NZ Politics Daily - 16 August 2017
16 August 2017
Today's content
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Barnaby Joyce citizenship spat
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On why Labour isn’t responsible for Barnaby Joyce
RNZ: How Barnaby Joyce's citizenship saga unfolded
Richard Harman (Politik): NZ Government kept Barnaby Joyce's citizenship top secret
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Everyone smeared by trans-Tasman dirt slinging
Claire Trevett (Herald): Aussies accuse Labour of foul play
Barry Soper: (Newstalk ZB): Jacinda Ardern has a John Key moment
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): What the hell was Chris Hipkins doing?
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Barnaby Joyce saga: the trans-Tasman spat rolls on
Herald: Barnaby Joyce citizenship 'hit' compared to underarm cricket
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour causes rift with Australia
Southland Times editorial: NZ citizenship - an offer you can't refuse?
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Australia accuses New Zealand opposition of trying to bring down government
Mei Heron (RNZ): Ardern meets with Australian High Commissioner over citizenship spat
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern hits back at Australia's 'false claims' and threats
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Accusations of meddling fly in Trans-Tasman barney
Patrick Gower and Conor Whitten (Newshub): Australian Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce renounces NZ citizenship
Claire Trevett (Herald): Citizenship saga: Man who spoke to Hipkins is a Kiwi
No Right Turn: Ardern stands up for kiwis
Newshub: Australia threatens Labour Party over citizenship scandal
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Bill English condemns Labour's Chris Hipkins in Aussie citizenship saga
Herald: Jacinda Ardern denies Labour was dirt-digging on Australia's Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour accused of interfering in Australian politics
Election – Labour
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Timing is everything for Ardern & Labour
Diana Wichtel (Listener): How TV pundits reacted to the rise of Jacinda Ardern
Jo Moir (Stuff): Former Prime Minister John Key says Labour did the right thing making Jacinda Ardern leader
Herald: Labour made right call in promoting Ardern to leader, says former PM John Key
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Hysteria over water policy pitiful
Jo Moir (Stuff): Labour's plan for a water tax has politicians wading in on Maori claims
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Water levy pure common sense
Nicholas Jones (Herald): 'Charging royalties does not assume ownership': Ardern defends water tax
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Labour’s water tax plan dragged into a Treaty fight
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour: Government needs to show how it will pay to clean up New Zealand's rivers
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Water bottlers say they will close under Jacinda’s water tax
RNZ: Video: Ardern committed to cutting immigration numbers
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says 'not fixated on numbers' in immigration debate
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour leader Ardern maintains 'right and ability' to introduce Capital Gains Tax
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Labour promises mental health support in Canterbury schools
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern promises extra $30m for Canterbury children
Herald: Jacinda Ardern pledges more help for Christchurch and Kaikoura quake kids
Election
Jon Johansson (RNZ): Election 2017: Polling blip or butterfly effect?
Bevan Rapson (North & South): Leading a party into an election campaign is no job for the faint-hearted
Graham Adams (Noted): Election 2017: National's year of living dangerously
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Taggers, wind and livestock - the ways which election hoardings get damaged
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Māori Party wants training wheels off
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): After a year of data-driven social reform, National heads to boot camp
Brian Rudman (Herald): PM's boot camp a school for recidivists
David Cohen (RNZ): Youth justice political appetite waxes and wanes
Daisy Hudson (Timaru Herald): Metiria Turei says admitting benefit fraud was the right thing to do
Josh Van Veen (In the Balance): Has NZ First lost the balance of power?
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Will Christchurch rebuild delays rebound at election time?
Tom Hunt (Stuff): Wellington councillor Andy Foster on NZ First ticket for Wellington
Spinoff: Politics podcast: Greens post-Metiria, return of the bootcamp and war with Australia
Frances Cook (Herald): Cooking the Books podcast: One money tip from ... Peter Dunne
Pike River re-entry
Newshub: Cross-party vow to re-enter Pike River mine a 'stunt' – Govt
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Political parties vow to re-enter Pike River drift by 2018
Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): Political parties reveal agreement on Pike River Mine
Press: Cross-party agreement pledges a reentry of Pike River Mine
Justice and child welfare
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Minister wants answers over rise in without-notice applications
Newsroom: Reforms to protect children veer off course
RNZ: Devoy asks UN to take action on NZ state care abuse
Herald: Dame Susan Devoy asks UN to push for child abuse inquiry
Housing
Bryan Gould: The real reason for housing unaffordability
Soumya Bhamidipati (The Wireless): Renting in New Zealand (and what politicians are promising to change)
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): Bill English just lit the fuse for another housing boom
Herald editorial: PM hits an odd note on house lending rules
Chris Harrowell (Stuff): Salvation Army report calls for increased social housing building programme
Isaac Davison (Herald): Reserve Bank should be looking at LVRs, PM says
Vernon Small (Stuff): Bill English sends signal to central bank to plan end to loan-to-value limits
Herald: Fungi expert: Mushrooms show how soggy state house wall was
Herald: Jacinda Ardern: Mushroom state house 'appalling'
Employment and inequality
Michael Barnett (Stuff): Punitive welfare system is failing those in need
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Spinoff): Are there any good choices when you live on a low income?
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Stuff): Lessons from the Greens about disclosing to your employer
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Bad luck: Pay rises probably off the table until next election
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Gender pay gap 'a reality' for many in New Zealand
Herald: Nelson cafe charging men more to promote gender pay equality
Hannah Bartlett (Stuff): Nelson cafe charges men more than women to raise gender pay gap awareness
Derek Burrows (Timaru Herald): Who to vote for when no-one supports the one key policy I do?
Health
Brian Cox (Stuff): Serious flaws in bowel screening programme
Stuff: Mental health money late on arrival
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Codeine move would punish consumers, won't stop misuse - Coney
Stuff: Ministry of Health warns against increased payments to mental health workers
Florence Kerr (Stuff): Waikato senior doctors say concerns about chief executive ignored
Environment
Don Rowe (Spinoff): ‘We only have one planet’: Dr Jan Wright on saving the one thing we all have in common
No Right Turn: Dirty farmers
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): River ecologist: 'It's a really bad situation'
Matt Shand (Stuff): Chinese company seeks consent to draw 580 million litres of pristine spring water
Other
Stuff: John Key officially knighted at Auckland's Government House
John Edens (RNZ): Who are the 100,000?
Gareth Kiernan (Infometrics): Net migration is even higher than you thought
Herald: Farmers avoid jail in 'largest case of animal neglect'
No Right Turn: "As soon as reasonably practicable"
Robert Steven (Stuff): Parliament's clock in for earthquake repairs
Philip McKibbin (RNZ): Looking to the past to understand the Politics of Love
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Newsroom): All policy is biased, so what can we do?
Jackson Thomas (Stuff): New Zealand confirmed as host nation of APEC in 2021
Juha Saarinen (Herald): NZ Govt data in Canberra's cloud
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Countdown corrects 'sexist' sprinkles after uproar
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Going public brings painful reminder of past for Christchurch tetraplegic man