NZ Politics Daily - 27 July 2018
27 July 2018
Today's content
Greens to support waka-jumping bill
Richard Harman (Politik): Unhappy Greens
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): As dead rats go, this one was enormous
Geoff Simmons (Spinoff): ’Waka jumping’ is the wrong name for this junk law. Here’s five better options
No Right Turn: The price of change
David Farrar: Greens sell their souls to Winston
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Greens turn their back on waka-jumping position in the name of the coalition
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Green Party to vote for waka-jumping bill
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Greens will vote for waka jumping at third reading - but aren’t happy about it
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Green Party to vote for Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill
Point of Order: Paisley’s political plight spotlights a recall process which NZ could adopt
Government and monetary policy
Geoff Simmons (Interest): Why the obsession with low debt?
Jason Walls (Interest): National to vote against Reserve Bank Act changes
Michael Reddell: Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Monetary Policy) Amendment Bill
Jane Clifton (LIstener): Searching for political scandals in a scandal-starved country
National Party
Audrey Young (Herald): Match-fit and ready to serve a few aces down party line
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): National adjusts to the freedom of opposition
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Nats’ first post-election conference will have eye on the future
Matthew Hooton (Herald: Why it’s all power to National
Newshub: Simon Bridges prank-called by wife Natalie while hosting RadioLIVE
Environment and conservation
Kaitin Ruddock (1News): South Island prospecting threatens to undermine Government’s ‘no new mining on conservation land’ promise
Andrea Fox (Herald): Ten years, 1 billion trees - making the numbers add up
Brian Fallow (Heral): Climate warms towards Govt’s plan to cut carbon
Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): Poison drop to go ahead despite threat to kea
Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): More protest action planned
Juliet McGhie (Stuff): Coastal pollution flows into Orewa waterways
David Clarkson (Stuff): Canterbury real estate agents took crayfish from marine reserve for office party
Gerald PIddock (Waikato Times): Waikato Regional Council backs DOC decision to close walking tracks to stop kauri dieback spread
Employment
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Why Julie Anne Genter’s dream of closing the gender pay gap simply won’t work
Rob Stock (Stuff): Government vows to close public service gender pay gap to zero
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Government aims to end pay gap in public service by 2020
Newshub: Government unveils plans to close public sector gender pay gap
1News: Government promises to end gender pay gap in public service by 2020
RNZ Checkpoint: Independent courier drivers could take class legal action
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): Horticulture employers must clean up their act to address its worker shortage
Dominion Post Editorial: Two steps forward, one step back
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): ’A huge win’: New Zealand brings in paid domestic violence leave in world first
Gordon Campbell: On Wellington’s bus experiment, and the nurses dispute
RNZ: Some nurses still critical of latest pay offer from District Health Boards
Martine Udahemuka (Interest): Benefits for employers to train apprentices need to be front and centre in the discussion on NZ’s vocational education and training
Cannabis law
Giles Newton-Howes (Herald): Is medical cannabis a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Health Ministry says National’s medicinal cannabis law may harm patients and wouldn’t increase access
1News: Watch: Winston Peters doesn’t rule out loose leaf medicinal cannabis, criticises National’s bill during exchange with Paula Bennett
1News: Watch: Winston Peters extends olive branch over to National over medicinal cannabis, before criticising their bill
1News: 'We're talking here about people's lives' - Green MP Chloe Swarbrick makes impassioned speech on medicinal cannabis
RNZ: National accused of playing politics with medicinal cannabis bill
Joseph Cederwall (Scoop): Why National’s ‘pharmaceutical cannabis’ approach is dangerous and misguided
Rebecca Reider (Newshub): Opinion: Politicians are still not getting it right with medicinal cannabis
David Farrar: A much better bill
Ben Bathgate (Stuff): Medicinal cannabis user admits ‘I’m a criminal now’
Tom Sainsbury (Spinoff): Kiwis of Snapchat: Simon Bridges on his medicinal cannabis bill
Defence Force
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Exclusive: NZ Defence Force paid out $570k on settling staff complaints
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Allegations of misconduct at Waiouru Military Camp
Justice and police
Stuff: Wally Haumaha receives support from iwi and cultural leaders as inquiry looms
RNZ: Māori leader supports deputy police commissioner Wally Haumaha
Ryan Dunlop (Herald): Dames and knights rally around police deputy commissioner following investigation of job suitability
Herald: Watch: Feral horned goat put down after being Tasered 13 times by police officer
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Police forced to release graphic footage of goat tasered 13 times
Newshub: Goat euthanised after being tasered 13 times by Oamaru policeman
ODT: Video of Oamaru goat being tasered released
ODT Editorial: Police must have better things to do
Jackie Blue (Spinoff): Why we must heed UN calls for action on treatment of women in Family Court
1News: Mongrel Mob outlawed in Queensland after declared a criminal outfit
Herald: Gang crackdown: Fierce Kiwi gang to be outlawed in Queensland
Sam Hurley (Herald): Blogger dodges prison over court suppression breaches, harassment campaigns
Abuse in state care
Aaron Smale (North & South): Tortuous path to justice for state care abuse victims
Edward Gay (RNZ): NZ-born man who was sexually abused in Australia asking for UN help
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Dunedin man who was abused as a child in Australia fights for compo rights
Health and disability
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Health minister warned of Mason Clinic ‘service failure’ risk
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Royal commission called for as family members remain ‘most exploited carers’ in NZ
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Huge jump in synthetic cannabis deaths - coroner
Nicholas Jones (Herald): DHB was warned of syphilis outbreak: ‘They are all complicit in this’
Rebecca Moore (Stuff): Ophthalmology services seeing benefits from redevelopment
Ruby McAndrew (Stuff): Calls for ‘bold’ Government action as study reveals drinking habits of pregnant Kiwi women
Amy Wiggins (Herald): 23 per cent of New Zealanders drink while pregnant, study finds
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Many Kiwi mums-to-be don’t stop drinking - study
Boyd Broughton (Spinoff): What works to get Māori women to quit
Dan Satherley (Newshub): What dairy owners really think of cigarette sales
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Most Christchurch dairy owners want to keep selling smokes, despite robberies, study suggests
Morgan Godfery (Māui St): Whānau Ora commissioning model could go as Review Panel calls for submissions
Karen Brown (RNZ): Doctors up for review on new website
RNZ: Launch of website to rate NZ doctors a ‘serious concern’, says medical union
Greymouth Star: Hospital project delays cost DHB $50,000 a month
Matthew Tso (Stuff): Combating elderly loneliness: How ‘Des the Toy Man’ stays socially active
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Vaccine to prevent breast cancer relapse given quarter-million dollar funding grant
Dominic Godfery (RNZ): Medical error likely cause of Samoa baby deaths - vaccinologist
Herald: Disabled teenager kicked off Emirates flight after visiting New Zealand family
Newshub: Enough doctors support euthanasia to make it work
Southern, Molyneux and free speech
1News: Canadian far-right speakers Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux coming to New Zealand after securing Auckland speaking venue
RNZ: Alt-right speakers confirm private venue for show
Todd Niall (Stuff): Canadian Right-wing speakers’ Auckland tour is on, with a new venue
Newshub: Far-right Canadians coming to Auckland after all
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Social media’s open slather needs restraining
Ray Avery infant incubator project
RNZ: Eden Park withdraws Sir Ray Avery charity concert application
Newshub: Lessons to be learned from life pod concert debacle - Helen Clark
Kate Hawkesby (Newstalk ZB): Why do we have a stadium we can’t use?
Alexia Russell (Newshub): Eden Park’s concert costs questioned
Herald: Helen Clark ‘relieved’ Eden Park's Million Babies charity concert abandoned
1News: LifePod Appeal concert for Eden Park canned after venue withdraws its application in face of residents’ opposition
Newsroom: No LifePod concert at Eden Park
Herald: Eden Park abandons Waitangi Day charity concert
Newshub: Sir Ray Avery’s controversial Eden Park charity concert application withdrawn
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Avery’s Lifepod Appeal concert called off by Eden Park
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Sam Morgan details dealings with Ray Avery
Overseas investment
David Williams (Newsroom): Inside the Hunter Valley Station access wrangle
Rosemary McLeod (Dominion Post): We’ve sold off our slice of paradise
RNZ: Access through Lake Hāwea ‘always deliberately difficult’
David Williams (Newsroom): Japanese firm warned over mega-merger
Primary and extractive industries
1News: Watch: Buttercup the pig used in SAFE protest outside Parliament calling for ban on farrowing crates
Guy Trafford (Interest): As peak cow arrives, farmers search for cost-effective alternatives for irrigated land use
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Palm kernel imports hit record level despite higher price
Stuff: Fonterra chairman John Wilson stands down
RNZ: M Bovis cow slaughter count hits 30,000
Keith Woodford (Interest): Why MPI’s spring focus on bulk-milk testing of healthy cows for Mycoplasma bovis is a hit and miss affair
RNZ: Honey industry like ‘wild west’, minister says
Maja Burry (RNZ): Beekeepers will feel the sting if industry implements levy
Lois Williams (RNZ): Small marae could sink massive Tegel mega-chook farm venture
Māori TV: Tegel suspends Arapōhue farm application
RNZ: PNG wants to engage with NZ agriculture
Sam McIvor (Stuff): Rural sector motivated to work towards low-carbon future
Herald: Anti-coal group protests outside Fonterra’s Auckland office
Retirement
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Superannuation not enough for basic retiree lifestyle
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how to bridge the pension gap
Media
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): MediaWorks CEO’s Murdoch-style email
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Simon Bridges backs Stuff-NZME merger, questioning ComCom’s ’19th century view’
Damien Venuto (Herald): Merger with Nine means goodbye Fairfax
Housing
Ben Leahy (Herald): More than 500 Auckland homeless helped into homes by new initiative
RNZ: Hutt Valley residents upset about new property designations
Jono Edwards (ODT): Dunedin housing wait ‘worse than ever’
Joel Ineson (Stuff): Asbestos concerns prompt Christchurch council staff to abandon check of Lynda McKenzie’s self-help insulation
GCSB
Henry Cooke (Stuff): GCSB wins ‘trust in Government’ award for cyber-security service
Herald: Government Communications Security Bureau wins Ipanz award
Foreign Affairs and trade
RNZ: Outgoing High Commissioner says NZ is aid more effective
RNZ: NZ High Commissioner to Samoa resigns
BusinessDesk: Trump’s trade war weighs on NZ dairy
Richard Harman (Politik): Say cheese
Poverty and inequality
Isaac Davison (Herald): Hardship in NZ: The importance of a school uniform and a place in the rugby team
Herald: Warm Hearts: All Kiwi kids deserve a fair go
Paula Hulburt (Stuff): Father’s power struggle after meter switch mix-up
Carly Gooch (Nelson Mail): Nelson group spreads the love and warmth by paying Winter Energy Payment forward
Henry Oliver (Spinoff): A fierce argument for and against Eat My Lunch
Education and child welfare
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government signals more changes to foreign student work rights
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): 40 percent of NZ primary school principals suffer physical violence at work - report
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): The ‘could-do-better’ workshops reshaping NCEA
Dave De Lorean (Stuff): Plans to build a bilingual New Zealand a ‘bold step’
John Boynton (RNZ): Former leader Tariana Turia supports charter closure opposition
Māori TV: Dame Turia opposes the closure of charter schools
Mere McLean (Māori TV): Te Rangihakahaka school fights enrolment cap
Christine McKay (Hawke’s Bay Today): Bullies exist in all schools, expert Robert Pereira tells Dannevirke meeting
Josephine Franks (Stuff): New Auckland bus network a ‘nightmare’ for school children
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): $100k of scholarships to help Māori students study abroad
Simon Collins (Herald): Dilworth School seeks benefactor to start girls’ school
Local government
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Auckland Council agency’s $89,000 bill to entertain top-notch clients
Simon Wilson (Herald): How will Auckland find another good boss for the Art Gallery?
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Rotorua council says it’s doing all it can to help the homeless
Lois Williams (RNZ): Boat builder Doug Schmuck loses battle to access to coastal reserve
Evan Harding (Stuff): Shadbolt, 71, to stand for Invercargill mayoralty again next year
Jono Galuszka (Manawatū Standard): Five in the running for vacant Horizons Regional Council seat
Newshub: Avondale locals lash out at newspaper over ‘third world’ description
Herald: Kāpiti Coast district councillor David Scott appeals indecent assault conviction
Treaty negotiations
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Settlement deed progress for Marutūāhu and Pare Hauraki iwi
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Little to sign off Pare Hauraki Collective settlement opposed by Ngāi Te Rangi
Samantha Motion (Bay of Plenty Times): Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little will sign Hauraki deed
Building industry and standards
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Building insiders warn of potential fallout from suspension of CodeMark certificates
RNZ: Govt suspends six CodeMark certificates for composite panels
Tom Furley (RNZ): No sign of NZ building costs easing
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Placemakers offer prefab workers jobs
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Homeowners sign up to steel mesh class action
Immigration and refugees
Shaymaa Arif (Spinoff): The refugee crisis isn’t over. NZ must keep our promise to help those affected
Merania Karauria (Herald): Local Focus: ‘It’s better to show your dead face than come home alive’
Transport
Jason Walls (Interest): ’Great deal’ of private sector interest in Auckland’s light rail project
Herald: Auckland Council, Govt approves City Rail Link expansion
RNZ: Southland Regional Council criticised following cruise ship collision
RNZ: Air NZ not asked by China to drop Taiwan reference
Lorna Thornber (Stuff): Air New Zealand won’t drop Taiwan references
Banks
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Complaints, inquiries and disputes to ombudsman about banks rise 14 per cent
RNZ: Surge in number of banking complaints and inquiries
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Banking Ombudsman orders $10k-plus payouts for wronged customers
Other
Jason Walls (Interest): Tipping point for current economic cycle ‘not far away’ BNZ warns
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Internet authority cracks down on dodgy ‘.nz’ websites after concerns
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): More than 45 per cent of calls to Inland Revenue disconnected in June
Anna Whyte (1News): Petition to ban gay conversion therapy ‘once and for all’ draws thousands of signatures
Ruth HIll (RNZ): World War I exhibition The End of the War? opens in Wellington
Melanie Earley (Stuff): ’I was told I was an abomination’ - former youth pastor on why gay conversion therapy should be banned
1News: Oamaru fast becoming the most Polynesian town in NZ - ‘It just feels like this is Tonga’
Herald: Tourists in Auckland have spent an estimated $8.4b this year
Patrick Gower (Newshub): ’Absolutely no closure’ for family of Platino yacht victim Steve Forno
RNZ: Fatal yacht accident prompts safety changes
George Block (ODT): Anti-Semitic leaflets dispensed in Dunedin
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Hundreds sign petition to give Julian Assange asylum in New Zealand
Listener: Where Julian Assange’s righteous mission went wrong
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Higgins to bring Crown up to speed with te reo Māori