NZ Politics Daily - 13 March 2018

13 March 2018

Today's content

Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
 

Sexual misconduct allegations
RNZ: Labour camp misconduct: Victim reached out to Megan Woods
Herald: Government minister Megan Woods knew about sexual harassment at Labour summer camp
Herald: PM Jacinda Ardern on camp misconduct: 'The environment was not a safe one'
Laura Walters (Stuff): Minister 'told about alleged sexual assault at Young Labour summer camp by victim'
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Sex assault response ‘badly handled’ by Labour: Ardern
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Labour camp sexual assault: Who knew what, when?
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Sexual misconduct alleged at boozy Labour Party camp
RNZ: PM investigating reports of sexual assault at Labour event
Jo Moir (Stuff): Labour Party confirms sexual misconduct at camp - parents and police not told
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Allegations of sexual assaults at Young Labour camp - Labour 'deeply sorry'
Andrea Vance (1News): Jacinda Ardern 'very disturbed' about allegations of sexual misconduct at Labour Party youth camp
Herald: Sexual assault allegations at Labour Party summer school camp
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog):Labour have no choice but to stand Andrew Kirton down
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour Summer School allegations
Daivd Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour didn’t even tell the parents what had happened!
Melanie Reid and Farah Hancock (Newsroom): What Russell McVeagh told its summer clerks

National
Richard Harman (Politik): Bridges takes risk to score political points
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Bridges changes tune on Labour's 'envy tax
Stuff Editorial: Being disciplined with party messages is key to effective time in Opposition
Herald Editorial: Simon Bridges' shadow Cabinet reshuffle a case of the bold and the useful
RNZ: Simon Bridges on Amy Adams: 'I really rate her'
Benedict Collins (RNZ): 'You need a builder not a crusher in housing' – govt
1News: National's old-guard MPs 'thinking about futures' following caucus reshuffle snub
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Nick Smith 'not necessarily' being pushed out - Simon Bridges
Newstalk ZB: Bridges parades new cabinet and fires shots at Ardern
1News: 'We don’t have an all-out war at all' – Collins on the Twitter spat with Twyford
1News: Simon Bridges’ caucus reshuffle promotes MPs skilled at 'forensic attack', denies rewarding leadership rivals
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): National Party Reshuffle positions three Māori in top ten
Willie Jackson (Auckland Now): National are a party still in 'pure denial'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The portfolio battles

Police pursuits
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On Police pursuits
Megan Gattey (Stuff): Police pursuits: How New Zealand compares to Australia
ODT Editorial: To chase or not to chase?
Southland Times Editorial: Should they stay or should they go?
Timaru Herald Editorial: Innocent bystanders must be considered in pursuit policy investigation
No Right Turn:Why are we still letting the police kill people?

Canterbury quakes
Patrick Gower (Newshub): PM Jacinda Ardern bans private investigators behind Southern Response spying
Liz McDonald (Stuff): Southern Response spying 'totally inappropriate', Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says
James Dann (Spinoff): The Christchurch quake spying scandal: a Tsar Brownlee aftershock
ODT Editorial: Were Cantabrians really spied upon?
Michael Hayward (Press): EQC's annual legal costs still increasing, seven years on from Canterbury quakes

Ministerial spending
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Prime Minister does not defend minister over national travel spending
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Parliament's biggest spenders revealed - and how they compare to last year
1News: MP spending released: The highest and lowest spenders
RNZ: New government's expenses claims revealed

Media
Jess McAllen (Spinoff): The #metoonz campaign is not beyond criticism, but it deserves better than this
Spinoff: Spinoff and RNZ announce conscious coupling
Jo Bond (Fund RNZ): RNZ – A Commercial Deal Too Far?
Pete George (Your NZ): The Spinoff and RNZ “sharing our journalism” – and also sponsors?
Steven Cowan (Against the current): This article is brought to you by
Hannah Spyksma (Impolitkal): Funding the news – who’s doing it best?
Newsroom: A year of making things matter

Foreign affairs and trade
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On Winston Peters’ attempts to cozy up to Trump, and to Russia
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM backs Winston Peters on push for free trade talks with Russia
RNZ: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defends Winston Peters' Russia remarks
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): PM Jacinda Ardern reassures EU over Winston Peters' Russia comments
Interest: Opposition says Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ pro-Russia rhetoric is making EU officials nervous, but PM has backed Peters
RNZ: Peters' Russia comments 'troubling', says National
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): New Zealand steel and aluminium exports pose 'no threat' to US: Ardern
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): New Zealand faces 'fallout' if trade war starts – economists
Ross Gittins (Sydney Morning Herald): How Australia and New Zealand could gang up against a Donald Trump trade war

Chris Liddell
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Chris Liddell could be a moderating influence for Trump, business group suggests
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Chris Liddell could be Kiwi voice we need in Oval Office

Environment
RNZ: Plastic microbead ban in place from June
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Banned toxic foam found at three more airports
RNZ: Christchurch water chlorination to start later this month
RNZ: Ashburton water supply loses its 'secure status'

Health
Nita Blake-Persen (RNZ): Family upset by organ donation rejection
RNZ: DHB probe a personal vendetta, says former chairperson 
RNZ: New figures highlight midwife shortages
Louisa Wall (Herald): As on 9/11, choosing way you go is no sin

Justice
RNZ: Survey seeks to measure unreported crime
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Extradition bill for murder-accused tops $1.2m

Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Schools to refocus on Maori, Pacific and kids with special needs
Jo Moir (Stuff): Education Minister's overhaul of schools will include the role of boards of trustees
Simon Collins (Herald): Teachers 'gobsmacked' by wide variations in NCEA subject pass rates
RNZ: Head of union calls for teacher pay rise
William Lewis (Herald): Jacinda Ardern's fees-free scheme an untargeted mistake

Animal welfare
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Animal rights campaigners present petition demanding an end to pig crates
Sean Nugent (ODT): Sun shines on rodeo; MP joins protesters

Women’s rugby
RNZ: Black Ferns go on the NZR payroll
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Why not pay parity for women's rugby?

Other
Colin James (RNZ): Poll of Polls: Simon Bridges has work cut out for him
Bevan Rapson (North & South): Is the new government serious about tackling pressing social issues?
Chris Trotter (Press): Not taking green principles as red
Stephen Hall (Newsroom): Opinion: Megaupload case still a travesty of justice
John Boynton (RNZ): Students push for NZ wars public holiday
Wanganui Chronicle: Ruapehu iwi Ngati Rangi and Crown sign deed of settlement for Treaty of Waitangi claims
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Renewed push for review of cycle helmet law starts with protest ride in Wellington