NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 13

Today’s content

Opinion polls

Corin Dann (TVNZ): ONE News Poll: National rides high, Labour slips to lowest since election

Claire Trevett (Herald): New poll spells bad news for Labour - slumps to 26 per cent.

Stuff: Labour falls to 26 per cent in new poll, NZ First rises after immigration concerns

TVNZ: Winston Peters could be kingmaker as NZ First rises in polls

TVNZ: Andrew Little calls ONE News poll 'bogus' as Labour slips to two-year low

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): How low can Labour go?

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Latest poll

Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): Ever decreasing circles

Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): New TVNZ Poll highlights how hard 2017 election will be

Rob Hosking (NBR): Poll slump for Labour raises more questions about current direction

Pete George (Your NZ): On bogus polls

Phil Quin (Stuff): Should Labour replace Little? It won't solve anything

Jo Moir (Stuff): Little says latest Colmar Brunton poll at odds with other polls including their own

Local government

Simon Wong (Newshub): Council's 'corny' campaign to attract voters

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Auckland mayoral candidate Vic Crone missing from debates

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Goff not ruling out a council job for Len Brown

Bernard Orsman (Herald): Bill Ralston and Mike Lee fight it out for Waitemata and Gulf ward

Simon Maude (Stuff): Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas to refocus campaign

RNZ: Thomas asked to pull out of Auckland mayoral race

Herald: Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas asked to withdraw from race

Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Complaint laid over Gisborne mayor's $20 koha

Michael Sergel (Newstalk ZB): Chloe Swarbrick protests exclusion from mayoralty debates

Simon Maude (Stuff): Key Auckland Council races: who to watch

Simon Maude (Stuff): Boring Auckland mayoral candidates can't trump 'The Donald'  

Daisy Hudson (Stuff): DHB election system criticised for lack of rural representation

Ruby Macandrew (Stuff): Mayoral candidate Nick Leggett would provide rates relief for Wellington retirees

Blake Crayton-Brown (Stuff): How hard is it to get a straight answer from Hutt City Council candidates?

Jack Barlow (Stuff): Wellington mayoral candidate Justin Lester pledges one-stop shop for council consents

Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Leggett to leg-it after two terms: announces proposals to end 'toxic culture'

Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Mark Thomas, the most tragic man in NZ politics, just became more tragic

Ralph Hogan (Stuff): Time for accountability in Kaikoura

Housing

Alex Ashton (RNZ): Beneficiaries pay hundreds to live in caravans

Mei Heron (RNZ): 'More money, more places' for homeless – PM

Chris McDowall (Spinoff): The surging cost of renting an Auckland house, in one terrifying animation

Kyra Dawson (Rotorua Daily Post): Spare rooms put up for homeless (+video)

Anne Gibson (Herald): Chinese house buyers inquiries up 50pc

Bryan Gould: How Was the Fortune Made?

Matthew Brockett and Tracy Withers (Stuff): Antipodean housing booms could drive NZ dollar to historic parity with Australia

Colin Craig defamation case

Anna Leask (Herald): Rachel MacGregor: 'Colin Craig's comments made me angry, uncomfortable, upset'

Anna Leask (Herald): Colin Craig defamation trial: Rachel MacGregor to give evidence

RNZ: Plaintiff's mother: Colin Craig's leaflet was 'revenge'

Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Colin Craig needed chaperone around MacGregor - Stringer 

Morgan Tait (Herald): Colin Craig trial: Jordan Williams breaks down in tears as mother takes stand

Yvonne Tahana (TVNZ): 'It was all in his head' - former Conservative Party board member denies strategy to defame Colin Craig

Yvonne Tahana (TVNZ): Colin Craig allegedly 'predatory' towards secretary

Michael Allan (Newstalk ZB): Smear campaign against Colin Craig 'all in his head', Stringer tells court

Chiefs sexual abuse scandal

Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Opinion: Minister for Women? Yeah, right

Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Labour says Women's Minister Louise Upston should reconsider role after response to Chiefs case

Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): John Key backs Women's Minister Louise Upston over response to Chiefs stripper scandal

Barry Soper (Herald): Chiefs players need to apologise

Chris Trotter (Stuff): Unpacking the Right's response to the Chief's stripper scandal

TVNZ: 'I'm sorry for her that she went': Councillor and Don Brash's date lashes out at NZ Rugby over Chiefs stripper scandal

Environment

RNZ: Iwi pulls out of Kermadec support trip

Simon Wong and Maiki Sherman (Newshub): Little room to move on Kermadec sanctuary – Key

Isaac Davison (Herald):Iwi seek Kermadec compromise with Govt

Newshub: 'A shame' NZ won't support marine protection motion

Family violence

Nicholas Jones (Herald): Family violence law changes coming as John Key says women need better protection from the law

Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Domestic violence charges on the cards

Newshub: New measures to curb family violence

Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Govt to make sweeping domestic violence changes

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): New family violence laws

Education

Lizzie Marvelly (Herald): Hey, Hekia, leave those teachers alone!

Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): Fear not facts driving 'white flight'

Rob Salmond (Public Address): Behavioural economics and Hekia Parata

Mava Moayyed (RNZ): Wireless: Fear and loathing: tough tactics to get loan borrowers to pay up

Race and ethnicity issues

Nicole Lawton (Stuff): New Zealand education accused of subtle racism and told it needs to 'brown up'

Aaron Smale (RNZ): Accusations of racism in health funding

Ruth Brown (NZ Doctor): Fear of political fallout hinders real progress in Maori health: Physician

Laura Bootham (RNZ):Iwi wants Karori campus land back

Te Wharepora Hou: Crown Processes Continue To Abuse Māori

Mike Hosking (Herald): Chinese blame-game a cloak for racism

Rich-lister justice

Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): 'It nearly destroyed her life', rich-lister's son told after punching female police officer

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Would he have got community service if he was a South Aucklander?

Dan Satherley (Newshub): Delegat's light sentence down to wealth and skin colour - Police Association

RNZ: Police unhappy with son of wine magnate's sentence

Justice

Newshub: Greens support call for youth justice reform

Dan Satherley (Newshub): 17 old enough to face adult court – McVicar

Daily Blog: Include all children in our youth justice system: An open letter to PM John Key and Cabinet Ministers

Nicole Lawton (Stuff): Under-staffed and under-trained police cause loss in confidence - Stuart Nash

Parliament

Vernon Small (Stuff): Parliament poised for major building revamp, including plan for new office block

Vernon Small (Stuff): Speaker backs new office block: 'Parliament should own its own premises'

David Farrar (Kiwiblog): A new building for Parliament?

Doug Bailey (Stuff): Should politics be a career in itself?

Laura Walters (Stuff): Parliament through the eyes of a rookie

Health

Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Nationwide rally for legalisation of medicinal cannabis to take place outside police stations

Press Editorial: Clearer rules around 'vaping' and e-cigarettes are likely to benefit smokers

Other

Adam Dudding (Stuff): Are NZ politicians joining the international tide of post-truth politics?

Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Party leadership not for the fainthearted

Newshub: ACT Party: Why vote National?

Stacey Kirk (Stuff): ACT blasts tax redistribution - accuses National Government of socialism

Greg Presland (The Standard): New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *

Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On the government’s selective lethargy

Colin James: Rule by citizens and remaking the constitution

Rodney Hide (Herald): Winston is the MP who keeps going and going

Shannon Haunui-Thompson (RNZ): Mahuta questions Māori Party president's roles

Brian Gaynor (Herald): Social responsibility a rising priority for funds

Herald: John Key denies offering to pay man's dinner bill

Talia Shadwell (Stuff): Dispute with Prime Minister John Key over $82 dinner bill heading to court

Dan Satherley (Newshub): Key denies offering to pay unemployed man's dinner bill

Isobel Ewing (Newshub): Unexpected discoveries on a trip with the PM

Lloyd Burr (Newshub): New Navy ship a rip off, NZ First claims

Neal Curtis (Herald): Lucky generations squandered benefits of post-war social mobility

Liam Hehir (Stuff): A New Zealand republic is less than inevitable

Jacinda Ardern, David Seymour (Stuff): 'Is anyone protecting our heritage buildings?'

Deborah Russell (Briefing Papers): New Zealand’s tax system: Internal coherence is not enough

Claire Trevett (Herald): NZ to convene Security Council meeting after 'provocative' North Korea nuclear tests

Newshub: PM, Pacific leaders to discuss climate change

Vernon Small (Stuff): Key's press secretary scores encouraging words from POTUS

Andrew Gunn (Stuff): Labour leader parties on rugs, ends up naked and unconscious

Fran O'Sullivan (Herald): NZ refuses to learn lessons of failure

Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Kiwis ignore millions offered by Government

Herald: Ministry of Social Development poised to spend millions to make WINZ offices safer after judge rules

Herald: Kiwi soldiers accused of war crimes in the Battle of the Somme in World War I

Brian Easton (Pundit): Developing Our Understanding of Poverty

Mike Treen (Daily Blog): The truth about migration Part 2

Richard Harman (Politik): Bridges' new Uber law

Alicia Burrow (Newstalk ZB): Govt compared to Stalinist Russia as it considers revision of Marine Crimes Act

Daily Blog: Is the pope catholic? 5:30pm tonight Ika

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