NZ Politics Daily - 25 August 2017
25 August 2017
Today's content
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Herald Poll
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English well ahead of Jacinda Ardern as most capable leader
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Bill English still winning popularity contest
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Why are National dumbing down a smart man in PM Bill English?
Mike Hosking
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Hosking's Māori electoral roll blunder should cost him debate role
Jo Moir (Stuff): Mike Hosking says he 'confused' the Māori Party by saying only Māori could vote for them
Herald: Mike Hosking offers 'clarification' over his Maori Party voting comments on Seven Sharp
Nicholas Jones (Herald): TVNZ: Mike Hosking comments about Maori Party 'inaccurate'
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Māori Party want Hosking dumped as debate moderator
Herald: Calls for Mike Hosking's head as election debate host after Maori vote error
Leonie Hayden (Spinoff): Uh oh: Mike Hosking doesn’t know we can all vote for the Māori Party
Jo Moir (Stuff): Mike Hosking to 'clear up confusion' over Māori Party gaffe on live television
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Should we accept Mike Hosking’s attempt at voter suppression on Seven Sharp?
Labour
Bryan Gould (Herald): Jacinda Ardern would be unwise to rely on personality to win
Alex Tarrant (Interest): The Election tax debate has entered silly territory
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Just doing it for the rich
Pete George (Your NZ): Labour’s ‘tax working group’
Pete George (Your NZ): Labour’s Janus faces
Judith Ireland (Sydney Morning Herald): Jacinda Ardern: a breath of fresh air from New Zealand
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Disturbing Signs
Dougal McNeill (ISO): Labour: Understanding Reformism
Ohariu and Labour-Greens relationship
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Labour-Green marriage of inconvenience
Dan Satherley (Newshub): 'No qualms' about Greens running Ōhāriu candidate - Kelvin Davis
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Labour-Green relationship suffers another blow
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Labour still committed to a Green-red Govt - Jacinda Ardern
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Jacinda Ardern: No surprise at Greens' Ohariu call
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Ōhāriu candidates scramble after Dunne's table-flip
No Right Turn: Changing their minds
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): A look back: We reflect on Peter Dunne’s greatest achievements
National
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Govt announces 110kph speed limits on selected expressways (RONS). This could be one of the most important announcements this election campaign
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government to raise top speed limit to 110kmh this year
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Nats dangle extra $120m for new Christchurch stadium
Liz McDonald (Stuff): National pledges $120 million extra for new Christchurch stadium
Newshub: National announces $120 million pledge to new Christchurch stadium
Herald: Jane Kelsey: National should not be endorsing TPP before election
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Did Treasury break election rules?
RNZ: National faces questions over campaign slogan
National-Act relationship
Audrey Young (Herald): Act leader David Seymour dismisses PM's suggestion he regretted using expletive at business conference
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): ACT leader David Seymour says he does not regret swearing
On the campaign trail
Tracy Watkin (Stuff): The election campaign today: Swearing, hair nets and high vis
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): ‘Would you like a selfie with that policy discussion?' - Bill English pulls crowds in Christchurch
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill's in a high-vis vest, Jacinda in an apron
Jessica Mutch (TVNZ): Hair net-wearing Jacinda Ardern rolls up sleeves to cook meals for kids
Jo Moir (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern wows Auckland school children with soup and stories of meatballs
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Enter the politics whisperer
Mei Heron (RNZ): Green campaign: Shaw dusts off and soldiers on
TOP
Richard Harman (Politik): Morgan pulls a crowd in Christchurch
Herald: Lipstick on a pig: Morgan says 'fragile flowers' attacked him because he is a man
NZ First
Nicholas Jones (Herald): From Contact Energy to Wogistan: Who is Richard Prosser?
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Shane Jones says crayfish-stealing criminal gangs are real, police and MPI say no evidence
Election
Toby Manhire (Herald): Party leaders' big speeches, uncut edition
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): National promises ambitious new expressway between South Auckland and prison
Spinoff: Politics podcast: A classic hits election with one month to go
Dom George (Herald): Personality politics or toe the party line?
Zbigniew Dumieński and Nicholas Smith (Newsroom): ‘A land tax would solve a lot of society’s problems’
Catherine Putz (The Diplomat): A Bark But No Bite: Examining New Zealand’s Last General Election
Max Rashbrooke (Newsroom): A big idea: ‘Electoral funding vouchers’
Pete George (Your NZ): How well is MMP working?
Felicity Reid (North Shore Times): Difference between local MPs and local board member
Mandy Te (Auckland Now): Auckland Uber drivers share thoughts on upcoming election
Electorate battles
Tony Wall (Stuff): Battle for Whangarei: Shane Jones versus Shane Reti
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Manawatu candidates face off over youth crime, methamphetamine
Shawn McAvinue (ODT): Candidates address Port forum
Samuel White (ODT): Crowd keeps Walker on toes
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): Wairarapa candidates discuss education
Torika Tokalau (Western Leader): National Party's Alfred Ngaro eyes win in Labour's Te Atatu territory
Cherie Howie (Herald): Heartbeat: Dreams lost and found in the Coromandel town of Thames
Max Towle, John Lake and Lucy Smith (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: East Coast
Callum McGillivray (Western Leader): Voting 'no value' or 'right thing' to do? West Auckland weighs in on election
Policy comparisons
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Who should I vote for? Te ao Māori policy at a glance
Pasan Jayasinghe and Sahanika Ratnayake (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Immigration: A Personal Retrospective
Herald: Election 2017: Conservation, biosecurity and GM
Herald: Election 2017: Parties share science, hazard policies
Jamie Morton (Herald): Election Policy Series: Passions high over natural assets
Sarah Harris (Herald): Election Policy Series: Euthanasia, anti-smacking and state care
PREFU
Brian Fallow (Herald): Squeezing the spending options
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): PREFU’s hidden messages
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Bumper surplus adds wings to campaign promises
Corin Dann (TVNZ): Government's forecast surplus rockets to whopping $3.7 billion - so what does it mean for you?
NZ in Afghanistan
Tracy Watkin (Stuff): Government announces boost to Afghanistan deployment
Audrey Young (Herald): Cabinet approves more New Zealand Defence Force personnel for Afghanistan
RNZ: Afghan raid protest calls for independent inquiry
Jessica Long (Stuff): Wellington protesters call for inquiry into allegations over SAS raid
Health
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Health Minister Jonathan Coleman skips election health forum
Cate Broughton (Stuff): Cochlear implant funding boost announcement 'long overdue'
Stuff: Editorial: Will there be health cuts and will they hurt?
Southland Times: Not cuts, just really incisive efficiencies?
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): Rebuild policy anticipated
Housing
Michael Barnett (Herald): Housing has become a terrible Game of Thrones
TVNZ: Part of low cost Auckland housing site will instead house Chinese airline staff on layovers
RNZ: Auckland Council dismisses Peters' housing claim
Rob Stock (Stuff): Landlords v tenants: How to live in a house
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Generations divided over how to make houses affordable
Rachel Clayton (Stuff): Most baby boomers want younger generation on the housing ladder
TVNZ: New report calls for crackdown on substandard rental properties
Rob Stock (Stuff): Time to ditch 'Blackadder' housing policies, academic says
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Interest): Building a large not-for-profit rental sector would rebuild NZ's foundations
Greg Ninness (Interest): House prices have risen at nearly 10 times the pace of wages for typical first home buyers in Auckland over the last four years
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): James Shaw says he can’t afford a house on $250,000 a year
Women in politics
Mava Enoka (RNZ): More than a pretty face: the place of young women in NZ politics
Ged Cann (Stuff): Female politicians discuss worst experiences and the future of gender in politics
Business NZ election conference
Kirk Hope (Stuff): Political policies that help business boost New Zealand as a whole
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Labour, NZ First aggressively negative at BusinessNZ conference
Rachel Smalley (Newstalk ZB): Gareth Morgan and David Seymour will make you think
Pete George (Your NZ): NZ First disarray on asset buyback policy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ First backtracks on nationalization
TVNZ: 'I would get a bit of a talking to' - Jacinda Ardern tut-tuts David Seymour's F-bomb
Media
John Drinnan (Herald): Bauer rebuts MediaWorks claim
RNZ: New Māori TV building opens in South Auckland
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Fake news a growing worry for Kiwis
Other
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Satisfaction with special education plunges
Jenesa Jeram (Stuff): Is NZ's sensible drug policy Dunne for good?
Robert Patman (Listener): North Korea crisis: Why New Zealand can't fully back the US or China
Karl du Fresne: Apologise and retract? Not bloody likely
Kyle MacDonald (Herald): Why are people so easily offended these days?
Katie Parker (RNZ): 'We are encouraging women to be bad' - Gaylene Preston on making way for female filmmakers in New Zealand
James Croot (Stuff): My Year With Helen: One Kiwi film-maker's journey into the surreal world of the UN
David Garrett (Kiwiblog): Guest Post: Why is te reo critically ill?