NZ Politics Daily: 13 August 2024

WELFARE
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Welcome to the benefit Olympics
Stewart Bowman-Lund (Spinoff): The green light flicks on for tougher beneficiary sanctions
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New sanctions for beneficiaries, but minister doesn’t know what happens post-sanction
Russell Palmer and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Government benefit sanctions 'waging a war on the poor' - Greens
Felix Desmarais (1News): Government increases benefit sanctions
RNZ: Watch: Government further increases sanctions for beneficiaries
Julia Gabel (Herald): Cruel policies and benefit bashing: Government’s political opponents slam new social welfare sanctions
Bryan Bruce: Shape Up or Ship Out! (Paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Government imposes new sanctions on Jobseekers
Kelly Dennett (Post): Tougher sanctions for beneficiaries to be introduced next year (paywalled)
Susan St John (Daily Blog): Just listen to Matthew Hooton and apply market-based technology to solve complex social problems
Herald Editorial: Emergency housing: Not even Houdini could make that many families disappear from the listt (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Advocates query suitability of new homes for those leaving emergency housing (paywalled)
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Not everybody wants to be at the mercy of a failed social housing system

GOVERNMENT, FAST TRACK, PUBLIC SECTOR
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Bishop: Releasing list of fast-track applicants ‘would lead to lobbying’
Anne Gibson (Herald): Retirement giant Generus Living Group wins fast-track consent for 13-level block at $500m Parnell village (paywalled)
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): If it walks like austerity and talks like austerity
Dave Armstrong (Post): An updated letter from Goldo to Burko (paywalled)
RNZ: How many public sector roles are going, and from where?
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Merging of Crown Research Institutes on the cards (paywalled)

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Transport Minister confirms congestion charges, but predicts speed bumps
1News: Govt to introduce congestion charge bill
RNZ: Government accelerates congestion charging plans
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Government agrees on policy guide for congestion charging (paywalled)
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown vs Simeon Brown: Minister hints Wellington may run transport in Auckland (paywalled)
David Long (Stuff): Minister looking to take policy to cabinet to strip Auckland Transport of its power
Jonathan Killick (Post): How congestion charging is likely to affect Auckland (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Minister slows down moves to speed up traffic (paywalled)
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Consumers benefited from axing Auckland fuel tax, study finds
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Kiwi road maintenance crisis as resurfacing costs increase 50% in six years (paywalled)
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Explained: The bridges to nowhere on Auckland’s motorway

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