NZ Politics Daily: 11 November 2024

TREATY OF WAITANGI, PROTEST HĪKOI
Claire Trevett (Herald): David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has political rewards for Act and Te Pāti Māori – but not for PM Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill to put rookie MPs to the test
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Protest season begins as Government opens the Treaty debate
Vernon Small (Post): Treaty bill rush on eve of protest hīkoi no coincidence (paywalled)
Caren Fox (E-Tangata): Tearing the Crown-Māori relationship apart
ODT Editorial: Treaty Principles Bill lands (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Principled exercise or pointless division? (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Tribunal report reveals profound, radical impacts of Treaty Principles Bill
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Hīkoi (v.24)
RNZ: Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi: David Seymour open to meeting with organisers
RNZ: Dawn karakia at Te Rerenga Wairua launches national Hīkoi mō te Tiriti
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Hīkoi leader ‘excited and equally nervous’ ahead of march for Treaty of Waitangi
Raphael Franks (Herald): March for the Treaty of Waitangi protest: Convoys start in Northland tomorrow, police plan to spring into action
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): ‘Ka rawe!’: Free legal helpline for Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi
Stuff: Cheat sheet: There’s a Treaty hīkoi going down, what does it mean?
Metiria Stanton Turei (E-Tangata): A modern day muru
Connie Buchanan (E-Tangata): Manufacturing complexity

ABUSE IN CARE
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Govt bars journalist from abuse apology at Parliament
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): Sorry means you don’t do it again
Cushla Norman (1News): Abuse in care survivor wants his precedent setting case to be revisited
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): A hollow apology’: Abuse survivor’s planned protest
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Abuse in care: Survivors, advocates uneasy ahead of national apology
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘We have got to get real with ourselves as a country’: Survivors hope for reckoning at abuse in care apology
RNZ: Abuse in care: Survivors say they were tortured by state employees in psychiatric hospitals
RNZ: Abuse in care: Teen given electric shocks without pain relief, beaten and raped in hospital
RNZ: Abuse in care: Woman received more than 200 electric shocks to 'cure' homosexuality
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): Feeling ‘worthless’ at 62: Abuse survivor calls for redress ahead of national apology (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (SST): Few but mighty: Takatāpui abuse in care survivors speak out (paywalled)

HEALTH, DISABILITY
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): How is Casey Costello able to keep her job? (Paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Auditor-General rejects Labour’s request to probe heated tobacco policy
RNZ: Auditor-General rejects heated tobacco inquiry as out of scope
Mary Williams (ODT): Redesign was not asked for
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Five firms to review retrofit of hospital
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Come all within, you won’t see nothing like the mighty Cliff (paywalled)
Barbara Fountain (Newsroom): Fixing Health NZ an ‘exceptional burden on one individual’ – Treasury
1News: Increase in the number of Kiwis who have diabetes, new data shows
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Whangārei clinic opens for patients who can’t get to a doctor
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Patients carried down stairs all week after lift breaks in Northland hospital
Helen Petousis-Harris (Newsroom): The WHO’s bold step towards a cancer-free future
RNZ: Pharmac green lights free treatment for some thyroid, liver cancer patients
Delphine Herbert (RNZ): 'Why do they let it happen in Dunedin?' - Push for cleaning up drink-filled streets
Derek Cheng (Herald): New study says 60% of cannabis and alcohol users say weed makes them drink less. So, should we legalise cannabis? (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Glimmer of hope for natural health exporters (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): New Hōhepa houses for special needs open at Otaihanga (paywalled)

US ELECTION, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Trump’s win reflects a major political shift in the US, and NZ
Andrea Vance (Post): Why a Trump presidency is not a disaster for NZ foreign policy (paywalled)
Robert Patman (Newsroom): NZ shouldn’t be afraid to call Trump out
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon says he will surely 'catch up' with Trump soon (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): A long, hard winter for the Democrats (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): US elections: Why Kamala Harris lost and the lessons for NZ’s Labour Party (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Climate finance negotiations could be harder after Trump's victory
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Should NZ bet the farm on Trump’s MAGA?
Esther Taunton (Stuff): What will a Donald Trump presidency mean for New Zealand business?
1News: Experts on how Trump presidency affects Pacific, NZ exports
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): Trump’s tariff threat likely to be watered down
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): New Zealand exporters brace for US-China trade war after Trump win (paywalled)
Wayne Brown (SST): When it comes to superpowers, it pays to be friends with both (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: How Trump’s decisive victory came about and what it might portend for us here in New Zealand
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The Kiwi trying to stop the Trump tariffs
Hamish McNicol and Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Longer-term market implications of Trump presidency ‘murky’ (paywalled)
Melody Nixon (E-Tangata): Resist US-led politics while we still can
Ross Stitt (Interest): How the Australian government is preparing for its relationship with the 'new' unmoored and vengeful Trump 2.0 Administration
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: US elections: Media messages from Donald Trump's triumph
Tom Hunt (Post): 18,000 Americans look into moving to NZ the day after Trump won (paywalled)
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Matthew Knott (Sydney Morning Herald): ‘Whitewash’: New Zealand foreign minister blasts Australian Covid inquiry
Thomas Manch (Post): Cash-strapped Defence Force operating under 'austerity', briefings show (paywalled)
Nigel Allardyce (E-Tangata): Citizenship bill achieves ‘very little for very few’
Maire Leadbeater (E-Tangata): New Zealand’s chapter of shame in Sāmoa
Sam Stubbs (Post): The edge Australia has as a place to live - and what we can learn from it
Duncan Garner (Listener): Is it time we became part of Australia?

GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Audrey Young (Herald): Opposition party power rankings - the top 10 (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): How to sack a public servant (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): Increase in public servants using support services (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Hipkins up for the fight: ‘I still love my job’ (paywalled)
Damien Grant (Stuff): Green Party’s U-turn on MP dismissal challenges its core principles
Brent Edwards (NBR): President Trump, Kiwibank, unemployment, Treaty principles
One Roof: PM puts $930,000 price on rental property after pulling it from auction
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Nicola Willis announces Social Investment Board members
NBR: Social Investment Board set up to drive better outcomes (paywalled)
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Crown companies directors’ fees hiked – and some doubled
ODT: Civis: Talented ex MP fails on use of statistics (paywalled)
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Comedy and satire could get new boundaries with new Bill
RNZ: Greens' Copyright (Parody and Satire) bill to be debated in Parliament
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: MPs urged to think wider on Parliament bill
Newsroom: Raw Politics podcast : Act finally gets its shot at the Treaty
Robert MacCulloch: Capital tax - former Revenue Minister David Parker replies

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THREE WATERS
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Govt riding roughshod over local council plans (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Council funding tools generally fit for purpose, Treasury says (paywalled)
Matthew Martin (Waikato Times): An appetite for amalgamation - what do the experts think? (paywalled)
Harriet Laughton (Post):Letter demands mayor takes action after ‘aggressive outburst’, Simeon Brown responds (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Wellington Water seeks $35m from councils for ‘basic’ systems (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): Fury after Wellington public meeting to discuss Civic Square (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): Wadestown Community Centre for sale (paywalled)
Ashleigh McCaull (RNZ): Wellington Zoo glamping plans may be scrapped as city council amends Long Term Plan
Raphael Franks (Herald): Auckland Council criticised over million-dollar Christmas tree for lower Queen St
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Whangārei hapū back in court to stop subdivision, three decades after winning the same case
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua Lakes Council apologises for wrong information on Tarawera sewerage scheme

TRANSPORT
Simon Wilson (Herald): The need for speed: What Cabinet knew when it raised speed limits (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): New tunnels but still seven sets of lights (paywalled)
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Auckland business owners devastated by 96-day rail shutdown
Herald Editorial: Auckland’s 96-day rail shutdown a devastating blow for business owners (paywalled)
RNZ: Auckland rail network to shut nearly 100 days next year
1News: 96 days of full closures on Auckland rail network until end of Jan 2026
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Wellington road’s traffic light conundrum
Francesca Rudkin (Newstalk ZB): We all want new infrastructure - but this is getting frustrating
Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): Blame bandied about in bike rack bus ban blow-up
Zita Campbell (Local Democracy Reporting): Gisborne roads to convert from sealed to unsealed amid budget cuts
Carly Gooch (Press): ‘Silly, stupid, short-sighted’: Cyclists unite over KiwiRail decision (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Neestalk ZB): Health and Safety is off the rails

BOOT CAMPS, JUSTICE, POLICE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Workforce crisis’: The real reasons the Defence Force didn’t want to run boot camps
Derek Cheng (Herald): Numbers of repeat serious young offenders are dropping - and no one knows why (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Prison population exceeds 10,000 for first time in four years
Bernard Hickey (Spinoff): Podcast: The cost of prison
Mike White (Post): More criticism over appointments to wrongful conviction body (paywalled)
LawFuel: How New Zealand’s legal aid crisis is eroding the right to justice
Jaime Cunningham (Herald): Hundreds of police staff criminally investigated since 2021
John Sinclair (North & South): Top cop (paywalled)
Katie Ham (Post): Aussie police embark on recruitment roadshow around NZ (paywalled)
Herald: Stalking to become illegal, punishable by up to five years’ jail
RNZ: Stalking legislation to bring in restraining orders: Justice Minister reveals new details
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Twice convicted sex offender: ‘I’m meant to be a monster and I’m f…ing roaming around’

HOUSING
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Inside the urgent race to solve homelessness in Aotearoa
RNZ: More than 10,000 properties could become uninsurable as climate risks grow - report
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Council to take 'hard line' on non-consented emergency housing motels
Tom Hunt (Post): Kāinga Ora sits on empty $1.5m house for more than three years (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Tentative signs downturn in new home consents may have bottomed out

CLIMATE CHANGE
Kate Newton (RNZ): The hundreds of schools at risk from coastal flooding in major storms caused by climate change
Teall Crossen (Post): Climate finance reckoning is coming for Aotearoa (paywalled)
Dita De Boni (Post): Kiwis need to stop believing their own ‘bullshit’ on climate: Dr Rod Carr (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Explainer: Four things to look out for at COP29 climate summit
Olivia Yates (Post): At this year’s UN climate conference, money is what matters (paywalled)
Murray Jones (BusinessDesk): Carbon Catch-up: Not all emissions are worth the same (paywalled)
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): Rangatahi list climate demands to minister ahead of COP29

EDUCATION
RNZ: Review into school construction cost $112K
RNZ: Rural families panic as government slashes school bus routes
RNZ: NZQA defends difficulty of exams students say were 'ridiculous'
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press): Getting In: Being ‘choosey’ about our children’s education and what the data says (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Study visas for foreign workers' children nearly double since pre-pandemic levels
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): There are benefits to affirmative action policies
Laszlo Szollosi-Cira: Notes on “Robertson’s Grant” for Scholarship Fund
Hanna McCallum (Post): School for teen mums celebrates 30 years (paywalled)

ECONOMY
Brian Easton (Pundit): The End Of Austerianism?
Nikki Macdonald (SST): Young and jobless: The Kiwis whose jobs have ‘fallen off a cliff’ (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The unemployment rate suggests hope
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): 75 point OCR cut needed to aid economy 'stuck in rut', fund manager says

BANKS
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Nicola Willis unveils how the new deposit compensation scheme will be funded (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Compromise over levies for deposit guarantee scheme (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): ANZ NZ CEO sees 'a sense of cautious optimism surrounding NZ's economic future'
RNZ: ANZ posts reduced profit of $2.09 billion year-on-year
Rob Stock (Post): ANZ’s ‘cash’ profit of $2.29 billion up 1% on last year (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): ANZ’s Antonia Watson sees ‘green shoots’ as low interest rates kick in (paywalled)
Jamie Gray (Herald): ANZ’s NZ says cash profit up 1% to $2.3b after a ‘tough’ year
John Anthony (BusinessDesk): ANZ reports $2.28b profit as home loan hardship spikes by half (paywalled)

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