NZ Politics Daily - 8 December 2017
8 December 2017
Today's content
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Briefings to incoming ministers
Richard Harman (Politik): The briefings: The price of Government
Herald: Briefings to incoming ministers: Highlights
Claire Trevett (Herald): Briefings: Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull 'champion for NZ' according to NZ officials
Sarah Harris (Herald): Briefings: Ageing population challenge for New Zealand with pension to cost $1.3m
Sarah Harris (Herald): Briefings: Ministry for Women recommends men to use parental leave
Michael Wright (Stuff): Crown may need to bail out EQC as funds exhausted by November 2016 earthquake
Glen McConnell (Stuff): RNZ looks to move up to 50 jobs from Wellington to Auckland and exit AM radio
No Right Turn: Merry BIM-mas!
BIM - Health
Katarina Williaims (Stuff): DHB deficits have leapt by $100m since May, Health Minister David Clark claims
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Briefings: Amputees on ACC get more than four times DHB patients for artificial limbs
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Briefings: Mental health services "clearly struggling"
BIM - Housing
Corazon Miller (Herald): Briefings: Government says it has 'inherited a mess' with housing crisis
Corazon Miller (Herald): Briefings: State agencies grapple with homelessness issue as costs soar
Corazon Miller (Herald): Briefings: 1000 new social houses could impact cost and speed of builds
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Officials: Housing causes 'stark' inequality between young and old
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): National's housing timebomb detailed in damning paper
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Social housing demand not met by homes in the pipeline: Officials
Mei Heron (RNZ): Surge in demand for social housing revealed in briefing paper
Katie Bradford (1News): 'This is a social and economic disaster for the country' - Phil Twyford hits out over housing report
RNZ: Auckland housing shortage worsens
BIM – Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Some polytechnics are at risk - briefing warns
Simon Collins (Herald): Briefings: Universities on 'risky' building spree
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Regional polytechs face extinction
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Agencies warn education minister about need to 'balance' international education sector
Jessica Long (Stuff): Education NZ keen to see more overseas students study here without leaving home
BIM – Environment
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Briefings: NZ must act to adapt to global warming
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Bottled water export tax should be first priority - environment officials
Ged Cann (Stuff):Environment Ministry rubbishes clean green image, pokes holes in attempts to address emissions
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Paris agreement could cost NZ $36b
Herald: Briefings: Species decline and tourism key challenges - Department of Conservation
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): We are reaching biological and physical limits, DoC warns Minister
BIM – Cyber security, Intelligence agencies, defence
David Fisher (Herald): A little less danger? Deadly threats to New Zealand fall
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Kiwis still trying to travel to join extremist groups
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Isis terrorist threat to New Zealand remains unchanged
Herald: Briefings: PM singles out North Korea and Russia for cyberattacks
Dominic Harris (Stuff): NZ forces could remain in Middle East in ongoing battle against Isis
BIM – Justice and police
Anna Leask (Herald): Briefings: NZ prison population set to soar to 12,000
Laura Walters (Stuff): Prison muster growing at 'one of the most rapid rates ever recorded'
Anna Leask (Herald): Briefings: Police urge new minister to make 'key' decisions on firearms
BIM - Pike River
Herald: Briefings: Andrew Little says officials' Pike River brief wrong
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt 'very confident' over Pike River re-entry
BIM – Transport
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Briefings: Kiwis' love affair with used cars barrier to transport revolution
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Briefings: Govt told helicopter crashes are a big concern
BIM – Internal Affairs
Matt Nippert (Herald): Briefings: Home of NZ's most precious taonga 'in crisis', briefing reveals
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Archives NZ and National Library bursting at the seams
NZ’s Drinking water
Press Editorial: Water woes are a clear health crisis
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On how the drinking water crisis has been a failure of political leadership
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Hundreds of thousands Kiwis take 'reckless' risks drinking untreated water, experts say
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Who will pay for cleaner water?
Iain Rabbitts (Herald): Safe drinking water cannot be left to local politics
RNZ: Defence Force knew of possible contamination for months
Jane Patterson (RNZ): One month without tap water around airbases
Andrea Vance (1News): 'Don't want to cause undue panic' – David Parker says testing has begun on toxic foam used by NZ Defence Force
RNZ: Agencies investigating potential water contamination
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The water report
RNZ: Chlorine for Christchurch?
Cherie Sivignon (Stuf): Tasman faces $22 million bill to upgrade water schemes to meet standards
Nicki Harper (Hawkes Bay Today): Report links fourth death to Havelock North water crisis
Annabelle Tukia (Newshub): Asbestos discovered in Temuka water supply
Health
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Challenging year for Waikato DHB
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): The drugs we couldn't get enough of: more than 200 cases of shortages over six years
Megan Gattey (Stuff): 'Genuine' apology demanded for mesh-injured Kiwi women
Newshub: Nurses have no time to show compassion – study
Heather Roy: Plus ca change – Why do we have so many DHB’s?
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Poor teacher training blamed for NZ education decline
Jo Moir (Stuff):'Widespread' lack of confidence in teacher graduates' preparedness for the classroom
Carol Stiles (RNZ): Rural schools struggle to fill key high school teaching jobs
Jo Moir (Stuff): Prime Minister and Māori MP Willie Jackson at odds over compulsory Te Reo
Newswire: Few children slap on a hat – research
Callum McGillivray (Nor-west News): Skydiver defends school after National MP's 'rant' over fees-free policy
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Government's education fees-free criteria could put people off industry training
Nikki Preston (Herald): Minister 'reassured' after TEC delivers Wintec briefing
Housing
Michelle Cooke (RNZ): Govt spent $44,000 for homeless man to live in motel for 58 weeks
RNZ: Housing need 'not going to be fixed overnight’
Parliament and election
Rawiri Taonui (Scoop): The Rise, Fall and Future of the independent Māori Parties
Listener Editorial: Information wants to be free – why is the OIA an obstacle?
Laura Walters (Stuff): Speaker reviews list of approved visitors with access to Parliament for the first time
Toby Manhire (Herald): A peek inside the Prime Minister's Instagram account
Stuff: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes it to prestigious mag's Women of Year list
Employment
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Hobbit Law II: Will the sequel keep the movie gold coming?
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Getting Labour "Off The Couch" To Break Unemployment's Vicious Circles.
Sam Huggard (Together): A job scheme by any other name would be sweet
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): More Kiwis living pay day to pay day
Richard Wagstaff (Standard): Authentic participation underpins a safe workplace
Herald Editorial: Gender gulf in top jobs needs action
Poverty and inequality
Eva Corlett (RNZ): 'How is a parent supposed to survive on $20?'
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Dip in NZ’s child poverty rate a start
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If having 290 000 kids in poverty is a ‘success’ I’d hate to see failure in NZ
Reserve Bank
Brian Fallow (Herald): Reserve Bank's inflation enemy missing in action
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): As non-transparent, and obstructive, as ever
Media
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Parliament pays tribute to Ian Templeton
Herald: Winston Peters urged to drop legal action against journalists
Herald: Peter Cullinane named new chairman of NZME
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Radio audiences adjust the dial again
Transport
Tom Furley (RNZ): Auckland rail strike could affect 30,000
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): A quarter of all road-police tickets have 'no relevance to safety'
Foreign affairs and trade
Herald: Expanding relationship with China in New Zealand's interests
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): NZ won't follow Trump's lead on Jerusalem – Govt
Newshub: Donald Trump's Jerusalem move 'will make things difficult' - Prime Minister
RNZ: NZ parliamentary committee gets West Papua briefing
Manus Island refugees
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): ‘No new risk’ of people-smuggling from Manus
Herald: NZ not a greater target for people smugglers: Minister
Justice
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Compensation for gay men with historical convictions again asked for
Herald: Hurtful gay convictions should be compensated, politicians told
Other
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): State Sector report shows expanding public service, better paid, more educated
David Snell (Herald): Opinion: Govt reveals long-awaited legislation for taxing multinationals
Michael Wright (Press): PM agrees to meet CTV victims' families outraged at lack of prosecution over collapse
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ Super Fund seeks permission for short-selling
Colin James: Jacinda Ardern and arts-culture-heritage
Tess Nichol (Herald): Equality, the election and Mike Hosking: What Kiwis talked about most in 2017