NZ Politics Daily: 8 March 2019
8 March 2019
Today's content
International working women’s day, feminism, and sexual misconduct
Sasha Borissenko (Newsroom): Will the men in the room please stand up?
Stuff: Prominent Kiwi wahine explain what International Women's Day means to them
Brittney Deguara (Stuff): Women not alone in job interview sexism: Survey
Aimee Shaw (Herald): Is New Zealand law driving gender inequality? Work Bank report suggests this could be the case
ODT: Editorial – Standing up for women
Heather McRae (Herald): Women have new challenges this International Women's Day
Karanina Sumeo (Stuff): It's time to end the secrecy over unequal pay
Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Can pay transparency reduces the gender pay gap?
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern pleas for women nominations for New Year's, Queen's Birthday honours lists
1News: Do you have unconscious gender bias in your workplace?
Jackie Edmond (The Spinoff): Three ways we can make life better for women on International Women’s Day
Suzanne McFadden (Newsroom): Helen Clark raising her voice for women in sport
Olivia Caldwell (Stuff): Helen Clark becomes patron of International Working Group on women in sport
Nic Smith (Newsroom): The sector with the marked gender imbalance
Janine Swail (Newsroom): Better female world requires more than balance
Simone Kaho (Herald): Conversations director Simone Kaho: Our documentary series on Māori and Pasifika women taught me leadership is about serving
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Five things I wish I'd known sooner as a young woman
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Age of Outrage: How do women stay safe, and are they just paranoid?
Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Manawatū women encouraged to throw out the rule book on International Women's Day
Martin Johnston (Herald): Helen Clark in Afghanistan: Advocating globally for Afghani girls and women
Mel Burgess (The Spinoff): Why ECE teachers will be wearing black tomorrow
Dylan Owen (National Library): Gender equality resources for International Women's Day and beyond
Leighton Keith (Stuff): Female emergency services staff to celebrate International Women's Day in style
Sam Brooks (The Spinoff): What a feminist future could look like: Julia Croft on working on her night moves
Siena Yates (Herald): Sexism, heroines and rock 'n' roll: NZ's women of music speak out
Michelle Robinson (Stuff): Addressing submissive attitudes in females as important as identifying toxic male entitlement
Carly Thomas (Stuff): Band puts female Kiwi singers in the spotlight
Tapu Misa (Herald): Conversations: Moana Maniapoto says radio stations didn't want her 'foreign language' Māori songs
1News: Former Black Fern Melodie Robinson becomes New Zealand’s first Māori Barbie doll - ‘How cool is that?’
RNZ: Melodie Robinson becomes first-ever Māori Barbie doll
Madeleine Chapman (The Spinoff): Melodie Robinson: New Zealand’s first Barbie doll
Gordon Campbell: On the handling of sexual assault complaints, and ticket scalping
Herald: Further allegations of sexual misconduct at TVNZ: Worker stood down for exposing himself
Katie Fitzgerald and Jared McCulloch (Newshub): Billboard calling for sexual violence support funding erected for International Women's Day
Capital gains tax
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Capital Gains Tax debate shows Jacinda Ardern's weakness
Mike Hosking (Herald): Weak Government contracting out the too-hard decisions
Barry Soper (Herald): Bit rich for Sir Michael Cullen to call John Key a 'rich prick'
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): What's going on with New Zealand First's capital gains tax survey?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Sir Michael Cullen's job to correct Simon Bridges' 'inaccurate hypotheticals' - Kris Faafoi
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Grant Robertson says ongoing payments to Sir Michael Cullen are 'appropriate'
Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Tax Working Group chair Michael Cullen only billing for four days in February, March
Jason Walls (Herald): National accuses the Government of using the Tax Working Group's chairman as a 'hired gun'
Zane Small (Newshub): Grant Robertson defends extending Sir Michael Cullen's '$1000-a-day' contract
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt defends paying Sir Michael Cullen $1000 a day
1News: Amy Adams says Sir Michael Cullen being paid $1000 a day 'to engage in political debate' after tax group disbanded
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Robertson: Cullen is responsible for the tone of his comments
David Farrar: Cullen being paid $1000 a day to attack National
Jonathan Barrett (The Conversation): New Zealand’s proposed capital gains tax could nudge taxpayers to invest in art instead of property
Herald: Why property investors make more profit, even with a Capital Gains Tax
Cathy Odgers: TWG Review - Why are Maori Authorities Taxed at 17.5%?
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Simon Bridges: “No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT”
Laura Wiltshire (Hawkes Bay Today): Capital gains tax could affect 17,000 Hawke's Bay lifestyle blocks, National says
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Landcorp defends $11k Tax Working Group submission
China-NZ relations
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Labour MPs vote against allowing China expert Anne-Marie Brady to speak at justice select committee
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Brady blocked from foreign interference inquiry
Gia Garrick (RNZ): National Party targets justice committee refusal to hear Anne-Marie Brady
David Farrar: Why did Labour block Anne-Marie Brady’s testimony?
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): Why Raymond Huo wants Prof Brady blocked from speaking to his select committee
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Labour are now as compromised to our Chinese Overlords as National are
Richard Harman: British warning about Huawei likely to increase nervousness in Wellington
Michael Reddell: The China Council defends itself
School students’ climate change strike
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Striking To Save The Planet
Graeme Edgeler (Public address): The climate strike and the voting age
Dominion Post: Editorial – Protesting students should be seen and heard
Jamie Morton (Herald): Students climate strike: We put teens' questions to Climate Change Minister James Shaw
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Climate change strike worth truancy threat, students say
Climate change
Jamie Morton (Herald): 'We are literally on the front line': report echoes councils' call for help prepare for rising seas
Stephen Forbes: OECD report says New Zealand government needs to work on a national plan for rising sea levels
Esther Taunton (Stuff): NZ farmers could grow coffee, pineapples as the planet warms
No Right Turn: Climate change: Denier mayors
Mark Taylor
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Lessons from a tragic misfit
RNZ: Helen Clark: former IS fighters 'not the sort of citizens any country wants'
Kate Hawkesby (Herald): Bumbling seems an understatement for Kiwi Jihadist Mark Taylor
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): What about the things bumbling 'Kiwi jihadi' witnessed without a problem?
Tova O'Brien (Newshub): 'He is a psycho': Relatives open up about 'evil' Kiwi jihadi Mark Taylor
RNZ: Listen: Kiwi jihadi Mark Taylor says he left IS because he was ‘starving, begging’
Jason Walls: Kiwi Jihadi Mark Taylor says he stayed with ISIS because of their 'courtesy and manners’
Joel MacManus (Stuff): 'Kiwi Jihadi' Mark Taylor turned his back on Christian faith after wife left him for another man
Drugs
Tony Wall (Stuff): Sequoia King's Tramadol addiction could have killed her
1News: 'Complete overhaul of Misuse of Drugs Act needed' says Green MP Chloe Swarbrick
Dan Satherley and Jared McCulloch (Newshub): Synthetics crackdown taking too long - father
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill introduced to crack down on synthetic drugs
Collette Devlin (Stuff): 'Health-based' bill introduced to crack down on synthetic drugs, more powers for police
Newstalk ZB: Government announces new measures to tackle synthetic drugs
Health
Karen Brown (RNZ): Chronic pain widespread with too few specialists, clinics - report
Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Chronic pain comes at a huge financial and emotional cost but New Zealand lacks an action plan
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Half of Bay of Plenty people with severe bowel cancer not getting urgent referral
1News: Amid people doing DIY dental care, doctor calls for funding for minor procedures
Heather Came, Maria Haenga-Collins, and Tim McCreanor (The Conversation): Māori and Pasifika leaders report racism in government health
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Māori and Pasifika health advisors being marginalised - study
Michael Neilson (Herald): Study highlights racism Māori and Pasifika health experts feel on advisory boards
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Health advisory boards rife with racism
RNZ: NZ health policy groups called out on racist attitudes
Smoking
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Wellington's vape-free moment delayed, but beaches go smokefree
Herald: Wellington beaches to go smokefree
1News: 'Stop selling cigarettes' - Ardern 'cynical' over Philip Morris' call for tax break on smoke-free tobacco sticks
Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): Philip Morris says “less harmful” tobacco sticks should be taxed less
Local government
Katie Milne (Newshub): Politics on your doorstep daily
Holly Carran (Newshub): Queenstown Lakes District to hold $70k referendum on visitor levy
Daisy Hudson and Philip Chandler (ODT): Govt backs resort levy
Todd Niall (Stuff): Centre-right Auckland Future party to sit out 2019 local body election
Point of order: All votes are equal on this regional council working group – but some are more equal than others
Nicky Hager
Matt Nippert (Herald): Westpac folds on Hager privacy complaint
Joel MacManus (Stuff): Nicky Hager settles with Westpac after personal information released to police
Jenny Ruth (Newsroom): Westpac settles over breach of Nicky Hager’s privacy
RNZ: Westpac admits error in giving journalist Nicky Hager’s bank details to police
No Right Turn: A victory for privacy
Transport
Michael Hayward (Stuff): LINZ and NZTA close to signing lease to test driverless cars in Christchurch's red zone
Herald: Lime scooters return to Auckland streets under new council guidelines
Herald: Tunnel running under Waitemata Harbour proposed to combat rising traffic levels in Auckland
Education, vocational training
Katie Bradford (1News): Tomorrow's Schools proposal gets thumbs down at David Seymour's public meeting, with claims its akin to communism
Virginia Nicholls (Stuff): Vocational training reform needs rethinking
Manawatū Standard: Activist Tāme Iti to take up residence at Massey
Stuff: Activist Tāme Iti to take up residence at Massey
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Call for Victoria University vice-chancellor to resign over name change saga
Housing and KiwiBuild
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Six KiwiBuild homes contracted 'off the plans' in November already built in September
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here's how much New Zealanders pocket when they sell houses
Michael Jackson dropped from NZ radio
Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Pulling Michael Jackson from radio playlists ‘pre-emptive’ - academic
Karl Puschmann (Herald): Was radio right to drop Michael Jackson? Umm ... it's complicated
Employment
Kate Hawkesby (Herald): Rise of the robots and new technology to make our lives easier
Michael Reddell: Nurses, pay equity, and the real structural problems
Other
Peter Dunne: The Wellington bureaucracy
Herald: Editorial: NZ's first online census missed too many
Brian Fallow (Herald): Don't rush Provincial Growth Fund in the regions
The Listener: Editorial – NZ's household debt levels are reaching terrifying heights
Chester Borrows (Herald): A justice system that re-victimises those brave enough to complain
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Loan shark bill stokes interest rate cap fears
David Williams (Newsroom): The PM through a southern lens
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Receptive Cantabrian business audience hears Ardern on tax, carbon neutrality and wellbeing
Kurt Bayer (Herald): More than 52,000 firearms imported into New Zealand last year, Customs data shows
Mike Loder (Stuff): Firearms registration would be an expensive and worthless exercise
Herald: Forbes rich list: Graeme Hart, Richard Chandler and Peter Thiel wave Kiwi flag
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Two New Zealanders feature on Forbes richest list
Laura O'Connell Rapira (The Spinoff): Why social media is not a safe place for indigenous people
Liam Hyslop (Stuff): NZ Golf refuses to answer questions about Māori cloak given to NZ Open winner
Nikki Mandow (Stuff): Around 40,000 rural households' broadband won't be good enough to stream Rugby World Cup
Mike McRoberts (Newshub): 'I was on my own': Willie Apiata says he, other NZ veterans got no PTSD support
Laura James (1News): Auckland hosts world anti-corruption and counter-fraud experts on tackling shared threats
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Wellington Pride Festival timed to coincide with world conference
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Police and Defence Force roll out top brass for Wellington pride parade
John Moore: Critical Politics alternative analysis – Bumbling Kiwi Jihadi, Civil war in CTU, Ticket scalping ban
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): ’Bit soon’ to talk about Government funding of call-blocking units
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Annette King reflects on trying to roll Helen Clark
RNZ: Burial costs force some families to consider cremation against beliefs
RNZ: Beekeepers turn down proposal for commodity levy
Sally Rae (ODT): MP says Landcorp is 'out of touch'
Ben Strang (RNZ): Road police: high turnover, low experience pool means response not prevention
Point of Order: Green co-leader will be led by science – but GM is not yet a Shaw thing
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Separating The Singer From The Song