15 August 2017
Today's content
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Election – National
NZ Herald editorial: Boot camps and parent fines are 'red meat' for National
Ric Stevens (Press): Editorial: Compulsory military service as a punishment has never worked and never will
Claire Trevett (Herald): National's curfews and boot camps. Is the 6 o'clock swill next?
Mark Sainsbury (Newshub): National's bootcamp policy is for voters, not offenders
Katie Bruce (Newshub): Let's try valuing our young people instead of hiding them away in boot camps
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): National dusting off policy from its election war chest
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Has National gone Full Metal Jacket?
RNZ: Military camp scheme 'has never been tried before' – PM
Jess Berentson-Shaw (The Spinoff): National’s plan to send children to boot camps is their most anti-evidence policy yet
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Maori Party: National's boot camp plan an 'attack on Maori and Pasifika children'
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Shop owner questions National's law and order record and boot camp plan
Jacob McSweeny (RNZ): Youth programme says it could do more than military camp
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Serious young offenders
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why National’s Bootcamps are 10 times worse than you thought they were
Anthony Robins (Standard): Nats repeat failed bootcamp policy in plea to rally their scared angry base
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Let’s tax this? Hell, yeah!
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): 10 Important stories about National’s political agenda that got lost in Jacindamania and Metiria’s assassination
Herald: 'What about the taiaha?' Winston Peters opposes kirpan change
Newshub: Seymour slams Peters' 'racist attack' on Sikh community
Election – Labour
Vernon Small (Stuff): Water row takes new course as National shifts attack from cabbages to Maori claims
Richard Harman (Politik): English caution on Maori water rights because of Winston
Herald: National's Treaty claims 'scaremongering' – Labour
Isaac Davison (Herald): Fact or Fiction: Will Labour's water tax cripple farming and make food more expensive?
Andrew Curtis (Herald): Alarming lack of detail in Labour's water charge
No Right Turn: National resorts to racism on water
John Small (SmallTorque): Labour's water policy
1News: Labour Party in 'trap' over proposed water tax rate says Bill English
Bryan Gould (Herald): Does Jacinda Ardern have the ideology to make a difference
Colin James (ODT): Economics 101 Ardern's priority
David Chaston (Interest): The sudden ascent of Jacinda Ardern says a lot about us as voters, and not in a good way.
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Expect treats but no universal student allowances from Labour
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Labour signals students at campaign forefront with cash incentives
Isaac Davison (Herald): Ardern 'not comfortable' with Chinese-sounding names controversy, offers apology to migrants
Simon Collins (Herald): Jacinda Ardern accused of 'kneejerk' policy on driver licences
Simon Collins (Herald): Labour proposes free driving lessons for all students
Jo Moir (Stuff): Labour relaunches toolkit for teenagers leaving school
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Labour promises free driving lessons for high school students
RNZ: Labour promises to drive students towards 'vital life skills'
Willie Jackson (Daily Blog): I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is
Daphna Whitmore (Redline): Aspirational fluff from Ardern
Election
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Get ready for the twist and turn on the campaign trail
Liam Hehir (Stuff): The latest 'game changer' returns us to the status quo
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): New Zealand election 2017: How do I vote?
Interest: Political party policies
Luke Fitzmaurice (Stuff): Young people not voting won't solve anything
Don Rowe (Spinoff): ‘Bill English has been to my office twice already’: How National secure the Chinese vote
Joyce Wyllie (Stuff): Become a political snowflake - voting's a big responsibility
Chris Ford (Newsroom): This election, let’s stop overlooking 1/4 of voters
Wake Up NZ: Why we started the Mike Hosking Petition
Brian Edwards: On Mike Hosking – Don’t Say I Never Warned You
Sarah Harris (Herald): Deaf community petition TVNZ to use sign language interpreters in election debates
Pete George (Your NZ): Recycled campaigning
Election – Greens
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Greens’ Campaign Reset: Normal Ideological Transmission is Resumed
Miriama Aoake (Vice): Metiria Turei and How the NZ Media Ignores Its Own Prejudice
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Greens new list
Brian Easton (Pundit): When is Lying Justified?
Māori TV: When is benefit fraud - fraud or survival?
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): I, Metiria Turei
Election – Other parties
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Peter not Dunne just yet – English
Heeni Brown (Māori TV): Pundits say Māori Party are 'under threat'
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Gareth Morgan wants to reduce prison population by 40 per cent
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): The Opportunities Party launches election campaign
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Winston Peters wants heavy rail to Auckland Airport
Mental Health
RNZ: Union 'totally shocked' at mental health pay equity warning
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Alcohol re-think 'central' to mental health policy, Government told
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Preschoolers and prisoners covered by new government mental health initiatives
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Government unveils 17 new mental health initiatives in $100m package
RNZ: Govt gives details for $100m mental health spend
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National’s response to mental health is a sick sad joke that should rule them out of Government
Heeni Brown (Māori TV): Kaikohe youth space aims to reduce suicide rate
Immigration
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 'The outcome of these 10 years is not even zero'
Paul Spoonley (Stuff): Immigration is not necessarily the most pressing issue for Kiwi voters
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Our way or the highway: Kiwis and their attitudes towards immigration
Judith Morrell Nathan (Scoop): On the Move
Housing
Stuff: Government needs 'major rethink' on social housing, warns Salvation Army
Liam Dann (Herald): First home buyers need LVRs to stay
Australian Deputy PM NZ citizenship
RNZ/ABC: NZ govt says Australia's Joyce is NZ citizen
Henry Cooke, Adam Gartrell and Amy Remeikis (Stuff): Australia's Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has dual New Zealand citizenship
Newshub: Australian Deputy PM confirmed NZ citizen - resignation could be forced
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Dear Australia. We can fix your politician citizenship crisis. Love, NZ
No Right Turn: Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealand citizen
Other
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): A water quality probe too dangerous to fund?
Julie Chapman (Herald): More people are speaking up for the poor
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Support grows for new 'Pike River Recovery Authority'
Michael Cropp (RNZ): Population boom: 'How big are we actually planning for?'
No Right Turn: NZ Post spied on the public
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Family Court eSystem flaws ‘known and accepted’
Joseph Cederwall (Scoop): Universal Basic Income - The Future of Work in Aotearoa?