NZ Politics Daily - 9 July 2018
9 July 2018
Today's content
Defence
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Bold defence plan comes at a cost
Richard Harman (Politik): Why we are not (quite) playing Aussie rules with China?
David Capie (Spinoff): NZ has signalled a new, tougher stance on China. How will Beijing respond?
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Defence policy statement edges NZ closer to Trump’s America
Jim Rolfe (Politik): The Defence Policy Statement--- a very good start
1News: ’We’re not going to cut corners' - Defence Minister on New Zealand's potential investment in new aircraft
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Govt’s defence strategy takes solid stance on China
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ faces threats from China, Russia ‘in ways not previously seen’, Defence warns
Audrey Young (Herald): Defence Minister Ron Mark issues strategic paper as basis for future Defence decisions
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Potent threats to NZ outlines in Govt report
Laura Walters (Stuff): New defence policy strategy explicit in pointing finger at threats
Laura Walters (Stuff): 'Global warming is happening': Defence adds climate change issues to its strategy for the first time
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Defence policy: Climate change central to new strategy
1News: Weather extremes predicted to be new frontline for New Zealand Defence Force
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): NZDF looks to the stars and cyberspace in policy refresh
David Fisher (Herald): NZDF buys Ron Mark-endorsed book but says it’s ‘terrible’
Audrey Young and Lucy Bennett (Herald): Navy vessel came close to capsize in Southern Ocean, Defence Minister Ron Mark says
Chris Chang (1News): Bodies of 27 NZ Defence Force personnel coming home
Paul Hobbs (1News): Woman questions defence force’s commitment to stamping out sexual harassment
Crown land sales
Charlie MItchell (Stuff): After taxpayers paid to get rid of it, farm sells for $17.5m
Charlie MItchell (Stuff): Handing NZ’s heritage to millionaires: The case for an inquiry into tenure review
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): KiwiBuilds in Auckland unaffordable for many, govt analysis shows
Stuff: Bridges says National might keep KiwiBuild if by ‘some magic’ it works
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Government’s flagship KiwiBuild scheme too big to fail
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Govt injects oversupply of hope into undersupplied housing market
Simon Wilson (Herald): Building homes is far more than a numbers game
Anne Gibson (Herald): What house deposit will you need to qualify for KiwiBuild?
Newshub: KiwiBuild a ‘hoax’ - National leader Simon Bridges
Tom Sainsbury: Kiwis of Snapchat: It’s a KiwiBuild free-homes bonanza!
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Nelson co-housing group wants to improve home ownership chances
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): From $460k deposit to $12.7m: Why these Auckland house prices have soared
Mei Heron (1News): Concerns that international students are being exploited by some landlords
Kate Newton (The Wireless): Why renters won’t dob in bad landlords
Stuff: Mean weekly rent in New Zealand creeping up year on year
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Woman opts to live in motorhome to beat Auckland’s rising rents
Jenni Walker (Stuff): Tenants, you have a phone, use it
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Homeless shaken awake as Rotorua shelter awaits consents
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Rotorua Lake Council blocks homeless from sleeping at shelter
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): 'No sleeping is allowed': Rotorua homeless kept awake over shelter's building consent issues
Matt Brown (Stuff): Auckland homes nearly half of country’s real estate agents – vying for a healthy commission
Mark Longley (Newshub): Does Auckland really need all those real estate agents?
Government
John Armstrong (News): Peters has not put a foot wrong since stepping into Acting PM role
Audrey Young (Herald): National seeks to dislodge Peters from his six-week sedan chair ride
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Labour’s not really feeling the love at the moment
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): What Labour needs now
Chris Trotter: Undivided Power Is Perilous
Jason Walls (Interest): A big Green problem for New Zealand’s left
Duncan Garner (Herald): Hey, Shane, all the regions want some of that loot, bro
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Roadblocks for Government fleet’s electric shift
National Party
RNZ: Simon Bridges: Govt’s ‘untargeted’ spending makes no sense
Lucy Bennett (Herald): National accuses Government of loose spending, high borrowing
Jason Walls (Interest): Politicians at the Pub: The MP formally known as ‘Crusher Collins’
Stuff: Simon Bridges admits he underestimated ‘the power’ of Radio Hauraki
Elections
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): Careful what you wish for: How entrenching the Māori seats may lead to the opposite of what its supporters seek
Richard Swainson (Waikato Times): Pining for when things weren’t so serious
International relations and trade
Zac Fleming (RNZ): MFAT refuses to front up about Vietnam aid
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Aussies the ugly underbelly of friendship we once had
Jenny Liu (Herald): How US-China trade war could affect NZ
Point of Order: The challenge of forging better relations while avoiding the flak from US-China trade war
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): National Portrait: NZ ambassador to China John McKinnon looks back on diplomatic career
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Time on NZ’s side as trade hostilities break out
Simon Draper (Herald): NZ must not become casualty of US-China trade war
Business/Economy
Liam Dann (Herald): Business still feels pained by Labour
Damien Grant (Stuff): Empathy won’t help when a global financial crisis strikes
Employment
Glenn Barclay (Herald): Workers strike as message falls on deaf ears
Karen Brown (RNZ): Nurses to vote on latest pay offer, strike action still possible
Herald: Inland Revenue asks for patience during PSA strike this afternoon
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): The message we’re sending the caring sector
Herald: 4000 MBIE and Inland Revenue staff will strike for two hours
Newshub: Thousands of Government staff prepare to strike on Monday
Tim O’Connell (Stuff): MSD and Nelson company partner to provide jobs for unemployed
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): First Union brings campaign to Nelson, calls on retail employers to pay living wage
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Open-plan offices stressing women out, Auckland researcher says
Welfare
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Auckland mum: ‘It’s been five years of living hell’
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): MSD loan case’s Ms F no poster girl for poverty
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Pension fix looms after 80 years
Joel Ineson (Stuff): Superannuation will be cut after retiree refuses to apply for Australian pension
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): MSD’s theory that loans are income is making those mortgages look expensive
Russell McVeagh review
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): Russell McVeagh intern applications increase during scandal
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): The reasons I struggle with the Bazley report
Fiona McNamara (RNZ): Changing ‘work hard, play hard’ culture not enough
ODT: Protection of young women imperative
Police and justice
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Criminal Cases Review Commission proposal ready for Cabinet
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): NZ First minister says top cop’s party link ‘news to me’
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Winston Peters criticised over rape case comments
Herald Editorial: Use of Tasers needs to be monitored
Jo Lines-Mackenzie (Stuff): Sex offenders next to families as Corrections puts them in motels
Natasha Holland and Michael Fallow (Stuff): ’I still don’t know what happened’: Gaps in investigation into teen’s 1996 shooting
Kelly Dennett (Stuff): A preventable death: Auckland woman’s manslaughter subject of internal review by police
Mike Williams (Hawkes Bay Today): David Elliott just as wrong as Rudy Giuliani on crime
Tom Furley (RNZ): Removal of Justice Sir Robert Chambers’ name from memorial slammed as ‘ridiculous’
Kim Dotcom
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff):Dotcom saga: Many wrongs make for a right mess
Daisy Hudson (ODT): Dotcom vows to fight on
Banking sector
Sam Stubbs (Spinoff): Are Australian banks rent seeking in New Zealand? And what can we do about it?
Tina Morrison (ODT): New Reserve Bank head wants greater organisational diversity
Health
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Government’s ‘shocking’ $6.5 million funding cut to cochlear implants
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Investigation, apology after doctor loses confidential breast cancer patient files
Southland Times Editorial: Having a jab at the anti-vaxxers
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Are fire foam chemicals the tip of the iceberg?
RNZ: DHB review: ‘People should let the process take its course’
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Wairarapa Hospital was warned of seismic issues in its ceilings years ago
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Construction delays stall opening of new West Coast hospital
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Changes still to be made after multiple failings in care of mental health patient
Samantha Gee (Nelson Mail): How Nelson developed a pioneering mental health service for children and adolescents
Warren Gamble (Nelson Mail): Teenage campaigner’s tenacious battle for youth mental health
Libby Wilson (Stuff): ’The start of an avalanche’: Nicky Stevens’ path to death under compulsory care
Katie Nicol-Williams (1News): More needs to be done to stop junk food reigning supreme at sports events - study
RNZ: About two-thirds of food at country’s sporting venues classified as ‘junk’
Newshub: New Zealand’s huge junk food problem at sport venues
Emily Ford and Jane Matthews (Stuff): Cameron Duncan died of cancer at 17; 15 years later he could become a father
Newshub: Auckland schoolboy killed after ute flipped saved five lives with organ donation
ACC
Mike Houlahan (ODT): ACC review concerns ‘not rocket science’
RNZ: Lawyer questions legality of thousands of ACC disputes
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Cost of assault on Pacific people rising
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Ex reviewer of ACC claims fired for using ‘inconsistent fonts’
Euthanasia
Jeremy Rees (Newsroom): Hospices say no to euthanasia
Alison McCulloch: On Voluntary Death
Media
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): MediaRoom: Journalism for the public good
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): What’s Wrong With Today’s Journalists?
RNZ: Public broadcasters group says Nauru ban unacceptable
The Ruminator: Herald has eight left columnists and one right one: Redux
David Farrar: Herald has eight left columnists and one right one
Indira Stewart (RNZ): Youth unite to change negative perceptions of South Auckland
Auckland Council venue ban for Southern and Molyneux
Dominion Post Editorial: Tolerance is a virtue
David Farrar: Phil Goff the new commissar of speech
Karl du Fresne: Where does the Left - and for that matter the National Party - really stand on freedom of speech?
Karl du Fresne: A triumph for left-wing bigotry and intolerance
Saziah Bashir (RNZ): Hate speech more than just ‘an unpopular opinion’
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): We have the freedom not to stand such divisive speech
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Green Party co-leader receives rape and death threats on social media
1News: ’My skin has thickened’ - MP Marama Davidson receives 'vile' death threats after far-right Canadian duo banned from council venues
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Greens co-leader Marama Davidson receives violent threats on social media
Herald: Death threats for Greens co-leader Marama Davidson after support for venue ban for Canadian couple accused of hate speech
Herald: Mayor bans controversial Canadian pair from talking in Auckland Council venues
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Far-right pair banned from speaking at Auckland Council venues - Phil Goff
Newshub: Auckland ‘alt-right’ event cancelled due to ‘health and safety'
Todd Niall (Stuff): Controversial Canadian speaker denied visa as Auckland agency cancels booking
No Right Turn: The cost of a free and democratic society
Vice: Protests Prepared for Anti-Islam Alt-Right Speakers in NZ
Greg Presland (The Standard): The extent of the right to free speech
Greg Presland (The Standard): Far right Canadian activist wants to come to New Zealand to insult local communities
Pete George: Goff intervenes, Auckland venue banned, speaking tour canned
Impossible burger
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The existential threat of a meat-free burger
David Cohen (RNZ): Airline dining out on ‘fake beef’ controversy
David Slack (Stuff): Say hamburger one more time
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Air NZ defends Impossible Burger again
Herald Editorial: Our impossible MPs need to weigh up the possible
Jonathan Milne (SST): Air NZ should serve up Kiwi kai – but it needn’t be beef burgers
Tom Sainsbury: Kiwis of Snapchat: Boycott Air New Zealand!
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret diary of… the impossible burger
Georgina Harris (Idealog): Air New Zealand takes the plant-based Impossible Burger to the skies
Point of Order: What makes Impossible Burgers possible? Lots of chemistry and a hint of GM
Immigration
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): NZ religious groups exploit migrant ‘clerics’
RNZ: NZ Immigration publishes Samoa quota ballot results
Newshub: First refugees arrive under new community sponsorship category
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Racism drives Afghan refugees from home in Auckland
Thalia Kehoe Rowden (Spinoff): It’s time for Aotearoa to step up and welcome home more refugees
Matariki and the whale
John Boynton (RNZ): Labour’s Māori caucus considers Matariki public holiday
Newshub: What’s the Wellington whale like? Five facts about the southern right whale
Eden More (RNZ): Visiting whale a ‘sign’ - Wellington kaumātua
RNZ: Matariki fireworks postponed due to whale visit
Newshub: Wellington’s Matariki fireworks postponed by harbour whale fears
RNZ: Wgtn whale visit: Police urge drivers to stay focussed
Newshub: Wellington whale continues to cause traffic problems
Environment
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Will New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Bill actually save us?
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Making friends of enemies for climate change goals
Will Harvie (Stuff): Zero carbon: Policy meets science
Charlie MItchell (Stuff): ECan elections may be 'very dangerous' if 'extremists' elected, warns farming leader
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Govt drags feet on pre-election conservation pledge
Jamie Morton (Herald): Campaign aims to restore Waikato’s ‘seabird mountain’
Hawkes Bay Today: Closed contentious Craggy Range track treated to a ‘healing’ event
RNZ: Waitaki Geopark application likely to inspire many more
RNZ: Calls for stronger dog control bylaws after kiwi killed
RNZ: Pig population boom around threatened kauri forest
RNZ: 70 feral goats shot on Banks Peninsula in DoC trial
RNZ: NZDF supports avalanche risk survey in Nelson Lakes
RNZ: South Island scallop fishery remains off the menu
RNZ: Motorists urged to switch to copper-free brake pads
Primary industries
Keith Woodford (Stuff): Dairy industry’s big challenge: a strategic reset
RNZ: Taranaki farms tested for M Bovis
Aroha Treacher (Māori TV): MPI warn against continued illegal selling of seafood online
Child welfare and family violence
Lisa Owen (Newshub): Interview: Tracey Martin (video)
RNZ: Kim Hill interview: Children’s Commission marks 2 years in the role (audio)
Isaac Davison (Herald): Custodial parent faring worse after breakups - Becroft
Barbara Dreaver (1News): National violence programme for Pasifika youth kicks off
Lucy Corry (The Wireless): Are parents still smacking their kids?
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Football coach accused of rubbing child’s nose in dirt
Education
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Multiple teachers deregistered for hitting, force-feeding and dragging young children
Melanie Earley (Stuff): More than 70 schools now challenging the Government’s NCEA review process
Herald: Principals NCEA Coalition reaches 70 schools
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Hato Petera supporters protest to keep their school open
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Raukura maintain their reign for another two years
RNZ: Te Rōpū Raukura win kapa haka champs for second year running
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Drop of 44,000 international students forecast if work visa rule change goes ahead
RNZ: Disabled student unable to finish degree without support
Eden Park charity row
Newshub: Helen Clark’s actions over Eden Park charity concert ‘morally wrong’ - Sir Ray Avery
Lisa Owen (Newshub): Interview: Sir Ray Avery (video)
Alison Mau (Stuff): Clark v Ray - ‘There hasn’t been a public scrap of this calibre for ages’
Herald: Eden Park charity concert battle off to Environment Court
Film industry
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Shining a light on our movie money
Eric Crampton: Paying for more hostages
Matt Nippert (Herald): Sir Peter Jackson’s $237m war museum in doubt
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Government $25m for convention centre on hold until Sir Peter Jackson and council agree on museum
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): We cringed at ‘Wellywood’ and now we can grimace at, um, er, ‘Huttywood Hills’?
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Golf courses and parks among big sell-off by Auckland Council
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland mayor Phil Goff scotches ‘toilet tax’ talk
Herald Editorial: Once bitten, twice shy on another council tax
Cherie Howie (Herald): Auckland councillors weigh in on ‘toilet tax
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Regional fuel tax could be followed by a toilet tax in Auckland
Newshub: Auckland Council considering ‘toilet tax’
1News: Ports of Auckland charged over death of ocean swimmer
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Ports of Auckland charged over death of ocean swimmer Leslie Gelberger
Gary Farrow (Stuff): Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta to research country-wide water system
Max Christoffersen (Waikato Times): Opinion: Who voted for Richard Briggs’ $440k annual salary?
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Trevor Mallard slams bus event as celebration of lost jobs for ‘my poorest neighbours’
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Concerns about harassment and bullying at Wellington City Council
Chris Lynch (Newstalk ZB): Christchurch City Council lacks transparency
Herald: Christchurch City Council forced to reveal touch wall cost $1.24 million
RNZ: Christchurch sports field saved from development
David Williams (Newsroom): Timeout on Christchurch’s big sports project
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Waimea Dam project likely higher than first estimated
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Tasman District Council pursues local bill for dam land, MP seeks full house support
Building industry and safety
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Analysis: Quake-prone buildings force tough decisions
Rob Stock (Stuff): New Zealand needs a specialist building court, say property lawyers
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Red tape delaying bathroom renovation
Northern Advcoate: Whangarei house renovation ends in $2000 fine
Women on boards
Transcript: Q+A: Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Women on public boards: ‘The private sector needs to catch up’
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Government target of 50 per cent women on state sector boards and committees by 2021
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government target: Gender balance on state sector boards
Ele Ludemann: Do as they say not as they do
David Farrar: The least ambitious target ever
Gender and sexuality
Melody Thomas (Stuff): Early Māori view on sexual fluidity far more liberal than previously believed
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): Transgender rights debate rises to surface
Charles Anderson, John Daniell, Brannavan Gnanalingham and Gary Steel (Stuff): What’s it like to grow up male in New Zealand?
Awanui Black allegations
David Fisher (Herald): Widow says her former husband’s paedophile rings goes to ‘highest heights’
Yvonne Tahana (1News): Allegations of paedophilia against iwi leader Awanui Black causes shockwaves
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Community in shock over accusations against iwi leader
Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): Tauranga community leaders react to claims deceased iwi leader was a paedophile
David Farrar: Be careful about rushing to judgement
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Widows claims of late husband’s paedophilia - ‘brave’
Herald: Widow of Awanui Black claims he was a paedophile
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Iwi leader Te Awanui Black’s widow claims he was a paedophile
Other
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Does NZ’s new law ‘ensuring multinationals pay tax based on the actual economic activity they carry out in NZ’ apply to Visa and Mastercard?
Rob Stock (Stuff): Nine-figure payday beckons for Aussies planning to close Kiwi insurance fund
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Meth plague at record levels, with P-related arrests nearly doubling in 5 years
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Instagram hunters keeping search and rescue busy
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Ngāti Tamaoho in “high spirits” at final claims reading
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): With trademark combover and rimmed glasses, Wētere played it well
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Tipene O’Regan: We must remember to remember
Emma Espiner (Newsroom): Sit with discomfort and build a bridge
Suzanne McFadden (Newsroom): What girls want: more sport
Neil Reid (Herald): Basketball: The truth behind Steven Adams’ Tall Blacks snub
Bruce Munro (ODT): The sound of silence
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Is NZ missing out on a digital gold rush?
Brenda Harwood (ODT): Hundreds sign South D post-shop petition
MIchael Reddell: Are things better or worse than 50 years ago?
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): What does that troublesome word Pākehā mean?
RNZ: Self-styled NZ Baptist pastor facing deportation from Australia
Newshub: Extremist NZ pastor Logan Robertson faces deportation from Australia
Herald: Marama Fox’s secret heartache as 29-year marriage ends