NZ Politics Daily - 10 July 2018
10 July 2018
Today's content
Defence
Audrey Young (Herald): China ambassador registers concern over NZ’s strategic defence policy statement
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Winston Peters says China expressed concern over defence plan naming it as a threat
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Peters confirms China concerns over defence paper
Van Jackson (Incline): The Price of New Zealand’s Strategy-Force Mismatch
Nevil Gibson (NBR): NZ First aims to end long-standing ‘free rider’ defence strategy
Richard Harman (Politik): The coalition makes the decision National would not
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): $2.3b NZDF plane deal to ‘strengthen Pacific Reset’
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Defence Minister urged to not put missiles and bombs on new aircraft
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Government buys $2.3 billion Defence Force aircraft
Jason Walls (Interest): The Government will spend $2.3 billion on four new P-8A Poseidon aircraft
RNZ: Govt to spend $2.3b on planes to replace aging fleet
Laura Walters (Stuff): Submarine-hunting planes to replace ageing Orions
Hannah Martin (Stfuf); Air Force squadron to move from Whenuapai to Ohakea
RNZ: New vice-chief announced at Defence
Auckland Council venue ban for Southern and Molyneux
RNZ: Phil Goff defends blocking far-right speakers who ‘spout racist nonsense’
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Does freedom of speech extend to far-right voices?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Do We Really Lack the Courage to Debate the Alt-Right? Do We Really Lack the Ideas to Defeat Them?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Since when were we on the Left frightened to fight crypto-fascsists?
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Winston Peters would’ve let far-right activists speak
1News: Winston Peters would have let far-right commentators talk at venue on ‘basis of free speech’
Newshub: Winston Peters would’ve let controversial far-right speakers into NZ
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Bridges backs free speech for far-right writers banned from Auckland Council venues
1News: Phil Goff was ‘entitled’ to ban Canadian far-right speakers from council venues, Simon Bridges says
Pete George: Peters, Bridges support free speech
Nick Truebridge and Todd Niall (Stuff): Call for judicial review of Auckland Council agency’s blocking of far-right speakers
Karl du Fresne: Free speech coalition to seek judicial review of Goff speaking ban
Karl du Fresne: Southern and Molyneux: my response to Kimbo
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The disconnect between platforming fascists and stopping them recruiting more
No Right Turn: The cost of a free and democratic society II
Michael Reddell: Free speech, even for odd or obnoxious views
Steven Cowan: Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently
Peter Cresswell: Some propositions on free speech
Dane Giraud: Progressive opposition to free speech is completely baffling
Employment
Paul Buchanan: Unions, Parties and the decision to strike
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): NZ’s reputation of having a high quality of life could be under threat, economist says
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Public service workers hit by deluge as Government warns of a 'rainy day'
Katie Doyle (RNZ): About 4000 govt employees rally around the country for better pay
Herald: IRD and MBIE staff march for higher pay in Wellington and Auckland CBDs
Samantha Gee (Nelson Mail): Government workers in Nelson plant trees during strike action
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): ’We’re not asking to be millionaires’: nurses’ pay offer vote expected to be close
Laura Macdonald (Stuff): Nurse strike sees hundreds of surgeries, appointments cancelled
RNZ: Auckland pizza franchises fined and forced to pay back wages
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Picket support for HOYTS staff threatened with lock-out
Julie Iles (Stuff): Auckland and Wellington face off for best-paying city
Wilhelmina Shrimpton (Newshub): Work stress driving Kiwis to breaking point
Business/Economy
Rob Campbell (Spinoff): Business has no right to a second winter of discontent
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Sharemarket thriving, despite woes besetting businesses
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Business confidence remains weak in quarter, survey shows
Housing
RNZ: New state housing apartments announced in central Auckland
Newshub: Phil Twyford announces ‘flagship’ state housing development
David Cormack (Herald): Why this Government looks just like the old one
Tim Brown (RNZ): House in Queenstown’s first special housing area sells for $890k
Michael Daly (Stuff): Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary
Newshub: Grafton now Auckland’s fastest rising suburb
Scott Yeoman (Bay of Plenty Times): ’Stop putting cash in cups’: Group offers new way to help homeless
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Auckland City Mission opens women-only night shelter
High Country tenure review
Timaru Herald editorial: Comprehensive review of tenure review should happen
No Right Turn: Ripped off
International relations
Herald: Winston Peters tips leadership challenge for British PM Theresa May
Stuff: Winston Peters in praise of Boris Johnson
Newshub: Winston Peters warns of political ‘spill’ after Boris Johnson resigns
Herald: Winston Peters: Government hands tied over EU diplomat Eva Tvarozkova rental dispute
Isaac Davison (Herald): Landlord loses bid to recoup $20,000 from EU diplomat Eva Tvarozkova for damage, unpaid rent
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Don’t rent your property to a diplomat
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): European diplomat won’t have to pay $20,000 bill to landlord
Marie Leadbeater (Spinoff): The Monday Extract: New Zealand’s disgraceful role in the ‘slow genocide’ of West Papua
Health
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Urgent need for sugary drinks tax: Health boards
Māori TV: Labelled a child killer because of non-vaccination
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Hospital buildings still in use despite safety warnings
Emma Russell (Herald): Rest home in breach for failing to change elderly resident’s wound dressing
RNZ: Elderly woman gets infection after dressing not changed
Logan Church (RNZ): Hillmorton security guard labelled ‘useless’ by nurses
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Waitaki no closer to cause of E.coli contamination
Herald: New Zealand’s worrying fast-food trends revealed in new study
Sarah Catherall (Listener): Inside the Plunket controversy: Why volunteers are up in arms
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Government referendum on cannabis doesn’t go far enough - Expert
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Kiwis feeling gloomier about their health and wellbeing
The Opportunities Party
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): ’I enjoyed pissing off the flakes and groupies’: Gareth Morgan on TOP, RIP
Herald: Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party decides it won’t contest the 2020 election
Julian Lee and Joelle Daly (Stuff): Gareth Morgan’s The Opportunities Party is over
Newsalk ZB: The Opportunities Party is no more
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party folds
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): The Opportunities Party won’t contest the 2020 election; Gareth Morgan says the Jacinda effect shows people don’t vote on policy
No Right Turn: TOP-less
Women on boards
Alex Davis (Herald): Research shows no benefit from women on company boards
Andrea Brewster (RNZ): Board diversity essential for leadership in 2018
Point of Order: Genter, gender, governance and GDP – shouldn’t the Govt start with its Cabinet?
Primary and extractive industries
Lois Williams (RNZ): Campaign against country’s largest chicken farm steps up
Robin Martin (RNZ): Offshore ban causes onshore pain
Environment and conservation
Nikki Preston (Herald): Investigation into how 49 cows died and were buried on heritage-protected Motutapu Island ongoing
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ’s plastics challenge: Four solutions to piling up waste
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Whanganui River to feature in National Geographic magazine
Pat Baskett (Newsroom): A case of David and Goliath at Long Bay
Newshub: Wellington’s ‘Matariki’ whale could be a good sign - expert
Herald: Fossil bone study uncovers unknown animal species and Māori behaviours
No Right Turn: Mini-Muldoonism
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): So technically, NZ is less environmental than Al Qaeda
Education
David Fisher (Herald): Mother found guilty of failing to get children to school claimed they were too sick to attend
Koroi Hawkins (RNZ): Claims NZ curriculum failing to reflect Pasifika identity
Emily Ford (Stuff): Compulsory te reo Māori would ‘do so much good’ for New Zealand, actor says
Brent Edwards (NBR): Education Minister promises rescue mission for polytechs
Joel MacManus and Charlie O’Mannin (Critic): Selwyn College Students Secretly Voted on the Fresher Girl with the ‘Best Rack’
Newshub: Otago University students’ obscene voting topics exposed in report
Charlie O’Mannin (Critic): Campaign To Repeal Voluntary Student Membership Starts
Government
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Something’s off with toilet tax debate
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Melinda Gates sings Jacinda Ardern’s praises over paid parental leave package
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Phil Twyford fined $500 for using phone on flight
Newshub: Transport Minister Phil Twyford fined $500 for aircraft cell phone use
Herald: Transport Minister Phil Twyford fined $500 for using phone on plane
1News: Transport Minister Phil Twyford fined $500 for using his phone on a plane
Spark
Newshub: Spark charged with misleading and overcharging customers
RNZ: Spark faces charges for allegedly over-billing customers
Gender and sexuality
1News: ’Trans women are women’ - Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter responds to some feminists’ concerns transgender rights will compromise their own
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Pressure mounts for government to ban gay conversion therapy
Katie Newton (Stuff): Lesbian couple ‘shocked’ by Kiwi baker who refused to make wedding cake
Herald: Warkworth baker refuses to make wedding cake for gay couple
Chris Lynch (Newstalk ZB): The Warkworth baker and the same-sex couple - a slice of homophobia or free speech?
Greg Presland (The Standard): Cake makers and fascists
Auckland
RNZ: A tug of war over Auckland’s marinas
Bernard Orsman (Herald): More than half of Aucklanders to get a rates rise of less than 2.5 per cent
Awanui Black allegations
Leigh-Marama McLachlan and Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Calls mount for an investigation into Te Awanuiārangi Black
1News: Paedophilia claim against dead iwi leader sparks worries about victims, debate on Māoridom’s handling of abuse
Graham Cameron (Spinoff): ’I believe Ani Black’: Sexual abuse and the silence that poisons communities
Sandra Conchie and David Fisher (Herald): Speak out against powerful abusers says Louise Nicholas as paedophile allegations shock community
Matt Shand (Stuff): Friends and leaders react to Awanui Black paedophile allegations
Other
Victoria Young (NBR): Former Russell McVeagh partner’s practising certificate renewed
Jenny Ling (Stuff): Calls for nationwide meth reduction programme
Raniera Harrison (Māori TV):Northland boxers ‘square off’ to knock-out P in the North
Eden More (RNZ): New role helping grow Te Māngai Pāho media strategy
Russell Brown (Spinoff): The new Hawaiki cable is doing what Sam Morgan and Peter Thiel could not
Sara Meij (Nelson Mail): New Zealand’s changing energy landscape to include solar micro grids
Victoria University (Newsroom): Patents threaten to misappropriate Māori knowledge
Bruce Munro (ODT): Atoms and Eves
Teresa Cowie (RNZ): Insight: Goldrush - The rise of the esports industry
Leighton Keith (Taranaki Daily News): Simon Bridges polls the public to develop blueprint for the future
Dan Dalgety (RNZ): New era for the Akaroa Volunteer Fire Brigade
Greg Presland (The Standard): Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal
Herald: SPCA says abuse of possum ‘unnecessary cruelty’ and not pest control
RNZ: Nine to Noon: Political commentators: Matthew Hooton and Stephen Mills (audio)
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): A cashless society in 10 years?
Herald: Name removed from memorial to late Supreme Court judge Sir Robert Chambers