This is our morning round-up of the key political and government links this morning from other sites, including RNZ, NZ Herald, Stuff, TVNZ, Newshub and various blog sites.
It is broken down by portfolio and topic for ease of scanning and is designed specifically for those in Government relations, media relations, corporate relations, business development and executive teams. Newsroom Pro subscribers can have it directly email to them every morning. Just email bernard.hickey@newsroom to be put on the Newsroom Pro Monitor list.
Government
Simon Wilson (Herald): Why National will adopt Labour’s plan
Gordon Campbell: On the Ardern pep talk
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): The Push-me-Pull-you Government
Herald Editorial: Government in crisis? We need to see genuine unity
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM’s verdict on the three words guaranteed to annoy NZ First leader Winston Peters
Brigitte Morten (RNZ): A SuperGold move from the coalition
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s stardust returns
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): A Government defined by sheer hopelessness
David Cormack (Herald): Reports of the Government’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Cabinet paper appendix details Government plan, indicators for defining success
RNZ: Winston Peters: ‘There’s only one captain on a boat’
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern’s ‘driving the car’ – Winston Peters
Stuff: Coalition government is working as it should, says Winston Peters
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Simon Bridges wouldn’t let Winston Peters have ‘presidential veto’
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Watch: National dismisses govt blueprint as ‘nothing new’
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Winston Peters will ‘pull the pin’ if he doesn’t get his way – Peter Dunne
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Media response to Jacinda’s empty crisis management speech as underwhelmed as you would expect
Newshub: Jacinda Ardern should tell Clarke Gayford she ‘fights her own battles’
David Farrar: Why is the Beehive website only including selective releases?
Point of Order: Some “partnership” proposals need puncturing – so plaudits, please, for Peters
Point of Order: Political appointments – see who landed jobs in the latest batch of ministerial announcements
NZ in Iraq and Afghanistan
Richard Harman (Politik): Once were not warriors
Gia Garrick (RNZ): Green Party disappointed with Iraq decision
Audrey Young (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces extension of NZ deployments but signals future withdrawal
Henry Cooke (Stuff): New Zealand extends Iraq and Afghanistan deployments
Jane Patterson (RNZ): NZ govt extends Iraq deployment until June 2019
Anna Whyte (1News): New Zealand’s military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan extended
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern’s U-turn on pulling troops out of Iraq
No Right Turn: Bring them home
Stardust and Substance: the New Zealand General Election of 2017
1News: Jacinda Ardern speaks at launch of Stardust and Substance book chronicling her rise to power
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Jacinda Ardern’s rise still unprecedented a year on
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): Stardust and Substance: the 2017 election through politicians’ eyes
Parliament
Gareth Hughes (Spinoff): Parliament can’t keep ignoring the New Zealand Wars
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): A soon-to-be-deleted look at New Zealand politicians’ worst tweets
Housing
Isaac Davison (Herald): ’I need to be indoors’: Homeless counted across Auckland for the first time
Isaac Davison (Herald): Auckland’s ‘shame’: Mayor Phil Goff says homeless problem never been this bad as first regionwide head count gets underway
Adam Dudding (Stuff): Behind the scenes of Auckland’s Homeless Count
RNZ: Auckland’s first homelessness census kicks off
1News: Volunteers hit Auckland streets to conduct city’s first official homeless count
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Volunteers take to Auckland’s streets for first homeless count
Ryan Boswell (1News): 1 NEWS investigates homelessness in New Zealand: The faces of New Zealand’s homeless
Collette Devlin (Dominion Post): Government asked to support building ‘eco-city’ and use KiwiBuild funds for capital’s housing solution
RNZ: First look at Wellington’s new social housing units
Ben Leahy (Herald): Foreign buyer ban to hit Auckland and Queenstown house prices: Westpac
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Policies restrict access to ‘bank of mum and dad’
Hawkes Bay Today: Havelock North Residents concerned about impact of housing development
Police and justice
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Māori killed and charged in police pursuits more than any other group
Press Editorial: Police recruitment target depends on trust
Herald: Use-of-force report: NZ police fired guns 10 times in 2017
George Block (ODT): Southern police not revealing disciplinary action
George Block (ODT): Southern police draw 26 use-of-force complaints
Stuff: Ministry of Justice employees to strike nationwide
1News: Ministry of Justice workers who are PSA members to hold nationwide two-hour strike on Wednesday
Child abuse
1News: Man sexually abused from age of seven calls on Kiwis to talk ‘a lot more openly’ about this issue
Colin Williscroft (Press): Call for Catholic Church to release file it has on priest who sexually abused boys
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Priest carried out ‘litany of offending against young boys’ – report
Thompson and Clark spying inquiry
RNZ: Inquiry into Thompson and Clark won’t be extended to police – PM
No Right Turn: The police owe us some answers on Thompson & Clark
The Standard: Police spying must be investigated
Education
Simon Collins (Herald): Willie Jackson’s charter school approved to stay open as integrated school
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): All NZ charter schools now approved to become state integrated
No Right Turn: No more charter schools
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Catholic church applies for court order to trespass protesters from Hato Pētera College
RNZ: Protestors occupying school will fight legal action
Mei Heron (1News): ’PC gone mad’ say teachers not allowed to restrain troubled, violent students
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Whangārei principal Pat Newman says child restraint rules are ‘PC gone mad’
Piers Fuller (Stuff): Small Wairarapa school with just eight students on roll to remain open
RNZ:School with eight students to remain open in 2019
1News: ’What do you want to be?’ is not the right question to ask young people – career counsellor
Kay Sinclair (ODT): Principals gather in Dunedin
Kristin Mcfarlane (Bay of Plenty Times): Opinion: AIMS Games a winner for intermediate school children
Environment and conservation
Catherine Knight (Stuff): The public is ready for environmental change. Now we need a lead from politicians
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Separating fact from fiction in the 1080 debate
Kate Gudsell (RNZ): DOC staff face more abuse after anti-1080 protests
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Government to step in to resolve planning stoush hampering farmers
Hawkes Bay Today: Water concerns rising as Ruataniwha aquifer level falls
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Kānuka creating hope for East Coast locals
Bridget Grace (Newshub): Environmental group slams ‘disgusting’ pollution of Auckland’s Whau River
Geoff Duffy (Kiwiblog): Parliamentary Commissioner’s Report Wrong about Livestock Methane
Primary and extractive industries
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Taxpayer costs for kiwifruit claim trial balloon out to $6m
Newshub: Major study on kiwifruit pollination wins Government funding
Susan Strongman (RNZ): Fighting back against the avocado crime wave
1News: Should mānuka honey standards be more strictly regulated in NZ? Consultation closes today
Newshub: Farming group pleased with new KiwiRail policy
Simon Hartley (ODT): Sector optimistic despite mines pledge
Employment and migrant exploitation
Corin Dann (1News): Unions urge Labour against making changes to flagship employment reform after NZ First calls bill a ‘work in progress’
Herald: Business owner Davinder Singh who forced staff to cook and clean his house convicted of exploitation
Skara Bohny (Nelson Mail): Exploitative employer fined $150k, sentenced to community work
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Employer sentenced to home detention for exploiting staff
1News: Indian national ordered to pay $150k to employees he exploited at Pizza Hut restaurants
RNZ: Hiding mental illness while working for minimum wage
Kiwisaver
Tamsyn Parker (Herald): New KiwiSaver tool to help investors avoid animal cruelty, gambling and porn
Rob Stock (Stuff): Animal cruelty worse than bombs and tobacco to KiwiSaver investors
Economy and business
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): GDP data to show NZ on the rise: economist
Dene Mackenzie (ODT): Services index at lowest in five years
Mark Lister (Herald): The ugly truth about our household debt
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The coming checkmate of capitalism moment
Energy
Chris Morris (ODT): Commission taking Aurora Energy to court
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Otago lines company accused of causing power cuts due to under investment
RNZ: Aurora Energy facing court action
Health
Dan Satherley and Edward O’Driscoll (Newshub): Alcohol industry’s ‘proof’ advertising doesn’t drive consumption ridiculed
Newshub: Does fast food sponsorship have an impact on kids’ obesity rates?
Scott Palmer (Newshub): ’It’s going to take me out’: Patrick Gower’s heartbreaking cancer admission
Denise Taylor (Newsroom): The medicinal cannabis conundrum
1News: Inaction over banning surgical mesh putting Kiwi women at risk – Christine Rankin
Michelle Duff (Stuff): Doctor-patient misconduct rules tightened
Tom Hunt (Stuff): ACC looks at ‘chatbot’ to master small talk
Foreign Affairs and trade
Winnie Laban (RNZ): Pushback against du Plessis-Allan’s Pacific ‘leeches’ comments encouraging
Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Sam Neill denounces Heather du Plessis-Allen for calling Pacific people ‘leeches’
RNZ: Pacific Islands Forum not working – Toke Talagi
Jenny Shipley and Mainzeal reckless trading charges
RNZ: Mainzeal traded while ‘dangling by a thread’, court told
BusinessDesk: Former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley accused of reckless trading as Mainzeal director
John Anthony (Stuff): Former Mainzeal director Dame Jenny Shipley defending ‘reckless trading’ allegations
Treaty settlements
John Boynton (RNZ): Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei allowed to take claim to High Court
Raniera Harrison (Māori TV): Ngāpuhi in Australia prepare for Treaty consultation
Māori Cultural and Intellectual Property Right Conference
Kelvin McDonald (Māori TV): Māori intellectual property hui welcome
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Protection of Māori rights up for discussion at Nelson hui
Kelvin McDonald (Māori TV): Government to consult on rights to plants
Suffrage
Sally Blundell (Listener): The women’s suffrage movement wasn’t only a fight for the right to vote
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Wāhine in rugby celebrated this week
Sue Bradford (Spinoff): The Monday Extract: A brief history of suffrage and struggle by Sue Bradford
Herald: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to guest edit Suffrage edition of NZ Herald
1News: Q+A: 125 years since Kiwi women first got the vote, what do they want now?
Local government
Alexandra Nelson (Newshub): Auckland Council considering euthanasia for cats without microchips
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Plan to classify unchipped cats as pests results in death threats
Seven Sharp: Cat lovers get their claws out to fight Auckland Council
Todd NIall (Stuff): Have you tuned in to Auckland’s political soap opera of the year?
Nick Truebridge (Stuff): Council consenting troubles puts ability to support Auckland growth at risk, report says
Jono Edwards (ODT): Private ORC discussions continuing
ODT Editorial: Future of Otago water concerns all
Transport and road safety
Andrew McRae (RNZ): Locals frustrated at delays over deadly SH2 stretch
1News: AA calls for speeding ticket alternative as number issued in 2017 the highest in three years
Food safety
RNZ: Foodstuffs and Progressive halt all Australian strawberries distribution
Newshub: Needle scare unlikely to affect New Zealand strawberry market
Herald: Foodstuffs, Countdown halt distribution of Australian strawberries
Other
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Rich-listers’ wealth grows six-fold in two decades, much faster than rest of economy
Herald: Drug giants in NZ dodge $21m in tax, Oxfam claims
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Antarctica NZ spent big to investigate disgraced CEO
RNZ: Voices: Fijian overstayer’s 20-year fight for residency
Charlotte Graham-McLay (New York Times): Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand
1News: Action planned to tackle loan sharks, with Winston Peters on board
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): ’Country’ should take over digital strategy from Government, says NZTech
Tina Law (Stuff): Christchurch City council-owned Citycare posts its first-ever loss
Sasha Borissenko (Newsroom): Sparrow still fighting, still pushing
Herald: What’s in John Key’s shopping trolley?
Moana Makapelu Lee (Māori TV): Severne appointed as new Māori Trustee
Julie Hardaker (Waikato Times): Gender equality: Are we there yet?
Stuff: Protesters in court over blocking access way into Defence forum
RNZ: Defence expo arrests trial begins
Jeremy Hansen (Spinoff): How to fix racial inequality in urban design (audio)
