NZ Politics Daily - 3 May 2018
3 May 2018
Today's content
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Clarke Gayford
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Police did not ask Clarke Gayford's permission to quash rumour
Audrey Young (Herald):Few leaders spared the false rumour mill
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Labour orchestrated the events of the past 24 hours
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Stalling the rumour mill
Gavin Ellis (RNZ): 'Success' of attack will encourage further trolling
Tess McClure (Vice): The Search For Patient Zero of the Clarke Gayford Rumours
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Clarke Gayford: New Zealand police deny PM's partner is under investigation
Sam Lock (Daily Mail Australia): 'It's dirty politics': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern rubbishes 'fake rumours' about her husband being investigated by police
Mike Hosking (Herald): Life in the public eye - hey Clarke Gayford, you should hear the ridiculous rumours about me
Audrey Young (Herald): Low-life gossipers peddling false Clarke Gayford rumours a distraction for PM
Audrey Young (Herald): Leader Simon Bridges denies any National involvement in peddling Clarke Gayford rumours
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Response to false Clarke Gayford rumour risks politicising police
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Does the Clarke Gayford smear signal a new low in politics?
Andrew Dickens (Herald): Putting an end to despicable Clarke Gayford rumours
Newstalk ZB: Clarke Gayford rumours labelled 'dirty politics'
Herald: Winston Peters wades in on Clarke Gayford rumours
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern will 'smile through' Clarke Gayford smear attempt
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Slurs and lies: Clarke Gayford's name cleared by police
Stuff: Clarke Gayford rumours 'dirty politics' – Jacinda Ardern
RNZ: Police quash Clarke Gayford rumours
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): What the shit is going on with those Clarke Gayford rumours?
Government
Tim Watkin (Pundit): The Budget whodunnit?
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom):Inside the Peters leak: how to escape the net
Herald: Sitting Room Only: Gin Wigmore's intimate interview with Jacinda Ardern
Jason Walls (Interest): The Government is being criticised for sticking to its promise to reduce net core Crown debt to 20% of GDP by 2022 – but this commitment does not mean it won’t keep taking on debt
Michael Reddell: The government’s debt target
Newshub: Health, housing and education set for 'long overdue' boost in Budget 2018 - Grant Robertson
Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces extra duties for Winston Peters and Shane Jones
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government announces changes to ministerial portfolios
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Six months in, this Government is out of its depth
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern will work until she's 'physically in labour'
Newshub: Prime Minister will work until she goes into labour
1News: Simon Bridges questions why Shane Jones got 'a roundabout built', but Kiwis might see delay on lowering in cost of GP visits
Banking industry
Rob Stock (Stuff): Kiwi vs Kangaroo: Are New Zealand banks different to scandal-hit Australian banks?
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Kiwi banks must be transparent if they are to avoid Aussie parents' trust issues
Herald: Kiwi banks must show they are different to Aussie: Robertson
RNZ: 'We operate in a way which complies' - NZ bankers
The Standard: The Australian banking system review
GST online
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): Amazon and the law of the tax jungle
Herald Editorial: Online GST crackdown overdue
ODT Editorial: Choice and convenience shopping
Aimee Shaw (Herald): How the Government will police the 'Amazon tax'
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Trade Me wants Government to rethink approach to Amazon tax
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): But what will happen in the seller doesn’t charge GST?
Petrol prices and transport
Jim Rose (Stuff): Petrol prices competitive but inherently crazy
Todd Niall (RNZ): Concerns non-Aucklanders could pay for city’s fuel tax
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Transport Minister says no guarantee that cost of Auckland fuel tax won't spread
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland will be consigned to gridlock without a regional fuel tax: Phil Goff
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Regional fuel tax legislation 'sneaky' – National
Justice
Kirsty Johnston and Chris Knox (Herald): Unresolved: Why New Zealand rape victims are being left in limbo
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Lawyers failing children in the Family Court system: survey
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Govt calls for better record of inmate complaints
1News: Build less prisons, says justice advocate, after alarming prisoner abuse stats revealed
No Right Turn: How can they not track this?
International relations and trade
Tom Pullar-Strecker and AP (Stuff): Trump steel tariff snub flies in face of 'positive relationship’
John Anthony (Stuff): US decision to not exclude NZ from steel and aluminium tariffs 'churlish': EMA
RNZ: 'We want to know that it's bona fide' - Peters on Korean peace plan
Health and disability
RNZ: Middlemore problems highlighted in 2010 report
Herald: Middlemore Hospital was warned about leaks and mould in 2010 – report
RNZ: Health advocates push for minimum alcohol price
1News:'It's been shown that it doesn't actually work' - industry lobbyist and health researcher go head to head over minimum booze pricing
Stuff: Cancer is New Zealand's biggest killer
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Macadamia cheese on toast on the menu as New Zealand's largest marae goes vegan
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): There's a nation-wide shortage of the HPV vaccine
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Exercising as a teen reduces the risk of depression later in life, study finds
Hilary Stace (RNZ): Mayor’s words wound after insulting put-down
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Mapping data for NZ water quality
Welfare
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Ex-Gloriavale member explains its alleged misuse of Working For Familes money
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Government to investigate Gloriavale's use of Working for Families payments
Jess Berentson-Shaw (The Wireless): Removing the conditions on welfare works
Education
Michael Daly (Stuff): Meth too addictive for harm minimisation approach, says drug educator Dale Kirk
Emma Russell (Herald): Drug Foundation applauds Massey High School for providing material on using meth ‘discreetly'
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Drug Foundation applauds Auckland school's use of meth booklet
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): In defence of drug education for teens in schools
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Ministry targets unconscious bias against Māori students
Simon Collins (Herald): Parents pay for teacher aides and support at one in 10 NZ primary schools
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Sticks and Stones: Online bullying is highly harmful, often invisible, and nearly always tied to schoolyard torment
RNZ: Police investigate school over financial misconduct
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Simon Bridges won't commit to means testing students or ending fees-free, but says a change is likely
Brad Flahive (Stuff): NZ Universities say online learning will not be the end of degrees
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Push for te reo in Victoria University name change
Child welfare
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern and National's Simon Bridges meet on child poverty
1News: Child poverty: Simon Bridges says issue 'bigger than politics' and he'll 'collaborate' on Government's Bill aimed at alleviating it
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government and Opposition reach for cross parliamentary consensus on child poverty
RNZ: Child poverty targets need to be realistic – advocates
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Ministry of Children looking into how a 5-year-old was left stranded at pool
Housing
Chris Harrowell (Auckland Now): Experts warn homelessness in Auckland will be worse this winter
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): Property investors lose out as Government ends negative gearing
Imran Ali (Herald): Housing NZ not ready to consult on state housing taking over Whangarei park
Employment
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): More young not working or learning
Kate Hawkesby (Newstsalk ZB): Hidden in plain sight - the alarming rise of the working poor
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Construction firm hammered with 19k penalty for short-changing casual workers
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): NZ jobless rate drops to lowest level since 2008, wage growth remains anaemic
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): New Zealand unemployment rate falls to the lowest level in nearly a decade
Interest: New Zealand’s unemployment rate drops to 4.4%, in line with the Reserve Bank’s forecast
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government making headway on changes to skill shortage changes
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Employment tweaks could endanger all aboard
Katie Kenny (Stuff): While artificial intelligence is tipped to be 'as significant as electricity', it's not coming for your job, yet
Holly Ryan (Herald): Artificial Intelligence could boost NZ economy up to $53b, says report
Olivia Erdelyi (Stuff): Artificial intelligence is changing our lives and now is the time to decide how
Environment, primary and extractive industries
Matt Shand (Stuff): Politics and science aims to shut down water bottling giant
Jaqui Dean (Southland Times): Improving river health flows from community, govt efforts
Drugs
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Meth cheaper and easier to find, Massey University study shows
Michael Daly (Stuff): The price of meth has been falling and it's become much easier to get
RNZ: New Zealand 'awash' with imported meth
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): Kids smoking dope don't need less education, they need more
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Cannabis bill ‘too strict’ for NZ growers
Heather Roy: The War on Drugs – A Battle Lost
Parliament
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Where former political leaders go after their time in the Beehive
Claire Trevett (Herald): Prince Louis and the royals' nappy offensive
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More Maori opting to change to general roll
Herald: New National MP Nicola Willis gives maiden speech in Parliament
Local government
Alexander Robertson (Herald): Local Focus: Palmerston North mayor debunks Māori Ward myths
John Boynton (RNZ): Māori ward advocates march for representation
Marty Sharpe (Dominion Post): Public should not have been excluded from Napier council meeting, says Ombudsman
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland's port has to shift but where will it go?
Chris Morris (ODT): 'Extreme provocation' prompted Cull comment
Greyhound racing industry
RNZ: Greyhound meth scandal: 'simply shocking'
Mat Kermeen (Stuff): Greyhound trainer banned for two years after dog tests positive to P
Newshub: Trainer of greyhound on meth to appeal two-year ban
Jonny Turner (ODT): MP's comments on greyhound racing 'ill-informed'
NZ tourism campaign
Herald: Conspiracy to keep New Zealand off world maps: Rhys Darby, Jacinda Ardern
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern asks why New Zealand is left off world maps in new tourism campaign
Stuff: 'New Zealand, where the bloody hell are you'
Other
David Fisher (Herald): How NZDF gave minister wrong info on civilian deaths in Hit & Run raid
Joshua Hitchcock (Spinoff): Why Māori organisations need more accountability
Charlotte Carter (Herald): Northland pokie spend up more than $820,000 on same period last year – DIA
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): Re-entry of West Coast's Pike River mine 'will be done'
RNZ: Pike River re-entry optimism rises after experts meet
Southland Times Editorial: The potline that came in from the cold
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): White supremacist group may cancel Christchurch, Dunedin rallies after backlash
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Multimillionaire trades boardrooms for remote NZ
Karl Puschmann (Herald): Is The Hobbit trilogy really that bad? Yes - here's why