NZ Politics Daily - 6 March 2018
6 March 2018
Today's content
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Foreign affairs and trade
Chris Trotter (Stuff): New Zealand should not let Australia dictate its policies in the South Pacific
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): The Pacific’s battle to keep heads above water
Gia Garrick (Herald): Climate change the nuclear age of the Pacific
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Ardern says NZ must do 'our bit' to fight climate change before asking the world for help
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's island honeymoon with Samoa comes with big promises
RNZ:PM: NZ not competing with China in Pacific
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Samoan PM rejects concerns over ‘easy Chinese money’
Mei Heron (RNZ): NZ to give extra $3m to Samoa's Cyclone Gita recovery
Boris Jancic (Newswire):Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces $10m in new aid funding
Boris Jancic (Newswire): Jacinda Ardern kicks off Pacific charm offensive in Samoa
RNZ: PM inspects Samoan guard of honour in first stop on Pacific trip
1News: Watch: PM Jacinda Ardern, partner Clarke Gayford and Deputy Winston Peters presented with flower garlands upon arrival in Samoa
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): New Zealand commits initial $500k to Papua New Guinea
1News: NZ to help with Papua New Guinea's relief after 7.5 magnitude quake
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): How NZ builds influence in the Pacific
David Capie (Newsroom): A pragmatic approach to foreign policy
1News: Winston Peters signals possible shift in how NZ deals with China
Tony Boyd (Australian Financial Review): NZ PM Jacinda Ardern puts Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull in the shade
Peter Hartcher (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's New Zealand a social laboratory for the world
RNZ: Watch: Simon Bridges critical of govt's foreign policy 'reset'
1News: 'They are making crime an issue here' - Bridges says NZ should push back against Comanchero, Bandido deportations from Australia to NZ - but gently does it
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Stalled RCEP trade pact raises questions about NZ involvement
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Trade wars to lead to rising global tension, Trade Minister David Parker says
Dan Satherley (Newshub): CPTPP fears: 'The Government has rolled over' says critic Jane Kelsey
Bryan Gould: New Zealand must grow up in trade matters
Oliver Hailes (Daily Blog): Never again! Sign our TPPA petition to change the process
BusinessDesk: Senior Fonterra GM jumps ship to become ambassador to Korea
Fahad Alammar (Stuff): Digital diplomacy: how New Zealand can better sell itself
Phil O’Reilly (Stuff): Globalisation is the key to our prosperity
Law profession culture and sexual harassment
Sasha Borissenko and Melanie Reid (Newsroom): Ex-Russell McVeagh lawyer moves on
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Russell McVeagh loses sponsorship deal
Simon Collins (Herald): School debating competition drops law firm Russell McVeagh after sexual harassment scandal
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Familiar tale of binge-drinking and nudity at Auckland University's annual law camp
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Former University of Auckland law student alleges inappropriate behaviour by staff member
Jono Edwards (ODT): Student defends Otago law school amid 'frat house’ claims
Joel Ineson (Stuff): Otago University law student starts petition to have camp reinstated
Herald: Controversial Otago University law camp cancelled following review
Joel MacManus (Critic): SOULS Law Camp Cancelled
Luke Kirkness (Herald): University of Otago law faculty dean Mark Henaghan present at law-camp talent quest
Tim Miller (Herald): Mother 'disgusted' at University of Otago law faculty dean
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Otago University law camp could be cancelled over jelly wrestling, nudity
Herald: Otago University law camp could be cancelled after concerns raised by former students
Esme Hall (Critic): Otago Student Involved in Russell McVeagh Scandal
Alex Casey (Spinoff): ‘I’ve already had my heart broken multiple times’: Ali Mau on hearing the stories of #MeTooNZ
Stuff: SWAG founders: why New Zealand screen needs a group to fight sexual harassment
Census
Herald: Census 2018: Nine things you need to know about today's Census
Newshub: One million Kiwis already completed census online
Sally Murphy (RNZ): Census an 'accessibility debacle', blind man says
1News: Online Census alienates the elderly, won't give accurate picture - Age Concern
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): Census raises homeless, elderly concerns
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): SeniorNet volunteers help Rotorua residents fill in online Census forms
Doug Laing (Hawkes Bay Today) Editorial: Stand and be counted for Census
Parliament and democracy
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): Simon Bridges and the opposition vacuum
No Right Turn: A good move
No Right Turn:It just became easier to petition Parliament
Euthanasia
Rob Mitchell (Stuff):Euthanasia: What's done around the world
1News: 'There's a sanctity of life argument' - Simon Bridges still doesn't support euthanasia bill, despite pleas from Tauranga constituents
Tess Nichol (Herald): 14,000 and counting: Huge number of submissions for David Seymour's euthanasia
Laura Walter (Stuff): Last chance for say on voluntary euthanasia bill
Health
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): The longest fight: Families push Government for caregiving law change
NZ Herald editorial: Time to do the decent thing with families who care for disabled loved ones
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Mother who took Health Ministry to court refuses latest offer
Frances Cook (Herald): Ministry of Health takes tobacco giant to court over tobacco stick device
Stuff: Tobacco giant Philip Morris defends non-burning product under smoke-free laws
John Boynton (RNZ): Iwi to provide free private health insurance to members
RNZ: Thousands of public hospital nurses consider strike action
RNZ: 'Dear David': Midwives share messages out of despair
Mike Yardley (Stuff):'Alarmingly high' amounts of booze for teens show drinking laws need tough enforcement
Katie Doyle (RNZ): New law limits beds for addicts – counsellor
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Wellington Free Ambulance confirms $300k debt for DHB-funded patient transfer service
Employment
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Changes aim to remove barriers to filing pay equity claims
1News: Minister for Women 'ambitious' yet realistic about power of new pay-equity bill: 'There's no silver bullet'
1News: New Zealand pay-equity bill possible by mid-2018
Tess Nichol (Herald): Pay gap bill has backing of trade unions as Government awaits advice from officials
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Union fears of CTU 'power grab' in proposed Government agreement
National
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Voters dislike overt ideology in political parties
Claire Trevett (Herald): National leader Simon Bridges' reshuffle to target regional development, housing
Herald: Simon Bridges talks to Newstalk ZB's Leighton Smith about pending reshuffle
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Simon Bridges lets slip who might be in for promotion in reshuffle
Jono Galuszka (Stuff):National MP's son, husband allegedly failed to stop cows going lame
Tax
Herald: Wealth, water and weight: tax review details revealed
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): New taxes could change bad behaviours, suggests Sir Michael Cullen
Interest: The Government's Tax Working Group looks unlikely to recommend a corporate tax cut but suggests it might be time to look at a new environmental tax
No Right Turn: Time for new taxes
Economy
John Gascoigne (Herald): NZ needs new economic compass
Rod Oram (Newsroom): A radical reinvention of our economy
Māori business
Jason Paul Mika (The Conversation): Strong sense of cultural identity drives boom in Māori business
Joshua Hitchcock (Spinoff): Māori business is good for everyone
Talisa Kupenga (MāoriTV): FOMA seeks indigenous business ties in Pacific
Housing
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Housing costs blamed for huge jump in food hardship grants
Richard Harman (Politik): Economic Institute slams Treasury policy advice
Anne Gibson (Herald): US billionaire threatens to halt NZ expansion plans if foreign ban passes
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Government's ban on foreign house buyers hopelessly wrong
Media
Claire Trevett (Herald): Steven Joyce claims NBR column 'highly defamatory'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Steven Joyce threatens Matthew Hooton and NBR with legal action – reports
Ellen Read and Susan Edmunds (Stuff):Joyce complains to NBR about critical piece by now-axed columnist
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): What happened at the NBR with Matthew Hooton?
Greg Presland (Standard): Steven Joyce threatens to sue Matthew Hooton and the NBR
Pete George (Your NZ): Joyce threatens NBR and Hooton
Justice
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Judges should limit juries on defamation damages
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams Court of Appeal decision
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Craig vs Williams case goes back to court
No Right Turn: Secret trials are under the control of the SIS
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Candlelight vigils to protest prison suicides after teen dies in cell
Arthur Taylor (Daily Blog): Can Anyone Rely on Corrections Inspectorate Reports?
Last officer of 28th Māori Battalion dies
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Last officer of the 28th Māori Battalion laid to rest in Chathams
RNZ: 28th Māori Battalion's last officer dies aged 96
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Last officer of the Māori Battalion, farewelled
Women’s Day
Newshub: Helen Clark tops the bill at International Women's Day breakfast
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Helen Clark big feature of International Women's Day in Nelson
Primary Industries
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): MPI faces $100m bill over cattle disease
RNZ: NZ meat industry confident despite protein threat
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Farmland responsible for 75 per cent of sediment in Kaipara Harbour, study shows
Alexa Cook (RNZ): Oxford research director calls for NZ farming sustainability
Local government
Andrew Quarrie (Manawatu Standard): Māori success undermines Māori ward campaign launch
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Wellington to spend $1m on city's begging problem by creating beggar 'activities'
Other
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam contamination well above the recommended limit
Simon Collins (RNZ): Army told to stop kids holding guns on school visits
Mike Hosking: Peddling untruths about bus and cycle lanes