12 February 2018
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Housing
Herald: New Zealand 'a society divided by wealth': new housing report
Derek Cheng (Herald): Homeless crisis: 80% to 90% of homeless people turned away from emergency housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing stocktake blames homelessness on drop in state housing
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Housing crisis worse than thought - report experts
TVNZ: Housing 'ticking timebomb' for NZ elderly to be laid bare in Government report
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Govt set to unveil results of housing stocktake
Brad Flahive (Stuff): New Zealand's rental squeeze: Something in the Airbnb
Nikki Mandow (RNZ): Working group formed to tackle Auckland housing crisis
Press Editorial:The problems of antisocial housing
Employment
RNZ: NZ would be shocked by modern-day slavery numbers – researcher
Laura Tupou (RNZ): Restaurant workers treated like modern-day slaves – judge
Nikki Mandow (RNZ): Government to crack down on free labour hostels
Tony Wall (Stuff): Logging company thrives while mum of dead forestry worker can't afford headstone
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): ‘Surely we can do better than 4.7%’
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Government will hire migrant tradies for Kiwibuild
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Developer waits for green light for 200 overseas workers
Herald: Application lodged for 174 foreign worker visas for Park Hyatt Hotel
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Chinese company wanted to bring in only five foreign workersWanted to bring in only five foreign workers
Julie Iles (Stuff): New Zealand's ageing workforce - the elephant in the room for many companies
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Employer tries to fire worker under 90-day trial, fails
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Work four days, get paid for five: New Zealand company's new shorter week
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Four-day week, when can we start?
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): Could we work less for the same pay?
NZ-Australia relationship
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters' view on Australia may be undergoing a change
RNZ: Australia maintain tough immigration stance
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Winston's dinner table diplomacy an effort to put warmth back in the trans-Tasman relationship
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Peters: Trans-Tasman talks were 'fruitful'
Claire Trevett (Herald): “Slippers diplomacy' to the rescue for PM Jacinda Ardern
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Downpour fails to dampen trans-Tasman meeting
Jenna Lynch (Newswire): Julie Bishop says Australia is warming to new Government
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): We're trans-Tasman mates, but can we still be friends with Australia?
Herald: Winston Peters and Julie Bishop meet on Waiheke Island
Stuff: Winston Peters and Julie Bishop talk foreign policy on Waiheke Island
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): 'Hope in a gentleman's shake with Davis shattered' - Māori Deportee
Audrey Young (Herald): Australia's Julie Bishop keen to see extension of NZ mandate for Iraq mission
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern and Julie Bishop's secret Auckland meeting
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Secret meeting between Jacinda Ardern, Julie Bishop revealed in a tweet
National
Ric Stevens (Stuff): MP Chris Bishop's Snapchats highlight perils of social media
Greg Presland (Standard): Was the political hit on Chris Bishop an inside job?
Cameron Slater (Whaleoil): Chris Bishop is an honest man
Jacques Steenkamp (Stuff): Claims around social media messages to teenagers 'upsetting', says MP
Jacques Steenkamp (Stuff): National MP confronted about his social media messages to teenagers
Newshub: MP Chris Bishop confronted over social media contact with teenage girls
RNZ: National MP stops communicating with youth on Snapchat
Derek Cheng (Herald): National MP Chris Bishop changed Snapchat settings after learning of concerned parents
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Anonymous innuendo
Henry Cooke (Stuff): National figures seeking legal costs from Winston Peters
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): To woo or not to woo Winston Peters, that is National's question
Claire Trevett (Herald): The National Party caucus winds up, minus the fleet of Crown cars
Claire Trevett (Herald): National MP Mark Mitchell wants English to lead National to next election
Daisy Hudson (Rotorua Daily Post): Rotorua MP Todd McClay rubbishes leadership talk amid caucus retreat
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): National's next leader might not be an MP yet
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): National Party still backing Bill English as leader
Derek Cheng (Herald): National's olive branch to NZ First and Greens
1News: National to pay more attention to its backbenchers' concerns after rumours of discontent
Government
John Armstrong (TVNZ): Opinion: Jacinda may not be able to walk on water. Not yet anyway. But give her time
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Adulation for Jacinda Ardern is never-ending
Simon Wilson (Herald): Jacinda Ardern says her feet have never left the ground
Toby Manhire (The Australian): ‘I can do this’
Herald: Jacinda Ardern on keeping pregnancy a secret: 'My GP opened up after hours for me’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Eugenie Sage not running for Green Party co-leader
David Hay: Green leadership struggles
NZ in Iraq
Paula Penfold and Eugene Bingham (Stuff): What are we doing in Iraq?
Paul Buchanan (Stuff): 'Advise and assist' in Iraq was always part of the plan for NZ Defence Force
Newstalk ZB: Report: New Zealand not just training soldiers in Iraq
No Right Turn: Bring them home and put them on a leash
TVNZ: No decision on deployment of Kiwi troops to Iraq until at least March - Winston Peters
Political donations
Oliver Lewis, Dileepa Fonseka and Audrey Malone (Stuff): MPs declare millions in donations, with Simon Bridges raking in $120,000
Derek Cheng (Herald): Political candidates rack up millions in donations
Michael Daly (Stuff): Neil Finn and Cliff Curtis among Kiwi celebrities to bolster politician's coffers
Parliament and democracy
Asher Emanuel (Spinoff): Selling influence: meet the lobbyists shaping New Zealand politics for a fee
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): A Small Official Information Act Fix
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the beltway: this week in politics
James Elliot (Newsroom): Yesterdaze: Attendance Deficit Disorder
Waitangi and Maori-Labour relationship
John Roughan (Herald): Māori looked at a national identity and turned back
Mike Williams (Hawke’s Bay Today): Flawless campaign in Maori seats paid off
John Moore (Liberation): Labour ditches the iwi elite
Education
Stuff: Putting an end to the charter school system
ODT Editorial: Ideology-driven education changes continue
Weekend Herald editorial: Hipkins offers no good reasons for abolishing charter schools
RNZ: Evidence for charter schools does not bear scrutiny – Minister
Greg Presland (Standard): The problem with Charter Schools
Tom Furley (RNZ): Charter school protest: 'This ain't anywhere near the end of this'
Simon Maude (Stuff): Seymour: Govt's 'weasel' words on charter school move
RNZ: Charter schools: Minister has a fight on his hands
Derek Cheng (Herald): Charter schools spat: Bill English attacks Labour ministers as 'the worst kind'
Newshub: Judith Collins calls out Jacinda Ardern over charter school students
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): Charter schools to be axed
No Right Turn: Good riddance to charter schools
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Ministry 'railroaded' possible Kura Kaupapa Māori site, committee hears
Health
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government confirms $100m mental health initiatives under review
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Cancer patients waiting a year for Keytruda funding decision from Pharmac
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): More stories of caregivers struggling with system emerge
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): DHBs given 'no direction' or funding heads-up from Government, National says
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Online doctor business launch 'an uphill battle' - is NZ behind on telehealth?
Karen Brown (RNZ): Face masks for fighting flu under review at Waikato DHB
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): You want a taxpayer salary in our public hospitals? Get a flu jab or get another job
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Mr Fix-It: The man taking on troubled Waikato DHB
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): New chief took $50,000 less than offered
RNZ: Govt urged to use private hospitals to cope with demand
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): NZ smokers concerned vaping 'not the real deal'
Media
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): Peddling drivel.
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Let’s keep an eye on the new State TV channel
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Old White Men: They Just Ruin Everything
Brian Easton (Pundit): The Arrogance of Experts
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Relentlessly positive
RNZ: Kiribati government hits out at 'irresponsible' foreign journalists
Miriama Aoake (Spinoff): It’s time to start decolonising our media
Paul Little (Herald): If you want current affairs, try weekend telly
Herald: Sir Bob Jones says he'll sue woman behind petition to remove his title
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): I don't endorse Bob Jones' column, bit I endorse his right to be Bob Jones
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Sign what you like, but you won't get Bob Jones stripped of his knighthood
TVNZ: 'Totally shameful actions' - Social media overwhelmingly agrees Sir Bob Jones should lose knighthood
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 5 reasons why stripping Bob Jones of his knighthood is totally misplaced social media rage
Environment
Jamie Morton (Herald): Is this the year New Zealand's water war simmers?
Weekend Herald Editorial: Government needs more urgency on water problems
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Farming's dirty secret: Thousands of tonnes of waste buried or burned each year
RNZ: Dropping great white shark numbers cause concern
RNZ: 19 ships fined for entering Poor Knights reserve
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Protection urged for Tory Channel in Queen Charlotte Sound
RNZ: Milford Sound 'bursting at the seams'
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Overwhelming response to Poverty Bay re-naming proposal
Damian George (Stuff): Nearly 2000 submissions received on Gisborne's Poverty Bay name change proposal
Primary Industries
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Government warning: Farmers ignore concerns about meat at their peril
Richard Meadows (Stuff): Good riddance to meat; bring on the vegetarian revolution
Simon Louisson (Standard): Fonterra a failure in concept and in practice
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Climate Change Minister James Shaw keen to put away talk of urban-rural divide
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Otorohanga formula factory granted land consent
Tim O’Connell (Stuff): Code of conduct for fishing reinforced by Nelson industry
RNZ: Crayfish fishing ban wanted in Hauraki, Bay of Plenty
Economy and trade
Richard Harman (Politik): Grant Robertson's tough decisions
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Sharemarket nerves signal an end to the low-interest good times
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff):Reserve Bank chief economist: if growth lags, we're cutting, the banks don't get that
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Let’s build a first class economy
Donal Curtin (Economics NZ): Should we obsess about 2% inflation?
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Parliament should fund the Reserve Bank annually
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): David Parker defends TPP against sceptics
Poverty and inequality
Laura Walters (Stuff): Fact check: Disparities between Māori and Pākehā
Julie Chapman (ODT): Climbing child poverty urgently needs addressing
National Council of Women, Southland branch (Southland Times): Pathway to no poverty
Religion
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Don't say a prayer for me now... but should we save it for some time after?
Karl du Fresne: You can argue with Mallard's method, but not his motive
Liam Hehir: Bits and bobs on religion and the public sphere…
Graham Adams (Noted): Euthanasia: Exposing the tactics used by the Catholic Church
Identity
Lincoln Tan (Herald): ANZ staff can now dress to fit their gender identity
Julie Iles (Stuff): ANZ no longer enforcing gender-specific uniforms
Megan Whelan (RNZ): From butt of the joke to kicking bullies' butts
Damien Grant (Stuff): There is no such thing as an Englishman – and yet here we are
Census
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Census should ask about sexual orientation, gender identity: Statistics Minister James Shaw
RNZ: Sexual orientation a question for future censuses – minister
Sexual harrassment
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Human Rights Commission finance boss sexually harasses young intern, keeps job
Herald: Human Rights Commission reviewing operations after allegations intern was groped
Alison Mau (Stuff): If the Human Rights Commission can get it wrong, anyone can
Other
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): No more prisons – find another way!
Adam Jacobson (Central Leader): Rainbow police car a 'cynical, two week-long PR stunt', Pride Festival organiser says
RNZ: Police reveal rainbow pride patrol car
RNZ: NZ electricity industry to be reviewed
Mark Quinlivan (Stuff): People should be charged to enter Mt Cook National Park: ACT
RNZ: Auckland congestion charge gets support from Chamber of Commerce
Holly Ryan (Herald): Winston Peters' promise of funding no 'hand-out' for horse racing