NZ Politics Daily - 6 September 2017
6 September 2017
Today's content
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National’s fiscal hole allegations
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On National’s fake news onslaught
Audrey Young (Herald): Steven Joyce makes a poor choice
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Desperate and dangerous times on the campaign trail
Mark Sainsbury (Newshub): Steven Joyce and the truth about bad-boyfriend politicians
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Voters' choice becoming clear as poll looms
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Politically Correct: The deadly serious numbers game
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): It’s arithmetic, stupid!
Laura Walters (Stuff): Which side of the fiscal hole debate are experts standing on?
Simon Wilson (Spinoff): The critical questions raised by Steven Joyce’s missing billions fiasco
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): War of words needs the numbers
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Thoughts prompted by Joyce vs Robertson
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Labour calls for an apology but National continues fiscal attack
Audrey Yoiung (Herald): An '$11 billion hole': Expert analysis of Labour's fiscal plan after Steven Joyce called it a 'fiscal hole'
Corin Dann (TVNZ): 'He is looking very alone tonight' - five leading economists dismiss Steven Joyce's claim Labour has $11.7 billion hole in fiscal plan
RNZ: National's fiscal claims 'pure fiction' – economists
Duncan Greive (Spinoff): The $11.7 billion question: Steven Joyce and Grant Robertson can’t both be right
Ella Prendergast (Newshub): Steven Joyce standing by $11.7b 'fiscal hole' claim
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Read what else the economists said
Herald: Finance Minister Steven Joyce confirms he dropped out of uni economics papers
National
Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Newsroom): An acute case of tunnel vision
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Consider the National Party madness that has been exposed in this election
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Men in suits scariest gang of all
Brian Rudman (Herald): Meth war lost but fight carries on
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): National's promise labelled 'bizarre'
Rebekah Parsons-King and Ian Telfer (RNZ): Would Bill English really swim in the Oreti River now?
Stuff: Helen Clark weighs in on National's Waterview Tunnel comments
Herald: Helen Clark tackles National on Twitter
Newshub: Helen Clark squares off with National on Twitter
Leaders debates
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Leaders debates: Very few votes change, but do they still matter?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Political debates are the most popular shows on TV right now
Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): The art of prime ministerial bullshit
Brian Edwards: Thoughts on the Newshub Debate
Newshub: Decision 17: Who won the Leaders Debate?
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: Fiscal holes and child poverty
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: Do the leaders know?
Newshub: Leaders Debate: Decoding the body language
Spinoff: Debating which of the leaders’ debates was the best debate
TOP exclusion from leaders debate
Claire Trevett (Herald): Gareth Morgan set to go to High Court to get The Opportunities Party in Friday's debate
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Is Gareth Morgan different from the rest, or just one more?
Mike Hosking (Herald): Rules are rules Gareth Morgan
RNZ: TOP to challenge exclusion from leaders' debate – reports
RNZ: 'How come these guys can get in and we can't?'
Child poverty
Jonathan Boston (Stuff): Finally, after a poverty of debate, parties commit
Dominion Post Editorial: Poor are the biggest losers in high-stakes political game
NZ Herald editorial: Child poverty is not fixed by numbers
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Surprise! National can measure child poverty after all. Now comes the hard part
Vivien Maidaborn (Stuff): Discussion on child poverty a positive step for New Zealand
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Minor parties wade into child poverty debate
Abortion
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern pledges to decriminalise abortion
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Ardern's pledge to decriminalise abortion sparks controversy
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Jacinda pledges abortion law change
Tax
Claire Trevett (Herald): Election policies: Swords flash in tax battle
Greens
Heta Gardiner (Māori TV): Labour, Greens, Māori Party it would be my dream coalition - James Shaw
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): James Shaw 'loves' Metiria Turei's response to benefit fraud
Election
Mark Geenty (Stuff): Voting with sport in mind: NZ's political party positions
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): What's real and what's Monopoly money
Katarina Williams (Stuff): The election fines cops aren't handing out
Giles Dexter (Stuff): Election debate a cut above at Wellington hairdresser
Herald: National Business Review deletes controversial tweets after political debate
Labour
Steve Maharey (Herald): A Jacinda train is coming but where is it going
The Standard: I will resign before raising Super beyond 65
Deborah Coddington (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern's biggest fans might end up harming her cause
International coverage of NZ election
James Pasley (Stuff): Wall Street Journal compares Labour leader Jacinda Ardern to Donald Trump
Isabella Kwai (New York Times): New Zealand’s Election Had Been Predictable. Then ‘Jacindamania’ Hit.
Guardian: Why Jacinda Ardern could be the world's next 'rock-star' politician – video
Campaign trail
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Jacinda Ardern reveals her talent for metalwork
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English hits Wairarapa with spring in his step
Jo Moir (Stuff): Bill English on the campaign trail: 'Labour does not own compassion'
Electorates
Richard Harman (Politik): The politics of affluence
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Key election battlegrounds: Canterbury heats up
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): National 'best for business' say voters who want stability
Other
Karl du Fresne (Stuff): There's a push to silence conservative viewpoints
Herald: Heather du Plessis-Allan's new role on Newstalk ZB revealed
Stu Hunt (Stuff): Enjoying the view from both sides of the fence
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Scenes of triumphal joy as Gerry Brownlee declares EQC a roaring success
Guy Marriage (Newsroom): The ugly truth about our housing crisis
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): NZIER, Treasury don’t see eye to eye
Nadine Higgins (Stuff): Dinner party conversation in 1987? Shares, not house prices
Gehan Gunasekara (Newsroom): Privacy legislation for the modern age