NZ Politics Daily - 14 May 2018
14 May 2018
Today's content
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Budget
Audrey Young (Herald): Budget 2018: What's in it for you?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The Budget: Six things to watch
Richard Harman (Politik): Budget week; the politicing begins as Peters predicts big surplus
Audrey Young (Herald): The odds are stacked against Simon Bridges beating Ardern on Budget day
Brian Gaynor (Herald):Budget prudence needed, not borrow and hope
Jason Walls (Interest): National has a new line of attack but needs to watch its step
1News: Video podcast: Government wants to 'hit the ground running' on housing in first pre-Budget announcement
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Business caught in political crossfire as pre-budget battle rages
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Winston Peters' spending is denting the coalition's credibility
Alex Braae (Spinoff): The ‘fudge-it budget’ and more of the best (and worst) Budget nicknames
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Budget 2018: Can the govt deliver on its health promises?
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Spending to give health 'long overdue boost'
Simon Collins (Herald): Budget: Election promises to be delivered, but pay hike headaches loom
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Budget 2018: Can new govt deliver on education?
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Early childhood funding boost doesn't go far enough, govt told
Simon Collins (Herald): Budget 2018: More specialist help for preschoolers with special needs
Laura Walters (Stuff): Budget 2018: $21.5m extra for learning support for children before school
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Budget 2018: More for early intervention services in education
1News: Budget boost of $21 million for young children with extra learning needs announced
RNZ: Govt unveils funding boost for early childhood sector
RNZ: Govt told it's being 'whingy' over education funding shortfall
Claire Trevett (Herald): Budget 2018: Rats! Green Party gets $20 million a year for pest control
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): 'Our biodiversity is in crisis' - Government announces over $80 million to protect environment against predators
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Govt puts extra $80m towards eradicating pests
RNZ: Govt will double what National spent on predator control - Sage
RNZ: DOC funding barely keeps up with inflation – National
Employment
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Hundreds of Auckland migrant workers in overcrowded homes – union
RNZ: Smiths City to pay back staff six years of lost wages
1News: Retail workers missing out on $800 per year in 'unpaid' duties – union
RNZ: Retail workers missing out on $800 in 'unpaid' duties – union
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Smiths City shares fall 4.6% after Employment Court order
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Smiths City ordered to pay workers over unpaid morning meetings
RNZ: Briscoes rejects claims over unpaid meetings
Gia Garrick (RNZ): National pulls support for domestic violence leave bill
Mere McLean (Maori TV): Rotorua mum stops sons from seeking work in kiwifruit industry
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Real Wwoofing survives a crack down on volunteer labour
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Labour inspectors now wearing stabproof vests but say they're 'not cops'
Kirk Hope (Stuff): Employment bill is bad for business and bad for workers
Donal Curtin: Selective unemployment (yet again)
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Paid-partner leave would help close gender pay gap – expert
Retail surveillance
George Block (ODT): Foodstuffs using facial recognition
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Surveillance is a reality of shopping, retail expert says
Foreign affairs and trade
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Can Donald Trump really change the cost of New Zealand drugs?
Cate Broughton (Stuff): President Donald Trump wants to build a drug cartel – and wants NZ to pay for it
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): NZ will not be bullied by Trump and his Big Pharma donors
Emma Russell (Herald): Jacinda Ardern: Pharmac will be protected in trade deals after Trump threats
Newstalk Zb: Kiwis can rest assured Pharmac is protected - PM responds to Trump's attack
Amber Leigh-Woolf (Stuff): Resource consent approved for new Chinese Embassy near the Basin Reserve
RNZ: Council approves new Chinese Embassy building
Simon Draper (Stuff): Selling NZ to India: It's not all about dairy
Child health and wellbeing
Belinda Feek (Herald) Poverty link with children's mental health 'unarguable': Children's Commissioner
ODT Editorial: Not too late to keep promise
RNZ: Ardern confirms no new funding for children's shelters
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Seclusion for children 'potentially traumatising' and unacceptable
Elena McPhee (ODT): Otago's mental health problem: Suicidal at age 10
Audrey Malone (Stuff): There has been a u-turn on the over-weight player identification band
Aged care
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Kiwi rest home horror: Maggots in elderly man's wound and bloodied sheets
Mike Bain (Stuff): Rest homes at risk of closure warns New Zealand Aged Care Association
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Hospice preparing for future demand by training aged-care providers
Health
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Eight steps to reverse the diabetes epidemic
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Tiptoeing around elephant of obesity
Dubby Henry (Herald): The cost of care: 'All I want is for him to have the quality of life he deserves'
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Health Minister David Clark questions district health board model
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Cabinet dispensation required to reject partnership model
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Inquiry into whether Middlemore broke spending rules unlikely
Herald on Sunday: Middlemore Hospital: Whānau accommodation won't be built, other support proposed
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Campaign calls for free nationwide counselling access
RNZ: Health Ministry abandons its legal fight against tobacco sticks
1News: Report says young people smoking less but adults need easier access to e-cigarettes
Aaron Leaman (Waikato Times): Waikato Hospital orthopaedic department turns away thousands
RNZ: DHB struggles to clear follow-up eye exam backlog
Herald: Hawke's Bay DHB investigates alarming cancer scan never followed up, leaving a man dead
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Blood tests can reveal higher toxicity foam chemical – ministry
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): 'Help us help you': nurses rally around the country to demand a better deal
Herald: Nurse's diary: A day in the life of a nurse
Paula Hulburt (Stuf): Casual racism inspires young nurse's commitment to Māori healthcare
Mike O’Donnell (Stuff): Don't be a dope about medicinal cannabis
Brenda Harwood (ODT): Two-tier disability system queried
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Commission's apology to wheelchair user after hotel botch-up
Euthanasia
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): The Susan Austen interview - from teacher to campaigner to unlikely criminal
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): Travel plans in jeopardy after euthanasia advocate decides against appeal
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): Freedom but not the outcome euthanasia advocate wanted
Emily Cooper (1News): Euthanasia advocate fined $7500 for importing drug her friend used to take her own life
Māori political representation
Audrey Malone (Stuff): Electoral Commission asking for law change around the Māori Roll
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Electoral Commission wrong on this one
Graham Cameron (Stuff): 'We are here to help': The case for Māori wards
Northcote by-election and parliament
Mike Williams (Hawke’s Bay Today): Will Northcote result burn Bridges?
Danielle Clent (North Shore Times): Transport, housing and mental health top priorities for Labour candidate Shanan Halbert
Herald: Labour's Shanan Halbert launches Northcote byelection campaign
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog):Northcote by-election: Greens select Rebekah Jaung as candidate – is it worth it?
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Labour backing for possible 14th Māori MP
Samantha Gee (Stuff): Rat poison a symbolic gesture, Renton says
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Nelson woman denies rat poison charge: 'I never touched his face'
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): 'I didn't know that I was on trial for my decisions as a minister' - Nick Smith testifies in court over poison protest
RNZ: Nelson woman denies rubbing rat poison on MP
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Sign language made permanent for all Parliament's Question Time broadcasts
Government
Jason Walls (Interest): Down the pub – catching up with NZ First’s Shane Jones over a Bacardi and Coke the Minister spent the night nursing
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Biggest growth industry for this Govt is consultancy
Alice Guy (Rotorua Daily Post): Winston Peters discusses politics and Dancing with the Stars in Rotorua
Reserve Bank
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Reserve Bank's move to communicate better is a win for all
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Reserve Bank governor dominates the show in first appearance
Justice
Annemarie Thorby (NZ Council for Civil Liberties): No Double-Bunking, No Prison Expansion
Laura Walters (Stuff): Govt stuck between a rock and a hard place on law and order
Laura Walters (Stuff): Female prisoners leaving prison without tools to reintergrate – report
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): $1.6m youth justice centre revamp 'signal' to tamariki
Sarah Monod de Froideville (Spinoff): Social investment will lead to more Māori in youth court
Jared Savage (Herald): Operation Ark: Inside NZ's $50m designer drug ring
Inequality
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckland's southern suburbs struggle in prosperity gap
Herald: Record delivery: Children's charity KidsCan distributing more than 1.4 million food items to 718 schools
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Education summit: What would you do if boss of NZ education?
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Children’s wellbeing focus for education summit
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Closing charter schools would cost $12m
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Compulsory te reo is nothing to fear - it's the decent and civilised choice
Chris Trotter: Religious Instructors Of What?
Adele Redmond (Press): 'Lots of opportunity' to turn closed school sites into affordable housing - Christchurch East MP Poto Williams
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NZQA investigates Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Madison Reidy (Stuff): International student urges Govt not to restrict post-study opportunities
Brett Berquist (Newsroom): What international students do for NZ
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Rich Lister donates $5m in mother's memory: 'It's how we were brought up'
Jesse King (Wanganui Chronicle): Former Whanganui mayor Annette Main appointed as a member of UCOL council
Housing
Chris Harrowell (Manukau Courier): Homeless man living in South Auckland hotel costs taxpayers $2000 a week
Rob Stock (Stuff): Bank of mum and dad could be NZ's sixth largest first-home mortgage lender
Duncan Garner:If Twyford can't Phil us in on KiwiBuy/Build, who can?
Dan Satherley and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Housing Minister apologises for 'confusion' on price of KiwiBuild homes
Isaac Davison (Herald): Larger Kiwibuild homes will cost $50k more than promised during election campaign
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Hamilton gears up with new affordable housing
Mary-Jo Tohill (Southland Times): Winter is coming: Clutha's housing shortage reaches crisis point
Katy Jones (Stuff): Prefab buildings touted as part solution to housing shortage
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Agents working harder in tougher real estate market
Building standards
Jamie Morton (Herald): Buildings could be 20% of NZ's carbon footprint
Ruth Hill and Phil Pennington (RNZ): Firm behind leaky buildings goes into receivership
Adele Redmond (Press): Charity locked into lease for mouldy office that it claims 'left staff member in hospital'
RNZ: Charity faces liquidation over office dispute
Environment
Jo Moir (Stuff): Winston Peters says the Greens can have a Kermadec Sanctuary – with a catch
Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ First and Labour seeking Kermadec sanctuary compromise which allows fishing
No Right Turn: A bullshit idea
Dominic Harris (Stuff): 'Victory for nature' as West Coast council pulls plug on plan to log native forest
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Use of 'extremely toxic' fumigant avoidable – inventor
Matt Shand (Stuff): Waste tyres dumped in landfill by company paid millions to recycle
Simon Smith (Stuff): Criticism 'not a fair reflection' of its work to save kauri, MPI says
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Voicemail exposes tactics used by some staff at Greenpeace NZ to solicit donations
Ruby Harfield (Hawke’s Bay Today): Protest outside Craggy Range after Te Mata Peak trail backtrack
RNZ: Protest over Te Mata Peak walking track
Megan Gattey (Stuff): The tip of the fatberg: Should New Zealand ban wet wipes?
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Ban the wipes? Wet wipes causing increasing problems
Carly Gooch (Stuff): Balloons harmful to the environment, say conservationists
Damien Grant (Stuff): Wombling on won't save us from the plastic tide
Primary industries
Matt Nippert (Herald): Fonterra JV sought to send then-PM to Russia
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Dairy review risks missing big picture
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Thousands of diseased calves taken to works and dumped in landfill
Southland Times Editorial: The Mycoplasma bovis blues
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): $5bn and potential to grow - Shane Jones opens new forestry hub
Rotorua Daily Post: Resurrection of New Zealand Forestry Service in Rotorua celebrated
RNZ: Govt to plant a billion trees under new forestry service
1News: Shane Jones holds spade but he was warned against having to dig himself out of the Sh**!
1News: Farmers 'a work in progress' in bid to free up land for one billion trees – Shane Jones
Matthew Littlewood (Timaru Herald): Simons Pass in tenure review, could see thousands of hectares freeholded
Jamie Morton (Herald): Second NZ sea lion accidentally killed in squid fishery
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Winston Peters talks to captains of industry, announces racing review
Cate Broghton (Stuff): Government siding with poultry industry over campylobacter risks, public health expert says
Media
Talisa Kupenga (MāoriTV): No Maori appointment for broadcasting panel
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Local apps fill news gaps
Herald Editorial: New Zealand media earns pat on the back
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Opinion: Loss of professional journalists something to be feared
Richard Swainson (Waikato Times): Opinion: The Press Club is Hamilton's best-kept secret
NZ clothing industry
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Commerce Commission launches investigation into WORLD Made in NZ labelling
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): World being investigated by Commerce Commission over NZ-made claims
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Fear and clothing
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): NZ fashion industry manufacturing clothes from people's homes
Kerre McIvor (Herald): I'll buy NZ-made whenever possible
Nicole Skews-Poole (RNZ): Size matters: NZ's 'ethical fashion' doesn't measure up
Transport and road safety
Liam Dann (Herald): Brace yourself for petrol at $3 a litre
Herald on Sunday: Genter should go for double speed cameras
Laura Walters (Stuff): Government trialing new point-to-point speed cameras
Newshub: Privacy concerns over potential new speed cameras
Herald: Crashes caused by idiots, not speedsters, says road safety advocate
Caroline Shaw (Spinoff): Eight reasons to slam the door on your car commute, based on the science
Herald Editorial: Domestic terminal bad look for city
Super Fund
John Anthony (Stuff): KiwiSaver providers express interest in infrastructure investment
Michael Reddell: Revisiting the NZSF
John Roughan (Herlad): Super Fund needs to face the risk of losing on light rail
Immigration
Laura Walters (Stuff): Greens' Golriz Ghahraman: We need to talk about Kiwi identity and xenophobia
Dileepa Fonseka (Auckland Now): Russian overstayer claiming he is a target of spies granted asylum in New Zealand
Michael Reddell: Some public opinion on immigration
Tourism
Stuff Editorial: Tourism tax may never be perfect, but something must be done to protect the industry
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland's new visitor plan: Fix the problems
Steven Armitage (Herald): Ateed plan can benefit tourism and citizens alike
Matthew Littlewood (Timaru Herald): Tourism levy news delights Mackenzie District mayor
Local government
Herald: Productivity Commission inquiry into local government funding
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckland mayoral staff score poorly in terms of engagement
1News: Auckland mayoral staff come last in commitment survey
Chris Morris (ODT): Dunedin chasing Govt cash
Kelley Tantau (Stuff): Online option could lift voter turnout rate for Hamilton City Council
EQC
RNZ: Natural Disaster Fund drops from $6.4b to $287m in 8 years
Robin Martin (RNZ): 'They've lost their family home' - Whanganui couple battle EQC
Gender
Martin van Beynen (Press): Old, white and male - how come I haven't done better?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): From 'lock her up' to What Happened: Hillary Clinton on women and power
Other
Chris Morris (ODT): Navy staying quiet on Dunedin base
Julie Iles (Stuff): No strategy for saving NZ Super particularly popular
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Former minister: We got it wrong on tax incentives
Baden Vertongen (Pundit): Accountability in Māori organizations
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Ngāti Porou foreshore and seabed bill passes first reading
Philip Matthews (Stuff):Week in Review: Our friends in the north
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): The promise to Pike River miners: 'We will not rest and we will never give up. We will return'
Steven Cowan: The suburbs that the Christchurch City Council has forgotten
Colin Peacock (RNZ): You can’t be serious: satire, parody and copyright