NZ Politics Daily - 5 June 2018

5 June 2018

Today's content

Immigration and international students
Laura Walters (Stuff): Govt changes visa rights to crack down on migrant exploitation
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Immigration cuts finally revealed
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Ex-immigration minister defends criticised entrepreneur visa policy, says it raised the bar
Newshub: Interview: Iain Lees-Galloway (video)
Newshub: Govt taking 'simple way out' with proposed students visa changes - lawyer
Eva Corlett (RNZ): International students open to exploitation despite visa changes - advocate
Newshub: Current international students will be a 'sub-class' under proposed changes - advocate
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Staff told to take English tests for overseas students - agents
Ella Prendergast and Alice Wilkins (Newshub): Govt's plan to 'knock out' dodgy educators
Madison Reidy (Stuff): 'Poor quality' education firms target of post-study visa changes
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Immigration Minister launches consultation on international student post-study work rights
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Changes to student visas could restrict post-study employment
1News: Government announces proposal to change international student post-study work rights
Alastair McClymont (RNZ): Students left stranded by Immigration's lack of oversight
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Illegal prostitution crackdown: 27 Asian sex workers deported
RNZ: Claims of cover-up after brothel raid

Environment
Jonathan Milne (SST): This is a world war; we need a wartime unity government
1News: Meat consumers could have 'immediate impact' on climate change by reducing intake by one meal a week - Shaw
Claire Trevett (Herald): Meat and one Green: Climate Change Minister James Shaw's 'less meat' call
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Climate Change Minister James Shaw wants you to eat less meat
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): NZ's bold plan to hit zero greenhouse gas emissions means even more trees
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate researchers argue for new way to treat methane
Robert McLachlan (The Conversation): New Zealand’s productivity commission charts course to low-emission future
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): 'I am ashamed': A river's pollution starts a cultural debate
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Goldrush for conservation land mining
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Larger landfill levy and Aucklanders' laziness in sights of Govt recycling taskforce
Jamie Morton (Herald): Has New Zealand failed its environment?
Jamie Morton (Herald): Can New Zealand really kill every rat, possum and stoat?
Chloe Winter (Stuff):Customer satisfaction and profits drive supermarket plastic bag ban, experts say
Michelle Dickinson (Herald): Is banning plastic bags bad for the environment?
Herald: 12 companies commit to being plastic free

Primary and extractive industries
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): No Cabinet paper written, no Cabinet decision made, in "political decision" to ban new oil exploration
Deena Coster (Taranaki Daily News): Activist group's challenge to oil and gas rules continues in court
Jamie Morton (Herald): Farm animals' feelings focus of pioneering NZ study
Keith Woodford (Interest): Why European semen is the likely source of the disease, and how this helps explain the rapid spread
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The M. Bovis debacle deserves more debate
Liam Dann (Herald): Cold facts don't diminish need to look after farmers
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: The big call for a big cull
1News: 'The culture is going to change' - Farmers can expect stricter biosecurity laws in wake of Mycoplasma bovis
Sally Rae (Herald): Cull for cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis not worth the stress: farmer
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Should Fonterra be broken up?

Meth report
RNZ: 'I'm sorry' - Bridges apologises to those affected by meth evictions
Newshub: Incorrect meth guidelines 'incredibly frustrating' - Simon Bridges
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Meth house clean-up only just begun
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Meth myth: How the eviction hysteria unfolded
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Was the sorry meth sham a state-sponsored scam?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): New meth hysteria allegations – Auckland Health Board narked on tenants using their addiction services to HNZ
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): A few home truths on our meth myth stuff-up
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Housing NZ chair refuses to step down after meth revelations
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Housing NZ backtracks after saying it has no plans to stop taking payments for meth clean-up costs
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Meth house myth: Why hundreds of safe homes were left empty in middle of a housing crisis
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of Paula Bennett
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Paula Bennett should apologise for meth testing debacle - Marama Davidson
Isaac Davison (Herald): Housing Minister Phil Twyford apologises to tenants over meth-testing debacle
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Meth testers respond to Housing Minister Phil Twyford's 'exploitation’ comments
RNZ: Man still repaying debt from unnecessary HNZ meth eviction

Housing and building industry
Herald Editorial: Rental home heating regulations should be in force
Diana Clement (Herald): Sharks circling as Healthy Homes Guarantee Act comes into force
Anne Gibson (Herald): Landlords worried as Government moves on compulsory heating in rental properties
RNZ: New heating costs could lead to overcrowding
David Slack (Stuff): Smoke and mirrors and renting in NZ
Lawrence Watt (Herald): Government's housing development at Unitec is its biggest yet
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Nelson homeless problem 'as bad as big cities’
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Reserve Bank Governor 'scared' by level of mortgage debt in NZ
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Rise in interest rates would bring major mortgage pain, analyst warns
Michael Reddell: A decade of real house prices
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Property sellers rake in $3bn over last three months, according to latest CoreLogic data
Michael Reddell: There is abundant land
Herald Editorial: Timber should not be over-priced in this country
Diana Clement (Herald): Are building products a rip-off or good value?
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Building regulator has 22 vacancies despite overhaul

Justice and police
Julian Lee (Press): 'Frozen in time': What it's like to re-enter the world after years behind bars
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Dozens of Auckland Prison guards call in sick after 'organised violence' from gang member inmates
Newshub: Paremoremo guards call in sick due to violent attacks
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Ageing Auckland Prison not 'optimal' for managing max-security prisoners
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Children left 'in limbo' by Family Court system - barrister
Stuff: Terrified woman at refuge is willing to break the law for her kids
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Crowded prisons no excuse for home detention
David Farrar: The danger for the Government with repealing three strikes
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Three strikes law supported by 68 per cent of Kiwis, survey finds
Laura Walters (Stuff): National would reinstate three strikes, retrospectively punish offenders
Brad Ensor (Stuff): Christchurch Men's Prison illegal spying 'a can of worms’
Annah Stretton (Herald): Women in prison can be given their best chance to change their life
Paul Little (Herald): If police took to the air instead of behind the wheel, car chases would be safer

Free speech and hate speech
Herald on Sunday editorial: Hate speech does not call for a law
ODT Editorial: How 'free' is New Zealand?
Paul Moon (Herald): Human Rights move endangers our free speech
Sam Hurley (Herald): Free speech v hate speech: Whose rights do we stand up for?
Sam Hurley (Herald): Concerns raised over protection from hate speech in NZ's legislation
ien Grant (Stuff): University bosses fail free-speech test
Herald: Controversial speaker banned from UK to tour NZ, Australia

Methyl Bromide and toxic foam
Tony Wall (Stuff): It's banned in other countries but New Zealand is using more toxic methyl bromide than ever
Tony Wall (Stuff): Nelson woman whose husband died of motor neurone disease says toxic methyl bromide should have been banned years ago
Tony Wall (Stuff): NZ's problem with toxic methyl bromide has a possible solution
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam: Lack of central govt help in investigation
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam: Defence Force fails to inform regional council

Health
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Exclusive: Women with cancer 'failed' by lack of screening, DHBs say
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Middlemore Hospital Scott Building remediation method risky, untested
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Former health minister told about Middlemore Hospital's leaky buildings in 2012, OIA request reveals
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Some pharmacies may stop dispensing drugs
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Tools help follow health trends, DHB performance
David Farrar: H2 in charge of the health review
John Boynton (RNZ): After-hours care costs hits poor families hard
Emma Espiner (Newsroom): Low alcohol beer: the unlikely public health champion
RNZ: ACC cover for sexual harassment victims makes sense - advocates
RNZ: Government considers ACC for sexual harassment victims
RNZ: Half of Hawkes Bay DHB bullied, harassed
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): DHBs 'acknowledge' nurses' concerns over offer release, but say they acted in good faith
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Nurses set to vote on new DHB offer - but they aren't happy
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Mental health patients, families share aspirations for change
1News: 'You're here to be powerful' - Groups make Dragons' Den-style pitches for Whanau Ora funds to run social programmes
Stuart Dye (Herald): Sir Ray Avery: 'I want to save one million babies before I die’
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Gastro outbreaks may have gone undetected - researchers
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Cancer screening initiatives in the Pacific
Sarah Revell-Dennett (Newsroom): Some global lessons for NZ on euthanasia

Government
Colin James (RNZ): No Budget lift for Labour in polls but support for PM still strong
Claire Trevett and Keith Ng (Herald): Labour's first Budget vs its campaign plan: Does it match up?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Less is more: Why Labour is happy to slow the pace of change
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Hiding in a stack of reviews, the plans for the next election showdown?
Matin van Baynen (Stuff): Sometimes even experts get it terribly wrong
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): No time for nesting yet - Jacinda Ardern must get the House in order first
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Here comes the maternity-cover PM. But which Winston Peters will we get?
1News: 1NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll: Almost a third of Kiwis think Winston Peters will do a good job as Acting Prime Minister
Jason Walls (Interest): NZ First’s low polling sets up a very interesting six or so weeks when Winston is Acting PM
Audrey Malone (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern seeks advice on designers' use of her image to promote brands
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): 'Phenomenal' Ardern: NZ mothers-to-be on the birth of a new kind of prime minister
Herald: Jacinda reveals MPs she'd trust to deliver her baby

National Party
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Simon Bridges' leadership of National is going OK so far
Claire Trevett (Herald): Simon Bridges tries to woo Nat supporters
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Bridges limbers up for the race ahead
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Paula Bennett on public misconceptions and parliamentary colleagues
Newshub: Why Paula Bennett turned down Dancing With The Stars
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): You have reached the Judith Collins Phil Twyford tip-off line

Parliament
Colin James: Holiday, Her Majesty, honours and how to progress
John Armstrong (1News): Opinion: Mallard and National's falling out exposes deep flaws in the way we select Parliament's ‘referee'
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Poll dancing already underway
Yvonne McCullough (Newstalk ZB): Parliament playground on the way
The Standard: Were Etu union delegates threatened at a select committee?
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): How David Seymour is staying alive
Newshub: How DWTS NZ could help David Seymour keep his Epsom seat
Newshub: Judith Collins and Willie Jackson trade insults on The AM Show

Northcote by-election
Richard Harman (Politik): Much ado about not a lot in Northcote
Simon Wilson (Herald): Fun times and hellfire heckling in the byelection
Gia Garrick (RNZ): National and Labour polls at odds in lead-up to by-election
Whena Owen (1News): Northcote by-election: Who will be New Zealand's newest MP?
Greg Presland (The Standard): Boilover in Northcote?

Race relations
Chester Borrows (Herald):Learn your history, no matter how unpalatable it might be
David James (Stuff): Time to look back at the Wairau Affray with 'compassionate mindset'
Philip Matthew (Stuff): 'Cunning, deceitful savages': 200 years of Māori bad press

Regional development
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Trains, tree, houses - Government's big Northland spend
1News: Government injects $46 million into Northland economy: boost jobs, new state housing project, investment in Auckland to Whangarei rail
Stuff:$46 million for Northland to develop jobs, housing, transport and businesses
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Govt putting $500k to examining the case for rail upgrades
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): KiwiRail welcomes Northland rail pledge
RNZ: Govt injects another $7m into Hundertwasser project
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): West Coast wants share of Shane Jones' provincial fund

Foreign affairs and trade
Reuben Steff (The Conversation): New Zealand’s Pacific reset: strategic anxieties about rising China
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Chinese interference in New Zealand at 'critical' stage, says Canada spy report
Steve Liddle (Herald): China threatens free speech far beyond its borders
Michael Reddell: New Zealand, the PRC…and the 29th anniversary of Tiananmen Square
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So when will NZ start, you know, talking about China infiltrating our political system?
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Brexit should be good for NZ as we head the trade deal queue, says High Commissioner
Conor Whitten (Newshub): Revealed: More than 3000 Kiwis living homeless in Australia
RNZ: 'Rehabilitated' NZ man wins fight against Aus deportation
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Act questions cost of Shane Jones' roving Pacific ambassador role
Laura Walters (Stuff): NZ's changing attitude to UN peacekeeping missions

Education
Adele Redmond (Stuff): New survey shows 'worrying' extent of bullying among early childhood teachers
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Private education provider passed students that should have failed- NZQA
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Nurses' and teachers' salaries crunched by the rising cost of living - and housing in particular
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Want to get rid of bullying? Get rid of schools
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Students suffer when high school mad hatters look to ban the beanie
Nikki Kaye (Spinoff): Why we’re determined to work with the government on the qualifications review
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Mismanagement under scrutiny after Unitec deficit
Kelly Dennett, Harrison Christian and Matthew Two (Stuff): University of Auckland spends $33,000 on exclusive Northern Club membership
1News: Parkland school shooting survivors visit NZ next month

Barack Obama visit to NZ
Herald: Former US President Barack Obama's bill for NZ taxpayers comes in at $32,000
Auckland Now: Barack Obama's NZ visit cost the taxpayer more than $30,000

Employment
Steve Hart (Herald): Working harder to get less
Peter Lyons (Herald): Why our most profitable industries pay miserable wages
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): No fines over below-minimum wage job ads
Mava Enoka (RNZ): One hundred WorkSafe bullying complaints but no prosecutions
David Farrar: Fix the Holidays Act
Damien Venuto (Herald): Big read: The dismantling of the nine-to-five work week in NZ
Ross Webb (Overland): If we don’t make this stand, who will?
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Union membership decreasing as workers retire
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Unions have never been more powerful
Herald: Anti-bullying company fined $30,000 for breaching ERA order
John Anthony (Stuff): Her boss drew sketches of her while she worked. When she complained, HR said he had a 'knack for it’
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Professional women face biggest pay gap, new data reveals
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Restaurateur frustrated by ridiculous lengths for employee work visa

Te Mata Peak track
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Te Mata Peak 'massacred' in the eyes of locals
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Iwi members claim chairman agreed to purchase without any consultation
Sean Hogan (1News): Controversial Te Mata Peak track still being walked despite new, higher fences

Inequality, welfare and financial hardship claims
Bruce Munro (ODT): Long read: The generation gap
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Still waiting on consequences for Metiria's benefit fraud
Kerre McIvor (Herald): It's nonsense for people on $100k to cry poverty

Finance companies
RNZ: Payday lender accused of charging 183 percent interest
RNZ: Borrowers 'enslaved' by finance companies

Auckland
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Old taxes, new taxes fund Auckland’s growth
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): South Aucklanders fear effects of fuel tax
John Anthony (Stuff): Auckland changing from 'large town' to thriving city with $14 billion of building underway
Janika ter Ellen (Newshub): Auckland Council admits southern suburbs underfunded for playgrounds
Zane Small (Newshub): Why would you want to live in Auckland? We asked the council

Tax
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Amazon tax move could leave Government searching for a 'plan B’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): 'Amazon tax' could run dry for NZ after Amazon turns off the tap in Australia
RNZ: Concerns over Amazon's NZ future after GST changes
Chris Reed (Herald): John G Russell, the man who owed IRD $500 million, remembered as Richie McCaw of accountancy world

Banking sector
RNZ: Australia's ANZ faces criminal cartel charges
Newshub: Interview: Adrian Orr (video)

Transport and road safety
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Petrol company BP reveals 65pc rise in profits and huge dividend payment to UK owners
Måns Andersson (Stuff): We can reduce the road toll by copying Sweden
RNZ: Wellington airport testing site for new airplanes

Tourism
Dominion Post Editorial: Foreign tourists should pay their share
Nikki MacDonald (Stuff): DOC to investigate preferential hut bookings for Kiwi trampers
Newshub: Great Walk price hike will protect Kiwis' 'birthright' - Fish and Game
Karen Rutherford (Newshub): Tourists to pay double to stay on Great Walks
RNZ: Tourists to pay more than locals on most popular Great Walks
Katy Jones (Stuff): Backlash feared over price hikes for overseas visitors staying in Abel Tasman
Tim O’Connell (Stuff): Govt charges visiting Aussies 'taking opportunities' off Kiwi kids on Great Walks
Siah Hwee Ang (Stuff): New Zealand service sector must do better
RNZ: Freedom campers are causing problems - Akaroa locals

Legal profession
Stuff: 'A lot of anger' around Law Society report
Herald: New Zealand Law Society 'shocked' at scale of sexual harassment and bullying
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Law Society hit with a double whammy of accusations in the wake of sexual abuse and harassment survey
Alison Mau (Stuff): How much proof does Law Society need of sex pests in ranks?
Waikato Times: New role for former Labour MP Sue Moroney

Local government
Mike Yardley (Press): Christchurch Town Hall budget blowout show gold-plated options still preferred
Aaron Leaman (Waikato Times): A round-up of Hamilton City Council draft long-term plan
Jo Lines-Mackenzie (Stuff): Taupō council employees caught well above speed limit

Gender
Martyn Bradbury: The pale stale male revolt, Laurel/Yanni, the crucial ingredient for Trumpism, why Jordan Peterson is winning and maybe, just maybe we should get Roseanne her show back
Richard Swainson (Waikato Times): Opinion: The lot of the white middle-aged male
Britt Mann (Stuff): The Collective yoghurt company's charity initiative has an all-male line-up
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): The impossibility of being transgender in New Zealand

Queen’s Birthday honours
Southland Times Editorial: Those elastic NZ knighthoods
1News: Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - the full list
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Rebels get their medals - Queen's Birthday honours
1News: 'Shows you how much NZ's changed' – Comedy duo Topp Twins still 'rebels' despite Queen’s Birthday Honours
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): That's 'Dame' camp mother to you
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Queen's Birthday Honours: Former Prime Minister Bill English made a knight
Claire Trevett (Herald): 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours: Sir William English joins his mate Sir John Key as a knight
1News: He’s now 'Sir' Bill English – former PM honoured with knighthood
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours: Former Pacific Affairs Minister Winnie Laban becomes Dame
Jessica Long (Stuff): Winnie Laban becomes a Dame at the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours
RNZ: Former Labour MP leads Pacific honours list
Leo Horgan (Maori TV):Pacific women shine in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Long-time sex worker advocate honoured by damehood
Charles Anderson (Guardian): New Zealand former sex worker becomes a dame in Queen's birthday honours
Bess Manson (Stuff): Dame Catherine Healy 'brought in from the cold' after career advocating for sex workers
Matt Rilkoff (Stuff): A couple of dames and a knight to remember
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Queen's Birthday Honours: Kristine Bartlett recognised again
Stu Hunt (Stuff): Honoured journalist Richard Griffin relishes 'big view of life’
Herald Editorial: Women earn the spotlight in Queen's Birthday honours
1News: Women occupy majority of Queen's Birthday Honours List for first time ever
Jamie Morton (Herald): Watershed year for women in 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours

Other
RNZ: Fewer responses to online census than expected
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): Tech firms must be transparent about AI
David Williams (Newsroom): Energy is key to Scott Base’s $150m upgrade
Rob Stock (Stuff): Simplicity KiwiSaver scheme pulls out of porn, guns and fossil fuels
Sam Stubbs (Idealog): Why the time for ethical investing is now
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Publishers take a punt on local papers (audio)
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Spate of holiday home burglaries prompts warning
Brian Easton (Pundit): Common Good Economics
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): My week as a te reo toddler
Stuff: Nigel Farage coming to Auckland - tickets from $49 for students, backstage pass $495
Cherie Howie (Herald): Victoria Carter makes history as the first female president of Auckland's Northern Club
Hamish McLean (ODT): ‘Gollies’ snapped up in wake of censure
Eleanor Wenman (Stuff): Wellington's secret war base opens for the public
RNZ: Wellington crowned most creative city in New Zealand
Stuff: Below the beltway