NZ Politics Daily - 6 June 2018
6 June 2018
Today's content
Employment
Richard Harman (Politik): How things have changed; but can National forgive him?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Former PM Jim Bolger's third strike a Labour masterstroke
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Jim Bolger's back to lead workplace shake-up, and business leaders are on edge
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Fair pay agreements: Is the sky set to fall?
Jason Walls (Interest): Jim Bolger to lead Govt's 'significant' shake-up of labour laws
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Bolger working group could take NZ back to 70s, National warns
Lucy Bennett (Herald): A ban on industrial action a feature of Government's new Fair Pay Agreements
Tracy Watkins and Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Workplace shake-up in Government's sights - Jim Bolger to lead pay working group
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Former PM to spearhead 'fair pay' shake up
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Former Prime Minister Jim Bolger to lead fair pay working group
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Task force for bargaining
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway announces team to make Fair Pay recommendations
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Government announces working group for Fair Pay Agreements
Newshub: National promises to scrap Government's Fair Pay Agreements working group
David Farrar: Danger Will Robinson Danger
Cecile Meier (Stuff): 'Vegan' job requirement could be discrimination
Meth report, housing, building industry
RNZ: Housing NZ boss Andrew McKenzie apologises over faulty meth tests
Stuff: Housing NZ boss Andrew McKenzie fronts over meth-myth houses
RNZ: Meth evictions: 'Those without shelter are prioritised' - PM
Newshub: No compensation for landlords who followed incorrect meth guidelines - Jacinda Ardern
Isaac Davison (Herald): DHB says it does not tip off Housing NZ about drug patients
Bridget Burke (RNZ): State house meth tested after tenant sought addiction help
Henry Cooke (Stuff): HNZ meth tested after a DHB told them a tenant was seeking drug help, Tenancy Tribunal ruling says
Russell Brown: The miserable archive
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): National announces benefit concert to aid those failed by the last government
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): National’s contamination hysteria aimed at state tenants
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Meth standard prevails despite new report from the Prime Minister's chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman
Jason Wells (Interest): Simon says... New Zealand has a housing crisis
Liz Gordon: Housing crises
Greg Ninness (Interest): New houses are getting smaller in Auckland, bringing building costs down
Nigel Isaacs (Newsroom): Why our building regulation just doesn’t cut it
Oil and gas exploration
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Ardern’s rush to announce oil exploration ban risks her moral high ground
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Oil and gas industry shouldn't have been kept in dark by the Government
Newshub: Govt's decision process to ban oil exploration misleading - National
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Government warned oil decision could have 'chilling effect' on investment in Taranaki
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Government was warned that ban on new oil permits could raise global greenhouse emissions
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt warned of 'chilling effect' over halting oil, gas permits
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Govt axed oil exploration without a formal Cabinet paper and after minimal analysis
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Documents reveal MBIE advised Government to limit oil and gas exploration to Taranaki; Said an offshore ban would 'likely increase' global greenhouse gas emissions
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Oil and gas ban likely to increase emissions
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Methanex would close by 2026 under ban on offshore exploration, MBIE says
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Emma Hurley (Newshub): Inside the oil and gas ban - which Cabinet is yet to sign off
Newstalk ZB: Questions raised over oil and gas ban decision
David Farrar: Government by decree
No Right Turn: The offshore exploration ban advice
No Right Turn: Government by press conference
Health
Zane Small (Newshub): 'They lack balls': Hone Harawira slams Govt's anti-smoking efforts
Zane Small (Newshub): Ban smoking in cars with kids - Duncan Garner
Southland Times Editorial: A health review in H2's hands
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Breast cancer: Calls for genetic test to be funded in NZ
Jamie Morton (Herald): Global cancer rates: How does NZ compare?
Nicholas Jones (Herald):Cartwright Collective among groups concerned about proposed cervical screening law change before Parliament's health committee
Debris Foxcroft (Stuff): Mental Health Commissioner calls for zero suicides in care
Dave Macpherson (Daily Blog): What is it about mental illness that causes the ‘authorities’ to be missing in action?
Dani McDonald (Stuff): Mike King's mental health movement spreads to the world
Simon Collins (Herald): Study urges warnings for patients on antidepressants
Stuff: Over half of antidepressant users experience withdrawal when they stop medication
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Middlemore Hospital on track to meet winter demand
Herald Editorial: Middlemore must minimise risk to patients
Hannah Martin (Manukau Courier): Middlemore building repair plans 'risky' - Ministry; DHB says no risk to patients
Isaac Davison (Herald): Family appeals to Government for change after medical cannabis costs plunge them into debt
Immigration and international students
Timaru Herald Editorial: International student changes will have to be watched carefully
David Hargreaves (Interest): Govt opens the gate to NZ for degree students
Newshub: Illegal sex workers deported in visa crackdown
Justice and police
David Fisher (Herald): The number of people trying - and succeeding - in taking their lives while in prison has surged during the inmate boom
David Fisher (Herald): Murder and mutilation comments emerge on National's new 'tough on crime' social media campaign
Anne Marie May (RNZ): Waikeria high-security wing 'not fit for purpose
Environment
David Williams (Newsroom): Minister mulls clamp on commissioner
Newshub: Humans blamed after 113 native plants added to threatened list
RNZ: Kauri officially re-classified as a threatened species
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Govt expects action over waterways
Dave Frame, Myles Allen and Adrian Macey (Newsroom): Here’s our chance to become climate leaders
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Greens need reining in
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Message to James Shaw: We are eating less meat
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Government set to introduce single-use plastic bag ban
Jamie Morton (Herald): Minister downplays reports of imminent plastic-bag ban
Chloe Winter (Stuff): NZ close to decision on banning single-use plastic bags
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Countdown removes plastic from its own products, bans plastic straws
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Twelve firms pledge to tackle plastic waste in NZ by 2025
Herald: 12 companies commit to being plastic free
RNZ: More companies pledge to tackle plastic waste
Jane Bowron (Stuff): My plastic fightback begins in the front garden
Phoebe Smith (Guardian): Mount Taranaki: will the New Zealand peak’s ‘living person’ status bring respect?
Deena Coster (Stuff): Possible name change ahead for mountain's new legal personality, national park
Jacinda Ardern’s baby
Newshub: Gayford's 'great plans' for life as stay-at-home dad
1News: Destination of Jacinda Ardern's baby's first outing on world stage revealed
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Revealed: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's big plans after giving birth
Stuff: PM Jacinda Ardern has false alarm as baby's due date approaches
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern to remain in charge of NZ until she gets to hospital
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's baby birth plan released
1News: Jacinda Ardern releases additional details surrounding upcoming birth of child
Charles Anderson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern will work up until she goes to hospital to give birth
Northcote by-election
RNZ: Watch: Northcote by-election - Bidois v Halbert
Felicity Reid (Stuff): Campaign leaflets taken away from Northcote polling booth
Parliament
Jane Clifton (Listener): The Government has a cunning plan to save Auckland – by emptying it
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): First look: Parliament lawn to feature playground
Herald: Parliament is for everyone, says Mallard, announcing new playground
Laura Walters (Stuff): Parliament to add a playground for kids to its grounds
Pete George: New Conservative Party launched
Queen’s Birthday honours
Michael Reddell: Sir William and the rockstar economy
Newshub: 'I couldn't have imagined anything like this' - Catherine Healy on being a dame
Auckland
Simon Wilson (Herald): Back to the future: Welcome to Auckland Plan 2050, Auckland council's new 30-year plan for the city
Auckland Now: Auckland Plan 2050 will focus on 'critical issues' - council
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland Transport releases more information into staff dismissal
Simon Smith (Auckland Now): Auckland light rail would be one of the 'slowest public transport airport links in the world’
Newshub: Spate of Auckland bus crashes sparks call for answers
RNZ: 'You'd think this report put our national security at risk’
Newshub: Auckland Council's 'bed tax' will hurt bach owners - Bookabach
Mike Wesley-Smith and Finn Hogan (Newshub): Are there explosives buried beneath Auckland's North Head?
Mike Wesley-Smith and Finn Hogan (Newshub): The hunt for North Head's secret tunnels
Mycoplasma bovis
Gareth Enticott and Anne Galloway (Sciblogs): The social science of Mycoplasma
Rob Stock (Stuff): Mycoplasma bovis slaughter pushes annual cow cull total higher
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Accounts enabled ‘bovis’ response
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Cattle disease spread will not interrupt Fieldays - chief executive
Peter Cullen (Stuff): How much support do dairy farmers deserve?
Education and child welfare
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Kura kaupapa leaders to complain to UN over lack of funding
John Morris (Spinoff): These education reforms put the sector at the precipice of disaster
RNZ: Waikato University seeks to boost Pasifika enrolment
Susan St John (Daily Blog): We can help solve child poverty – here is one crucial way how
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Teenage girls more at risk from harmful content online than boys
Welfare
Zach Castles (Herald): Government's welfare review could set the scene for the next election
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Biggest beneficiary debtors still receiving NZ Superannuation or main benefits
Media
BusinessDesk: Stick to your knitting: Stuff/NZME tell ComCom
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZME, Stuff merger appeal begins
Banking and finance regulation
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Interest rate cap not enough to stop 'debt spiral'
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Law change failing to crack down on loan sharks
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald):NZ regulators could learn lesson from huge penalty
ABC/RNZ: Criminal cartel charges laid against Australia's ANZ
Michael Reddell: Another Orr interview
Tourism
Brian Rudman (Herald): Better to clip tourism ticket at the border
Tracy Neal (RNZ): National park fee hike may hit tourism numbers
Stuff: NZ Great Walks tourist tax 'leaves a bad taste’
Local government
RNZ: Council to get to root of logging debris problem after floods
Mitch McCann (Newshub): Gisborne's storm clean-up could cost more than $10 million - District Council
Gender
David Farrar: So where is the fuss about these gender inequalities?
David Cormack (Herald): The truth about white men and privilege
Olivia Caldwell (Stuff): Lack of women in coaching detrimental to sport, says professor
Other
Sasha Borissenko (Newsroom): Did the Law Society do enough?
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Māori economy could be worth more than $50bil estimate
Jonathan Underhill (BusinessDesk): British American paid $1.1B into government coffers
Rob Stock (Stuff): Unreasonable shops trying to buck the Consumer Guarantees Act
Louis Davis (Dominion Post): 'Feebate' may help to wean motorists off petrol-driven cars
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Vodafone, Vocus to invest millions in broadband services
Zane Small and Lucy Warhurst (Newshub): 'Inconsistencies' in pub owner's story about removing pokies after baby left on pavement
Val Leveson (Herald): The endless game