NZ Politics Daily - 7 December 2017
7 December 2017
Today's content
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NZ’s Drinking water
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Drinking water inquiry finds a culture of carelessness and complacency
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Damning water inquiry should be a wake up call
RNZ: 800,000 at risk after 'mess' left by previous govt – Parker
Herald:Inquiry slams Ministry of Health, local councils for systemic failure on water standards
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): More than 750,000 Kiwis exposed to potentially unsafe drinking water
Mei Heron (RNZ): Clean water: 'It's the communities that have to pay'
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Battle brewing over water treatment cost
Herald: Inquiry: More than 700,000 Kiwis may be drinking unsafe water
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): 700,000 Kiwis could be drinking unsafe water – report
Katie Bradford (1News): Twenty per cent of New Zealand drinking water 'at risk', report calls for urgent treatment of all supplies
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Report backs mandatory water treatment
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Chlorinating Christchurch's drinking water could cost $100m – council
Samantha Olley (Newstalk ZB): 'Chicken sandwiches more regulated than water’
Marty Sharpe (DominionPost): Napier council admits it was 'overly conservative' and decides to hold meeting items in public
Astrid Austrid (Hawkes Bay Today): Treated water a 'reality' after the Havelock North gastro crisis
RNZ: Napier council accused of ignoring residents
RNZ: Asbestos found in water supply of South Canterbury town
Health
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Scorecard full of failure in scathing Health Ministry review by public service watchdog
Richard Harman (Politik): Damning review of Ministry
RNZ: Health Ministry 'needs to be accountable'
Herald: Review slams Ministry of Health, demands changes
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Damning report labels Health Ministry leadership 'invisible'
RNZ: Health Ministry review an 'indictment' - David Clark
Mandy Te (East and Bays Courier): Auckland District Health Board spends more than $170,000 on 'values' rebrand
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Speculation grows over new Waikato DHB chair
Mike Hosking (Herald): Do we really need 20 district health boards?
Victoria University post-election conference
Colin James: When the “losers won” – and the loser lost: the first post-baby-boomer election
Jo Moir (Stuff): Political leaders on the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2017 election campaign
Audrey Young (Herald): Steven Joyce says he would have advised against leaking Winston Peters' super details
1News: 'I thought, what have I done?' - Steven Joyce reveals how he found out John Key stood down
1News: Winston Peters: Coalition with National Party would have been the 'much easier choice'
Audrey Young (Herald): Peter Dunne urges new generation in Parliament to turn New Zealand into republic
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Peter Dunne challenges politicians to create New Zealand republic
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Peter Dunne calls for New Zealand to become a Republic in final speech
1News: Peter Dunne urges NZ to cut 'umbilical cord' with England during valedictory speech
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Dunne challenges NZ to become a republic, but can we do it?
No Right Turn: Time for a republic
Liam Hehir (Medium): A revolution built on an inferiority complex
Laura Walters (Stuff): Te Ururoa Flavell: movement for independent Māori Party will come again
Emma Hurley (Newshub): What's right for Māori is right for the country - Te Ururoa Flavell
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Let's do this: How I accidentally helped Labour come up with their campaign slogan
Overseas influence on NZ politics
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Shameless and shameful
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): NZ unlikely to follow Oz move to ban foreign donations
Herald: PM Jacinda Ardern discounts Chinese influence
Herald: NZ urged to follow Australia's crackdown on foreign influence
Education
NZ Herald editorial: Time to take a serious look at our literacy
RNZ: Teachers, principals blame standards for reading drop
Chris Hipkins (Herald): Fees free is good for New Zealanders and good for New Zealand – Labour
Paul Goldsmith (Stuff): Government's tertiary priorities hard to understand
Sara Vui-Talitu (RNZ): Pacific students bewildered, out of pocket
RNZ: Students, staff feel cheated over PIPA closure
Simon Collins (Herald): Kindergarten revolt: Shift to fee-paying daycare scrapped
Employment and work for the dole
Chis McDowall (Spinoff): The wage gap in New Zealand: a visual timeline
Liam Dann (Herald): Nearly half of employers relying on migrants to fill vacancies
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Landcorp launches safety programme after deaths
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Greens back down on abolishing all benefit sanctions
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Work-for-minimum-wage scheme a 'test' for the Greens
Claire Trevett (Herald): The perplexing case of Shane Jones' ne'er-do-well nephs
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): South Auckland’s paid parental leave pioneers
Government
Patrick Smellie (Stuff): The game the new Government always plays with the old
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Labour making hay while the sun shines
RNZ: Pacific women MPs inspired by New Zealand PM
CTV building collapse
Michael Wright (Stuff): CTV victims' families seek meeting with Prime Minister over lack of criminal charges
RNZ: CTV families consider legal action
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Arcane law an obstacle to CTV prosecutions
Herald: CTV families seek legal advice on how to force police to review decision not to prosecute
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): People are right to be angry about the CTV disaster
Reserve Bank
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): The Reserve Bank is losing its lodestar
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): More excuses for a job not well done
Environment
Newshub: Climate change's threat to Auckland's wildlife
Julie Iles (Stuff): Premiums to rise after record year of weather-related insurance claims
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 0.17% not 1%
Justice and police
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): Our prisons are in crisis
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Manawatū Prison inmates feel unsafe
Tony Wall (Stuff): IPCA considers changing the way it reports on police shootings
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Labour MP Michael Wood pushing for more community policing and reopening police kiosks
Transport
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ motorists pay a high price with petrol the most expensive in the OECD – report
Andrea Vance (1News): Government prepares to battle soaring fuel prices in wake of blistering new report that says Kiwis overpaying at the pump
BusinessDesk (Newsroom): Government to further probe fuel prices
Lorna Thornber (Stuff): Luxury train to travel length of New Zealand needs government help, expert says
Inequality and poverty
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Why we shouldn't celebrate child poverty falling for first time in years just yet
RNZ: Number of children in poverty dropping, but still severe – report
Corazon Miller (Herald): Report: fewer children in poverty this year - but more work still needed
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Aucklanders already lining up for Xmas food parcels
Salvation Army report
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): 'Come and see us': Vulnerable New Zealand communities feel forgotten, report says
Jonathan Guildford (Stuff): Salvation Army report outlines New Zealand's most forgotten communities
Kate Pereyra-Garcia (RNZ): Smaller communities feel 'forgotten' – report
Newshub: We need good parents, not more benefits - Duncan Garner
Other
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Detained Kiwis say they are being offered cash to leave Australia
Mike Hosking (Herald): Havelock North water, petrol prices reveal incompetent public service
Joshua Hitchcock (Spinoff): Deloitte’s Top 10 Māori organisations: let’s celebrate their success
Dominion Post Editorial: No room for prima donnas in fight over capital's movie museum
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Let’s Make The Public Media Debate Non-Partisan
RNZ: Transport fraudster also scammed MSD
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Small town Kiwis are the most generous – Oxfam