NZ Politics Daily - 15 May 2018
15 May 2018
Today's content
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Government
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern sets down Winston Peters' duties as Acting Prime Minister before taking maternity leave
1News: 'No concerns, absolutely none' - Jacinda Ardern has confidence Winston Peters will do a great job as Acting PM while she's on maternity leave
Emma Hurley and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern announces 'letter' of expectations while Winston Peters is PM
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Winston Peters' job description when he takes hold of the prime ministerial reins
RNZ: Ardern outlines Peters' acting PM duties during maternity leave
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Ultimate reins of power to stay with Ardern
The Civilian: Ardern’s baby to be sent to regions as part of coalition deal with NZ First
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Winston gets the title but not the power
Newshub: National tears into Labour for setting up 100 committees in 200 days
No Right Turn: Labour will not fix the OIA
Herald: Jacinda Ardern reveals Harry and Meghan's wedding present from New Zealand
Jo Moir (Stuff): NZ donates $5000 to charity supporting children of prisoners for royal couple
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): Winston Peters a voice for women's rights; aims zinger at David Seymour
Steve Braunias (Herald) Secret Diary of the Prime Minister's music playlist
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern said no to a portrait, but artist still wins with back-up plan
Herald: Jacinda Ardern rings Archibald Prize-winner Yvette Coppersmith to congratulate her
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Award winning self-portrait inspired by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Budget
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern sets the scene for 'rebuilding foundations' in Government's first Budget
Liam Dann (Herald): PM issues 'boring' Budget warning, promises 'no surprises'
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Budget 'could re-start the brain drain', National says, as Australia looks to tax cuts
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Budget 2018: Can new govt keep promises on housing?
Emma Russell (Herald): Budget 2018: Will the Government make a dent its $8 billion health promises?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government to find out hard lessons in health funding at first Budget
RNZ: Tertiary providers and unions hope for further boost in funding
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): China slowdown could cost NZ $157b
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens spin DOC funding as significant
Foreign affairs and trade
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Eyes open to China ties, but challenges ahead
Liam Dann (Herald): Government hones in on revamped China FTA
Herald: Trade and the Pacific on Foreign Minister Winston Peters' agenda for trip to China
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): China trade agreement upgrade to reflect modern trading relationship: PM
Michael Reddell: Eyes determinedly shut
1News: New Zealand to give $200k for monitoring of North Korea nuclear programme
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): North Korea: Government announces contribution to nuclear monitoring
Herald Editorial: Americans thought they would get a Pharmac from Trump
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Drug prices a sticking point for Trump
Laura Walters (Stuff):Jacinda Ardern says US embassy in Jerusalem not way towards resolution
Employment
Stuff: Average weekly paid hours for employees in NZ
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Some Spotlight staff not paid for 15 minute meetings
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Union seeks short-changed workers
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Working for a bed - Kiwi hospitality or a big rip off?
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): BOP kiwifruit business ordered to pay over $30k in underpaid work case
1News: 'Less growth and fewer jobs' - Govt's proposed employment law changes won't 'get us anywhere' - Simon Bridges
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Government backs aspiring tradies
Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): Ballance Agri-Nutrients faces substantial fine for toxic gas cloud
Retail surveillance and privacy
George Block (ODT): Police confirm links with software security system firm
RNZ: Facial recognition tech not reliable - privacy commissioner
1News: Privacy lawyer says use of supermarket facial recognition software will lead to court action - and cost taxpayers money
Martin Johnston (Herald): Lawyer: Supermarkets' collection of facial data an extension of surveillance net
Herald: Foodstuffs makes no apologies for use of facial recognition technology
No Right Turn: Creepy
1News: Some New World stores in North Island revealed to have facial recognition CCTV technology
Southland Times Editorial: We need surveillance on our own behalf
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): Is NZ’s new Privacy Bill a match for the EU’s GDPR?
Health
Herald: Funding boost of $1.9 million propels longitudinal Growing Up in New Zealand study to next stage
Conan Young (RNZ): Deaf man with dementia in his 90s trespassed from bank
1News: Oral health of elderly New Zealanders in aged care an urgent national clinical problem – study
Stuff: Video meeting popular alternative to specialist hospital visit
1News: Reducing GP fees won't necessarily help those who need it, doctor says
Logan Church (RNZ): Two assaults a week on mental health nurses
Māori political representation
Andrew Judd (Stuff): The case for Māori wards
Laura O'Connell Rapira (Spinoff): Why we need Māori wards
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Maori seats won’t be entrenched
Northcote by-election and parliament
Bevan Rapson (Noted): Take your partners: The jostle on the MMP dance floor
Simon Wilson: Northcote Notebook: Labour candidate 'lives and breathes' suburb
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Maori TV): National working to keep Northcote seat
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): From house to house: the NZ MP with the longest commute
Transport and road safety
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Third increase in a week takes petrol prices to a cent below an all time high
Laura Walters (Stuff): New speed cameras won't stop 'the idiots', risk privacy
Efeso Collins (Spinoff): Taxing the poor, to transport the rich
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The boy on the tram
RNZ: Uber Drivers take a day off to highlight low pay
David Aitken (Stuff): Don't lose track of rail freight limitations
Housing
Paul Lochore (Herald): Council delays, skill shortages and China's exit are killing new housing
Hannah Bartlett (Nelson Mail): Government's Housing First programme to find a home in Nelson
Nicholas Boyack (Dominion Post): Ageing 'iceberg' of 75+ will put pressure on Wellington retirement villages
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Whanganui subdivision canned over potentially lethal arsenic levels
Justice and police
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Police unlawfully accessed Customs data
Laura Walters (Stuff): Make-shift cells in the gym, stretchers in the hallway - a broken prison system
Gill Higgins (1News): Why are local police stations taking so long to answer their phone?
1News: Waikato Police to wear pink vests in stand against bullying
Inequality and poverty
Newshub: Phil Goff says immigration not pushing Auckland families into poverty
Carmen Parahi and Simon Shepherd (Stuff and Newshub): A tale of two cities
Simon Shepherd (Newshub): A Tale of Two Cities: Auckland's poorer regions struggle to keep up
Newshub: A Tale of Two Cities: Meet the people enjoying Auckland's economic party
Rose Davis (Waiheke Marketplace): Low income data smashes myth of wealth on
Newshub:A Tale of Two Cities: Meet the people enjoying Auckland's economic party
John Anthony (Stuff): Cost of living rising fastest for beneficiaries and Māori due to rent and cigarette hikes, Stats NZ says
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Māori households saw the highest inflation in March quarter
Dan Satherley (Newshub): 'Trickle-down' economics still works - Simon Bridges
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Has Simon Bridges trickled to the right of David Seymour and Jordan Williams?
David Farrar: The wrong figure
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Bullying Free Week: 'Teachers are bullied too'
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Land sale regret after proposed school zone shift
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Little Rock Nine American civil rights leader arrives in New Zealand
John Braddock (World socialist website): New Zealand Labour government makes “left” feint on education
Primary industries
Richard Harman (Poltik): Cattle disease will force budget blowout
Gia Garrick (RNZ): M bovis: Govt cracks down on farmers off track scheme
Keith Woodford (Stuff): M bovis: Time for industry to take over from MPI
RNZ: M Bovis spread: Tracking system has 'failed abysmally' – PM
Herald: Cow disease may be in every region: Damien O'Connor
1News: 'It's shameful' – Jacinda Ardern unleashes on previous government as Mycoplasma bovis cattle disease spreads to Waikato
ODT Editorial: Timely information important
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Thousand tonnes of dead fish poses problem for King Salmon
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Govt to unfetter cheese-making regulations
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Law Society says livestock rustling bill is not needed
Jamie Mackay (Herald): Is Labour anti-farming?
Ruby Nyika (Waikato Times): Wild west meat market
Treaty, tikanga and te reo
Samantha Motion and Isaac Davison (Herald): Andrew Little confronted as Tauranga hīkoi arrives at Parliament
Stuff: Hundreds of protesters show their support outside the Supreme Court in Wellington
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Overlapping Treaty claims send Auckland iwi to Supreme Court
Mere McLean (Maori TV): Ngāti Ranginui uri seek Crown policy change
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei address tikanga issue in court
Stuff: Ngāti Whātua takes tikanga issue to court
Talisa Kupenga (Maori TV): Outcome measurements needed for Treaty payments with conditions – ACT Leader
Jack Fletcher (Stuff): 2000 register interest in free te reo classes at Christchurch fish and chip eatery
Canterbury earthquakes
Michael Hayward (Press): Looking to buy a home when you fear landing a re-repair time bomb
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Adrian Orr says Super Fund 'gave up' trying to invest in Christchurch rebuild
Local government
Auckland Now: Auckland rates activist Penny Bright files last ditch attempt to halt sale of her home
Todd Niall (RNZ): Penny Bright opens late legal bid to quash forced house sale
Andrew Owen (Taranaki Daily News): Mayor defends council's $4.2 million spending on consultants
Gender politics
Dellwyn Stuart (The Spinoff): The women who hold our communities together: a tribute to our strong wāhine
Virginia Larson (North & South): New agenders: The prickly issue of transgender politics
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Insight: Fathers who stay at home
Environment
Arrun Soma (1News): Government report says climate change will hurt our well-being - 'The biggest risk to human health'
John-Michael Swannix and Finn Hogan (Newshub): What will a carbon-neutral future cost regional economies?
Hawke’s Bay Today: Iwi leader blasts Craggy Range Winery and 'racist' attitudes in Havelock North
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Iwi chairman asks winery to remove title from plaque over Te Mata Peak track issues
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Purging plastics - banning balloons is just a bunch of hot air
Defence
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Prospect of NZDF selling Devonport Naval Base excites Auckland property industry
Simon Ewing-Jarvie: Boeing Going Gone?
Animal welfare
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Lab animals' deadly fate: 'Labs don't want people to know'
John Cosgrove (Stuff): Welfare advocates upset lab animal petition fails
Pacific Islands Super Rugby team
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Revealed: NZ Govt's secret plan to set up Pacific Islands Super Rugby team
Kevin Norquay (Stuff): New Zealand taxpayers aided studies into a Pacific Super Rugby franchise
RNZ: Govt backing a Pacific Super Rugby team?
Israel documentary
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Police called to Israel PM doco screening
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): ‘Propaganda’ claims loom over Doc Edge festival
Other
David Farrar: An impoverished idea of public participation
Stuff: New Zealand On Air report reveals country's diversity problem on our screens
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Ruth Harley appointed chairwoman of NZ On Air
Ripeka Timutimu (Maori TV): Tamati Coffey - next Labour baby?
Anne Gibson (Herald): Prefab construction 'no silver bullet': Calls for Budget to address housing, infrastructure
Tom McKinlay (ODT): Playing the long game
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): From 'ordinary Joe' to high-worth individuals, meet the new philanthropists bankrolling NZ
Jane Matthews (Stuff): Anglican Church's decision to bless same-sex couples welcomed by LGBTIQ advocate