NZ Politics Daily - 19 August 2017
19 August 2017
Today's content
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Election
John Armstrong (Herald): This election is a two-party dogfight now
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Brickbat for Metiria Turei, bouquet for Jacinda Ardern
Vernon Small (Stuff): The debates have ended, the questions have been asked. So what now?
Stuff: Our election year front bench breakdown
Wayne Mapp (The Spinoff): Amid all this political turmoil, where are the policy faultlines?
Dan Satherley (Newshub): If Google searches were votes: Is Jacinda Ardern 'feeling lucky'?
Newshub: Kim Dotcom back on the campaign trail for the Internet Party
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Life after Colin: Does the Conservative Party have a chance in 2017?
Mark Lister (Craigs Investment Partners): Buckle up for a tight election race
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Short-term vs long-term
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Red zone stayer runs against Brownlee in Ilam electorate as protest campaign
Julian Lee (Stuff): 'Raw, uncut' election debate to hit Christchurch
Laine Moger (Stuff): Northcote electorate voters head to booths with bells on
Greens
Corin Dann (1News): 'Huge' significance for Parliament's make-up if Greens fail to return after poll slump
Kaitlin Ruddock (1News): Stakes increase for Nelson candidate after Green Party's shock poll plunge
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Labour rules out doing a deal to keep Greens in Parliament
RNZ: Greens leader in 'fight of my life' after polling slump
No Right Turn: The Greens can take nothing for granted
Le Matt Juste: That 5% threshold and recent polling
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Greens need to urgently play to their strengths now
Kiwifirewalker: Campaign Fail: Why the Greens blew it
Labour
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Ardern ready for challenge
Vaimoana Tapaleao (Herald): New Labour billboards revealed - and they're not red
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern unveils Labour's new billboards
Simon Maude (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern unveils new election hoardings, and fixes one of National's
Greg Presland (The Standard): What will the next Labour caucus look like?
Kim Knight (Herald): Fish and quips with Jacinda and Clarke
Pacific Media Centre: NZ’s Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into Pacific community’, says panel
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Putting Labour's latest poll-quake in context
National
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National discovers a new feeling - panic
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): New candidate mum about Barclay
Herald: Watch live: Prime Minister Bill English shrugs off poor poll result
NZ First
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Meet NZ First's first Chinese electorate candidate, Peter Chan
Scott Yeoman (Herald): Winston Peters announces new minimum wage policy
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): NZ First would raise minimum wage to $20 an hour
Australia-NZ citizenship saga
Steve Braunias (Herald): The secret diary of Barnaby Joyce
No Right Turn: Weaponised niceness
ODT: Editorial – Aussie rules of the House
Andrew Gunn: Fairness breaks out as Aussie politicians discover their inner Kiwis
Environmet and water
ODT: Editorial – Taxing our water
Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Something slimy in the water, and it's not eels
Philippa Tolley (RNZ): NZ's drinking water compliance totally inadequate - Water NZ
Dave Hansford (The Spinoff): Climate change is happening – but don’t bother trying to convince a denier
Inequality and poverty
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Slices of heaven: Is NZ inequality going up, or is it just our worry about it?
Christoph Schumacher (Stuff): Prosperity without equality is nothing to be proud of
Fiona Barber (Stuff): Hungry for social justice
Max Rashbrooke (The Good Society): Will Budget 2017 really lift 50,000 children out of poverty?
NZ in Afghanistan
1News: Afghan villagers' lawyers take NZ Government to court over claims SAS involved in civilian deaths
Anna Leask (Herald): Govt refusal of inquiry into Afghan death claims 'invalid', 'unlawful'
No Right Turn: Suing for justice
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Writing gap between girls and boys widens to new record
Simon Collins (Herald): National Standards: Are they working?
Laura Dooney (Stuff): Children's learning not improving under National Standards measurements
Media
Britt Mann (Stuff): A day in the life of 1 News Now's political editor Corin Dann
ODT: Editorial – Media more vital than ever
Peter Aranyi (The Paepae): About Matthew Hooton’s declared loyalties
Winston Peters defamation action
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters legal action 'attempt to shut down legitimate opinion', MediaWorks says
Steven Price (Media law journal): Winston Peters sues for defamation
Other
Stuff: Police want to crack Joanne Harrison's KiwiSaver to repay fraud money
Matthew Theunissen (Herald): Labour accuses polytech of whistleblower 'witch hunt'
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National voters, wider public back cannabis law reform: poll
Illya McLellan (Stuff): Are smaller district councils chief executive salaries ripping off ratepayers?
Michelle Duff and Marika Hill (Stuff): Government committee: let people choose gender
RNZ: 'Out of sight, out of mind': MSD moving homeless to Kaeo
1News:'If you want to deal with us, you deal with us in English'