NZ Politics Daily - 19 June 2018
19 June 2018
Today's content
Employment, pay disputes
Richard Harman (Politik): Winston brings the message - Grant says no
1News: 'It takes time to fix neglect': Winston Peters defends rejected nurses pay offer, Minister says there's no more cash in the kitty for nurses
Zane Small (Newshub): The Govt has 'put everything on the table' for nurses' pay - Health Minister David Clark
Zane Small (Newshub): 'We can't put everything alright overnight' - Winston Peters on nurses’ pay
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Can The Nurses Win On Their Own?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Nurses deserve a generous settlement
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): It's simple - pay nurses what they're worth
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): District health boards prepare for strikes
RNZ: Nurses' rejection of new offer 'really disappointing' - Clark
Eva Corlett (RNZ): National nursing strike looms: 'People are fed up’
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): District health boards and nurses' union commit to mediation to try avoid strikes
RNZ: Nurses' strike action on the cards over DHB dispute
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Strike on cards as nurses reject offer
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Nurses seek urgent intervention to avoid strike action
Frances Cook (Herald): Nurses reject pay offer, demand urgent mediation
Jessica Long (Stuff): Nurses' union rejects DHB pay offer, seeks mediation
Emma Russell (Herald): Nurses leaving the country, patients neglected, strikes loom
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Explainer: Why Govt employees want to take strike action
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Unions, strikes achieve nothing, drag NZ back to 1970s
Newshub: Holiday pay underpayments could reach up to $100 million - Jennifer Mills
Herald: Bunnings to pay back staff $11m to comply with Holidays Act
John Anthony (Stuff): Bunnings to back pay workers $11m in missing wages after leave payment botch up
RNZ: Bunnings to pay staff $11m for holiday pay miscalculation
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Southern Cross insurer trials a 'duvet day' - but is it new?
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Where do New Zealanders want to work?
Housing
Tom Furley (RNZ): KiwiBuild: Govt advised to 'break cycle' and build sustainably
Ben Leahy (Herald): Building KiwiBuild homes to higher standards could save $680m, a report says
David Hargreaves (Interest): Government needs to commit 'all in' to the Kiwibuild programme to ensure our chronic housing shortage is resolved
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Foreign buyers ban relaxed
Anne Gibson (Herald): Changes mooted for foreign house-buyer ban law
David Hargreaves (Interest): 'Small impact' on house price inflation from foreign buyer ban
Nikki Mandow (Newsroom): Foreign buyer ban changes better, but not good enough
Jamie Gray (Herald): NZ capital gains tax would lift rate of home ownership - bank
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Capital gains tax would cut house prices by 10%: Stephens
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Westpac models how the different taxes being considered by the Tax Working Group would affect house prices
Julie Iles (Stuff): Property asking prices return to record high, countering Auckland's dip
Tristram Clayton (Herald): Inside new 'prison cell' emergency housing units in West Auckland
Scott Yeoman and Felix Desmarais (Bay of Plenty Times): Hīkoi for the homeless, protesting the proposed begging ban, marches through Tauranga
Mere McLean (Māori TV): Tauranga homeless feel wrongfully targeted
Newshub: Woman's emotional plea to Housing NZ over Porirua gang problems
Government
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘You could say it’s a curtain raiser’: Winston Peters takes the maternity-cover stage
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Winston Peters is in charge - and he's doing it his way
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Peters chairs first cabinet in warm-up for PM stint
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern is still prime minister, but Winston Peters is chairing Cabinet. Here's why
ODT: Deputy PM takes centre stage
Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston Peters takes stage as Almost Acting PM
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Winston Peters: Behind the man about to take charge
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Damned if you do and damned if you don't - the Green dilemma
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Government has lost its bottle over water policy
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern can't keep away from Mt Albert electorate office - one day after baby due
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Due to nationwide shortage of buzzy bee toys, New Plymouth sends Prime Minister actual bees
Public service
Chris Eichbaum (Newsroom): A nagging question of public interest
Newstalk ZB: Peters suing in interest of democracy
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Problems in the public service
Grant Bell (Herald): NZ state services scores well on popular trust
Health and disability
Newshub: Health Minister denies throwing public servants under bus over Middlemore Hospital
Emma Espiner (Newsroom): Mike King and the importance of being imperfect
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato Hospital swamped as hundreds seek emergency care
1News: NZ has highest rate of motor neurone disease of any country in the world
Chloe Ann-King (Stuff): Labour's detox funding will 'save and change lives'
Janine Rankin (Stuff): Mums of Christmas babies run out of midwives
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Holiday season midwife shortage worsens
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Medical students training for end-of-life-care ‘woeful’
Lee Umbers (Herald): Death doulas: Providing comfort for those nearing the end of their lives
Isaac Davison (Herald): Act Party leader David Seymour says he may change euthanasia law which punishes reluctant doctors
Foreign affairs and trade
Paul Buchanan (Briefing Papers): A choice of master
Colin James (ODT): Will talks with EU bring a free trade deal for all?
Stephen Jacobi (RNZ): Trump trade talks create crisis of 'unimaginable proportions
Newshub: Trump's trade war could have negative effect on New Zealand - Expert Charles Finny
RNZ: Pacific needs to speak out about Nauru - academic
Foreign trusts
RNZ: Peters on trust law: 'We've got to be far more vigilant'
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Auckland firm inspected over anti-money laundering rules
Pike River
Newshub: Pike River re-entry 'by the end of this year' - Andrew Little
Maddison Northcott (Stuff): Police prepare to reopen investigation into Pike River explosion
1News: Police get ready to reopen Pike River investigation
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Winston Peters doubles down on promise to be first into Pike River mine
1News: Watch: Winston Peters' offer to be the first to re-enter Pike River mine still stands
Justice and police
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Lawyer off to the Supreme Court to argue legal aid, court cost issues
1News: Social investment, education needed as well as bigger prison, says Bridges
RNZ: National party shock at government scrapping police policies
Mike Bush (Herald): More police and more tools against crime on the dark web
Environment and conservation
Dominion Post Editorial:What to make of National's climate pledge
James Renwick (Spinoff): Bridges to somewhere: why National’s climate U-turn is such a big deal
Point of Order: Simon Bridges and climate change – maybe he’s not as green as it seems
Audrey Young (Herald): Climate change minister James Shaw welcomes 'genuine' approach from Simon Bridges
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Not all conservation land is worth protecting from mining - Bridges
RNZ: Otago water rights: 'It's time for this to be sorted out’
No Right Turn: The RMA and deterrence
Economy
Rodney Yeoman and Douglas Fairgray (Herald): Treasury and court show social values coming to the fore
Liam Dann (Herald): Economists agree on slower NZ growth path
Jason Walls (Interest): Robertson’s nervous wait for this week’s GDP data
Dene MacKenzie (ODT): Growth momentum slowing in face of headwinds
Dene MacKenzie (ODT): Much besides GDP data to digest in week's economic releases
Michael Reddell: A puzzling government economic target
Education
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Racism blights NZ schools
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): Human rights advocate takes Cook concerns to United Nations
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Students in limbo as charter school contracts terminated
Mei Heron (1News): Wellington man who hated school due to dyslexia creates new programme to help kids
Matthew Rosenberg (Stuff): 'I do feel sorry for the boys': Expert supports schoolboys left 'emotional wrecks' by haka backlash
Stuff: What do most Kiwis owe on their student loan?
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Dead-beat dads more likely to be arrested at airport
Primary industries
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Forestry companies boycott town meeting on debris damage
Newshub: Tolaga Bay farmers forced to sell cattle because of damaged land
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Slash affects East Coast seafood stocks - Kaumatua
Keith Woodford (Interest): The arrival date of Mycoplasma bovis in New Zealand is crucial to the eradication prospects
Christine McKay (Herald): Mycoplasma bovis may wipe out lamb and calf days
Chris Lewis (Stuff): Axing calf days due to M bovis a step too far for some people
Conan Young (RNZ): North Otago calves confirmed to have had M bovis
Andrew Morrison (Stuff): Farmers taking massive blow from disease cull to protect others
RNZ: M bovis: Northland farmers warned against complacency
BusinessDesk: Winston Peters pins $2B-plus 'losses' to NZ on Fonterra
Sue Allen (Stuff): Pity Fonterra, the company that people love to diss
Aroha Awarau (Māori TV): Iwi collective grows fisheries assets for future generations
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): NZ missing a trick when it comes to selling our food overseas
1News: Affordability a major stumbling block for young Kiwis wanting to own a farm - 'Would be good to own our own dirt’
Auckland
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Opposition grows to pumping sewage into Waitemata Harbour near the harbour bridge
Herald Editorial: Survey needs to ask why cycleways aren't busy
Transport
Damian George (Stuff): New nationwide public transport ticketing system to be rolled out from 2021
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Second engineer suspended amid inquiries over towbars
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): 'Eerie calm' as nonplussed commuters navigate transport changes
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Dominion Post): Wellington's trolley buses could be destined for Auckland or Tauranga
Immigration and racism
Meghan Lawrence (Herald): Immigrant says New Zealand isn't racist: Most Kiwis 'welcome and embrace diversity’
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Deported South African mother fighting to return to NZ
Bob Jones defamation action
Baden Vertongen (Pundit): If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself
Iulia Leilua (Māori TV): Professor refuses to back down from legal threat
Sam Hurley (Herald): Givealittle page for film-maker's legal fees in defamation battle vs Sir Bob Jones
Pete George: Crowd funding for defence of Bob Jones defamation action
Sexual abuse
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Priests who don’t report sex abuse confessions could be fined
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Wellington sexual abuse counselling service at crisis point as client numbers swell
National
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Judith Collins apologises for liking 'hugely disappointing' tweet about Labour's 'gays'
Herald: Judith Collins likes tweet calling Labour Government 'a virus' and ‘parasites'
Other
Jan Finlayson (Stuff): New Zealand needs a national tourism taskforce
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Police release Gayford media emails
Debris Foxcroft (Stuff): Mum worries about keeping her four kids warm
Dene MacKenzie (ODT): Service sector pulls away in May figures
Jason Walls (Interest): Backtracking on the bankers
David Farrar: The abortion debate
Newshub: Parliamentary 'man-ban' would reduce corruption - study
Herald: DWTS: Here's the dance-off no one wanted to see
Liz McDonald (Press): Owners say Christ Church Cathedral delays might derail square revitalisation plans
RNZ: Invercargill's $160 million upgrade plans revealed
ODT: Invercargill set for jobs boom
ODT: High, or pie, in the sky?
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): Kiwi tech’s big China hope
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Educators encourage switch to Matariki calendar