NZ Politics Daily - 10 September 2017
10 September 2017
Today's content
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Election
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Pundits with skin in the campaign game
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Millionaires fight to decide government in last-minute bidding war
Mark Boyd (Stuff): Debates put leaders in the spotlight, voters crowd for a look
1News: 1 NEWS' multi-party leaders debate viewed by nearly a million TV viewers
Alex Tarrant (Interest): Labour is now in a position of choice. The ball is in National’s court to respond
Toby Manhire (Stuff): Fiscal hole, meet shitsville poll
Isaac Davison (Herald): Exercise and media blackouts - how Ardern and English cope with the campaign
Labour
Herald on Sunday editorial: Don't leave voters guessing, Jacinda
Jack Tame (Herald): Labour taking a risky stance with tax policy
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Time for election scrutiny, not starry eyes
Hamish Fletcher (Herald): Why Labour's rental plans are good for landlords
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Move over John Key, Jacinda Ardern is the new smiling assassin
Rodney Hide (Herald): Jacinda Ardern's abortion view jarring
Josie Pagani (State of the Left): It’s the leader, stupid
Heeni Brown (Māori TV): Māori students split on 'Ardern Effect'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Labour’s CGT will include your family home – eventually
National
Jo Moir (Stuff): National to double Home Start Grant for existing houses
Newshub: National promises to double first-home buyer grants
RNZ: National pledge to add $10k to HomeStart
Herald: National announces plan to double its Home Start grant for first home buyers
Jonathan Milne(Stuff): Finance minister devalues the word 'sorry' further than he ever lowered the NZ dollar
David Slack (Stuff): Steven, Jacinda and a fiscal hole of biblical proportions
Damien Grant (Stuff): National's drug crackdown delusional as a bad LSD trip
Laura Walters (Stuff): Bill English is putting everything into squeezing every last vote from rural NZ
Newshub: Bill English announces new funding for churches
Nicholas Jones (Herald): New promo video aims to show new side to Bill English
Callum McGillivray (Stuff): Auckland school responds to Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett's claim of infiltration by Head Hunters, drugs
RNZ: Four new charter schools announced by gov
Greg Presland (Standard): After nine long years National discovers there is child poverty in New Zealand
Electorates
Liz McDonald, Sam Kilmister, Helen King and Liu Chen (Stuff): Real NZ survey: Rural New Zealand feels forgotten as leaders vie for city votes
Rawiri Taonui (The Conversation): New Zealand elections: Māori seats once again focus of debate
Heeni Brown (Māori TV): Taurima says Water rights similar to Foreshore and Seabed rights
Bay of Plenty Times:Street survey shows little between National and Labour
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Helensville 'struggling' with rising cost of housing and poverty
Newshub: National new Clutha-Southland candidate Hamish Walker slides onto the campaign trail
Policy comparisons
1News: Election policy comparison - transport: What the major political parties will do for you
Charlotte Austin (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Relationship Testing for Benefits
AJ Macfarlane (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Infrastructure
Jack Robinson (The Co-op): A Policy A Day: Software Patents
NZ First
TVNZ: 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll: Kiwis want NZ First to go with Labour, not National
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters criticises Labour on tax stance, suggests North Korea stint for media
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Winston Peters promises 'new generation' SuperGold card
Mei Heron (RNZ): Peters wants Gold Card to go high tech
Stuff: Make the SuperGold card a debit card, New Zealand First says
Anna Rankin (Newshub): Winston Peters promises a next-gen Gold Card
Curwen Ares Rolinson (Daily Blog): A “Rumour” For Ron Shows The Race Is On In The Wairarapa
Damian LIght
Jared Savage (Herald): NZ's 'Ryan Gosling' Damian Light proud to be first gay leader of political party in New Zealand
TVNZ: Meet United Future's Damian Light, the star of the 1 NEWS multi-party debate, and his boyfriend
TOP
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Gareth Morgan and TOP want a dirty deal in Ōhāriu
Sam Price and Tom Peters (World socialist website): New Zealand: The right-wing politics of the Opportunities Party
Greens
Dan Satherley and Lucy Warhurst (Newshub): Greens promise to make 'free range' mean exactly that
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Greens: we'll end 'wild west' free range labeling
Housing
Rob Stock (Stuff): Ardern v English: Leaders' house price claims face credibility claims
Paul Little (Herald): Dickensian conditions prevail
Hamish Fletcher (Herald): Why Labour’s rental plans are good for landlords
Mental health
Herald: Suicide awareness campaign arrives at Parliament
Stuff: 606 pairs of shoes arrive at Parliament, as radio hosts open up about suicide
Health
Vivien Maidaborn (Stuff): This breathtakingly bad health stat should be part of your election decision
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Hospital reviews patient discharge advice after pensioner's death
Heather Roy (One sock): If I was Minister of Health…
Welfare
Reesh Lyon (RNZ): Beneficiary advocates slam WINZ
RNZ: WINZ staff accused of withholding entitlements
Lisa Owen and Anna Rankin (Newshub): WINZ creating 'two classes' of Kiwis - Labour
Memorials
Stuff: Justice 'needed' over memorial of colonial commander who led attacks in NZ Wars
Maria Slade (Noted): Marmaduke Nixon's statue isn't the problem, it's how we overlook Maori history
Gender
Alice Snedden (Stuff): The time to reform abortion law is now
Deepa Fonseka (Stuff): Women of Influence: Women's sport stuck in the 80s, says Susan Devoy
Stuff: Diversity summit aims for action
Media Take: Role models for women in politics
Donal Curtin (Economics NZ): Competition is good for women's pay
Other
Gemma Coombe (Newshub): State child abuse: Government accused of being 'part of a cover-up'
David Fisher (Herald): Our prisons are running out of room so Corrections is now helping inmates get bail
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): OIA stats
Hamish McNicol (Stuff): Front-footing contested tax positions inevitable in New Zealand, expert says
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Google Maps wants public's help to master Māori place names
Mike Mather (Stuff): Judge's broadside against police and court over information breakdown
No Right Turn: "Security reasons"
Jeremy Olds (Stuff): Pro-life activists claim free speech is under attack
Shani Williams (Stuff): New Zealand's inequality must change, Children's Commissioner says
John McCrone (Stuff): Can Canterbury afford to wait for ECan's water improvement strategy to work?