NZ Politics Daily - 19 December 2017
19 December 2017
Today's content
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2017 in review
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Only one person truly in the hunt for politician of the year
Graham Adams (North & South): 2017: A year of hard truths
John Armstrong (1News): Politician of the Year
John Armstrong (1News): Plonker of the year, heroes and zeroes
John Armstrong (1News): On the wane, the comeback kids and the best put down
Anna Connell (Newsroom): Some of 2017's best and worst
Kate Newton (RNZ): 2017: Are we there yet?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Scoring my 2017 predictions
Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold (Stuff): The Demise and Rise of Andrew Little
Environment and climate change
Richard Harman (Politik): Todd Muller reverses climate change policy
Herald: Government starts down pathway to net zero emissions by 2050
Tom O'Connor (Stuff): Climate change cannot be denied
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government plans to go carbon neutral by 2050
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government to consult before drafting 'Zero Carbon Act' to reduce emissions
Herald: Prime Minister announces formulation of Zero Carbon Act, climate change commission
No Right Turn: Climate change: Costs and benefits of ending oil
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Jacinda Ardern: Empty posturing on climate change
Dominion Post: Editorial: Morgan was right: moggies are a problem
Government
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): PM non-committal over Winston Peter's KiwiSaver plan
Katie Bradford (1News): Jacinda Ardern 'pleased' to attend Waitangi as powhiri moved to keep protesters away from her
1News: Custom clothing featuring Jacinda Ardern's face helps US artist 'adjust to Trump's presidency'
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Governing For The "Other Half" Of New Zealand
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Sweet Jesus - I agree with Heather du-Plessis Allan?!?
Gwyn Compton (Digital Libertas): Is Clare Curran the first Minister to breach the Cabinet Manual?
Drug law reform
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bill to legalise medicinal cannabis introduced this week
Damien Grant (Stuff): Making drugs illegal won't keep your child safe
Employment and welfare
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Government promises pay rise to Parliament's cleaners and cooks
RNZ: Parliament's cleaners to get living wage
Stuff: 13-hour clock for women the answer to fixing pay discrimination in New Zealand
Stuff: Women under-represented in retail leadership, pushing earnings down
Colin Peacock (RNZ): PR push to highlight the glass ceiling
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Christian roots of welfare state safety net frayed by free-market economics
Sue Allen (Stuff): Hype about tinned tomatoes has raised the debate on giving
Parliament and Waka jumping bill
Henry Cooke (Stuff): National: Waka jumping bill 'an affront to democracy'
Herald: National says bill would gag MPs and make them loyal to leader, not voters
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National MP given summer homework - by Labour
CTV building collapse
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): CTV Building: Why no one is being prosecuted under current law for the collapse
RNZ: Corporate manslaughter law possible next year - Little
Health
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government out of money for new hospital and building works - National
Newswire: Government short on hospital funding, says National
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Health dollars sunk into stalled IT project
Economy and immigration
Liam Dann (Herald): Take that, bitcoin, New Zealand's value blows you out of the water
Jamie Gray (Herald): Gap opens between consumer and business confidence
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Facebook to book NZ advertising sales revenues here, not in Ireland
Keith Rankin (Daily Blog): Public Equity and Tax-Benefit Reform
Rob Stock (Stuff): Kiwi laws fail to keep up with the speed of digital disruption
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Economic risk in reducing immigration
Oksana Opara (Briefing papers): Immigration reform spotlight: Fairness, economic development, and the Working Holiday Scheme
Education
Zizi Sparks (Stuff): Youth advisory group to influence education and minister
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Zone-tightening fears as mini population boom bears down on secondary schools
Adele Redmond (Stuff): More schools broke the rules in 2016 - auditor-general
Media
Colin James (ODT): Lifetime's learning, insights peculiar privilege of journalism
Ben Robinson-Drawbridge (RNZ): Manus Island and media manipulation
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): How Steven Joyce killed NZ music & how a new youth radio station could save it
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Word Holocaust 'dangerous and derogatory': Google
Other
Simon Chapple (Herald): China is seeking an insidious influence in New Zealand
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Opportunities Party board 'did not allow any internal criticism'
David Hay: Why I'm sticking with TOP
Newswire: Conservative Party to be re-named
Alice Snedden (Stuff): Weinstein affair is a modern Christmas miracle
Alice Snedden (Stuff): Don Brash and Bill Gallagher - keeping racism in the public eye
Pete George (Your NZ): A new era of post baby boomer politics
No Right Turn: Little on the SIS
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A letter from a reader
Victoria University of Wellington (Newsroom): Meet the world's first virtual politician
Laura Walters (Stuff): Australia backs down on plans to charge Kiwi students higher fees
Enzo Giordani (The Standard): Tory Translation Service