NZ POLITICS DAILY: Sept 14, 2016
NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 14 2016
Today's content
Opinion Polls
Editorial: Poll gives John Key every chance of a fourth term
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Labour pushed to release own polling result
Rob Hosking (NBR): Labour's weird data obsession and that awkward poll (paywalled)
Newshub: Labour releases polling to defend Little
Greg Presland (Standard): The trouble with polls
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Desperate Little releases Labour’s internal polling
Duncan Garner (Newshub):Andrew Little is 'safe as a rock'
Local government
Brian Rudman (Herald): In the race, but not to win
Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland mayoral contest a shambles for the right
Nick Grant (NBR): Ralston rages at Thomas, Palino vote-splitting in Auckland mayoralty race
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): New mayoral poll: Goff maintains big lead but here comes the Chloenator
Todd Niall (RNZ): Goff jumps further ahead in latest Akl mayoral poll
Stuff: Poll shows Phil Goff retaining big lead in race for Auckland mayor
Alex Ashton (RNZ):Voters not sure who's who in Auckland mayoral race
Joel Maxwell (Dom Post): Leggett to leg-it after two terms: announces proposals to end 'toxic culture'
Gisborne Herald: Candidate lays complaint over mayor's 'koha'
Sam Kilmister (Stuff): Regions' mayoral contenders relaxed on Easter trading
David Loughrey (ODT): Mayoral candidates left out
Jennifer Eder (Stuff): Priscilla Cuddon's council election signs vandalised in Marlborough
Nikki MacDonald (Stuff): Wellington mayoral candidate Nicola Young - politics runs in the family
David Burroughs (Stuff): Want to meet your council candidates? Try speed dating
Family violence law
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): Strangulation, coercion to marry and family violence to be new crimes with tough sentences – Govt
Southland Times Editorial: Govt seeks sense against domestic violence
Demelza Leslie (RNZ):'I've seen the black eyes, no-one talks about it'
Newshub: Women's Refuge hails domestic violence overhaul
Nicholas Jones (Herald): New family violence offences to be created
Emily Spink, Cate Broughton (Stuff): Survivor says domestic violence law changes 'definitely good first step'
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Looking tough on crime won’t solve Domestic Violence in NZ
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): New domestic violence charges won't cure problem long term
Colin Craig defamation trial
Anna Leask (Herald): Rachel MacGregor on Colin Craig - in her own words
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): MacGregor resigned after hearing about Colin Craig's legs dream
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Colin Craig's dream comments made Rachel MacGregor 'upset'
Nicole Bremner (TVNZ): Rachel MacGregor gave Colin Craig back massages because 'he had a bad disease'
Chiefs sexual abuse allegations
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Still no comment on Chiefs by Women's Minister
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Judith Collins, Paula Bennett tell Chiefs to apologise
Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins and Paula Bennett to Chiefs: 'grow up' and apologise
Polly Gillespie (Herald): What the Chiefs vs. stripper saga says about us
Parliament
Jo Moir (Stuff): Parliamentary Service defends blocking email between MP and Fairfax journalist
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Speaker to investigate whether MPs' emails are monitored
Newshub: MP claims emails are being monitored
Herald: Email screening sparks investigation in Parliament
No Right Turn: Parliamentary Services is spying on MPs
Stuff: MPs putting creature comforts ahead of struggling families - Peters
MP health
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM on fainting after Hillary Clinton's scare: 'Maybe it's just the rough and tumble of the job'
Patrick Gower (Newshub): Key, Little confident about their health
Phil Smith (RNZ): Decoding the US election: Candidates' health matters - until it doesn't
Rich-lister justice
Timothy Brown (ODT): Nikolas Delegat's fight for anonymity
Timothy Brown (ODT): Rich-lister's son apologises
RNZ: Delegat's sentence about 'race and class'
TVNZ: Rich-lister's son issues apology as peers say his sentence was too light
Shawn McAvinue (ODT): Claim Delegat got rich person's justice disputed
ODT: Cop bashed by rich-lister's son recovers
Pete George (Your NZ): The Delegat sentence
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): If it takes a 19yr old rich lister kid getting a lenient sentence for you to think the Justice system is racist, you’re not paying attention
Justice
Di White (Spinoff): The NZ justice system chucks 17-year-olds in with adults, and it is a stain on our reputation
Morgan Tait (Herald): Cop: Time to loosen laws around cannabis
Duncan Garner (RadioLive): Stop selling cigarettes? Or is a fog cannon the answer?
ODT: Editorial – NZ's youth (in)justice system
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Why is the Government backtracking on publishing court judgments?
Water quality
Claire Trevett (Herald): Government announces inquiry into Havelock North water contamination
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): What’s in our water? The alarming new threats to New Zealand’s drinking water
Child welfare
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ comes under UN scrutiny over its treatment of children
Jess Berentson-Shaw (Morgan Foundation): Are there more poor families with children in New Zealand this year?
Housing
TVNZ:Majority want Govt action on affordable housing - poll
Herald: 53 per cent say drop in property values worth it for affordable housing: poll
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Get moving already
Other
Elton Rikinana Smallman (Stuff): Mahuta, Morgan in 'a fight to the death' for the Maori vote
Rachel Stewart (Stuff): New Zealand moving closer to Winston Peters
Hamish Fletcher (Herald): Revealed: 252 Kiwis are worth more than $50 million
Peter Dunne (RadioLive): NZ looks likely to end its current Security Council term “not with a bang, but a whimper”
No Right Turn: Frank Bainimarama should not be welcome
Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Dinner dispute: Will John Key have to go to court as witness to man's night out at the Green Parrot?
John Weekes (Stuff): Airport security breach data shows Brownlee only culprit made to pay fine
Charlie Gates (Stuff): Revealed: The secret Cold War maps of New Zealand made by Soviet Russia
Jo Moir (Stuff): Taxi fares will come down with the introduction of new regulations - Simon Bridges
Mikaela Collins (Northern Advocate): Treaty deadline looms over Maori authority
No Right Turn: Not credible
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Winston Peters ejected for 'crap' retort
Eileen Goodwin (ODT): DHBs accuse union of 'scare' bid
Margot Taylor (ODT): Otago University goes 'fossil free'
Richard Harman (Politik): Auckland v NZ over power charges
Panui: Other salient Maori news items for the week to 9 September 2016
Stuff: Newsreader walks out as Mike Hosking declares it's 'man's time' on show
World socialist website: New Zealand: Anti-TPP protests promote economic protectionism
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