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NZ POLITICS DAILY: August 26 2016

NZ POLITICS DAILY: August 26 2016

Fri, 26 Aug 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

Tao Lin (Stuff): David Rankin criticised for flouting health and safety during hoarding saga

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

RNZ: 2000 same sex weddings in three years

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?

RNZ: Prison rape stunt earns radio station rebuke

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

RNZ: Maori students in NZ march for West Papua

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

Jeff McNeill: Our increasingly threatened biodiversity needs a policy embraced by all

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

Stuff: International media batter New Zealand's progressive social welfare legacy

Peter Dunne (RadioLive): The new industrial militants and bullies

Nigel Latta (Stuff): We need to face up to old age

Stuff: Youth justice group Just Speak celebrates five years

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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