NZ Politics Daily - 16 July 2018
16 July 2018
Today's content
Environment and conservation
Leighton Keith (Stuff): Seabed mining exploration permit revelations could lead to legislative changes
John Boynton (RNZ): Iwi oppose Taranaki seabed mining exploration
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): Never mind the wagging tail, the system’s a dog
RNZ: ’Generally the water coming out of our taps is very safe to drink’
RNZ Sunday Morning: Michael Baker: NZ’s drinking water may not be our biggest worry (audio)
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Government taking on Bay of Plenty Iwi in Court of Appeal around local council regulating seabirds
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): DOC must explain why it forced out scientist for communicating with the public
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): Environment Southland to investigate 1080 dump on Stewart Island
Logan Savory (ODT): Doc says contractor’s actions could undermine its work
Dave Nicoll (Stuff): Invercargill MP condemns 1080 dump on Stewart Island
Dan Dalgety (RNZ): Calls to prosecute contractor who dumped 75kg of 1080
Matt Brown (Stuff): Poison drop delayed as hunters collate carcass count
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Explainer: Why 1080 is the chosen method to save our wildlife
Newshub: ’New Zealand can be a leader on climate change’ - WWF
Jamie Morton (Herald): Poll: Few Kiwis think world will overcome climate challenge
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Revealed: What Kiwis think about climate change
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Changing attitudes as companies take on emission targets
Peter Reidy (Stuff): KiwiRail: We can’t be complacent on climate change
Tom McKinlay (ODT): Putting a price on our emissions
No Right Turn: Climate change: Getting rid of petrol cars
Paul Broady (Stuff): Time to share Antarctic stations and reform the treaty
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Councils to lobby Government to ‘eliminate’ single-use plastic bags and drinking straws
Jehan Casinader (1News): New Zealand’s waste crisis: Five things you need to know
Nicholas Boyack (Stuff): Lower Hutt firm wants to recycle all New Zealand’s plastic bottles
Sara Meij (Stuff): Customers call out companies on unnecessary waste and use of plastic
Newshub: Freedom Furniture called out over ‘irresponsible’ packaging
Northern Advocate: Kauri sanctuary plan at Takou Bay to save species from dieback
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): ’Like losing family’: time may be running out for New Zealand’s most sacred tree
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Race to prevent potential oil spill from Niagara shipwreck off Whangārei
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Fears for kiwi as dogs on loose in Kaweka Forest - DOC
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Traffic lights proposed in final consultation for blue cod strategy
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Proposed water treatment plant could destroy native bush - protesters
Justice and police
1News: Watch: Take a tour of the new $300 million prison wing housing NZ’s worst criminals
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): New $300 million prison wing opens in Auckland’s Paremoremo Prison
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Inside the new $300 million Auckland Prison with a sensory garden
Anne Gibson (Herald):Inside Auckland’s new $300m jail: A look at our most secure prison
Jared Nicoll (Stuff): A prison among the pines: Rimutaka Prison’s long shadow on the community it calls home
Nina HIndmarsh (Stuff): Wrong 1080 threat suspects receive $10,000 settlement from police
Māori TV: Iwi community justice panel launched at Hoani Waititi Marae
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Ngāti Whātua elder calls for more iwi participation in prisoner rehabilitation
Liz Gordon (Daily Blog): Custodial alternatives to prison for women
Graeme Edgeler (Herald): Weird laws you never knew existed in New Zealand
RNZ: NZ police welcome new Pacific violence prevention programme
Andrea Vance (Stuff): ’Significant quantities’ of meth trafficked through NZ airports
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Pride, public relations and the police
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Woman facing serious charges walks free after being deemed unfit to stand trial
Health
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Police mental health plan victim of funding cuts under new Government
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Police disappointed after mental health pilot dropped
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Police ditch plan to send mental health workers on crisis callouts
Jacques Steenkamp (Stuff): Police need to focus on criminals, not mental health callouts
Newshub: National leader Simon Bridges slams Govt’s ‘stealth cuts'
Newstalk ZB: Government scrapping of police mental health pilot ‘disgraceful’, says National
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Canterbury police responding to ‘scary’ increase in suicide-related calls
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Christchurch nurse declined ACC compensation over earthquake trauma
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Taxpayers foot bill when chiropractic treatment goes wrong
Nicholas Jones (Herald): NZ babies dying from syphilis: ‘Our health care systems are falling over’ say experts
Newshub: Kiwi babies dying from syphilis
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Counties DHB: not all damage-control
Zane Small (Newshub): Labour MP Tamati Coffey says National ‘can’t deny’ health sector neglect
Nicola Russell (Newshub): Preventable ‘pressure’ injuries in public hospitals double since 2012
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Hayley Wyatt suffered from the most painful condition on Earth
Logan Church (RNZ): Holistic approach to mental health as new facility seeks funding
Sally Round (RNZ): Insight: Facing down loneliness for NZ’s ageing population
Sally Round (RNZ): Desperate need to house lonely seniors: ‘It’s a hidden problem’
Sarah Watt (Stuff): Māui’s Hook: Why this New Zealand documentary should be compulsory viewing
Kayne Peters (Spinoff): “Some say, ‘Where are you gonna bury yours? Inside or outside the urupā?’”
Mike Wesley-Smith (Newshub): Glimmer of hope after years of pain for Kiwis sold faulty hip replacements
ODT Editorial: A new private hospital plan
Ben Leahy (Herald): An Auckland family-run detox centre is helping addicts find the path to recovery
Health sector employment
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Irony - nurses finally get safe staffing levels during strike
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Nurses strikes: has the Govt ‘lost control’?
Newshub: Newshub Nation Union Panel: July 14, 2018 (video)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Health Minister David Clark’s Clayton’s holiday
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Clark saga shows Government’s lack of transparency
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Health Minister missing when needed the most
Lucy Bennett (Herald):Health Minister David Clark defends holiday in lead-up to nurses’ strike
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Health Minister David Clark out of the country before nurses’ strike
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): David Clark fronts on nurses: No more money for salaries
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Nurses called in to help Waikato Hospital cope during strike action
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Volunteer staff praised for their response to 24-hour nurses strike
Stuff: If most nurses were male, we’d be getting the pay we deserve
Emma Russell (Herald): New Zealand hospital staff abused daily: ‘It’s time to talk’
Taroi Black (Māori TV): Overworked midwives under paid
1News: Northland health workers say they’re thousands of dollars out of pocket after being caught in employment scam
Employment
Bruce Munro (ODT): One out all out
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Bypassed by the economic boom, workers are pushing back
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): How should new Government deal with wave of industrial actions?
Newshub: Government needs to consider raising debt ceiling to stop strikes - Teachers union
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Jobs on the line at Te Papa, document leak reveals
Stephanie Mitchell (Stuff): Why there are so many $2 shops in New Zealand
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Govt urged to step in over possible job cuts at Warehouse
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Modest impact seen from FPAs, minimum wage
Business/economy
Cameron Bagrie (Stuff): The bears are out but the wheels are still turning
BusinessDesk: NZ manufacturing slows to weakest in 6 months
Eden More (RNZ): Iwi group invests $100m on plans to revive local economy
Housing
RNZ: Mangere housing development ‘long overdue’ - local board
1News: South Auckland state house residents to be moved as major new development announced - ‘I feel sad’
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Mangere state homes to make way for new builds
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): South Auckland iwi want a say in 10,000 new home build
1News: Government to build 10,000 new homes in South Auckland a third of which will be KiwiBuild homes
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): 10,000 homes: Huge housing project announced for south Auckland
RNZ: Most KiwiBuild homes in first year will be apartments
Jared Nicoll (Stuff): Woman’s request to swap her state house for childhood home declined
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Auckland City Mission opens ‘safe haven’ for homeless women
Rob Stock (Stuff): Freetown NZ: Kiwis who don’t pay rent
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Dozens of first home builders take up $5000 rates remission offer
Government
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): National blasts ministers over ‘secretive' dinner with Google at exclusive club
No Right Turn: The Minister for Open Government, yet again
Point of Order: Psst! If you want to keep a secret, put it in Clare Curran’s custody
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The Greens are winning the war, but losing battles along the way
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Labour brings in “gender intelligence” consultants
Jane Bowron (Dominion Post): Winston The Musical - Coming soon to a TV screen near you
Defence
John Armstrong (1News): Defence Minister Ron Mark has shafted Labour in order to benefit NZ First
William Hoverd (Stuff): Pacific reset to climate threat - new priorities and tensions for defence?
Laura Walters (Stuff): New sub-killer planes may never fire in anger but Govt wants the option
Andrew Gunn (Press): Will our new Poseidons have paywave?
Richard Jackson and Kevin Clements (ODT): Memorial an effort to redress gap in national narrative
International relations and trade
Richard Harman (Politik): China starts to hit back
Audrey Young (Herald): Pleasing Australia has been deemed more important than displeasing China
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Australian Senate bans foreign interns, according to media reports
Auckland Now: Calls for China debate at Auckland human rights rally
Siah Hwee Ang (Stuff): Asean is getting more attention, and it’s not an accident
Liam Dann (Herald): Trade war shock just what NZ didn’t need
Claire Trevett (Herald): Sir Lockwood Smith says some truth in Trump’s Brexit warning
Point of Order: Not much from fallout from Trump’s trade wars? Not yet – so be prepared
Claire Trevett (Herald): Justice Minister Andrew Little seeks Australia explanation on extradition bungles
RNZ: Work begins on new NZ High Commission building in Niue
Free speech and Southern and Molyneux venue ban
John Drinnan: Freedom From Offendarati Rule
Karl du Fresne: “I’m all for free speech, but not right now”
Chris Trotter: Testing The Boundaries Of Political Discourse
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Thanks to the internet, freedom of speech has already triumphed
1News: ’I’m not against free speech' - Phil Goff stands by decision to ban controversial speakers from council venues
Herald: Phil Goff puts Donald Trump in a different camp to far-right Canadian duo
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Auckland free speech rally over controversial speakers draws crowds
Alex Braae (Spinoff): What did the Free Speech protestors actually have to say?
John Roughan (Herald): Since when were town halls closed to divisive events?
Peter Cresswell: Molyneux & Southern V Goff: This was never about free speech
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Bog): Did NZ just get trolled by the alt-right?
Terry Verhoeven: Will the Coalition for Free Speech instead play a part in its muzzling?
Grant Shimmin (Timaru Herald): Making a point about a principle that wasn’t even realistically threatened
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of The Free Speech Coalition
Pallavi Singhal (Stuff): ’It’s OK to be white’: Far right speaker Lauren Southern lands in Australia
Primary Industries
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Industry letter to Government criticises fishing camera proposal
RNZ: Tolaga Bay flooding damage may take two years to fix
RNZ: AgResearch field-testing GM ryegrass in United States
Robert McLachlan (The Conversation): New Zealand’s zero carbon bill: much ado about methane
RNZ Country Life: Mycoplasma bovis notice to cull: Farmer Henk Smit faces 800-cow loss
Kirsty Wynn (Herald): ’Malicious campaign’ sent photos of animals under vet care
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Christchurch zoo hit by false allegations on animal welfare
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): Minerals research institute up and running on West Coast
Pike River
RNZ: Families of Pike River disaster ‘elated’ with plan for re-entry
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Plan to re-enter Pike River more expensive than expected
Joanne Carroll (Press): Pike River re-entry could cost $12m more than $23m budget, minister says
RNZ: Pike River re-entry: ‘Concept plan’ presented to families
The Opportunities Party
Jenny Condie (Spinoff): TOP could’ve been so much more than Gareth being Gareth
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Why Gareth Morgan’s The Opportunities Party failed
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Why TOP’s demise is a warning for National
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Gareth Morgan’s political party was a missed opportunity
Parliament
David Farrar: Beehive staffing levels up 13%
David Farrar: I’m sure all parents would love free partner travel
Education
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Teachers must step in on mental health
RNZ Sunday Morning: Mina Fazel: mental health services for young people
Simon Collins (Herald): In your neighbourhood? Find out where Auckland’s new schools will be built
Herald Editorial: School and city planners look to be on the same map this time
Alison Mau (Stuff): Something is rotten in the state of our schools
Alexia Russell (Newsroom): Can the great Māori boarding schools return?
Paula Hulburt (Stuff): ’Paranoid’ preschools ban birthday cakes over allergy fears
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): Hamilton school’s ERO report highlights levels of disparity, students not achieving
Herald: Education Minister Chris Hipkins proposes commissioner for troubled Unitec
Newshub: Government set to appoint Commissioner at Unitec
Kristin Edge (Northern Advocate): Foreign student in Northland scammed of $38,000
Piers Fuller (Stuff): High cost of Wellington living forces students into long commutes
Elena McPhee (ODT): Uni defends sending support to Loch Ness
Joel MacManus (Critic): Otago University’s Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster was Embarrassing and Expensive
Elena McPhee (ODT): OUSA out to bat for residential assistants
Media and broadcasting
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Clare Curran leaves commercial media to sink or tread water
Siena Yates (Herald): The Spinoff TV is $700,000, self-proclaimed ‘nonsense’
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): MediaRoom: Ratings can save, or they can kill
Craig Norenbergs (Newshub): What happened to Newshub’s Lloyd Burr wasn’t ‘good fun’ - it was intolerable
Anna Loren (Stuff): Welcome to The 09, Stuff’s new Auckland newsletter
Welfare
Susan St John (Newsroom): Working for Families perversely misunderstood
Pete George: Is WFF corporate welfare? Would a UBI solve it?
Alice Guy (Rotorua Daily Post): Children in Rotorua forced to sleep in motels due to lack of foster parents
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Nelson retirees choosing to give their winter energy payment to those in need - ‘An amazing thing’
Matariki Awards
Māori TV: Derek Lardelli wins Matariki Supreme Award
Māori TV: Mike King wins Te Tupu-ā-Rangi Award for Health and Science
Māori TV: NZ Māori Wardens Association takes out Hiwa i Te Rangi Award for Community
Māori TV: Pem Bird wins Te Ururangi Award for his contribution to education
Māori TV: Five prominent Maori leaders share lifetime award for commitment to te reo and tikanga
Māori TV: Paraone Gloyne honoured for his dedication to te reo Māori and tikanga
Māori TV: Alien Weaponry wins Te Whetū Maiangi Award for Young Achievers
Māori TV: Rachel House and Professor Derek Lardelli joint winners of Te Waipuna-ā-Rangi Award for Entertainment
Māori TV: Portia Woodman wins Te Waitā Award for Sport
Māori TV: KONO NZ LP wins Te Tupu-ā-Nuku Award for Business and Innovation
Women, equality, feminism
Newshub: Is feminism relevant to Māori women?
Sasha Borissenko (Newsrom): Gender equality - are we there yet?
Morgan Godfery (Māui Street): Māori women are leading the way - again
Local government
Herald: Government announces inquiry into ways for councils to raise money
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): ’Project Localism’ wants councils to take the reins from Govt
RNZ: Calls for more ‘localism’ by local government leaders
Anne Gibson (Herald): ’When I bought, I knew there’d be a fight’: developer on Remuera bowling green project
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Statue size of Statue of Liberty on cards for Bastion Pt
Herald: Tentative support for 50-metre tall statue in Auckland’s harbour - but concerns about costs
Simon Collins (Herald): Giant statue of Papatūānuku the Earth Mother proposed for Bastion Point
Herald Editorial: Giant Ōrākei statue could be impressive
Newshub: Papatūānuku statue proposed for Bastion Point
Newshub: Coromandel’s Captain Cook monument falls into the sea
Imogen Neale and Felicity Reid (Stuff): Swings, sandpits and giant building blocks for the elderly: Auckland Council thinks it’s not so silly
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Calls for external review into bullying at Wellington City Council
Regional development
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Tourism windfall from the Govt’s $1b Provincial Growth Fund
Robin Martin (RNZ): Hydrogen energy: ‘It looks like the face of the future’
Amanda Larsson (Taranaki Daily News): A $100 million mistake: MP is wrong about a new gas-fired power plant
Census
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Census field officer blasts delivery of operations
David Slack (Stuff): In the realm of the census
Return of Māori and Moriori remains
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Indigenous remains return home after more than a century
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): “These ancestor remains were stolen and sold overseas”
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): 17 Māori and Moriori ancestral remains return home
Tourism
Grant Bradley (Herald): Hotels push for Airbnb to cover more bed tax burden
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Economic agency gets $2.5m to attract Chinese tourists to Wellington
Awanui Black allegations
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Unfortunate media reaction to Anihera Black’s claims
1News: The wife of a late iwi leader has restated allegations that her husband was a paedophile in her first television interview given to TVNZ’s Marae programme
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Ani Black speaks out, some refute claims of pedophilia
RNZ: Te Awanuiārangi Black’s youngest victim as young as 7 - wife
Herald: Anihera Black says three claims of abuse against her late husband are ‘irrefutable’, and two more people have come forward
Florence Kerr and Matt Shand (Stuff): Widow of Awanui Black says she has no evidence of paedophile ring
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Marae TV Review: Awanui Black
David Farrar: More on the Awanui Black claims
Other
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Big accounting firms preparing for day of reckoning
Pete George: “What really bothers me about much of the ‘new left’”
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Young people ‘expect to end up poorer’ but it’s not all gloom
Damien Grant (Stuff): Governments forget that people have choices
Janine Starks (Stuff): Tax on capital gains need not be complicated
Ian Hyslop (Newsroom): Return of Māori power more than cultural nods
RNZ: Kāpiti Expressway may need further work done
Spinoff: ’We need to say, OK, what next?’ Jacinda Ardern on the impact of #MeToo
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Environment Court to make call over Eden Park concert
RNZ: Classic Flying Nun tunes land at Alexander Turnbull Library
Jared Nicoll (Dominion Post): Few first-day jitters as Wellington welcomes new bus service
Dominion Post: Wellington’s new bus network hits road for first weekday test
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Wellington cathedral shuts over quake safety concerns
Kate Robertson (Stuff): Bay Dreams festival books headline act accused of ‘racism and sexism’
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Drone promise not yet delivering
Esther Taunton (Stuff): More animals may have life beyond the lab
Georgina Harris (Idealog): More than a koru, part two: What role does Māoridom play in New Zealand’s design identity?