NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 16 2016
NZ POLITICS DAILY: September 16 2016
Today’s content
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Local government
Kurt Bayer (Herald): Candidates could change voter apathy
Caitlin Moorby (Stuff): Little knowledge means few votes in local body elections
Simon Maude (Stuff): Why Auckland's Mums and Dads should vote - a message from Auckland's kids
Matthew Hutching (Newshub): Vote for your DHB - your life could depend on it
Newshub: Getting kids into local politics
Michael Forbes (Dom Post): Polls predict tight race to be Wellington's next mayor
Stephanie Rodgers (Boots Theory): The other war of the polls
Lyndy McIntyre (Daily Blog): A Fairer Wellington
Rob Stock (Stuff): If Auckland Council were a company, it'd be one of our biggest
Andy Fyers (Stuff): Local Government: Rates are up, Government funding is down
Ben Hill (Herald): Auckland mayoral candidate Vic Crone defends climate change comments
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): On the socially contextual nature of treating voters
Simon Maude (Stuff): The politics of power - we rank the influence of the country's mayors
Katie Kenny (Stuff): If councils spent more money on public transport, would we spend less time stuck in traffic?
Henry Cooke and Laura McQuillan (Stuff): Long shots: The quirkiest and most unlikely candidates of local government elections
Andy Fyers, John Edens (Stuff): Local Government: How your council stacks up on dog control
The Civilian: Stakes high in local board election as outcome could affect placement of tree relative to curb
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Best and worst town slogans
Pete Burdon (Media Training): Auckland candidates could learn from Trump
Richard Harman (Politik): The debate the Government has always wanted Auckland to have
Kermadec marine sanctuary
Vernon Small (Stuff): Key must shoulder his share of the blame for Kermadec ship wreck
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Govt can blame itself for Kermadec botch-up
Frances Cook (Newstalk ZB): Maori party attempts to smooth troubled waters over Kermadecs
Waatea News: No cause to walk on Kermadec stuff-up
Jane Patterson (RNZ): Govt seeks safe harbour over Kermadecs controversy
Press Editorial: Talks about controversial Kermadec sanctuary must keep going
Maiki Sherman (Newshub): John Key must concede defeat to the Māori Party
Chris Holden (Newshub): Opinion: 5 reasons why the Māori Party will lose out if it ditches National
Simon Wong (Newshub): Key: 'No chance' Kermadec sanctuary will end Māori Party deal
Sam Sachdeva (Stuff): Kermadecs sanctuary: disagreement with Maori 'not insurmountable', PM says
Isaac Davison (Herald): Govt wants iwi fishing ban in the Kermadecs set in stone
Ben Clark (Standard): Maori Party to make a stand?
Oliver Lewis (Stuff): Top of the South iwi unainamously oppose recreational fishing park in the Marlborough Sounds
Colin Craig defamation trial
Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Colin Craig says he thought of Rachel MacGregor as 'like a sister'
Anna Leask (Herald): Colin Craig's lawyer: 'This trial is not about Rachel MacGregor'
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Sexual harassment complaint 'huge shock' - Colin Craig
Adam Hollingworth (Newshub): Colin Craig admits he 'went too far' UPDATED
Anna Leask (Herald): Colin Craig defamation case: Admits 'inappropriate affection' towards former press secretary
Justice
Duncan Garner (Stuff): The rich irony of our so-called 'justice' system
Graeme Edgeler (Public Address); On Gell-Mann Amnesia; or You Suck at This
Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Shut up, Stuart Nash (with added thoughts on the Nikolas Delegat case)
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): Geddis and Edgeler tell Nash to shit up
Dominion Post Editorial: Delegat sentence leaves unsettling questions
Ben Irwin (Newshub): Protesters demand change after Moko's death
Campbell Gibson (NBR): Collins refusing to comment on Delegat assault case
Martin van Beynan (Stuff): It ain't easy being rich and a criminal
Gender issues
Karl du Fresne (Stuff): Sometimes I feel ashamed at how other men behave
Katherine Dolan (Stuff): New Zealand is no paradise: Is it the most sexist place on earth?
Chelsea Mclaughlin (Stuff): Sexist? Not us, say those living in rural New Zealand
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Women's Minister silent at women's conference
Matt Stewart (Stuff): World co-founder Denise L'Estrange-Corbet talks sexism and equality
Newshub: Pay equality laws due soon
Leilani Momoisea (RNZ): Why is it reigning men at the UN?
Welfare
Gordon Campbell (Werewolf): On welfare blackmail, and drugs in sport
Alicia Burrow (Newstalk ZB): Anne Tolley answering UN's tough questions on children's rights in NZ
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Parliament's 24 hours of bleeding hearts and boiling blood
Education
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Economist accuses daughter's school of 'exploitative child labour' in market day
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Blueprint to resolve weaknesses in education
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Hekia Parata: the minister overhauling the schooling system
Brian Ng (Metro): Education special 2016: The rainbow connection
Jack Close (Spinoff): ‘The idea of living costs is that you’re supposed to live off it.’ An argument for letting students borrow more
Immigration
Kelly Dennett (Stuff): Likely 'thousands' of migrant slaves in New Zealand: Expert
Olivia Carville (Herald): Guilty: First human trafficking convictions in New Zealand
Amanda Saxton (Stuff): Faroz Ali found guilty of human trafficking
Mike Treen (Daily Blog): What you are not being told about the most recent migration surge
Kirk Hope (Stuff): Migration policies should be better calibrated to attract essential skills
Racism
Mohamed Hassan (RNZ): Maori face institutional bias, justice advocates say
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The question shouldn’t be ‘are our Police racist’, the question should be ‘how has it taken NZers so long to realise it’?
Economy
Brian Fallow (Herald): Who shares the gains of growth?
Liam Dann (Herald): Our economy is performing brilliantly ... so are we better off?
Danyl Mclauchlan (Dim Post): A heretical question about inequality
Jason Walls (NBR): English not worried about low GDP per capita growth (paywalled)
Other
Chris Trotter (Bowalley Road): A Better Poll.
Herald Editorial: Latest answers to domestic violence sound too familiar
Stacey Kirk (Stuff): NZ delivers stinging criticism of Afghanistan Govt at Security Council
Newshub: NZ won't offer refugee deal to Nauru
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): All predictions of an Auckland housing market collapse proved wrong: Alexander
Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Is Labour tricking people into joining its mailing list?
Peter Dunne (RadioLive): "We should cherish the fact that we can visit local MPs to discuss problems in confidence"
No Right Turn: Cui Bono?
No Right Turn: Open Government: A dishonest assessment
Morgan Tait (Herald): Better ink stories: NZ cops bare tattoos online
Nevil Gibson (NBR): Economists change tack on measuring rich and poor (paywalled)
Katarina Williams (Stuff): Calls for state broadcaster to reveal pay packets
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