NZ Politics Daily - 8 October 2019
8 October 2019
Today's content
Local government
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Millions spent on election promotion not enough to bring back turned off voters
Dominion Post Editorial: Local democracy is ailing - it needs the tonic of youthful vigour
1News: Clock ticking for voters to have their say in local body elections
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Auckland local body elections: What to do if you haven't posted your voting paper yet
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland Council election: Voting forms run out at events during enrolment rush
James Fyfe (Newshub): Auckland Council says voter turnout this year is 'quite a worry'
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Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): The motley crew trying to overthrow the old guard in the Far North
Herald: Auckland mayoral race: Phil Goff vs John Tamihere MYOB debate in Herald newsroom
Phil Goff (Spinoff): My final pitch to voters
John Tamihere (Herald): My final pitch to voters
Herald: Jennifer Dann's 12 Questions: John Tamihere on faith, resilience and redemption
Herald: Auckland Council: Who got the $80,000 bonus and pay rise?
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why the Auckland local body elections are such a debacle
Ellen O’Dwyer (Stuff): The cost of getting it wrong - Bob Simcock's $55m legacy of local government losses
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Gang member's bid to stop property sale fails
Brianna McIlraith (Taranaki Daily News): Drive-thru ballot box brings out 200 voters for New Plymouth district local body elections
Dileepa Fonseka (Dominion Post): Wellington's Mayoral candidate spend-up: Foster raises $56k, Lester expects $20k spend
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Cheat sheet: The storm around the Porirua mayor’s spending
David Williams (Newsroom): Mayoral challengers fight history, apathy
Tina Law (Press): Christchurch mayoral hopeful Darryll Park favours Trump over Obama on US economy
Tina Law (Press): Deon Swiggs fights to retain Christchurch council seat while 'inappropriate' behaviour investigation runs
Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Regional council advisers want plan to discharge waste into Central Otago waterways rejected
Tracey Roxburgh (ODT): Boult conflict of interest report to be presented at council meeting
Blair Jackson (Southland Times): Invercargill voters and candidates transition to campaigning in a digital age
Climate change, protest
Alastair Reith (Spinoff): Patronising political spectacles are no substitute for real people power
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Street-blocking Extinction Rebellion protesters earn rebuke from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Newshub: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern criticises Extinction Rebellion protesters' behaviour
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Protests and civil disobedience for climate action are effective, experts say
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa’s civil disobedience is the future, why Jacinda is wrong and why protestors must demand more
No Right Turn: Rebelling in Wellington
David Tokiharu Mayeda (Newsroom): Time to start taking our young activists seriously
Harry Lock (RNZ): Checkpoint: Police make arrests after day of climate protests in Wellington
1News: Despite 30 arrests, police praise climate protests that disrupted Wellington as 'largely peaceful'
Newshub: Police arrest over 30 Extinction Rebellion activists
Zane Small (Newshub): Simon Bridges tells protesters to march on 'woke' Government doing 'nothing' on climate action
1News: After blocking road and occupying bank, Extinction Rebellion protestors head to Parliament
RNZ: Extinction Rebellion block off street in central Wellington
Vita Molyneux and James Fyfe (Newshub): Extinction Rebellion protesters super-glue themselves to window of Wellington ANZ bank
1News: Extinction Rebellion protestors glue hands to glass inside central Wellington ANZ branch
1News: MBIE staff unable to work as Extinction Rebellion protestors glue themselves to the building
Vita Molyneux and James Fyfe (Newshub): Extinction Rebellion climate protest aims to bring Wellington to a standstill
Herald: Extinction Rebellion protesters block streets in central Wellington
Laura Smith (ODT): Invercargill climate protest targets ANZ bank
Damian Rowe (Southland Times): Climate activists in Invercargill join nationwide protest
Mia Sutherland (Stuff): What it's like to help organise a major climate protest - aged 17
Alex Braae (Spinoff): Meet the teenager kicked out of school for too much climate protesting
Tuia 250 - James Cook commemorations
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Taking Control Of The Nation’s Story
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Gisborne iwi on British 'collisions': 'They started swimming away but Cook started shooting'
RNZ: Endeavour arrives at Tūranganui-a-Kiwa as part of Tuia 250
Herald: Tuia 250: Emotions running high as flotilla, including replica of Cook's Endeavour, nears Gisborne
1News: Locals prepare for controversial arrival of replica of Captain Cook's Endeavour
Stuff: Gisborne gets ready for arrival of replica Endeavour
Andrew Lawon (Herald): Interactive map: Follow Captain Cook’s first New Zealand voyage (paywalled)
Immigration
1News: New parent visa scheme for skilled migrants is an 'embarrassing' move by Government
Liu Chen (RNZ): NZ parent visa rules 'impossible' for some in China's one-child generation
Jo Moir (RNZ): Parent visa scheme attacked for only benefiting well-off
Boris Jancic (Herald): 'Just for the rich': Government parent visa rules criticised
Anna Whyte (1News): 'For the rich' - Parent migrant worker visa comes under fire
Zane Small (Newshub): Government's re-introduced parent visa category panned as 'for the rich'
1News: New visa scheme for parents of migrant workers to settle in New Zealand
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): New NZ visa rules for parents is discriminatory - and so it should be
Universities
Steve Stannard (Stuff): Universities put making money over academic expression
Dave Armstrong (Dominion Post): Nice job being a vice-chancellor. It's just a shame about the students
Josephine Franks (Stuff): Auckland University vice-chancellor says white supremacy row 'not about free speech'
Herald: University vice-chancellor acknowledges hurt caused by campus racism
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘I have listened to our people’: Auckland University vice-chancellor responds to white supremacy on campus concerns
David Hall (Herald): Universities shouldn't host untruths under guise of free speech (paywalled)
Hannah Powell (Salient): VUW Halls Hiking Fees By 50–80% Next Year
1News: 'An extraordinary tragedy' - Jacinda Ardern speaks out on Otago Uni student's death
Herald: 'Extraordinary tragedy': Prime Minister reacts to 19yo's death at party
Health
Karen Brown (RNZ): DHB model under scrutiny ahead of body elections
Karen Brown (RNZ): No evidence patients' data has been stolen, health body says
Simon Wong and Vita Molyneux (Newshub): New Pharmac drug funding approved but some New Zealanders still missing out
Zane Small (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern hails 'exciting phase' of cancer research as Pharmac funds three new drugs
RNZ: Pharmac confirms funding for three new drugs
Jane Matthews (Stuff): Father in lung cancer battle welcomes Pharmac decison to fund $6k life saving drug
Herald: 'Left on the scrapheap': Pharmac decision bittersweet for MS patients
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Women denied treatment for gynaecological conditions
1News: Expert looks to vaping to get NZ back on track for Smokefree 2025
Andrew Bevin (NBR): Anti-smoking bodies warn vaping rules need balance (paywalled)
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Time for lax regulation on vaping to go up in smoke
Herald: 67-year-old dying of bowel cancer after doctor dismisses cancerous mass
Gabrielle Baker (Spinoff): Inequality in dental care is a Treaty issue
Kim Baker Wilson (1News): Associate health minister offers condolences for loss of unborn babies in measles 'crisis'
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Spread of NZ measles cases to USA confirmed
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Oncologist reiterates concerns over Dunedin hospital plan
ODT Editorial: Urgency for Wakari upgrade
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Inquiry into mental health viewed as opportunity
Environment
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): NZ support for seabed mining on offer in Pacific
1News: Waste disposal levy increase on landfills could soon be a step closer
Jamie Morton (Herald): Why NZ urgently must keep a better watch on its oceans
Paul Gorman (Stuff): Caffeine and paracetamol discovered in New Zealand groundwater
1News: What chemicals find their way into Aotearoa's drinking water?
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Fears for Te Waikoropupū Springs but council disputes nitrate trend
Ellen O’Dwyer (Stuff): Erosion at Port Waikato will be 75m for every 1m of sea level rise - report
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Court confusion over no man’s dam
TVNZ CEO’s payrise
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): TVNZ chief executive's pay tops $1.5 million
Herald: TVNZ boss Kevin Kenrick's big pay rise revealed
Shifting the Ports of Auckland
Todd Niall (Stuff): Auckland port move: Who holds trump card in port political poker?
Stephen Forbes (Interest): Northland Chamber of Commerce CEO says port proposal has hefty price tag
Education
Lee Kenny (Stuff): Only 1 in 4 eligible schools have signed on to scrap donations so far
Brent Melville (ODT): International potential in polytech programme
Southern, Molyneux ban
Scott Palmer (Newshub): Free Speech Coalition to appeal High Court's backing of Lauren Southern, Stefan Molyneux ban
Melanie Earley (Stuff): Free Speech Coalition appeals after court rejects review of decision to ban controversial Canadian speakers
Drug testing
1News: Pill testing 'green lights' deadly ecstasy says Aussie campaigner as Kiwi defends tests
Anna Whyte (1News): Quickfire: MPs quizzed over the plastic crisis, drug testing at festivals and voting at 16
Herald Editorial: Dropped drug-testing scheme is a bitter pill (paywalled)
Duncan Garner (Newshub): Drug testing at festivals is what's best for our kids
1News: Drug testing at concert that saw three revellers hospitalised 'would've gone a long way to keeping people safe’
Methamphetamine
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Methamphetamine prices drop to record lows in Auckland, Waikato, Wellington
John Weekes (Stuff): Meth 'swamping' New Zealand as prices hit record lows
Ben Strang (RNZ): Survey finds meth prices at record low in North Island centres
1News: Methamphetamine prices at record low in North Island centres
Gangs
Jared Savage (Herald): 'Hostile' tactics of Strike Force Raptor crackdown in Sydney led to tactics of deporting gang leaders to New Zealand on '501' character grounds (paywalled)
Yvette McCullough (RNZ): Gang recruitment spike 'homegrown' issue - Bridges
Transport
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt quietly abandons electric vehicle target
Jordan Bond (RNZ):Desperate business owners: 'The street looks like a war zone’
Samesh Mohanlall (Timaru Herald): Shock at South Canterbury fuel prices
Economy
1News: New Zealand 'in great shape' financially, Ardern says ahead of opening of Government's books
David Hargreaves (Interest): A Government in rude financial health and a business community down in the dumps
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Bank's 'Adrian Orr show' hurting the economy: Economist
Sally Rae (ODT): Regions still doing best as economy slows
Liam Dann (Herald): How regional economies are still beating Auckland, despite forestry slump (paywalled)
Women in high performance sport
Zoë George (RNZ): New fund established for women in high performance sport
Taroi Black (Māori TV): Is $2.7 million enough to level out inequality for women in sport?
Primary industries
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Ag Proud group fires up barbie to boost urban understanding
Connall Buchanan (Stuff): Our farmers lead the world - we should be encouraging them
Simon Bridges sings Love Me Tender
Stuff: Simon Bridges chooses Elvis' Love Me Tender for karaoke for Filipino community
Caroline Fleming (Bay of Plenty Times): National leader Simon Bridges impersonates Elvis Presley for supporters
Scott Palmer (Newshub): Simon Bridges shows off singing skills with love song to National audience
1News: Simon Bridges has crowd in raptures with rendition of Elvis hit Love Me Tender
Other
Geoff Bertram (Stuff): Little relief for consumers as a whole from electricity report
Chris Trotter (Interest): Coffee with Sir Roger
David Cormack (Herald): Time for the PM to take control
Mitch McCann (Newshub): No evidence family violence getting better - Government
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Parker to join post-Brexit trade summit (paywalled)
Liu Chen (RNZ): Companies still using liquidation to avoid liabilities
Deena Coster (Stuff): Internal dispute within Taranaki iwi to be heard in Māori Land Court
William Ray (RNZ): The Aotearoa History Show: 1: Prehistoric New Zealand
Tommy Livingston (Stuff): Sir John Key met with Pope Francis at Vatican while representing a charity
Damien Venuto (Herald): Rugby World Cup: Comment - Who's to blame for Spark Sport woes? Apparently, you are (paywalled)
RNZ: Vege prices could rise 60% by 2043, Horticulture NZ warns
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Children's Commissioner report 'only confirms what we already know'
RNZ: The Detail: Excluded from an inclusion conference
Jono Galuszka (Manawatū Standard): Catholics question circumstances of Bishop Charles Drennan's resignation
RNZ: Dunedin's property managers under the spotlight
1News: Concerns move by insurer IAG to open its own panel beating shop will restrict choice for policy holders