NZ Politics Daily: 7 October
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Local government
Martin van Beynen (Stuff): Ten reasons why local body democracy is dying
Simon Wilson (Metro): Election 2016: We’ll endorse any candidate who makes this speech
Michael Cropp (RNZ): Clock ticking on lifting voter turnout
John Armstrong: A man in a hurry
Matthew Martin (Rotorua Daily Post): Rotorua voter numbers edge past previous election figures
Hawke’s Bay Today: Editorial – Time for the secrecy to end
Doug Laing (Hawke’s Bay Today): Mayors want return to single-day polling
Southland Times: Editorial – So you still haven't voted?
Tim Watkin (Pundit): Earning it: The Swarbrick lesson 2016
Duncan Garner (Radiolive): Phil Goff - all things to all people
Guyon Espiner (Listener): Wellington politics: The pragmatic Mr Nick Leggett
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Who is to blame for low voter turn out and why online voting isn’t the solution
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Postal voting is a dying medium
Jonathan Carson (Stuff): The good, bad and ugly of the Nelson election campaign 2016
Hannah Lee (Stuff): Disconnected Maori contributing to low voter turnout, former deputy mayor says
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Lack of mayoral contests impact Waikato polling
Daisy Hudson (Stuff): Timaru set to have lowest voter turnout since 2007
Jeremy Muir (Gisbourne Herald): Sad to see voting returns trail record-low turnout of 2013
Janine Rankin (Stuff): Time to decide who is in charge around here
Cherie Sivignon (Stuff): Tasman mayoral candidates steel themselves for polling day results
Diane Robertson (Stuff): Auckland Council needs to make better use of data to target spending
Aaron Leaman (Stuff): Candidate signs point to a tetchy election in Hamilton
Simon Maude (Stuff): Five things Aucklanders should know about their rates
Simon Maude (Stuff): Auckland mayoral candidates' elevator pitch for undecided voters
David Burroughs (Stuff): Teenagers know John Key, but do they know who's on the New Plymouth council?
Jo McKenzie-McLean (Stuff): Central Otago electors encouraged to get votes in before close-off
Emma Dangerfield (Stuff): New Kaikoura District Council could ramp up accountability with name recording
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Marlborough council candidate calls for all electoral hoardings to come down early
Georgia Forrester (Stuff): Manawatu's mayoral candidates preparing for election day
Joel McManus (Critic): The student candidate who dares to be Right-Wing
Joel McManus (Critic): A Candid Catchup With Council Candidates
Nick Grant (NBR): 'Business agrees with me on Auckland's top two priorities', says Goff (paywalled)
Tim Murphy (The Spinoff): A final Pokarekare Ana and a punch in the air: post-mayoricide, Len Brown goes out on a high
Brian Rudman (Herald): Is this any way to run a democracy?
RNZ: Auckland elections: New team for new mayor
Poverty
Dominion Post Editorial: Governments can reduce poverty if they really want to
Malborough Express Editorial: The pest of poverty
Toby Manhire (Stuff): How hard can it be to measure child poverty?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little backtracks again
Peter Cresswell (Not PC): Child Poverty: It’s parents, not govt
Peter Dunne (Radiolive): What's in a word?
Health
Gareth Morgan (Morgan Foundation): Mayoral candidates asleep at wheel on junk food problem
Vincent Heeringa (Idealog): Could New Zealand be the Uber of health?
Jenesa Jeram (Spinoff): E-cigarettes could save lives. Let’s make it easier to buy them
Simon Wedde (Idealog): Cigarette plain packaging: Beware unintended outcome
Justice
Carla Penman (RNZ): Serco sacked dozens of staff while running prisons
Jason Walls (NBR): Those responsible for Serco saga must be sacked – Kelvin Davis (paywalled)
Dan Satherley (Newshub): Serco's prison fight clubs might have spread to Wiri – Labour
Isaac Davison (Herald): Serco failure won't end privatisation – Govt
No Right Turn: A failure of privatisation
Stuart Nash (Newshub): Opinion: Police outgunned in fight against drug crime
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Major changes for Maori Land Court in Ministry of Justice overhaul
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Little making sense on sentencing
Helen Clark bid for UN Secretary General
Audrey Young (Herald): 10 reasons Helen Clark lost bid to be UN secretary-general
Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Helen Clark's UN dream is over - what next?
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): And so it goes
Barry Soper (Herald): Helen Clark's UN decision - former PM was a victim of her own success
Audrey Young (Herald): John Key: No regrets on Clark's campaign for top UN job
Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Helen Clark's UN campaign 'well worth it' despite result, Government says
Kim Griggs (RNZ): Race for top job at UN: How does it work?
Audrey Young (Herald): United Nations' permanent five to reveal positions on Helen Clark in red ballot
Marama Davidson Israel detention
Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Green MP Marama Davidson returning to NZ after Gaza 'stunt'
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM: Green MP Marama Davidson's detention in Israel "a less than perfect look"
Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Green MP Marama Davidson detained in Israel, PM John Key says it's a 'less-than-perfect look'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Davidson gets the PR stunt she wanted
Housing
Catherine Harris (Stuff): Mystery of 'unaffordable houses' lies with interest rates: BNZ
Isaac Davison (Herald): Too soon to say whether Auckland housing market has peaked – Govt
Susannah Walker (Metro): Auckland property special 2016: On the benefit of hindsight
Lisa Woods (Stuff): Councils can do more to house low-income earners
Ian Anderson (Fightback): The housing crisis and the scapegoating of “foreigners”
Education
Peter O'Connor (Herald): Government hell-bent on dismantling public education, says Auckland professor
Laura Dooney (Stuff): Wellington schools worse off under targeted funding
Pattrick Smellie (Stuff): Winds of change need to blow through tertiary education sector
Environment
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Opinion: Why NZ's Paris Agreement commitment is lacking
Isobel Ewing (Newshub): NZ signs Paris climate deal, but no plans to cut emissions – expert
No Right Turn: Climate change: More empty promises
Dion Tuuta (Stuff): Meaningful dialogue the key to resolving Kermadec impasse
Aaron Smith misconduct
The Civilian: Prime Minister under fire for taking whole 6 hours to respond to Aaron Smith having sex in toilet
Matt Richens (RNZ): Time to flush away moral outrage over Smith
Martyn van Beynen (Stuff): Why we are captivated by Aaron Smith's airport hijinks
Laura Walters, Philip McSweeney (Stuff): Aaron Smith: Star halfback leaves All Blacks tour in disgrace after airport toilet tryst
Jim Kayes (RadioLIve): Spare me the moral outrage over Aaron Smith
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): An All Black having sex in a toilet should only shock you if you take your moral and ethical cue’s from people who are good at kicking and catching balls
Stephen Franks: The Rugby Union’s clerical duties
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Some key learnings from the Aaron Smith sex toilet scandal
Kiwisaver
Patrick O’Meara (RNZ): Halted KiwiSavers show 'too many working poor'
Rob Stock (Stuff): The winners and losers in the great $2 billion KiwiSaver switcheroo
Employment
Christopher Adams (Herald): The public servant on more than $1m
Laura McQuillan (Stuff): Where are incomes highest - and lowest - in NZ?
Ben Irwin (Newshub): Employers urged to break 'bamboo ceiling'
TVNZ: 'Our members deserve answers' - PSA slams government proposal to scrap Ministry of Justice jobs
Economy
Vernon Small (Stuff): IMF, OECD are urging governments to borrow and spend, but is English for turning?
Brian Fallow (Herald): What could possibly go wrong?
Other
Dita de Boni (TVNZ): National no fans of the young, but is Labour any better?
Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Sins of Omission: Why Phil Twyford’s Most Recent Post Fails To Convince
Nick Grant (NBR): Is Brash’s ‘Kiwi/iwi’ redux getting traction? (paywalled)
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Herald hires columnist who threatens violence
Libby Wilson (Stuff): Parents slapped, kicked and used skipping rope to discipline kids
Stuart McMillan (Incline): NZ gets closer to a more militarily active Japan
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On dairy farming, the battle for Mosul and drugs in sport
Michael Reddell (Croaking Cassandra): Envy of the world, or middling at best?
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Electoral Act changes
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Blog Stats
The Standard: Our most effective Prime Minister
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Our most effective PMs
Danny Keenan (The Spinoff): The disgrace of Parihaka by Danny Keenan
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Public Polls September 2016
Amy Brooke (100 Days to democracy): New Zealand’s own media are promoting our home-grown racism
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): TV Review: Doubt – The Scott Watson Case
George Elliot (Critic): While the Labour movement has an existential crisis, what about the worker and the radical?
Tess McClure (RNZ): Brutal seas: Meet the men enslaved to catch our fish
Richard Harman (Politik): Germany to talk refugees (and trade) with NZ
Rosemary McLeod (Stuff): Brash and Craig live in a state of disconnect
Claire Trevett (Herald): Act man starting to sing his own song
Ben Bathgate (Stuff): Tamati Coffey to take on Flavell for Waiariki seat
Matthew Martin (Bay of Plenty Times): Coffey says he can beat Flavell
Hannah Lee (Taranaki Daily News): Maori Party wouldn't say no to New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd joining ranks
John Drinnan (Herald): MediaWorks' man with the news
Neil Chenoweth (Stuff): John Key keeps lid on hidden billions
Raybon Kan (Herald): The burqa - a mistake we made to get here
Matthew Reid (Press): Opinion: NZ must show leadership and urge states to stop bombing hospitals
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Government wants North Korea plane info 'urgently'
Tim Pankhurst (Herald): Fish dumping universal but can be fixed, says Seafood NZ
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Prime Minister John Key's presence at Waitangi Day 2017 not confirmed
Garrick Cooper (Herald): Social scientists are too quick to deny racism
Noel Cox (Herald): New Zealand doesn't need a written constitution
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