NZ Politics Daily - 1 December 2017
1 December 2017
Today's content
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CTV building collapse
Philip Matthews (Press): Failure to prosecute over CTV offends our sense of justice
Nigel Hampton (Stuff): Not prosecuting CTV building engineers a ‘sadly disappointing results'
Michael Wright (Stuff): Why is no-one being prosecuted for the CTV building collapse tragedy?
Phil Pennington (RNZ): CTV decision 'not trial by expert’
David Williams (Newsroom): CTV families still search for answers
Mike Hosking (Herald): On CTV building collapse, police have done not just the right thing but realistically the only thing
RNZ: Corporate manslaughter law on cards – minister
RNZ: CTV survivors and families call for law change
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): CTV building collapse police victims' families react: 'There is no closure'
Stuff: Man who lost daughter in CTV collapse will 'never move on'
RNZ: Police decline to bring charges over CTV building collapse
Lisa Davies (1News): No police prosecutions over collapse of Christchurch's CTV building in 2011 quake
Martyn van Beynen, Sam Sherwood and Joelle Dally (Stuff): Police will not prosecute over CTV collapse
RNZ: CTV survivor confirms no police charges will be laid
Herald: Police decision on CTV collapse: Families 'won't give up'
Martyn van Beynen (Press): CTV building engineer Alan Reay still deeply anguished by collapse tragedy
RNZ: Timeline: CTV building collapse
No Right Turn: Pike River Redux
Golriz Ghahraman
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): It’s all about the brand
Herald: James Shaw takes rap for misrepresenting Golriz Ghahraman in speech
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Man who called Golriz Ghahraman a genocide denier denies calling her a genocide denier
Laura Walters (Stuff): Phil Quin apologises for calling Green MP Golriz Ghahraman a 'genocide denier'
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Golriz Ghahraman update: Cough-cough – about my whole ‘this is a political screw up by the Greens’
Water and trade
Richard Harman (Politik): Peters takes on his own Ministry
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters and David Parker at odds over whether export tax breaches trade deals
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Stoush in select committee as National seeks to take credit for TPP wins
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Export tax on water would breach TPP and other free trade agreements, MPs told
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): NZ 'could not' apply water tax – diplomat
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Free trade rules could block bottled water tax
Jo Moir (Stuff): Māori freshwater rights set to be a stumbling block for coalition Government
RNZ: Fonterra on trading halt pending botulism scare decision
Media
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On journalism, Peters and Ghahraman
John Drinnan (Herald): Radio NZ te reo strikes the wrong note
Liam Hehir (Medium): Reforming the liturgy of Morning Report
Karl du Fresne: Freedom of speech, Rachel Stewart-style
Herald: Toni Street and Mike McRoberts win big at NZ TV Awards
Newsroom: Newsroom wins current affairs award
Winston Peters
John Armstrong (1News): Ardern learning that you get what you get with Winston Peters
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Winston Peters Has Options - Jacinda Ardern Does Not
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Prime Minister Peters? Don't rule it out
1News: Winston Peters tasked with rivitalising $1.6 billion horse racing industry
Parliament
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): MPs on notice over written questions furore
1News: Watch: Speaker Trevor Mallard fed up with time-wasting motions
Warren Lindberg (Scoop): Money versus passion: parliamentary lobbying
Richard Dawson (ODT): What’s in a name?
Economy
RNZ: Robertson unveils govt's plan for the economy
Ellen Read (Stuff): Government to reveal fiscal costs of the 100 Day Plan on December 14
Newswire: Robertson tells Ministers to review spending programmes
RNZ: 'It will be possible for us to meet our goals' – Robertson
Jane Patterson (RNZ): 'We want New Zealanders to be in work and to be paid well'
Liam Dann (Herald): Grant Robertson announces date for fiscal update
Stuff: Government to reveal fiscal costs of the 100 Day Plan on December 14
Herald: NZ Herald editorial: After smart call on LVRs it's a shame Governor can't stick around
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Property industry is a major earner but women's pay lag
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government passes Healthy Homes bill, requiring all rentals to be warm and dry
Herald: Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill is Govt's second major law to pass
Newshub: Healthy Homes Bill passes requiring rentals to be warm and dry
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Grant Robertson wants house prices to keep rising
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Deposits need to drop, says loan company
Anne Gibson (Herald): Four reasons Chinese house buyers love NZ
Overseas land sales and investment
Mark Price (ODT): Character test had been passed
Sally Murphy (RNZ): OIO eyeing Lauer for 'character test'
Environment
No Right Turn: Secrecy hides incompetence
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Iwi leaders unanimously oppose seismic testing
Jamie Morton (Herald): Calls for fisheries closures over threat to yellow-eyed penguins
1News: Fishing nets leading cause of deaths for endangered New Zealand penguin
Stuff: Yellow-eyed penguins 'drowning' in sea nets face wipe-out, scientists warn
Lois Williams (RNZ): Kauri headed for extinction, scientist warns
Nina Hall (The Conversation): Six things New Zealand’s new government needs to do to make climate refugee visas work
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Businesses must lead the way in making us give up plastic bags
BusinessDesk: NZ carbon price highest in six years
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Antarctica's Ross Sea massive marine protected area comes into force
Health
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Serious Fraud Office now has formal complaint on Nigel Murray
RNZ: Murray may have spent more than officially recorded - Audit NZ
Jamie Morton (Herald): Are Kiwi babies being breastfed long enough?
Newshub: NZ mothers fall short of breastfeeding guidelines
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): ACC says no cover for people affected by Havelock North water crisis
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Supermarkets making inroads to sugar, salt reduction in own brands
Herald: Consumer NZ calls for more regulation after 10 sunscreen brands fail tests
Tax
Brian Fallow (Herald): Let's get tax right this time
Andrea Black (Let’s talk about tax): My fair tax review
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): End of exams in sight
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Solicitor-General appeals former teacher's sentence and name suppression
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NZ's 'worst' polytech under scrutiny
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Concerns for jobs at troubled West Coast polytech
RNZ: Low score for West Coast polytech
Paid parental leave
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Paid parental leave increased to 26 weeks as Government bill passes
Newshub: Paid Parental Leave to extend to 22 weeks in 2018
RNZ: Govt's paid parental leave bill passes
Employment
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Employment Court ruling set to shake-up the workplace
Thomas Manch (Stuff): High salaries don't guarantee success, but oversight key
Newshub: Minister for Women's sexual harrassment advice
Local government
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckward: Supercity secession bids fail
Rob Stock (Stuff): Asset sales, petrol tax and house-building levies to fund Auckland Council's spending plans
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Goodbye transport levy, hello regional fuel tax
Bernard Orsman (Herald): North Shore residents should not have to pay full water rate, says councilor
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Whānau rally to save "death trap" urban marae
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Infamous Nelson resident gets an apology
International relations
Catherine Delahunty (Herald): West Papua people need our support
Toby Manhire (Herald): Why Donald Trump is dangerous and wrong
Herald: NZ's backing of UN resolution condemning Israel's Palestine settlements 'embarrassing'
Police
Megan Gattey (Stuff): More Tasers, more police shootings: Weapons 'encourage aggressive behaviour'
Callum McGillivray (Stuff): How did the police force stack up over the past year?
Treaty of Waitangi
Herald: Sir William Gallagher apologises for offensive Treaty of Waitangi comments
Stuff: Sir William Gallagher apologises over Treaty comments
Sandy Morrison (Waikato Times): With leadership comes responsibility, Sir William
Other
David Fisher (Herald): GCSB minister Andrew Little on mass surveillance and our spies obeying the law
The Listener: The Pike River decision erases a stain on New Zealand law
Herald: Search for children's relatives will look wider after damning review
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): How a small town set a national example
ODT Editorial: The high price of petrol
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Hospital sends wrong records to dead woman's son in 'disappointing' privacy breach
Herald: Controversial children's book Into The River's racy content inspires law change
RNZ: MP's 2013 gay marriage speech goes viral in Japan
Martyn Bradbury (Waatea News): Can the activist left work constructively with the new Government
The Standard: Progress from the Labour led government