NZ Politics Daily - 20 July 2018
20 July 2018
Today's content
NZ-AUS relations
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Bad neighbours? Australia and New Zealand ‘not friends' after deportation row
Alan Boyd (Asia Times): Australia, New Zealand in a duel over deportations
Herald: Andrew Little repeats comments on Australian deportation policy
Newshub: Andrew Little stands by criticism of Australia despite hostile backlash
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Andrew Little stands by comments on Australia’s deportations after Aussie minister sledges him
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Andrew Little under fire from Australian ministers after Foreign Correspondent appearance
Edward Gay (RNZ): Organisation backs compo for NZers abused in Aus state care
Defence
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Large American Pot, Meet Small Chinese Kettle
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Why risk poking the bears?
Laura Walters (Stuff): China sends spy ship to Hawaii military exercise it was disinvited to
Laura Walters (Stuff): Pacific Rim countries join forces as tensions rise
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): For Sale: Defence vehicles sit idle waiting for a buyer
State sector
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Value capture, privatisation by stealth?
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Exclusive: Spy agency documents left in cafe toilets
Newshub: New Zealand Government departments reveal extent of privacy breaches
Immigration and refugees
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Housing crisis stalls Govt’s plan to double refugee quota
Newstalk ZB: Charity says there are not enough houses for refugees in New Zealand
Employment
RNZ Checkpoint: NZ Post defends conditions for contract courier drivers
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Four-day work week proponent restructures
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Work less, get more: New Zealand firm’s four-day week an ‘unmitigated success’
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Central and local govt team up to improve youth employment
Emma Russell (Herald): Migrant nurses in New Zealand face racism daily, with experts saying ‘it’s time to talk’
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Racism making migrant nurses feel unsafe at work
Damian George and Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Tramways Union lodges formal complaint over bus drivers’ hours of work
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Kiwi couple nursing big bank accounts in the US
Welfare
Matthew Hooton (Herald): ‘Communism by stealth’ is here
Greg Presland (The Standard): Is Matthew Hooton becoming a socialist?
Isaac Davison (Herald): Government’s kinder approach to beneficiaries starting to show, as sanctions fall and hardship grants rise
RNZ: Benefit sanctions drop 20%, hardship grants up
Southern and Molyneux venue ban and free speech
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Far-Right Canadian speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux granted visas
Herald: Alt right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux granted entry to NZ
RNZ: Controversial Canadian speakers issued visas
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Far-right Canadian speakers granted visas to visit New Zealand
Herald Editorial: Some views unsuited to all platforms
Matthew Trundle (Stuff): Free speech: The freedom to say anything has always also come with consequences
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Coalition trying to defy history with backing of wind-up merchants
Heather Roy: Free Speech Case Funded by Small Donations
David Farrar: Read the statement of claim
No Right Turn: A curious absence
Scott Yorke: Are you a Nazi?
NZ First
Claire Robinson (Stuff): Peters’ influence on political landscape extends for more than 40 years
Audrey Young (Herald): Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters reflects on 25 years since forming New Zealand First
Jessica Mutch (1News): Watch: Winston Peters looks back at 25 years of New Zealand First with 1 NEWS political editor Jess Mutch
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ First hits 25 - but where next?
Newshub: Gareth Morgan hits back at ‘disgrace’ Winston Peters after minor party criticism
Health and disability
Cate Broughton (Stuff): ACC claimant says he will never give up fighting
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Massive health IT project inches forward as former Tuanz boss Ernie Newman prescribes palliative care
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Does New Zealand need a Ministry for Vulnerable Adults?
Ruby MacAndrew (Stuff): Review prompted by Ruby Knox murder echos Casey Albury case from 20 years ago
Jared Nicoll (Stuff): Mother leads protest against lack of funding for kids trauma camps
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Warning over future of NZ’s mental health workforce
Grant Miller (Stuff): Government’s mental health inquiry shortchanges Palmerston North bereaved families
Marc Wilson (Listener): We need to know more about what’s behind NZ’s dire youth-suicide rate
Jamie Morton (Herald): High-meat diet bad for your health and the planet - review
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): WannaCry ransomware attack on UK hospitals reveal security gaps in NZ
RNZ: New Zealand to expand PHARMAC to the Pacific
Kevin Dew (Newsroom): The problem with new drugs on the market
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Foam used in 1996 crash may have contaminated Bulls’ water
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Hitch in free dental treatment offer
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Blind Foundation unveils ‘game-changing’ smart room
David Clarkson and Joel Ineson (Stuff): Couple blew $500k of disability charity’s money on overseas holidays, concerts, diamond earrings
Newshub: Christchurch disability trustees plead guilty to $500k fraud
Eden Park CEO
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Sautner’s ex boss: This is about right and wrong
Todd Niall (Stuff): Helen Clark says Eden Park Trust’s defence of chief exec sets ‘very low standard of behaviour’
Herald: ’Unethical’ appointment - Helen Clark slams Eden Park Trust over CEO
Danielle Clent (Stuff): No issues with chief executive, Eden Park Trust says
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Eden Park boss - what Aussie court found
Herald: New Eden Park CEO’s troubled Aussie past
Local government
Press Editorial: Are we over being rated?
Brian Fallow (Herald): Seeking relief from rising rates bills
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Auckland rates up 2.5 percent, average $2500 a year
Anne Gibson (Herald): Auckland home valuation struggles emerge: Readers lash out at QV
Aroha Treacher (Māori TV): Hawke’s Bay Regional Council criticised for failing Māori
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Small towns look to call Palmerston North home
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Manawatu District Council selling off prime land near Manfeild
Regional development
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Mining part of West Coast regional economic development: Shane Jones
Chris Morris (ODT): Government backs ‘transformational’ project
Tim Brown (RNZ): Dunedin waterfront: Govt to contribute $800k to development
Dave Goosselink (Newshub): Dunedin waterfront gets $800,000 cash injection from Government
Police and justice
RNZ: IPCA strongly condemns police tactics in Kawerau siege
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Police response to Kawerau shooter Rhys Warren ‘highly flawed’ - IPCA
Matt Shand (Stuff): AOS callout in Rhys Warren’s arrest ‘highly flawed’ authority finds
Mere McLean (Māori TV): Independent report released on police actions during Rhys Warren stand-off
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Failings in police response to actions of Rhys Warren during Kawerau siege
Newshub: Police dogs could go high-tech in wake of Kawerau siege
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Māori TV): Over 1,400 offenders put into employment
Anne Marie May (RNZ): Supreme Court put under the microscope
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): What’s there to dig about a sensory garden at the new Auckland Prison?
Newshub: What happens to the children of prisoners? (video)
Environment and conservation
Richard Harman (Politik): The beginning of the end of the climate change debate
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Zero Carbon Bill submissions exceed 13,000
Rebecca Moore (Stuff): Invercargill base of $900,000 study on drinking water safety
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): All these reviews and inquiries don’t hold water, they’re a waste of time
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): ’Insidious effect’: Firm and its director fined $16,500 for third environmental offence
Matthew Littlewood (Timaru Herald): Nature Heritage Fund buys up ‘highly significant’ South Canterbury land
RNZ: Household rubbish to landfill: costs could quadruple
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Kiwi under threat as two dogs roam in Kaweka Forest Park
Newshub: Russel Norman and Sara Howell to be sentenced over oil protest stunt
Doug Laing (Herald): Russel Norman and Sara Howell await fate for Greenpeace protest
Waimea Dam
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Waimea Dam now unlikely: ‘This is not a victory for anyone’
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Waimea dam build price $18m over estimate, project cost blows out by $26m
Primary and extractive industries
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Gas deal shows fossil fuel fearmongering a ‘total lie’ - James Shaw
David Williams (Newsroom): MPI lab’s struggle under weight of M.bovis
Maja Burry (RNZ): Taranaki iwi speak out against intensive farming
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Guidelines ‘missed opportunity for fairer outcomes’
Andre Chumko (Stuff): ‘Destructive' fishing practices blamed for decline of tarakihi fishery
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): NZ scientists plan to use DNA to change look and nutrition of fruit
Jamie Morton (Herald): How we could make fruit taste - and look - better
Pike River
Stuff: Pike River mine: Andrew Little signs off on plan outlining three re-entry options
Herald: Minister signs off Pike River mine re-entry options
RNZ: Little gives sign-off on Pike River re-entry plans
Newshub: Little signs off on re-entry plans
Media and broadcasting
Jane Wrightson (Newsroom): NZ On Air: ‘Twin pillar’ media funding model holds up
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Spinoff TV is crap and a waste of our money
Sarah Nealon (Stuff): Q+A’s Corin Dann excited for late-night political move
Te Ururoa Flavell to head Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Claire Trevett (Herald): Recipe for Māori Party’s survival - first catch a leader
MIchael Neilson (Herald): Te Ururoa Flavell moving on from politics into new role as CEO of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Flavell to head Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Māori Party considers major shake-up as Te Ururoa Flavell steps down
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Flavell moves on from politics to head TWOA
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Te Ururoa Flavell appointed CEO of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Former Māori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell has resigned as co-leader
Education and child welfare
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): YMCA apologies for ‘incorrectly’ telling girl she could not attend camp because she was in state care
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Teacher asked child, 2, to bite another child’s finger ‘so he knew how it felt’
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): Back-up not called when children escaped on trikes
Elena McPhee (ODT): No suicide prevention policy at university
Megan Sutherland (Newshub): Otago University apologises, shuts down Selwyn College’s obscene voting ceremony
Ellen Ryker (Spinoff): In defence of Otago University’s Loch Ness DNA project
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Aucklanders dominate KiwiBuild registration numbers
Herald: KiwiBuild registrations show massive demand in Auckland
Simon Wilson (Herald): The prefabulous solution to the housing crisis
James Baker (Stuff): Note tells neighbours to beware of people moving into house that Housing NZ has bought
Newshub: North Waikato locals stunned by letter warning against Housing New Zealand property
Brad Flahive (Stuff): Handwriting expert says Tūākau note might have been written by a quick-tempered neighbour
Transport
RNZ: Kaikōura cycleway plan upsets local iwi: ‘There has been no consultation’
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Major announcement to benefit electric vehicle owners
1News: ’They started kicking and punching me’ - Auckland Transport reviewing safety procedures following increase in attacks on bus drivers
Zane Small (Newshub): Kiwis lash out at new ‘migraine trigger’ blue neon lights on buses
Food labelling
Herald: Food Regulation Forum seeks advice: What would improve sugar labels on packaged food and drinks?
Newshub: The Government wants your opinion of sugar labelling
Sexuality
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Pressure mounts on Government to ban gay conversion therapy
Bridget Rutherford (Christchurch Star): Future of Transitional Cathedral decided, after parishioners leave over same sex marriage
CodeMark
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Govt, product quality checker at odds over CodeMark scheme
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Building products approval scheme flawed - review
Arts
RNZ: Pop-up Globe theatre founder apologises, but no word if women will act
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Ugly Shakespeare announces all-female cast to counter Pop-up Globe
Other
ODT Editorial: Counting census failures
RNZ: Ngāpuhi talks: Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little stands by iwi-wide entity
Newshub: ’No way’ anyone wants to roll Simon Bridges - Mark Mitchell
Katie Bradford (1News): Booming provincial areas help keep economy afloat as cities start to slow down
Sarah Moore (Stuff): We all have the opportunity to help keep te reo Māori alive
Belinda Feek (Herald): Charitable trust fraudster Hemo Thompson jailed for two years, 5 months
Olivia Fairhurst (Herald): Scammers confront people in the streets with sob stories and requests for money
RNZ: Waitaki residents want answers over crowded campsite: ‘It is slowly being trashed’