NZ Politics Daily - 18 June 2018
18 June 2018
Today's content
Government
Jonathan Milne (SST): The ability to buy access to ministers is corrosive to our democracy
Jo Moir (Stuff): Select committees are the new Netflix as MPs lose the plot at Parliament
Graham Adams (Noted): As Jacinda Ardern takes her baby exit - the show goes on
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Can everyone get along now Jacinda Ardern has left the building?
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Mum, the misfit kids need you back in a hurry
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Ardern's challenging last full week as PM
Jason Walls (Interest): Welcome to MMP, New Zealand
1News: Watch: 'It hasn't been a good week for the Government' – 1 NEWS political editor Jessica Mutch on tough few days for Jacinda Ardern
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Worrying signs within Coalition Government - Peter Dunne
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Dunne saying deal could just unravel
Dan Satherley and Lisa Owen (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern mulls how to avoid being a one-term PM
Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters set to take charge but will he turn the opportunity into gold for his party?
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern will forgive Winston Peters for anything, even the unforgivable
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The soon to be Mr Prime Minister knows best
Charles Anderson (Guardian): Who is Winston Peters? The 40-year rise of New Zealand's next acting PM
Herald Editorial: Acting PM Winston Peters needs to adopt Jacinda Ardern's style if he can
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Winston Peters will find out he's Acting Prime Minister via text message
Audrey Young (Herald): Don't get frazzled as Acting Prime Minister, Key tells Winston Peters
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Three ring circus with one ringmaster at the centre - buckle in for a wild ride
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Winston hysteria is the new meth hysteria
ODT Editorial: Lack of discipline will hurt
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Kelvin Davis has a target on his back
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Interview: Jacinda Ardern (video)
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern 'pretty much' ready to become a mum
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Pregnant Auckland women hopeful their babies will be accidentally switched with the Prime Minister’s
Henry Cooke (Stuff): What it's like being a young mother in today's Parliament
Newstalk ZB: Why the TAB isn't taking bets on Jacinda Ardern's baby
Matthew Brockett and Tracy Withers (Bloomberg): Youngest Female World Leader Blazes Trail for Working Moms
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern is proof women's baby plans aren't an issue - Mai Chen
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): My old white male motherhood tips for Jacinda
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Life as a prominent politician's child
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern's potential placenta plan 'cultural appropriation' - Ngāpuhi leader
Pike River
RNZ: Pike River families: 'We've been down this road before'
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Police prepare to re-open Pike River investigation
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Police to re-open Pike River Mine investigation five years after original case closed
Craig McCulloch (RNZ):Police get ready to reopen Pike River investigation
Newshub: Pike River families optimistic for 'some form of justice'
Justice
Finn Hogan (Newshub): 'Everything is on the table for justice reform' - Andrew Little
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Interview: Andrew Little (video)
Laura Walters (Stuff): Double-bunking and a PPP wasn't what Kelvin Davis had in mind for Waikeria
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Details of new Waikeria mental health facility revealed
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Labour's KiwiJail isn't what it seems
Liz Gordon (Daily Blog): Drugs, crime and the stuffing of our prisons
1News: Inside Parliament: ‘Whatever went on, it’s not a good look’ – Three Strikes not out (video)
1News: Inside Parliament: New Zealand's overcrowded prisons 'haven't changed' in decades – 1987 news item illustrates
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour has ended up building a prison at Waikeria that not only does no one want, but will actually be counterproductive
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Police's 'cascade of failure' in controlling guns in New Zealand
Matt Stewart (Stuff): 'Lack of neutrality' present in policing of defence industry expo protest, lawyer says
Housing
Lois Williams (RNZ): Homeless mums afraid to seek help for fear of losing their kids
Ryan Boswell (1News): Families with children kicked out of state housing for not paying their rent
Ryan Boswell (1News): Social housing tenants evicted over meth contamination may miss out on compensation
Ryan Boswell (1News): Government stands by Housing New Zealand evictions
Isaac Davison (Herald): Handwritten note lies at the heart of meth eviction mystery
Luke Appleby (1News): 'Lack of adequate insulation statements' common in tenancy agreements, MBIE says, who warn landlords - increased enforcement is coming
John Minto (Daily Blog): Housing New Zealand Corporation – these are the people who have to go!
John Minto (Daily Blog): A voice from inside Housing New Zealand Corporation
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Judith Collins accuses Phil Twyford of lying about her KiwiBuild letter
Newshub: Property management company apologises for huge 'admin' fee charged to Wellington students
Primary industries
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Political payback in Shane Jones' Fonterra attack
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): Farmers tell Jones to butt out over Fonterra bashing
Conan Young (RNZ): Insight: The blight of Mycoplasma bovis
Conan Young (RNZ): MPI misled farmers – Privacy Commissioner
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Farmers, MP critical of MPI's 'slow pace' around bovis testing
Whena Owen (1News: Synthetic and plant based meat - a threat or opportunity for New Zealand farmers?
Thomas Mead (Newshub): The special seaweed diet for cows that could reduce NZ's methane levels
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Grape growers sour over forestry favouritism
Employment and retirement
RNZ: NZ govt seeks to close pay gap for Māori, Pasifika
Aimee Shaw (Herald): Large NZ corporates shun living wage, only three big firms paying staff $20.55 per hour
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Thousands of government department employees to vote on 'co-ordinated' strike action
Newshub: 2000 public servants to get pay boost, earning living wage
Herald: Low-paid public servants to get living wage pay boost
1News: Minimum wage being raised for public servants
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): All public service employees to earn at least living wage
Bridget Grace (Newshub): Recruiters concerned over proposed increased work visa cost
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): The working life of those living with 'invisible’ disabilities
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Universal Super – No steps forward. Two steps back?
Health and disability
John Anthony (Stuff): Coca-Cola recruiting lobbyist to fight sugar tax, despite new research revealing such taxes can save lives
RNZ: Stats NZ launch second Māori well-being survey
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Health Minister David Clark 'said sorry' to Counties Manukau DHB chairman Rabin Rabindran over Middlemore Hospital saga, correspondence shows
Phil Pennington (RNZ): David Clark offered 'dignified exit' to DHB chair
Newshub: David Clark should be hauled in front of Prime Minister over Middlemore scandal - Jami-Lee Ross
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Health Minister David Clark accused of pressuring DHB to zip it over Middlemore woes
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Concerns Christchurch Hospital is packed to the rafters with no plan B
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Dental subsidy worth chewing over
The Standard: Pulling Teeth For Poverty
RNZ: NZ academics ponder low pain clinic attendance by some
RNZ: Water 'not fit for human consumption' warn health officials
Newshub: E. coli found in Waitaki aquifer
1News: Dannevirke residents advised to boil water supply
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): Altogether Autism: Raising an autistic child in Rotorua
1News: 'It hurts me in my heart' - inspirational actor takes on bullies in one-man show about life with Down syndrome
RNZ: Coroner reserves decision on Nicky Stevens
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Tense final day at Nicky Stevens' coronial inquest
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Political opponents turn allies over Nelson's mental health crisis
RNZ: Nurses to reveal results of pay offer vote today
Elder care and abuse
1News: 'It stays hidden' - Age Concern urges people to watch out for the signs of elder abuse
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Elder abuse in NZ expected to be more prevalent than figure of one in 10 older people
Isaac Davison (Herald): Mother invests $100,000 in house only to be locked out and threatened
Ruby McAndrew (Stuff): Financial abuse of elderly 'rampant' in New Zealand with drug-use part of the problem
Brenda Harwood (ODT): 168 cases of elder abuse in past year
Sam Johnson (Herald): Our elderly need more options than rest home
Education
Arrun Soma (1News): Researchers claim some of our early childhood centres are too noisy, cold, and overcrowded
Karleen Edmonds (Stuff): Kids who have nothing yet still want to learn - scenes of child poverty in NZ
Rob Mitchell (Stuff): We are barely functioning, literally
Jessica Long (Stuff): NZEI survey finds a third of Māori and Pasifika school leaders experienced racial discrimination
Delphine Herbert and Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Maori and Pasifika school leaders experiencing discrimination - report
Herald: Primary school principals and teachers to begin meetings today on pay dispute, industrial action
Newshub: Bible in Schools battle on fast-track to the High Court
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Teenager told school counsellor she was suicidal before attempt, mother says
Matthew Rosenberg (Auckland Now): Haka criticism leaves schoolboy rugby team 'emotional wrecks’
Averil Pierce (ODT): Effects of family violence on children shape nation’s future
Meghan Lawrence (Stuff): Sickening schoolyard attack caught on camera at Ashburton College
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Splinters of discontent mar high-end schooling
Media
Nicky Hager (Newsroom): What an attack on journalism feels like
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: A win for media and the public which came at a cost
1News: Inside Parliament: 1 NEWS team explain police apology to journalist Nicky Hager (video)
Water-bottling deal
David Farrar: Davidson wrong on Sage decision
Dave Kennedy: It's not easy being Green and even harder being a Green Minister
Katee Shanks (Rotorua Daily Post): Tamati Coffey called out over Chinese-owned water bottling company given Government go-ahead to expand
Environment and conservation
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Conservation group pursues court despite mining project's part rejection
RNZ: 'There is a place for boutique mining' - Buller mayor
Adele Redmond and Charlie Gates (Stuff): Government declines controversial application for coal mine at Te Kuha
Juliet Speedy (Newshub): Government declines application to mine on conservation land at Te Kuha
RNZ: 'The science is clear - climate change is real' - National
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Nats change tune on commission for climate change
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Simon Bridges offers Government bipartisan support on climate change
Greg Presland (The Standard): Does National really want climate change to be a bipartisan issue?
No Right Turn: Climate Change: National's forked tongue
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Environmental groups, Ngāti Kurī push for Kermadec sanctuary
David Williams (Newsroom):Stop UNESCO site grazing, DOC urged
Phil Seddon (Herald): Predator Free NZ is just half the story
Thomas Mead (Newshub): Tyre industry appealing for Government support of tyre recycling
RNZ: Native birds tortured and killed in Kāikoura
Sophie Bateman and Erin Speedy (Newshub): Red-billed gulls shot, 'run over or stamped to death' in Kaikōura
Jamie Morton (Herald): What early Māori can teach us about NZ's paradise lost
Tourist tax
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Tourism plan’s hidden fish hooks
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Prepare for a lolly scramble over new visitor levy money
Linday Laird (Northern Advocate): Tourism sector didn't get say in tax talks, says Northland leader
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Rural health services should get a slice of proposed tourist levy, GPs say
RNZ: Rural GPs want a cut of proposed tourist tax
Andrew Owen (Taranaki Daily News Editorial): Who pays for maintaining our field of dreams?
ODT Editorial: Targeted levy for tourists
Dasha Kuprienko (Southland Times): Tourists happy to be taxed $25 when entering New Zealand
David Loughrey (ODT): Divisions over new visitor tax
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Mayor: $35 tourist tax not enough to cover need
RNZ: Tourist tax: One mayor backs it, another disappointed
1News: 'Just another tax' - National Party don't support Government's 'entirely unnecessary' levy on tourists - Simon Bridges
Newshub: Cruise liners will go elsewhere thanks to tourist levy - David Seymour
Foreign affairs and trade
Edward Gay (RNZ): NZ teen held in Australian detention centre for two months
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom):EU Trade Commissioner makes case for NZ deal
Richard Harman (Politik): The Singapore relationship - not all smiles
Malcolm Cook (Incline): RCEP Rumblings: should New Zealand be worried?
Point of Order: Finding a job for Helen Clark – what about a posting to London?
Racism
Ben Leahy and Charlotte Carter (Herald): Racist NZ: Kiwis share their stories - Indian family left shaken after being racially harassed and intimidated in Henderson
Herald: Racist NZ: Auckland woman told 'go back to China' after asking people not to feed birds
National and Act
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Unravelling National’s hunt for relevance
1News: Political History: Q+A looks back at a young Simon Bridges (video)
Tom Sainsbury: Kiwis of Snapchat: Paula Bennett for leader!
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Focus on Politics: The Final Act?
Frank Newman: ACT re-branding
Damien Grant (Stuff): Thanks DWTS for making David Seymour our Boaty McBoatface
John Roughan: We are having a Trump vote for David Seymour on 'Dancing With the Stars’
Herald: David Seymour's 'Dancing With The Stars' turn applauded by former Act leaders Don Brash and Richard Prebble
Parliament
Steve Braunias (Herald): Behind the green door in New Zealand's ultimate underground bunker
Jane Clifton (Listener): How to understand New Zealand's political tribes
Lucy Bennett (Herald): MPs get a band together for US Ambassador's rock and roll party
Auckland
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Interview: Phil Goff (video)
Newshub: Phil Goff wants to know who keeps leaking council documents
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Conditions on Auckland Council report 'insulting' - councillor
Torika Tokalau (Auckland Now): Cemeteries and golf courses the 'green lungs' of high density Auckland
John Anthony and Rob Stock (Stuff): Where to build: Auckland's biggest 'wastes of space' under the microscope
Survey: Most Aucklanders now support cycling
Simon Wilson (Herald): Survey: Most Aucklanders now support cycling
Wellington
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Wellington's growth sees city council review rules for 'character’ areas
Esther Zweifel (RNZ): Wellington council moves to address 'urgent' need for housing
Joel Maxwell (Dominion Post): What a thrill to see Wellington embracing te reo
Michael Reddell: A new reform for Wellington’s mayor
Eleanor Wenman (Dominion Post): There's always a story in a te reo Māori name
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Wellington City Council keen to trial online voting in 2019 local body elections
Local government
RNZ: Council support for online voting at local body elections
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Photo finish: Retirement not idyll for mayor with 'ants in his pants’
Scott Yeoman (Bay of Plenty Times): Big Read: Greerton divided over Tauranga begging and rough sleeping ban
Defence
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZDF confirms fluorine foam use stopped
No Right Turn: More lies from NZDF
Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board investigation
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board welcomes investigation
Te Karere: Māori Development Minister orders investigation into Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board
Herald: Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta orders investigation into Ōpōtiki's Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board after complaints
Building and construction
Phil Pennington (RNZ): One Akl Hospital building has highly combustible cladding
Catherine Harris (Herald): Overseas workers glad to be here to lend a hand to NZ's building crisis
Regional development
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Nearly $1 million for region forestry from Provincial Growth Fund
1News: Manawatū-Whanganui region gets $1 million Government cash injection to plant 1.3 million trees
RNZ: Govt loans $10m for Mt Ruapehu gondola
1News: Government pitching in $10m for new high-speed gondola at Whakapapa ski field
Business
Brian Gaynor (Herald): Time to look more closely at corporate failures
Robin Martin (RNZ): Taranaki iwi open for business: 'We're not going anywhere’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Tax confusion 'stressing' investors
Siah Hwee Ang (Stuff): If a global trade war is inevitable, how should Kiwi businesses play?
David Cormack (Spinoff): And everything was fine for small business forever more
Point of Order: Corporate socialism – funding uplift for Air Chathams and a gondola
Thomas Manch (RNZ): Penalty for Kiwi firm that exported plane parts to North Korea 'a slap on the wrist’
Canterbury and Kaikoura quakes, natural disasters
Press: Dear EQC, you asked us to trust you, but we're suffering
Logan Church (RNZ): Another hard winter for some Kaikōura businesses
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): 'Just absolutely ridiculous' - families in isolated valley near Kaikōura still waiting for bridge repair, 18 months on
Liz McDonald (Press): Progress visible on Christchurch anchor projects as building frames rise
Ben Irwin (Newshub): New Kiwi charity to ensure no animals left behind in natural disasters
Transport and road safety
Alison Mau (Stuff): Drug driving is dangerous - but how are we going to tackle it?
Dominic Harris (Press): Commuting in NZ's car capital costs Christchurch drivers $10,000 a year
ODT Editorial: Russian roulette in the South
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Rubber hits the road on the fourth transport revolution
Other
Nicky Hager (RNZ): Akl lawyer linked to suspect companies was subject to Guernsey ban
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Human trafficking in NZ likely thanks to Chinese immigrants - expert
Cherie Sivignon (Nelson Mail): Welfare system reviewer Kay Brereton has walked the talk
Scott Hamilton (E-Tangata): Great South Road: The Road of Refugees
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Māori wahine remembered in suffrage movement
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Crown abandons years-long pursuit of Lake Horowhenua activist Philip Taueki over trespass charge
RNZ: Police abandon court battle to trespass Māori activist
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Motueka locals fear closure of ANZ branch
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Construction slowdown and weak confidence could see economy enter the doldrums
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): No payments, but the power stayed on: 'Why was Mum allowed to rack up a $12,000 bill?'
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Top cop says 'conniving' fraudsters are targeting company accounts, preying on vulnerable
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Why we should all be more like Dame Susan Devoy
Adele Redmond (Press): Vegans split from national vegetarian group to rebrand themselves
Dawn Picked (Bay of Plenty Times): Big Read: Abortion law reform - what's at stake?
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Cannabis reform lobbyists accuse Facebook of stubbing out debate
Sasha Borissenko (Newsroom): Political comedy the winning ticket