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.
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Jami-Lee Ross on medical leave from Parliament, National
Richard Harman (Politik): Top Nat troubleshooter advising Jami Lee Ross
Audrey Young (Herald): Timing of Jami-Lee Ross’ departure from Parliament raises questions
Newshub: National MPs stand by Jami-Lee Ross
Lucy Bennett (Herald): National MP Jami-Lee Ross decision came ‘out of the blue’, says Simon Bridges
Anna Whyte (1News): Simon Bridges maintains MP Jami-Lee Ross’ personal leave not related to travel expenses leak
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): National MP Jami-Lee Ross taking leave for ‘personal health issues’
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Jami-Lee Ross to take medical leave from Parliament
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): National MP takes leave from Parliament, Caucus for health issues
Herald: National MP Jami-Lee Ross takes break from Parliament for ‘personal health issues’
RNZ: National MP Jami-Lee Ross stands down for health reasons
Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): ‘Entirely separate’
David Farrar: Ross on leave
Greg Presland (The Standard): Jami-Lee Ross takes time out
Newstalk ZB: National leak investigation drags on for more than a month
NZ First
Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: NZ First’s ‘virtue signalling’ against immigrants
Donna Miles-Mojab (Herald): Bad assumptions behind NZ First plan
Brian Rudman (Herald): NZ First once more revving up anti-migrant bland wagon
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): The $200 million migrant exploitation problem
Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Labour will not support NZ First’s ‘NZ Values’ bill
Zane Small (Newshub): Labour won’t support NZ First’s values test on migrants – Jacinda Ardern
RNZ: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Labour would vote against ‘Kiwi values’ bill
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Māori ask NZ First who decides ‘Kiwi values’
Liam Hehir (Stuff): Life after Winston Peters looks grim for NZ First
Point of Order: Chutzpah and the amazing Winston Peters – surely he qualifies for a place on Martin’s list
Government
Sophia Hollander (The New Yorker): Jacinda Ardern’s Juggling Act
Zane Small (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern doubles down on NZ’s ‘independent foreign policy’
Herald: PM Jacinda Ardern defends paying ad agency to film New York trip
Stuff: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern mouthed ‘sorry’ when taking baby Neve on plane
Cecile Meier (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern shouldn’t apologise to other passengers for taking Neve on a plane
1News: Jacinda Ardern politely declines Russell Crowe’s invitation to serve as Australia’s PM, too
Chris Penk (Kiwiblog): Guest Post: “Our Plan”? Her Spin
MMP
Herald Editorial: This term is not time to review MMP
No Right Turn: Winston and MMP
David Farrar: Will the Government change the law to help Greens and NZ First?
Education and training
RNZ: Secondary teachers reject ‘insulting’ pay offer
Sophie Bateman (Newshub): Secondary teachers reject latest pay offer
1News: Secondary teachers reject Government’s latest pay offer
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Joint primary and secondary teacher strikes not being ruled out
Lucy Bennett (Herald): Chris Hipkins talks down pay expectations by secondary teachers at PPTA conference
1News: Government ‘needs to front up now’ as secondary teachers’ union recommend rejecting latest offer
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Secondary school teachers poised to reject latest pay offer
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Reject Govt pay offer, union tells secondary school teachers
Callum Baird (Newsroom): Comment: It’s time NZEI stepped up for teachers
Thomas Manch and Jessica Long (Stuff): Free school lunches would help address child poverty issue, say visiting experts
Nina Hindmarsh (Stuff): Golden Bay kids kicked-off bus face precarious walk along grassy highway to school
John Braddock (World Socialists): New Zealand education riven by class inequality
Jessie Chiang (RNZ): Construction industry urged to diversify in apprenticeships
Child welfare
Dominion Post Editorial: Imprisoned by old thinking
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ Catholic Church withholds findings on sex abuse claims
Health and disability
Nikki Turner (Spinoff): Why on earth drives someone to put up an anti-vaccination billboard?
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Immunologist slams anti-vaccine billboard as ‘almost organised terrorism’
1News: Anti-vaccination group accused of preying on Māori and Pacific people with controversial billboard
Hannah Martin and Danielle Clent (Stuff): Anti-vaccine billboard which received 140 complaints to be pulled
Fiona Connor (Newshub): Anti-vax billboard to be removed after more than 140 complaints
Herald: Anti-vaccine billboard near Middlemore Hospital removed after raft of complaints
Grant Jacobs: Vaccines and risk on Auckland motorway billboard
Karen Brown (RNZ): Health officials under pressure for earlier bowel cancer screening for Māori
Hannah Martin (Stuff): Breast cancer is ‘contagious’ campaign ‘completely out of line’, survivors say
Herald:Breast Cancer Foundation to change wording of campaign following complaints
Māori TV: Māori researcher to study how whakamā affects mental health
Southland Times Editorial: The guiding question for the assisted dying debate
Environment and conservation
RNZ: Minister demands DOC explain kiwi deaths
Carla Penman (Herald): Could traces of Roundup be in a key source of New Zealand’s drinking water?
RNZ: Nine to Noon: Elevated BPA levels found in Capital’s aquifer
RNZ: DOC monitors Northland’s first major 1080 drop in decades
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Drums of water war echoing in pipeline
Dan Dalgety (RNZ): Canterbury water bottling battle goes to High Court
Thomas Manch (Newshub): Protest group fighting Canterbury water bottling consents
Dan Hikuroa (Newsroom):Another approach to our freshwater crisis
Chris Trotter: The Devil’s Imagination
Leith Huffadine (Stuff): Bird of the Year: How an endangered bird ended up on Tinder
RNZ: Zealandia breach: ‘Even one introduced predator is one too many’
George Block (ODT): ’Complete stupidity’: Antics near sea lions criticised
George Block (ODT): Surfer caught on video harassing sea lions
Jono Edwards (ODT):First for South: wildlife capital’s $15m predator control plan launch today
Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): Five hours, 15 volunteers and 200kg of plastic ‘nurdles’ in the bag
Business and economy
Andrea Fox (Herald): Mood of the Boardroom: 150 CEOs deliver their verdict on the Government
Liam Dann (Herald): Failure of confidence knocks off the shine
Liam Dann (Herald): Backing for a Wellbeing Budget
James Penn (Herald): The confidence conundrum
Thomas Pippos (Herald): The paradox of confidence
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on the global stage
Herald: Jacinda Ardern seen as standout performer
Tim McCready (Herald): Winston Peters a ‘pleasant surprise’
Herald: Disciplined Grant Robertson rates
Tim McCready (Herald): ‘He’s doing well in the toughest job’
Tim McCready (Herald): Cut the bombast, Shane
Herald: Praise for minor party leaders
Herald: Marking the report card
Tim McCready (Herald): Honeymoon just about over
Tim McCready (Herald): Storms washing over the oil and gas platform
Graham Skellern (Herald): Muted response to Research and Development tax incentive
Tim McCready (Herald): Waiting for a punch to land
Tim McCready (Herald): Not yet a credible Opposition
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Business confidence continues to slide, as demand and profits fall
RNZ: NZ business confidence dips to nine-year low
BusinessDesk: Business confidence continues to slide: NZIER
David Hargreaves (Interest): Latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows worst level of business confidence since March 2009
Sally Rae (ODT): Business uncertainty persisting
Rob Stock (Stuff): Life and death in New Zealand’s small company sector
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): RBNZ pays biggest dividend
Police
Jared Savage (Herald): Wally Haumaha: State Services Commission to open third inquiry into bullying claims ‘if necessary’
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Departments’ handling of Haumaha bullying allegations may be inspected
Tax
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Government likely to come out on top from ‘revenue neutral’ tax proposal
Mark Lister (Herald): Capital gains plan a ‘massive step backwards’
Immigration
Liu Chen (Stuff): Chinese immigrants prefer working for non-Chinese firms, survey shows
Katie Fitzgerald: Customs to fine travellers who don’t hand over device passwords
Housing
Branko Marcetic (Newsroom): Long read: Foxes in charge of the meth house
Newshub: Trade Me ad seeking flatmates slammed as racist
1News: Dozens of would-be property owners vying for new KiwiBuild homes in Auckland’s Papakura
Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Proposed regulations prompt some landlords to sell
Ben Leahy (Herald): Frustrated landlords call on the Government to provide protection from rogue tenants
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): ’If you steal from a shop it is a crime but if you steal from a landlord, it’s not’
Tracy Neal (RNZ): Tasman landlord had people ‘crying’ and ‘begging’ to view property
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Falling house prices spread across more of New Zealand
RNZ: Slowdown in house prices as more go on the market
Newshub: House values stable as spring brings listings increase
Employment
Scott Palmer (Newshub): New Zealand should be first to introduce 4-day working week – employer
Damien Venuto (Herald): It’s official: Four-day week becomes permanent at Kiwi company Perpetual Guardian
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Perpetual Guardian’s founder says he won’t consider gig-based system
Katie Doyle (RNZ): NZ Post’s audio recordings practice deemed ‘unsettling’
Newshub: New Zealand Post under fire for recording audio of postie drivers
Susan Hornsby-Geluk (Stuff): Strippers aren’t employees but they’re not quite independent, either
David Farrar: Meet the union leader paid almost $1 million a year
Oil and gas exploration ban
Helen Harvey (Stuff): Oil and gas boss: submission process ‘unfair’
Ellie Hooper (Noted): On board the Rainbow Warrior: It’s time to stop the mad pursuit for fossil fuels
Human Rights Commission
Stuff: Paul Hunt named new Chief Human Rights Commissioner in wake of sexual harassment scandal
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): New Human Rights Commissioner appointed
RNZ: New Human Rights Commissioner appointed
Kim Dotcom
Stuff: Crown bests Dotcom in appeal over alleged information breach
Carla Penman (Herald): High Court overturns ruling of breach of privacy in Kim Dotcom case
RNZ: Kim Dotcom loses court battle over information requests
No Right Turn: Vexing bullshit
Primary industries
Newshub: Dairy farmers taking no chances on M bovis
Gerard Hutching (Stuff): Farm deaths and injuries declining despite latest tragedy
RNZ: WorkSafe advises caution to farmer parents around risks
Andrew Allan (Spinoff): NZ’s pig-headed rejection of GM is putting our agricultural future at risk
Cleo Fraser (Newshub): Kaipara mayor fears region overlooked after Tegel’s farm plan axed
Jessica Tyson (Māori TV): Tegel’s mega chicken factory scrapped by OIO
Sandra Kyle (Whanganui Chronicle): Opinion: Today set aside to ponder cruel existence of farmed animals
Jacqueline Rowarth (Stuff): What’s so bad about nitrogen, anyway?
Pat Deavoll (Stuff): This native pest is costing our economy millions – and it’s not alone
Gisborne
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Guardian): Vandalism forces New Zealand council to remove Captain Cook statue
RNZ: Statue of James Cook to be removed in Gisborne
Newshub: Gisborne Captain Cook statue to be moved
Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes (Māori TV): Dual name “Tūranganui a Kiwa / Poverty Bay” gets support
Media
RNZ: Nine to Noon: State attempted stifling of NZ media (audio)
Karl du Fresne: Good news: they’re printing the local paper locally again
Stuff: The Project wins important battle in 7pm ratings war
Local government
1News: Auckland ratepayers still forking out millions on leaky buildings
Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Phil Goff: Police aren’t doing enough to stop red light runners
RNZ: Running red lights in Auckland: ‘We’ve got to change the culture’
Racing
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Harness racing figures deny race-fixing allegations
RNZ: Harness racing arrests: Nine appear in court
Other
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): CTV engineer Alan Reay involved in trouble-plagued Auckland project
Audrey Young (Herald): Not much for NZ exporters to worry about after Trump revamps Nafta deal, says trade specialist
Logan Church (RNZ): Checkpoint: Rakautara residents threaten legal action against govt
Simon Louisson (Newsroom): The US consultant behind Wellington bus nightmare
Steve Deane (Newsroom): The slow death of the sports club volunteer
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Māori Women’s Welfare League members expelled after legal challenge
Tommy Livingston (Stuff): Rachel MacGregor tells court Colin Craig had ‘groomed’ her
Herald: French cruise ship company and captain fined by New Zealand after Snares Islands grounding
RNZ: Ship grounding in protected area: French cruise company fined
Emily van Velthooven (1News): Kiwi youths pay homage to 355 New Zealand soldiers killed in 1943 battle in Italy
Māori TV: Kura kids moved by Italian war sites
Robin Martin (RNZ): Pensioners give IT, virtual reality and e-bikes a go at Ageing Disgracefully
Mariah Alyssa Medel (Newsroom): Cultural misappropriation: capturing Pacific stories
Katie Newton (Stuff): Time running out for Government to buy Kate Sheppard’s home
