Mentions of Otago Daily Times in New Zealand Parliament debates
Otago Daily Times has been mentioned in 49 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 28 Sep 2011
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... shoehorning into voting for it. I said so last year, I said so earlier this year, including in an op-ed piece in the Otago Daily Times, and I will say it again: I support this bill. No amount of clever video editing by Labour apparatchiks or ranting ...
Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 5 May 2011
KRIS FAAFOI ... the blood-alcohol limit from 80 down to 50. A Research New Zealand poll of 500 people, which was published in the Otago Daily Times in April last year, showed that 63 percent supported lowering the adult blood-alcohol limit from 80 ...
In Committee 13 Apr 2011
KRIS FAAFOI ... supported lowering the allowable level of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood to 50 milligrams. Again, in the Otago Daily Times on 9 April 2010, a poll of 500 people found that 63 percent supported the lowering of the adult blood-al...
Second Reading 6 Apr 2011
KRIS FAAFOI ... Party at the moment, but it is still talking sense around lowering the blood-alcohol limit. An article in the Otago Daily Times of 9 April 2010states: “A Research NZ poll of 500 people has found 63% support ...
Crown Pastoral Land (Rent for Pastoral Leases) Amendment Bill
First Reading 15 Feb 2011
COLIN KING ... left was not addressed adequately by the Labour Government of the time. It is interesting to look at a comment in the Otago Daily Times dated 10 October 2008 that states: “News this week of the historic property’s purchase came on the eve ...
Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill
First Reading 28 Oct 2010
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... money, but was about terms and conditions of employment. On 27 September the Australian unionist Simon Whipp told the Otago Daily Times that the issue was all about the payment of fees. Last Friday Robyn Malcolm was quoted in the Dominion ...
Electricity Industry Bill
In Committee 21 Sep 2010
CLARE CURRAN ... places in the country during winter, so electricity bills are quite high there. I will refer to an article in the Otago Daily Times last Friday that reported that Contact Energy lost more than 2,000 Dunedin customers in the same ...
Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill
First Reading 18 Aug 2010
CLARE CURRAN ... own city, Dunedin, around this issue. I will read to members an excerpt from an editorial that was published in the Otago Daily Times on 27 July. It states: “In the appendix on page 17 of Creative New Zealand’s ‘Review of Recurrently ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 28 Jul 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... the Urewera. I leave the last word to a young boy from Kavanagh College, who featured in that fine publication, the Otago Daily Times, this morning. Sam Murphy, a year 13 student, wrote to the paper about his concerns that “in many cases,...
Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill 2009
Second Reading 24 Jun 2010
CLARE CURRAN In addressing the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill, I was referring to a worrying editorial in the Otago Daily Times. It described New Zealand’s meat industry as heading for a train crash, and that was reported on 15 June. Our meat ...
Television New Zealand Amendment Bill
First Reading 23 Mar 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... of the media, as a result of which only a handful of media outlets in New Zealand are not foreign-owned. They are the Otago Daily Times, a couple of papers on the West Coast, Radio New Zealand, TVNZ, and Māori Television. We are one of ...
Immigration Bill
In Committee 22 Sep 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ... Dunedin, where they passed a note out through their little prison within the ship to a watersider, who gave it to the Otago Daily Times. It was reported in the newspaper, and then my phone started ringing. After a couple of days I got them off the ship, ...
Appropriation (2009/10 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 26 Aug 2009
Hon MARYAN STREET ... all, the Minister said that she was digging her toes in and that the cuts would not be reconsidered. A report in the Otago Daily Times on 10 August stated “Cuts will not be reconsidered”, but by Wednesday, 19 August, out of Canterbury, ...
General Debate 19 Aug 2009
SANDRA GOUDIE ... and, just like the polls, head south. All 30-plus members headed out to the masses for a series of “love-ins”. If the Otago Daily Times is anything to go by, the “love-ins” were essentially with themselves, because barely anybody turned up. One has only ...
Taxation (Consequential Rate Alignment and Remedial Matters) Bill
Second Reading 19 Nov 2009
RAYMOND HUO ... that is consistent with their marginal tax rate. In the bill’s first reading I cited a news story published in the Otago Daily Times on 23 July this year. The headline reads “Tax change could catch investors off guard”. A tax expert, ...
First Reading 28 Jul 2009
RAYMOND HUO ... catch investors unaware and may see them pay more tax on their investment income. Mr Peter Truman was quoted in the Otago Daily Times as saying: “many New Zealanders did not get around to notifying their financial institutions of their ...
Radio New Zealand Amendment Bill 2009
First Reading 24 Jun 2009
GRANT ROBERTSON ... New Zealanders can be proud of? It is not just the Labour Party that is raising these concerns. An editorial in the Otago Daily Times recently said: “Frozen funding means no pay rises, no money to meet inevitable rising costs, no money ...
CLARE CURRAN ... no money for infrastructural development, and no money to meet new trends and developments in the medium. As the Otago Daily Times assistant editor Simon Cunliffe wrote in an opinion piece in that newspaper this morning, “that does ...
Social Development and Employment
Communities—Community Response Fund 27 May 2009
Hon PAULA BENNETT ... year than the former Labour Government had planned, despite intense pressure to cut spending in the recession.” The Otago Daily Times said that voluntary organisations have welcomed this Government’s handouts to help them through the recession.
Parliamentary Service (Continuation of Interim Meaning of Funding for Parliamentary Purposes) Bill
First Reading 12 May 2009
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... out. However, I cannot let the opportunity go by without referring the House to an editorial this morning in the Otago Daily Times. The editorial makes it blatantly clear that the forced disclosure of funding sources put upon ...
Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2)
Second Reading 5 May 2009
CHRIS HIPKINS ... still a little confused as to what the Government’s position on the racing industry is. I particularly refer to the Otago Daily Times on 27 April. The headline is “Shake-up possible for pokies” and the Minister said: “My priorities in ...
Electoral Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 17 Feb 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... country, and it quotes editorials from the Dominion Post, Christchurch Press, Sunday Star-Times, Waikato Times, and Otago Daily Times. With that I finish my comments on the Electoral Amendment Bill. Thank you very much.
First Reading 12 Feb 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... the other members of the news media. The Dominion Post, the Christchurch Press, the Otago Daily Times, and most other newspapers throughout this country ran campaigns against the Electoral Finance Act. ...
Labour
Minimum Wage Review—Submission 12 Feb 2009
Hon KATE WILKINSON Yes. I have seen a report from the Otago Daily Times, which, unlike the member, could understand that this Government’s decision on the minimum wage was “able to appeal—
Hon KATE WILKINSON Yes. I have seen a report from the Otago Daily Times, which, unlike Mr Mallard, could understand that this Government’s decision on the minimum wage was “able to appeal to ...
Prime Minister
State-owned Assets, Sales—New Zealand Investors 9 Feb 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... I just say how surprised I am that the member is asking me that question, because David Parker was reported in the Otago Daily Times yesterday saying that he would lead the charge on State-owned enterprises.
Canterbury—Irrigation and Water Storage 31 Mar 2010
Hon JOHN KEY ... yesterday have the overwhelming support of all of Canterbury’s district mayors, and I think that represents, as the Otago Daily Times stated, that they have had enough of a dysfunctional Environment Canterbury.
Nine-day Working Fortnight—Fisher and Paykel Appliances 25 Mar 2009
Hon Phil Goff: Secondly, I seek leave to table the statement from the Otago Daily Times where Mr Key states that this new scheme—
Hon Phil Goff It is a statement made in the Otago Daily Times, dated 28 February of this year.
Ministers—Confidence 11 Feb 2009
Hon Phil Goff Why would the Prime Minister have confidence in a Minister whose behaviour is described by the Otago Daily Times as “blatantly partisan scapegoating” and as “having compromised any semblance of the due process,”—that Minister being ...
Hon Phil Goff If the Minister is following proper process, why did the Otago Daily Times describe him as “having compromised any semblance of the due process,”? Is the Prime Minister confident that Mr Ryall ...
Hon JOHN KEY I repeat that the Minister of Health is following due process. I am not responsible for what the Otago Daily Times writes, although I have noted that in recent times it has written some pretty terrible stuff about the Labour Party.
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2008
Third Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... of mediation is available through the Department of Labour. It is interesting to note that the editorial in the Otago Daily Times this morning said: “New law creating opportunities”—and that is exactly what it is meant to do. About ...
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... is about to be visited on us, even though they know that this is actually a very moderate measure. That is why the Otago Daily Times says it is moderate and sensible. Those members know that, but they have to pretend to take a ...
Address in Reply 9 Dec 2008
Hon JOHN KEY ... the new legislation that will repeal and replace the Electoral Finance Act. I cannot remember whether it was in the Otago Daily Times—it may have been in the Dominion Post— but in one of the editorials in the last couple of days a very good point was ...
Companies (Minority Buy-out Rights) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 5 Sep 2008
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... submissions sought from Māori companies. At this point I would like to hold up this article from this morning’s Otago Daily Times, headed “Call for Maori involvement with Business NZ”. I would recommend this article to any member of ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 12 Feb 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... else, particularly from this side of the House. I was very, very amused when I saw this Tremain cartoon in the Otago Daily Times just last week. It shows Mr Key in front of a stall with a summer flip-flop special. Mr Key is saying: “...
General Debate 12 Sep 2007
JOHN KEY ... is what is happening over there. The Prime Minister is fishing in a very shallow pond. Quite interestingly, the Otago Daily Times described Labour this week as being past it. The editorial said Labour members were people who were out of touch. Well, ...
Appropriation (2007/08 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 14 Aug 2007
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... that John Key has been inconsistent about. Let us look at Working for Families. John Key’s old story was in the Otago Daily Times of 5 April where he said: “I actually want to go and have a really good look at Working for Families and the whole ...
Local Government
Rates Rebate Scheme—Uptake 26 Jul 2007
Hon MARK BURTON ... by a politician to the Local Government New Zealand conference that described John Key’s proposals as, to quote the Otago Daily Times editorial, “irritatingly non-committal”. It said that Mr Key vaguely suggested “there would be more money for local ...
General Debate 25 Jul 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... says: “Key plays politics in stance on therapeutics.” He says at the bottom of an article in that august journal the Otago Daily Times: “An Opposition leader with foreign policy experience and a keen sense of foreign policy imperatives would not have ...
Hon RUTH DYSON ... because of Bill English’s commitments. My colleague Steve Maharey quoted the concern of both Colin James and the Otago Daily Times about John Key and Bill English. Fran O’Sullivan, who has not been a strong supporter of our Government in articles ...
General Debate 25 Oct 2006
Hon RUTH DYSON ... House with his pious, sanctimonious bleating about taxpayer money being used on campaigning. On 20 October in the Otago Daily Times he said on the record, then confirmed it subsequently to a number of journalists, that he did not use any taxpayer ...
Health
Neurosurgery Services—Dunedin Hospital 5 Aug 2010
Hon Pete Hodgson I seek leave to table a number of documents. The first is the results of a poll carried out by the Otago Daily Times showing that a 97 percent—
Mr SPEAKER Was this published in the Otago Daily Times?
Health Services—Minister’s Statements 20 Apr 2010
Hon Ruth Dyson ... of it, and therefore, on that basis only, I seek leave to table the letter from Mr Peat published 2 weeks ago in the Otago Daily Times that outlines the situation he is in.
Health Care—Policy 10 Sep 2009
Hon Ruth Dyson I seek leave to table an article from the Otago Daily Times expressing concern—
Health—Front-line Services 5 Aug 2009
Hon Ruth Dyson I seek leave to table an article from the Otago Daily Times outlining cuts to community services for elderly people.
Mr SPEAKER Leave is sought to table an article from Otago Daily Times. Is there any objection? There is objection.
Misuse of Drugs Act—Effectiveness 13 Sep 2006
Jacqui Dean I seek leave to table the following documents. The first is an article from the Otago Daily Times in which the Queenstown Lakes District Council seeks to ban the sale of party pills in licensed premises.
Courts
Justice—Delays 7 Sep 2006
Kate Wilkinson Which statement does the Minister stand by: the one he made in the Otago Daily Times of 18 August that “Better use was being made of settlement conferences and mediations in civil matters”, or his ...
Energy
Oil and Gas Exploration—Royalties 19 Jul 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons When the Minister said in the Otago Daily Times that the rate would be 45 to 50 percent, was he aware that even war-ravaged Angola has been able to negotiate a 60 ...
Sue Bradford I seek the leave of the House to table an article from the Otago Daily Times of 14 July in which the Associate Minister of Energy makes a statement referred to—
Electricity—Supply 6 Apr 2006
Hon David Benson-Pope I seek leave to table media reports from the Dunedin City Council and the Otago Daily Times displaying the reaction of Dunedin citizens to the compulsory sale of the Waipori power scheme.
Education
Education, National Standards—Minister’s Understanding of Consequences 20 Apr 2010
Hon Trevor Mallard ... of national standards also to partly abolish school zoning so that it is easier for students to shift schools, as the Otago Daily Times last week reported the Associate Minister of Education Heather Roy as saying?
Hon Trevor Mallard Is she therefore ruling out Heather Roy’s suggestion, as reported by the Otago Daily Times, that there will be a partial abolition of school zoning?
Trades—Young People 17 Oct 2007
Katherine Rich I seek leave to table an article from the Otago Daily Times that states only five kids are going to take part in his grand pilot next year.
Social Development and Employment, Minister—Complaints 28 Feb 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY I draw the attention of the House to the Otago Daily Times report in which the principal is, in fact, reported as saying that he may not have shown the letter to Mr Benson-Pope. ...
General Debate 7 Dec 2005
JUDITH COLLINS ... Today, of course, he said it did not happen and he could not remember, all in the same breath. This is what today’s Otago Daily Times editorial said about Mr Benson-Pope: “It has succeeded in substantially enlarging the sense that Mr Benson-Pope’s ...
Obituaries - Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald
Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald 9 Nov 2005
... make great beer. He had a fantastic relationship with members of the media in Dunedin, such as Dene MacKenzie of the Otago Daily Times, and the radio station 4XO. They had organised a fundraiser for the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of ...