NZ Politics Daily - 29 May 2018
29 May 2018
Today's content
Mycoplasma bovis
Keith Woodford (Interest): Government is underestimating the animal and human welfare issues in its MPB plan, along complexity of the compensation claims
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): M.Bovis plan relies on flawed tracking
Newshub: 'Hindsight's a wonderful thing': MPI admits shortfalls in Mycoplasma bovis response
Michael Reddell: Why are we gifting so much to farmers?
Herald: Theories on how M. bovis entered New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says
Herald Editorial: Eradication has to be the Mycoplasma bovis aim
ODT Editorial: Collective responsibility tough
Richard Harman (Politik): National backs the Government
Helen Beattie (RNZ): M bovis: A 'tricky disease' that's 'not easy to tame'
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Can farming get back on track with Mycoplasma bovis eradication plan?
Jamie Gray (Herald): Cattle disease cull will hit like a drought: economist
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Q&A on Mycoplasma bovis: Untangling truth from fiction of cattle disease
Emma Cropper (Newshub): Dairy experts skeptical over Mycoplasma bovis eradication
Jamie Gray and Andrea Fox (Herald): Farmer groups back Govt move to eradicate cattle disease
Andrew Owen (Taranaki Daily News): Taranaki politicians and farming leaders back M Bovis eradication
Georgia May Gilbertson (Hawke’s Bay Today): Veterinary association support M. Bovis eradication plan
Sally Rae (ODT): Farmer affected by disease backs eradication
Tim Brown (RNZ): Mental health fears for farmers over mass cow cull
RNZ: ‘If they take my cows…I’ll be out of farming’
1News: Farmers who fought to save pregnant cows shocked at mass Mycoplasma bovis cull - 'I can't believe they would kill that many’
Newshub: Mycoplasma bovis-infected farm owner says Govt has 'no clue' what its doing
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Govt's ballsy call to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis
Jamie Gray and Lucy Bennett (Herald): 'We want New Zealand to be free of it': Government to try eradicating cow disease M. Bovis
BusinessDesk: Govt attempts world first M. bovis irradication
Jo Moir (Stuff): Cull of 126,000 livestock as Cabinet moves ahead with plans to eradicate M bovis
1News: Government signs off on culling 150,000 cows, claims over 99% of NZ farms are already free of mycoplasma bovis
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Tova O”Brien (Newshub): Government unveils $886m plan to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis
RNZ: M. bovis eradication attempts to continue
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand to cull more than 100,000 cows to eradicate Mycoplasma disease
RNZ: Farmers divided on how to deal with M bovis
David Williams (Newsroom): Bovis bumped us off agenda, oyster farmer says
Housing
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Report: No proof third-hand exposure to meth causes adverse health effects
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): State houses needlessly emptied where meth previously smoked - report
Russell Brown (Public Address): We are, at last, navigating out of the "meth contamination" debacle
Jane Clifton (Listener): How Phil Twyford’s ambitious housing plans ignore the brute realities
Simon Smith and Hannah Ross (Stuff): Phil Twyford rules out 'state-sponsored gentrification' in Auckland
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sticking by KiwiBuild programme despite Salvation Army criticism
David Hargreaves (Interest): Salvation Army questions ability of government departments to handle the flagship house building plan
David Hargreaves (Interest): Westpac economists say the stepping up of Kiwibuild activity will be even 'more gradual' than Treasury's forecasts criticised by the Housing Minister
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): Emotional plea from Rotorua Hīkoi for the Homeless
Mere McLean (Maori TV): Hikoi for homeless participants want night shelter
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Market rents off the table for social housing
Health
Dara McNaught (Herald): Home-care of the disabled should be properly paid
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Health officials encouraged to speak out over financial mismanagement
Herald: Waitematā DHB apologises for losing three patients' referral documents leading to delays in urgent care
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Manukau hours extended to deal with Middlemore crisis
Kathy Grant (ODT): New hospital means a revamped health system, too
Newshub: Former Prime Minister Helen Clark backs #WaterOnlySchools campaign
Jacob McSweeny (Herald): Anti-smoking campaigner and health advisor throws weight behind vaping
Nicki Harper (Hawke’s Bay Today): Hawke's Bay District Health Board opposes school fundraisers selling alcohol
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Extremists dominating the alcohol debate
Steph Rangi (Stuff) Synthetic cannabis more potent than natural cannabis
Carla Penman (Herald): New kind of deadly synthetic cannabis surfaces in Auckland
Lydia Lewis (Newshub): Spike in synthetic cannabis callouts
Dave Nicoll (Southland Times): Optometrist calls for streamlined cataract surgery system as patients get bounced around
RNZ: Blenheim water gets green light
Nurses strike
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Why and when our nurses are preparing to go on strike
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Nurse strikes: DHBs offer three 3% pay rises over 18 months in latest move
RNZ: DHBs offer 9 percent pay rise to avoid nurses’ strike
1News: New offer: DHB almost doubles pay offer to Kiwi nurses to more than half a billion dollars
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): DHBs nearly double their offer to nurses in a bid to avert planned strikes
Emma Russell (Herald): Nurse moving to Oz for better pay speaks out about horror witnessed due to under-staffing
Emma Hurley and Cleo Fraser (Newshub): DHBs offer 'significant' pay boost to nurses
Daniel Walker (Newstalk ZB): DHB optimistic over new offer to nurses
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Simon Bridges backs nurses' strike
Abortion
Karl du Fresne: To anyone hoping for impartial coverage of the abortion debate, these are not promising signs
1News: 'In 2018, it should no longer be a part of our Crimes Act' - PM discusses moving abortion to Health Act
Pete George: Helen Clark asserts abortion issue doesn’t need a referendum
Laura Walters (Stuff): Helen Clark says abortion laws need updating, something she failed to do when in power
Newshub: Former Prime Minister Helen Clark wants abortion removed from Crimes Act
RNZ: 'The regime we have for abortion is working well' - Bridges
1News: 'I'd be loath to' - National's Simon Bridges says abortion should stay in the Crimes Act
Stuff: Simon Bridges opposed to taking abortion out of the Crimes Act
Newshub: Simon Bridges: Abortion should be rare, safe and legal
Philip McKibbin (Stuff): I'm a man, and I am allowed a thoughtful opinion on abortion
Timaru Herald: Irish vote seems likely to impart momentum here
Herald: Hopes New Zealand will follow Ireland's lead on abortion law reform
Welfare
Alex Baird (Newshub): Beneficiaries need action, not a working group - advocate
Herald:Expert panel to advise on welfare system overhaul announced
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government appoints 11-strong advisory panel to overhaul welfare system
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Govt announces panel to review welfare system
Moana Makapelu Lee (Maori TV): Govt appoints advisory panel to overhaul welfare system
John Minto (Daily Blog): Open email to Carmel Sepuloni from John Minto
Foreign affairs and trade
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand's Five Eyes membership called into question over 'China links'
Laura Walters (Stuff): Winston Peters says first China trip successful, talks peace and security in Asia-Pacific
Michael Reddell: New Zealand’s establishment and the PRC
Michael Reddell: New Zealand and the PRC: some US testimony
Lynda Chanwai-Earle (RNZ): Diplomat's racial profiling claim: Nothing 'unconscious' about it
1News Colmar-Brunton Poll and Newshub poll
Jessica Mutch (1News): 'Quietly talking to a number of players' - National Party working on new coalition partners after ACT's disappointing result in new poll
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Game of Drones – the options being mooted for the new Drone Party for National
1NEws: 1 NEWS' Colmar Brunton Poll: Budget fails to deliver boost for Labour but Ardern up four per cent as preferred PM
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Nats rock-solid but Jacinda not quite the rock star she was
Herald: Ardern remains NZ's preferred PM, while support for her deputy drops
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Greens almost out in new poll, Budget does not give Labour a boost
Herald: Simon Bridges up slightly as preferred PM in latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): How this poll could yet prove a godsend for Simon Bridges
Herald: Judith Collins doing an 'outstanding job', Simon Bridges says following poll
Government
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Killing Them Softly: Labour’s Caution Is Proving Fatal To NZ First
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern 5th highest paid leader in OECD
David Farrar: Referenda in 2019
Sophie Boot (BusinessDesk): Why are government agencies using Instagram?
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's three simple words attract thousands of dollars for charity
Parliament and Northcote by-election
Simon Wilson (Herald): Northcote Notebook: Labour closes gap in Northcote byelection and Act wants six-lane motorway and bridge at Pt Chevalier
Felicity Reid (Stuff): Hecklers still heard at Northcote by-election candidates meeting
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Is MMP working or should it be changed?
Budget and Tax
Geoff Bertram (Briefing Papers): The 2018 budget: Politics & economics
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Capital gains tax 'sensible' and fair for NZ, says OECD official
Gambling
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Pokies 'sucking the money' out of Hokianga communities
Northern Advocate: Far North hotel dumps pokies after young mum leaves baby alone outside
Employment
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Task force faces fiendishly tough payroll problem
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Task force to be set up to look at Holiday Act changes
RNZ: Fiji keen for more seasonal work opportunities in NZ
Simon Collins (Herald): Mothers take 4.4% wage cut to have a baby, research reveals
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Gender pay gap widest after pregnancy - report
Isabelle Sin and Gail Pacheco (The Conversation): How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Spinoff): The parent pay chasm: how the gender pay gap widens among those with kids
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Women first to be affected by technological disruption, expert says
Police
RNZ: 'No silver bullet' to pursuit deaths but policy fit for purpose
Sam Kilmister and Karoline Tuckey (Stuff): Driver, 15, and 12-year-old passenger killed in crash near Palmerston North
1News: Male teen driver dies in hospital after crashing while fleeing cops in Palmerston North; 12-year-old female passenger died at scene
1News: Eyewitness video shows police car chasing Subaru before vehicle crashes in Palmerston North - two teens die in latest police pursuit
RNZ: Child and teen killed in Palmerston North police chase
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Father lays complaint after police officer allegedly punches 13-year-old son in Pakuranga arrest
Justice
Herald: Judge shortage pushing courts to crisis point, New Zealand Bar Association says
Jim Rose (Dominion Post): Extra prisoners are nearly all gang members - that's hardly a crisis
David Fisher (Herald): Newspapers behind bars have to beat light-fingered prison guards, say inmates
Evan Harding (Stuff): Drone tried to get contraband into Invercargill Prison
Transport and road safety
Simon Wilson (Herald): Failings all round: Auckland's catastrophic road safety record
Jodi Yeats (Auckland Now): 'Please explain' issued to Auckland Transport over non-functioning red light cameras
Auckland Now: Former PM Helen Clark calls for action on out-of-commission red light cameras
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Auckland International Airport is a national embarrassment
Ben Leahy (Herald):Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood rejects Mike Hosking's 'national embarrassment' claim
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Let's stand up for decency on the buses
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers give cautious tick to proposed NCEA overhaul
1News: Proposed changes to NCEA level one slammed by headmaster of top Auckland school - 'Working to the lowest common denominator'
1News: Proposals to improve literacy and numeracy in NCEA no 'giant fix' - principal
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Secondary school teachers meeting ahead of contract negotiations
Danielle Clent (Manukau Courier): Student assaulted by bullies bruised but expected back at school today
1News: Principal's message to South Auckland bullies who put school kid in hospital: 'Serious bullying involves police'
Danielle Clent, Catrin Owen, Tommy Livingstone and Jarred Williamson (Auckland Now): Student badly injured in bullying incident at south Auckland school discharged from hospital
Jenny Nicholls (North & South): Is science in New Zealand too white and too male?
Defence
Harmeet Singh Sooden (Stuff): It's time to be more open about what NZ troops are doing in Iraq
David Broome (Stuff): Defence spending rises welcome but real test is replacing Hercules and Orion
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam: Govt widens contamination investigation
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam: Discrepancy in Defence Force reports
No Right Turn: NZDF has a culture of deceit
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): No money for a new stadium in Phil Goff's budget
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Phil Goff's 'build-it' budget contains $26 billion to fix Auckland
Jackson Thomas (Auckland Now): Transport and environment big winners in Auckland 10-year budget
Jackson Thomas (Auckland Now): Auckland mayor Goff puts stadium talks on hold - for the next decade at least
Todd Niall (RNZ): Goff's 'build-it budget': Rates could rise for online visitor rentals
Newshub: Phil Goff announces $26b Auckland 'build-it’ budget
Penny Hulse (Herald): Michael Barnett's comments miss the mark on zero-waste goal
RNZ: Tasman council considers how to obtain land needed for dam
Cherie Sivignon (Nelson Mail): Local bill doable this year for Waimea dam land, says Nelson MP Nick Smith
RNZ: Christchurch council to reduce chlorine levels in water supply
Sam Kilmister (Stuff): Federated Farmers worried rural people expected to pay "excessive and obscene" rates hikes
Dick Quax dies
Kevin Norquay (Stuff): So long Dick Quax, your silver medal feet and your less than silver tongue
Phil Taylor (Herald): New Zealand Olympic athlete Dick Quax: A great who took nothing for granted
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): World a poorer place without Dick Quax
Terry Maddaford (Herald): Olympic medallist Dick Quax a champion on and off track
RNZ: NZ running legend Dick Quax dies
RNZ: Dick Quax part of NZ's 'heritage' - Peter Snell
Grant Chapman (Newshub): Athletics: Former world record holder Dick Quax dies
Marc Hinton (Stuff): Desperately ill Dick Quax wanted to warn fellow Kiwis: Get your health checked
1News: Watch: 'You do wonder how life may have been' - Dick Quax missed gold by a metre in 1976 - in 2018 it was still on his mind
Kaikoura and Canterbury quakes
Logan Church (RNZ): Rakautara land owners in "limbo" after Kaikoura quake
1News: Rakautara land owners in 'limbo' after Kaikoura quake
Evan Smith (Press): The people of Christchurch need a say in how the $300 million of Government funds are spent
GCSB
Lucy Bennett (Herald): GCSB expands malware defence system after successful pilot
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Spark in talks with GCSB over expansion of Cortex
Other
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Sometimes it's easier to talk rugby than disagree with people's political ideas
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A weird claim
Tess Nichol (Herald): Complaints about power bills rising, with many Kiwis confused by bills
Paul MItchell (Stuff): Rural internet rollout won't reach remote pockets of New Zealand
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Directors' role in need of a major shake-up
Briony Bennett (Spinoff): NZ has pledged zero carbon by 2050. How on earth can we get there?
RNZ: Theme of kindness for Samoan Language Week
Conan Young (RNZ): Hundreds turn out again for te reo despite puhoro weather
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Fast fashion kills Auckland shoemaker Minnie Cooper
Charles Riddle (Waikato Times): Obituary: Katherine O'Regan, former National MP