NZ Politics Daily - 3 September 2017
3 September 2017
Today's content
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Election
Morgan Godfery (Spinoff): Please don’t tell Don Brash, but the Māori Party could decide the next government
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): What happens if the Labour surge continues?
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): When 'relentlessly positive' fails to trickle down, it's relentlessly trite
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald):Campaign just got uglier
David Slack (Stuff): Our politicians could show Charlton Heston a thing or two about monkey business
Kerre McIvor (Herald): Graft beats charisma
Mark Boyd (Stuff): The polls are more important than ever
Deborah Mahuta Coyle (RNZ): Swing seats a prediction pendulum
Vernon Small, Stacey Kirk and Henry Cooke (Stuff): Party leaders promise to protect New Zealand's environment – each in their own way
Newshub: Decision 17: National, Labour hit Auckland
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): There are so many issues grabbing voters this election, it'll be hard to please them all
Herald: Election 2017 - What do our Heart Beat series' participants think about the week in politics?
Guy Williams (Stuff): My very serious election guide
Jeremy Lawry (Newshub): Decision 17: Election for Normies - Who should you vote for?
Stephanie Rodgers (Boots Theory): 2017 general election endorsement round-up-alooza
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Decision 17: What will be served up at the Newshub Leaders Debate?
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Compare how many NZers watched Leaders debate in 2014 to 2017
Martyn Bradbury (Daiy Blog): Media elite turn on the First Leaders debate
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Are we planning for a transport future that won't exist?
Karoline Tuckey (Stuff): Numeracy, literacy and mental health tackled at election event
Phoebe Balle (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Treaty Education in Schools
Ben Tan (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: An Alternative Model for Policy Making
Labour
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): Jacinda Ardern exposes a potential environmental weakness for Labour on cows
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern: Labour would end right to give tenants 90-day notice without cause
Vernon Small (Stuff): Labour strengthens renters' rights with limits on rent rises, 90 day notices
Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern set to announce policy to make life better for renters
Kate Shuttleworth (Guardian): Jacindamania: rocketing rise of New Zealand Labour's fresh political hope
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): “The Kardashianisation of NZ Politics”
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Labour's education plan will 'undermine' Invercargill's zero fees policy – Shadbolt
Daisy Hudson (Timaru Herald): Revenue from Labour's water levy could go to projects such as roading
Toby Manhire (Stuff): Let’s do a new ad, fast. The Jacindamania commercial, explained
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Why has Jacinda's Twitter account gone silent?
Herald: Selfies and hugs as Jacinda Ardern campaigns in Auckland
National
Isaac Davison (Herald): National unveils crackdown on gangs, drugs, police to get new search powers
Henry Cooke (Stuff): After bruising week, Bill English enjoys the adoration in Tauranga
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English on campaign trail in Tauranga: 'Competition makes you better'
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Bill English: Rowing National to victory?
Isaac Davison (Herald): National's $70m pest control plan announced
Stuff: National boosts Predator Free campaign by $69m
Brian Edwards: Some Man to Man Advice for Bill English
Damien Grant (Stuff): The National Government a Labour PM would be proud to lead
Amanda Cropp (Stuff): Fears National's new freedom camping rules could turn rental companies into debt collectors
Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Doodle by John Key among items auctioned off at National fundraiser
Colleen Hawkes (Stuff): At my place: Paula Bennett's place out west
NZ First
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Winston Peters can't risk going the wrong way at the election
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): The deeply private life of Winston Peters
Weekend Herald editorial: A limited port should stay in Auckland's harbor
Rodney Hide: It's not about need - it's greed
Greens
Newstalk ZB: Green Party unveils plan for healthy rivers
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Greens want nitrate levy on farmers
John-Michael Swannix (Newshub): Federated Farmers distances itself from 'farming doesn't pollute rivers' comments
RNZ: Farmers reject Greens' farming-pollution policy
ACT
Newshub: ACT's teacher pay hike disastrous for pupils – NZEI
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): ACT Party launches campaign with focus on education
Audrey Young (Herald): Act proposes fund to reward excellent teachers
Stuff: ACT says it will give schools $20k more per teacher, if they abandon union contracts
Dan Satherley and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): ACT's $1 billion education plan to pay teachers more
Health
RNZ: Main parties shy away from specific suicide reduction target
Herald: Jonathan Coleman on suicide reduction target: 'I've moved my thinking'
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Suicide reduction target back on the agenda
Newshub: Health debate: Jonathan Coleman vs David Clark
Heather Roy: Health debate: How Drs Coleman and Clark did.
Stuff: Mothers with postnatal depression falling through the gaps
RNZ: National, Labour clash over 'rising' elective surgeries
Herald: Medical cannabis advocates march through Auckland
Water and environment
Rod Oram (Newsroom): A trickle of policies for a big problem
Charlie Gates and Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): NZ needs to act now to protect people and property, urges coastal erosion report
No Right Turn: Climate change: Suppressing the evidence
Inequality
Susan St John (Newsroom): The murky, illogical world of life on a benefit
Elspeth McLean (ODT): Call for strategies to help address poverty
Brenda Harwood (ODT): Inequality 'bad for the country'
Housing
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Election jitters hold back housing market
Peter Humphreys (Waikato Times): Opinion: What will the detrimental effect of homelessness have on Hamilton in the long term?
Carly Thomas (Stuff): Action helps people buy affordable houses
Gender pay gap
Alison Mau (Stuff): My electrician has faced attacks for giving women a discount – but handled them like a boss
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): NZ now 5th lowest gender pay gap in the world
Economy
Shamubeel Eaqub (Stuff): New Zealand has a productivity problem
Bryan Gould: The Achilles heel on the economy
John Banks
Herald: John Banks loses paternity case brought by Antony Shaw
Stuff: John Banks loses paternity case, is found to be father of Antony Shaw
Zoe Lawton (Stuff): John Banks paternity case highlights a legal loophole
Other
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): Police access to journo's bank details raises red flag for privacy
Herald: Historic pardon for Tuhoe prophet confirmed
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Silicon Valley and the media: the problem or the solution?
Britt Mann (Stuff): Women of Influence 2017: Three finalists discuss their journeys to success
RNZ: Colin Craig ordered to pay $17k in costs to woman he tried to sue
Eric Crampton (Spinoff): Outside the Asylum: the final installment of an epic essay in praise of New Zealand
Lee Suckling (Stuff): I'm speaking up for minorities
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): What’s happening to immigration data?
No Right Turn: Utterly unreasonable