NZ Politics Daily: 12 June 2024

POLITICAL FINANCE
Andrea Vance (Post): 23 MPs rent back their own homes at the taxpayers’ expense (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon defends MP Tim Costley claiming allowance to live in own flat
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What perks do MPs really get?
Rob Stock (Post): ‘Meaningless’ political lobbying code plan unravels (paywalled)

INQUIRY INTO TE PĀTI MĀORI DATA ALLEGATIONS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): All the inquiries into the Te Pāti Māori allegations
1News: Public Service Commission to conduct independent inquiry amid TPM Census claims
Newshub: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confident investigation will get to bottom of Te Pāti Māori allegations
Gavin Ellis: Andrea Vance makes me mad as hell, and it’s a good thing too
David Farrar: The growing and profitable Tamihere Empire
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): The TPM data claims, explained

PARLIAMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National drops post-Budget, Chris Hipkins pulls ahead of Christopher Luxon in new poll
Dan Brunskill (Interest): The Coalition Government is losing ground in the polls
RNZ: Opposition makes gains in new political poll
Taxypayers’ Union: Gap Between Government And Opposition Narrows
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Taxpayers' Union Poll Fineprint (paywalled)
Matthew Hooton (Metro): Worst Government Ever
Morgan Godfery (Metro): Ready, set, campaign!
Myjanne Jansen (Whakaata Māori): Tamatha Paul and James Meager: what it means to be Māori in Parliament
Richard Prebble (Herald): Act’s coalition gamble puts party in danger at next election (paywalled)

RACE RELATIONS, TREATY OF WAITANGI
Thomas Manch (Post): Cabinet to direct public service to deliver by need, not race, within weeks (paywalled)
The Hui (Newshub): Māori MPs warn fast-track protests foreshadow 'hikois from hell' over Treaty Principles Bill
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Māori activation day organiser happy with the thousands who turned out - and has more days of disruption planned
Charlotte Muru-Lanning (Metro): The Day Everyone Showed Up
Jamie Tahana (Metro): The foreshore and seabed generation
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: Calls for a Māori parliament
Michael Cugley (Te Ao Māori News): Crown responds on day two of Waitangi Tribunal urgent reo Māori inquiry
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Are these tribunal hearings value for money?
Isaac Gunson and Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Māori News): Unpacking the Māori wards referendum: discrimination or democracy?
Mariameno Kapa-Kingi (Herald): Removing Māori wards is a racist, targeted attack on tangata whenua
David Farrar: Does Parliament also need to define taonga?

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