NZ POLITICS DAILY: August 26 2016
NZ POLITICS DAILY: August 26 2016
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Local government
Elena McPhee (Stuff): No police checks for potential councillors in Marlborough
Todd Niall (RNZ): Auckland Council agency to review election sign rules
Nick Truebridge (Press): Mayoral candidate John Minto pledges to cut high council salaries and fight 'widespread homelessness'
Steven Cowan (Against the current): Community need, not corporate greed
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas pledges veto powers on council decisions
Tim Murphy (Spinoff): Housing crisis uselessness costing National in Auckland – Spinoff poll
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Phil Goff puts up billboard at John Banks' old house
Bernard Orsman (Herald): T-shirts and koha fund frugal campaign
Michael Forbes (Stuff): Wellington's mayoral candidates reveal where they stand on light rail for the capital
Dom Post Editorial: Cost still the question mark over light rail
Jarred Williamson (Stuff): Arthur Anae resigns over DHB's plan to sell land to the Government
Todd Niall (RNZ): Insight: The Contest to be Auckland's Next Mayor
Brian Fallow (Herald): Who'll pay the price of growth?
Herald Editorial: Sometimes, council ought not to listen
Education
ODT: Editorial – Education changes coming
David Small (Herald): Stockpiling pupils' data jars with right to privacy
Steve Maharey (Stuff): Delivering an education fit for the 21st century
Eric Crampton (Offsetting behaviour): Who's progressive?
Rodney Hide (NBR): Charter school shines, waning union whines (paywalled)
Time-waster bills
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Law to scrap annual report mail-outs criticised as a waste of time
Simon Wong (Newshub): National attacked for 'time-waster' Bills
Vernon Small (Stuff): Another minor National bill drawn from ballot amid Opposition complaints
Jason Walls (NBR): Another National MP's ballot bill under fire (paywalled)
Easter trading reforms
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Councils can now allow Easter Sunday trading
Jason Walls (NBR): Government passes baton to local councils over Easter trading
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Easter trading change leaves councils to 'face the flack'
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Slightly saner Easter trading law passed
Diversity issues
Herald: Police boost female ranks
Bev Cassidy-Mackenzie (Herald): Diversity -- it's just good business
Matt Jackson (Herald): Giving work the big tick
Helen Twose (Herald): Facing violence, the taboo topic
Helen Twose (Herald): Engineering a 50/50 gender split
Drug reform
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Release of cannabis document sparked debate within Treasury about public access to information
Keith Locke (Daily Blog): Popular reforms being stymied by National and Labour
Nina Hindmarsh (Stuff): Meet Rebecca Reider: The woman who legally brought cannabis into New Zealand without a sniff from Customs
PM prison rape joke
Vernon Small (Stuff): Key washes hands of soap 'joke' but has he learned his lesson?
Health
Patrick O’Sullivan (Herald): New probe into gastro water crisis
Jessica Long (Stuff): Professors push for tougher control of alcohol
John Gibb (ODT): Water incident a wake-up call: prof
Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Parliament's public entrance goes smokefree, but total ban stubbed out
Other
Toby Manhire (Herald): Welcome, Brexpats, to our COOL country
Benedict Collins (RNZ): Govt's 'silence' on detention camps condemned
Vernon Small (Stuff): Defence links with China, US 'not mutually exclusive' – Brownlee
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): The new Parliamentary website
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government urged to tear up surplus carbon credits, not use them to meet target
John Drinnan (Herald): Bravo for the Real Housewives
Ben Thomas (Spinoff): Wake up sheeple! The problem with Gavin Ellis’ Complacent Nation
Nevil Gibson (NBR): After the UN, where does Helen Clark go?
Russell Brown (Public Address): Orcon IRL on Journalism: The Video
Matt Nippert (Herald): How can I say no to the KiwiSaver nasties?
Simon Plumb (Herald): Destiny Church co-leader Hannah Tamaki splashes out on second Mercedes-Benz in seven months
Peter Dunne (RadioLive): The new industrial militants and bullies
Nigel Latta (Stuff): We need to face up to old age
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Millennials have fast-changing career paths ahead – and 'it's not about the money'
Richard Harman (Politik): New Zealand takes on the super powers at the UN
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