NZ Politics Daily - 7 August 2018
7 August 2018
Today's content
Business, economy
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Treasury warns business confidence slump could hit govt books
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Prime Minister says labour law changes are ‘no grounds for uncertainty’
Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern is back determined to woo business
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Jacinda Ardern talks up trade and economic policy on return to work
Newshub: New Zealand economy isn’t stalling - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Prime Minister’s business confidence push back: ‘I'm interested in the reality'
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): It’s a business as usual return for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Ardern’s plan to boost business confidence
Jane Kelsey (Daily Blog):“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility while negotiations on old model continue
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): ‘Trade for All’ agenda another announcement without substance
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government makes play for business support with new advisory board on trade
RNZ: Government to ask public for trade feedback
Newshub: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says NZ should ‘look at reality’ of the economy
1News: Watch: Jacinda Ardern says ‘with change comes uncertainty’, as business confidence falls
Jason Walls (Interest): Ardern is back and she has a message for businesses
Patrick O”Meara (RNZ): Softer housing could hurt govt finances - Treasury
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Economy ‘still doing pretty well’ - Grant Robertson
BusinessDesk: NZ CEOs shrug off wider business blues in latest KPMG survey
Building and construction
Thomas Couhglan (Newsroom): A thin construction pipeline
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Governments can’t actually do much about the construction industry
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Reset or face death, Jones warns construction industry
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Construction industry in urgent meeting with government ministers over sector problems
Ben Irwin (Newshub): NZ’s large-scale construction industry needs ‘a reset’ - Shane Jones
Jason Walls (Interest): ’Reset or death’ for Govt procurement policy
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government promises to stop low-balling constructions companies in bid to save sector
Anne Gibson (Herald): ’The system is broken’: What’s wrong with building sector?
Jo Moir (RNZ): Government plans new construction strategy to combat skills shortage
BusinessDesk: Cabinet mulls govt procurement after Ebert collapse
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Builders’ payments delayed due to contract change
Leonie Freeman (Spinoff): How to stop construction companies going under when they should be busy building
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Leaky-home owners’ class action heads to court
Police and justice
RNZ: Haumaha appointment: PM remains firm ‘no conflict of interest’
Jared Savage (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern downplays New Zealand First links to Wally Haumaha
Jared Savage (Herald): NZ First deputy leader Fletcher Tabuteau’s 'whānau', marae links to Wally Haumaha
Jenna Lynch and Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): NZ First’s links with Wally Haumaha prompt more scrutiny over inquiry
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Calls for NZ First Minister Tracey Martin to stand down in Wally Haumaha’s appointment inquiry
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Independent review of Law Society sought
Edward Gay (RNZ): Malcolm Rewa to be retried - High Court
Mitch McCann (Newshub): Malcolm Rewa to stand trial again over murder of Susan Burdett
Sam Hurley (Herald): Third murder trial over Susan Burdett killing for serial rapist Malcolm Rewa to proceed
Newshub: Malcolm Rewa trial will be traumatic for victims - expert
Government
Bill Ralston (Listener): Jacinda Ardern is back from maternity leave – let the games begin
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returns to Cabinet
RNZ: Jacinda Ardern returns from maternity leave
Oriini Kaipara (Māori TV): PM’s baby will speak Māori and English
Svetlana Stankovic and Gabrielle Jackson (Guardian): Clarke Gayford is staying at home with baby Neve. So what's the big deal?
1News: Greens call on Parliament to recognise WWI deaths of Armenians in Turkey as genocide
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Greens call for NZ Parliament to recognise Armenian genocide
1News Colmar Brunton poll
1News: Simon Bridges defends latest preferred PM poll result, insisting Helen Clark ‘polled lower’ - 'It is the party vote that matters'
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’
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): The real winner from the latest political poll
Matthew Whitehead (Standard): Pollwatch: 5th August, 2018
National
Graham Adams (Noted): Simon Bridges’ surprising stance on cannabis and euthanasia
Gia Garrick (RNZ): National leader won’t be disciplining Collins over fake news tweet
1News: New Zealand is ‘not immune’ to fake news, says Jacinda Ardern, after Judith Collins' controversial tweet
Tova O”Brien (Newshub):Judith Collins defends her fake news tweet to Jacinda Ardern
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Judith Collins defends linking to fake news article on France consent laws
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Judith Collins calls on PM to denounce story from fake news site
Newstalk ZB: Judith Collins slammed for retweeting fake news
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Seven other horrifying incidents Jacinda Ardern must immediately condemn
Whena Owen (1News): Watch: Paula Bennett on going grey, her weight loss surgery and infamous ‘zip it sweetie’ comment to Jacinda Ardern
Education
Andre Chumko (Stuff): The case for an overhaul of the learning support system
Stuff: Secondary teachers and principals due to discuss collective agreement
Elizabeth Rata (Newsroom): Closing NZ’s knowledge gap
Newshub: Joseph Parker won’t attend ‘racist’ event unless school lifts attendance restrictions, says manager
Newshub: Duncan Garner comes out swinging against ‘racist’ Joseph Parker event
Jacob McSweeny (Herald): Outcry over boxing champ Joseph Parker’s closed session at Whanganui High School
Ben Leahy (Herald): Northland principal denies surveillance cameras were installed in school toilets
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): Auckland daycare teacher must pay $31,000 after mistreatment of children and staff
Laine Moger (Stuff): Auckland daycare manager censured for physical and psychological abuse, tribunal says
Nicola Willis (Herald): Daycare - Leave your judgments at the door
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Stop judging us for putting our kids in daycare, parents say
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): With all the demand, how are our polytechs failing?
Daniel Brown (Newsroom): In defence of the humanities
Stuff: English as a second language university classes nowhere near 2008 attendance levels
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Opposition to Victoria University of Wellington name change heard, weeks before deadline
Housing
Robin Martin (RNZ): Looming housing crisis for over 65s - Retirement commissioner warns
RNZ: Aucklanders give up on the quarter acre dream
Herald: Banks deny home lending clamp-down
David Hargreaves (Interest): ’Meaningful lift in house prices into the mid-2020s’
Jeremy Moyle (Spinoff): A very short history of the impossibility of buying a house in New Zealand
Ripeka Timutimu (Māori TV): HNZ apologises to couple forced to wash at kitchen sink
Anne Knox (Taranaki Daily News): Spare a thought for beggars and the homeless, and maybe a minute of your time
Mike Yardley (Press): Better ways to support the homeless
Environment and conservation
David Williams (Newsroom): The council CEO, skifield consent and the wetland
Adam Hollingsworth (Newshub): Scientist warns of climate change’s effects on New Zealand
Mike Watson (Taranaki Daily News): Our Backyard: Crowd funding nears $500k target for wetland near Egmont National Park
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Large number of kiwi deaths likely going undetected, experts say
Tina Law (Press): Long-lived kea die after visit from DOC, long-term carers blame the department for their death
Primary industries
Keith Woodford (Stuff): Sheep farmers know change is constant, but opportunities abound
RNZ: Fines of $1.5m sought in fisheries prosecution
Māori TV):Illegal seafood sellers could face $1mil fine
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Pāmu, Forest & Bird to work together
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Conservationists and farmers join forces
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Kaipara locals set to bring their fight to the big smoke
Lyn Webster (Stuff): Why it’s OK to stick with meat and dairy
Foreign affairs and trade
RNZ: Winston Peters hopeful about North Korea after Singapore meetings
RNZ: Former High Commissioner to Samoa criticises NZ aid
Mike Treen: An Open Letter To Winston Peters
RNZ: Union leader unhappy about consular treatment
Health and disability
Newshub: New Zealand’s cancer death rates worse than Australia’s - oncologist
Sophia Duckor-Jones (RNZ): ’Families are not supported at all’
Dani McDonald (Stuff): St John rolls out Mental Health First Aid courses in response to rising demand
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Rest homes face staffing ‘crisis’ as nurses leave for state pay deals
Karen Brown (RNZ): NZ could soon be short of up to 1000 aged care nurses
Newshub: ’Angry, disillusioned’ nurses may vote yes for pay offer
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Nurses’ contract dispute may be resolved today
Sarah Murphy (RNZ): Families of dementia sufferers face huge bills
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): The one voice that might have saved Ruby Knox
Fiona Thomas (Stuff): Patient’s cancer result lost for eight months due to IT system flaw
Nikki Preston (Herald): Support swells for woman in desperate need of double organ transplant
Local government
David Williams (Newsroom): A council’s wall of silence crumbles
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Māori and the poor stung by Auckland fuel tax, says report
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): ’I would love to’: John Palino weighing up another tilt at Auckland mayoralty
Herald: John Palino weighing up a third tilt at Auckland mayoralty
Herald: Go easy on AirBnB, chamber of commerce says
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Failure to consult properly with Christians sees Napier’s Easter trading policy thrown out
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): When will councillors answer questions on Wellington’s bustastrophe?
Damian George (Stuff): Wellington’s faltering new bus network gets rethink after just three weeks
Cherie Sivignon (Nelson Mail): Waimea dam rates on new Tasman District Council bills upset some ratepayers
Mandy Te (Stuff): Cow and calf slaughtered after attacking two people at Auckland park
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Cow and calf to be killed after attacking woman and man
Newshub: Cow and calf sent to slaughter after Auckland attack
Southern and Molyneux and free speech
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): How The New Zealand Left Transformed Southern And Molyneux From Unknown Rightists Into Free Speech Heroes
Simon Keller (Newsroom): Free speech - it’s complicated
Russell Brown: On joining the international troll circuit
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Stefan Molyneux, IQ and race: What the experts think
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern ‘simply can’t’ be both a mum and Prime Minister - Stefan Molyneux
Newshub: Powerstation vandalised after cancelling Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux event
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Bomb threats, social media pile ons and Miriama Kamo’s ‘race betrayal’ – the Woke Left just don’t know when they start becoming the enemy do they?
Employment
Giles Dexter (Newshub): Kapiti friends fed up at reaction to their disabilities launch beer company
Herald Editorial: Right thing to help staff in great distress
Treaty of Waitangi
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Do Treaty of Waitangi settlements lead to better social outcomes? And should they?
Tony Wall (Stuff): A ‘modern day Te Rauparaha’ fighting for his people
Deena Coster and Simon O’Connor (Stuff): Treaty and Me: The son of a full-blooded Māori and a full-blooded Pakeha
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): The Treaty and Me: It’s the dreams of our ancestors
Immigration and refugees
Catherine Hutton (RNZ): Immigration NZ forced to address privacy concerns with RealMe
Newshub: How hiring refugees can help your business
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Look for opportunities with ‘migrant eyes’, new arrivals urged
Social Media
Phil Quin (Newsroom): A long hard look in the social media mirror
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): Hate speech and the economics of popularity
Other
Vincent O’Malley (Stuff): A mature nation owns its history - the good and the bad
Liz Gordon (Daily Blog): Disrupting our lives
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Māori data group fears worst for 2018 Census
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Documentary ‘Celia’ reveals NZ’s horrible truths
RNZ: Hopes Fiji and NZ patrols will deter illegal fishers
Lois Williams (RNZ): Gay priest says ordination offers hope to LGBT Christians
RNZ: Scratchies linked to high relapse rates of gambling addiction
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): What to do with your KiwiSaver in an economic downturn
Lynzi Armstrong (Spinoff): It’s as legal as any other job. So why does stigma against sex workers persist?