
America’s Cup and Auckland
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Auckland Council rules out Halsey Wharf extension for America's Cup
RNZ: Compromise option for America's Cup village
RNZ: Auckland Council approves Waitemata cruise moorings
RNZ: Auckland Council to slash travel budget by 30 percent
Hamilton council and offensive message
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Hamilton councillor who sent lewd message wants disciplinary findings made public
RNZ: Council culture: 'It's quite concerning'
Wellington transport
Geoff Simmons (Stuff): Get Wellington moving? We need carrots and sticks
Local government
Geoff Vause (Stuff): Council asked to fork out $20,000 to feed conference delegates with $250 dinner
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Mayor labelled 'dictator' after councillors quit meeting
Danica MacLean (Northern Advocate): Whangarei byelection candidate uses 'Let's do this' slogan
Other
Herald: Australia-NZ relationship central to regional security: White Paper
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Speaking out or selling out?
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Game-changing learnings: How New Zealand is all across plain English
Benjamin Liu (Herald): There is a dark side of artificial intelligence
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): GCSB marks sharp rise in cyber attacks targeting New Zealand - some state-sponsored
1News: Government spy agency GCSB out to attract more women to world of espionage
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Take alternative protein products seriously, analyst warns
Sam Hurley (Herald): Acquitted cops: 'The only thing we've done wrong is be proud Maori officers'
Newshub: NZ troops welcomed home from Iraq mission
ODT: Lisa Tumahai takes reins at Ngai Tahu
Oliver Lewis and Cate Broughton (Stuff): Ngāi Tahu's new kaiwhakahaere 'humbled' by support
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): 38 years on, families still pushing for national memorial to Erebus disaster
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): Meet the new bosses
Herald Editorial: Zimbabwe needs more than defeat for Robert Mugabe
Herald: Two hundred Auckland high-rise buildings may have combustible cladding similar to Grenfell Towers
RNZ: New fire rules require 'bespoke' engineering on major buildings
Luke Appleby (1News): Destiny Church says it will fight 'incompetent' and 'wrong' decision to strip their tax-free status