NZ Politics Daily: 1 October 2024

DUNEDIN HOSPITAL CUTS
Chris Trotter (Interest): No government can survive the level of anger driving one quarter of a major city’s citizens onto the streets
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Dunedin Hospital's low place in infrastructure must-haves list
Richard Harman (Politik): The Dunedin hospital crisis may be about more than just a hospital (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Promising the moon and then blaming gravity (paywalled)
Tara Ward (Spinoff): ‘National hates the south’: On the ground at the Ōtepoti hospital protest
RNZ: Otago mayors told two weeks ago Dunedin Hospital build was still all go - Bryan Cadogan
Grant Miller (ODT): Govt knew of overruns for weeks: Some re-tendering signalled (paywalled)
RNZ: 'This is the start': Dunedin mayor threatens more protests over broken hospital promise
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘They need to come clean’: Government under pressure to reveal full costings for Dunedin Hospital upgrades
RNZ: Key documents about Dunedin Hospital build yet to be released
Anna Whyte (Post): Details of Dunedin Hospital cost blow-out can’t be revealed due to ‘commercial sensitivity’ (paywalled0
Katie Kenny (RNZ): Dunedin Hospital: A timeline of the redevelopment
Anna Rawhiti-Connell (Spinoff): Hospital call adds insult to injury for ‘forgotten’ South
Tim Scott (ODT): Photos: no ordinary protest crowd
Rachel Moore (Stuff): Health Minister defends Government after ‘difficult’ Dunedin hospital call
Hamish MacLean (ODT): PM 'understands frustration' over hospital
Andrew Gunn: Health Minister Praises 35,000-Strong Dunedin Fitness Walk

HEALTH
RNZ: 'Stinks like corruption': Labour on tax cut helping tobacco giant
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Health authorities ditch plan to do data matching on 111 callers in mental distress
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Cancer drug Keytruda free for eligible patients
Ella Somers Interest): Southern Cross CEO says the health insurer has 'never been in more demand'
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): Rise in health insurance sign-ups despite cost-of-living crisis
Shilpy Arora (stuff): ‘No hope’: Migrant nurse spends life’s savings on registration, now leaving NZ
Isaac Davison (Herald): ADHD: Clear link between ADHD and harmful drug use, new report confirms
Coco Lance (RNZ): Navigating Pacific mental health with cultural understanding
Jai Whelan, Taylah John, Rose Crossin, Ryan Ward (Newsroom): Ballooning panic around nitrous oxide helps no one
Torika Tokalau (Local Democracy Reporting): Alcohol sellers failing to check buyer's age
RNZ: Covid-19: 1339 new cases, four further deaths

CAPITAL GAINS TAX, PM’S PROPERTY GAINS
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Can we find an economist who backs Nicola Willis’s CGT stance? Not easily, no
Felix Desmarais (1News): Revealed: Luxon set to gain almost $500k on property sales
Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon moves into refurbished Premier House
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon sells Wellington apartment as he moves into Premier House
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): A capital gains tax is only an answer to a narrow question

GOVERNMENT
Rupert O’Brien (Spinoff): The real reason behind Act’s push to redefine the Treaty principles
Samantha Gee (RNZ): UN Human Rights Office sends please-explain to NZ government
Allan Brent: Principles
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Five big, two unexpected, and one absent promise in Luxon’s final 2024 quarterly plan
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government remembers the virtue of doing things people actually like (paywalled)
RNZ: Watch: PM Christopher Luxon targets infrastructure in latest quarterly plan for government
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Red tape, foreign interference in crosshairs of Government as it releases latest action plan
Sam Smith (Stuff): Government to focus on infrastructure in next quarter
Post: PM’s terse exchange with reporter over property sale (paywalled)
Anna Murray (1News): October brings changes: The Govt policies taking effect from today

PARLIAMENT
Simon Wilson (Herald): Come on Chris Hipkins, it’s time to step up or step aside (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): National MP David MacLeod reappointed to select committees after donations scandal
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Jacinda Ardern cashes in on her time in public office
Samantha Hayes (Stuff): Why Sir John Key thinks Donald Trump should win the US election
Juliette Sivertsen (Stuff): ‘No regrets’: Carmel Sepuloni departs Celebrity Treasure Island to emotional song by teammates

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