NZ Politics Daily - 4 September 2017
4 September 2017
Today's content
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Newshub-Reid Research poll
RNZ: Labour's poll average still climbing
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Newshub poll: National and Labour in one-on-one fight for power
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): How the Left could form a Government without Winston Peters
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Election Forecast – the end of the Greens?
Claire Trevett and Isaac Davison (Herald): Jacinda Ardern train yet to steamroll Bill English - but Greens and NZ First are gasping
Richard Harman (Politik): The two political tribes go to war
Bevan Rapson (Noted): Election 2017: National's still in this
Toby Manhire (Herald): A sobering poll for the Jacindamaniacs as the great drag race roars on
Stuff: Latest political poll has National in front, but it's mighty close
Herald: New poll: Has National halted Labour's rise?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The possible Labour-Green-Maori/MANA Party Government
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Why Bill English must win tonight's Paddy Gower Hour of Power Debate
National
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): "Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts ... "
Jarrod Gilbert (Herald): National Party's drug and gang policy is cynical and dangerous
Siobhan Wilson (RNZ): National's planned powers against gangs 'troubling'
Stuff: National's proposed police powers buying into the doctrine of Donald Trump, lawyer says
Russell Brown (Hard News): Drugs and human rights
Rachel Smalley (Newshub): National knows it's on solid ground with gang policy
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): Mask off: National decides gang members have ‘fewer human rights’
Christine Rose (Daily Blog): National Party sacrifices human rights to politics
Greg Presland (Standard): National plays the lauranorda card
RNZ: 'Fewer human rights' comment a mistake – English
Dan Satherley (Newswhub): Paula Bennett's human rights comments 'not right' - Bill English
Laura Walters (Stuff): Bill English says everyone in NZ has human rights
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English: Paula Bennett wrongly described National's anti-gang policy
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English doesn't back away from human rights comments
Isaac Davison (Herald): National unveils crackdown on gangs, drugs, police to get new search powers
Demelza Leslie (RNZ): Serious criminals 'have fewer human rights' – National
TVNZ: 'Some have fewer human rights' - Bennett promises harsh crackdown on drug-dealing gang members
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Decision 17: Bill English promises no new taxes
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government accused of hiding climate report that could affect homes of 130,000 people
Tom Sainsbury (Spinoff): Kiwis of Snapchat: Bill and Paula plan their next moves
Lyndon Hood (Werewolf): Notes on National’s Election Campaign, in Poem Form
Isaac Davison (Herald): 'Rock-star' Bill English asked the tough questions as he brings out big guns on campaign trail
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Bill English finds hundreds of fans in West Auckland, but also some ticked off teens
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Bill English's Father's Day surprise
RNZ: No rise from minister over 'crass' statue
Herald: Protesters allegedly rub rat poison on Environmental Minister Nick Smith
Stuff: Pair rub poison in face of Nelson MP Nick Smith, threaten family
Labour
NZ Herald editorial: Labour offers tenants more security
Dan Satherley and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Decision 17: Labour takes the side of renters
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Labour's generation rent plan
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Rents could rise under Labour policy, property sector warns
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Short-term renters could be left out in the cold
Herald: Labour policy could push up rents, property investor spokesman says
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Health top issue, says Labour health spokesman David Clark
Evan Harding (Stuff): Labour's fee-free policy fantastic, not crushing: Craig
Grant Miller (Stuff): Labour needs to show it is ready to govern
Steven Cowan (Against the Current): Personality over policy
Election
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): It’s the end of an era
Judy McGregor (Herald): Our young deserve to come out of election cold
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Politics is missing the theatre
Deborah Hill Cone (Herald): How to stop overthinking this election
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): One photo, one vote
Jane Bowron (Stuff): Coalitions of the political and personal kind
RNZ: ACT leader blames unions for teachers' poor pay rates’
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Bribe-o-meter update
Erin Reilly (Stuff): How to vote in the general election
Mike Mather (Stuff): Political candidates suffer loss of face on the streets of Hamilton
Bevan Chuang: Asian Representations in Politics
Electorate contests
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Polls 'invariably wrong' on election day – Peters
David Fisher (Herald): True blue Whangarei sees a battle of Shanes over the economy and jobs
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Kingswood Election Tour: A Father's Day special in the deep south
Stuff: Ilam candidate Raf Manji proposes 500-space car parking building beside Christchurch Hospital
Inequality
Simon Collins (Herald): 'End Work and Income's toxic culture' – beneficiaries
Ann Rankin (Newshub): Auckland Action Against Poverty release election demands
Janine Rankin (Stuff): Turei rallies Palmerston North troops in fight against poverty
Policy comparisons
Sandra Goodwin (Herald): Party policies on housing
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Policy series: where do the parties stand on cannabis and drug reform?
Simon Johnson (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Teach First
Employment
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Two-thirds of Kiwis think they're not paid enough
Alice Peacock (Newshub): Rest homes fighting Government for financial help to stay afloat
Ben Peterson (Left Win): What are Fair Pay Agreements?
Press Editorial: Real equality for working women still a long way off
Other
Virginia Fallon (Stuff): Gone in two years: Housing NZ stock plummets by nearly 4000
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Aftershock: The debacle of shoddy Christchurch earthquake repairs
Neil Holdom (Stuff): Becoming Kiwi: Immigration brings diversity, new ideas and different perspectives
Barbara George (Stuff): Becoming Kiwi: Why students choose to come to New Zealand
Dom George (Herald): Farmer pen pal bridges urban/rural divide