NZ Politics Daily - 12 October 2018
12 October 2018
Today's content
Environment and conservation
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s climate change stance lacks any integrity
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): Step one: accept people don’t, and may never, give a toss about climate change
RNZ: Nine to Noon: Understanding the IPCC climate report and its impact on New Zealand
Kirk Hope (Stuff): Climate change scenarios are frightening, but ‘taking action’ is still hard to do
Point of Order: The climate change challenge: leading the charge has cost-of-living implications
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Canterbury water on way to Chinese market as bottling plant starts production
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): West Papuan people paying the price for our palm oil demand, campaigner says
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Current tools ‘not sufficient’ to defeat kauri dieback, Govt document warns
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): How Australia’s fight against ‘jarrah dieback’ could help NZ save kauri
Ellie Jay (RNZ): Plastic composter changes Raglan’s recycling
Labour Party: What we’re doing for the environment
Consumer protection, loan sharks
Gordon Campbell: On the government’s feeble response to loan sharks
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): Debtors: Govt missed chance to end loan shark industry
Press Editorial: The Government jumps on loan sharks
Southland Times Editorial: Is this a big enough boat?
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): $40,000 spent trying to get away from $900 loan
RNZ: Cap on loans not the solution for spiralling debt - Kris Faafoi
Calls for Commerce Commission supermarket investigation
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The Green Party calls for competition probe into supermarkets after fuel price hikes
Jason Walls (Herald): Green MP Gareth Hughes wants supermarkets to be looked into after petrol companies
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Greens call for a Commerce Commission supermarket probe
Government surplus, economy
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Time for the Government to borrow and spend - economist
ODT Editorial: Fiscal caution to be welcomed
Press Editorial: From fiscal hole to money mountain
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Steven Joyce stands by fiscal hole despite $5.5 billion Government surplus
Simon Hampton (Newshub): Low economic growth on the horizon - Infometrics
Leak inquiries, National
Laura Walters (Stuff): Politics, not compassion, wins in leak saga
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The leak that shouldn’t have caused a ripple
Jessica Mutch and Benedict Collins (1News) 1 NEWS political team discuss what happens for Simon Bridges, once leak investigation is finally released
Bryan Gould: Dumping Simon Bridges may be just the easy option
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Chris Bishop holds firearms forums across the country
Mike Watson (Stuff): Judith ‘Crusher’ Collins meets ‘Judith’, the 50 tonne concrete crusher
MSD loans, welfare
1News: Exclusive: Nearly half a million Kiwis owe social development ministry $1.5 billion for loans
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Capping loan sharks is great – now what about the debt the State agencies load onto beneficiaries?
No Right Turn: Benefit sanctions don’t work
Pallas Hupé Cotter (Spinoff): A business admin course changed the lives of mums on benefits. Then it was closed down
Health
Ruby Macandrew and Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Alcohol to have mandatory warning labels after move backed by transtasman health ministers
Newshub: Australian, New Zealand ministers vote to make alcohol safety labels mandatory
Derek Cheng (Herald): Kiwi booze will have to carry pregnancy warning labels
1News: Pregnancy warning labels on alcohol to be mandatory in New Zealand
Paula Hulburt (Stuff): Breast cancer mum’s ‘terrible dilemma’ - more memories or more money for her children
Sarah Templeton (Newshub): New Zealand’s Health Star Ratings ‘nonsense’ claims health expert
Natalie Akoorie (Herald):Confidential witness statements released to Nigel Murray in precedent-setting case
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Health staff need better communication: survey
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Grandmother living in agonising pain from mesh ‘life sentence’ calls for apology
Stuff: One boss to run two Wellington region DHBs
Megan Sutherland (Newshub): Kiwi researchers want fat-shaming made illegal
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): SDHB offers bonus to rural midwives as maternity centre prepares for downgrade
Mental health
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Green Party investigating questions on job seekers’ mental health
Emily Writes (Spinoff): Does Mental Health Awareness Week actually change anything for people with mental illnesses?
Brett Murray (Stuff): Construction’s biggest risk may be in our heads
Ben Francis (Newshub): Paul Whatuira’s message for people struggling with mental health
RNZ: Nine to Noon: Could physical activity prevent mental ill-health?
Zane Small (Newshub): ’You get off on it’: Duncan Garner’s stern message to bullies
Police
Edward O’Driscoll (Newshub): Cops face raft of criminal charges
Stuff: Twenty reports of sexual harassment within New Zealand police
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Drug use a health issue, not criminal - Police Minister Stuart Nash
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Arrests for cannabis possession fall 70 percent in 20 years
Derek Cheng (Herald): Legalising cannabis not a cure for social harm, police union hears
Synthetic drugs
RNZ: Scientists want to extend wastewater testing to synthetic drugs
Caley Callahan and Megan Sutherland (Newshub): 31 Christchurch synthetics users hospitalised in last 22 days
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Another 12 people in hospital after ‘bad batch’ of synthetic drugs
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): A young synthetic drug addict's final hours
Petrol prices
Daniel Newman (Stuff): Fuel taxes are regressive devices that hurt the working poor
Brian Fallow (Herald): The real problem with petrol prices? They’re too low
Jessica Mutch Mckay and Benedict Collins (1News): The price of petrol: Who is to blame? (video)
Animal cruelty and child welfare
Lynley Tulloch (Stuff): Highway to hell: There are other ways to prove ‘Kiwiness’ than animal hunts
Alice Webb-Liddall (Newshub): ’Move the bloody thing’: Dead possum outside Napier school brings kids to tears
Stuff: SPCA faces bills over $200,000 to investigate, prosecute breeder
Megan Sutherland (Newshub): SPCA taking legal action against German shepherd breeder
Housing
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Housing costs to blame for inequality, report shows
1News: Auckland church helping influx of homeless with mental health problems
Regan Paranihi (Māori TV): Housing First receives helping hand in Rotorua
Richard Wain (Newshub): Mobile showers and laundry for Auckland homeless
Jessica Tyson (Māori T): Mobile shower and laundry for homeless
Mānia Clarke (Māori TV): Concerns over displaced rough sleeper
Chris Harrowell (Stuff): Police trespass rough sleepers from south Auckland park for ‘undesirable behaviour’
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): House sales falling: Or are they?
1News: House sales drop nationwide, September figures lowest since 2011
Annette Lambly (Stuff): Solo mum’s unconsented tiny house dobbed in
Women in sport
Suzanne McFadden (Newsroom): Better decisions made with women on board
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Govt launches $10m strategy for women in sport
David Long (Stuff): Government seeks level playing field for women in sport
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government seeks pay equity for top female athletes in effort to get equality in sport
Henry Rounce (Newshub): Government chips in $10m to shake up women’s sport
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Government launches $10m strategy to get more women and girls in sport
Education
Kate Newston (RNZ): Universities face a crisis of the humanities
Elena McPhee (ODT): Hundreds farewell Henaghan after final law lecture
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Hora Hora Primary School principal Pat Newman says calling police or exclusion of volatile pupils only option for Northland schools
RNZ: Protesters leave former Catholic School
Newshub: Experienced teacher earns $12,000 less than her son in the same role
Justice and corrections
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Securing work to escape a second prison: ‘How do I be one of you?’
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Addiction courts save millions in prison costs
Michael Cropp (1News): ’Heartbreak upon heartbreak’ - one Māori woman’s experience of the criminal justice system
Andrea Vance (Stuff): Corrections minister breaking law with prison restrictions, ACT leader claims
LIbby Wilson (Stuff): Ōtorohanga may get a 300-person workers’ camp for prison builders
Adam Pearse (Herald): Ten years on: Rebecca Templeman struggles over Libby’s murder
Primary and extractive industries
Tony Baldwin (Herald): Comment: Fonterra - the NZ dairy industry experiment that failed
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Farmers build rapport amid Mycoplasma bovis heartache
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Potato virus: More farms put on suspect list
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): High hops: New Zealand ministry pumps millions into craft beer
RNZ: Brewers hop on to opportunity to boost market gains
Leonid Sirota (Stuff): Oil and gas bill missing out on important and orderly scrutiny
Business
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Government will provide therapy for business owners to help them feel more confident
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Businesses to get $100m ACC refund
Zane Small (Newshub): ACC to refund $100 million in overcharged levies
Mere McLean (Māori TV): From Standing Rock to Rotorua
Super Fund
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): NZ Super warns a repeat of the GFC could see its value drop by more than half
Herald: Super fund could lose $20b if another GFC hit - Report
Richard Wain (Newshub): Super Fund could lose half its value as share markets fall
Census
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): 2018 Census - what happened?
RNZ: 2018 census to be reviewed after low turnout
Local government
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Revealed: Property figure behind plan for new stadium on Auckland waterfront
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Auckland mayor wants wider access to Remuera golf course land, floats cycleways
Felicity Reid (Stuff):MP Bidois launches petition to pressure AT for ferry project funding
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Mayor: Hamilton City Council making steps towards partnership
Collette Devlin (Stuff): Sir Peter Jackson: Movie museum and convention centre ‘awkward bedfellows’
George Heagney (Stuff): Horowhenua councillor vows to keep filming to protect his safety, despite recording ban
Lois Williams (RNZ): Māori cultural centre for Whangarei hopes for $5m council grant
Tina Law (Stuff): Prominent Christchurch heritage buildings share $1.8m in city council funding
Dan Dalgety (RNZ):Christchurch has a library in the heart of the city again
Rob Phillips (Stuff): ES: how we’re managing conflicts of interest
Point of Order: Mayor Shadbolt drives in style – but whatever happened to the concrete mixer?
Immigration
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): No pay in NZ still better than life in the Philippines
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Study: Ethnic enclaves ‘pivotal’ to helping older Asian migrants settle in NZ
Maria Slade (Spinoff): The Chinese students on a crusade to expose immigration fraud in NZ
Transport
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland park and rides: The $1 billion deal
Simon Wilson (Herald): Airport trams or airport trains? It’s the wrong question
Richard Harman (Politik): Opposition to Auckland light rail mounts
Herald Editorial: Trains, not trams, should serve the airport
Laura Dooney (RNZ): Wellington cycleway battle likely to be delayed another year
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Wellington’s outdated train station ramps ‘dangerous and diabolical’
Alex Baird (Newshub): NZ could see major maritime disaster unless ship culture changes - TAIC
Grant McLachlan (Herald): Lower rural speed limits often worsen congestion
Drones
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Police and Defence Force look to extend drone use for operations
Andrew Shelley (Newsroom): NZ needs to tighten control on drones
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Tighter rules for drones looked at after increase in privacy and safety complaints
Employment
Dennis Maga (Stuff): Multi-employer agreements stop ‘race to the bottom’ on wages
Robyn Pearce (Herald): Does a 4-day week really work?
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Robots to train vineyard and orchard workers to do a better job
Sean Hogan (1News); Hawke's Bay growing giant emphasising flexible schedules to increase Kiwi staff numbers
NZ activists and Israel Lorde concert
Zane Small (Newshub):Israeli court orders NZ activists to pay for Lorde’s cancelled concert
AP: Israeli court: NZ activists must pay for Lorde cancellation
Russell McVeagh
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Lawyer resignation: ‘They are acting like badly behaved children’
Newsroom: What really happened at Russell McVeagh’s bar
RNZ: Russell McVeagh partner resigns after investigation into complaints
Herald: Russell McVeagh partner resigns after complaints about inappropriate comments
Newshub: ’He let the firm down’: Russell McVeagh partner resigns after misconduct probe
Other
Jane Clifton (Listener): Both National and Labour are struggling to keep their houses in order
Newshub: ANZ slammed for violating global human rights
Gerard Hutchings (Stuff): State-owned enterprise bosses dodge pay cuts
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Latest figures on household incomes show strong growth for all
Tina Law (Stuff): Debt collectors ‘hound’ man for 6 years after smart meter generates $800 power bill
Madison Reidy (RNZ): NZ not replacing trade commissioner in India
Deena Coster (Stuff): Culturally revered marae could become places of safety in times of disaster
1news: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern again shuts down engagement speculation
RNZ: Dame Jenny Shipley tells court Mainzeal was diligent
BusinessDesk: Dame Jenny Shipley gives evidence in Mainzeal High Court case
RNZ: More than 20 jobs to go at Kaitaia mill
Peter Jackson (Herald): Juken NZ’s announcement it has settled with staff is ‘best news ever’ for Kaitaia
Taroi Black (Māori TV): Royal couple to be treated to Māori spectacle
Māori TV: Māori Television announces strategic changes
Jason Walls (Herald): Politicians from across political divide welcome NZ’s top 10 placing in energy performance index