NZ Politics Daily - 13 March 2020
13 March 2020
Today's content
Coronavirus
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): An election year gut punch for the Govt
Richard Harman (Politik): NZ left following the leader on virus
Jason Walls (Herald): Finance Minister Grant Robertson heads to Australia to talk Covid-19 response with Aussie Treasurer
Peter Lyons (Herald): If Covid-19 is the trigger, is unemployment the bullet? (paywalled)
Craig McCullough (RNZ): Robertson tempers expectations over stimulus package
Zane Small (Newshub): Next phase of coronavirus economic plan 'could include tax and welfare changes'
Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Grant Robertson wants to diversify the economy after coronavirus shock
Jason Walls (Herald): Economy 'in the eye of the storm' – Finance Minister Grant Robertson says
Anna Whyte (1News): Finance Minister outlines development of worst-case scenario economic plan
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Robertson: NZ ‘ahead of curve’ on Covid-19 fiscal response
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Robertson stresses NZ must diversify trade beyond China
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Covid-19 recovery will need more diverse markets - Robertson (paywalled)
Bruce Munro (ODT): Global Insight: Covid-19 complicates oil price war
Dan Satherley (Newshub): NZ's potential $3 billion windfall thanks to COVID-19 - economist
Michael Reddell: Almost literally unbelievable
Brian Fallow (Herald): Wanted - a mate to help the Reserve Bank (paywalled)
Jason Walls (Herald):National says the remaining $645m left in the PGF kitty should go towards Covid-19 response
Rob Stock (Stuff): KiwiSaver was not designed for quick-response panic-selling
RNZ: First-home buyers brace for impact on KiwiSaver funds
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Luke Malpass (Stuff): The day Trump discovered coronavirus, and screwed the global economy
Stuff: Ministers say no need to copy US travel bans to Europe amid outbreak
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Travel bans to New Zealand under 'active consideration' as pandemic is declared around the globe
Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vows New Zealand border restrictions
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Extended self-isolation more likely than travel bans
Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern expects further 'tough' travel restrictions in NZ
Anna Whyte (1News): PM expects more travel restrictions, as US places ban on Europe amid coronavirus
Henry Cooke and Denise Piper (Stuff): After Donald Trump's ban, Jacinda Ardern predicts more restrictions for NZ
Zane Small (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern expecting advice on border restrictions after Donald Trump's Europe travel ban
RNZ: Ardern signals more travel limits into NZ
Andre Chumko (Stuff): New Zealand's travel industry sent into tailspin over Trump's ban
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Auckland International Airport shares halted as it weighs up Donald Trump's Europe travel ban
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Philip Hill (Newsroom): NZ’s Covid-19 public health response must be aggressive
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Health experts urge end to political ‘scaremongering’ over Covid-19
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Doctors, scientists call for end to politicking
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Medical experts tell politicians to 'resist the urge to scaremonger'
Lana Andelane (Newshub): New Zealand scientists call on politicians to work together to fight coronavirus
Alanah Eriksen (Herald): Coronavirus latest updates and essential information
Dubby Henry (Herald): NZ in 'keep it out, stamp it out, slow it down' phase, no new cases for fifth straight day
1News: Coronavirus pandemic declaration 'doesn't change anything', but Kiwis should remain vigilant - Health Minister
Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Health Minister Dr David Clark urges Kiwis to take coronavirus pandemic seriously
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Health Minister David Clark criticised for telling people to be OCD about hygiene
Rachel Sadler (Newshub): Infectious disease expert describes worst-case scenario for New Zealand
Siouxsie Wiles (Spinoff): Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic. Here’s what you need to do about it
RNZ: GPs turning away patients with flu-like symptoms
John Weeks (Stuff): Woman with second confirmed case 'let down' by private health providers
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Canterbury DHB rules out using old Princess Margaret Hospital if more space required
Katie Harris (Herald): Do doctors with pre-existing health issues have to work during the coronavirus pandemic?
Sahiban Hyde (Hawkes Bay Today): No more hongi or handshakes - Ngati Kahungunu iwi acts to stop spread of Covid-19
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Amelia Wade (Herald): Trevor Mallard cancels Speaker's Tour amid growing Covid-19 uncertainty
1News: Jacinda Ardern not shying away from shaking hands amid coronavirus pandemic
Amelia Wade (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will keep shaking hands amid pandemic declaration
RNZ: Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture in Hawaii delayed to 2021
David Farrar: Coronavirus measures the Government should take
ODT: Students told to meet deadline or defer
National Party on regulations
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Simon Bridges fails the coronavirus test (paywalled)
Chris Trotter: Responding To “Events” - Badly.
Brent Edwards (NBR): National wrote some of the regulations it wants to dump (paywalled)
Jeroen van der Heijden (Newsroom): The vanity of promising a regulation bonfire
Christchurch mosque shootings, Far Right, racism
Morgan Godfery (Spinoff): ‘They are us’ – an urgent, uncomfortable call to action
Derek Cheng (Herald): Christchurch mosque shootings: The big change driven by the little country
RNZ: Governor-general, PM and attack widow will speak at service
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Christchurch attack, one year on: March 15 through the eyes of first responders
Eleisha Foon (RNZ): Farid Ahmed renews call for love, peace and harmony
Skara Bohny (Stuff): Nelson meet-a-Muslim roadshow met with abuse and solidarity
Isaac Davison (Herald): NZ Defence Force says white supremacist is a former soldier
Mark Daalder (Newsroom): Action Zealandia linked to Dominion Movement
Jordan Carter (Herald): March 15 - the day the internet was weaponised
Gun law reform
Ben Strang (RNZ): Further gun law changes stall as mosque attacks anniversary nears
1News: Second tranche of gun law reforms won't pass before March 15 anniversary
AAP: New Zealand gun reform stalled as Christchurch anniversary approaches
Environment and conservation
1News: Action to save Hauraki Gulf needs 'urgency', Conservation Minister says
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Auckland Mayor Phil Goff rejects Manukau’s 'forgotten harbour' tag
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Complaint uncovers councils failure to protect waterways from sewage spills
1News: DOC to explore alternative pest controls after six kea deaths linked to 1080
RNZ: Six kea deaths attributed to 1080 predator poison
Mark Price (ODT): Doc considering repellent for 1080 after kea deaths
Debbie Jamieson (Stuff): Otago kea confirmed to have died from 1080, DOC looks for new ways to protect birds
RNZ: Toxic waste protesters tell council: 'You're all we have left'
RNZ: Kauri dieback plan near completion - minister
Northern Advocate: Kauri dieback now in Northland's Puketi Forest
RNZ: Kauri dieback confirmed in Puketi Forest
Caroline Williams (Stuff): Kauri dieback disease identified in Northland's Puketi Forest
1News: DOC to invest $790k to test new predator-control drone
Jonathan Amos (BBC): Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating
Local government
Simon Wilson (Herald): Climate change: We'll cut emissions in half by 2030 says Auckland Council
Tina Law (Press): Government refusal to underwrite $1.5m loan leads to fiery council meeting
Campbell Barry (Dominion Post): We must work together to fix Wellington's water problems
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): 200km of Wellington pipes predate WWI as industry leader sounds alarm
Mandy Te (Dominion Post): Wellington Mayor Andy Foster's $20,000 leadership programme at Queenstown resort
Chloe Ranford (Stuff): Developers told to ‘broaden their minds’ and pick road names significant for Marlborough
Housing
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waitlist tops 15,000 as new builds fail to keep up with demand
Eva Corlett (RNZ):Wellington City Council agrees to let draft social housing policy go to consultation
Harry Lock (RNZ): New Zealand rental price rises outstrip inflation by 2 percent
Anne Gibson (Herald): New New Zealand house price record as coronavirus impact yet to hit
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): Banking must be a public utility to solve the housing crisis
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 'It's lunacy': Landlords say 'associated person' rule will catch small-scale investors
Waikato Times Editorial: Balance needed between rights of tenants and landlords
John Braddock (World Socialists): How profit-gouging and government deregulation created New Zealand’s home-building catastrophe
Police
Sam Hurley (Herald): Police announce anti-corruption unit after uncovering mole in their ranks leaking intel to criminals (paywalled)
Rachel Sadler (Newshub): New Zealand Police establish anti-corruption unit to 'maintain integrity'
Kendall Hutt (Stuff): New Integrity Unit aims to protect against risk of corruption in police
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Kirsty Lawrence (Stuff): Officers watched as man drowned in Waikato River during police search
Belinda Feek (Herald): Police failed in their duty to help fugitive who drowned in Waikato River: IPCA
RNZ: 'Officers did nothing to help him when it was most needed': Man drowned with police nearby
Heather McCarron and Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): Police didn't do all they should have to rescue drowning man - IPCA
No Right Turn: The police's depraved indifference
Transport
Michael Morrah (Newshub): Civil Aviation Authority grounds 21 helicopters over safety concerns
RNZ: CAA grounds 21 helicopters over safety concerns with Rolls Royce engines
Zane Small (Newshub): Passenger trains between Auckland and Hamilton to begin in August 2020
1News: New Auckland to Hamilton passenger train to begin running in August
RNZ: Hamilton-to-Auckland rail service to start in August
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Cars are not the problem. It's the ideologues (paywalled)
1News: Government proposal to allow bikes on footpaths leaves pedestrians up in arms
Stephen Forbes (Stuff): Auckland bus drivers restart strike action in dispute over pay and conditions
Health
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Schools, hospital among providers of drinking water that's not demonstrably safe
Luke Appleby (1News): Scientists and doctors should step up to help combat Facebook anti-vaxxers, researcher says
RNZ: Vaccine misinformation rife on Facebook, study finds
RNZ: New drug: 'It's made a huge difference,' asthma sufferer says
Emma Russell (Herald): New Zealand likely to get influx of heroin overdoses. Health experts say it's due to morphine changes
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Change to morphine supply could see rise in opioid and heroin overdoses, experts say
Education
Eric Crampton (Spinoff): How well is a school really performing? We built a lab to find out up
RNZ: Teach kids in their own language, UN expert says
Craig West (ODT): Learning opportunities cannot be lost again
Drought relief package, primary industries
Jason Walls (Herald): Government unveils $12.5m relief package to aid drought-hit rural New Zealand
Denise Piper (Stuff): North Island drought: Government's $12m relief package focuses on water
RNZ: Prime Minister announces national drought relief package
Catherine Harris and Bonnie Flaws (Stuff): Dry autumn leaves farmers scanning the skies
Maja Burry (RNZ): Drought, Covid-19 expected to slow primary sector export revenue
Other
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Integrating Seamlessly With The Lowest Common Denominator
1News: Pressure mounts on Auckland and Christchurch mayors, over donations investigation
1News: Shane Jones doubles down on Indian students comments in fiery clash with John Campbell
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): At least their blunt masculine perspective is authentic
Collette Devlin (Stuff): NZ First aims to crack down on youth offenders with demerit points
Jessica Mutch-Mackay and Maiki Sherman(1News): Inside Parliament: Coronavirus holding pattern
Victoria University of Wellington: NZ’s frenzied approach to public sector restructure
ODT Editorial: Vale to a principled politician
Sam Kilmister (Manawatū Standard): Manawatū iwi argue 130,000 hectares of land was stolen by the Crown
Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Treaty settlement legislation for group of Hawke's Bay hapū passes first reading
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): I back Winston Peters' quest to save the racing industry
Chris Fowlie (Daily Blog): Medicinal cannabis wins and polls point to cannabis referendum’s recipe for success
RNZ: 'Benefit' for tourism sector as new data provider chosen
RNZ: Bill passed to fund disabled election candidates
Rachael Kelly (Southland Times): MP Walker retains National Clutha-Southland nomination
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Rockstar v Winston: System of a Down frontman calls on NZ to recognise genocide
Will Appelbe (Stuff): Labour's kindness agenda should extend to rodeo animals
RNZ: MP Kiri Allan's brother pleads guilty to murder