NZ Politics Daily - 13 February 2018
13 February 2018
Today's content
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Housing
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): The case to throw off the fiscal straitjacket
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Taking Stock: Is the Government Doing Enough to End the Housing Crisis?
ODT Editorial: Housing dividing society
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The Government's exploits its best issue: Housing
NZ Herald editorial: Housing crisis report hardly a revelation
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government report author: New Zealand's housing is a 'cluster'
Amanda Jane Robinson (Newshub): Homelessness crisis getting worse, not better – report
Craig McCulloch and Benedict Collins (RNZ): Housing report paints 'sobering picture' of crisis
Herald: Housing Minister Phil Twyford promises 12-15 'Hobsonville'-size housing developments
John Beveridge (Herald): Chinese lesson in how we can rebuild housing
Newstalk ZB:Govt housing report 'an ideological witch-hunt'
Mahvash Ali (Stuff): Life in limbo: guests at this motel include a cancer patient, a former sex worker, and a family whose home burnt down
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Landlords reveal why your rent is rising
Justin Kean (Stuff): A little cynicism over claims that rents will rise
Defence
Jon Stephenson (Stuff): Open warfare
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Why NZ should withdraw its troops from Iraq
RNZ: PM asks for investigation into Hit & Run claims
Audrey Young (Herald): Defence Minister switches view and expresses support for NZ deployment in Iraq
Paul Buchanan (Kiwipolitico): In Iraq, the NZDF is there but not “there.”
Jo Moir (Stuff): Official advice to PM is that Kiwi soldiers stuck to their mandate in Iraq
TVNZ: Kiwi troops in Iraq given 'mentoring role' but haven't 'extended beyond the mandate' – Ardern
Newshub: NZ public 'misled' on extent of Iraq mission – campaigner
Public sector pay
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government moves to rein in chief executives pay rises
Derek Cheng (Herald): Govt to curb public sector bosses' pay rises
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt cracks down on Crown entity CEO pay
Mei Heron (RNZ): Govt seeks to rein in pay increases for Crown executives
TVNZ: 'Accountability and transparency' - Tougher oversight of Crown entity bosses' pay coming in new Bill
Jason Walls (Interest) State Services Minister Chris Hipkins aims to give the remuneration system "more teeth"; says the public expects accountability and transparency
National Party
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): HDPA on the Bishop smear story
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Vilification of Chris Bishop's Snapchat use is sick and politically motivated
Herald: Chris Bishop's campaign team suggested he open a Snapchat account
Herald: Snapchat: What is the image messaging app behind the Chris Bishop drama?
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): National wants Peters to pay
Greens
Richard Harman (Politik): Too busy to be leader
Derek Cheng (Herald): Marama Davidson, Julie Anne Genter to contest Greens co-leadership
RNZ: Davidson v Genter: Green Party confirms co-leader candidates
Lance O’Sullivan and Māori Party
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): O’Sullivan not standing for Māori Party leadership at AGM
Grant Chapman (Newshub): Dr Lance O'Sullivan is a logical choice as Māori Party leader - Duncan Garner
Government
Chris Trotter (Stuff): No matter whether you're red or blue – you must keep paddling in your own canoe
Shane Te Pou (Newsroom): ‘Post-racial’ Aotearoa a myth
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Grant Robertson's about-face on debt
Health
University of Auckland (Newsroom): A case against antidepressants
Gregor Coster (Stuff): The acute case for new hospitals
Dubby Henry (Herald): Vaccines expert: 'Humans have a very poor understanding of risk'
Education
Michael Daly (Stuff): Labour's $150 donation plan win for many schools, but wealthiest retain big advantage
Virginia Larson (North & South): Is a perfect storm brewing in New Zealand's schools?
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Ugly battle looms for Ardern over charter schools
Carrie Stoddart-Smith (Spinoff): Let’s not sacrifice charter schools for Māori in an ideological war
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM says compromise will help charter schools to convert rather than close
Newshub: No decisions on future of charter schools – Minister
Jo Moir (Stuff): Changes to charter schools won't see them shut down - they'll just have a new name
Alwyn Poole (Herald): Charter schools meet all Jacinda Ardern's stated conditions
Jai Breitnauer (Spinoff): ECE isn’t free: How my family saves $10k a year
Environment
Oliver Lewis (Stuff):Environmentalists call for 'urgent' action after oil company gets extension
RNZ: Minister fires back at conflict of interest claims
Lynley Tulloch (Scoop): What's your poison? DoC's toxic shame
James Renwick and Rhian Salmon (Newsroom): NZ must be global leaders in climate change
Keri Mills (Briefing Papers): Who owns the wai?
Nikki Mandow (RNZ): Auckland swimmers unaware of contamination on beaches
Auckland Now: Don't go near the water: health warnings at more than 30 Auckland beaches after heavy rain
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Landowner battles to overturn covenant placed on Coromandel land by late recluse
Employment
Stuff: $6000 raised overnight for dead forestry worker's headstone after company liquidates without paying
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): Employment stats are ‘twice as bad’ for Māori
Sam Huggard (Stuff): CTU keen to explore four-day working week
Eric Crampton (Stuff): NZ businesses should be innovative, but aware of complicated labour market
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Rich countries can afford shorter working weeks, economist says
Heather Roy: Performance vs Attendance
Tonga
RNZ: VIDEO: Govt ready to go to help Tonga – Ardern
Stuff: Tropical Cyclone Gita: PM says defence plane ready to help Tonga
RNZ: Cyclone Gita - what you need to know
Child welfare
Conan Young (RNZ): Child abuse hotline overwhelmed by calls
Kelly Dennett (Herald): Review reveals failures in care of teen who died in CYF custody
Media
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): Film-maker unrepentant about Sir Bob Jones hate speech accusation, despite lawsuit threat
Herald: Film-maker stands her ground over petition against Sir Bob Jones
RNZ: Sir Bob Jones threatens to sue woman who started petition
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): Sign my petition
Liam Hehir:It seems obvious that it was satire
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Bob Jones: A creation of the corporate media
Sam Hurley (Herald): Labour MP's 'racist cartoon' appeal against Fairfax Media dismissed
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Time for Clayton Mitchell to put up or shut up about free-to-air telly
Gangs
The Economist: New Zealand has more gangsters than soldiers
Herald: New Zealand gangs recruiting bigger numbers than the army
Primary industries
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Wellington beefs up farm dumping rules
Lyn Webster (Stuff): Perception of dairy farming a long way from reality
Imran Ali (Northern Advocate): Public meeting to protest 'huge and smelly' Tegel chicken farm proposed for near Dargaville
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Crown Forestry offering farmers deal to plant pines
Kim Dotcom
Derek Cheng (Herald): Kim Dotcom's extradition invalid because of improper judicial process: lawyers argue in Court of Appeal
Damian George (Stuff): Kim Dotcom challenges High Court decision that rules him eligible for extradition to US
Other
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Power to the people, not market forces
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Government to 'widen' search for chief technology officer after none of 60 candidates convinces
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Human Rights Commission slammed over sexual harassment
Newstalk ZB: Religious expert worries Gloriavale stories not taken seriously
nton (RNZ): Pokies pushing children into poverty and illness - Northland GP
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Social cost of road crashes up 7.8 per cent to $4.17 billion
Jay Boreham (Rodney Times): Northern Gateway Toll Road collects more than $101m in nine years
RNZ: Woman confided in euthansia advocate before death – Crown