NZ Politics Daily - 17 May 2019
17 May 2019
Today's content
Paris social media summit, social media, hate speech
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s Christchurch Call: Algorithms remain in control, and secret
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Denying a win to the terrorists (paywalled)
David Fisher and Jared Savage (Herald): Police ‘watchlist’ has officers visiting those dobbed on tip lines and who post conspiracy theories online (paywalled)
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Police visit firearm owners after public concerns
Henry Cooke (Stuff):Jacinda Ardern wraps up Paris trip meeting Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, says engagement with US will continue
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern defends United States no-show at Christchurch Call
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Christchurch Calling: the clampdown on social media (paywalled)
Alexander Gillespie (RNZ): Christchurch Call: No clear target but let’s salute a start to reform
Kevin Veale (The Conversation): The ‘Christchurch Call’ is just a start. Now we need to push for systemic change
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s big day in Paris ends with her getting what she wanted
Gordon Campbell: On the Christchurch Call, and Lizzo
Binoy Kampmark (Scoop): Fantasies of Humanity: The Christchurch Pledge and a Regulated Internet
Derek Cheng (Herald): Microsoft nudges US Government to sign Christchurch Call
Derek Cheng (Herald): Paris summit to seal Christchurch call to action exceeds expectations (paywalled)
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Macron hoping some of Ardern’s stardust will settle on him - correspondent
Chris Keall (Herald): Feeble Facebook should have followed YouTube’s move
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Facebook considered disabling livestream product in the wake of Christchurch attack
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Christchurch Call a win but losses at home mount for Jacinda Ardern
Stuff: The Christchurch Call pledge document in full
Mark Quinlaven (Newshub): Christchurch terror attack: Photo of alleged gunman appears in Twitter trends section, breaching suppression order
David Farrar: Seymour on hate speech
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Students, academics, police meet in Hamilton to discuss combating extremism
Wellington transport
Michael Cropp (RNZ): Wellington’s $6.4b transport plan announced despite treasury warnings
Felix Desmarais (Stuff): Government ploughing on with Let’s Get Wellington Moving against Treasury advice
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): A small step for Wellington, but at least it’s progress
John Milford (Stuff): The transport catches: Locals have to shell out $2.5b and there’s a 30-year wait
Dominion Post Editorial: Let’s stop all the talking - time for action on Wellington transport plan
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Let’s Get Wellington Spending: What the capital’s multibillion-dollar transport plan will cost you
Damian George and Katarina Williams (Stuff): The four big projects which will form the basis of Wellington’s transport future
Damian George (Stuff): Multibillion-dollar transport plan revealed for Wellington, but details vague on timing
Damian George (Stuff): How did we get here? A brief history of Wellington's transport path
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Opinion divided over Wellington’s ‘once-in-a generation opportunity’
Virginia Fallon, Nicholas Boyack and Piers Fuller (Stuff): Don’t forget about us: The region reacts to Wellington’s transport plan
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Government commits $3.8b to fix Wellington’s transport issues
Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Wellington gets $6.4 billion public transport and infrastructure upgrade
RNZ: Wellington’s public transport system to get $6.4b overhaul
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): ’End of the beginning’: Where does Lets Get Wellington Moving go next?
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Let’s Get Wellington Moving - What does it mean? (paywalled)
Housing
Amy Williams (RNZ): Rates of homeless Māori in Auckland should be a wake-up call, experts say
RNZ: Māori make up more than over 40% of Auckland homeless - report
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Children make up almost a third of Auckland’s homeless
Lana Andelane (Newshub): Almost a third of Auckland’s homeless population were children during count last year
Herald: Māori, Pasifika, LGBT and disabled over-represented in Auckland homeless count
Astrid Austin (Hawkes Bay Today): Hawke’s Bay housing crisis: It might be a ‘NZ disgrace’, but I didn’t cause it, Twyford says
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Phil Twyford the privatiser of state assets
Charlie Gates (Stuff): KiwiBuild contractor wants Government to expand criteria to bring in more buyers
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Housing First in Blenheim still needs landlords first
Welfare
Anna Whyte (1News): Urgent review ordered after Privacy Commissioner finds MSD misused powers while investigating benefit fraud
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Ministry of Social Development systematically misusing powers - inquiry
1News: ’Intimate photos’ belonging to beneficiary obtained by MSD during benefit fraud probe – Privacy Commissioner
Sarah Robson (RNZ): MSD told it must do more for beneficiaries after privacy breaches
Alice Webb-Liddall (Spinoff): Everything you need to know about the report into beneficiary fraud investigations
No Right Turn:Beneficiaries are treated worse than criminals
Foulden Maar mine proposal, mining
Chris Hutching (Stuff): Sage holds key to sale of Otago fossil land to diatomite miner
RNZ: Nine to Noon: Opposition to Foulden Maar mine proposal grows
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Fossil-dirt nutrition claims under doubt
Tim Miller (ODT): Bid to PGF for mine funding?
Environment and conservation
Paul Gorman (Stuff): Environment Canterbury applauded for declaring region-wide ‘climate emergency’
Katie Todd (RNZ): Climate declaration: Don’t sideline rural sector’s ideas - councillor
1News: Environment Canterbury becomes first council in New Zealand to declare a ‘climate emergency’
Newshub: ’Climate emergency’: ECAN declares Canterbury officially in a state of environmental crisis
No Right Turn: Climate Change: A climate emergency in Canterbury
Herald: The science is irrefutable’: Two regional councils declare climate emergency
RNZ: Canterbury and Nelson councils declare climate emergencies
Skara Bohny (Stuff): Nelson declares climate emergency
Brian Fallow: Zero Carbon Bill in the crossfire (paywalled)
Dave Kennedy: Highway to Hell
Paul Duignan (Stuff): Public opinion may move surprisingly fast on climate change
Jim Tucker (Taranaki Daily News): Looking to mend our climate hostile ways
RNZ: Guterres calls climate change ‘the battle of my life’
No Right Turn: Climate Change: The Zero Carbon Bill and the ETS
Point of Order: A carbon tax – an issue on which top economists and James Shaw find common ground
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Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Eco group says Hamilton’s conservation heroes are old, white and privileged
Leigh-Marama McLachlan (RNZ): Mayor tries to block report that references colonisation, capitalism
1News: Hamilton mayor tries to block report that references colonisation, capitalism
Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): Biggest 1080 drop on West Coast
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): DOC survey: NZ public wants change to ensure sustainability of whitebait fishing
1News: Mussel farm a threat to Coromandel ecology says environmentalist
Cannabis referendum, Global Drug Survey, meth
Auckland University: Q+A: What are the flaws in New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme?
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Drug debate could get messy
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): ’Grow your brain before you expand it’: study pushes cannabis health warnings
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): Kiwis want to drink less new Global Drug Survey finds
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): Kiwis are forking out big bucks for illicit drugs - cocaine, MDMA and LSD
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): Wairoa community calls for help dealing with meth epidemic
Health
RNZ: Family continues fight for asbestos cancer sufferer
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Nicky Stevens’ whānau to meet Jacinda Ardern over Waikato DHB battle for new inquest (paywalled)
Herald: Government announces new stroke facility at Auckland Hospital
1News: Auckland Hospital has $30 million stroke and rehab unit approved
Hannah Martin (Stuff):2000 patients, 444 diagnoses: One week in Middlemore Hospital’s ED
Dan Satherley and Ella Predergast (Newshub): Few hospital patients’ lives at risk - study
Stuff: Widower’s struggle with loneliness prompts big response
1News: Canterbury measles outbreak declared officially over
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Kay Billman gets surgery after 18 months on wait list - what are the solutions to shorter waits? (paywalled)
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Without private practice, specialists would go overseas - senior doctors’ union (paywalled)
1News: Trade union claims security guard injured while defending nurses in Waikato Hospital assault was not protected
Commerce Commission report into mobile services, Huawei
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): GCSB casts doubts on British 5G decision
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): New Zealand mobile prices, competition are OK, says Commerce Commission
Chris Keall (Herald): ’Disgraceful. They've missed the mark massively' - telco on ComCom report
Mark Quinlian and Todd Symonds (Newshub): New Zealanders pay $35 more in mobile costs a month than Australians, Commerce Commision finds
RNZ: Kiwis well-served for mobile services - Commerce Commission
BusinessDesk: ComCom says 5G build excluding Huawei could cost more
Christchurch mosque shootings
Joel MacManus (Stuff): Austrian Far-Right leader invited accused Christchurch gunman to meet up
Conan Young (RNZ): Victim Support’s lack of consultation over donations criticised
Michael Hayward (Stuff): Extra support for Christchurch terror attack victims
RNZ: Govt to ensure traumatised victims can get financial help
Dominic Harris (Stuff): Muslim group funding homes, trips to Mecca for Christchurch mosque shooting victims
Steve Matthewman (Newsroom): Shedding Christchurch’s ‘territorial stigma’
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): ’Goodness’ in post-Chch terror attack NZ influences Aussie election campaign
Tommy Livingston (Stuff): Anjum Rahman unveils national strategy to fight discrimination
Primary industries
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): Shane Jones slams farmers over Zero Carbon Bill response
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Life without Roundup: could New Zealand agriculture cope?
1News: Forestry receives $58m boost in pre-Budget announcement
Benn Bathgate (Stuff): One billion tree plan to get $58m Budget boost
Rotorua Daily Post: Budget to inject further $58m into forestry sector
Stephen Forbes (Interest): Forestry & Gisborne feature in pre-Budget announcement from Shane Jones
Heather Chalmers (Stuff): Farmer uneasy over farm to forestry conversion plan
Education
Darrell Latham (Stuff): If Government wants world class education system, it will need to pay
Listener Editorial: Labour has made the right call on NCEA, so what about teachers’ pay?
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Teacher aides ‘worth their weight in gold’, but struggling to survive on low pay
John Gerritsen (RNZ): NZQA downgrades quality rating for ‘marginal’ Unitec
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Opinion: Why everyone is wrong about the fees-free ‘failure’
Paul Hobbs (1News): International students reveal pressure to succeed, after some admit paying for essays
Stuff: ’Ghostwriting’ must be taken seriously, says Tertiary Education Union
Craig Milmine (Stuff):NCEA changes reduce student opportunities
Maia Hart (Stuff): NCEA reform a ‘step in the wrong direction’ - principal
Verity Johnson (Stuff): We can’t just ignore the bullies and hope they’ll go away
Child welfare, state care
Ryan Anderson (Stuff): New campaign aims to target overrepresentation of Māori children in state care
Andre Chumko (Stuff): DHB chair would ‘seriously consider’ policy preventing state uplift of newborns until post-discharge
Crime, justice
Benn Bathgate (Stuff0: Too high risk for prison, but five month delay for rehab
Donna-Lee Biddle (Stuff): The death of Rangimaria White, why nobody is speaking up
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff):Club has to wear its tolerance for intimate photo on Facebook
1News: Defence lawyers have obligation to ‘robustly defend’ clients accused of sex crimes but ‘rape myths’ have no place in court – top barrister
Budget
Brian Easton (Pundit): What Do We Mean by Wellbeing?
Liam Dann (Herald): Robertson: Budget 2019 more like a company ‘annual report’ (paywalled)
Thomas Pippos and Alex Mitchell (Herald): Budget 2019: Why New Zealand is one step ahead of Australia (paywalled)
Southland disAbility Enterprises Wastenet contract
Luisa Girao (ODT): Support for workers with disabilities after contract loss
Logan Savory (Southland Times): Chamber wants Southland businesses to hold council contracts
WhatsonInvers: Chamber Backs Calls For Southland disAbilitiy Enterprises Contract Retention
Local government
Simon Wilson (Herald): The port, transport and Tamihere’s promises (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): For sale — one underground railway
Steven Kilgallon (Stuff): Speedway move on hold after Auckland Council delays stadiums decision
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Otago Regional Council votes in favour of reserving committee seats for Ngāi Tahu
Point of Order: Michael Laws says he WILL share a council seat with Maori representatives – so long as they have been elected
Janine Rankin (Manawatū Standard): Transport officials review their role in breaching consents
Defence, Māori Battalion
Zane Small (Newshub): How the Government will decide on continuing Iraq deployment
Jane Patterson (RNZ): NZ to decide whether to continue Iraq deployment
1News: Māori Battalion veteran, 94, pays respects at WWII battle of Monte Cassino’s 75th anniversary service
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Pukeahu remembers Māori Battalion Cassino campaign
Foreign affairs
RNZ: Family of NZ woman murdered in Uganda react to accused killers being settled in Australia
Press Editorial: Advance Australia fairer?
Tourism
Zane Small (Newshub): What the Government missed in its ‘sustainable’ tourism strategy
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Boundaries wanted for government's tourism ambitions
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Govt’s new tourism strategy to champion environment and regions
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): New Zealand tourism shake up as Government promises to manage growth
RNZ: Aoraki/Mt Cook visitor numbers hit 1m mark
Road safety
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Mother of young man killed by drugged driver demands apology from Police Minister
Don Rowe (Spinoff): The paradoxes of drug testing
1News: New safety barriers to keep motorists and students safe on Christchurch highway
Banking
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Dropping cheques opens up elderly to abuse - Age Concern
Nikki Mandow (BusinessDesk): Kiwibank goes cheque-free from 2020
Media
John Anthony (Stuff): Newshub restructure would result in fewer than five redundancies, source says
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): TVNZ taps into the world of virtual reality with appointment of ‘future director’
Other
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): National needs friends … Is former Cabinet Minister Alfred Ngaro the answer?
Ollie Neas (Spinoff): ’She’ll be right’ attitude to Rocket Lab putting Nuclear Free NZ at risk, experts say
Julie Iles (Stuff): ’Considerable uncertainty’ around Shelly Bay’s infrastructure estimates
RNZ: ’Bishop’ Brian Tamaki - what draws people to his pulpit?
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Death Bed: The Story of Kelly Savage
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Credit report responses too slow for new deadlines - Privacy Commissioner
1News: Inside Parliament: Teach your children well (video)
1News: Otago landscaper one of 60 people singled out for not filling out census
Katie Fitzgerald and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Few Kiwis report workplace cyberbullying - study
LIncoln Tan (Herald): Million Milestones: New levels of tolerance needed as NZ counts down to 5 million
Southland Times: Pacific Peoples minister Aupito William Sio in Invercargill to discuss Lalanga Fou report
RNZ: Crown launches ‘snap-reo’ to boost number of reo speakers
1News: Vulnerable people ‘banking aspirations’ on pokies, as SkyCity Hamilton proposes bringing in more, expert says
1News: Construction company fined over $500,000 after death of worker
Stuff: The most complained-about Kiwi ads of 2018
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Speaker Trevor Mallard on a mission to humanise Parliament
Tom Peoples (Spinoff): Trevor Mallard and Nick Smith are at it again. But this time is the speaker biased?