NZ Politics Daily - 9 February 2018
9 February 2018
Today's content
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National
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Bonny Prince Billy
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill English says MPs back him as National Party leader
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National Party sticks to current leadership
Claire Trevett (Herald): Pros and cons: Who will be National's next leader?
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Rumours of exodus from National Party after non MPs invited to secretive political retreat
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National to focus on strategy at second day of its post-election caucus conference
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Nats leadership safe, but caucus looking for it to be exercised in fight to election
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National Party looks inward as it prepares for battle from Opposition benches
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): National caucus presents united front
Bryan Gould: Get over it, National
Herald: National MPs gather in Tauranga for two-day caucus meeting
Greens
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The Green Party has a real race on its hands as MPs battle to be the next co-leader
Richard Harman (Politik): The battle for the soul of the Greens
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Hard Choices: Genter’s Candidacy Lights-Up The Greens’ Internal Divisions
Derek Cheng (Herald): Julie Anne Genter says Green Party needs a 'big debate' about supporting waka-jumping bill
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Green MP Julie Anne Genter throws hat in for leadership
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Greens co-leadership: Julie Anne Genter launches campaign
TVNZ: Julie Anne Genter to run for Green Party co-leadership
Liam Hehir: Genter or Davidson?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): PART 1: Julie Anne Genter vs Marama Davidson for co-leader of the Greens (plus Lucy Lawless?)
Matthew Whitehead (The Standard): And we’re off to the races!
Employment
RNZ: Govt to target Māori unemployment rates – Jackson
Tom Furley (RNZ): Chinese tradies: Company says not given tender opportunity
RNZ: Minister requests more info on Chinese tradies
Derek Cheng (Herald): Minister seeks clarity over 200 foreigners workers to build plush Park Hyatt Hotel
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Applications for 200 Chinese migrant worker visas to finish luxury Auckland hotel
RNZ: Cap on seasonal employees lifted
Evan Harding (Stuff): Clutha Southland MP accused of ‘fearmongering'
Don Franks (Redline): Cowboys in the boardroom
RNZ: Employer trials four-day working week
Herald: More Kiwi companies eyeing four-day working week after Perpetual Guardian announces trial
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): I'd turn down a four-day week
Waitangi
Dominion Post Editorial: Government sends mixed messages to Māori
Herald Editorial: Labour can even change some Maori customs
Nuk Korako (Spinoff): Why Bill English and I went south for Waitangi Day
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): Let's get over our Waitangi Day shame
Catherine Delahunty (Herald): Opinion: Issues festering amid Treaty Grounds smiles
Economy and trade
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On this week’s sharemarket panic
Brian Fallow (Herald): Meanwhile, away from the markets
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): David Parker defends CPTPP against skepticism
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Why Adrian Orr will face pressure to cut
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Reserve Bank warns of higher borrowing costs
NZ-Australia relations
Robert Ayson (Incline): The Bishop-Peters Meeting: A Waiheke Wishlist
TVNZ: Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop arrives in NZ to meet counterpart Winston Peters
Derek Cheng (Herald): Systemic failures in Aussie agency that detains hundreds of Kiwis – report
Health
Donna Chisholm (North & South): Cancer cost: The great disparity between treatment for rich and poor
Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Bold experiment of community care has let mentally ill people down
Gabrielle Baker (Spinoff): Summer health series: how to get the most from Māori health providers
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Wellington Free Ambulance union takes plea for more money to Government
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Information requests spike at Waikato DHB during expenses scandal
Education
Derek Cheng (Herald): Education Minister Chris Hipkins introduces bill to end National Standards and charter schools
RNZ: Early end on cards for charter schools
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Government moves to scrap national standards and charter schools
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): The crisis in secondary school teaching - An interview with PPTA president, Jack Boyle
Simon Collins (RNZ): Immigrant maths teachers stalled by red tape
Jessica Long (Stuff): Students of NZQA digital exam experiment left with 'no marks' for some NCEA results
Environment
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): Land information minister rejects sale of Buller mine
Jennifer Eder (Malborough Express): The Queen's Chain and the missing links in unfettered public access
Simon Wilson (Herald): Why is Auckland Council letting kauri dieback destroy the Waitakere Ranges?
RNZ: Scientist sceptical of council kauri dieback treatment
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Council considers protecting Te Mata Peak by making it a wāhi taonga
RNZ: Pump stations could be killing threatened eels
Sam Mahon (Stuff): Eight years on and Canterbury's environment still has no democracy
Primary Industries
Jonathan Underhill (BusinessDesk): Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor calls for review of dairy industry
Eugene Bonthuys (Southland Times): Minister Damien O'Connor challenged on M bovis response during Southland visit
Poverty and inequality
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): English frustrated and angry as Labour messes with his big idea
Jeni Cartwright (Daily Blog): Confusion reigns on measurement of Child Poverty
Liz Gordon (Daily Blog): The politics (and economics) of poverty
Housing
RNZ: KiwiBuild numbers may be optimistic – MBIE
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Landlords' fear and loathing of the New Zealand rental market
Jennifer Eder (Marlborough Express): Ministry completes motel deal for temporary housing
Emily Hayward (Marlborough Express): Builder's smaller, ready-made homes ruled out by subdivision covenants
RNZ: Housing prices set for steady increases – QV
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): QV: Rising rents may boost first-home buyer market
Media
John Drinnan (Herald): Right strategy on human rights?
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Mike and Miri – Opinion is entrenched in the state TV newsroom
RNZ: I-Kiribati desperate for news on ferry disaster - NZ journalist
RNZ: NZ journo team stopped from reporting on Kiribati ferry disaster
Damian George (Stuff): International journalists banned from reporting on Kiribati ferry sinking
Belinda Feek (Herald): Sir Bob Jones aiming for satire, not offence
Pete George (Your NZ): Anti-Jones petition worse than inflammatory column
Tess McCllure (Vice): Could New Zealand’s Tough Media Laws Silence Our #metoo Moment?
Police and justice
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Calls for covert police activities to have better oversight
Stuff: Rainbow police car launched for Pride festival
Stuff: Blocked toilets, bad wi-fi and broken screens reportedly plague NZ courts
Other
Graham Cameron (Spinoff): The waka-jumping bill is bad for democracy
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Donald Trump has world mesmerised by his hair
Bryan Leyland (Herald): Dry year could depower economy
Derek Cheng (Herald): David Shearer leads release of former child soldiers in South Sudan
RNZ: Queenstown under strain: 'A burning bridge'
RNZ: Wgtn freedom camping plan sparks outcry
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Defence force makes changes in wake of Unimog trainee driver killing civilian
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): 'Earthquake refugees' granted NZ residency
Stephen Hewson (RNZ): Winners galore but was Sport one of them?