Tiwai Point to close Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Government subsidising practically everything plays hardball with Rio Tinto (paywalled) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Sudden closure of aluminium smelter worst outcome for jobs, consumers and the environment Brian Fallow (Herald): Tiwai closure sad news – and an opportunity for the environment (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan
Taxpayers’ Union ‘Aroha’ Posters Deemed To Be Labour Party Ads The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the ‘Aroha’ posters of Jacinda Ardern, promoted by artists Weston Frizzell and advertiser Phantom Billstickers, does indeed constitute a party advertisement for the Labour Party. This judgment comes after the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union
National Party Covid-19 patient privacy leak Claire Trevett (Herald): The harm for Todd Muller in Hamish Walker’s Icarus moment (paywalled) Cat MacLennan (RNZ): National’s attacks not what we need right now Richard Harman (Politik): How Walker was persuaded to resign Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Does Hamish Walker understand what’
Wednesday 8 July 2020 News: Authentic Partnerships With Regional Council A Top Priority For Iwi And Hapu scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2007/S00164/authentic-partnerships-with-regional-council-a-top-priority-for-iwi-and-hapu. Te Teko blueberry farm largest in Aotearoa – owned by Maori for Maori waateanews.com/waateanews?story_id=MjQ5MzM Iwi apply for 2020 sponsorship fund boprc.govt.
National Party revealed as source of Covid-19 privacy leak Audrey Young (Herald): National’s failures on patient leak from top to bottom (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): National leader Todd Muller found wanting in first real test of moral leadership Jo Moir (RNZ): How the Hamish Walker Covid-19 patient detail leak
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition The power of public bodies to de-platform speakers deserves to be thoughtfully considered and we say it’s a matter of public concern. Unusually the permanent Court of Appeal panel will be hearing the appeal here in Auckland – it will sit in the old Court
Chris Penk The BFD has serialised National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Today is the final extract. “Instead we can dismiss” Let us finish as we began, observing that it was only supposed to be the curve that got flattened, not
Parliament ODT Editorial: Grubby politics wearing thin Zane Small (Newshub): Todd Muller defends Chinese Communist Party-linked National MP Jian Yang, who’s accused of avoiding English media Election 1News; Battle for Northland seat between Matt King and Shane Jones shaping up as a must win for NZ First Newstalk ZB:
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Kind of ridiculous Is there anything more absurd than an instruction to “be kind”? For one thing, it’s illogical. The essence of kindness is that a person acts
Labour Party Thomas Manch (Stuff): It might be ‘team’ Labour, but there’s little doubt about who’s the skipper, and ‘saviour’ Audrey Young (Herald): No ordinary Labour speech by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Labour’s red glow Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour starts election season with
Monday 6 July 2020 News: Work and Income defends against claims of discrimination against women and Maori newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/work-and-income-defends-against-claims-of-discrimination-against-women-and-m-ori.html Waitemata DHB Maori Nurse of the Year announced teaomaori.news/waitemata-dhb-maori-nurse-year-announced Moerewa residents angry about new boiler at Affco meatworks and air quality issues
Jake Hepple had a plane fly over the Etihad stadium with a White Lives Matter banner which drew condemnation from across the UK, but if Black Lives Matter then shouldn’t White Lives Matter also? This is the problem with subversive identity politics, if one group wants to claim they
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Loyal Opposition It’s often said that the Leader of the Opposition has the hardest job in politics. That’s doubly so in a time of national crisis, when
David Clark resigns as Health Minister Audrey Young (Herald): Ex-Health minister David Clark became a distraction to Govt focus on re-election (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): David Clark, the minister who took on an impossible portfolio and lost Jane Patterson (RNZ): Resigned: David Clark bows to inevitability Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour
If you are a huge Jordan Peterson fan as I am you may have wondered what had happened to him as he completely disappeared from public life. This podcast answers that question and many more. Have a hanky handy as you will need it. Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast,
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. An Act of stupidity The passage of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in our Parliament’s history. Replacing
