23 January 2018
Today's content
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Government
RNZ: PM outlines priorities for coming days
Ben Smith (Spinoff): An accountability checklist: how to tell if the new government is performing
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English slams Ardern decision to ditch raft of Better Public Service targets
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand 'six degrees of separation' experiment reaches PM Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern pregnancy
Chris Trotter (Press): Smiling for Jacinda – and democracy
Chitra Ramaswamy (Guardian): Yes, Jacinda Ardern can combine work with a baby – but it’s not for every woman
Genevieve O’Halloran (Noted): The Prime Minister's shock baby announcement has put the spotlight on the situation for working mothers in New Zealand.
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern not yet ready to confirm baby's gender
Ewan Sargent (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she didn't spill the baby's sex
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Has Jacinda Ardern accidentally revealed the sex of her baby?
Newshub:'I hope she gets space' - Bill English on Jacinda Ardern's pregnancy
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern juggling baby with PM role will be 'very tough', Don Brash says
Karen Nimmo (Stuff): 10 things Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern needs to know about having a baby
Mark Broach (Guardian): My advice for stay-at-home dad Clarke Gayford, New Zealand's first man of fishing
Sue Allen (Stuff): PM's baby offers huge marketing opportunity
Alicia Young (Spinoff): When Jacindababymania hurts
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern defends herself against columnist's stinging attack over pregnancy
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog) Look I appreciate the country has baby brain, but what about that housing affordability and inequality eh?
International relations and trade
Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern's secret diplomacy revealed
Nina Hall (Dominion Post): Opportunity for NZ to rethink global role
Herald: Three boatloads of asylum seekers headed to New Zealand: Australia
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern's Manus stance caused people-smuggling spike - Aussie intelligence
RNZ: Manus refugee at risk of suicide
Inequality
TVNZ: Oxfam urges Tax Working Group to reduce growing wealth gap - 'It's not good for New Zealand'
Herald: Oxfam report Reward Work Not Wealth reveals increasing wealth gap
Waitangi
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Ardern expected to speak on marae at Waitangi
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Titewhai Harawira to escort PM on Waitangi marae
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern looking forward to 'fresh start' at Waitangi commemorations
Rosie Gordon (Newstalk ZB): Bill English to miss Waitingi service again
Treaty settlements
RNZ: Govt kept mum on settlement announcement due to Xmas
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Is media coverage of Treaty payout race baiting or just ignorant?
Health
TVNZ: Raising salaries not the answer to recruiting GPs to small towns, says doctors' group
Robin Martin (RNZ): Rural medical training programme aims to help fix doctor shortage
Press Editorial: Penalising pubs not the answer to curbing alcohol issues
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Mystery illness warrants urgent action
Newshub: Government's mental health enquiry 'won't fix things' – English
Anne Marie May (RNZ): At-risk prisoner units getting therapeutic makeover
Environment
John Lewis (ODT): Kingfish in harbour climate 'sentinels'
Fran Hancock (Newsroom): A disastrous tactic against climate change
Housing
Frances Cook and Georgina Campbell (Herald): 100 complaints over Wellington rental prices
Liam Hehir (Manawatu Standard): Rent control not the answer to Wellington's rental problems
Liam Dann (Herald): Auckland's housing ranking nothing to celebrate
Mike Hosking (Herald): It's a good sign when cities become less affordable
Newshub: China to put foreign buyers ban to the test - Bill English
Meghan Lawrence and Alice Peacock (Herald): Kiwi couple denied home based on race and marital status
Primary industries
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Late payments hurt NZ businesses, and weigh on NZ economy
David Williams (Newsroom): MPI makes SOS over cattle disease
RNZ: Careful with those cows
ODT: Tree cutting rights proposal criticised by Forest Owners Association
America’s Cup
NZ Herald editorial: Tank farm removal would be a welcome Cup legacy
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Time running out to resolve America's Cup wharf war
Local government
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Penny Bright's unpaid rates result in Auckland Council move to sell her property
Harrison Christian (Auckland Now): Auckland activist Penny Bright forced to sell house over $35,000 in unpaid rates
Ian Telfer (RNZ): Queenstown to crack down on freedom camping
Gender
Herald: 10 years on from Human Rights Commission's inquiry into transgender discrimination
Herald: Op-ed: trans man and HRC advisor Taine Polkinghorne
Road safety and transport
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Bill aims to introduce driver drug testing for MDMA, cannabis and methamphetamine
Herald: MP Alastair Scott lodges bill to allow random drug testing of drivers
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Fuel companies to pay out over sulphuric petrol
Other
Stephen Winter (Newsroom): Time to talk compensation for state care abuse
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Human Rights Review Tribunal don’t have the budget to hear my case against the NZ Police
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Hit pause on RNZ+, urges Mediaworks CEO
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The Green Party's Marama Davidson is expected to launch a campaign to be the party's next female co-leader.
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret diary of . . . 2018, the year in satire
Newshub: New Zealand politicians and their art history twins
Press Editorial: Dealing with rising tourist numbers
Simon Louisson (Standard): It’s time to embrace nanny state
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Statistics House built on known hazard area
Anne Gibson (Herald): Iwi assets climb from $6b to $7.8b: new report
Stuff: Investments contribution to NZ household income highest in decade
Stephanie Arthur-Worsop (Rotorua Daily Post): Rotorua teaching shortage brings educators back from retirement
RNZ: Shakespeare director scorns reo Māori objectors
John Roughan (Herald): Regulating cannabis would be a costly proposition
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Aziz Ansari's sexual misconduct story is awkward, gross, entitled and, no, it's not OK