NZ Politics Daily - 5 September 2017
5 September 2017
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Newshub Leaders debate
Mark Jennings (Newshub): ‘You’ve got this, Paddy’
Herald: The verdicts on Bill English vs Jacinda Ardern second leaders' debate
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): In a numbers game Bill English has the edge, but Ardern no pushover
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern and Bill English both passionate and fired up
Barry Soper (Herald): Jacinda Ardern won debate by a whisker
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Now that’s a debate
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Who won the second leaders debate
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Newshub Leaders Debate: Who won?
The Spinoff: Ardern v English, round #2: Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee, Simon Wilson and more on the Newshub debate
Herald: Jacinda Ardern gives her assessment of the second leaders' debate
Laura Walters (Stuff):Jacinda Ardern pledges to quit rather than raise NZ Super age
Claire Trevett (Herald): Jacinda Ardern threatens retaliation on Australia in second leaders' debate with Bill English
Tony Wright (Newshub): Leaders Debate: Fact checking the leaders
Katie Kenny and Andy Fyers (Stuff): Truth or fable? Fact-checking the second leaders debate
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: Do the leaders know?
Herald: Deaf community angry over networks' political debate interpreter refusal
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): A depressing debate
Jo Moir (Stuff): Bill English and Jacinda Ardern go head-to-head on policy in second leaders debate
RNZ: English and Ardern clash over NZ's big issues
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Where's the detail on Bill English's new poverty targets?
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern questions Bill English's poverty target
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Abortion law-change would come down to conscience vote - Jacinda Ardern
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern: Abortion 'shouldn't be a crime'
No Right Turn: Abortion is on the agenda
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Leaders debate: The greatest hits
David Slack (RNZ): Second leaders' debate: Pause for effect
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub leaders' debate: Early voting raises the stakes
Spinoff: The epic Spinoff leaders’ debate #2 drinking game
National attacks Labour’s spending plan
Ben Uffindell (The Civilian): Nation deeply divided over whether to put expected operating spending in categorised expenses row or operation allowances row
Richard Harman (Politik): Joyce looks like he may have got his sums wrong
Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): There is no hole in Labour’s fiscal plan
Hamish Rutherford (Stufff): Does Labour have an $11.7 billion hole or a poor choice of words?
Keith Ng (Spinoff): Is there really an $11 billion hole in Labour’s election plan?
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Fiscal criticism 'a cynical attempt to create a diversion' – Labour
Jo Moir (Stuff): Politically correct: Where's the fiscal hole?
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern jumps straight from the factory to fact checking
Claire Trevett (Herald): Labour denies National's claim of a $11.7 billion hole in Labour's books
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): National accuses Labour of $11.7b spending plan error, Labour says National got it wrong
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The $11.7 billion hole?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Joyce 1 Labour 0
National’s human rights controversy
Southland Times Editorial: Rights and wrong, wrong, wrongs.
Press Editorial: Human rights are for all, including gang members
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On scrapping the legal rights of gang members
Ben Thomas (Herald): Hard-pressed National tries well-worn bag of tricks
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Some People: Paula Bennett And National’s Tribal Instincts
Jono Hutchison (Spinoff): A conservative government already tried the ‘fewer human rights’ strategy. Spoiler: it did not go well
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Lawyers condemn Paula Bennett's 'fewer human rights' comments
Jo Moir (Stuff): NZ First's Shane Jones says National's sudden discovery of gangs is 'pathetic'
Carla Penman (Herald): Hardline policy likens gangs to terrorists, says Tribal Huk leader
Nicholas Jones (Herald): National Party deputy leader Paula Bennett apologises to Bill English
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Paula Bennett apologises for 'fewer human rights' comment
No Right Turn: Natonal opposes human rights
National
Newshub: National to boost elective surgery numbers
Isaac Davison (Herald): English promises more money for hip, knee and joint operations
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Government reannounces social housing announcement they already made 10 months ago
Newshub: Urban planning faces major overhaul
Laura Walters (Stuff): National wants new urban planning legislation
Dubby Henry (Herald): Watch: Protesters clash with Nick Smith, who claims rat poison rubbed on him
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Statue of Environment Minister with his pants down delivered to Canterbury regional council
Labour
RNZ: Labour would lift 100,000 children out of poverty by 2020 – Ardern
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Jacinda Ardern promises $2000 award for best students in vocational courses
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Labour announces $2000 award to each top secondary school trades student
Chris Trotter (Stuff): Comparisons to past Labour change-makers not so valid
Mike Yardley (Stuff): Labour and Ardern big on rhetoric, short on substance
Joe Higham (Critic): Opinion: The Wave of Optimism is Huge; that also Means There is Further to Fall
Greg Presland (Standard): The Jacinda Phenomenon
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): Where in the world is Andrew Little?
Kiwiblog: Guest Post: Labour’s Detailed 1970’s Industrial Relations Manifesto
Greens
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Finding clarity on the campaign trail - James and Annabel Shaw talk the highs and lows
Mei Heron (RNZ): James Shaw - Green Party
Newshub: Greens push value-added timber products
Election
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Media Get in Behind With Dog Whistlers, PR and Lobbyists
RNZ: Drawing the line of respect between journos and politicians
Vote 2017: Jacinda Ardern v Bill English - Who's ahead in the latest Herald election forecast?
Colin James (ODT): Changes afoot with younger parliament
Jenna Lynch and Max Molyneux (Newshub): What would it take to oust Winston Peters?
Claire Trevett (Herald): Ohariu a 'good old-fashioned' battle between National and Labour
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Palmerston North politicians at odds over meth, gang policies
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Kingswood Election Tour hits pay dirt on the West Coast
Max Towle, John Lake and Lucy Smith (RNZ): Beyond the Beehive: Christchurch
Oliver Lewis (Marlborough Express): Green Party candidate Dr Richard McCubbin on the campaign trail ... in Canada
Alan Duff (Herald): Don't believe pollies who 'save the poor'
Sue Allen (Stuff): Why voters should treat polls with a wary eye
Jade Kake (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Urban Development Authorities
Public Address: 2017 ICT Policy Election Special
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Exporters put forward their own election wish list
Housing
Isaac Davison (Herald): Vote 2017: What is each party promising on social housing?
Vivien Maidaborn (Stuff): Decision '17 - A Healthy Home For Every Child
Anne Gibson (Herald): How to solve Auckland's housing crisis: New report out
No Right Turn: This is not how you solve a homelessness crisis
No Right Turn: Sticking up for generation rent
Tom O'Connor (Waikato Times): Homelessness cannot be excused
Anne Gibson (Herald): Auckland house prices pick up by $10k pre-election
David Hargreaves (Interest): Latest figures suggest that the Auckland house building market is going to need a whole lot more than words and political posturing
Education
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Special education wait times 'appalling'
Lynda Stuart (Herald): Teachers will not buy into online national standards reporting
Health
Rob Hennin: We need to talk about rising health costs
Shabnam Dastgheib (Stuff): Low vaccination rates have left a lost generation exposed to mumps, measles and rubella
Stephen Selwood (ODT): Right to consider funding model
Other
Peter Aimer (Briefing Papers): MMP has come of age
Dave Armstrong (Spinoff): Confessions of a comedy writer who spent six weeks covering an election campaign
The Conversation: New Zealand’s fisheries quota management system: on an undeserved pedestal
No Right Turn: Climate change: Half a billion dollars a year
Alexander Gillespie (Stuff): Bennett misses opportunity to hunt down dangerous firearms
Stuff: Where is the biggest pool of underutilised workers in NZ?
Stanley Foote (Stuff): Amid the controversy, let's remember the real heroes of Afghanistan