NZ Politics Daily - 15 August 2018

15 August 2018

Today's content

National
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard says document format could reveal who leaked Simon Bridges’ expenses
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Parliament’s big whodunnit could keep us occupied for days
Press Editorial: Simon Bridges expenses leak seems like a bit of a ‘beat-up'
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): This is a lame hit job on Simon Bridges
David Farrar: It may have just been a stuff up
Newshub: 'A pathetic attack': Judith Collins wants to know who leaked Simon Bridges' expenses
Newshub: National MPs singing from the same song sheet on Simon Bridges’ expenses
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Bridges calls for independent inquiry into expenses leak
Newshub: Simon Bridges calls for independent review after expense leak
1News: Simon Bridges asks for independent inquiry into his expenses leak - ‘I want to get to the bottom of it’
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): National demands independent probe into Simon Bridges travel expenses leak
Jason Walls (Interest): Bridges calls for a High Court Judge to lead ‘comprehensive investigation’ into leak
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Speaker rules out suspects - who’s left in the Simon Bridges whodunit?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Probe launched as MPs duck for cover from blame game over Simon Bridges travel leak
Lucy Bennnett (Herald): Speaker Trevor Mallard digging into National leader Simon Bridges’ expenses leak
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Investigation launched into who leaked Simon Bridges' expenses
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Bridges’ expenses leak: Prime Minister claims Labour had no part
1News: Ardern ‘categorically’ rules out expenses leak came from Labour, Bridges 'confident' it was not from National
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Labour, National deny leaking National leader Simon Bridges’ expenses
Herald: Jacinda Ardern says leak to media of National leader Simon Bridges’ expenses did not come from Labour

Primary teachers’ strike
Newshub: No easy fix to teachers' problems - AUT lecturer Dr Leon Benade
Newshub: New Zealand Educational Institute confident teachers’ strike will bring change
Simon Collins, Chelsea Boyle, Cameron Smith and Carla Penman (Herald): Teachers march today to overcome record teacher shortage
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers strike: Education system at ‘crisis point'
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Former All Black coach and school principal Graham Henry supports strike
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): Hipkins ahead of strike: Teachers’ pay bid will have to move significantly
Stuff: Strike: Primary teachers and principals strike for first time since 1994 
Simon Collins (Herald): Teachers' strike: Hundreds of millions of dollars at stake
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Teachers strike: What you need to know
1News: Teachers strike: What you need to know for today
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 'I'm starting to feel a little bit angry'
Adele Redmond (Stuff): Nearly 30,000 teachers set to walk in first strike in 24 years
Simon Collins (Herald): Up to 10,000 may march in Auckland tomorrow as teachers strike
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Parents support teachers’ full-day strike plans
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Primary teachers’ pay offer should be doubled - principal
Alice Angeloni (Stuff): Teacher strike: Finding relief teachers a battle
Rachel Comer (Timaru Herald): Teacher speaks of long hours and low pay as national strike looms
Newshub: Where you can take your kids during tomorrow’s teachers’ strike
Simon Collins (Herald): Teachers’ strike: What can you do with the kids?
Emily Cooper (1News): Parents make arrangements as teachers strike - ‘Going to the zoo’
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Primary teachers to strike on Wednesday, is it the high school teachers’ turn?
1News: Watch: Ministry of Education worker tears up over pay equity deal - ‘It’s beyond wonderful’

Education support workers pay deal
Jessica Long (Stuff): Pay equity deal will see women in education support roles receive 30 per cent pay rise
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): Historic pay rise for support workers in education
RNZ: School support workers land historic pay equity settlement
Newshub: Government signs equal pay deal with education support workers

Education
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Politicians go into bat for Tuturumuri School as consultation on its future closes
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Plan to scrap Māori and Indigenous faculty labelled ‘white-streaming’
Rukuwai Tipene-Allen (Maori TV): Proposed changes to Māori faculty spark protest at Waikato Uni
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Waikato University proposal attracts protest
Robin Martin (RNZ): Taranaki tertiary provider gets NZQA vote of confidence

Government
Jason Walls (Interest): Wayne Eagleson, chief of staff to PMs Key & English, will be paid more than $100,000 for five-months of consulting work for South Australia’s Premier
Gordon Campbell: On the stereotypes about Jacinda Ardern
John Drinnan: Dog Whistles And Riding A High Horse

Housing
Michael Neilson (Herald): Tackling barriers to financing homes on Māori land and boosting home ownership
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Finance an issue for building on communal Māori land - wananga
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): Solutions sought to build on Māori land
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Mahuta announces Māori housing wānanga
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Q+A: Will house prices really slump?
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Foreign buyer ban could be this Government’s biggest mistake
Oscar Lau (Stuff): An alternative to KiwiBuild that makes economic sense
David Hargreaves (Interest): KiwiBuild LVR poser
Kate Day (Stuff): Quinovic’s adverts have shined a light on the ugly reality of renting
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Landlords ‘disgusted’ by Quinovic ad

Justice and police
Tony Wall, Blair Ensor, Kirsty Lawrence and Catrin Owen (Stuff): Corrections reviews use of motels for high-risk offenders
RNZ: Use of motels for high-risk offenders under review - Corrections
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): HELP Foundation provides pilot service for sexual violence survivors
Meghan Lawrence (Herald): Kiwi Matthew Arai languishing in brutal Bali prison after ‘misunderstanding’ leads to attempted murder arrest
Jo Moir (Stuff): Public goodwill towards police at risk - union warns
Audrey Young (Herald): National wants confidentiality for police officers to give evidence to inquiry into Wally Haumaha appointment
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Police investigate contact between Wally Haumaha and staff member
Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirms the post of Deputy Police Commissioner could be re-opened after inquiry
Stuff: Police Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha could be replaced, Jacinda Ardern says
1News: ’We are dealing with it’ - PM wants Haumaha appointment inquiry dealt with ‘properly and appropriately’
Tim Dower (Herald): Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha must resign
No Right Turn: What the Haumaha inquiry is about
David Farrar: Why hasn’t Ardern done the Clark solution?
Nikki Macdonald (Stuff): Hundreds of rape evidence kits never get tested - should we be alarmed?
Mackenzie Smith (RNZ): Facebook investigating online abuse of Samoan author
Michelle Duff (Stuff): So dropping a c-bomb isn’t OK, but rape threats are?

Business, economy
Bevan Rapson (Noted): How concerning is a dip in business confidence?
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): In his bid to maintain confidence, Adrian Orr may leave nothing on the table
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Politicians brawl as banks adjust currency forecast
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): BNZ says Government should focus on investment as it warns fiscal target 'won't be met'
Michael Reddell: The Governor and the PM
Andrea Fox (Herald): Māori business show new investment appetites, says ANZ report

Tax
Richard Harman (Politik) Can the coalition all agree on tax?
Gavin Evans (BusinessDesk): Govt moves to shut GST loophole on charities’ asset sales

Kīngitanga
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Former advisor to Māori King chastises the office over spending
1News: Māori King’s former adviser Tukoroirangi Morgan slams him as ‘puppet king’
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Māori King accused of being manipulated by chief advisor
Herald: Tukoroirangi Morgan pens scathing letter to Māori King Tūheitia
David Farrar: Tuku vs the King

Act
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The death throes of the Act Party
1News: Winston Peters draws laughs in Parliament after accusing David Seymour of calling into question his ‘undoubted courage’
Newshub: Does New Zealand still need Māori seats?
David Farrar: ACT pledges 20 fewer MPs and abolish Maori seats

Environment and conservation
Richard Kidd and Dianne Kidd (Stuff): Deny market access to farmers who refuse to tackle environmental responsibilities
Guy Trafford (Interest): Clearer rules and stiffer protections needed as some farmers game rural regulations on intensive practices to protect water quality
Gerald Piddock and Chris Hutching (Stuff): ’F’ rating for Waikato Council in Forest & Bird dairy effluent report - but council says it gave wrong data
No Right Turn: Some defence!
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Horizons Regional Council gets ball rolling on One Plan changes
Andrew Ashton (Hawke’s Bay Today): Hawke’s Bay Regional Council accused of broken promises
David Williams (Newsroom): Officials allow farm’s reserve land grab
Amanda Black and Monica Gerth (Herald): Lose kauri and we lose a piece of ourselves
Laurel Stowell (Wanganui Chronicle): Death threats to staff at Whanganui 1080 facility
Herald: Forest & Bird calls for end to commercial whitebaiting
Chris Hutching (Stuf): Environmental agency steps up urgency on chemicals linked to bee decline
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): Future of hunting statutory body under review
Jamie Morton (Herald): Climate researchers: Where NZ’s carbon act could fail
Pat Baskett (Newsroom): It’s not too late to avert an impending crisis
Dave Nicoll (Southland Times): Outright refusals and impassioned pleas among submissions on proposed Fiordland accommodation
Liz McDonald (Stuff): High country buy-back project seen as less sexy than beach campaign
Andre Chumko (Stuff): Napier’s residents still unhappy water supply chlorinated

Primary industries
RNZ: Urban sprawl could hike up food prices, threaten valuable land
Jamie Gray (Herald): Horticulture NZ makes case for best food growing areas
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): M. bovis found in Motueka
1News: Mycoplasma bovis found in Tasman district for the first time
Newshub: First Mycoplasma bovis case found in Tasman district
BusinessDesk: Fonterra’s Monaghan says biggest challenge is to change existing law
David Hargreaves (Interest): Fonterra has appointed Miles Hurrell as interim CEO with immediate effect; Spierings will leave at the end of the month

Plastic
ODT Editorial: More work to be done on plastic
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Council’s 3.1 million plastic bags yearly is ‘not a good look’, councillor says
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): ’Bring your own’ container ban stuns enviro-friendly customers
1News: Watch: Meet the Wellington woman taking on the scourge of plastic ‘nurdles’
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Banning plastic bags is just a PR stunt

Infrastructure
Nona Pelletier (RNZ): Investment in infrastructure not equal to the task - report
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Private cash could help Government keep its promises
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Now’s time to sell our assets to fund infrastructure gap

Roundup
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Horticulturist calls for urgent NZ review of Roundup’s safety
RNZ: Monsanto: Roundup less toxic than bleach

Firefighting foam
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Firefighting foam: A second region’s petrochemical site contaminated
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Foam contamination found in Taranaki streams
Mike Watson (Stuff): Shell to remove fire foam chemicals from sites

Food safety
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Explainer: Why you should wash those imported grapes
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Call for clear labelling of imported tomatoes treated with radiation

Treaty of Waitangi
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Ngai Tai ki Tāmaki at Supreme Court for exclusive Gulf Islands rights
RNZ: Leaders say Little’s proposal gives fresh hope to hapū
Maori TV: Fox refutes Hauraki settlement ‘done deal’ claim
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Claimant takes aim at Andrew Little over Hauraki deal

Employment
RNZ Checkpoint: Striking Go Bus drivers earn $17.68 an hour
Sam Huggard (Spinoff): Happy Rich List day, especially to the teachers and underpaid women of NZ
1News: Watch: Jacinda Ardern says Simon Bridges is being ‘alarmist and dramatic’ over union reps entering workplaces
Zane Small (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern blames nine year ‘valve of pressure’ for multiple strike actions
Mary-Jo Tohill (Stuff): Alliance move to import 100 overseas workers for Southland plants

Health
Stuff: Waikato DHB gets government watchdog, two new board appointments
Herald: New chair and deputy appointed for Waikato DHB
RNZ: Pharmac funding of MS drugs “restrictive & cruel”
1News: ’They’ve hung me out to dry’ – hundreds of people with MS being denied drugs that could help the disease
RNZ: Dialysis patients’ care ‘not at risk'
1News: Another alcohol delivery company prompts debate on whether it’s convenient or harmful
Joel Achenbach (Washington Post): Huge alcohol clinical trial collapses
Dave Macpherson (Daily Blog): Alarming Picture Painted by Mental Health Statistics
Bruce Munro (ODT): The Art of Psychiatry
RNZ: Lumsden Maternity Centre cuts will add pressure to midwives, families
Hannah Martin (Stuff): More than 1200 Aucklanders diagnosed with mumps as outbreak continues
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Auckland City Hospital emergency department straining under ‘unprecedented’ winter demand
Isaac Davison (Herald): Auckland Hospital says record ED patient numbers come before flu season has peaked
Libby Wilson (Stuff): From odd jobs to rural GP: how Martin Mikaere became a doctor

Free speech
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom Pro): The left wing case for political freedoms
Brian Rudman (Herald) Academic freedom is a right that needs protecting
Karl du Fresne: I’m a bit happier now than I was a few weeks ago
Pat Scaife (Stuff): Faith in Taranaki: Hate speech or free speech?

Local government
Newshub: Peter Jackson’s Wellington movie museum plans scrapped
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Curtain falls on council-Sir Peter Jackson movie museum for capital
Daisy Hudson (ODT): Mayor facing action over Stonewood Homes collapse

Building and construction
RNZ: Govt should use building levy to train new workers - BCITO
Andrea Fox (Herald): Construction contract battles on rise and more to come

NZ servicemen repatriation 
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): ’It’s a miracle’: Remains to be returned after 60-year battle
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Son of All Black George Nepia included in repatriation
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Remains of NZ serviceman won’t be returned after unidentification

Other
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Government put off scrapping benefit sanctions for mothers who don’t name father of their children, despite advice it could be done this year
RNZ: Officials asked to review KiwiSaver for people with disabilities
Dan Dalgety (RNZ): Christchurch insurance premium hike baffles homeowners
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Countdown apologises after Christchurch store introduces airport-style scanning of suspected shoplifters
Zane Small (Newshub): NZ’s silence on Canada-Saudi face-off ‘deafening’ - Amnesty International
Chris Morris (ODT): Apology from church for abuse case comments
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): NZ population pushes towards 5 million
1News: Oldest Māori radio station Te Upoko O Te Ika under closure threat amid dispute
Jacob McSweeny (Herald): Mountain crash changes landscape for public transport plans for Ruapehu
Kerry McDonald (Interest):Paradise lost! Two decades of shocking failure in political leadership
Tema Hemi (Māori TV): Investiture Ceremony for Dame Tariana Turia
Māori TV: Iwi turns out for Dame Tariana
Sara Vui-Talitu (RNZ): NZ Pacific Arts Strategy nearing completion
Richard MacManus (Newsroom): Is digital technology harming our children?
David Loughrey (ODT): Support for change of gender initiative
Sam Hurley (Herald): ’A financial blow’ - Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern ask Kiwis to donate after cancelled event