NZ Politics Daily: 21 October 2024
ANDREW BAYLY
Andrea Vance (Post): Harmless bants, or the National party telling us exactly who it is? (paywalled)
Adam Pearse, Claire Trevett, Julia Gabel (Herald): Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for interaction during company visit
RNZ: National Minister Andrew Bayly apologises for telling person to 'f*** off'
Felix Desmarais (1News): Minister sorry after calling worker 'loser', allegedly saying to 'f*** off'
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Andrew Bayly apologises after person claims they were called a 'loser’, told to ‘f... off’
Brent Edwards (NBR): ’Take some wine and f*** off’: Andrew Bayly complaint made (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Worker who complained about Andrew Bayly contacted Opposition parties
Thomas Manch (Post): Andrew Bayly apologises for telling worker to ‘take some wine and f... off’ during business visit (paywalled)
No Right Turn: What National thinks of us
RMA, FAST-TRACK, ENVIRONMENT
Farah Hancock, (RNZ): The coalition's very big legal change to the Resource Management Act that very little - so far - is known about
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Freshwater reform strategy ‘not ideal’ – but Bishop’s comfortable
Martin Garcia, April Bennett, Matt Henry & Imran Muhammad (Post): The gaps that still need to be closed in fast-track planning bill (paywalled)
Kate Green (RNZ): New fast-track bill criteria still 'heavily weighted against environment' - critic
Elizabeth Macpherson and Rachael Mortiaux (E-Tangata): Fast-track to Māori exclusion
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Select committee recommends Fast Track bill proceeds (paywalled)
Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Mãori News): Iwi leaders slam Potaka‘s ’weak’ justification for continued commercial fishing of Hauraki protected areas
Simon Thrush and Conrad Pilditch (Newsroom): Beware the snags in Hauraki Gulf protections
Andrew Jeffs (Newsroom): A cry for kelp – our kelp forests are in deep trouble
GREENS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The Greens have saved their membership, now what about the voters (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Green letter day for Darleen Tana
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Time for the Green Party to get ‘back on track’
RNZ: Green's Chlöe Swarbrick on Darleen Tana and the party's 'trying' year
ODT Editorial: Hopes Tana drama nearly over (paywalled)
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Mãori News): Metiria Turei played part in the Greens hui to eject Darleen Tana
Jason Walls (Newstalk ZB): Will the Darleen Tana saga hit the Greens in the polls?
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): What do we expect our politicians to do?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Darleen Tana wants more time after Greens vote to waka-jump her
Michael Daly (Stuff): Tana wants Greens to wait until after court of appeal application before moving ahead on waka jumping
Herald: Who is Darleen Tana – and why she might go down in NZ political history
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Darleen Tana
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): What will the Greens do on Darleen Day?
Audrey Young (Herald): Metiria Turei emerges from obscurity – with a new book on the Treaty of Waitangi (paywalled)
PARLIAMENT
Maiki Sherman (1News): Poll snapshots paint mixed picture for parties
Grant Duncan: Will the Labour/National duopoly ever end?
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: The art of the ministerial statement
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Te Pāti Māori calls for Winston Peters to be censured for comment in House
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Mãori News): Te Pāti Māori seeks action on Winston Peters’ ‘racist’ remarks
Poppy Clark (Stuff): ‘They are a bunch of coward bully boys’, Winston Peters lashes out at Te Pāti Māori
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Plain speaking, especially after rain falls mainly on the plain (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Crown limos clock hundreds of kilometres in ghost trips
Andrea Vance (Post): Fight to save the ‘temple of Labour’ (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Schoolboy antics, CPI drop, problems at council, and redundancies (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): Meet Parliament’s canine constituents (paywalled)
Tony Astle: John Key always welcome, Helen Clark never
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PUBLIC SERVICE, GOVT APPOINTMENTS
Azaria Howell & Chris Knox (Herald): Public sector pay: Ministry for Regulation among highest earners as pay jumps across the board (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Sir Brian Roche says the public service needs to ‘simplify’ (paywalled)
Jamie Morton (Herald): Prime Minister’s chief science adviser: Uncertainty looms over future of NZ’s influential chief scientist role
David Farrar: Which ethnicities are over and under represented in the public service?
David Farrar: We still have more public servants than a year ago
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Mãori News): EX-NZ First MP appointed chair of New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute
Rotorua Daily Post: Fletcher Tabuteau new chairman of the Te Puia New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Board in Rotorua
John Anthony (BusinessDesk): NZ On Air gets two new board members (paywalled)
John Farrow (ODT): Back-to-work dictate comes amid changes in workers’ priorities
HEALTH
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Health NZ managers ate $9000 of canapés as financial crisis loomed
Rachel Thomas (Post): Public hospitals with private money: pragmatism or stealthy privatisation? (paywalled)
Art Nahill and Maple Goh (Herald): Can New Zealand have a world-class health system? Eight steps that need to be taken (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Healthcare Is Not In Crisis; Financing It Is.
Grant Miller (ODT): ‘Shambles’ predicted if budget not increased
Grant Miller (ODT): Decision on road changes now in 2025 (paywalled)
Max Rashbrooke (Post): Manufactured crisis over ACC ignores the bigger picture (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): ACC is in desperate need of treatment
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): On the whole, I think ACC's still working
Rod Jackson (E-Tangata): Just being a tiny bit racist is enough
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Government's colourblind directive an 'attack on science and public health advice' - expert
Public Health Coalition Aotearoa: Calling for action on suicide prevention in Aotearoa
Rachel Thomas (Post): A shameful legacy: call to make suicide prevention ‘an everybody issue’ (paywalled)
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): I Am Hope chair Naomi Ballantyne resigns after helping charity ‘navigate’ $24m funding process
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): This Government has thrown health officials under the bus
RNZ: Language directive a 'lurch back in time' - health professor
Sam Olley (1News): Fears growing number of cannabis clinics could put profit over patients
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Cannabis clinic setting up in NZ after suspensions across Tasman
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Middle-aged cancer patients urge Pharmac rethink
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Pandemics need ‘national security’ response (paywalled)
Jamie Morton (Herald): New Zealand-first study: ChatGPT-like AI can correctly forecast hospital flu surges (paywalled)
ECONOMY
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Crouching Kiwi, hidden tax breaks (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): Top seven things to worry about now inflation has been beaten
Luke Malpass (Post): Nicola Willis: Inflation vindication; impatient for growth (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): When will ‘greenshoots of economic recovery’ reach our wallets? (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Should you stay or go? (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Official Cash Rate cuts: The Reserve Bank knows it has stuffed up inflation handling (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Why a capital gains tax is pointless (paywalled)
EMPLOYMENT, BENEFIT SANCTIONS
Sophie Trigger (Herald): MSD officials advised minister Louise Upston that payment card sanctions for beneficiaries can be ‘stigmatising’
RNZ: Increased Jobseeker sanctions not helpful in tough job market - advocate
Amy Williams (RNZ): Number of benefits cut more than doubles in a year
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Workers’ rights are being eroded (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Job ads decline 29% year-on-year, according to Seek NZ
RNZ: Job ads, applications both drop: 'It's still a pretty subdued market'
Dita De Boni (Post): Māori and Pasifika women working for ‘free’ for the rest of the year from today (paywalled)
TREATY OF WAITANGI, CROWN-MÃORI RELATIONS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Warning of legal battles, damage to relationship over Treaty clauses review
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Act’s David Seymour: Nicole McKee, Karen Chhour and him seen as ‘bad Māori’
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Anti-Treaty Principles Bill group releases comedy video of 1970s New Zealand to poke fun at David Seymour’s legislation
Herald Editorial: Māori culture – a national pride or national inconvenience? (paywalled)
WELLINGTON
Tracy Watkins (SST): Ideology, infighting - how WCC dug a hole for itself (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): The anarchy and ineptitude of Wellington City Council on full display (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. the Battle of Wellington
Tom Hunt (Post): Up to $333-a-month water bill coming down the Wellington pipeline
Harriet Laughton (Post): Clock ticking for Wellington council to decide on water reform options (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post): Wellington councillors’ pet projects: Will they budge? (paywalled)
Good Ideas: On Wellington City Council, and the dangers of mistaking disagreement for dysfunction (paywalled)
Imogen Wells (Stuff): New York transformed itself - so Wellington can too, says Ngāti Toa CEO
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Wellington at risk of losing ‘Culture Capital’ status, warns hospo entrepreneur
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Wellington City Council Thorndon Quay roadworks coincide with school exams, Queen Margaret College appalled
Michael Daly (Stuff): Looming roadworks could ‘destroy’ this Wellington hotspot, hospo bosses say
Ryan Anderson (Stuff): Wellington construction forces temporary closure of another business
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1News: Q+A: Nelson Mayor Nick Smith makes the case for four-year terms
Thomas Manch (Post): Govt’s wasteful spending claims ‘misleading’ - Greens (paywalled)
Matthew Rosenberg (Local Democracy Reporting): Nobby Clark breaches most expensive in recent times
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Several candidates lag on financial returns after Tauranga by-electioncc
Victoria Carter (BusinessDesk): Fail File: Jim Boult, businessman, ex-mayor (paywalled)
INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Monopoly Man: Shane Jones backs Regional Infrastructure Fund cash to get provinces past Go!
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Shane Jones, prince of the provinces, looks to the big wide world
Julia Gabel (Herald): Public Works Act review completed, minister mulling next steps
Thomas Manch (Post): Government signals coming changes to land-acquiring Public Works Act (paywalled)
Cameron Smith (Herald): New Zealand ranks last for infrastructure delivery in global survey (paywalled)
Nick Leggett (SST): Innovative infrastructure: The key to New Zealand’s future (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Auckland may run out of money to implement congestion charging
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Auckland Transport accused of ‘marking its own homework’ in speed reduction evaluations (paywalled)
Lee Scanlon (Westport News): Transport Agency takes action against Buller District Council
Vernon Small (Post): How cycle lanes sparked a culture war (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): NZ cycleways: Blood on the Government’s hands? Or just in line with public opinion?
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Bluebridge Connemara lost power in Cook Strait due to fuel contamination
Brent Melville (NBR): Interislander system glitch fix on backburner (paywalled)
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): Shane Jones calls letter from Hamilton Airport unprofessional, odd
Maree Mahony (RNZ): Airline boss blasts government over lack of support in wake of axed service
RNZ: Fuel costs, exchange rate blamed as Sounds Air pulls plug on capital to Westport flights
RNZ: New Originair flights between Westport and Wellington aim to build business, tourism
RNZ: Air New Zealand bomb scare: Passenger recounts ordeal on board
Rachel Moore (Stuff): The Hamilton street with 10 crossings in 350m
Matthew Hansen (Stuff): Opinion: Is NZ falling behind in the electric car priority queue?
Herald Editorial: Privitisation might not be a dirty word for our airport security (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Turning pine slash into fuel: The promise of a local $600m marine biofuel industry (paywalled)
MANAWANUI SINKING
RNZ: Anger among affected communities as Samoa suspends Manawanui ship clean up for CHOGM
RNZ: Manawanui clean-up on hold for Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting
Michael Daly (Stuff): Fish smelling like oil after Navy ship sinks in Samoa
Susana Lei’ataua (RNZ): HMNZS Manawanui: 'Challenging' salvage efforts underway after Navy ship sank
George Block (Herald): HMNZS Manawanui: New details emerge of rescue of Kiwi sailors and passengers by Malaysian ship as questions remain over grounding
Michelle Duff and Lanuola Tupufia (Guardian): A sunken timebomb? Samoa fears long-lasting damage from wrecked New Zealand navy ship
Herald: HMNZS Manawanui sinking: New Zealand, Samoan crews salvage empty shipping container from nearby reefs
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Exclusive: Taiwanese Foreign Minister keen to “participate” in Aukus pillar 2 (paywalled)
Talaia Mika (RNZ): Cooks PM assures new passport won’t affect constitutional ties with New Zealand
Paula Penfold (Stuff): A Stuff investigation: Is the CCP suppressing protest in New Zealand?
Julia Fehrer, Christina Stringer, Sunny Kareem and Timofey Shalpegin (The Conversation): Can NZ’s supply chain build enough resilience and sustainability to survive next global crisis?
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Rocket Lab faithful back in the money as shares rise above issue price (paywalled)
IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT WORKERS
Gill Bonnett (RNZ): Stanford looks to trusted employers to help unblock work visas logjam
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Security guards at All Blacks game were supposed to be forestry workers
Greg Ninness (Interest): About 15,000 work visas & 5000 residence visas being approved monthly
Shilpy Arora (Stuff):‘Struggling’ migrant mum fears deportation after losing husband in crash
Jacques Steenkamp (BusinessDesk): NZ citizenship: an 18-month wait from hell (paywalled)
JUSTICE, POLICE
RNZ: Solicitor-General reverses prosecution guidelines requiring consideration of impact on Māori after backlash
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Solicitor-General backs down over controversial Māori prosecution guidelines
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Solicitor-General Una Jagose to ‘review’ prosecution guidelines after pushback
Damien Grant (Stuff): The Supreme Court needs to be wary
Roger Partridge (Herald): Parliament should rein in our runaway Supreme Court (paywalled)
Justin Hu (1News): Q+A: Outgoing Police Commissioner says he was misunderstood at times
RNZ: Police data now being transferred regularly to Stats NZ
HOUSING
Hanna McCallum (Post): Social housing projects for more than 500 homes axed (paywalled)
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Renters ‘continue to suffer’ despite inflation dropping
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Five years for 'wiped out' first-home buyers to get back on track
OTHER
Matt Nippert (Herald): Best Start payments to rich-list founders Wright family trust rocket to $37m (paywalled)
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): Government to legalise online casinos – won’t make them give community funding
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Government anti-violence initiatives stop and start: 'There is a lack of a cohesive plan'
Eric Crampton (Post): The barriers to breeding that governments can build
Rob Stock (Post): KiwiSaver could grow to $3 trillion in 20 years, says Simplicity’s Shamubeel Eaqub (paywalled)
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Shamubeel Eaqub joins Simplicity to lobby Government on KiwiSaver (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): Te wiki o te tāke: time for KiwiSaver 2.1
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): How anti-money laundering rules sometimes make things worse (paywalled)
Mike O’Donnell (Post): The $45k car repair bill, and other reasons we need the right to repair
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Transactions declined: Big business may be bungling merger applications (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: Kiwi woman watched by security services for most of her life
Melissa Stokes (1News): Newsmakers: Rainbow Warrior deckhand recalls French bombing
Cartoons
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