NZ Politics Daily - 8 September 2017
8 September 2017
Today's content
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Combined polls
Colin James (RNZ): Labour a nose ahead of National on the averages
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll
Patrick Leyland (Progress Report): Election Forecast updated – and what Parliament would look like
1News Colmar Brunton Poll
TVNZ: New Poll: Labour widens lead over National to 4 points in latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll
Henry Cooke (Stuff): National drops to 39 in new bombshell poll, Labour remains ahead
Herald: Latest poll: Labour ahead, National falls to lowest level since 2005
Newshub: Labour widens lead over National in new poll
RNZ: Labour holds the lead in latest poll
Newshub: Labour widens lead over National in new poll
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour could form a government with either New Zealand First, or with the Greens and Maori Party; Stuff leaders' debate in Christchurch
Stuff Leaders debate
Vernon Small (Stuff): Bill English holds his own in even debate, after another polling blow
Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Leaders debate: What's most important for Christchurch?
Jamie Small and Julian Lee (Stuff): Crowd on fence over Stuff Leaders Debate winner
Katie Kenny (Stuff): Stuff Leaders Debate: Jacinda Ardern wins with our pundits
Michael Wright and Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): Bill English and Jacinda Ardern provide feistiest exchange yet at Stuff Leaders Debate
Maddison Northcott (Stuff): Bill English and Jacinda Ardern's top 10 quotes in Stuff Leaders Debate
Stuff: Politically Correct: Cheers and jeers as the leaders test their mettle
Andy Fyers and Katie Kenny (Stuff): Truth or fable: We fact-check the Stuff Leaders Debate
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Mind the generation gap as new poll arrives
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Ardern 'stardust' becoming sandstorm for English
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Leaders trade blows in feisty third debate
Isaac Davison (Herald): Bill English on defensive at fiery leaders' debate after another bad poll
Duncan Greive (The Spinoff): The money fight: Ardern lights up English in Christchurch
Ben Thomas (The Spinoff): Counterpunch: why Bill English won the Stuff Leaders Debate
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): ‘This stardust won’t settle’
Susan Strongman (RNZ): 'Stardust' and learning from Winston: the debate zingers
David Slack (RNZ): Town hall audience a true barometer in third debate
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Jibes and japes: debate reaction on social media
Stuff: Bill English's new attack: Jacinda 'Stardust' Ardern
Election debates
TVNZ: Corin Dann to moderate Friday's 1 NEWS Multi Party debate with Mike Hosking sick
Claire Trevett: Debate debacle - has Winston Peters done himself any favours?
Ella Predergast (Newshub): Winston Peters pulls out of minor parties debate
Newshub: Minor parties debate 'a farce' - Gareth Morgan
Herald: TVNZ debate woes: Mike Hosking sick, NZ First leader Winston Peters pulls out
Herald: Mike Hosking will not moderate tomorrow night's TVNZ multi-party debate
Stuff: Mike Hosking too unwell to host TVNZ's second debate
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Why haven't they talked about climate change during the leaders debates?
RNZ: Shaw, Fox and Seymour debate policies - over cake
Herald: What people were thinking during the leaders' debate
TOP ruled out of TVNZ debate
Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): Gareth Morgan won’t be on the TVNZ debate tonight. Did the courts get it right
TVNZ: TOP's Gareth Morgan says town hall meeting attendees walk out 'thinking they've seen Jesus'
Sam Hurley (Herald): Gareth Morgan v TVNZ: TOP leader loses High Court argument over debate
Tommy Livingston and Henry Cooke (Stuff): High Court rules TVNZ in the right to not allow Gareth Morgan's TOP in debate
Newshub: The Opportunities Party won't be in TVNZ debate, court rules
Sam Hurley (Herald): Gareth Morgan v TVNZ: High Court argument over debate
Tom Sainsbury (Spinoff): Kiwis of Snapchat: Gareth Morgan, TOP leader
National
Toby Manhire (Herald): Who wants to buy a hole?
Jon Johansson (RNZ): Can National overcome the three-term curse?
Anthony Robins (Standard): Three dirty hits – three epic fails
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Why Steven Joyce’s $11b budget hole is a climate deniers spin attack straight out of Crosby Textor playbook
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Steven Joyce's 'big fat lie' has backfired - Kelvin Davis
National on the campaign trail
Herald: National Party billboard taken down
Herald: Election 2017: Busy day for Bill English on campaign trail
Claire Trevett (Herald): Nicky Wagner provides bodyguard duties for Bill English on election trail
Jack Fletcher and Michael Hayward (Stuff): Animal rights protesters disrupt PM Bill English's Christchurch visit
Newshub: MP Nicky Wagner takes out protester who rushed at Bill English
No Right Turn: Nicky Wagner assaults a protestor
Katy Jones (Stuff): Nelson protester Rose Renton explains why she rubbed rat poison on Nick Smith
Herald: Protester Rose Renton: 'No harm intended' by rat poison stunt
Katy Jones (Stuff): Video shows poison drop protesters clashing with Nick Smith
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): National launches Nelson election campaign
Claire Trevett (Herald): Bill English back in familiar territory
Act
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): National gives Act a free pass in Epsom
Clare de Lore (Listener): Act leader David Seymour on drama, politics and staying cool
Labour
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Capital gains tax only for 'select group of fortunate New Zealanders' – Davis
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour has 'clarified' that any land tax that may or may not be recommended by its Tax Working Group, won't be allowed to apply to land under the family home
David Hay: Taxing the family home
Luke Malpass (Australia Financial Review): NZ Labour won't hike company tax rate
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): More Labour tax confusion
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): Stock Takes: Election winners and losers
Jimmy Ellingham (Stuff): Politicians cynically ignore the experts on retirement’
Samantha Motion (Bay of Plenty Times): Andrew Little on Jacinda Ardern's rapid rise
Luke Malpass (Australia Financial Review): Can NZ Labour's 'Jacindamania' momentum hold or has it peaked?
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Jacindamania spreads as Jeremy Corbyn urges New Zealand's Ardern to 'do it for us'
Steven Cowan (Against the current): The non-threatening Jacinda Ardern
Labour on the campaign trail
Ben Bathgate (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern unveils forestry hub plans in Rotorua
Tess Nichol (Herald): Rotorua mayor, industry welcome Labour's forestry pledge
Tess Nichol (Herald): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern visits Rotorua
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Labour leader Jacinda Ardern bumps into her cousin at Grey Power meeting
Elton Rikihana-Smallman (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern talks up rail in Waikato
Māori electorates
Jon Stokes (Herald): Labour's Maori MPs will not allow a coalition with Maori Party
Breanna Barraclough (Newshub): Hone Harawira dismisses 'freedom of choice' as 'white people bullsh*t
Māori Party
Richard Harman (Politik): Why the Maori Party would stop National forming a Government
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Maori Party allege Chuang behind smear campaign
Lincoln Tan (Herald): Maori Party stands by candidate, blames 'smear campaign' on ex-mayor's mistress
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Māori Party defends sending messages with virtual money
Craig Hoyle (Stuff): Māori Party on defensive over claims its candidate bribed Chinese voters
Newshub: Māori Party candidate Wetex Kang victim of 'smear campaign
Greens
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): The Greens and nitrate tax: ‘we want farmers to thrive’
Tom Sainsbury (Spinoff): Kiwis of Snapchat: Robin McCandless, Green Party candidate
NZ First
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Peters dismisses 'junk science' polls
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters accuses Labour of stealing his party's policy to re-establish the NZ Forestry Service
TVNZ: 'It's one thing to steal policies' - Winston Peters blasts Labour's wood policy as dishonest
Oliver Lewis (Marlborough Express): New Zealand First leader Winston Peters bemoans 'Wellington neglect' for Marlborough
Jo Moir (Stuff): Winston Peters would apologise to Australia for past wrongs by New Zealand
David Fisher (Herald): Winston Peters punts revamped Super Gold Card with treats that will cost taxpayers little
Mark Keating (Dominion Post): Could IRD finally get its revenge on Winston Peters?
Kiri Gillespie (Bay of Plenty Times): Winston Peters targeted by 'funny' vandals
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Don Brash says Winston Peters the best chance of 'ending National's race-based policies'
Electorate contests
Herald: National candidate Katrina Bungard 'bullied' over disabled car park use
Alister Browne (Manawatu Standard): National has only held the Palmerston North seat once in 50 years
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): Hospital services struggling to keep up, say candidates
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): Economy and environment undeniably linked in rural Rangitikei
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Battleground: Who will be Whanganui's new MP?
Shane Cowlishaw (Newsroom): The war for the Wairarapa
Paul Mitchell (Stuff): Labour and National candidates battle for Wairarapa in two-horse race, according to Labour poll
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Mussel capital torn between Labour and National
Tess Nichol (Herald): Could Rotorua end up with four MPs?
TVNZ: Watch: Labour's Tamati Coffey punk'd by NZ First bus' drive-by toot as he tries to rouse supporters
Oliver Lewis (Marlborough Express): New Zealand First candidate Jamie Arbuckle says Marlborough has 'had enough'
Kymberlee Fernandes (Manakau Courier): Election 2017: Youth share concerns with Manurewa candidates
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Electorate boundary changes causing frustration in Auckland
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Ngaro, Twyford don't want recreational cannabis – but have smoked it
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Ngaro and Twyford butt heads over housing
Torika Tokalau (Stuff): Independent Te Atatu candidate stands in election despite any chance of winning
Nicki Harper (Hawke’s Bay Today): Battleground: Close race in Tukituki
Herald: Local Focus: Tukituki Candidates - What is the pressing need in Tukituki?
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Meet Chris Penk - the man who's running for the seat John Key left behind
Policy comparisons
TVNZ: Election policy comparison - immigration: What the major political parties will do for you
Simon Thomas (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Universal Basic Income
Bhen Goodsir (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Funding Sanitary Products
Herald: Vote 2017: The Big Issues - watch a rundown of the two big parties' transport policies
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Our stunning policy comparison tool just got more stunning
Welfare
Southland Times Editorial: Helping hands (and backhands)
Jacob McSweeny (RNZ): National pledges to slash benefits for drug use
Lynn Grieveson (Newsroom): Metiria Turei’s dream may yet be realised
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Language, poverty and conquering a childhood stutter
Michael O'Brien (Newsroom): Social investment alone won’t cure troubled lives
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Morgan Foundation): Why Does No-one Understand Social Investment? Not Even Bill English
Nick Wells (Spinoff): A perfect fit: How iwi investment in social enterprise could be good for all of us
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Internet access a 'stepping stone' out of poverty
Health
Jack Fletcher and Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Hospital staff dump Christchurch man Neil Jones at bus stop in 'appalling' failure of care
Amy Wiggins (Herald): Man dies after doctor orders him to be kicked out of hospital
Mike Dinsdale (Northern Advocate): Northland District Health Board underfunded by almost $30m – CEO
RNZ: Fact or Fiction: Which health claims are quackery?
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Board member calls for New Zealand's district health boards to be reduced by half
Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): Social worker gagged by health board
Stuff: Ageing population makes access to elective surgery more important – National
RNZ: National promises elective surgery boost
Jess McAllen (RNZ): What the first person to lead the Mental Health Commission says about fixing the system
Housing
Eva Corlett (RNZ): State house wait list leaves boarding house tenants languishing
RNZ: Growing up in a boarding house: 'We just want a house to be normal'
No Right Turn: National's New Zealand
Brian Fallow (Herald): Home building hits a roadblock
Climate change
Press Editorial: Leaked report reveals $19b risk from climate change
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Labour wants net zero carbon emissions by 2050
TVNZ: Labour's climate promises include government electric cars, Climate Commission
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour unveils climate change policy: All sectors to pay for emissions
No Right Turn: Labour on climate change
Margot Taylor (ODT): Parties' climate policies run the gamut
Election
Karl du Fresne (Dominion Post): When journalists take sides, democracy's in danger
Brad Flahive (Stuff): How to vote in the 2017 NZ election: All the tips and tricks you need to be wary of
Listener Editorial: Why you should crisis-proof your vote
Kirk Hope (Stuff): Election should focus on systemic policy rather than personality
Julie Hill (Noted): Jack Tame wants to use his Hoskingian-level platform to get young people to vote
Heather Roy: There’s a Youthquake, Really?
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Marijuana advocates 'spoilt for choice' this election
Water
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Public, politicians divided over water tax
Sally McKechnie and Charlotte Coyle (Simpson Grier): Dammed if you do? Water at the 2017 Election
Abortion
Margaret Sparrow (Spinoff): Abortion is not a crime: 16 reasons to change the law
NZ-Australia relationship
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern promises retaliation to Australia, Bill English says that's 'pretty silly'
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Aussie access to welfare would not change, says Ardern
NZ in Afghanistan
Eugene Bingham, Paula Penfold and Toby Longbottom (Stuff): The NZ Defence Force manipulated the Battle of Baghak video
No Right Turn: NZDF lied to us
Employment
Eva Corlett (RNZ): Thousands seeking help over employment breaches
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Job options limited when you're 60 and disabled
Stuff: Which Kiwis aren't seeking work?
Stuff: How many Kiwis are underutilised?
Donald McIntyre (Stuff): New Zealand agriculture needs the right workers
Carmen Hall (Bay of Plenty Times): More people move off the dole into work – report
Simon Pound (Spinoff): If you think your organisation doesn’t have a gender pay gap, you’re probably wrong
No Right turn: Time for pay equity
Education
Isaac Davison (Herald): Labour candidate Willie Jackson benefits from new round of charter schools
Other
No Right Turn: OIA statistics
John Drinnan (Herald): TVNZ sure cost won't repeat
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Fathers and their youthful follies
Zaryd Wilson (Wanganui Chronicle): Whanganui River representatives appointed
Farah Hancock (Newsroom): South Auckland’s uncomfortable memorial