NZ Politics Daily - 27 April 2018
27 April 2018
Today's content
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Government
Jo Moir (Stuff): Six months on the job for the Government - who is up and who is down?
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Budget the real test of new government
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The successes and failures of Labour's first six months
Jenna Lynch and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Six months in: The new Government's report card
Dominion Post Editorial: Shane Jones' plans for 'treacle-ridden' public service won't stick
Chris Eichbaum (Newsroom): When a problem shared is a problem doubled
Herald: Shane Jones to take public service appointment idea to Chris Hipkins
RNZ: Govt bureaucracy needs 'political laxative' – Jones
Audrey Young (Herald): Union hits back on Shanes Jones' proposal to allow political appointees in public service
Henry Cooke (Stuff):Shane Jones' call for more ministerial influence worries public sector union
Newshub: Shane Jones wants to 'cut red tape' in public service so ministers have more influence
Gia Garrick (Newstalk ZB): Shane Jones slammed for public sector comments
Auckland Transport
Herald Editorial: New Auckland Transport Alignment Project plan: Just do it already
Simon Wilson (Herald): In praise of joined-up transport thinking
Henry Cooke (Stuff): After awful April, Phil Twyford emerges with $28b of wins
Gordon Campbell: On the perils of using PPPs to meet Auckland’s roading needs
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Red alignment to solve Auckland’s congestion blues
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Transport plan 'too little, too late' for south Auckland
Auckland Now: What you need to know about the $28b Auckland Transport Alignment Project
Herald: Transport plan will finally free up Auckland's gridlock, reduce emissions
Dan Satherley (Newshub): $28 billion plan to fix Auckland's transport unveiled
RNZ: New $30b plan to tackle Auckland transport woes unveiled
BusinessDesk: Could this be a transport plan fit for a SuperCity?
Jodi Yeats (Auckland Now): Controversial project Skypath fully funded, additional Auckland Harbour crossing brought forward
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Jami-Lee Ross: Labour's new roads a 're-announcement' of National's plans
Herald: Penlink tolls a triple whammy for motorists, National says
RNZ: Northland road advocates 'gutted' at Auckland road spend
Environment, primary and extractive industries
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Thin Ice
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Carbon price may have to rise ten fold
Brian Fallow (Herald): Cut carbon emissions? Yes we can
RNZ: Higher prices needed for low carbon economy
1News: NZ can be carbon-neutral by 2050 if people buy electric cars - Productivity Commission
Jamie Morton (Herald): Call for climate action growing, but many still unfazed
Herald: Cow pee: 200 tonnes of nitrogen leaching each day
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): NZ scientists’ anti-cow burp vaccine
Logan Church (RNZ): Chch water options: Raising wells and UV treatment
Tina Law (Stuff): Christchurch mayor signals taskforce to ensure chlorination remains temporary
RNZ: Council aims to sell dam research to recoup losses
Jamie Morton (Herald): Sir David Attenborough backs plan to record New Zealand and Australian biodiversity
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Crater Hill decision lauded as turning point
Sean Rush (Stuff): The real cost of closing down oil and gas
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Greenpeace NZ executive director Russel Norman changes mind and will plead guilty over protest
Inequality and welfare
Herald: Kiwi kids living in poorest areas three times more likely to die - Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee report finds
RNZ: Children in poorest areas three times more likely to die
Katie Bradford (1News): Social services say demand for food parcels reaching historically high levels
Rebekah Graham (Spinoff): Benefit sanctions are cruel and they’re hurting mothers
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Fonterra, Alibaba trial blockchain to lift Chinese shoppers' trust in NZ milk
International relations and trade
Matthew Hooton (Herald): A trade deal with North Korea is not so crazy
Richard Harman (Politik): Winston Peters, Judith Collins, Ross Meurant and North Korea
Robert Ayson (Incline): The shadow US foreign policy won't work for New Zealand either
Health and disability
RNZ: 'How could he not know?' - Outgoing DHB chair breaks silence
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Counties Manukau DHB chairman Rabin Rabindran contradicts Health Minister David Clark
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Architects defend work on Middlemore Hospital
Jarred Williamson (Stuff):More staff and beds: Middlemore Hospital's $30m winter proposal
Herald: Government promises $24m for MidCentral trial of new disability support system
Jessica McAllen (RNZ): Concerns over mental health phone line
Florence Kerr and Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato DHB's virtual health spend caused financial squeeze, insider claims
Peter Sykes (Stuff): Can we eradicate cervical cancer in New Zealand?
Jamie Morton (Herald): Study: Why anti-vaxxers think like conspiracy theorists
1News: Massive spike in ADHD drug prescriptions in NZ not an issue to worry about, says expert
Adele Redmond (Stuff): End of Life Choice Bill 'not about disability', David Seymour says
Alcohol harm
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Kiwi Olympic hero insists beer campaign was 'truthful' but respects ruling to remove him
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Battles over local alcohol policies make them an 'unworkable joke'
Herald: 'Senseless' peer pressure led to West Coast teen Mitchell Heward's alcohol death
RNZ: Young man's death a 'sad illustration' of drinking culture
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Children who change schools a lot have lower NCEA pass rates – report
Gillian Hubbard (Newsroom): English teaching not perfect, but it works
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Wellington school to completely drop NCEA in favour of Cambridge exams
ODT: Allowance cut detrimental to national good
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Future of Wellington's Dominion Museum uncertain
Justice and police
Phil Taylor (Herald): Backpacker killings: Prison snitches up for review
Teresa Cowie (RNZ): More than half of inmates took meth before being imprisoned
Nikki MacDonald (Stuff): Mother calls for change to law that allows her abuser to deny her a support person at meeting over child's future
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Toddler fighting another child in the street our youngest crook
Ray Smith (Herald): Prison staff offer light to lives lost in darkness
Stuff: Stress drove me out: a probation officer's story
RNZ: Corrections procedures changed after Rimutaka suicide
Spy agencies
Laura Walters (Stuff): NZ lacks informed public debate on spying
No Right Turn: DPMC drops the ball on intelligence oversight
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Wait, what? There hasn’t been any oversight of our mass surveillance Intelligence apparatus since 2016?
Auckland Airport profits
Pattrick Smellie and Nikki Mandow (BusinessDesk): ComCom worries about airport monopoly profits
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Commission concerned Auckland Airport's profits may be too high
Building costs and safety
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Construction industry threatened by a 'ticking timebomb'
Phil Pennington (RNZ): 'Jumping through hoops' pushing up building costs
Tom Furley (RNZ): Auckland building owners opt for second opinions on quake ratings
Immigration
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Strange silence as immigration hits 69,000
Stuff: Many more men granted essential skill work visas than women
Anzac Day and military
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, (RNZ): Italy and 28th Māori Battalion: 'Love of language, love of life'
Maria Armoudian and James Robins (Newsroom): NZ’s heroic response to a faraway genocide
Johnny Moore (Stuff): My U-turn on Anzac Day sees a chance for understanding over celebrating war
Other
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Invasion of the tabloids
Jim Tucker (Taranaki Daily News): Israel Folau folly may tap deep vein
Listener Editorial: The Law Society's #MeToo (But Not Just Yet) moment
ODT Editorial: Banking reassurances welcome
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Companies fined $400k for misleading customers about steel
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB):Wake up to the ugliness of New Zealand, Kiwis
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Social Workers fear new bill
RNZ: Vector shuts down app after privacy breach
Cathy Casey (Herald): Auckland still stick's throw from dogtopia
Herald: Auckland Council to consider allowing pets on public transport