NZ Politics Daily - 6 August 2018
6 August 2018
Today's content
Government
Simon Wilson (Herald): An ogre roams the forest - Jobs for Jacinda now she’s back
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The five big things waiting for Ardern’s return
Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern prepares to enter no-man’s land
John Roughan (Herald): Two big concerns for returning PM Jacinda Ardern
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Why Jacinda’s days off will be few and far between
Duncan Garner: All eyes on PM Jacinda Ardern, but Andrew Little deserves attention
RNZ: Andrew Little caught up in deadly Indonesia quake: ‘It was pretty violent shaking’
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Jacinda Ardern could learn from Winston Peters
Jason Walls (Interest): Winston Peters owes Gerry Brownlee and Jacinda Ardern an apology
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret of Diary of … Winston Peters
Barbara Allen (Newsroom): A strategic public procurement policy for NZ?
1News: Jacinda Ardern to ‘come out swinging this week’ and defuse any mum empathy, says 1 NEWS political editor Jessica Mutch
1News: ’I have a partner who can be there alongside me’ - Jacinda Ardern on how motherhood will work with Clarke Gayford
1News: PM Jacinda Ardern to set up notoriously drafty Premier House for the baby
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern gets warm welcome in cold Wellington
Henry Cooke (Stuff): PM Jacinda Ardern arrives in Wellington with family in tow
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives in Wellington with baby Neve
RNZ: Watch: PM and family welcomed after landing in Wellington
Jamie Ensor and Laura Macdonald (Newshub): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and baby Neve arrive in Wellington
Amy Ridout (Nelson Mail): Nayland College students serenade PM and baby Neve with impromptu waiata
AAP (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern back at New Zealand’s helm with newborn in tow
Point of Order: Oh, mother – another dose of jacindamania, but things have changed since the first bout
Alison Mau (Stuff): Nothing makes the hackles rise like someone having a go at your family
David Farrar: Overkill
Heather Roy: Feminism: More than Trying to Outman the Men
David Farrar: Waka jumping debate
Point of Order: The absurd case of a Green MP who took offence when Nick Smith quoted the words of Rod Donald
Steven Cowan: More fiction from the Green Party
1News Colmar Brunton poll
1News: Simon Bridges still struggling to cut through with voters, latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll shows
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll shows Government steady
RNZ: National leader Simon Bridges still ‘got work to do’ on poll ranking
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Bridges no ‘bright shiny thing’, playing the ‘long game’
RNZ: Bridges still achilles heel in a strong polling National
David Farrar: 45% a great result for National
Jane Bowron (Dominion Post): If not Bridges, is it time the Nats went for a toff again?
Business, economy
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Economy ‘still doing pretty well’ - Grant Robertson
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): When business gets gloomy, the Government should get spending
Liam Dann (Herald): Business confidence - why certain people are a pack of idiots
Brian Easton (Pundit): ’Business Opinion’ is falling. Does it matter?
Donal Curtin: Doom and gloom? Yes and no
ODT Editorial: Business charm offensive needed
Rod Oram (Newsroom): How to solve our paradox of poverty and plenty
Matt Brown (Stuff): Māori company plans for the future with 500-year plan
Southern and Molyneux and free speech
1News: Free speech or hate speech? Both sides of the debate sparked by the appearance of alt-right Canadian speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux
1News: ’It’s our role to examine our society’ - Sunday host Miriama Kamo rejects calls to shy away from story on alt-right pair
1News: Watch: Canadian far-right speakers talk about Māori rights in NZ and the Treaty – ‘I don’t believe in collective moral guilt’
1News: Watch: ‘We're not white supremacists' - Alt-right speakers Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern have their say after Auckland event was cancelled
1News: “Hope NZ enjoys shariah" - Alt-right speakers' agent responds to having their Auckland event at The Powerstation cancelled last-minute
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Stefan Molyneux warns ‘war is coming’, asks for likes, shares and money
Newshub: Patrick Gower takes on Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux
Newshub: Full video: Patrick Gower interviews Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux
David Fisher (Herald): Andrew Little happy ‘insidious’ alt-right pair leaving the country as bomb threat claim emerges
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern: Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern’s views are not welcome in NZ
Jamie Ensor and Laura Macdonald (Newshub): NZ ‘hostile’ to views of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux - Jacinda Arden
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Lauren Southern’s ‘virtue-signalling’ dig at Jacinda Ardern
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Lauren Southern accuses NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of ‘virtue signalling nonsense’
RNZ: Far-right activist says PMs comments show limits of tolerance
Karl du Fresne: Sick to the pit of my stomach
No Right Turn: The legality of cancelling Nazis
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Southern & Molyneux: Autopsy of an Abortion
Steven Cowan: The appeal of the populist right
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): On freedom of speech and racism most vile
Carrie Stoddart-Smith: Free speech is peace directed, refuse their act of war
Zane Small (Newshub): Former politician Shane Te Pou confronts Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux in heated exchange
Nick Truebridge and Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland’s Powerstation owner apologises for booking controversial speakers
Herald: Cancelled: Alt-right activists Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern in limbo after venue backs out of hosting event
Newshub: Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speaking event cancelled
RNZ: Far-right speakers’ venue cancelled last minute after outcry
Spinoff: Powerstation owner defends, then cancels hosting Southern-Molyneux show
1News: Alt-right Canadian speakers spark heated protests despite cancellation of talk
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Protest goes ahead despite cancellation of far-right speakers’ event
Newshub: Protesters face off during defence of ‘free speech’ gathering
Newshub: Southern and Molyneux cancelled: ‘Fascists’ thanked for inspiring ‘beautiful’ celebration in Aotea Square
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Protest rally turns into a victory party
Bridie Chetwin-Kelly (Newshub): ’Hope trumps hate’: Hundreds gather for anti-racism protest
Morgan Godfery (Spinoff): The alt-right racists are in town. Are you really happy to shrug your shoulders?
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): ’Is all of our coverage just making things worse?’
The Standard: More speakers arriving
Foreign affairs and trade
Andrea Vance (Stuff): NZ Ambassador to Trump’s Washington recalled
Richard Harman (Politik): Foreign Affairs reshuffle
Lucy Bennett (Herald): NZ’s Ambassador to US Tim Groser will not seek extension to term of appointment
Newshub: Tim Groser coming home, ending term as Ambassador to US
Scott Brown (Herald): KIWI Act is a big deal for both countries
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Kiwi in White House smooths NZ’s path
Zane Small (Newshub): What does Donald Trump’s new visa law mean for Kiwis?
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Foreign Minister Winston Peters wraps up Singapore visit for regional and bilateral talks
RNZ: Winston Peters hopeful about North Korea after Singapore meetings
Treaty of Waitangi
Tony Wall (Stuff): Officials advised the Government to keep quiet about large Treaty of Waitangi payments, unless asked
Tony Wall (Stuff): Tens of millions of dollars going to Treaty of Waitangi negotiators and lawyers
Stuff: How breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi are settled
Ruby McAndrew (Stuff): ’There aren’t many votes in it, but Treaty settlements are the right thing to do’
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): The Treaty and Me: The settlement is as bruising as the grievance
Joel Ineson (Stuff): The Treaty and Me: Like it or not, we are intrinsically linked by the Treaty
Tony Wall (Stuff): How a British lawyer became a key player in the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process
Deena Coster and Simon O’Connor (Stuff): Treaty and Me: It ‘represents legitimised theft’
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Ngāpuhi’s struggle: ‘People can’t even agree what damn day it is’
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Pare Hauraki Collective Settlement: Joy and tears for iwi
Herald: Iwi holds service at Ratana Pa to thank supporters, helpers and heroes
John Boynton (RNZ): Forum to deal with Māori concerns and interest over freshwater
Mere McLean (Māori TV): New Māori group to engage on freshwater issues
No Right Turn: Another bullshit idea
Stuff: Slow flow to hundreds of Māori coastal and marine claims in pipeline
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): Ngāti Porou seeks to secure longevity of resources
Eden More (RNZ): Urban Māori: What does that even mean?
Stuff: School Journal teams up with Toby Morris to create graphic novel about the Treaty of Waitangi
Defence
David Fisher (Herald): Cameras installed in NZ Army barracks among steps taken to protect recruits from sexual opportunists and predators
David Fisher (Herald): Rape complainant at military base told she broke rules
Jonathan MItchell (RNZ): Defence planes costing sky-high prices to repair and maintain
Mere McLean (Māori TV): New chief of Defence Force receives Haane Manahi Sword
1News: Military veterans with PTSD say government should do more to support them
Erin Speedy (Newshub): Government plea to ‘missing’ Vietnam War veterans
Justice
Matt Nippert (Herald): Justice summit puts Serious Fraud Office future up in air
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Why this gagging order is a bridge too far
Alison Mau (Stuff): Justice Minister demands explanation of super-injunction hiding sexual harassment
Cecile Meier, Alison Mau and Jonathan Milne (Stuff): A young law graduate was the target of one of NZ’s most sweeping gagging orders
Bruce Munro (ODT): Unlocking potential
Bruce Munro (ODT): Following a new path behind the wire
Alice Peacock (Herald): ’Decriminalisation by stealth’ suspected driver behind plunge in cannabis offences
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Defending those accused of rape - and winning
David Farrar: Very few second strikers
Employment
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Treasury officials recommend Government look at universal basic income
RNZ Checkpoint: Courier drivers told to fork out for own replacement uniforms
Matthew Rosenberg (Stuff): First Union hopes for Employment Court ruling on courier-driver employment rights
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Caution urged regarding latest jobs data
RNZ: Job ads are up, but could ease
Liz Koh (Stuff): Employers benefit if they help ‘working poor’ sort their finances
Damien Grant (Stuff): We’ll collect your taxes, but we won’t cure society’s ills for you
Paul Little (Herald): No Friday-night drinks, casual Fridays: Changing workplace traditions
Richard Meadows (Stuff): The hotness pay gap is plain wrong
Building and construction
1News: Construction industry looks to Government to reset procurement policy as fears grow for sector
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Builders’ payments delayed due to contract change
Rob Stock (Stuff): Construction firm’s liquidation leaves a trail of misery and questions
Warner Cowin (Herald): New Zealand construction industry like a ‘house of cards’
Carla Penman (Herald): Company that fitted 19 Auckland buildings with dodgy cables won’t be prosecuted
Newshub: Shadowclad: Homeowners begin class action against Carter Holt Harvey
Provincial Growth Fund
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Jones needs to spend $2m a day
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Govt could step in to help Kaitaia’s biggest employer
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Tasman District Council seeking Provincial Growth Fund money for Waimea dam project
Education
Māori TV: Kōhanga Reo National Trust accepts court ruling
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): Stop dumping kids in ‘factory farms’
Elizabeth Rata (Newsroom): Closing NZ’s knowledge gap
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Auckland school growth hitting upper limits of forecasts
RNZ: No promises from Hipkins on reducing class sizes
RNZ: Traditional education system has ‘failed’ Māori youth
Laura O’Connell Rapira (Spinoffr): Māori kids lose out when the charter school debate is drowned in ideology
Bridget Grace (Newshub): Older teachers forced out of class by new technology curriculum
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Bobbie Hunter: Maths belongs in every culture
Ben Leahy (Herald): Any camera filming Northland students using the toilet would be ‘improper’: lawyer
Ben Leahy (Herald): Northland students 'disgusted' after security cameras installed in high school's toilets
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Polytechnics will likely have to merge or close - Education Minister
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): With all the demand, how are our polytechs failing?
Daniel Brown (Newsroom): In defence of the humanities
Newshub: Victoria University seeks input on name change
Michael Reddell: Victoria University of Wellington
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Victoria University accused of bungling sexual harassment complaint against chemistry tutor
ODT Editorial: Recovering from uni restructuring
Umi Asaka (Critic): International Students Feel Like The University’s ATM
Primary teachers’ pay dispute
Simon Collins (Herald): After-school services step up to provide cover as teachers’ strike looks set to go ahead
Dan Satherley and Simon Shepherd (Newshub): Teachers’ pay demands ‘well out of kilter’ - Education Minister Chris Hipkins
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Teachers’ strike real possibility as mediation fails to broker deal
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Teacher strike ‘about the kids’ as parents lobbied at school gates
RNZ: Primary teachers highlight staffing crisis prior to strike
Anna Whyte (1News): 'We've reached a crisis point' – teachers ready to 'stand up and be heard' as strike nears
Anna Whyte (1News): A day in the life of a New Zealand teacher: ‘I don’t stop’
Child welfare
Jared Savage (Herald): Emails show senior detectives want Oranga Tamariki to follow Whakatāne model of specialist child protection
Ruth Hill (RNZ): At-risk children waiting months for investigations into abuse
Health and disability
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): At last: Ashley Peacock to be released from cell-like room
Josephine Franks (Stuff): New Zealand a global leader in patient rights for 30 years
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Report: bread fortification benefits would outweigh risk
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Mandatory folic acid in bread will reduce serious birth defects, report finds
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Addition of folic acid to bread should be mandatory: PM’s chief science adviser Peter Gluckman
RNZ: Time for NZ to put folic acid in bread, says paediatrician
Laura Tupou (Newshub): Make ‘tampon tax’ a health issue to bring down costs - MP Louisa Wall
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Rescue helicopter operators ‘silenced’ from talking about cuts to bases
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Canterbury DHB ballooning debt the result of years of underfunding - Health Minister
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Christchurch Hospital staff under pressure as admissions soar
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Wellington Hospital’s power supply at ‘high risk of catastrophic failure’
RNZ: Families of dementia sufferers face huge bills
Grant Miller (Manawatū Standard): Editorial: A chance to speak up for our health
1News: Mental health inquiry head wants to honour the submissions
RNZ: Tough immigration rules impacting aged care sector
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Hamilton becomes the country’s first ‘age-friendly city’
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Forty-five people to graduate with Whānau Ora diploma
Taroi Black (Māori TV): Govt looking for positive outcomes with Whānau Ora
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Hundreds of Kiwi women had controversial sterilisation performed
Alice Peacock (Herald): Oxygen therapy: Calls for more funding amid rising use
Stu Hunt (Stuff): Shortland Street’s Down syndrome portrayal ‘a lost opportunity’
Jess Waters (Stuff): Shortland Street, you have Down syndrome all wrong
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Refugee escapes genocide to be given HIV ‘death sentence’ in New Zealand
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): The good oil on fish and chips
Herald: Petition launched to end alcohol trusts’ monopoly in West Auckland
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Sensor kits made on the cheap help people check the healthiness of their homes
Mike O’Donnell (Stuff): The bitterest pill has yet to come for our doctors
Newshub: Medicinal cannabis supporters call for moratorium on arrests
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Missed chance on cannabis reform
Local government
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Let’s hear it for Hamilton, for doing the right thing
Isaac Davison (Herald): Some Auckland Airbnb owners making $80,000 a year
Jodi Yeats (Stuff): Heated meeting reveals stand-off over Takapuna town centre
Newshub: Takapuna locals want town square plans dumped
Alice Peacock (Herald): Heritage protection group lodges complaint with Phil Goff over consenting decision
Damian George (Dominion Post): Long-serving Wellington city councillor Bryan Pepperell dies, aged 65
NIcholas Boyack (Stuff): Lawyers called in as stoush begins to brew over plan to protect Lower Hutt native bush
1News: Long-serving Wellington city councillor Bryan Pepperell dies aged 65
Tom O’Connor (Waikato Times): Council spends, spends, spends
Andrew Bydder (Waikato Times): Just who do council bureaucrats work for?
Cherie Sivignon (Nelson Mail): Waimea dam rates on new Tasman District Council bills upset some ratepayers
Housing
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Affordability measure shows deposits further out of reach
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): ’We are coming for you’: Property managers liable for shoddy rentals, MBIE says
Torika Tokalau (Western Leader): Family told to stay in damp state house because new home is unsafe
Newshub: Unitec researcher says Auckland could study slums to improve housing
Vicki Anderson (Press): ’You all left us behind’: Inconvenient truths from Christchurch’s homeless
Brenda Harwood (ODT: Plight affecting growing number
Matt Rilkoff (Taranaki Daily News): Editorial: More to life than flocking for grey roofs
Environment and conservation
Finn Hogan and John-MIchael Swannix (Newshub): The shocking decline of the Hauraki Gulf
David Williams (Newsroom): Less talk, more action on high country
Matthew Littlewood (Stuff): New High Country Advisory Group seen as ‘big win for the environment’
Jim Rose (Herald): Why environmentalists should endorse Rogernomics
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Anti-1080 marchers accuse West Coast farmer of assault
Deena Coster (Stuff): Greenpeace protesters who illegally boarded ship in Port Taranaki sentenced
Thomas Mead (Newshub): Researchers dream of bringing native wildlife back into the city
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Supermarkets on track to ditching single-use plastic bags
Chloe Blommerde (Stuff): No trouble spotting the new and improved DOC uniforms
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Kerbside food bins, home compost and worm farms to be trialed in Wellington
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Inside Wellington’s Southern Landfill - what really ends up at the dump
Media and broadcasting
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Contest of ideas - or personality contest?
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): What to do about Stuff
Brian Gaynor (Herald): ComCom needs to wake up to changing media
Diana Wichtel (LIstener): Q+A goes prime time with an interview of Trump’s former press secretary
Herald: The great Kiwi migration: Netflix now bigger than Three and TVNZ 2
David Farrar: Massive change in viewing habits
Māori TV: E tū disputes Māori Television ‘posturing’ claims
Karl du Fresne: The case against “constructive journalism”
History
Herald Editorial: WWI exhibition undone by lack of scrutiny
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Sir Peter Jackson’s museum to close as lease deal fails
RNZ: Million-dollar new museum set for Stewart Island
Martin Johnston (Herald): Memory of children’s deaths in Bay of Plenty’s flooded Motu River kept alive by tribe
Toby Morris (Spinoff): I saw John Minto at the fish and chip shop
Michael Fowler (Hawke’s Bay Today): South African ripped Bay Pakeha for backing Maori
Keri Mills (Briefing Papers): The Moriori myth and why it’s still with us
Language
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Public submissions on how to revitalise te reo Māori
Stuff: How many tertiary students are learning te reo Māori?
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Punanga Reo fostering Cook Islands reo in NZ
Stuff: English as a second language university classes nowhere near 2008 attendance levels
Transport and safety
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Much of NZ bus fleet a ‘disgrace’ says critic, calling for safety improvements
RNZ Checkpoint: Ruapehu crash ‘accident waiting to happen’ - former driver
Newshub: Canterbury police disappointed by number of daytime drink drivers
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Auckland’s new cycleway to make commuting easier
Felicity Reid (Stuff): Transport agency paves way for $31m cycleway linking to SkyPath
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Could ‘robo-taxis’ answer our traffic woes?
Primary industries
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Foreign forestry deal promises to support ‘billion trees’ plan
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): Wool gets revived as tide turns on synthetics’ pollution of the seas
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Modern day poultry farmers face tougher scrutiny
Marie Brunskill (Stuff): Woman rescues thousands of caged hens and end-of-layers from certain death
Sally Rae (ODT): Top official knows the human cost of bovis
1News: Minister of Agriculture urges beekeepers to help protect our bees
RNZ: New Zealanders still want meat, just less
Firearms
Adele Redmond (Stuff): National Rifle Association of New Zealand considers a name change to avoid association with US group
Thomas Manch (Stuff): NZ’s battle over semi-automatics: Police frustrated by the law, firearm owners frustrated by police
Charlie Dreaver (RNZ): Experts weigh in on 3D printed gun debate
Facebook
Damien Venuto (Herald): The Facebook experiment: What happens to NZ’s democracy when 3.2M Kiwis enter a digital lab?
Herald Editorial: When it’s time to put the phone down
Tourism
Debbie Mamieson (Stuff): It’s crunch time for Queenstown - let tourist numbers double, or shut the gate?
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Māori leaders support removal of ‘offensive’ sign at tourist attraction
Herald: ’Offensive’ Māori sign removed at Rotorua tourist attraction
Other
Neil Reid (Herald): Press release penned in event of Pike River re-entry fatality
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Taxpayers to reap ‘gain from the pain’ at Inland Revenue
Newshub: Inland Revenue touts ‘biggest tax change in 20 years’
Finn Hogan (Newshub): Some Kiwibank branches likely to close - Kiwibank CEO
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Should we be able to invest with more than one KiwiSaver scheme?
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Documentary ‘Celia’ reveals NZ’s horrible truths
Rob Stock (Stuff): Forum suggests leasing ex-government cars to low-income families
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Watered down Country of Origin Bill ‘almost meaningless’
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Conversion therapy ban could be considered - Justice Minister
Laine Moger (Stuff): New research analyses what it’s like to ‘come out’ later in life
George Block (ODT): Gang numbers growing in South
Dylan Cleaver (Herald): West Coast clubs rebel on surf lifesaving funding
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): 111 automated answering system criticised in internal firefighter email
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Half a billion dollars and more to make Wellington resilient
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Insight: Water - Who Pays?
Point of Order: New charter aims to culturalise scientists – will dissidents be starved of funding?