17 August 2017
Today's content
Below are the links to the items online. The full text of these items are contained in the PDF file (click to download).
Election – Labour
Jo Moir (Stuff): Willie Jackson won't rule out deals in the Maori seats - except with Hone Harawira
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Let’s Do This NOW, Jacinda – NOT “As Finances Permit”
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Labour's risk as old policies get seen with fresh eyes
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern passes the dinner party test
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern in conversation with undecided voters over dinner
Michael Wright (Stuff): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern sweeps into Christchurch, but is it mania?
Jemma Brackebush (RNZ): Majority of NZers support charging for water – survey
Newsroom:A good start, but water charge plan flawed
Herald: Labour's water tax wrong to target irrigators, says lobby group
Press Editorial: Boost for mental health support in schools long overdue
Election – National
Richard Harman (Politik): National working behind closed doors on its own water pricing plans
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): National's tired boot camp plan back from the dark ages
Max Harris (Newsroom): Boot camps won’t sell politics to young people
Katie Bruce (Spinoff): My son will never be classed as a Young Serious Offender – and that’s not fair
Dave Nicoll and Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Hamish Walker the new National Clutha-Southland candidate replacing Todd Barclay
Newshub: Todd Barclay's Clutha-Southland replacement chosen
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Former gold miner selected as Todd Barclay's replacement for safe National seat
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Walker selected for Clutha-Southland
Stuff: At my place: Prime Minister Bill English
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Facebook Watch: This post by the Young Nats has to be seen to be believed
Election – Greens
John Armstrong (TVNZ): Greens in election no-man's land after Metiria Turei shambles
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Greens promise Auckland-Hamilton-Tauranga passenger train
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Green Party promises Auckland-Hamilton-Tauranga passenger rail
Todd Niall (RNZ): Lobby group urges $1.45bn high-speed rail service
John Moore (Liberation): James Shaw, the Greens, and the zeitgeist
Pete George (Your NZ): Metiria versus Pākehā men #1
Election
TVNZ: Today's 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll 'will be fascinating' – Politcal Editor Corin Dann
Audrey Young (Herald): This term's winners and losers as Parliament winds up for the election
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Parliament's winners, losers and most scandalous
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Voter Motivators 2017: Water.
Max Rashbrooke (Good Society): A big idea 4: National holiday to talk politics
RNZ: Hundreds of thousands of young Kiwis not yet enrolled to vote
Newshub: 450,000 people not enrolled to vote, half of them under 30
Max Towle, John Lake and Lucy Smith (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: The Far North
Mike Hosking (Herald): Minor players at the voters' mercy
Daisy Hudson (Timaru Herald): Gareth Morgan supports teaching civics education in schools
Elizabeth Thomson (Stuff): Youth voter: History is our future
Jogai Bhatt (Public Address): Low-quality language on immigration
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Do Facebook page likes matter? Probably more than you think
Melanie Bracewell (Spinoff): Make Me Tick: getting down with democracy
Herald: Green MP Kennedy Graham bows out with 'no hard feelings' after resignation
Newshub: Parliament wraps up ahead of election
KiwiFirewalker: Politics is not just about policy
Australia-NZ citizenship spat
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Barnaby Joyce: Labour MP 'played' with Australian Government
Herald:I didn't go too far, says Julie Bishop on Labour and Jacinda Ardern
Ella Prendergast and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Australian commentators condemn Julie Bishop for 'attacking' relationship with New Zealand
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): PM hopes trans-Tasman spat short-lived
Herald: How it unfolded: Australian MP Barnaby Joyce and that unwanted NZ citizenship
1News: 'More questions to come' on Labour's role in Barnaby Joyce citizenship bombshell
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Australia v New Zealand: how they line up in the great trans-Tasman tussle test
Claire Trevett (Herald): Beware armada of fruit flies after Australia stramash
Kate Hunter (Spinoff): Reluctant Kiwi Barnaby Joyce is just the latest star in a long-running trans-Tasman citizenship soap opera
TVNZ: Jacinda Ardern 'wedged between Ayers Rock and NZ' in Australian citizenship debacle
No Right Turn: Privacy, not "secrecy"
Glen McConnell (Stuff): So, you just found out you're a Kiwi in Australia's parliament? We can help
Housing
Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt buys another two motels to put up homeless, denies link to fall in state housing
Simon Collins (Herald): Housing crisis hits kids' schoolwork
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government data shows Auckland property is still out of reach for most renters
Justice
Stuff: Māori men face greater chance of going to prison
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): When it comes to police, we need a revolution
Herald: Former Mt Eden prison inmate pushed over balcony sues Serco for $500,000
Animal welfare
James Pasley (Auckland Now): Political party policies on animal welfare made transparent online
Andrew Knight (Stuff): New Zealand should ban farrowing crates
Richard Davison (Southland Times): MPI: Castlerock Dairies cow neglect case bad for 'Team New Zealand'
Environment
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): People power saves rare kiwi from water pipeline - for now
Herald: Blue Springs bottling application on hold after 'affected persons' advisory
Elton Rikihana Smallman (Stuff): Taking water diminishes Blue Spring's mana, say local iwi
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealand to ban microbeads sooner than expected
Roger Hanson (Stuff): New Zealand and the impact of climate change
Dave Hansford (Newsroom): A good start, but water charge plan flawed
Education
Herald: Repair plans for leaky school buildings cut back dramatically
Mike Thorpe (TVNZ): Should Te Reo Maori be made compulsory in New Zealand schools?
Deena Coster (Stuff): Polytech students seek better promotion of Te Reo Maori policy
John Key knighthood
Tom McRae (Newshub): Sir John Key receives Knighthood at Auckland ceremony
Stuff: John Key officially knighted at Auckland's Government House
RNZ: Sir John Key knighted by Governor-General
Health
Andrea Vance (TVNZ): ‘It does make me angry, very frustrated' - 22-year-old's call to PM to save her hearing with cochlear implant
Alistair Woodward, Andrea t’Mannetje, Dave McLean, Jeroen Douwes and John D Potter (Public Health Expert): NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer
Inequality
Stuff: Stuck in a welfare storm
Susanne Kemp (Redline): Beneficiaries, tax fraudsters and whatever happened to one law for all?
Pat Valtkamp Smith (Southland Times): Getting to know the other half
Employment
Andre Chumko (Newsroom): Equal pay advocate Bartlett ‘let down’ by Govt
Catriona MacLennan (Newsroom): Labour hire companies a setback for employment
Pike River
Laura Mills (Greymouth Star): PM Bill English says cross-party agency won't make Pike River recovery any safer
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Political parties pledge to re-enter Pike River mine
Media
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Fairfax's NZ arm has 'very strong base' with or without merger, says CE
Alex Casey (Spinoff): Why The AM Show has got me in a tizzy
Paul Casserly (Herald): Politics as entertainment
Newsroom: NZ research may pop the filter bubble
Other
Nicky Hager (Spinoff): Sunlight did what sunlight does: Nicky Hager on Dirty Politics, three years on
Susan Devoy (Spinoff): Why I’m telling the UN about NZ’s immoral inaction on state care abuse
Jared Savage (Herald): William Yan AKA Bill Liu to keep NZ citizenship despite money laundering conviction
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Govt to apologise for labelling Maniapoto iwi 'rebels'
Raybon Kan (Herald): Financial literacy for a liquid future
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Anti-gay preacher is inciting violence - he must be referred to police
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): It makes business sense to get women and younger people in top role
Christine Rose (Briefing Papers): Power imbalances in local vs central government
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Taxpayer-funded investment firm to get more 'active' picking winning start-ups
Infometrics: Top ten things to know about immigration
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Three top officials leaving in Ministry of Transport Restructure
Steve Matthewman (Newsroom): Benefit fraud vs tax evasion: NZ’s hypocrisy