28 August 2017
Today's content
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National
RNZ: The Leader Interview - Bill English
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): Bill English - National Party
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English tries some intermittent negativity on Labour
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National reaches out to parents to stall Ardern's momentum
Branko Marcetic (Werewolf): Bill English: The Forgotten History
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Bill English goes with blinder idea rather than bribe
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Bill English doesn't know when second languages policy will be in action
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): National rolls out education package to counter Jacinda-mania
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Bill English plays his own youth card
Richard Harman (Politik): National sees path to victory
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): National's education concept's good but delivery vague
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Election now anyone's guess
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Second languages: Good idea, but can't be done – principals
Jacob McSweeny (RNZ): Education policy won't tackle 'big, big issues' – principals
Audrey Young (Herald): Bill English: New Zealanders aren't an ATM machine for the Labour Party
Bevan Rapson (North and South): National Party campaign launch 2017: Can Bill English rock a stadium?
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Billmania: to West Auckland for the National campaign launch
Audrey Young (Herald): Every child's chance to learn second language: National's education policy
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National launches official campaign with $379 million education bid
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): National promises $379m National Standards expansion
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Bill English rolls out family for election campaign
John Minto (Daily Blog): Rubbish reporting by rubbish journalists
Isobel Ewing and Marcus Thompson (Newshub): National uses a comedian to reach youth
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National try to play down small turn out for National Launch
Unlawful police surveillance revelations
David Fisher (Herald): Hunt for Rawshark sees police rapped again for 'unlawful' search of banking records
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): My case against a secret NZ Police investigation that breached my privacy and my civil rights
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The Rawshark Investigation & secret Police mass surveillance program against 100 000 NZers
Newshub: Police accessed blogger's bank records unlawfully – report
Greg Presland (Standard): Bomber Bradbury wins privacy complaint against Police
Election
Colin James (RNZ): Labour-Green combo a whisker off National
Tim Watkin (Pundit): What lies beneath this election campaign
Anna Connell (Newsroom): TVNZ, not Hosking, owes NZ the biggest apology
David Fisher (Herald): Heartbeat: Hikurangi rising like a new dawn
Max Towle, John Lake and Lucy Smith (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: Palmerston North
Shamubeel Eaqub: Politics uses our selfishness
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): NZ election 2017: Going beyond environmental slogans
Māmari Stephens (Sparrowhawk/Kārearea): Turning off the tap? Righting water wrongs
Judy McGregor (Herald): Pay equity - What are women's choices at the polls?
Emily Beausoleil (Stuff): Let them eat cake: Inequality is growing, so how can we fix it?
Vaughn Elder (ODT): ‘Misery’ ranking good for Nats: Infometrics
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Trains do the trick for Helensville voter
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Roads v Rail: Political parties at the crossroads on transport
Dhanya Herath (NZ Co-op): A Policy A Day: Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): I want to vote for The Big Feels Club
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): School council shows the power of democracy
Jane Bowron (Press): Labour-Greens agreement turns out to be worthless
ODT Editorial: Healthy Questions to ask
Matt Heath (Herald): Why this is the best election ever
Candidates and electorate contests
Nicholas Boyack (Stuff): Hutt South candidates: A postie, a paper boy and girl, and a tutor
Emily Ford (Manukau Courier): Online voting is the way to go, young candidates say
Daisy Hudson (Timaru Herald): Coffee with a candidate: Green MP Mojo Mathers
Daisy Hudson (Timaru Herald): Coffee with the candidate: ACT Rangitata candidate Tom Corbett
Matthew Cattin (Rodney Times): Rodney politicians push Penlink and Hill Street projects
Labour
RNZ: Labour pledges to review NZ's Pacific migration policy
Jamie Small and Cecile Meier (Press): Labour announces $300m for Christchurch rebuild
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Labour promises to fast-track Christchurch's rebuild
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Citizenship row: Jacinda Ardern's offer of phone call with Australia's Julie Bishop still on table
Oliver Lewis (Marlborough Express): Wine Marlborough criticised for 'political' stance on Labour's water policy
Scott Mason(ODT): CGT proposal must be scrutinised before election
Greens
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): How green was my valley: Wellington suburb where the Greens rule the ballot box
TVNZ: NZ public on board with Green Party policy to introduce 20 cent charge on plastic bags
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Greens announce plastic bag ban, zero landfill waste goal
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Greens reveal 'cash for trash' refund scheme
Newshub: Retailers doubt Greens can ban plastic bags in three years
Housing
Charles Anderson (Spinoff): The unsettling of the Kiwi dream
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Anglicans hold 'service of lament', ask politicians to solve housing crisis
RNZ: Govt 'dropped the ball' on social housing, says Church
TVNZ: More than three-quarters of Kiwis want more affordable government-built housing, according to survey
Winston Peters superannuation error
RNZ: Peters: No-one knows how pension error happened
Isaac Davison (Herald):Peters fires back on superannuation: Repayment 'private'
Dan Satherley (Newshub): I didn't claim extra superannuation - Winston Peters
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Winston Peters' shifting story over pension overpayment
Lloyd Burr, Patrick Gower and Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Winston Peters admits taking extra pension payments
Newstalk ZB: Winston Peters reveals he was overpaid superannuation
Stuff: Winston Peters reveals superannuation overpayment
Nicholas Jone (Herald): Winston Peters admits being overpaid superannuation
Melanie Reid and Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Co-habiting Peters billed $18,000
Stuff: Winston Peters denies claims he was receiving a single person's entitlement to the pension
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Where is the openness and transparency, Winston Peters?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): MSD must explain
TOP
Herald: TOP puts up 26 candidates to contest election - with only 5 on list
Ben Wylie-van Eerd (Left Win): The left wing case for TOP
NZ in Afghanistan
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Multimedia spotlight on the fog of war
David Farrar (KIwiblog): Will Greens name this more effective way?
Other
Graham Panther (Spinoff): I’ve set up plenty of mental health services. Here’s why I wouldn’t use any of them
Pattrick Smellie (Listener): Kiwi philosopher Jeremy Waldron on Trump and the spiralling savagery of politic
Andrew Stone (Herald): Dissenters in wartime felt state's anger