NZ Politics Daily: 19 July 2024
HEALTH
Janet Hoek, Jude Ball, Andrew Waa, Anna Graham-DeMello, Richard Edwards, and Melissa-Jade Gregan (Public Health Communications Centre): Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press/Post): Tobacco companies gain customers as NZ cuts tax on addictive devices (paywalled)
RNZ: Watch: Minister Casey Costello says heated tobacco tax cuts a 'trial'
Mountain Tui: 'Corruption First' Strikes Again
Rachel Thomas (Post): ‘There’s no money’ sick man needing life-saving La-Z-boy told (paywalled)
RNZ: 'We are struggling': Limited resource to administer new cancer drugs
RNZ: Minister confirms hospitals starting ED mental health scheme
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Five hospital emergency departments to trial mental health support workers
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘Disjointed, broken’: Suicide survivor calls for change after 20-hour stint in ED
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): Kaupapa Māori study ‘reaffirms’ oral health inequities disproportionately affect Māori
Anna Murray (1News): GP fees explained: How your doctor sets their prices
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): Underfunding, staff shortages, burnout: Why many GPs are turning away new patients (paywalled)
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): GPs disappointed with ‘insufficient’ increase in Government funding (paywalled)
Luka Forman (RNZ): Hopes of ADHD diagnosis sink for many
1News: Health expert slams Govt's signalled shift on insulation
PARLIAMENT, WEEK IN POLITICS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): As “the megaphone” for mining, is Shane Jones too lax on lobbying?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Empty tubthumping? Winston Peters yet to hear from Chumbawumba and Bob Carr
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Shane Jones accuses Te Pāti Māori of playing the Harry Potter ‘muggles’ blood shaming game
RNZ: ERA claims against Darleen Tana's husband's business being assessed by liquidator
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The next steps of the Darleen Tana saga, explained
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): How long will Darleen vs the Greens go on for?
Nik Dirga (RNZ): Trump assassination attempt - How well are NZ politicians protected?
Brent Edwards (NBR): Common ground, climate differences, inflation, speed cameras
Newsroom: Raw Politics: To cut Orr not to cut
Greg Dixon (Listener): Why the Act Party is the petty party (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Snap! Labour still wary of broad church
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Bridges and betrayal: the Lange-Douglas letters
HOUSING
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Property investors rake in $500 billion over 30 years
Philippa Howden-Chapman & Lucy Telfar-Barnard (Post): Why rolling back housing insulation is a bad idea (paywalled)
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): Cat pee, mould and rubbish, for $450 a week
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua neighbours of former reserve reflect on its sale, councillor questions price
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Are you missing out on secret special interest rates?
RNZ: First-home buyers to benefit from flat housing market - CoreLogic
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Natural Hazards Commission looks into subsidising homeowners to make their properties more resilient (paywalled)
John Collyns (BusinessDesk): Why BERL's analysis of NZ retirement villages’ business model is flawed (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT
Rob Stock (Post): NZ could lose the ability to feed itself, climate adaptation inquiry told (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Government won’t get as many carbon-catching forests as its banking on, industry says (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): Explainer: What’s in the second emissions reduction plan – and will it work?
David Williams (Newsroom): Govt’s climate emissions tool will prolong fossil gas
Gisborne Herald: Emissions plan meets first two budgets - East Coast MP Dana Kirkpatrick
Greg Presland (Standard): National’s carbon budget is a crock
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): NZ's climate change ambassador Kay Harrison resigns (paywalled)
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Te Tai Kaha Māori Fights Resource Management Bill Changes
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): PSA claims win over Ministry of Education job lay-offs
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): PSA wins legal fight to halt Ministry of Education restructure
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘Another huge process’ ahead for Education Ministry public servants
Julia Gabel (Herald): School attendance: New Ministry of Education data shows slight uptick in number of students attending classes regularly
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Ministry of Education won’t take further action over bullying allegations at Wellington’s St Benedict’s School (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 'Catastrophic' - Universities plead for more government subsidies
Nick Hanne (Plain Sight): Who’s teaching our teachers? Punishing dissenting voices in education
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tom Kitchin (RNZ): The Detail: A tale of two mayors
Erin Gourley (Post): Wellington eyesore just one part of Reading sell-off (paywalled)
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Councillors and staff facing the rising tide of online abuse
Katie Kenny (RNZ): Missing mayors, censured councillors, record rates rises, and Tauranga's return to democracy: What's going on with local government?
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Just 26% of Tauranga residents have voted, with one day until polls close
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Reviving a city’s heart: Tauranga’s commissioners on their big wins
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Councils cutting costs? It won't happen. Here's why
Kim Dungey (ODT): Heritage evaluation takes time (paywalled)
ODT: Waitaki District Council jobs face the axe
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Robert Patman (Newsroom): Foreign interference a bigger threat than we think
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): Security is crucial and we need international partners
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The case for military spending, the 'half-destroyed' rules-based order and a dire warning for NZ (paywalled)
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): NZDF spends $1.35m on IT planning workshops (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Thomas Coughlan and Julia Gabel (Herald): June-quarter beneficiary numbers break Covid record, figures forecast to rise further as economy struggles
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Benefit sanctions increase more than 50%
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Economic outlook improves but Trump looms (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Three quarters of annual inflation was due to cost pressures outside the control of the RBNZ’s monetary policy
ODT Editorial: Taming the inflation beast (paywalled)
1News: Economist: Healthy food costs Kiwis more, regulation is needed
RNZ: Insurance a sticking point as cost of living rises slow
David Chastron (Interest): ANZ & BNZ follow Westpac with term deposit rate cuts
SKYCITY
RNZ: Checkpoint: SkyCity five-day closure 'extremely significant' reminder of casino's obligations
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: SkyCity Auckland casino five-day closure: how did it breach its host requirements?
RNZ: Sky City to close for five days over breaching host requirements
NBR: SkyCity Auckland to close for five days in deal with DIA (paywalled)
LAW AND ORDER, JUSTICE
David Harvey (Listener): How the government really could get tough on crime (paywalled)
Christine McCarthy (Newsroom): Why phones in prison cells are a good call
MEDIA
Samuel Robinson (RNZ): The news has become 'generic and safe' - David Farrier on the state of NZ media
Eric Crampton: Shakedown finances
David Farrar: NZ Initiative on Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill
Shayne Currie (Herald): Media Insider: Film and advertising genius Tony Williams on his famous Crunchie train robbery, Dear John and Bugger TV ads; Taxpayer funding for Philip Polkinghorne murder case documentary (paywalled)
TRANSPORT
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Interislander Aratere ferry returns to service, fourth KiwiRail director quits, ex-army colonel joins executive
1News: Public transport fares to be capped at $50 a week for Aucklanders
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Calls for airfare inquiry: Are we in a cost of flying crisis?
BUSINESS
Herald: Chorus intervention will save public $250m over four years, ComCom says
Herald: Serato deal fails to clear Commerce Commission hurdle (paywalled)
John Anthony (BusinessDesk): Serato considering all options after ComCom blocked sale (paywalled)
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Electric Kiwi stops recruiting customers due to high wholesale electricity prices (paywalled)
BANKS
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: High profits, low innovation: How can NZ’s banking sector work better for Kiwis?
John Weeks (Herald): Kiwibank to be sentenced in October for duping some home loan customers over fees, overdrafts
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Kiwibank admits breaching Fair Trading Act
OTHER
Ruth Browning (Post): The measures our children deserve to halt abuse (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Fury at order to support farming, not protect pets
Mike Grimshaw (Plain Sight): A philosopher, a clergyman and a trade union leader walk into a meeting… (or, the question of civil liberties – and free speech)
Terry Baucher (Interest): The New Zealand Tax Podcast: An in-depth look at the 'high-performing' Inland Revenue as it emerges from hibernation
Aimee Shaw (Post): AI report warns of barrier to ‘realising benefits’ from the revolutionary technology (paywalled)
Cartoons
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