NZ Politics Daily - 26 April 2018
26 April 2018
Today's content
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Government
Newsroom: Grading the Government
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Government living by someone else’s rules
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ First's Shane Jones wants ministers to have more power over public sector
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Shane Jones could have a problem - spending $1 billion a year is hard
Alex Penk and Julian Wood (Newsroom): Time to take a risk for the regions
Dan Satherley (Newshub): The lesson Jacinda Ardern needs to learn from Helen Clark
Zac Flemming and Benedict Collins (RNZ): SSC investigation into Thompson + Clark could include DoC
Herald: Foreign Minister Winston Peters enjoys a spot of cricket with Brexit architect Nigel Farage
Laura Wiltshire (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's dazzled the world in a Māori cloak, but it wasn't a korowai
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Is PM more popular overseas than here?
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern vows to press on as PM until baby's due date
Associated Press:Jacinda Ardern faces political pressures at home after returning from Europe
James Nokise (RNZ): The complex world of political photo ops
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern says no Buckingham Palace-type plan for her baby
RNZ: Jacinda Ardern cleared to fly up until due date
1News: Jacinda Ardern won't follow Kate Middleton in leaving hospital hours after giving birth
Clarke Gayford
Maggie Wicks (Newshub): The Clarke Gayford 'takedown' was a soft ball
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Word to Clarke Gayford - don't take the bait so easily
Naaman Zhou (The Guardian): 'Hipster salty sea dog': Jacinda Ardern defends partner 'Clarke with an e' after op-ed attack
Herald: Gayford takes jab at columnist in birthday wishes to father
1News: Was Clarke Gayford's response to disparaging Herald column appropriate? PM Ardern weighs in 'bottom feeding fish' tweet
Inequality and welfare
Carla Penman (Herald): Worse than the recession: 100k Kiwi children living in severe poverty
Sarah Robson (RNZ):'Poor families really can't wait' for Work and Income changes
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Welfare overhaul: Jacinda Ardern indicates big changes are coming
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Welfare overhaul working group details leak out online
The Standard: Thank you Metiria
Isaac Davison (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says culture change needed at Work and Income
Anzac Day and defence issues
David Fisher (Herald): 'No way' NZSAS killed civilians during Hit & Run raid, NZDF promised Sir John Key
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): A morning spent with an old soldier
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Little-known involvement of Pacific Islanders in WWII Maori Battalion remembered
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): If you've been to Gallipoli there's no danger of forgetting our Anzacs
Michael Neilson (Herald): Lest We Forget: Anzac Day remembered by young and old across New Zealand
1News: 'Defenders of peace and security' - PM pays tribute to our Anzac soldiers and to those still serving today
Newswire: Anzac Day about honouring those who made ultimate sacrifice - Defence Force chief
Peter Cresswell: Q: But what were the ANZACs fighting *for*, Grandad?
Isa Ritchie (The Spinoff): The Anzac aftershocks are everywhere, in the form of inter-generational trauma
Stuff: Government funding to help military veterans with post-traumatic stress
Helen Harvey (Stuff): ANZAC: the struggles of being the next generation
Gill Higgins (1News): Should the Anzac Day hashtag be a no-go for businesses?
NZ Herald editorial: Anzac Day - Give peace a chance
Environment, primary and extractive industries
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Our tree-clad hill climb to carbon neutrality
Michael Reddell: Emissions, population growth and the NZPC inquiry
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government did no cost-benefit analysis on oil and gas ban
David Williams (Newsroom): Long read: Culture of silence or a cover-up?
Murray Petrie (Stuff): We owe it to the environment to get better at reporting on it
Dominion Post: Editorial: Keeping their hands clean on mining
Mark Webster (Kiwiblog): Open Letter re Oil and Gas Exploration
Andrew Ashton (Hawke’s Bay Today): Group formed to back retention of Te Mata Peak's 'Zorro' track
Daily Blog: NZ farmers last remaining importers of conflict mineral? – Western Sahara Resource Watch
Stuff: Former Zespri CEO to chair new Primary Sector Council
Racism and ethnicity debates
Stephanie Mitchell (Stuff): Te Papa: Controversial painting is a 'skewed version of history'
Herald: West Auckland cafe owner shocked at racist note left on car
Chris Rattue: All Blacks coach Steve Hansen got it badly wrong using Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi's nickname
Stuff: Keith Quinn tackles Steve Hansen over non-try for Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi
Bevan Chuang: New Zealand racist AF
Immigration
Liam Dann (Herald): Slower migration hides Ardern's elephant in room
Sophie Boot (Business Desk): NZ annual net migration slows in March; remains high
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Nelson-Tasman missing out on value of migrants
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Sex work/escort is on skilled employment list, Immigration NZ confirms
Michael Reddell: Immigration policy and wellbeing: Part 2 (aggregate economic outcomes)
Northcote by-election
RNZ: Watch: Labour left out of Greens' Northcote decision
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party will stand candidate in Northcote by-election
Herald: Green Party announces it will stand candidate in Northcote byelection
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Greens trash Labour’s chances in Northcote – with allies like this, who needs National?
RNZ: Green Party to put foward candidate in Northcote by-election
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): Northcote by-election: A poll on Simon vs Jacinda
Isaac Davison (Herald): National Party's Northcote candidate says Anzac graffiti disrespectful and disturbing
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National's Northcote candidate struck with 'disturbing' Anzac graffiti
Local government and Māori wards
Karoline Tuckey (Manawatu Standard): Māori wards for Manawatū councils put to the vote in referendums
David Farrar: LGNZ response on Maori wards
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Defending Democracy
Michael Coote (NZCPR): Maori Myths & Legends: LGNZ conspiracy against local democracy
Luisa Girao (Stuff): Capital mayor: fight not over for Māori names for new city streets
Ged Cann (Stuff): Wellington waterfront goes straw free, now the council wants the city to follow suit
Herald: Activist Penny Bright wins a reprieve over the sale of her house for unpaid rates
Housing
Megan Gattey (Spinoff): Where homes are the most damp, mouldy, and costly to heat in NZ
Eva Corlett (RNZ): 'Our homeless community is going to be bigger than ever'
Adam Jacobson (Central Leader): Concerns Auckland social housing redevelopment will reduce school funding in short term
David Hargreaves (Interest): Property Institute warns the Government's moves to 'ring fence' property tax losses will have a 'disastrous impact’
International relations and trade
Richard Harman (Politik): What is the problem with the Singapore relationship?
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern and David Parker make it crystal clear that NZ is not pursuing a free trade deal with North Korea
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Ardern ‘really positive’ in pursuing EU trade deal
Charles Finny (RNZ): NZ must heed US moves to disable World Trade Organisation
Jason Walls (Interest): Prime Minister says she's yet to receive any news from the US on whether NZ will receive an exemption on steel and aluminium tariffs
Herald: Kiwi MPs mix with royalty in London
Eldrede Kahiya (Newsroom): Latin America the next frontier for NZ exports
Media
Herald: Stuff to close five community papers and cut 14 jobs
Jo Bond: What’s Next For RNZ?
The Spinoff: AM Show hosts launch yet another blistering attack on AM Show hosts
Health
Jo Moir (Stuff): Middlemore Hospital: What really went down between health minister and Counties Manukau DHB?
John Boynton (RNZ): Blood test trials aim to reduce higher Māori cancer rates
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Saluting Hayley Holt's brave booze admission
RNZ: Olympian's part in beer promotion breaches advertising code
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Pharmac turns down DHB request for free flu vax for 'super spreader' kids
Andrea Vance (1News): 'There is a potential for harm' – government set to regulate who can call themselves a paramedic
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Better support desperately needed for families coping with suicide - Jane Stevens
Samantha Gee (Stuff): Public invited to have their say on mental health and addiction services
Max Towle (The Wireless): Health Ministry says it’s failing to provide adequate healthcare to transgender people
Education
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Warning against relying on Reading Recovery for struggling readers – ERO
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): School in turmoil: Claims of 'sexual behaviour' referred to police
Israel Folau and social media
Mark Reason: Better to call in an airstrike on social media than shoot Israel Folau
Alex Beattie (Newsroom): Why Facebook is a playground for bullies
Rosemary McLeod (Herald): On police uniforms, Israel Folau, Hone Harawira and Japan
Banking industry
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Kiwi banks told: Prove you're not dodgy, too
Isaac Davison (Herald): Australian banking inquiry will be 'of use and interest to us', PM Jacinda Ardern says
John Small: Banking Conduct & Competition
Paul Brislen (The Spinoff): How we learned to love being charged for using our own money
Auckland Transport
Simon Wilson (Herald): Transport surprise: Two big new roads for Auckland
Nicole Lawton (Auckland Now): Auckland Council, Government to announce 10-year plan to solve Auckland transport woes
1News: 'We have to fix Auckland' - Transport Minister releasing updated Auckland transport plan today
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Jami-Lee Ross: Labour's new roads a 're-announcement' of National's plans
Social Work Bill
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Social workers call for govt to scrap registration bill
The Standard: Workers’ Rights. Our Rights. And a Government Breaking Bad
Justice
Herald: Relief and frustration after wrongful conviction case ends with apology and $550k payout
Audrey Young (Herald): Government pays over $500,000 compensation to wrongly imprisoned man Tyson Redman
Adam Jacobson (Stuff): Prisoners paid 20 cents an hour under Ministry of Corrections incentives scheme
Anna Leask (Herald): Sex slave case: Why police won't charge men who paid for teen's services
Other
Laura Walters (Stuff): NZ intelligence and security agencies without layer of oversight since 2016
Juha Saarinen (Herald): Security flaw alleged in Census website
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Details of plagued $104m IT project revealed
Sylvia Varnham O’Regan (Vice):New Zealanders Are Still Being Prosecuted for Abortion