NZ Politics Daily - 12 January 2018
12 January 2018
Today's content
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Jim Anderton
Charlies Gates (Stuff): New Zealand statesman Jim Anderton farewelled by family and friends
Megan Woods (Newsroom): Jim Anderton: An ordinary extraordinary man
Derek Cheng (Herald): Fond farewell for Anderton
Denis O'Reilly (Herald): Jim Anderton listened, questioned and could act on radical advice
Steven Cowan (Against the current): New Zealand’s last social democratic politician
Don Franks (Redline): Notes on Jim Anderton and the NZ left
Liz McDonald (Stuff): No head of state to attend former Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton's funeral
Derek Cheng (Herald): PM, ministers and Labour Party to go to Jim Anderton funeral
Gender issues
Emma Keeling (Stuff): Men tell women how it is, whether they're topless or wearing netball bibs
Katee Shanks (The Daily Post): Former Rotorua woman who created glitter boobs shocked by reaction
Herald: Online trolls threaten 'glitter boob' march organisers
Henry Cooke (Stuff): LGBTI people will still be invisible on next NZ census
Herald: 'In the shadows': LGBTI still to be invisible in next NZ census
Dominion Post: Editorial – No sex please, we're the census
Race issues
Hannah Martin (Stuff): New Zealand Wars memorial statue defaced by anti-colonial activists
Edward Gay (RNZ): Vandalising statue 'doesn't help the cause'
Daily Blog: ‘Symonds Street War Memorial Target of Attack by Anti-Colonial Activists’
Christine Ammunson (The Spinoff): Admitting Golliwogs are awful won’t ruin your childhood, we promise
Waka jumping bill
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Who controls the past now, controls the future
Winston Peters (Stuff): 'Waka-jumping' bill makes our democracy more responsive to MMP
Nick Smith (Stuff): House of representatives or party poodles?
Karl due Fresne (Stuff): Winston Peters top of the political pops with willingness to exploit wonky system
Pete George (Your NZ): Peters defends his waka jumping bill
Roading and transport
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National lays out plans to petition Government to retain major roading projects
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National Party to petition govt over 'highway projects'
Liz McDonald and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): MP's petition to upgrade "dangerous" Christchurch to Ashburton highway
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): National uses petitions to pressure government over roads
Jon Addison (Herald): Specialised trucks mean more freight on roads, not less
Greg Presland (The Standard): Won’t somebody please think about the RONs?
Environment
Illya McLellan (Stuff): How we're wasting 100 billion litres of water every year
Teresa Cowie (RNZ): Outspoken - Taking out the trash
Christina Persico (Stuff): Plea for government help over New Zealand's old tyre 'nightmare'
The Standard: Climate Change and the New Zealand Defence Forces
Lorde
Stuff: Brian Eno writes letter supporting Lorde's Israel boycott
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Lorde is a 's**thead' who should start a 'F**k the Jews' world tour - Howard Stern
Naomi First (Spiked-online): Lorde and the breathtaking hypocrisy of BDS
Other
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): ‘Slippage’ affecting information Act
Heta Gardiner (Maori TV): We’re keen to recruit a new generation of Māori candidates – English
Lucy Swinnen (Stuff): Military billboards target politicians in bid to replace ageing Hercules fleet
Simon Wilson (The Spinoff): Witty, stylish and diverse, Paperboy was a weekly burst of energy. So why did it die?
RNZ: OIO investigates PGG Wrightson's main shareholder on character grounds
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Foreign buyers of NZ pastoral leases only looking for refuge, critics say
Jo Moir (Stuff): National Party and Federated Farmers pressuring Government on rates inquiry
Miri Schroeter (Stuff): A nation of boozers: The drinking of Kiwis over 50 is getting worse
RNZ: New Australian High Commissioner to NZ named
Stuff: Open letter to Justice Minister Andrew Little to fix 'failed' quake court
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Deaf device: 'A lot of people don't want to wait'
No Right Turn: Mosquitos and the Human Rights Act
Stuff: How much tax is the Government collecting?
Stuff: What is the Government's biggest core expense?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Student allowance boost blamed for rent spikes
Sally McKechnie (The Spinoff): Does the Havelock North water probe portend a flood of ‘super inquiries’?
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Peter Thiel is not the kind of friend in high places that NZ needs
John Maslin (Wanganui Chronicle): Mother Aubert, NZ's first cannabis grower headed for sainthood
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opportunities for NZ to take lead in cryptocurrency regulation
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Workers in a fool’s paradise