NZ Politics Daily - 21 May 2018
NZ Politics Daily 21 May 2018 Today's content
Budget
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): A transformational budget? Yeah nah
Audrey Young (Herald): Why Labour is strangely quiet over accusations of broken promises
Liam Dann (Herald): It's time to give Government a chance
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): The Budget - a delicate dance on a fiscal tightrope
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Some feel the warmth of government investment; others just the exhaust fumes
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What everyone's calling the Government's first budget
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Budget less crazy, more boring and predictable. What a relief
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Paying it forward, to a second term and beyond
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): 'Rebuilding' budget is the Govt's first step in preparing for 2020 tax war
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): How about the 'more homes' Budget?
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Budget 2018 sets the scene for a trilogy of transformation, Grant Robertson says
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Finance Minister Grant Robertson says his Budget is part one of a 'trilogy'
Mike Williams (Hawkes Bay Today): Robertson looks part but will Bridges exit stage left?
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): The Budget: science reaction
John Minto (Daily Blog): Budget 2018: Tinkering with neo-liberalism
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The 3 reasons why the 2018 Budget is so depressing for the Left
Steven Cowan: Business as usual
Greg Presland (The Standard): Shouty Simon’s strange budget claim
The Standard: Fudget for Austerity
Daniel Van Honk (Stuff): We work and work: We're the 'working poor'
Alan Johnson (Spinoff): A squandered opportunity to be transformational on poverty
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour Govt to spend $1000 more per head than National
RNZ: Budget 'breaks trust' on promises to voters – National
Nita Blake-Persen (RNZ): How healthy is the government's Budget boost?
Susan St John (The Guardian): New Zealand budget: Ardern's efforts too little, too late for poor families
Sam Kilmister (Stuff): Winston Peters changes tax rules for racing industry that backed NZ First
Liam Dann (Herald): Ardern's focus on productivity, skills and training
Michael Mintrom (The Conversation): NZ budget 2018: government adopts investment approach to achieve valued outcomes
Emma Russell (Herald): Midwife: 'That was the final straw, I can't do it anymore'
Stuff: Budget 2018: Business leaders give their thoughts
RNZ: Govt only putting bandaids on the problem - teachers
Pete George: Peters and a handsome horse called Neoliberalism
Tova O’Brien (Newshub):Public sector employees search Budget for pay rise money
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Budget brawl: Twyford and Collins trade barbs on the books
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): The surprise loser of Budget 18? Ugly horses
Joseph Cederwall (Scoop): On ‘Wellbeing budgets', Corporate Handouts, Eudaimonia and Stoicism
1News: Jacinda Ardern says Budget 'factored in' upcoming pay negotiations with teachers, nurses and police
RNZ: Midwives say extra budget money won't fix problems
The Nation: Finance Minister Grant Robertson
The Nation: Council of Trade Unions Economist Bill Rosenberg
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Govt must loosen Budget Responsility Rules say Trade Union Economists
Simon Ewing-Jarvie: Politics, Defence & Budget 2018
RNZ: More to be done on poverty - PM
David Slack (Stuff): The road goes on forever
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): In politics, perception is reality
Michael Reddell: A wager for the Minister of Finance to consider
Jason Walls (Interest): The Finance Minister is committing more funding to health over coming budgets, saying it will take six years
Jason Walls (Interest): The Government's commitment to establishing a non-partisan fiscal costings body is the right move
Brian Easton (Pundit): What does the Labour’s first budget tell us?
Budget and Māori
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Cup does not runneth over for young Māori
1News: 'It's extremely disappointing, you know?' - Labour MPs under fire over lack of targeted spending for Maori
Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ First's Shane Jones: Māori should be 'hollering with joy' over Budget
Maori TV: Labour defend lower-increase in Māori money
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): The Budget and Māori
Maori TV: "It's a bad budget for Māori" - Simon Bridges
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui and John Boynton (RNZ): Budget 2018: Minister hits back over Māori criticisms
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Maori TV): Budget 2018 an 'epic fail' for Māori - Bridges
Housing and Kiwibuild
Isaac Davison (Herald):Big earners won't be barred from buying KiwiBuild homes
Henry Cooke (Stuff): We need more than 6400 new state homes
Shamubeel Eaqub (RNZ): Big wins in housing will come from regulation, not budgets
Richard Harman (Politik): Twyford unveils his plan to provide more Kiwibuild houses and prove Treasury wrong
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Budget 2018 – Fiscal restraint and state housing – ideological craziness exposed
Herald: Housing Minister Phil Twyford calls Treasury officials 'kids fresh out of university'
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Phil Twyford slams 'kids at Treasury' for their downgraded prediction on the impact of KiwiBuild
1News: Age of public servants advising Government 'irrelevant' says union as it hits back at Phil Twyford's Treasury 'kids' tag
Newshub: Union defends 'kids' at Treasury
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Phil Twyford labels Treasury officials 'kids' after KiwiBuild slowdown predicted
RNZ: Minister rejects Treasury forecast on Kiwibuild impact
1News: Watch: 'Still brings me to tears' - Emotional Minister David Parker close to crying as he recalls story of homeless 11-year-old girl
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Renters planning to be tenants in retirement face big savings target
Stuff: Rents rise as rentals become scarce in some regions
Justice and police
Stephen Blumefeld (Newsroom): Negligence missing in Crimes Act repeal
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Waikato mega-prison off the table – Govt
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government says Waikeria won't be 'mega prison', but a wider decision is pending
Isaac Davison (Herald): Make up your mind on Waikeria Prison, unions tell Govt after Budget
1News: Questions surround prison after Maori Development Minister says they won't throw '$1 billion at a prison Waikeria'
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Corrections dept 'a political football', more prison beds needed - union
Emma Hatton (RNZ): NZ prisons system 'a very ineffective ambulance at the bottom of the cliff'
Tania Sawicki Mead (RNZ): Prison crisis: Govts stuck in system that doesn't work
Jared Savage (Herald): Police Commissioner Mike Bush and Police Minister Stuart Nash on plans for 700 staff to tackle organised crime
Liz Gordon (Daily Blog): A just nation?
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Otago cop who Tasered feral goat 13 times won't be prosecuted
RNZ: Officers have right to chase fleeing drivers - Police Association
Blair Ensor (Stuff): Fourth Christchurch prison official on 'special leave' after investigation
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Clever marketing over ‘scrapping’ the ‘mega’ prison at Waikeria masks a new Goon squad in Christchurch Prison
Health
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): $1.7b in and $43m out: the Government's 'double standard' on tobacco
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Middlemore project process 'complete disgrace' – manager
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Bowel cancer screening error discovered after calls from public
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Ashley Peacock remains locked up a year on
Jo Moir (Stuff): Whānau Ora needs reviewing before more money is thrown at it - Shane Jones
Damien Grant (Stuff): If you can't stop eating burgers, why should I pay for your healthcare?
Bryan Cadogan (Southland Times): Not cut, just strangled to death. The travesty of the Roxburgh Children's Village closure
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Therapy should be free, because it works
Lucy Bennett (Herald): More than a third of Bay of Plenty DHB buildings have asbestos contamination
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Pharmac’s Budget win
Euthanasia
Graham Adams (North & South): Why is altruism left out of the euthanasia debate?
Isaac Davison (Herald): Record number of submissions on euthanasia bill forces committee to delay its report
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Euthanasia bill timetable extended as record 35,000 submissions received
Māori wards
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Palmerston North mayor disappointed Māori wards rejected
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Palmerston North has voted against creating separate Māori wards
Newshub: No Māori ward for Palmerston North City Council
David Farrar: Maori wards rejected
Christina Persico (Stuff): Misunderstandings remain on Māori ward issue, says former mayor
RNZ: MP surprised and disappointed Whakatāne rejected Māori wards
Samantha Motion (Bay of Plenty Times): Bid to remove Māori ward polling law supported by Western Bay council
RNZ: Mayor 'gutted' after public votes against Māori wards
Newstalk ZB: Green Party not giving up on Maori wards
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Good riddance to Māori ward nonsense
Ethnicity and racism
Alex Birchall: Why Moana Jackson is Wrong About Free Speech
Stuff: Tūrangi school under fire for 'racist' play script
Herald: Tongariro School cancels 'racist' school play The Toy Soldier after Reddit backlash
Audrey Malone (Stuff): Between two worlds? Blue-eyed politician says 'I feel like a fraud'
Carmen Parahi (Stuff): Why must I tick boxes to qualify as Māori? Nobody asks Pākehā to justify themselves
Andre Chumko (Stuff): The rise and rise of culturally aware, political and informed Kiwi millennials
Te Mata Peak
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Descendant of family that donated Te Mata Peak land says 'protections were ignored'
Ruby Hartfield (Herald): Watch: Te Mata Peak track protests continue
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Council to undertake cultural assessment to understand importance of Te Mata Peak to iwi
Treaty of Waitangi and Māori-Crown relations
Baden Vertongen (Pundit): Why can’t we all just get along?
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Government says it'll enter into treaty negotiations for the Tongariro National Park
Katy Jones (Stuff): Iwi 'locked into' forestry land linked to river damage
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): The magic of Bastion Point: 40 years on
John Boynton (RNZ): 'Not One More Acre': Exhibition remembers Bastion Pt evictions
International relations and trade
Audrey Young (Herald): Israeli embassy says it is 'regrettable' NZ did not condemn Hamas
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Tonga becoming a 'transit point' for meth in NZ
RNZ: 'Closely failed states' in the Pacific blamed for NZ's drug problems
1News:Is our Government considering issuing 'climate change visas' to our Pacific neighbours?
Herald: New Zealand to gift white horse to Japan to continue 50-year-old tradition
Biosecurity and mycoplasma bovis
Roger Smith (Herald): No lack of transparency on M bovis response
1News:'We can't just sit there and wait' - Government considering fund to stay ahead of biosecurity risks
Isaac Davison (Herald): Farmers could be asked to contribute to new EQC-like fund for biosecurity threats
Mitch Harris (Newshub): A tale of two portfolios
Tom O’Connor (Stuff): Mycoplasma bovis - we now need to learn to live with it
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Mycoplasma bovis could be storm cloud waiting to burst
Steve Carle (Herald): Mycoplasma bovis: Spring milking may be the time to decide whether to eradicate
Jonathan Underhill (BusinessDesk): Govt to crack down on animal tracing after M.bovis crisis
Banking sector
Susan Edmunds and Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Banks make more money out of Kiwis than Australia
Hamish Fletcher (Herald): Swaps case comes at uncomfortable time for Kiwi banks
Human Rights Commission
Damien Grant (Stuff): Shut it down - rights watchdog fails to practice what it preaches
Harrison Christian (Stuff): HRC chief commissioner David Rutherford to go following damning report
Herald: Human Rights Chief Commissioner David Rutherford won't seek reappointment
Media
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Matt Nippert: Putting NZ journalism in the global loop
RNZ: Government's $38m public broadcasting boost still on the table
Surveillance technology
George Block (ODT): Deployment not yet widespread in NZ
Matthew Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Editorial: Recognition is reasonable on the face of it
Environment
David Williams (Newsroom): DOC can ‘thrive again’: Conservation Minister
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Student calls for end to plastic wraps on NZQA exams
1News: China's ban on foreign waste is a wake-up call for NZ - environmentalists
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Nelson supermarket wages war on plastic
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Two shrubs in Guyton St, Whanganui have the fungus disease myrtle rust
Employment
The Press: Editorial: There's nothing flexible about hours of work
Andrea Fox (Herald): Blow the workplace whistle at your peril: Investigator
Rob Stock (Stuff): The startling growth of the silver dollar economy
Herald: Shane Jones to business: Use machines, not cheap migrants
Parliament
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Ombudsman made to pay up
Phil Smith (RNZ): Dancer for Money: What MPs Earn and Own
Alexia Russell (Newsroom):Is traffic really Northcote’s most pressing issue?
Laine Moger (Stuff): Labour and National Northcote by-election candidates agree on tackling crime with training
The Civilian: Opinion: Recent experiences have led me to believe that text voting would be a wonderful thing for our democracy
Auckland
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckland Council stalled release of reports
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Phil Goff under fire over stadium report from angry councilors
RNZ: Mayor defends timeframe of report
Herald: National's Nikki Kaye 'open minded' about possible changes to sporting venues
Bernard Orsman (Herald): A new National Stadium is being planned in downtown Auckland
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Finding money to get Auckland on the rails
Gender and feminist politics
Alice Snedden (Stuff): Stupid little girl. How desperate are you?
Cecile Meier (Stuff): We need more stay-at-home dads to achieve the gender equality dream
Stuff: 'She rebuilt me': Trail-blazing Kiwi women talk about their invisible heroes
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Same-sex blessing vote could split Anglican church
Other
David Farrar: The undisclosed advertisement for NZ First
David Fisher (Herald): NZDF again makes a critical error in trying to get its story straight on the controversial NZSAS raid
RNZ: NZ's isolation the greatest deterrent to invasion - military analysts
Mike Watson (Stuff): Rise in oil and gas exploration activity in Taranaki by early 2019
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the Beltway: The week in New Zealand politics
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Week in Review: Budget smugglers, saints and strippers
Mike O'Donnell (Stuff): New Zealand's financial advice landscape set to be transformed
Herald: Reserve Bank building expected to reopen next week following asbestos find
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Substandard service because Kiwis don't complain
Anne Marie May (RNZ): Airline pushes to save Kāpiti airport from demise
1News: Rocket Lab's Peter Beck laments lack of funding in Kiwi ventures - 'To be globally successful, it's very difficult to do that from NZ’