NZ Politics Daily - 2 August 2018
2 August 2018
Today's content
Government
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Avoiding a wellbeing wafflefest
Jane Patterson (RNZ): PM in a pin-striped suit: Peters’ reign comes to an end
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Winston Peters got just six weeks as PM - but he has no regrets
Liam Hehir (Pundit): Making sense of the Winston (six week) era
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Peters’ spell at top a triumph, Ardern faces testing time back in role
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): It’s been fun Peters, but now Ardern’s back it’s time to get down to business
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Jacinda Ardern takes over
Jessica Mutch and Benedict Collins (1News): Winston Peters’ time as Acting PM: How did he do? (video)
Richard Harman (Politik): Reality check for Ministers at environment conference
Jane Clifton (Listener): The Government’s uneasy position on cigarettes and cannabis
David Farrar: Proof the Greens lied re waka jumping bill
Newshub: Winston Peters comes out in support of eating pies with a knife and fork
1News: ’I don’t give a rat’s derriere’ - Winston Peters defends Aussie PM for eating pie with knife and fork
Police and justice
Jared Savage (Herald): Wally Haumaha inquiry: Dr Pauline Kingi stands down as more links to police emerge
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Minister blames National for Kingi resignation
Jared Savage (Herald): Head of Wally Haumaha inquiry Dr Pauline Kingi stands down
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Chair of Wally Haumaha inquiry steps down amid controversy
RNZ: Wally Haumaha appointment: Head of inquiry stands down
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Pauline Kingi steps down over LinkedIn endorsements
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Haumaha inquiry: Pauline Kingi stands down after scrutiny
Anna Connell (Spinoff): LinkedIn just became a political grenade, and no one knows what they’re on about
Tim Brown (RNZ): Youth responsible for 60 percent of robberies nationwide
Tommy Livingston (Stuff): No LinkedIn or Seek needed - how we pick our Supreme Court Chief Justice
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Prisoners’ contraband video at Rimutaka sparks review
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Cellphone, tattoo gun confiscated after prisoner posts videos online
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Mongrel Mob gang members smuggle tattoo gun and cellphone into Rimutaka Prison
Claire Trevet (Herald): Corrections moves on gang member’s videos on YouTube from jail
Newshub: ’Virtually immobile’ convicted rapist deemed too fat for Kaikōura prison
Family Court changes
1 News: Family Court reforms to be examined by independent panel - ‘Concerned that families and children are losing out’
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government appoints panel to review Family Court changes
Sam Sachdeva and Cass Mason (Newsroom): Panel appointed to rewrite Family Court reforms
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Independent panel to review 2014 Family Court changes
Newshub: Government to review National’s changes to Family Court
Primary teachers’ pay dispute
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers back move to full-day strike
1News: Union president says ‘overwhelming majority’ of teachers voted to extend strike
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Teachers’ strike: Primary teachers and principals seek ‘pay jolt’
Newshub: Striking teachers ‘mean business’
Newshub: Teacher claims checkout operators paid the same, without the stress
Herald: Closures, childcare decisions during August 15 strike up to individual school boards
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Teachers’ strike to be met with resistance by nationwide parents’ strike
Education and training
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Academics warn against NCEA changes
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Vindication for sacked Kōhanga Reo trustee
Morgan Godfery (Māui Street): Waho did not bring Kōhanga Reo into disrepute – High Court
Rebecca Moore (Southland Times): Hungry children get fed at Invercargill school
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Education Minister Chris Hipkins defends Simon Bridges’ sister over creationism complaint
Philip Matthews (Press Editorial): No room for nuance in creation debate
Indira Stewart (RNZ): Pasifika students excel at ‘aunty’ and ‘uncle’ school in NZ
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Sir Toby Curtis delivers emotional plea against charter school closures
Rogena Sterling (Spinoff): Forcing every student to wear trousers won’t make schools more equal
Dionne Christian (Herald): Humans of Hendo - looking through a new lens wins art award
Jessica Long (Stuff): ’Declining student interest’ threatens Victoria University of Wellington’s arts faculty
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Dropping ‘Vic’ from Vic Uni is arrogant, reckless and wrong
Jessica Long (Stuff): Victoria University takes almost two years to fix lift access to library
Stuff: Havelock North kindergarten teacher’s registration cancelled for ‘abuse’ of students
Emma Jolliff (Newshub): Micro-credentials: Upskill without the need for full qualification
Rino Tirikatene (Southland Times): Education and Simon who?
Health
David Fisher (Herald): ACC claimant flew to Cannes - so Customs handed over nine years of personal flight info
Herald: Steve Maharey appointed as Pharmac chairman
Paula Hulburt (Stuff): DIY bowel cancer screen kit puts health in your hands
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): New Zealand found to have highest rates of skin cancer but the news isn't all bad
Hannah Martin and Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Hospitals urged to stockpile ‘last-resort’ antibiotics as superbug numbers boom
Chris Reed (Herald): Ebert construction: Delayed hospital unit among company’s projects
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National wants the Health Targets to be a legal requirement
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Grieving mother Margaret Dynes calls for independent body to monitor GPs
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Free access to ‘revolutionary’ drug enlisted in fight to ‘eliminate’ hepatitis C in New Zealand by 2030
RNZ: Down Syndrome Association upset by Shortland Street episode
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Investigation of two Wellington rest homes finds no evidence of elder abuse
Business, economy
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): This slowdown is real and can’t be ignored
Michael Barnett (Herald): Low business confidence - Suck it up and do something
Jason Walls (Interest): We’re in transition, Robertson argues against backdrop of more bad economic data
Liam Dann (Herald): Economy Hub: How bad is this downturn really?
Zane Small (Newshub): NZ economy ‘dangerously close’ to stalling, says economist Cameron Bagrie
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Kim Campbell steps down from EMA top job
Employment
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Labour inspector falls short on investigation
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Wages beginning to rise, Statistics data indicates
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Different slants on slight rise in jobless
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Unemployment creeps up as growth slides
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Unemployment climbs from nine-year low, sparking fresh political debate over the economy
No Right Turn: 2,000 employed under Labour
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Inland Revenue plays down strike numbers and claims it is ‘keen’ to negotiate
Treaty of Waitangi
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Treaty of Waitangi: What was lost
John Hartevelt (Stuff): NZ Made/Nā Nīu Tīreni: The unsettling truth about the Treaty
John Boynton (RNZ): Pare Hauraki settlement signing akin to ‘confiscation’
Child abuse in Catholic Church
Chris Morris (ODT): Sins of a Father
Chris Morris (ODT): Church’s failure ‘serious’
Chris Morris (ODT): Call to defrock accused priest
Chris Morris (ODT): The Auckland view
Chris Morris (ODT): The Church response
Chris Morris (ODT): The Australian connection
Chris Morris (ODT): Justice hasn’t been served: victim
Chris Morris (ODT): ‘Still hurting and still angry'
Chris Morris (ODT): Man believes he was groomed by priest
Chris Morris (ODT): Renewed calls for church to be part of Royal Commission
Chris Morris (ODT): Likely to be more cases, detective believes
Parliament
Newshub: Interview: Dominic O’Sullivan on how well Maori voices are being represented in New Zealand (video)
1News: Watch: Winston Peters suggests the 'only job at risk' in NZ is Simon Bridges' during employment debate
1News: Watch: Winston Peters heard saying ‘yeah, throw fatty out’ during heated debate in Parliament
Kate Lyons (Guardian): New Zealand acting PM fat-shames fellow MP in parliament
Watch: Winston Peters fat-shames in Parliament on final day as Prime Minister
1News: National MP Gerry Brownlee asks Speaker if it's 'Parliamentary to refer to a member being drunk' during feisty Question Time
1News: Most read: Winston Peters makes fun of Simon Bridges' accent before labelling him a 'joke' in testy Parliamentary exchange
Medicinal cannabis
Glen McConnell (Stuff): Medical cannabis is all the rage - but that’s exactly what people in pain need
Russell Brown (Herald): The ‘Mormon boy’ in National’s caucus driving NZ’s medicinal cannabis reform
Environment and conservation
Mike Watson (Stuff): DOC helps company with mining application, then funds $100k appeal against it
Simon Collins (Herald): ’Close all kauri forests’ urges Forest & Bird
Laine Moger (Stuff): Forest & Bird closes all kauri reserves to the public until ‘crisis situation’ is over
Newshub: Forest and Bird shuts reserves to stop kauri dieback
Rachel Graham (RNZ): Mt White Station: ‘Generations of Kiwis have thought this was their land’
Jenny Ling (Stuff): DOC kills residents’ plans to build walking tracks
Chris Wootton (Stuff): The ‘shifting baseline’ of New Zealand’s whitebait fishery
Ruby Nyika (Stuff): At least five kiwi mauled to death by dogs in Coromandel
Primary industries
Phil Taylor (Herald): Judges slam Ministry of Primary Industry over fishing fraud investigation and one dismisses evidence found in sewer during illegal raid
Catherine Harris and Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): SPCA says chicken farm regulations being scoped, as Tegel is investigated
Andrea Fox (Herald): Question marks over science, agri creds at MPI’s top table
Dave Gooselink (Newshub): Fruit grower takes MPI to court over ‘heartbreaking’ mass plant destruction
Pam Jones (ODT): Eight orchards affected by biosecurity scare
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Fonterra becomes world’s 5th largest dairy company
Housing
Ben Leahy (Herald): Renter pain continues as New Zealand rents jump 25% in five years: Massey University
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ’We’re renting very long-term’: NZ’s new normal with more tenants and rising rents
Henry Cooke (Stuff): ’Barrier to good health’: Letting fees stop tenants moving out of damp properties, MPs told
Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt defends tenancy complaint service after just one in 80 complaints lead to penalties
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Rock bottom bites: mum and daughter driven out of emergency housing by bedbugs
Building and construction
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): Govt contracts push risk to building firms, industry says
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Ebert Construction’s collapse unexpected but no surprise
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Razor-thin margins push New Zealand construction firms over the edge
1News: Ebert Construction’s collapse stokes fears of NZ’s booming building and construction industry going bust
Anne Gibson (Herald): ’Perfect storm’ dogging construction sector
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): What happens when a company goes into receivership?
Union boss released by Israel
Newshub: Unite Union boss Mike Treen released by Israeli Defence Force (IDF)
RNZ: NZ union leader heading home after Israel detention
Foreign affairs and trade
Robert Ayson (Newsroom): Where next for the Australia-NZ relationship?
RNZ: NZ govt MP calls for West Papua issue to go to UN
Provincial Growth Fund
Evan Harding and Rachael Kelly (Stuff): Southlanders in running for slice of $3 billion provincial growth fund
Jo Moir (RNZ): Gloriavale ‘entitled’ to apply for funding but no guarantees
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Gloriavale entitled to apply for taxpayer funding, Shane Jones says
Newshub: Shane Jones reveals he declined ‘really strange’ Gloriavale residents’ party invitation
Media
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Why new public interest defence for defamation cases matters
Kate Robertson (Stuff): TV still reigns supreme - NZ On Air finds that TV is still popular in New Zealand
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): 10 takeaways from NZ on Air’s shocking new audience survey
Southern and Molyneux speaking event
1News: Canadian far-right speakers arrive in NZ for controversial Auckland event
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Multiple groups planning peaceful protest at Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux event
Newshub: Numerous groups planning protests for Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux event
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): New rates bill shocks: Nearly one in 10 households will pay more than 10 per cent
Newshub: Auckland Council report warns of horror dystopian future
Simon Collins (Herald): $260k mirror sculpture brings heritage reflection for Auckland’s O’Connell St
Bella Vista housing development
Scott Yeoman (Bay of Plenty Times): Tauranga City Council facing two separate Bella Vista lawsuits
Matt Shand (Stuff): Negotiations breakdown in Bella Vista debacle: all homeowners to sue Tauranga City Council
1News: ’Exhausted’ Tauranga homeowners taking council to court for 'fair' compo on failed Bella Vista development
RNZ: Bella Vista: All former residents to join class action
Bridget Grace (Newshub): All 21 Bella Vista homeowners are suing Tauranga City Council
Canterbury quakes
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Megan Woods pulls up Insurance Council over quake tribunal criticism
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Insurance Council critical of new Canterbury quake insurance tribunal
Logan Church (RNZ): ’Bizarre’ economic climate blamed for business closures
Other
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Defence ministry defrauded of $150k
Newshub: Super has to go up to help the renting generation - Grey Power
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Vehicle for change… but at what cost?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Competition watchdog makes it safer to dob in cartels
Hamish Cardwell (RNZ): Te Papa confirms restructure, calls in international experts
Gabrielle Baker (Spinoff): Has the 2018 Census failed Māori?
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Two miscarriages and four visa rejections, but couple is not giving up hope to be together
Newshub: SPCA on why Cupcake Day is so important