NZ Politics Daily - 14 August 2017
14 August 2017
Today's content
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Election
The Spinoff: Introducing Policy NZ: an incredible new tool to help you decide how to vote in Election 2017
Ben O'Connor, Max Molyneux, and Marcus Thompson (Newshub): Alternative voting methods for the lazy and apathetic
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Political sloganeering - It's common sense
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Bill English and Jacinda Ardern - the rock versus the rockstar
Katie Kenny and Andy Fyers (Stuff): Political polls explained: The how, the why, and the what does it take
Weekend Herald editorial: Time to hear about the ideas that matter
Joel Maxwell (Herald): Insight: How I learned to quit worrying, and love the vote
Jane Bowron (Stuff): You think this election campaign is crazy, what about the last one?
Anna Connell (Newsroom): Let’s attack this: election ads come to life
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Maelstrom on the Left bodes consequences for the Right
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): Heartbeat: Crime a concern as Huntly evolves
Richard Harman (Politik): National goes ethnic; Dunne trips up and the Greens try to recover
Peter Griffin (Sciblogs): The political parties and where they stand on science
Christopher Horan (ODT): September means spring cleaning time surely?
Harry Walsh (Stuff): NZ politics is driven by personality, not policy
Bob McCoskrie (McBlog): ‘Value Your Vote’ Election Resource Launched
Steve Maharey (Pundit): It's Leadership, Stupid
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Eight weeks of political turmoil
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Election 2017: No Country For Old Men
Ben Mack (Herald): An immigrant's election advice to Kiwi politicians
Dan Satherley, Lisa Owen, and Kim Vinnell (Newshub): Joyce vs Robertson on the economy
Dan Satherley and Lisa Owen (Newshub): Will the Govt promise affordable homes? 'Depends on your definition' - Steven Joyce
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Christchurch City councillor Raf Manji missing meetings in lead up to national elections
Phil Smith (RNZ): MP 101 - training the new masters of the land
Frank Newman (Breaking views): Political manias and meltdowns
Green Party
Audrey Young (Herald): Greens in fight for survival
Herald: Greens election slogan: 'Love New Zealand' new but old
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Greens relaunch with new slogan, avoiding a painful irony
Newswire: Greens no longer 'great together'
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Memo to James Shaw from Green Party Comms Unit
The Press: Editorial: Great together but better apart?
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Metiria a loss...but no martyr
Damien Grant (Stuff): Greens should stick to saving whales and snails
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Brave Turei's main mistake was to be so honest
Audrey Young (Herald): Green candidates rally in Auckland to support James Shaw going solo
Tina Ngata (Daily Blog): Je Ne Suis Pas Metiria
John Braddock (World socialist website): New Zealand Green Party co-leader resigns
George Elliot (Critic): Metiria Turei Resigns: From the Media’s Hard Questions to Labour’s Nakedly Evil Disownment
RNZ: Kennedy Graham denied Greens candidacy
Eileen Goodwin (Herald): Metiria Turei's exit seen as great loss in Dunedin
Stuff: Green Party rejects MP Kennedy Graham's bid to re-enter the party
Herald: Green Party says it can work with Gareth Morgan and Opportunities Party
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Before blaming Metiria, ask yourself how many cash jobs you've had
Jane Clifton (Listener): What Metiria Turei's benefit-confession gambit teaches us about politics
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Turei trouble puts microscope on welfare woes
Newshub: Labour is out to crush the Greens - Patrick Gower
Newshub: Metiria Turei's demise due to 'race, gender and class' - academic
Leilani Momoisea (RNZ): Metiria Turei 'felt and sounded like so many of us'
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Everyone loves Metiria
Lynn Williams (TeWhareWhero): The Impoverishment of a Nation
Bryan Gould: This is a tale of two citizens
Steven Cowan (Against the current): The commentariat continue the war against Metiria Turei and the Green Party
Frank Macskasy (Daily Blog): Metiria Turei has started something
Labour
Branko Marcetic (The Spinoff): Jacinda Ardern as NZ’s Obama, Macron or Trudeau? Be careful what you wish for
Scott Yorke (Imperator Fish): The Jacinda gamble has failed
Alice Snedden (Stuff): Why Jacinda made politics exciting
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern has public dancing to her tune as she lines up poll position
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Jacindamania hits new heights
Newshub: Fat Freddy's Drop playing Parliament 'a great idea', jokes Jacinda Ardern
John Roughan (Herald): Get real on long distance light rail, Jacinda
Claire Trevett (Herald): Leaders unplugged: Labour Party Jacinda Ardern
Guy MacGibbon (Stuff): The name's Ardern, Jacinda Ardern. But you can call her Jacinda
Henry Cooke (Stuff): The new faces in Parliament if Labour keeps their polling up
Jordan Bond (Herald): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern passes political test - her first baby hold during retirement village visit
David Clark (Critic): Snapchat
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern says Labour won't rest until women have equal pay
Bill Ralston (Listener): Jacinda may steal back some Green votes, but they need a raid on National
Weekend Herald editorial: Parliament farewells a popular veteran
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Ardern: Labour will not rest until there is pay equity
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Labour pledges to scrap pay equity bill
Karoline Tuckey (Stuff): Pay equity protest street dance a 'celebration', but still a way to go
Pete George (Your NZ): Labour has a new leader but…
National’s boot camps
Audrey Young (Herald): Youth offenders will face boot camp under National policy
Jo Moir (Stuff): PM: There's no evidence boot camps for young serious offenders will work
RNZ: Boot camps tried and rejected - youth advocates
1News: Bill English defends boot camps for youth offenders policy: 'These are defiant, aggressive kids'
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Boot camps don't work - Gareth Morgan, crime expert
Alex Tarrant (Interest): National's boot camp policy a dog-whistle to Winston First voters
The Standard: Brutal
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): National’s (“New”) Boot Camps Policy
Anthony Robins (The Standard): National’s weekend of blind panic
Herald: National's plan for youth offenders: Waiouru boot camps and infringement notices for parents
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Special bootcamp for youth offenders at Waiouru army camp, under National
Audrey Young (Herald): Act's David Seymour calls out National's law and order policy
Greg Presland (The Standard): National promises to get tough on youth crime
TVNZ election debate
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mike in the middle of debates
Steven Price (Media law journal): Hammering the MC
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Debate the questions, not who asks them
Phil Quin: Mike Hosking Must Moderate!
Nadine Higgins (Herald): What's the issue with Hosking hosting political debates?
Matthew Dallas (Stuff): Mike Hosking as moderator betrays network's thirst for political game show
Stuff: TVNZ sticks with Mike Hosking to moderate election debates
Water politics
Audrey Young (Herald): Treaty warning over Labour's water tax
Rodney Hide (Herald): Don't tax water, trade it
Jack Tame (Herald): Talking 100% Pure and water till the cows come home
Newshub: Water tax claims 'nonsense' - Labour
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Labour's water plan 'dangerous, deceitful', says Marlborough grapegrower
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour's knee-jerk 'clean our rivers' call needs details
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Coke's Kiwi Blue 'exempt' under Labour's water bottling plan
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More on Labour’s water tax
Gareth Morgan’s TOP
Isaac Davison (Herald): Gareth Morgan says TOP will get 10 per cent, as Green voters look for a new home
RNZ: TOP launches election campaign: 'We're the new kids on the block'
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gareth Morgan launches TOP campaign with hefty promises
Mark Bennett (RNZ): Dear Gareth: Look to Ireland and Scotland, not just Germany
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Gareth Morgan’s crusade to topple baby boomers
National
Steve Braunias (Herald): Secret Diary of Bill English's texts to Glenys Dickson
Dan Sathereley (Newshub): Bill English on text messages to Glenys Dickson - 'I don't have to tell you'
Audrey Young (Herald): Country split on National's controversial foreign workers plan
1News: National three points shy of where they'd like to be
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English tucks into a new 'Bill Burger' at Backbencher pub
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda effect jolting National supporters, says Joyce
RNZ: National's donations surge after Ardern's promotion
John McCrone (Stuff): What drives Nicky Wagner?: After that Tweetstorm, what does MP really think?
Ohariu contest
1News: Peter Dunne set to lose seat latest Q+A Colmar Brunton snap poll reveals
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): United Future's Peter Dunne unperturbed by poll plummet
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): New poll puts Peter Dunne's future in doubt - National has a fight on its hands
Herald: Peter Dunne in second place to Greg O'Connor in Ohariu, Q+A poll reveals
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda effect' erodes Peter Dunne's support in Ohariu but he hopes it will be temporary
Economy and economics
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): Back to where we were before the Global Financial Crisis
Liam Dann (Herald): Top dollar's fine, if you work for it
Liam Dann (Herald): What is the productivity recession? And why is it worrying brokers?
Rod Oram (Newsroom): Why NZ’s growth model is hitting its limits
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Kiwis worry about record level of debt
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Dollar difference: workers' pay not part of decision on council chiefs' salaries
Aimee Shaw (Herald): Which New Zealand executives copped salary decreases last year
Jeremy Elwood & Michele A'Court (Stuff): Let's not forget what it's like to be poor
Maori Party
Emily Ford (Stuff): Maori Party's first Asian candidate targets diverse communities
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Māori Party says 'we can be the change-makers'
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Maori Party launches election campaign
Health
Michael Daly (Stuff): Minister's boast: Kiwi health system 'envy of the world' ... Well, yes and no
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Kiwis want Government to spend more on health research, new poll suggests
Cate Broughton (Stuff): 'Hands off our DHB' protest calls for better health funding in Canterbury
Helen Harvey (Stuff): 'It's wrong that you have to commit a crime to get better help'
Government electric car policy
Audrey Young (Herald): Government to take part in electric vehicle initiative
Stuff: National announce new electric vehicle target for government fleet
The Press: Editorial: We need an ambitious future electric car strategy from government
Other
Brodie Fraser (Salient): Locked Out
Jo Moir (Stuff): In Winston Peters' moments of despair his boat and Northland home kept him afloat
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Our Kiwi newsmakers should learn the art of Trump truth
David Slack (Stuff): Let's all try to agree on something
Paul Little (Herald): Metiria, Trump, citizenship and carbon emissions
ODT: Editorial – When enough is enough
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Kiwi children could be deported from Australia
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Case for 24/7 hazards monitoring to go to Cabinet
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Black and white or 50 shades of grey?
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Our police and fire service are fully funded, why not ambulances?
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Not just a women's issue: Global Women's 1 Day for Change
Alex Baird (Newshub): The real impact mining will have on the Taranaki seabed
Dale Scott (The Spinoff): Allowing seabed mining in New Zealand is a decision you need to be a part of
Michael Littlewood (NZCPR): Retirement income policies: what we know and what we don’t
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): Super Policy Under Scrutiny
Jenny Chamberlain (Listener): Sue Bradford: No ordinary radical
Max Rashbrooke (The Spinoff): The indulgence of anger: NZ philosopher Jeremy Waldron on why politics needs more civility
Eleanor Wenman (Stuff): Our ageing nation: can our rest homes cope with the growing retired population?
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Below the beltway
Mike O'Donnell (Stuff): A little grace goes a long way in politics
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Week in review: How Green was my meltdown?
Phil Taylor (Herald): Activists confirm Lucy Lawless spied on
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): What is reasonable about this?
Rotorua Daily Post: An 'inspirational' day as Rotorua declared bilingual
David Garrett (Kiwiblog): Three disgraced MP’s – and the media. Part One
David Garrett (Kiwiblog): Three disgraced MP’s and the Media – Part Two
Liz McDonald (Stuff): Gender issues left out of New Zealand's next census
Grant Shimmin (Stuff): Can we rediscover strength, richness together?
Ethan Tucker (Letterboxd): Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 2017