NZ Politics Daily - 26 January 2018
26 January 2018
Today's content
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TPP
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On our latest trade pact dealings, and the mental health review
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Now it's in charge, Labour showing 'compromise and flexibility' over TPP support
Michael Reddell (Newsroom): A free trader critiques the CPTPP
Brian Fallow (Herald): NZ takes the right trade path
ODT Editorial: A trade deal worth securing
Matt Burrows (Newshub): We've done what National said we couldn't with CPTPP - David Parker
RNZ: David Parker defends new TPP agreement
TVNZ: Trade Minister David Parker says signing new CPTTP trade deal crucial for avoiding 'threats to trade'
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Winston Peters defends TPP flip
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ First all aboard the CPTPP train despite pre-election opposition
Andrea Vance (TVNZ): 'It's likely we'll see more protest around the country' – what next for controversial trade agreement?
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here's what you need to know about the TPPA version 2.0
Employment
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt to spend $13m on young unemployed
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Labour set to reveal plan to help unemployed youth
Mei Heron (RNZ): Workers call for end to all 90-day trials: 'It's going to impact the most vulnerable'
Derek Cheng (Herald): Governing parties compromise to keep 90-day trial for small firms
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Tweaks to 90-day trial a coalition concession
Herald: Workplace shake-up: bosses vs workers
Derek Cheng (Herald): Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway: Employers have nothing to fear from law changes
Henry Cooke and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): 90-day trials to be severely restricted as Labour rolls back National's employment changes
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government announces major changes to 90-day trial periods
Talisa Kupenga (Maori TV): Govt restricts 90-day trials through Employment Law changes
TVNZ: Ninety-day trial period scrapped for most employees, as PM announces major workplace law shake-up
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): Government to strengthen unions, worker protections with employment law changes
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Unions aren't the bogey we paint them as
TVNZ: Bill English slams Labour's industrial relations policy as 'a union shopping list'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government's employment changes 'pragmatic' say farmers, businesses
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Decision to keep the 90-day trial period for small businesses welcomed
No Right Turn: Not good enough
Government and PM’s pregnancy
John Armstrong (TVNZ): Opinion: Jacinda Ardern 'Baby Fever' makes National's struggle for attention harder as political year swings into action
Karl du Fresne: Jacinda Ardern and the Trudeau effect
Mark Reason (Stuff): Serena Williams' struggles raise serious concerns about Jacinda Ardern's motherhood
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Don't panic, dinosaurs: Jacinda Ardern actually can juggle being a mother and PM
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): The Prime Minister of multi-tasking will be fine
Listener Editorial: Jacinda, the baby and the man who could squander the goodwill
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Previewing 2018: New Zealand First
No Right Turn: How bad OIA decisions are made
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Revealed: the outfit making more than one in every 20 OIAs to Auckland Council
No Right Turn: The cost of democracy
Herald: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to meet sick 12-year-old Malachi Agnew
Greens
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Campaigning in poetry and governing in prose
Henry Cooke (Stuff): James Shaw begins political year with bleak but bold speech, says party will need to let small stuff go
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): James Shaw: Greens have to befriend enemies to save environment
Claire Trevett (Herald): Green leader James Shaw tells supporters compromise needed to achieve goals
Gia Garrick (Newstalk ZB): James Shaw to Green supporters: Be prepared to compromise
Health
Phil Quin (Newsroom): A chance to take mental health seriously
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Govt pushes for guaranteed jobs for nursing grads
Florence Kerr and Ruby Nyika (Stuff): Waikato DHB staff fear spending after Nigel Murray saga
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): High-level Hawke's Bay DHB manager resigns after damning investigation
Herald: Plea for pregnant mums to get shots to help curb whooping cough outbreak
Water
Tina Law and Dominic Harris (Press): Christchurch drinking water to be chlorinated for a year as councillors approve plan to keep it safe
Bridget Rutherford (Herald): Christchurch's drinking water to be chlorinated for up to a year
Kate Pereyra Garcia (RNZ): Contaminated drinking water found near airforce bases
NZ-Australia relations
Claire Trevett (Herald): Julie Bishop to visit Auckland - but unlikely to meet Jacinda Ardern
Michael Powles and Anna Powles (Dominion Post): Recolonising the Pacific would be step too far
Housing
RNZ: Easy credit behind ballooning house prices – research
RNZ: Realtors report spike of interest ahead of foreign ban
Nikki Mandow (RNZ): Fears private sellers could be fined in foreign buyer ban
Russell Brown (Spinoff): What’s happening in the PM’s Auckland suburb is a sign of things to come
Mahvash Ali (Western Leader): Housing crisis solution described as 'design and planning monstrosity'
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Families struggling with back-to-school costs
John Boynton (RNZ): OId boys to announce Māori boarding school reopening plans
Economy
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Government turns out unexpected operating surplus on rising tax take
Liam Dann (Herald): Inflation missing in action despite strong economy
Te reo Māori
Paul Moon (Spinoff): Compulsion could kill the Māori language
Hēmi Kelly (Spinoff): A te reo Māori teacher reads Killing Te Reo Maori by Paul Moon
Max Harris (Dominion Post): Giving te reo Māori a future about looking to the past
Mania Clark (Stuff): Easy as NZ driving licence app to be available in te reo Māori
Journalism and media
Spinoff: Exclusive: Jeremy Wells to replace Mike Hosking as co-host of Seven Sharp
John Drinnan (Herald): Sky eyeing a new game
Environment
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Environment groups lambast fishing industry over bird deaths and sea floor damage
RNZ: Avian botulism at water plant kills 'at least 50’ ducks
Rocket Lab
Dominion Post Editorial: The secrets behind New Zealand's new space industry
Herald Editorial: A Kiwi dreamer puts us into space
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Rocket Lab and Government approvers defend 'humanity star' purpose
Gill Dal Din (Stuff): Space exploration is no longer the domain of governments
Other
Simon Wilson (Herald): Parker v Goff: The first race of Auckland's America's Cup
Aimee Shaw (Herald): Should NZ copy Aussie and scrap GST on food?
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): I'm in two minds about the 'glitter march for consent'
Sam Warburton (Interest): Reduced numbers of Police on the roads correlate with the rising road toll
Lois Williams (RNZ): Northland mayors urge govt to continue with SH1 upgrade
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): von Metzinger family's deportation tugs at heartstrings - but rules are rules
Paul Nixon (Spinoff): Sometimes the only option is to remove a child from their family
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Rātana: Q & A with the PM and Rangatahi
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Farmer frustration over MPI communication
Alexa Cook (RNZ): 'Scared' farmers set up cattle disease support group