NZ Politics Daily - 8 May 2018
8 May 2018
Today's content
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Primary industries and environment
Press: Crackdown on dairy outputs always on the cards
ODT Editorial: Fewer cows no easy task
Richard Harman (Politik): Cows are not the only problem for Parker
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern defends dairy water pollution policy
RNZ: Run-off crackdown would hurt regions – National
1News: 'There's no analysis': Bridges lashes plan to reduce NZ's dairy cows as 'an assault on regions'
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Q&A: Pluses and minuses of the dairy industry
Tim Mackle (Stuff): Dairy farmers leaping into the environmental unknown
Craig Rowley (Stuff): Farmers have a stake in caring for water: Waimate mayor
RNZ: M bovis battle: Govt risks 'burying' biosecurity problems
Jill Galloway (Stuff): Give farmers who are having a free ride on the Feds a rev up, says Manawatu leader
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Logging companies could over-ride toxic fumigant deadline
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate change spells trouble for NZ's crops, say scientists
Herald Editorial: Niwa's study of seabed mining risks will be useful
Julie Iles (Stuff): Other countries are waging a more aggressive war on plastic bags
Julie Iles (Stuff): Elderly more prepared as Countdown moves to end single-use plastic bags at some supermarkets
Sarah Murphy (RNZ): Countdown begins moves to go plastic-free
Nicki Harper (Hawke’s Bay Today): Havelock North's Te Mata track to remain? Mediation back on the table for controversial track
Herald: Further discussions over Havelock North's Craggy track
RNZ: Winery presents options to fix Te Mata Peak track
Jenny Ling (Stuff): More myrtle rust discovered in Northland
RNZ: Philip Hulme: 'NZ is one of the weediest places on earth’
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Capital punishment for pests
Government
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Data-for-funding plan undermined public confidence – Minister
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub):'It was a failure': Government to review NGO data sharing
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Govt sharpens social investment focus on wellbeing
RNZ: Govt calls for public's views on social services
Colin James: What is this phenomenon Jacinda Ardern? Talk to U3A Christchurch
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Prime Minister appoints new chief press secretary Andrew Campbell from the Green Party
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A smart appointment
Herald: Sign language interpreter for Prime Minister's post-Cabinet press conference
Parliament
Isaac Davison (Herald): National MPs skip meeting in protest at 'condescending' Speaker Trevor Mallard
Henry Cooke (Stuff): National Party boycotting Parliament's business committee
Benedict Collins (RNZ):EPA chief exec cleared of misleading select committee
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 2017 donations
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Pulling the levers of no power from the Opposition benches
Health
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Suicide's toll on Māori youth laid bare in new report
Damien O’Connor (ODT): Focusing on the big picture of rural health funding
Herald: Cancer number one killer in New Zealand - numbers on the rise
Sarah Robson (RNZ): 'Tooth decay is a socio-economic disease'
Herald: Dental decay in Kiwi kids 'disease of poverty', says University of Otago health specialist
CPAG: Too soon for the tooth fairy: new report from CPAG
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Lack of capital forced Counties Manukau DHB to make trade-offs on priorities: Reports
Hannah Martin (Manukau Courier): Middlemore Hospital's maternity unit poses seismic risk
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato DHB member seeks further assurances over hospital buildings
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Our cannabis industry’s hopes and fears
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Grandparents invest life savings in medicinal cannabis for next generation
Nita Blake-Persen (RNZ):'There shouldn't be any grey areas around this'
1News: Physiotherapist board say large spike in number of complaints is actually a good thing
Education
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government refuses to back Green Party's push for Te Reo Māori in schools
Mandy Te (Stuff): Religious classes in primary schools set to have published guidelines
Simon Collins (Herald): Family want answers after toddler dies following brain bleed
Simon Collins (Herald): NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft withdraws bill restricting who can claim to be a ‘teacher'
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): NZ First drops 'severely flawed' Bill restricting use of word 'teacher'
Peter Lyons (ODT): Teachers themselves must demand recognition of their status
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teacher pay talks begin: 'We are very much behind where we get paid'
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Doing the confusing numbers on teachers’ pay
Scott Yeoman (Herald): Ministry of Education to meet Greerton Village School over funding worries
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Schools need to serve up life lessons too
Petrol industry and transport
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Under-fire petrol industry raises prices to highest level since 2014
Jackson Thomas (East & Bays Courier): Fuel tax to hit public transport, and potentially commuters, in the pocket
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): Short-changed Palmerston North family fighting BP brush-off over petrol voucher dispute
Employment
Paul Tankard (ODT): Govt needs to defend workers in AI war
1News: ‘The last thing we want is fruit rotting’: Jacinda Ardern focused on tackling fruit labour problem
RNZ: Severe shortage of seasonal workers in kiwifruit industry
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Seasonal labour shortage declared across the Bay of Plenty
1News: Labour shortage declared in Bay of Plenty as 1200 more people needed to pick and pack 20 million trays of kiwifruit
Isaac Davison (Herald): Widowed father refused paid parental leave after wife's death to receive ex-gratia payment
Nick Bewley, Anastasia Hedge and Ryan Dunlop (Newstalk ZB): Christchurch mum dies after birth; Dad denied paid parental leave
World Made in NZ controversy
1News: Consumer NZ boss: WORLD t-shirt labelling can only be interpreted as misleading, 'deceptive behaviour'
Katie Doyle (RNZ): 'To say you can't make T-shirts in NZ is completely false'
Rachael Kelly (Stuff): L'Estrange-Corbet continues as head judge at Hokonui Design Awards
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): On Denise L’Estrange-Corbet’s statements about The Spinoff’s reporting
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): WORLD should just say sorry for T-shirt saga and move on
Michelle Duff (Stuff): From woke to woeful: WORLD's explanation falls short
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): T-Shirts from Bangladesh. Sequin patches from China. Sold by WORLD as ‘Made in New Zealand’
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Those WORLD T-shirts: Dame Denise L’Estrange-Corbet responds
RNZ: WORLD clothes made in Bangladesh tagged as made in NZ
Herald: Denise L'Estrange-Corbet hits back at claims labels are misleading
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): Kiwi AS? The rules for claiming Made in New Zealand
Herald: World 'Made in NZ' scandal 'just the tip of the iceberg', says Cactus Outdoor owner
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Fashion label World clothing not entirely NZ-made
Migration and refugees
Newshub:'No evidence' people smugglers targeting New Zealand - Golriz Ghahraman
RNZ: Ardern 'would destroy' people-smugglers' boats
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Dutton's comments on New Zealand as asylum-seeker destination not new, Ardern says
Herald: Warning from Australian MP: NZ is a backdoor for people-smugglers
1News: New Zealand 'being marketed' as a destination by people smugglers says Australian minister
Lincoln Tan (Herald): They escaped Kim Jong Un, now these North Korean defectors are starting anew in Auckland
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Christchurch close to refugee green light after eight-year break
Foreign Affairs and trade
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Inside a US lobbyist’s deal with NZ
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): NZ Steel asks court to re-investigate dumping
Tax
RNZ: IRD missing out on $1 billion in tax from unreported income
David Seymour (Newshub): Tax does more harm than good
Foreign investment
Anne Gibson (Herald): Foreign investment interest 'strong as ever' despite OIO data drop: expert
Eric Crampton: More problems with the stupid foreign buyer ban
Kiwisaver
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Kiwis left confused by Kiwisaver documents: AUT research
Rob Stock (Stuff): KiwiSaver sign up information: Short, but not sweet
Media
John Drinnan: Jim Mather Might Hasten A More Maori RNZ
Stuff: New board chairs for RNZ and Māori TV
RNZ: Jim Mather named as incoming RNZ chair
Māori TV: Jamie Tuuta appointed chairman of Māori Television board
Herald: Jamie Tuuta named new chairman of Māori TV board
RNZ: Jamie Tuuta announced as new Māori TV chair
Herald: BSA upholds complaint over 'dead babies' comment on The AM Show
Tourism
David Williams (Newsroom): Pressure builds for tourist tax
Belinda McCammon (RNZ): Tourism operators question industry's sustainability
Grant Bradley (Herald): Budget 2018: Why tourism is hoping to avoid a May surprise
Local government
Grant Miller and Jimmy Ellingham (Manawatū Standard): Māori wards: A voice for Māori or a clumsy solution?
RNZ: Kaikōura rates could jump 17 percent
Nick Truebridge (Press): Space at a premium at Christchurch City Council headquarters as staff numbers skyrocket
Justice and police
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government planning 'smart' to find an extra 1800 cops by 2020
Newshub: Simon Bridges says Labour 'guys and girls' won't get tough on gangs
1News: Crime victims need a clearer, kinder support system say advocates
John Drinnan: The Top Cop Statement Was A Step Too Far
Herald: Supreme Court rejects Philip John Smith's appeal to wear hairpiece in prison
Defence
Laura Walters (Stuff): Defence Minister marks his territory as pro-military
Herald: Defence force personnel who died serving overseas finally returned to NZ
RNZ: First defence repatriation ceremony to take place today
Hillary Clinton NZ speaking engagement
Tom Furley (RNZ): NZ should heed warning on China influence: Clinton
Newshub: Hillary Clinton warns of Chinese influence in New Zealand
1News: 'This is really weird' – Hillary Clinton reveals seminal 'back up you creep (Trump) moment' she’d do differently from 2016 election (watch the moment)
Jo Moir (Stuff): Hillary Clinton's a champion for women in a country not ready for a female President
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Why Jacinda Ardern's win mattered to Hillary Rodham Clinton
Stuff: Hillary Clinton considered moving to NZ after loss to Trump
Claire Trevett (Herald): Hillary Clinton: 'New Zealand's success - an example we so desperately need'
1News: Hillary Clinton meeting won't impact NZ-US relationship - Jacinda Ardern
1News: Watch: Hillary Clinton lavishes praise on Jacinda Ardern after breakfast meeting - 'A young, dynamic Prime Minister'
RNZ: Power selfie: Ardern and Clinton exchange gifts
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern on meeting former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Other
David Fisher (Herald): Exclusive: Our spies disarmed by legal blunder amid 'high threat operations' against terrorists
Ged Cann (Stuff): Over half of Kiwis more worried about privacy online than two years ago
RNZ:Is this the start of the end for letters?
Māori TV: 40 years since Bastion Point stand
Rob Stock (Stuff): Westpac piloting home loan scheme for prefab homes
Jackson Thomas (Central Leader): Auckland boarding house charging $60 a week for heater
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Kiwis more tolerant of New Zealand-owned banks: Matthews
RNZ: Diversity of public sector boards in the spotlight
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Politicians live to prance another day on Dancing with the Stars