NZ Politics Daily - 10 August 2018
10 August 2018
Today's content
Don Brash and free speech
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): Paradox, utopia and Don Brash: on liberalism and free speech
Michael Johnston (Stuff): As an academic I’m embarrassed by the silence over Brash ban
Karl du Fresne: Arthur Miller’s epigram no longer holds true
LIstener: Why are we afraid of free speech and protest? NZ has a proud tradition of it
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): The martyrdom of Don Brash
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Workers and their unions must defend right to free speech
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Political freedoms under threat on NZ campuses
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): Universities must step up for free speech
The Standard: We need more radicals coming here
Stephen Franks: Has the free speech tide turned again?
Damien Venuto (Herald): PC culture: Has a line been drawn on free speech?
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Our past is a foreign country - and thank goodness for that
Newshub: Auckland University Debating Society pleased with rowdy Don Brash debate
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Don Brash speaks at boisterous Auckland University debate, punctuated by protests
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Protesters confront Don Brash during debate
1News: Watch: Protesters shout down Don Brash as he tries to speak at Auckland University free speech debate - ‘Don Brash represents hate’
Herald: Protesters disrupt free-speech debate when Don Brash takes stage
Matt Burrows (Newshub): ’We stand against what he represents’: Don Brash heckled at Auckland University speaking event
Newshub: Full video: Don Brash in free speech debate at Auckland University
George Heagney, Paul MItchell and Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): No-one intended comments that spooked Massey University to be taken as threats
Steve Elers (Stuff): Massey vice-chancellor versus Brash: not a concern for some students
David Farrar: Chris Bishop’s letter to the Massey VC
David Farrar: Free Speech Coalition here to stay
1News: Free speech group calls for donations to pursue legal action against Massey Uni over cancelled Brash speech
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Legal action planned against Massey vice-chancellor
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): The Free Speech Coalition plans legal action against Massey University Vice Chancellor over cancelled campus talk
RNZ: Free Speech Coalition plans legal action over Brash ban
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Who is Jordan Peterson? A guide to the next controversial Canadian to grace our shores
Chris Reed (Herald): Auckland Mayor Phil Goff invited to debate freedom of speech alongside Pauline Hanson
Employment
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Beneficiaries could get sanctions for ignoring Government’s apprenticeship scheme
Simon Collins (Herald): Govt offers dole to employers who take on long-term unemployed trainees
1News: Jacinda Ardern launches on-the-job training scheme for 4,000 young people
Julie Iles (Stuff): Government introduces scheme to encourage employers to hire unemployed youth
Jo Moir (RNZ): Mana in Mahi scheme announced for youth on the dole
Regan Paranihi (RNZ): PM launches new employment scheme
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): ’Mana in Mahi’: Government announces work for the dole scheme
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): ’Mana in Mahi’ - Govt’s new work for dole scheme
Rob Stock (Stuff): Report shows directors’ pay has risen again, but so did their hours
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Miscarriage Bill could apply to women who have abortions
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Mothers would get bereavement leave for miscarriages under new bill
Henry Cooke (Stuff): New bill to provide bereavement leave for miscarriages
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Law Revue video takes aim at sexual harassment in law
RNZ: Taxi drivers compensated after being paid below minimum wage
Kiri Gillespie (Bay of Plenty Times): Employers warn of crisis in struggle to find New Zealand workers
Brian Fallow (Herald): Employment hits the target
Liam Dann (Herald): Going Agile: Is Spark’s big move the way your workplace is heading?
Police and justice
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Government confidence in Wally Haumaha wavers
RNZ: Haumaha ‘disrespects and bullies women’ - Louise Nicholas
Jared Savage (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ‘hugely frustrated’ with ‘drip feed’ of information after promotion of Wally Haumaha
Audrey Young (Herald): Inquiry into Haumaha already wide enough to include latest developments, Parliament told
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Police Minister Stuart Nash tagged under-fire cop Wally Haumaha in gym video
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Wally Haumaha: Allegations of bullying raised in Parliament
Jared Savage and Phil Kitchin (Herald): Three women working on joint justice project left police headquarters alleging bullying by Wally Haumaha
1News: Three women working at police headquarters say they left after alleged bullying by Wally Haumaha
Emma Hurley and Ben Irwin (Newshub): Three women left police headquarters due to Wally Haumaha’s alleged bullying
RNZ: Andrew Little on the ‘crisis’ in criminal justice
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): ’They have already paid enough’ - calls for no fees for sexual abuse survivors who want their automatic name suppression lifted
Business, economy, tax
Herald: Finance minister confirms $6.5b borrowed not on core Government metrics
John Armstrong (1News): Jacinda Ardern’s handling of potential economic downturn has been ordinary
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Worsening crisis of confidence
Richard Harman (Politik): Adams gives Robertson a break
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): The OCR: a tool NZ’s most powerful banker uses to get you spending or saving
Jamie Gray (Herald): ’Watch, worry and wait’, says Reserve Bank’s Adrian Orr
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Reserve Bank’s interest rate call sends NZ dollar tumblingle
David Cormack (Herald): Business confidence giving the Government a headache
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Jacinda Ardern attempts to connect with business via LinkedIn
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Investors experience bright-line blindness
No Right Turn: Tax cheats should be prosecuted
Foreign affairs and trade
Zane Small (Newshub): Why New Zealand hasn’t spoken up for Canada in its face-off with Saudi Arabia
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Deportations widening the Trans-Tasman gulf, Australia’s former Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs says
RNZ: Asian Pacific aid more bilateral than regional
Housing
Darroch Ball (Spinoff): The big problem with the ‘KFC test’ for tenants
Philip Matthews (Press): Editorial: The rights and wrongs of renting
Emma Hurley (Newshub): What you can do if a landlord asks for your bank statements
Tom Furley (RNZ): More than half of KiwiBuild development proposals still under evaluation
Sara Meij (Stuff): Older people forced to sleep in car as housing crisis bites
Health and disability
Rosie Gordon (University of Auckland): Interview with Dr Barbara Staniforth: How severe is New Zealand’s mental health crisis?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces mental health measure
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Goverment announces new $8m high-level mental health facility
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Govt announce $8.4mil for new six-bed mental health facility
Herald Editorial: Ashley Peacock finally gets a chance to feel free
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Axed funding leaves 23 mentally unwell three months to find new homes
Sam Sherwood and Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Mental health patient broke out of locked room at a Christchurch hospital
John Boynton (RNZ): Maramataka enlightening mental health services
Collette Devlin (Stuff): We should treat domestic violence as a contagious disease, Marilyn Waring says
Dan Satherley (Newshub): ’Balancing act’ needed on unproven cancer drugs - Health Minister David Clark
Newshub: 772 NZ babies born affected by drugs, alcohol, prescription medicine in past five years
ODT: Border closure an option: study
1News: Experts warn New Zealand not prepared for a global pandemic
Health sector employment
Stuff: Almost 65 per cent of nurses voted to accept latest DHB pay deal
Herald: Significant majority: Over 60 per cent of nurses voted in favour of DHB Collective Agreement
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Revealed: The tiny margin of nurses who rejected DHBs’ previous offer
Education
Katie Bradford (1News): Reprieve may be in sight for Indian students desperate to receive New Zealand qualifications
Māori TV: International students protest NZQA qualifications block
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Exploited students urged to change work visa
Herald: Calls for animal welfare education after teens kill seal
Katie Fitzpatrick (Spinoff): Why ACC spending millions on ‘Mates and Dates’ undermines teachers
Fiona McNamara (RNZ): Mates and Dates programme: Listen to the students
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Auckland school kids win long pants battle
Amy Baker (Stuff): Fight over stolen $30 headphones sees Auckland school pay family $7000 for legal fees
Stuff: Who’s taking part in NZ’s community and adult education?
Education sector employment
Robert Steven (Stuff): Teachers are planning to strike because they need more help to deal with children’s behaviour issues, Taupō teachers planning to strike say
Torika Tokalau and Josephine Franks (Stuff): Teachers’ strike means bring-your-child-to-work day for many
Child welfare
Isaac Davison (Herald): Children’s Minister Tracey Martin wants online pornography to be regulated
Newshub: Children’s Minister Tracey Martin plans online porn crackdown
Banking and finance
Madison Reidy (RNZ): NZ bank’s conduct is ‘patchy’ - regulator
Rob Stock (Stuff): Bank staff views on bank culture sought by Financial Markets Authority
Firefighting foam contamination
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Firefighting foam: Eel contamination 80 times greater than food safety level
Robin Martin (RNZ): Eaten contaminated eel? Tell Taranaki Regional Council
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Oil company contaminates Taranaki groundwater with banned firefighting foam
Environment and conservation
Polly Greeks (Newsroom): 1080 - antibiotics for the land?
Herald: Government expected to announce plastic bag ban
Michael Neilson (Herald): Auckland iwi Ngāi Tai to argue in Supreme Court for exclusive rights to Rangitoto, Motutapu
Jenny Ling (Stuff): Call to lift kiwi-protection ban on pet cats and dogs in the Far North
Annabelle Tukia (Newshub): Timaru man wants NZ to buy back South Island high country’s Lilybank Station
Joya Kemper (Newsroom): Don’t greenwash our consumption crisis
Primary industries
Keith Woodford (Interest): Mycoplasma bovis compensation is a mixed bag
Mark Quinlivan (Stuff): Greenpeace’s claims ‘inaccurate’ says Mackenzie District mayor
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Tourists taking home trolley loads of Mānuka honey
Greens
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand MP uses C-word at rally in call to reclaim it from abusers
Steven Cowan: The “c-word” is capitalism
David Farrar: The c word
Local government
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Christchurch ‘will not be bullied’ into funding widespread water reforms
Logan Church (RNZ): Chch council concerned it might lose control over water services
The Standard: Who protects us from water companies?
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Dam near Nelson could be dead in the water after $20m shortfall revealed
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Protestors clash over proposed Waimea dam
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Auckland Council will probe ratepayers’ concerns after bowling club’s massive rates hike
Transport
RNZ: Tranzit managing director confident no Mitsubishi link in bus crashes
Newshub: Bus drivers’ union wants Government Mitsubishi Fuso probe to go further
Ben Strang (RNZ): Govt launches investigation into Mitsubishi Fuso bus crashes
George Block (ODT): Tourist bus in Te Anau crash a Mitsubishi Fuso
Tim Brown (RNZ): Queenstown Airport may double number of flights
Other
Jonathan Boston (ODT): A reformed welfare state is needed
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Tackling the trends behind Trump
Barry Soper (Herald): Jacinda Ardern would have wanted a better first week back
RNZ: Two members’ bills drawn from ballot
Rob Stock (Stuff): KiwiSaver for foster children easier if new bill passes
Claire Trevett (Herald): New plan for Treaty settlement
Karl du Fresne: The perils of imported appointees
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Māori culture to attract tourists to lesser-known regions
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for rescuing foreign adventurers
RNZ: Govt commits $13m to extend Otago cycle trails
Newshub: Otago cycle trail gets $13.2 million boost from Government
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Awanui Black’s brother speaks out against pedophilia allegations
Michael Neilson (Herald): Government sets goal for one million Kiwis speaking basic te reo Māori by 2040
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Hundreds of boxes donated in Soap for Society toiletries drive
Grant Robertson (Herald): Sport is getting a good deal