NZ Politics Daily - 17 May 2018
17 May 2018
Today's content
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Budget
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Will Labour pull a rabbit out of the Budget hat?
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): How not to budget
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): What to expect from the 2018 Budget - our experts weigh in
Herald Editorial: Budget should not simply boast additional spending
Claire Trevett (Herald): A Budget of hand-me-down ties and slogans
Laura Walters (Stuff): Budget: How the Budget came to be, and other fun facts
Richard Harman (Politik): A defining Budget for Robertson and Labour
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Budget 2018: Stronger budget surplus forecast
Audrey Young (Herald): Budget 2018: The 'blathering' is almost over as Govt set to reveal spending plans
Sue Bradford (Pundit): Budget 2018: Backing empathy with steel?
Herald: Budget 2018: Sue Bradford, Tariana Turia and Ben Thomas share views on today's Budget
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): Budget day: Christmas for the beltway
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Government's tilt at a second term starts with today's Budget
Daniela Maoate-Cox (RNZ): The finance minister's budget diary
Henry Cooke (Stuff): What the Budget will bring to the housing sector: More state homes
Mānia Clarke (Maori TV): Sallies say budget must include extensive state home build
1News: What the government has already promised in run-up to Budget 2018
Henry Cooke (Stuff):A look back at the 'mini-Budget' from December - which may steal the show from today's one
Laura Walters (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern says Budget will also help middle New Zealanders feeling the squeeze
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Budget 2018: What we all desperately want to know
Newshub: Will Thursday's Budget be rife with broken promises?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): GPs pushing for targeted package to help access for poorest in Budget
Simon Collins (Herald):Budget 2018: 'Our outgoings are bigger than our income'
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Budget 2018 wishes for middle class Auckland family
Tess Nichol (Herald):Budget Day: High income family
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Budget 2018: The future demands of Defence
David Williams (Newsroom):Irrigation funding cut to spout millions
Michael Hayward (Press): What might the Budget bring for Christchurch?
Jason Walls (Interest): Opposition Finance Spokeswoman Amy Adams is ramping up attacks on the Government as Budget day draws closer, her latest target is tax
Amy Adams (Stuff): Labour's Budget is one of wasted opportunities
Newstalk ZB: Budget 2018: Bridges 'It'll be a budget of broken promises'
1News: Finger-wagging Simon Bridges and Jacinda Ardern clash over funding priorities ahead of new government's first Budget
Employment
Madison Reidy and Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Union releases list of employers allegedly making staff work overtime for free
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Sixteen retail chains accused of underpaying staff
No Right Turn: Wage thieves
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Labour hire firm employee resigns after migrant worker investigation
Madison Reidy (Stuff):Immigration permit importation of 138 Chinese tradies
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Fly-in Chinese workers approved for Auckland hotel build
RNZ: Chinese workers granted visas to build Auckland hotel
Rebecca Stevenson (Spinoff): Breaking: we’re treating our minimum wage workers like crap
Eric Crampton: Minimum wages and the margin
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Worker demand up but wage inflation still MIA
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): New law could stop costly union v Affco battle
Benedict Collins (RNZ): No toilet breaks puts the public at risk - air traffic controllers
Inequality, poverty and welfare
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Man told he must quit free night class or face benefit cut
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Why the promised Winter Energy Payment is coming two months later this year
Michael Daly and Leith Huffadine (Press): No new clothes, no haircuts, no fresh veg - the harsh reality of being a working poor mum
Stuff: Watch: Warning of slowing growth for NZ's largest city
Treaty of Waitangi and Crown-Maori relations
Herald: Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little concerned by lack of accountability on Te Arawa River Iwi Trust spending
RNZ: Minister extends deadline for iwi to contest settlement
Graham Cameron (Spinoff): Our message to Andrew Little: stop before you breach the Treaty of Waitangi
Shannon Haunui-Thompson (RNZ): Anger at a Treaty process which pits iwi against iwi
Jo Moir (Stuff):No freshwater rights for Māori on our watch: NZ First MP Shane Jones
Chris Hutching (Stuff):Iwi commercial property interests continue to grow
Housing
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Kiwibuild's naysayers have it wrong on two counts
Tom Furley (RNZ): Kiwibuild homes now unobtainable for many
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Housing providers struggle to meet skyrocketing demand
Colleen Hawkes (Stuff): Is it time to address the question of empty 'ghost houses'?
Colleen Hawkes (Stuff): Minister of Housing blames National for empty 'ghost houses'
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Govt painted into a corner on home ownership
Jessica Long and Tom Hunt (Dominion Post); Children are the Hutt Valley's invisible homeless, council told
Local government
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): 'It divides communities - and no one wins from that'
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Former New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd appears at select committee to fight for Māori wards
Steve Elers (Manawatū Standard): Walkout on Māori greeting betrays prejudice, and ignorance in New Zealand culture
Jimmy Ellingham (Manawatū Standard): Secret briefings on rates must stop; public deserves to know
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Living wage promoted for city council workers
RNZ: Man who damaged native trees will serve prison time
Jackson Thomas (Central Leader): Penny Bright to bite the bullet and meet with council
Jackson Thomas (Auckland Now): Auckland activist Penny Bright fails in last-ditch attempt to stop the sale of her home
RNZ: Penny Bright loses bid to delay house sale
Herald: High Court rules sale of activist Penny Bright's house to continue
Primary industries
Richard Harman (Politik): Labour, NZ First, the Greens and National agree on debt relief
Dominion Post Editorial: Living with M. bovis might be less painful all round
Lois Williams (RNZ): Council fails to recover $50,000 in 'dirty dairy' case
Stuff: Sheep and beef farmers aim to be carbon neutral by 2050
Parliament
David Chaston (Interest): We analyse the MPs exposure to trusts, mortgages, and KiwiSaver. Yes, there are party differences, but some are not as pronounced as you might expect
Herald: Dame Annette King receives New Year Honours in all-female ceremony
Newstalk ZB: Annette King made a Dame as New Zealand's longest serving female MP
Justice and police
David Fisher (Herald): Big Read: Justice path and bulging prisons - will NZ listen to scientist or sceptic?
David Fisher (Herald): McVicar: Soft path will fail
Ged Cann (Stuff): In depth: Lack of respect to blame for rising seriousness of assaults on police
Jenny Ling (Stuff): Prison reform conference held in Russell
Super Fund investment and Adrian Orr
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Finally, a Super fund investing at home as Kirk intended
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Adrian Orr details lengthy attempt by NZ Super to invest in Christchurch rebuild
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National leader says Reserve Bank governor should avoid political debate
Michael Reddell: Very unwise and quite inappropriate
Media
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): Stuff cuts 24 jobs as it closes community, rural titles
Stuff: Stuff closes 15 community titles and sells another
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): With $38m on the table, TVNZ suddenly remembers how to do public broadcasting
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Challenge to keep up with competition - Māori TV
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Māori Television appears before Māori Affairs Select Committee
Evening Report: RNZ enters content partnership with Pacific Media Centre
International relations and trade
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Exclusive: More Saudi sheep saga costs likely as legal action threatens
Isaac Davison (Herald): EU refuses to waive immunity for diplomat Eva Tvarozkova in $20k rental dispute
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): EU puts up road block in diplomat rental stoush
Health
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Seismic risk of Middlemore's Galbraith discussed in closed meeting
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Kāpiti and Otago camp closures will affect 'country's most vulnerable children'
Deidre Mussen (Stuff): Keytruda can treat more cancers than just melanoma
Education
Mohamed Alansari (Newsroom): Modern classrooms won’t fix education
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Ministry has multiple claims against troubled building company
Jessica Long (Stuff): Karori Campus demolition compliance certificate issued
Human Rights Commission
RNZ: HRC report: 'Deep divide' between staff and managers
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The Human Rights Commission review
Alison Mau (Stuff): After Human Rights Commission harassment scandal, how can victims trust the process?
Other
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Trust us, we’re banks
Lucy Bennett (Herald): National claims Internal Affairs slashing frontline staff investigating child exploitation material
Tom Hunt (Stuff): GCSB peels back the covers on an active intelligence officer
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Asbestos found in Reserve Bank building in Wellington
Stuff: Wellington's Reserve Bank building evacuated following asbestos find
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Law firms commit to tackle gender inequality in senior positions