NZ Politics Daily - 29 January 2018
29 January 2018
Today's content
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Government and NZ Politics
Audrey Young (Herald): Elation at winning power has given way to reality of compromise
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): It's no fun being Bill English at the moment
Henry Cooke (Stuff): 100 days is almost up, but the real fight is just beginning
Herald: Jacinda Ardern's modest rating for first 100 days as Prime Minister
Gia Garrick (Newstalk ZB): Government has one more week to fulfil 100 days promises
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Insurance in New Zealand isn't a business for faint hearted
Herald: Trust in political system lowest among Māori, Stats NZ survey finds
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): New Zealand politics more soap opera than gritty drama
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern dealt some incredible cards in amazing year
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern donates birthday whisky to historic Dunedin courthouse
Alice Peacock (Herald): Jacinda Ardern seals time capsule, helps tick another item off sick 12-year-old boy's bucket list
Greg Presland (Standard): Manaakitanga
PM’s pregnancy
Colin Peacock (RNZ): PM's pregnancy kickstarts media frenzy
Mai Chen (Stuff): Politicians' examples normalise family life for female high-flyers
John Roughan (Herald): Ardern faces a challenge - ruling and a baby
Amanda Malu (Spinoff): New Zealand is a village – let’s make it the kind that helps raise the child
Leilani Tamu (stuff): Working full-time and raising two children ain't easy, but it's worth every moment
Newshub: Judith Collins' 'motherly advice' for Jacinda Ardern
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): 'I’m pregnant, not incapacitated': PM Jacinda Ardern on baby mania
TVNZ: Watch: Beaming Jacinda Ardern says she's 'incredibly happy' with #KnitForJacinda online drive
Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern responds to negative baby comments
Liam Hehir (Medium): Let us all be cool and not weird about this baby
Herald: Clarke Gayford on Jacinda Ardern and ambitious women: He says he's 'hit the jackpot'
Greens
Max Rashbrooke (The Good Society): Some thoughts on Shaw’s state of the nation speech
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Who will be the next Green co-leader?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The three main contenders for Green Party co-leader
Claire Trevett (Herald): Green Party to elect new woman co-leader after Easter
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party announces race to replace Metiria Turei with new female co-leader
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Who will be the Green Party's next co-leader?
TVNZ: Green Party launches election process to find new female Co-Leader
Newshub: Green Party sets a date for co-leadership contest
The Standard: Greening the government: economics
Employment
Claire Trevett (Herald): Government outlines $13m first step of youth jobs machine but 'work for the dole' is out
Laura Walters (Stuff): Māori, Pasifika targeted in regional youth employment funding boost
TVNZ: 'I'm able to live' - young ex-unemployed relish jobs as Govt pumps money into training schemes
Newshub: Government announces $13 million for youth employment scheme
TVNZ: Workers' 90-day trial period rollback welcomed by CTU, but they say it should go further
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): The proposed employment law changes
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Business confidence to settle after announcement of 90-day trial rule
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The payoffs for the union funders
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Yawn – toothless employment law as meaningless as 2030 carbon free but not as counter-productive as $50per week student allowance increase
Trade and international relations
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ helps push CPTPP across the line
Siah Hwee Ang (Stuff): Does the world have to choose between China and the US?
Rob Stock (Stuff): Should we invest in countries that don't share NZ's view on human rights?
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Unreliable Sources.
Derek Cheng (Herald): Poll shows Australians support New Zealand taking Manus Island and Nauru asylum seekers
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Deportee who has never set foot in NZ declares: 'I am a product of Australia'
Education
RNZ: Govt releases details of NCEA review
Herald: Nanogirl joins advisory group reviewing NCEA
Simon Collins (Herald): Education crisis: School's in, but where are teachers? 1 in 5 Auckland schools short of staff
Simon Collins (Herald): Teacher commutes from Thames as teacher shortage intensifies
Herald Editorial: Pay and prestige can fix NZ's teacher shortage
John Cousins (Bay of Plenty Times): Affordable housing fears could hit supply of teachers
Alexia Russell (Herald):A class act: In praise of teachers
Herald on Sunday editorial: Back to school with gratitude
Dominion Post Editorial: Single-sex schools seem odd in a co-ed world
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Uniform pricing rort utterly fails Kiwi parents
Charlotte Carter (Herald): Classroom technology costs burning holes in parents' pockets
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Tertiary fees-free scheme at risk of being rorted
Damien Grant (Stuff): When did you last use anything you learned at university?
Lois Williaims (RNZ): Northland course to stop unless new students enroll
Child welfare
Press Editorial: Government's proposed abuse inquiry doesn't go far enough
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Raped, beaten and drugged: Victims of state school abuse receive less than $11,000
RNZ: Moves aim to keep children out of police cells
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): More than 50 central region Plunket staff face redundancy
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Plunket 'will still provide' despite cuts - former president
Housing
Brad Flahive and Andy Fyers (Stuff): What's squeezing the life out of New Zealand's rental market?
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Can't buy, can't rent: Trapped in a system without a way forward
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): How to improve the renter's lot in a tight market
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Build-to-rent touted as one solution to housing shortage
Kate Newton (RNZ): Dismal rental WOF uptake blamed on tight market
Ged Cann (Stuff): One modest two-bed Wellington flat, thousands of eager renters
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Unregulated property managers hold keys to tenants' fortunes
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Dropping house price affordability the new normal: Massey
Health
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government sets rules of long game, but what's its opener on mental health?
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): More money will not fix our mental health crisis
Natalie Akoorie and Amy Wiggins (Herald): DHB bosses and board members cost taxpayers $65 million a year
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Fewer DHBs would mean more money for health
TVNZ: Grads struggling to find work - Nurses' Union
Stuff: Weight loss surgery: The former deputy PM had it and it's on the rise
Terry Dunleavy (Herald): MPs cannot pass the buck on euthanasia
Cannabis
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Helen Clark throws support behind Chloe Swarbrick's medicinal cannabis Bill
Ross Bell (Herald): Public safety the most important thing when it comes to debate on drug law reform
Nina Hindmarsh (Stuff): Cannabis campaigners say New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world
Chris Fowlie (Daily Blog): MPs to vote on the Greens’ Medicinal Cannabis Bill next Wednesday 31st Jan
Tadhg Stopford (Stuff): Cannabis is a super food, so the Govt should legalise it
Madison Reidy (Stuff): New Zealand's only cannabis company plans to crowdfund for clinical trials
Immigration and refugees
Madison Reidy (Stuff):Immigration NZ has to pick and choose cases to investigate
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government to tackle migrant exploitation, regional skills shortages
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Facing death in Tonga, law student with kidney failure pleads to stay in NZ
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Student visa scheme 'exploited' – officials
Stuff: Number of Indian students seeking visas declines sharply, new figures show
Jacques Steenkamp (Stuff): Von Metzinger family leaves New Zealand, but not without one last hitch
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Sponsors chosen for new scheme to bring in additional refugees
Poverty and inequality
Brian Easton (Pundit): Commonsense about Measuring Poverty
Max Rashbrooke (Good Society): Oxfarm wealth inequality figures
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Wealth inequality and Oxfam, again
Media and blogosphere
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Media boss hits out at government policy
Stuff: Corin Dann leaving 1 News for weekend current affairs show Q+A
Diana Wichtel (Listener): Will Jacinda's pregnancy save breakfast television?
The Standard: The Standard under a Labour led Government
Human Rights Tribunal
David Fisher (Herald): Huge delays at Human Rights Tribunal as cases pile up
No Right Turn: Justice denied
Economy
Liam Dann (Herald): Is this happy economy too good to be true?
Rob Stock (Stuff): Treasury adopts 'wellbeing' focus, but insists it's not going fuzzy
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Len Bayliss RIP
Max Rashbrooke (Newsroom): ‘Wider inequality and weak wage growth’
Environment and primary industries
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Iwi 'reserves judgement' over kauri dieback measures
RNZ: Kauri dieback: MPI to consider compulsory protections
RNZ: MPI responds to criticism of its kauri dieback programme
RNZ: Locals feel they're still in the dark over toxic water
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Farmer feels vindicated in battle with Defence Force
Thomas Manch (Stuff): New Zealand dairy aid in Myanmar hoping to foster a love for milk
Andrea Fox (Herald): Is the 20-year white gold rush over for dairy industry?
Julie Iles (Stuff): Beekeepers take MPI to high court over mānuka honey standard
Jeanette Fitzsimons (Spinioff): Think small: how Kiwis are banding together to fight climate change
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): The heat is on to unravel climate clues
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Kiwi city slickers embrace throwaway culture
Jenny Nicholls (RNZ): Catastrophe: Is NZ's debate about feral cat control too political?
Glittery march for consent
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): Glittery march for consent turns heads in Auckland
TVNZ: Topless women march down Auckland's Queen Street in march for women's rights and consent
Susan Strongman and Marcus Stickley (Wireless): Who is really behind A Glittery March for Consent?
Nikki Mandow (RNZ): A march for 'anyone' who's been sexual harassed or assaulted
TVNZ: Motives behind topless march for women's rights in Auckland called into question
Natalia Sutherland (TVNZ): Woman groped at R&V the target of serious online abuse including death and deportation threats
Sport
Todd Niall (RNZ): America's Cup plan evaporating
Jamie Wall (RNZ): Portia Woodman’s got a point
Stuff: Portia Woodman takes aim at NZ Rugby for putting money ahead of equality for the Hamilton Sevens
RNZ: NZ to get new all-weather horse racing track
Transport
Ken Shirley (Stuff): Road is here to stay, and rail still has a future
Bill McKay (Newsroom): Driverless cars will transform NZ cities
Miri Schroeter (Stuff): Former prime minister's home could be in way of Ōtaki to north of Levin highway
Other
Liam Hehir (Medium): Just bite the bullet and delete your Twitter app
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): The Bad Take Power Rankings: A greatest (s)hits of terrible opinions
NZ Herald editorial: Aucklanders should count their blessings
RNZ: Dame Susan Devoy writes ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow
Susan Devoy (RNZ): Hate starts small: New Zealanders must not be bystanders to racism
RNZ: New Customs patrol boat launches
Catrin Owen (Stuff): New Customs vessel set to patrol New Zealand coastline like a 'Hawk'
Katie Scotcher (RNZ):Inmates, guards struggling in heat wave
Belinda McCammon (RNZ): Queenstown offers options as govt considers visitor levy
RNZ: Astrophysicist defends Rocket Lab over disco ball launch
RNZ: Erebus victims' family members unhappy about Air NZ video
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff):Jacinda Ardern holds crisis meeting with Royal New Zealand Ballet
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Helen Clark hot ticket for small Mapua hall