NZ Politics Daily - 19 July 2018
19 July 2018
Today's content
Employment
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Treasury urged Government to delay creating Jim Bolger-led working group
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Government admits ‘inappropriate’ role in Tranzit’s Wellington bus chaos
RNZ Checkpoint: ’The hourly rate is less than the minimum wage’
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Stricter rules urged as forestry deaths rise again
Newshub: Four-day work week trial ‘very interesting’ - Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Shorter working week is ‘good for the soul’
Dave De Lorean (Stuff): Four-day work week ‘liberating, empowering, exciting’
Damien Venuto (Herald): Why a four-day week is difficult to put into practice
Damien Venuto (Herald): Four-day week could help to ease Auckland's traffic woes
Stuff: Four-day working week trial a bonus for working mums
Karen Brown (RNZ): Nurses’ union, DHBs pledge more negotiations
Emma Russell (Herald): Bargaining between union and DHBs under way on nurses’ pay deal
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Nursing needs: New Zealand not considering laws for nurse-to-patient ratios
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Pay, recruitment and retention in the mix for Police Association in negotiations
David Farrar: Police pay round will be interesting
Fiona Kennedy and Ralph Bathurst (Stuff): Bazley report a good start, but long-term change may be elusive
International relations and trade
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): Australians are not always good neighbours
Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ and Australia in the ‘bewildered and confused’ world order
Edward Gay (RNZ): NZ man sexually abused as a boy in Australian state care denied compensation
RNZ: Justice not served in Australia extradition cases muddle - Andrew Little
Newstalk ZB: Little criticises Aussie govt’s unhumanitarian deportation policy
Stuff: Inquiry call after ‘unnecessary force’ used to move Kiwi woman in Sydney detention centre\
Audrey Young (Herald): UK set to start domestic consultation on first free-trade deals, including with NZ
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Winston Peters says Russian US election interference ‘highly likely
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Peters sings from wrong songbook on Trump debacle
Health
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): NZ likely to miss smokefree target - report
Jennifer Eder and Skara Bohny (Stuff): Review prompted by Ruby Knox murder blasts NZ’s disability care
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Report findings after Ruby Knox’s death released
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Young diabetics missing insulin shots in dangerous bid to lose weight
RNZ: Govt needs to help battle syphilis, doctors say
Emma Russell (Herald): Increased demand prompts surge in delays for CT and MRI scans at Waitemata DHB
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Parties say they’ll collaborate on mental health
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Charity offer of treatment withdrawn
Free speech and Southern and Molyneux venue ban
David Farrar: Don’t study at Massey University if you like free speech
Glen McConnell (Dominion Post): Why self-proclaimed ‘free speech champions’ aren’t helping the cause
Newshub: Duncan Garner calls Auckland Council ‘stuffy’ over far-right venue row
Erin Gourley (Villainesse): Free speech is designed to protect privilege
Newshub: Free speech group says ‘dangerous precedent’ will be set if they lose lawsuit
Todd Niall (Stuff): Court proceedings filed against Auckland Council for barring Canadian speakers
Sam Hurley (Herald): Free-speech group files court papers suing Auckland Council, Mayor Goff over speakers’ ban
Newshub: Free Speech Coalition files legal action against Phil Goff
Media and broadcasting
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom Pro): Labour’s public broadcasting paralysis
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The big mistake with public service TV
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Saving Spinoff TV
Herald: Spinoff TV dumped in graveyard slot after dismal ratings
Kate Robertson (Stuff): Spinoff TV: Socially engaged young people aren’t watching TV
Newshub: Racial epithets becoming more offensive to Kiwis in 2018
Environment and conservation
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Water experts cost $80,000 - but where’s their report?
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Oil spill threat: Northland residents outraged nothing has been done about Niagara shipwreck
Jane Matthews (Stuff): Minister urged to stop exploration in marine sanctuary off Taranaki coast
Mike Watson (Stuff): Oil and gas fracking operations given good report card by Taranaki Regional Council
Newshub: Thousands have their say on Zero Carbon Bill
Jamie Morton (Herald): Councils unsure where to start on climate threat - scientist
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Te Mata Peak track’s cut heights are non-compliant, documents show
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Exclusive Marlborough Sounds holiday jetty must be open to everyone
Education and child welfare
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Early childhood centres facing impacts of growing drug use, overcrowded homes
Sarah Templeton (Newshub): Research finds New Zealand families feeling unconnected, that life is too complicated
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Institutions risk losing course funding over poor Māori, Pasifika results
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Auckland rent forces university students as far away as Otago
Insurance industry
Rob Stock (Stuff): Life insurers’ profits before people attitude exposed in FMA report
Gyles Beckford (Stuff): FMA has insurance companies in its sights
Jamie Gray (Herald): FMA takes NZ insurers to task over ‘replacement’ business
Business and consumer ethics
Dominion Post Editorial: The end of consumer innocence
Lois Willams (RNZ): Stores agree to pull P-pipes from sale after plea from Northland locals
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Ngāti Hine couple praised and supported for anti-P campaign
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Wellington businesswoman tackles modern-day slavery - starting with her own business
Local government
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Wellington’s economic agency forks out more than $95,000 on entertaining clients
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Rate rises continually outstrip incomes and inflation - do they need an overhaul?
Dave Cull (ODT): An early warning for ratepayers
NIck Truebridge (Stuff): Auckland Mayor Phil Goff’s top finance man floats targeted rate to bury power lines
ODT: Scientist: start sea level rise planning
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Councils back move to charge significantly higher fees for dumping rubbish
Anne Gibson (Herald): Auckland property valuation meltdown: council lashes out at QV for lack of site visits
Todd NIall (Stuff): Balloon goes up in big Auckland by-election
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Grant Seton second nomination for Horizons Regional Council by-election
Sam Kelway (1News): Residents of Tauranga’s failed Bella Vista subdivision still in limbo as compensation day looms
Primary and extractive industries
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Methanol exporter Methanex signs supply deal, securing future in Taranaki
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Sowing new seeds
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Shining Green light on farms
Tim McCready (Herald): Innovation to feed the world
Mark Hiddleston (Herald): Environment at farming forefront
Mark Peart (Herald): Leveraging Māori agribusiness economy
Herald: The business of diversity
John Monaghan (Herald): An opportunity to modernise DIRA
Thomas Mead (Stuff): Rural A&P shows the latest victim of Mycoplasma bovis
Daniel Eb (Spinoff): The vegans are coming! Why the end of meat could be closer than we think
Police, justice, corrections
No Right Turn: When police investigate police
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Spinoff): Māori voices should take prominence in the justice debate
Regional development
Rebecca Moore (Stuff): Acting Prime Minister Winton Peters backs New Zealand’s provincial cities
ODT: Apply for development cash, Southland told
Jono Edwards (ODT): Minister to announce waterfront funding
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Major announcement expected for ambitious Dunedin waterfront plan
Housing
John Boynton (RNZ): Letter warns of ‘suspicious things’ from HNZ clients
Bruce Kohn (Herald): Prefab construction unlikely to be cheaper than building on-site
Parliament
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): The political parties NZ is missing
Richard Harman (Politik) How NZ First could go with National
Newshub: Winston Peters takes dig at minor parties on NZ First’s 25th birthday
Inequality and poverty
John Tamihere (Herald): The fruits of 30 years - a less equal society
RNZ: Whangarei to have day shelter for homeless people
Domestic violence and abuse
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Jan Logie agrees Govt failure to act on domestic violence
Stuff: I’m a man, abused by a woman - but my story is ignored
Sandra Conchie (Bay of Plenty Times): Anihera Zhou Black offers ‘aroha’ to sexual abuse accuser
Transport
Grant Bradley (Herald): United Airlines leads the pack with extra charges
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): Labour MP Jamie Strange confident Hamilton-Auckland commuter train cash coming
Dan Satherley (Newshub): ’Range anxiety’ soon to be a thing of the past for EV drivers
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): Woodville businesses holding on in post-gorge world
Laura Twyman (1News): Use of electronic scooters to be considered as more hit the pavement - ‘they can do a lot of damage’
Tourism
David Williams (Newsroom): Struggling Queenstown names its price
Stuff: Tourism advocacy group says government’s visitor levy not enough
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Winning over big spending Chinese millennials
Arts
Dionne Christian (Herald): Pop-up Globe faces angry response to use of #metoo in marketing
Felix Desmarais (Herald): Pop-up Globe: Abuse of power to use #metoo in all-male Shakespeare promotion
Penny Ashton (Spinoff): #notyourstoo: On the Pop-Up-Globe’s ‘Abuse of Power’ season
Māori TV: Alien Weaponry thrashes Don Brash in new vid
Other
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Media ‘hiccup’ derailed GNS spy firm plans
RNZ: Island Time: how Pacific people and cultures are changing NZ
BusinessDesk: Provincial NZ dominates economic growth prospects
RNZ: Man providing ‘cynical’ immigration service gets two year ban
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Nearly 2000 Auckland buildings identified as earthquake-prone
Newshub: IRD warns people not to fall for sophisticated email scam making the rounds
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Strange scam claims New Zealand introducing a universal basic income
Newshub: Revealed: Phone scammers using PM Jacinda Ardern’s name as bait
Esther Taunton (Stuff): ’Sensible’ food labelling laws needed
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Georgina Beyer to speak at Oxford Union
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): New signage for non-English speakers needed to stop deaths
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Young Labour, Young Greens launch petition to ban gay conversion therapy
Newshub: Navy to open flash new training facility