NZ Politics Daily - 30 January 2018
30 January 2018
Today's content
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Government and NZ Politics
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Big Wednesday to kick off the political year
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): House hostility ahead in 2018?
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern to mark end of 100 days with child poverty pledge
Newstalk ZB: Support for child poverty reduction not guaranteed
RNZ: PM looks to build partnerships with iwi
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern, once a DJ at Auckland's Laneway Festival, returns as Prime Minister
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Deepening the Dependency Trap
Richard Harman (Politik): Redefining the Greens
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Third parties have to work hard to get solid support
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Bids for the Green Party co-leadership start Friday
Pete George (Your NZ): James Shaw gaining respect
Education
Press Editorial: NCEA review welcome amidst concerns students are over-assessed
Stuff: Education Minister Chris Hipkins' advisory group ready to begin NCEA review
Katie Kenny (Stuff): The digital shakeup has arrived, but are schools prepared?
RNZ: Disabled children 'front of queue' for government funding
Stuff: NZ government spending on education continues to grow
RNZ: Teacher shortage: Three vacancies, one applicant
Simon Collins (Herald): $5000 grant proves 'massive incentive' for foreign teachers
RNZ: Shortage forces schools to hire 'weaker teachers'
Newshub: Government to review education costs
Kate Hawkesby (Herald): New Zealand has the school terms all wrong - kids should be on holidays now
Jessica Long (Stuff): Kids losing ability to swim as more schools close their pools, says Water Safety boss
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): No more excuses for not learning Maori
Child welfare
Simon Maude (Stuff): Millions pumped into youth support and justice services
Adele Redmond (Stuff): St John of God 'pulled up the draw bridge' for Marylands School abuse victims, advocates claim
NZ Herald editorial: Enormous risk in just letting concerns sit
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Police release 'powerful' new video on the impact of family harm
International students
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On the fake scare about international students
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt 'holding fire' on student work rights
Derek Cheng (Herald): Govt wants to close the 'back door' path from international student to resident
Employment
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): ‘The Hobbit law’ - there and back again
Derek Cheng (Herald): Unions and Weta joint working group tasked with Hobbit law reform
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Working group set up to overturn 'Hobbit Law'' and boost film industry workers rights
RNZ: Linda Clark to facilitate 'Hobbit law' working group
Newshub: Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway shares profanity-filled hate mail
ODT Editorial: Winners and losers in 90-day trial
Health
Derek Cheng (Herald): Grey Power urges MPs to support Green's medicinal cannabis bill
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party's medicinal marijuana bill gains Grey Power support, vote likely this week
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): MPs to vote on medicinal cannabis bills
David Farrar (KIwiblog): Grey Power backs Swarbrick bill
Graham Adams (Noted): Why pro-euthanasia doctors largely stay silent
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): DHB manager who resigned after damning investigation will represent iwi in voluntary role
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): It's not all good in The Hood
Sophie Duckor-Jones (RNZ): Family struck down by eating boar to get ACC
Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Scheme to end 'period poverty' expanding throughout Northland
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Hospital staff say hot conditions hazardous
Environment
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Spinning the freshwater debate: When PR companies join the fray
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Machiavellian thinking behind Swim Fresh the Left & Unions need to appreciate
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate change: Where in New Zealand could be worst hit?
Primary Industries
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): MPI's definition of mānuka honey changed on eve of legal challenge from beekeepers
Murray Neilson (ODT): Irrigators must keep in mind their effects on our migrating fish
Michele Hewitson (Listener): Federated Farmers' Katie Milne opens up about the changing times
Keith Woodford (Stuff): High country tenure and the powerful right of 'quiet enjoyment’
International relations
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Pernicious Australian deportation policy a concern for Kiwis
Kevin Clements (ODT): Korean Peninsula problem needs peaceful resolution
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): How Phil Twyford plans to address the renting crisis
Corazon Miller (Herald): New Zealand's most 'valuable' Housing New Zealand home worth $3.025m
Economy and trade
Chris Trotter (Stuff): When 'maintaining the rage' isn’t an option
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Sun shining on Robertson’s books
Justice
TVNZ: Solitary confinement up 151% in five years to 2016 - but prison population up only 16%
No Right Turn: End solitary confinement
Transport and road safety
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Time to introduce roadside tests for drug drivers in New Zealand
Matthew Hansen (Herald) : 'Boy racer' label a slur on motoring community
Gender
Audrey Young (Herald): Julie Anne Genter says celebrating women's historic vote a chance to identify next changes
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Christchurch's Council companies doing better on female representation
Herald: Female lawyers now in the majority
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Now more female lawyers than male
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Women making "glacial" progress on company boards
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): 73% of top-listed board directors are men: NZX diversity report
Other
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Apple's NZ profits jump but NZ taxman sees nothing
Alison Short (Manawatu Standard): Māori ward opposition 'archaic'
Peter de Graaf (Northern Advocate): Crown accepts peace offer, 160 years later at Russell's Maiki (Flagstaff) Hill
RNZ: Crown's presence at Heke flagpole ceremony makes history
Derek Cheng (Herald): All-weather horse-racing track: Should New Zealand taxpayers pay, asks Bill English?
TVNZ: New Zealanders in favour for govt funding for Surf Lifesaving NZ
TVNZ: Surf Lifesaving struggling as traditional funding sources dry up
RNZ: NZ women actors to launch own #MeToo campaign
Chris Harrowell (Stuff): Police should have powers to arrest rubbish dumpers, politician says
Jackie Norman (Stuff): Freedom camping: It's time to bring the rest of the world up to speed