NZ Politics Daily: 1 July 2024

Guy Ngan - Parliament Buildings

INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT
Luke Malpass (Post): KiwiRail, iRex and how not to get a minister to agree with you (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): NZ spends so much on infrastructure, yet gets so little (paywalled)
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Why cancellation of Cook Strait mega ferry contract is taking so long
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Government costing us billions in political back-and-forth
Anna Murray (1News): Rough road ahead? Why NZ's transport network is struggling
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Infrastructure, transport failures highlight need for timely investment (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): The problem with government companies (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. the grounded Aratere ferry
1News: Government opens applications for $1.2b infrastructure fund
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Regional Infrastructure Fund focuses on loans, investments - not grants
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Regional Infrastructure Fund: Government’s $1.2b fund for the regions opens to applicants; Building disaster resilience (paywalled)
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): $166 million bridge linking Hamilton to new subdivision set to open
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Three Waters replacement opens fresh wounds (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland fuel tax: AA puts fuel companies on notice ahead of tax's removal
RNZ: Aucklanders wake to lower fuel prices
RNZ: Questions over who will get national transport ticketing system first
RNZ: Wellington bus, train and ferry fares to increase by 10 percent
Frances Chin (Post): Metlink to lift fares in Wellington from July 1 (paywalled)

LAW AND ORDER, JUSTICE, POLICE
1News: NZDF documents reveal serious concerns about youth offender boot camps
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Defence staff suffer 'serious mental harm' from running course cited as boot camp blueprint
Anna Whyte (Post): Government warned against boot camps for youth with trauma, disabilities (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): How Christopher Luxon’s law and order reforms line up with the evidence (paywalled)
1News: Law and order blitz not making people feel safer, poll suggests
Claire Achmad (Post): How the Children’s Commissioner wants to see youth justice tackled (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Crime and punishment: The kids aren’t all right (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): The two main issues with the Three Strikes Law 2.0 (paywalled)
Janine Starks (Post): If the banks won’t act on scams, here are the measures they should have to take (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Are the sentences fair? (paywalled)
Mike White (Post): Jailhouse snitches still widely used by cops (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Police were about $5m in debt when water coolers removed to save $11k per year
Frances Chin and Virginia Fallon (Post): Police crackdown ‘just makes it more fun’, street racer says (paywalled)
Frances Chin (Post): Street racing crackdown continues (paywalled)
Poppy Clark (Stuff): Arrests made, multiple cars impounded in police operation across country
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): Almost 500 infringement notices issued as police crack down on boy racers
RNZ: Police take 19 cars, issue 138 fines in Wellington boy racer crackdown
RNZ: Police launch national crackdown on illegal street racers
RNZ: Police impound cars, issue infringement notices after eight illegal 'skid meets' in Canterbury

HEALTH
Janet Wilson (Post): The high price to be paid for a botched policy on cancer drugs (paywalled)
Rachel Thomas (Post): A record $604m drug boost, but still there are Givealittle pages (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Govt reveals new mental health targets, hints at alcohol law reform in health roadmap
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Calls for patient safety advocate as medical regulation delayed
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): 'More, rather than less effort' needed to fight Covid-19 - Michael Baker
RNZ: No more free GP visits for adults, some teens with Covid-related illness
Niva Chittock (RNZ): Covid Healthline wrapped up as public health system's approach to virus changes
Haimona Gray: Was Health New Zealand A Mistake?
Hannah Martin (Stuff): The $5 prescription fee is back, here’s what to know
Fiona Ellis (ODT): Nurse recruiting ‘stopped’ (paywalled)
Laura Frykberg (Stuff): Lower Hutt man feeling ‘vulnerable’ after GP closes off in-person doctor appointments
RNZ: Auckland surgical centre finally opens after staff shortage causes months-long delay
Stuff: New Zealand’s newest hospital facility opens in Auckland
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Almost half of Southern clinical psychology roles vacant
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Trust hospitals still waiting for pay parity
Sapeer Mayron (Post): What can we learn when we study Aotearoa’s history of depression? (paywalled)

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