NZ Politics Daily - 27 February 2018
27 February 2018
Today's content
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National Party
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): New poll on National leadership gives late boost to outsiders
Audrey Young (Herald): Steven Joyce and Judith Collins win National campaign but not the contest’
Richard Harman (Politik): Steven Joyce: "All or bust”
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): New National leader faces uphill battle
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Government must do plenty wrong for Labour to lose ascendancy
Newshub: Next National Party leader will lose to Jacinda Ardern - Bryce Edwards
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party leadership goes down to the wire - will it be Amy Adams or Simon Bridges?
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Close race for new National leader to be decided today
Newstalk ZB: Crunch day as Nats prepare to pick new leader
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Note To National MPs: Pick Judith, Or The Members Will Pick Her For You
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Amy Adams – the compromise candidate
Zoe Hunter (Bay of Plenty Times): 'Nervous' Bridges ready to step up as National's leader
TVNZ: Jeremy Wells goes speed dating with National's Steven Joyce – 'The mind boggles'
Herald: One last pitch to rule them all: National leadership
1News: Watch: National Party's leadership candidates tell Kiwis why they should get the top job ahead of tomorrow's vote
Lloyd Burr, Isobel Ewing and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National leadership: We rank the contenders
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National party hopefuls round the home stretch, as caucus prepares to elect new leader
RNZ: Collins on leadership race: 'I'm the only one who's been in Opposition'
Dan Satherley (Newshub): National Party leadership conjecture a 'load of bollocks' – Collins
Sam Sachdeva and Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Collins chipper as National vote draws closer
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Vote now for National Leader
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Final thoughts on National's leadership contest
Mike Hosking (Herald): No reason for National to panic
Kate Hawkesby (Herald): New National leader a chance to look forwards, or backwards
Bill Ralston (Listener): Does it even matter who wins National’s leadership contest?
Tess McClure (Vice): National's Wannabe Leaders on Abortion, Pot, Feminism and Euthanasia
Stephanie Rodgers: Whoever wins, National is going conservative
PM’s 60 Minutes interview
Tess Nichol (Herald): 'Iwasn't offended': Jacinda Ardern responds to 'sexist' 60 Minutes controversy
Sophia Duckor-Jones (RNZ): Ardern thrown but not offended by Australian interview
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): TV reporter Charles Wooley defends calling Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern 'attractive' on 60 Minutes
Emma Hurley (Newshub): 60 Minutes defends Jacinda Ardern interview
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Portrait of the PM goes sour
Steve Braunias (Herald):Jacinda Ardern co-stars in new Australian horror movie
Barry Soper (Herald): Trolls can't watch Jacinda Ardern's 60 Minutes interview objectively
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): That gross 60Minute Interview and Twitter Offence
Chitra Ramaswamy (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern’s 60 Minutes interview and the fatberg of sexism faced by powerful women
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian):'Sexist, creepy': Jacinda Ardern's 60 Minutes interview angers New Zealand
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The most confounding moments from that Jacinda Ardern interview
Newshub:Jacinda Ardern interview on 60 Minutes slammed as 'bloody painful' by Australians
Sophia Duckor-Jones (RNZ): Australian interview with Ardern slammed online
Stuff: Richardson: Ardern 'big enough', 'apparently not-so-ugly enough' to look after herself
Regional development
Herald: NZ Herald editorial: First round of regional grants look suitably cautious
ODT Editorial: Provinces missing millions from fund
Bryan Gould: How to make the regional development fund an even better idea
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Waikato Māori step up to help entire region
Herald: Shane Jones' fund: Work already underway on Napier-Wairoa rail
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Work begins on Napier to Wairoa rail line
Russell McVeagh
Linda Clark (Spinoff): How the legal profession has excused and minimised the Russell McVeagh scandal
RNZ: Sexual misconduct in law firms an 'open secret' for decades
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Government has no plans to ditch law firm
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt has no plans to cut relationship with Russell McVeagh
Emma Hurley (Newshub): 'Entirely appropriate' Russell McVeagh review culture - Prime Minister
International relations
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): A semi-official take on New Zealand and China
Siah Hwee Ang (Stuff): An alternative to China's Belt Road initiative
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Chinese quisling tells NZers to welcome our new Totalitarian Communist Overlords
Maire Leadbeater (Daily Blog): 60 Years of diplomatic relations with Indonesia: black marks on the record card
Henry Cooke (Stuff): PM reinstates minister for arms control in first foreign policy speech
Justice
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Crime and punishment: professional dreams versus political realities
Audrey Young (Herald): Courts will be given power to send laws back to Parliament for a rethink if inconsistent with Kiwis'
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Our unwritten constitution gets extra bark
Stuff: Government approves in principle to give greater protection to Kiwis' human rights
RNZ: Bill of Rights: Courts now allowed to declare inconsistencies
Matthew Whitehead (Standard): Respecting our Rights and the New Zealand Constitution
Southland Times Editorial: Haines' warning demands attention
No Right Turn: Justice denied
CTV building collapse and earthquake preparedness
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): CTV: New documents reveal why police backed away from prosecution
David Williams (Newsroom): Liability concerns delay quake work
Ian Telfer (RNZ): Southland town fears for future
Employment
Press Editorial: Youth wages are unfair in principle and ineffective in practice
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Exploitation of Indian students: Money 'can't be tracked or traced'
Stuff: Low salaries lock people out of NZ housing market, data shows
Aimee Shaw (Herald): How New Zealand's tech sector can improve gender equality
Martin Hawes (Stuff): Paying NZ Super at 65 is like buying a sports car when you can't afford it
Health
Kathy Spencer (Stuff): 12 years in court and still fighting: Disabled adults and their carers deserve better
RNZ: Women's Refuge shocked by response to survey
Environment
Graham Cameron (Spinoff): Māori need to do more for our Pacific cousins
Herald: Climate scientist Jim Salinger: a letter to my grandchildren
Jamie Morton (Herald): Report: NZ could have a greener, bio-fuelled future
Herald: Helen Clark backs call to 'ban the bag'
Newshub: Helen Clark, Sam Neill and Dr Jane Goodall support plastic bag ban
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Ex-ACT leader says 'pleasure' of using plastic straws more important than the ocean
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Further scrutiny over Te Mata Peak track
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Hobsonville Point development cleared of contamination
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Hopes nitrogen sensor will help farmers reach targets
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Auckland high-school teacher shortage tipped to hit 3000 by 2027
Pii-Tuulia Nikula (Briefing Papers): Food for Thought – Free of charge school lunches
Simon Collins (Herald): Bullied girl says charter school told her to enter by back door to avoid the bully
Liana MacDonald (E-Tangata): Why I didn't sit with the other Māori girls at school
Road safety
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Dramatic reduction in roadside breath tests
No Right Turn: Why the road toll is rising
Act Party
Laura Walters (Stuff): David Seymour has big plans to refine ACT's vision in time for 2020
Jason Walls (Interest): David Seymour says the end of the ‘English era’ spells good news for ACT
Media
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 'Non-secret' revealed by Cabinet paper formatting error
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Keith Ikin: Steering Māori Television along new paths
RNZ: Shadbolt in Southland's first defamation trial for 100 years
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Jury selected for defamation trial against Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt and Stuff.co.nz
Other
Moana Jackson (E-Tangata): Understanding racism in this country
Stuff: Australian passport 'more powerful' than New Zealand’s
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Digital tax debate could make past arguments small beer
Jason Paul Mika (The Conversation): Strong sense of cultural identity drives boom in Māori business
RNZ: Obama's NZ visit: What's on the agenda?
Bruce Logan (Herald): Mallard's secular prayer offers no limit on state power
Greg Clydsdale (NZCPR): Focus on the Parents
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Child Poverty: Real or Rhetoric?