NZ Politics Daily: 24 September 2024

Painting of the Beehive building in Wellington, in the abstract style by AI

PUBLIC SERVICE
David Farrar: The role of the public service is not to create shoppers
Luke Malpass (Post): The WFH public sector party is over (paywalled)
RNZ: Government's anti-working from home move a 'total distraction' - union
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Is the end of ‘wfh’ what Wellington needs?
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Working from home: Would more public servants back at the office make a difference?
David Long (Stuff): Wellington's hospitality businesses give thumbs up to return of public servants
Jemima Huston (RNZ): 'Four days a week seems to be the norm', but businesses want more staff in the office
Sapeer Mayron (Post): Will office work directive be a capital lifeline? (paywalled)
RNZ: Watch: Nicola Willis demands tightening of working-from-home public service arrangements
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): For those still working, return to the office: Willis (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Nicola Willis orders public service back into office
Adam Ray (1News): Working from home not an entitlement for public servants - Govt
Mountain Tui: Nicola's destruction

GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): Has government become a public-private partnership?
Andrew Gunn: PM Clarifies What It Fricken Is And Isn’t About
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Businessman Christopher Luxon talks business to business people
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Christopher Luxon sells Onehunga, Auckland, investment property
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): MPs want a four-year term. Should we give it to them? An argument with myself
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Should we have a longer term?
Warrick Cleine (Newsroom): Seinfeld’s lessons for NZ Labour
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Coalition should worry about reality outside, not this theatre of the absurd
Post: Greens mum on plans to discuss waka-jumping Darleen Tana (paywalled)

TRANSPORT
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Government parties disagree on ferry solution
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Interislander: Winston Peters wants rail on ferries, National isn’t so sure (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Interislander replacements: 'We're continuing to take advice' - Willis
Simon Wilson (Herald): Simeon Brown says higher speed limits will grow the economy: Is he right? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): KiwiRail to make cuts to Napier line, year after reopening (paywalled)
Steve Cosgrove (Post): Capital Conversation: How Wellington got its bike lanes (paywalled)
Marie Guerreiro (Herald): Auckland transport emissions pathway: We need to build our streets to supercharge walking and cycling
Mahvash Ikram (RNZ): Scheme that helps young people get a driver licence fears funding cut
Juha Saarinen (Interest): The details of the government's new $27.5 million Low Emissions Heavy Vehicle Fund

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