NZ Politics Daily - 26 March 2018
26 March 2018
Today's content
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Health
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Rest homes investigation: bedsore deaths, expired medication, hungry residents
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Vulnerable elderly restrained in chairs all day: documents
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Rest home changes 'on table' after residents left hungry, in pain
Herald Editorial: Rest home watchdog required
Deena Coster (Stuff): The unhealthy pressure on our health system
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Waikato DHB chairman told to fire Nigel Murray if unauthorised spending found
Karen Brown (RNZ): DHB staff intimidated by Nigel Murray – report
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Should appointed members of Waikato DHB be sacked over Nigel Murray resignation decision?
Natalie Akoorie (Herald): Doctors' union defends DHB chiefs - Nigel Murray's behaviour 'not typical'
Aaron Leaman and Florence Kerr (Stuff): Waikato DHB members go to ground following damning Nigel Murray report
ODT: Short time for huge task — specialist
Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Health minister pours water on public-private partnership offer for elective surgeries
RNZ: Counties Manukau DHB says it's not monitoring rotting walls
Jamie Morton (Herald): Liggins study: Maori, Pacific babies with heart defect worse off
Cecile Meier (Stuff): New mums deserve better care
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Hospice may have to charge users
Katie Doyle (RNZ): Number of pokie machines in Māori communities 'hugely disproportionate'
Stephen Berry (Spinoff): Pharmac’s anti-HIV drug subsidy is an own goal for LGBT
Neville Blampied and Robert Hughes (Stuff): The problems with anecdotal evidence
Air NZ
Aaron Leaman, Thomas Manch, Hannah Martin and Tara Shaskey (Stuff): Air New Zealand shuttering one of last engineer hubs in regions as public anger grows
Jonathan Milne (Stuff): Obama says global businesses must care for the little people; Air NZ should take note
Audrey Young (Herald): Air NZ attack scores bullseye for brand Jones
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Barack Obama's NZ trip may have backfired for airline
Brian Gould (Herald): Air NZ must be told marooning towns not part of plan
RNZ: Air NZ ‘has lost the identity as NZ’s national carrier’
Jason Walls (Interest): NZ First MP Shane Jones’ calculated pot shots at Air New Zealand an attempt to garner voter support in the regions
Damien Grant (Stuff): Shane Jones right to clip wings of Air NZ board
Ged Cann (Stuff): Cut Kāpiti service could leave Wellington region vulnerable in case of natural disasters
RNZ: Otaki MP: No "plan C" for Kāpiti flights
Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Welcome to your Air New Zealand flight Mr Jones
Housing
Bruce Morris (Newsroom): Phil the Builder makes his first big deal
Russell Brown (Public Address): The Unitec project: Something new, with a rolling start
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): KiwiBuild 'suburb' will look like a dump in a decade
RNZ: Taxpayers to help pay for new Auckland housing project
RNZ: Auckland housing plan nothing new – Bridges
Dan Satherley (Newshub): We planned those KiwiBuild homes – National
1News: ‘We are going to change the market dynamic’ – Housing Minister announces new build in Auckland to meet promise
Alice Peacock (Herald): 'The end of the beginning': Mt Albert housing development will help address Auckland's housing crisis
RNZ: Thousands of new homes to be built in Mt Albert
Newshub: First KiwiBuild houses announced
Herald: 3000 to 4000 low cost homes to be built on Unitec land in central Auckland
Auckland Now: 4000 homes to be built in Mt Albert
Greg Groufsky (ODT): Building homes - not just new houses
RNZ: Family facing homelessness ask 'what's happened to NZ?'
Lucy Telfar Barnard (RNZ): Letting fees: goodbye and good riddance
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Will banning letting fees raise rents?
Anne Gibson (Herald): Letting fee axe could reignite rental auctions: Landlord
Derek Cheng (Herald): Cutting letting fees will push up rents, National Party warns
Reserve Bank
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): An idiot's guide to today's changes at the Reserve Bank
BusinessDesk: Reserve Bank ends total focus on price stability
Liam Dann (Herald): Will big Reserve Bank reforms move your rates?
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Changes to the way interest rates are set to be revealed
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): On the new PTA
Liam Dann (Herald): Who is the new Reserve Bank Governor?
Richard Harman (Politik): Treasury- Reserve Bank power struggle
Dominion Post Editorial: Adrian Orr becomes Reserve Bank governor at a time of change
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): On aspects of Reserve Bank reform
Environment
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Nothing the oil industry doesn't already know
1News: Russel Norman says PM accepting Greenpeace petition to end oil exploration raises hopes
Gareth Hughes (Stuff): We need to end oil exploration in New Zealand
Grant Bradley (Herald): Oil and gas chiefs meet as Government mulls future of the sector
Jonathan Young (Stuff): Gas exports would reduce global emissions
Brian Easton (Pundit): Are We Boiling Frogs?
Julian Lee (Press): Environment Canterbury has given an infringement notice to itself for polluting a stream
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Toxic foam: Defence Force didn't tell council of water risks
1News: Government claims it's not getting value for money consulting with iwi on water policy
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Why millions of coffee cups end up in rubbish dumps
Heather Roy: Where’s the Truth in Recycling?
RNZ: Virus to be released to wild rabbits in Waikato
Justice and legal profession
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address): Voting disqualifications
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Prisoners' right to vote entrenched in electoral act, lawyer says
Newshub: Double-bunking at women's prison not acceptable – Ombudsman
1News: Concerns raised over 'double bunking' of prisoners at overcrowded NZ prisons
Arthur Taylor (Daily Blog): Corrections Is Cramming Them in Tighter Than Sardines!
Derek Cheng (Herald): Govt set to pay compensation for another miscarriage of justice - with top-up for inflation
Jono Galuszka (Stuff): National leader Simon Bridges talks up 'tough on crime' stance
Ruth Hill (RNZ):Judges worst offenders in law harassment survey
RNZ: Bullying in the courtroom: 'We want to stop it'
Charlotte Carter (Herald):"Bullying of counsel is not acceptable" - Chief Justice responds to damning law survey
Stuff: Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias rebukes judges after revelations of widespread bullying
Olivia Wensley (Herald): Law's dirty little secret is exposed. Olivia Wensley explains how to make real change
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Legal workplaces must do more to achieve gender equality, report says
Transport and road safety
Damian George (Stuff): Government-funded report advocated cheaper Wellington rail fares - but it was never published
Adam Jacobson (Auckland Now): Government introduces regional fuel tax legislation
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Dangerous road: 'Our lives don't seem to matter'
Newshub: Northland's SH1 washout blamed on underfunding
Jonathan Coleman and National
Mark Sainsbury (Newshub): Self-serving Coleman treating taxpayers like chumps
Gwynn Compton (Libertas Digital): Labour has every chance to win Northcote by-election
RNZ: Jonathan Coleman hangs up on hospital rot interview
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Revealed: what Jonathan Coleman was thinking this morning
Newstalk ZB: Coleman's departure gives National an opportunity
Newshub: David Carter, Nick Smith could be next to go - Matthew Hooton
Leah Te Whata (Māori TV): National Party leader Simon Bridges returns to marae
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): National to entice Māori vote through Kahurangi Blue groups
Jesse King (Wanganui Chronicle): National leader Simon Bridges talks Obama in Whanganui
Herald: National leader Simon Bridges gets down at Pasifika
Newshub: Simon Bridges' 'unbelievea-bull' Instagram mistake
Parliament
Jo Moir (Stuff): Māori being able to vote for any party the key message after Hosking got it wrong
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Māori voters get to choose between Māori and general rolls
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Chance to choose general or Māori electoral roll
Bronwyn E Wood and Nick Munn (The Conversation): How lowering the voting age to 16 could save democracy
Andrew Sealey (Stuff): Sixteen is the future age of reason and responsibility
Derek Cheng (Herald): Labour and National talk to real people, steer clear of Cambridge Analytica-style data services
Stuff: Below the Beltway: A week in politics
Philip Matthews (Stuff): Week in Review: Obamania or Baracknophobia?
Government
John Armstrong (1News): Jacinda Ardern has appeared flustered, even rattled, during the first crises to hit her Government
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Who needs friends like Labour's coalition partners?
Paul Little (Herald): Government should tackle bigger issues than blasphemy
Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson (Stuff): Taking your time and being deliberative can avoid policy blunders in a wired world
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Greens volunteer to be cannon fodder
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): Asking The Right Questions.
Herald: Ed Sheeran pays visit to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for a cuppa and scones
Julie Ann Genter on “old white men”
Steven Cowan: The trickle down feminism of Julie Ann Genter
Dominion Post Editorial: Genter on gender: maybe a little gentler?
John Drinnan (ZagZigger): Genter Talks Like An Activist, Not A Minister
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Minister wants old white men to eff off and die
Jazial Crossley (Spinoff): Yes, we need more diversity on boards – and that isn’t anti-white men
Newshub: 'Old white men' should make way for others - Julie Anne Genter
Stuff: Julie Anne Genter comments on old white men 'silly': Bridges
Pete George (Your NZ): Overreaction to silly Genter ‘old white men’ comments
International relations and trade
Audrey Young (Herald): Visiting leaders show disrespect by failing to share platform with Jacinda Ardern
Colin Peacock (RNZ): How Widodo went under the radar
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On a trade war with China
Audrey Young (Herald): Too much uncertainty on US trade for NZ to take a position, says Trade Minister Parker
RNZ: Lack of clarity around US tariff decisions - Trade Minister
1News: Looming US-China trade war 'very worrying' for NZ says senior economist, trade expert
Herald: Todd McClay blasts Government over delayed steel tariff response
Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Free trade between morality and economic might
Laura Walters (Stuff): PM's dad Ross Ardern to become Administrator of Tokelau
Obama visit
Finlay Macdonald (RNZ): Obama's visit to NZ: 'He came, he saw, he putted'
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Obamamania in overdrive
Claire Trevett (Herald): Obama out: Sir John Key's hunt for the elusive tweet begins
Steve Braunias (Herald): The Secret Diary of Barack Obama
David Slack (Stuff): My old mate Barack Obama
Damien Venuto (Herald): Which Barack Obama sponsor got the best bang for its buck in New Zealand?
Newshub: Obama was 'hungover, sunburnt and really tired' - Patrick Gower
Duncan Garner (Stuff): Dear Mr President, sorry about the moaners
Dileepa Fonseka (Stuff): Sir John Key really is Obama's bro and other highlights of Barack Obama's first trip to NZ
Steven Cowan (Against the current): The media go gaga over Obama
Oscar Kightley (Stuff): I cringed as I watched us fawn over Obama
RNZ: Barack Obama impressed after meeting Māori wahine leaders
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Business leaders on their night with Barack Obama
Samantha Olley (Rotorua Daily Post): Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick: Barack Obama dinner 'profound and deep'
Newshub: The odd reason Simon Bridges was surprised by Barack Obama
Herald: Former US President Barack Obama's third and final day in New Zealand
Employment
Mike Treen: Billions owed in leave – Why are we wating?
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Govt dismisses officials' warnings over minimum wage bump
Derek Cheng (Herald): Minimum wage rise to $16.50 at the end of next week could cost 3000 jobs, says MBIE
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Construction industry facing shortfall of thousands of workers
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Dad living in car 160km from family to pay bills
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Living wage announced for Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu employees
Chloe Winter (Stuff): Survey finds 18-24 year-olds worried about getting a job in digital world
Education
Lois Williams (RNZ): Troubled kids 'likely to end up in jail ... unless they get help'
Herald on Sunday editorial: Cook Is trip for teachers looks excessive
Brittany Keogh (Herald): Blockhouse Bay Intermediate defends $20,000 teachers' trip to Cook Islands
Herald: Dame Susan Devoy criticises Christchurch school's 'dress as refugees' day
Newshub:'Dress as refugees' day defended by school principal
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Immigration names poor-performing education agents
Privacy and Facebook
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Andrew Little gives more power to the Privacy Commissioner in new bill
Liam Dann (Herald): Facebook scandal - Welcome to Orwell's 1984
Ged Cann (Stuff): Kiwi software developer accuses Facebook of recording texts and calls outside its app
RNZ: Facebook must ensure apps are following the rules - Internet NZ
Deborah Hill Cone: Shall I #deletefacebook? Would it matter?
ODT Editorial: Are we just too hooked on Facebook?
Tax
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): There could be a silver lining for savers from capital gains tax
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): The Tax Working Group will end with the PM turning down a capital gains tax, expert says
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): How do you tax Apple? Very carefully
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): So much company tax, so little investment
Economy
Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): Bank sees investment potential in NZ
Cameron Bagrie (Stuff): We need a ruthless obsession with lifting productivity
Plunket
Matt Stewart (Stuff): Plunket controversy deepens as the lawyers are called in
Eugene Bonthuys (Southland Times): Plunket aims to reassure local branches
Local government
Dave Cull (Stuff): It's not sustainable for ratepayers to pick up bill for tourists
Southland Times Editorial: SDC had democratic intimacy issues
Joanne Carroll (Stuff): West Coast councils fight back against 'unelected' governance group
Jackson Thomas (Central Leader): Auckland activist Penny Bright has 'no legal leg to stand on', university lecturer says
Other
1News: Exclusive: More than 10,000 overstayers in NZ and Immigration not actively looking for most of them
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Good data journalism makes lots of important information easily
Paul Drum (Herald): Government needs to woo small business
Bob Brockie (Stuff): The Treaty has no place in scientific endeavor
Maja Burry (RNZ): Farmers face checkpoints in effort to stop cattle disease
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Sharon Hawke: The media were there to discredit us — and they did that very well
David Belgrave (Spinoff): This isn’t the first time New Zealand has denied a citizen their passport
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Churches push for inclusion in Royal Commission into abuse
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ Catholic Church still keeping issues behind closed doors
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Public outrage at Wildfoods Festival's advertising
Laura O'Connell Rapira: Why we are supporting Renae Maihi’s petition to revoke Bob Jones’ knighthood
Newshub: Young New Zealanders organise their own 'March for Our Lives’