NZ Politics Daily - 22 June 2018
22 June 2018
Today's content
Jacinda Ardern has baby girl
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Business as usual as Jacinda Ardern gives birth? Yeah, nah
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): Jacinda’s baby represents hope, humility and the best of our values
Herald Editorial: NZ shares the PM's happiness today
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern, her new baby and what she’ll want to avoid
Herald: Baby wakes: Jacinda Ardern to spend second night in hospital but no public appearance today
Newshub: Prime Minister’s baby does not have a name yet - Finance Minister
Helen Clark (Guardian):Jacinda Ardern shows that no doors are closed to women
Newshub: Helen Clark praises for Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford’s childcare arrangements
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern’s baby a ‘sign of maturity’ in NZ - Helen Clark
David Farrar: That’s one small step for a woman, one giant leap for womenkind
Katie Parker (Vice): All the Terrible Op-Eds You’re Going to Read Now Jacinda Is a Mum
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Brace yourself for an avalanche of Jacinda Ardern baby news
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern welcomes baby girl
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Calm down everyone, it’s just a woman having a baby
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): New Zealand celebrates separation of child from mother
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern had a baby, and we should all be proud
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): So you’re going to be a working mum…
Pete George: Prime Minister having a baby is a big deal
Stuff: PM Jacinda Ardern’s baby: What the future will look like for a child born today?
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Which NZ workplaces offer the best deal for new parents?
RNZ: ’Welcome to our village wee one’: PM Jacinda Ardern gives birth to a baby girl
RNZ: PM’s parents ‘absolutely ecstatic' about new arrival to family
RNZ: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gives birth to a baby girl
Rebecca Thomson (Stuff): PM Jacinda Ardern gives birth to baby girl
Newshub: NZ politicians react to Jacinda Ardern’s baby joy
Samantha Motion (Bay of Plenty Times): Bay politicians send best wishes to Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford on the birth of their baby girl
Stuff: Congratulations from leaders and personalities worldwide for PM Jacinda Ardern and her baby
Herald: The world reacts to news of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s newborn baby girl
RNZ: Birth of PM’s baby makes international headlines
1News: How the world reacted to Jacinda & Clarke's newborn baby girl - tributes pour in
Charles Anderson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern baby: New Zealand prime minister gives birth to a girl
Newshub: Google celebrates Jacinda Ardern’s first baby
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern’s baby: The earthquake that marked a new life
Herald: Ardern-Gayford ‘first’ baby: Former Prime Ministers’ kids on growing up at the Beehive
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What it’s like having a baby at Parliament
RNZ: PM’s baby - how social media reacted
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Timeline: How Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s pregnancy unfolded
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Hundreds of journalists rushed to hospital following major incident
Charles Anderson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern #babywatch sends New Zealand media gaga
State Sector
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Thompson and Clark has been doing the dirty work of the state
Grant McLachlan (Herald): State agencies should know the limits of their power to spy
David Williams (Newsroom):Cops called on gun-owning quake claimant
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Cap on public servants saw spending on consultants almost double to $550m a year
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): What now for English’s data-crunching agency
Housing and overseas investment
Jo Moir (Stuff): David Parker denies trying to get overseas buyer exemption to help out a friend
Lucy Bennett (Herald): No exemptions from Overseas Investment Act for luxury development
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Why David Parker should stand down pending inquiry
1News: David Seymour labels watered down foreign buyers bill a ‘dog’s breakfast’ of inconsistencies
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Mayor Phil Goff concedes ball has been dropped on solving Auckland’s ballooning chronic homelessness problem
Alison Mau (Stuff): Prepare to be shocked by homelessness figures
RNZ: Auckland Council plans count of homeless people
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Wellington City asks Government for rent subsidies and votes to review social housing rents
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Wellington council seeks rent subsidies for housing tenants
Rob Stock (Stuff): Don’t be put off by the HAM - I believe you can still buy a house
Brian Fallow (Herald): Tax could prick property bubbles
Simon Hartley (ODT): Housing affordability rises in Otago and Southland
Greg Ninness (Interest): Westpac’s chief economist says it’s no surprise that the housing market is slowing
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Queenstown rent squeeze: Blame Airbnb?
Sara Walton (ODT): Students not to blame for poor flats
ODT Editorial: Responsibility for mouldy flats
Foreign affairs and trade
Richard Harman (Poltik): Why the EU wants to change our cheese
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Birth, death and taxes at EU trade launch
Claire Trevett (Herald): EU and New Zealand launch trade talks in face of trade wars
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): NZ marks milestone with EU trade negotiations
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Free trade negotiations between New Zealand and European Union officially launched
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): European Union ‘giving birth’ to free trade negotiations with New Zealand
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Winston Peters welcomes US migration change, says NZ conveyed concerns to embassy
Welfare and income
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Budgeting tips when a pay rise decreases your benefit
Bonnie Sumner (The Wireless): Is the middle class squeezed or spoilt?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Reality check - Kiwis are not drowning in debt
Primary industries
Andrea Fox (Herald): Big Read: Fonterra under attack as never before
Mitch McCann (Newshub): ’A bloody mess!’: Tolaga Bay residents let loose at forestry companies
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Tolaga Bay cleanup: Who will pay?
RNZ: Large fishing companies caught in net of lies
Alice Angeloni (Stuff): Students write to PM Jacinda Ardern to push through marine protection
Sally Rae (ODT): Joint operation to check Nait compliance
Jacqueline Rowarth (Herald): Primary sector starring at cost of farmers, growers
Maja Burry (RNZ): Australia’s exclusive avocado supply from NZ under threat
Environment
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Embracing change after the fact
The Listener Editorial: Climate change needs multi-party support in New Zealand – but is this it?
Phil Vine (Newshub): Opinion: Dairy conversions in the Mackenzie Basin are a turd in a teacup
Jono Edwards (ODT):Doc ‘complicit’ in wetland’s destruction
Mark Price (ODT): Claim of 1080 drop stonewalling
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Manufacturer accused of spilling thousands of plastic ‘nurdles’ into Wellington Harbour
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Chinese owner: tramping access harms NZ’s image
Government
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour’s Stuart Nash defends $1000-a-head fundraiser
Tim Watkin (Pundit): State of the Union: The ‘when a child is born’ version
Henry Cooke (Stuff): A brief history of Winston Raymond Peters
Point of Order: Why the Greenies may be browned off with their party of principle
David Farrar: Government incompetence in the House strikes again
Point of Order: Finance Minister boasts of favourable feedback – in the form of just one letter
Parliament
Gia Garrick (RNZ): The political bout: Urgency at Parliament explained
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Parliament goes into urgency
Henry Cooke and Michael Daly (Stuff): Parliament goes into urgency to speed progress on regional fuel tax law
Claire Trevett (Herald): National: Labour move to halt debate on regional fuel tax ‘dark day for democracy’
No Right Turn:A childish tantrum
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Early voting in Northcote reaches new high
Health and disability
Mark Sainsbury (Newshub): New Zealand’s elderly need your help
Rosemary McLeod (Dominion Post): Plumbers will always rank above MPs, because they’re useful
Southland Times Editorial: Too busy…too late…too bad?
John Boynton (RNZ): Tributes flood for kapa haka star’s smear campaign legacy
RNZ: ’Wake up call’: NZ stroke rates predicted to rise by 40 percernt in decade
Jamie Morton (Herald): ‘Restrictive’ guidelines holding back NZ fertility research
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Sexuality and gender teaching missing from medical schools
Chris Fowlie (Daily Blog): Lacklustre medicinal cannabis bill holds important lesson for the referendum
Russell Brown (Public Address): I Am: An authentic autism family experience
Health sector employment
Dan Satherley (Newshub): No more money available for nurses - Grant Robertson
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Nurses want more money or strike to go ahead
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Strike ‘last resort' but a necessary evil, nurses say
Simon Wallace (Stuff): Better pay is not increasing caregiver workforce
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Principals dismiss trustees’ suggestion as ‘folly’
Meghan Lawrence (Herald): Two Auckland schools set to merge in newly-renovated ex-Maori TV building
Tom Furley (RNZ): Heated rally against shut uni libraries: ‘It means the death of fine arts’
Amanda Jane Robinson (Newshub): Auckland University confirms library closures despite huge protests
Newshub: Students upset after University of Auckland cans specialised libraries
Local government
Simon Wilson (Herald): Ambition, loathing and politics: welcome to Auckland Council
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): Wellington City Council rides the worldwide web into late 20th Century-style voting
Dominion Post: Heart of Wellington now Te Ngākau Civic Square
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): Bucket-loads’ of Government cash heading to the West Coast
Logan Church (RNZ): Calls for cash-strapped Kaikoura district to be split up
Justice and police
John Campbell (RNZ): Inside a youth justice residence: Kids tell their stories
David Fisher (Herald): Sensible Sentencing Trust sidelined as Andrew Little labels leaders ‘loopy’ and ‘callous’ and a key member quits
Newshub: Justice Minister slams ‘loopy’ Sensible Sentencing Trust
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Emotion, Not Reason, Is Driving New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Crime And Punishment
RNZ: Minister for Women defends Little on controversial assault comment
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Women’s Minister pressured to call out Andrew Little’s ‘bum pinch’ remark
Dairy robberies
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Call for ban on cigarette sales as dairy owners ‘live in fear’ of robberies
Ludo Campbell Reid (RNZ): Urban design thinking can rescue our dairies
Zane Small (Newshub):Removing window ads in dairies could make them safer - Auckland city planner
Economy
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Slowing GDP: transition or decline?
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Finance Minister says economy ‘transforming’ as economic growth lags population increase
Liam Dann (Herald): Economy Hub: Are Kiwis being ripped off?
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Economic growth loses momentum with ease in activities
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Consumer confidence fall put down to slowing economy
Other
Amanda Larsson (Stuff): The answer to clean, affordable power lies in the oil and gas ban
Chris Reed (Herald): New Zealand has fewer Christians than Australia
Jeff Cheshire (ODT): Coach loses role after push for female parity
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Agency urgently rechecks truck-trailers
Torika Tokalau and Simon Smith (Stuff): Clampers make no exceptions - even for the boss’s grandmother