NZ Politics Daily - 19 January 2018
19 January 2018
Today's content
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Jacinda Ardern announces pregnancy
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces pregnancy
Stuff: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces she's pregnant
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces pregnancy
RNZ: Jacinda Ardern on baby news: 'I'll be Prime Minister and a mum'
Herald:Jacinda Ardern not the first to give birth while in power
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand prime minister pregnant with first child
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern likely to miss out on extended parental leave
Child poverty
Geoff Simmons (Interest): We are being softened-up for a watering-down of Labour's child poverty reduction goals
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Child poverty miscalculation 'hardly ranks' as a scandal
RNZ: Child poverty miscalculation an 'extremely rare' error – Treasury
Katie Bradford (TVNZ): Government insists 'naturally disappointing' Treasury botch up won't impact child poverty plans
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): A Treasury without opportunity costs
Sam Thompson (Newstalk ZB): Questions raised over Treasury's competency
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government number crunchers get child poverty figures wrong
Mei Heron (RNZ): Treasury 'deeply regrets' child poverty miscalculation
Audrey Young (Herald): Child poverty reductions likely to be less than Treasury first projected
Te reo Māori
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Bill English says Māori need to speak te reo, but what about the rest of us?
Laura Walters (Stuff): Academic says te reo 'on life support', Bill English says it's not up to govt to save 'someone else's language'
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Stories show te reo is alive and kicking
Leonie Hayden (Spinioff): Oh, te reo Māori is dying? Let me just stop you there…
Eliza Jane: (Spinoff) He taonga te reo: in praise of learning te reo Māori as a white kid
Stuart Middleton (Herald): We pay lip service to learning and teaching languages
John Boynton (RNZ): Multimillion dollar boost for te reo
Kelly Makiha (Rotorua Daily Post): Man tries using police lack of te reo Maori as defence in Rotorua District Court
Transport
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Govt subsidy for electric vehicle mechanics, electric milk truck, and charging stations at supermarkets
Mei Heron (RNZ): More electric vehicle charging stations to hit the streets
Derek Cheng (Herald): Electric campervans, freight trucks and buses coming for 'clean, green' NZ'
Rebecca Howard (Herald): Government gives $8 million push to get 64,000 electric vehicles on Kiwi roads by 2021
Ross Boswell (Herald): We're railroading Auckland down the wrong track
David Linklater (Stuff): Driverless cars aren't as close as you think in NZ - despite there being no legal hurdles
Press Editorial: Petition to four-lane SH1 politically motivated
Health
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Teens with cancer worse off in New Zealand than internationally
RNZ: Young Kiwis with cancer have lower survival rates – study
TVNZ: The cost of dental care in New Zealand: Jim Anderton's 'unfinished project'
Dominion Post Editorial: The government must take action against sugary drinks
John Boynton (RNZ): Reverend questions euthanasia bill's impact on te ao Māori
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Menstrual cup campaign aims to end 'period poverty'
Andrea Nielsen-Vold (Spinoff): Stop guilting poor people into using menstrual cups
Jamie Morton (Herald): More seek gender reassignment surgery information, Wellington study finds
Max Towle (Wireless): More young transgender people are seeking hormone therapy
James Paul (Stuff): Rising numbers seeking transgender advice will require more funding, warns study
Euthanasia
David E. Richmond (Herald): In 40 years of terminal care I've never seen unmanageable suffering
TVNZ: New Zealanders can now have their say on euthanasia Bill as public submissions open
Carla Penman (Herald): Doctor: Make euthanasia drug available in pharmacies for over 18s
Parliament
Jack Vowles (Newsroom): The case against ‘party hopping’
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Tikanga on the table as Waitangi prepares for Jacinda Ardern’s visit
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Previewing 2018: Labour
Damian Light (Newsroom): My year as a United Future supporter
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Manawatū MPs set to learn their new roles in 2018
Stuff: Man with camera detained outside Parliament
Primary Industries
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand fisheries want grisly images of dead penguins caught in nets censored
Randall Bess (Herald): Recreational fishers should have a proportional share of the catch
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Changes to forestry rules could hit NZ Super Fund's largest investment
Herald: Helping hand: Labour offers tax relief for drought-stricken farmers
Economy
Brian Fallow (Herlad): Why the long faces about the economy?
Liam Dann (Herald): Who are New Zealand's economic think tanks?
Rodney Dickens (Interest): Business confidence surveys have major political bias
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Reserve Bank report recommending sweeping reform is met with indifference
Joshua Hitchcock (Spinoff): Māori business in 2018: ‘We need to invest in the whole’
Environment
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Fresh start for water quality standards
Listener Editorial: It's time to chlorinate New Zealand's drinking water
RNZ: Govt hits back at Auckland sewage dumping criticism
Herald: 'Idiotic systems': NZ most wasteful country in developed world
Ged Cann (Stuff): Government considers tax on plastic bags
Angela Fitchett (Nelson Mail): Time to end our apathy over plastic use
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Enviro-myths: When clean and green backfires
Jamie Morton (Herald): 50 questions about the environment: Our oceans
Media
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): “Bloody Proud” Hayley May Interrogate Jacinda
Siena Yates (Herald): TVNZ's specific 'type' of host and why it's an issue
Bridget Tunnicliffe (RNZ): Outspoken - Women's sport
Child welfare
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On the inquiry into the abuse of children in care
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government formally drops controversial word 'vulnerable' from children's ministry
Newshub: Ministry for Children no longer 'vulnerable'
Welfare
Herald: 'Naming the father' sanction hits 16,842 children and scrapping could cost $100m over four years
Liz Beddoe (Newsroom): The battle for admiration in a hero-worship world
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Use of Nudge theory: The Winter Energy Payment
Education
Press Editorial: Child starting public school in 2018 will cost parents $38k by 2030
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Back-to-school costs put pressure on New Zealand families
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Outspoken – Education
Sarah Alexander (Herald): Where did the 20 free hours of early childhood education go?
RNZ: 40pc of kiwi adults unable to read at functioning level
Herald Editorial: NCEA, assessment and attitudes must change
Herald: Primary student's adventurous letter to Jacinda Ardern
Simon Collins (Herald): Private school price tag soars to $360,000 over child's lifetime
Alwyn Poole (Herald): Ministry of Education needs a shake-up
Catherine Groenestein (Stuff): Hapū lays claim to school grounds with peaceful occupation
Employment
TVNZ: Government says forestry sector's shocking workplace fatality rate must improve
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Almost one quarter of young males use cannabis outside of work
Democracy
Newshub: New Zealand ranked 112th in world for 'elector empowerment'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ not too high for electoral freedom
Greg Presland (Standard): Shock horror right wing think tank thinks NZ not very democratic
Housing
Anne Gibson (Herald): 'Like prison cells': Nimbys critical of Housing NZ's compact emergency homes for the poor
Spinoff: I’m a civil servant and I can no longer afford to rent in Wellington
Julie Iles (Stuff):'Massive' demand for Wellington rentals and shortage won't ease soon, Trade Me says
Civil Defence
Derek Cheng (Herald): New NZ Civil Defence report recommends a special 'fly-in' team and a new national bunker
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ needs a new emergency agency: report
Stuff: Calls for NZ disaster response shake-up, amid concerns over handling of emergencies
Rātana and Māori King
Heta Gardiner (MāoriTV): Henare PM’s speaker for Rātana
TVNZ: Tuariki Delamere appointed new political advisor to the Maori King Tuheitia
International relations
Derek Cheng (Herald): Winston Peters calls for 'maximum pressure' on North Korea as foreign ministers meet in Canada
Andrew McMartin (Newstalk ZB): Peters to push for stronger North Korea sanctions
Newshub: Winston Peters confident in North Korea talks
Tom Peters (WSWS): Australian government continues deportations of New Zealanders
Animal welfare
Gareth Hughes (Stuff): It's time for NZ to resign rodeo to the history books
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Breeding and selling companion animals 'largely unregulated' in NZ
Other
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Almost half of Kiwis surveyed worried about impact of tourism growth
John Cousins (Bay of Plenty Times): Poll on Maori seats looks likely to challenge Western Bay of Plenty council decision
Anny Ma (RNZ): Asian fusion, with a side of racism
Herald: Dotcom furious after nasty surprise from US government
Derek Cheng (Herald): Govt gives $280,000 to restore three historic buildings
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government agency spends more than $300k on entertainment
Eli Matthewson (Spinoff): Being measured means that you’re there: On the LGBTI+ community and the census
RNZ: The story of the would-be assassin and the Queen
Lucy Swinnen (Dominion Post): David and Goliath battle as residents attempt to save their local post office
Edward Rooney (Herald): Marae proposed for bailed offenders