NZ Politics Daily: 2 August 2024
PARLIAMENT
Audrey Young (Herald): Battle between Act and Te Pāti Māori is out of hand – Speaker Gerry Brownlee must take urgent action (paywalled)
Peter Dunne: Mr Speaker's Lonely Role
RNZ: Flurry of mishaps puts spotlight on Parliament's culture
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ACT MP Karen Chhour breaks down in tears over ‘unsafe workplace’
Herald: Act MP Karen Chhour breaks down over ‘bullying behaviour’ in Parliament
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): ‘These questions are revolting’: Children’s Minister Karen Chhour abruptly ends interview with Tova podcast
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Who is Te Pati Māori to decide who's Māori enough?
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): Keep doing what you're doing Karen Chhour
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Bulletin: Is parliament a safe workplace for MPs?
Mike Friend: Cry me a river!
Adam Pearse (Herald): Green MP Julie Anne Genter found in contempt of the House, recommended to be censure
1News: Green MP Julie Anne Genter found in contempt over outburst
RNZ: Julie Anne Genter to be censured and apologise over shouting incident
Bridie Witton and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Green MP Julie-Anne Genter found in contempt of the House for behaviour towards National's Matt Doocey
Luke Malpass and Anna Whyte (Post): Privileges committee recommends Green MP Julie Anne Genter censured (paywalled)
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): A slap on the wrist for Julie Anne Genter
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour MP Ingrid Leary apologises to NZ First MP Tanya Unkovich
ODT Editorial: The Darleen Tana quandary (paywalled)
Herald: Front Page: Will National deliver in first AGM since forming Government?
Post: Beehive Briefing: The secret envelope and Winston Peters’ presidential pick (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Green dilemma, unsafe workplace, the race issue, health woes
Newsroom: Raw Politics: This Govt’s big vulnerability
Greg Dixon (Listener): Another kind of politics: PM gets layer cake in face (paywalled)
Mountain Tui: Curious Case of Health NZ vs the New Zealand National Party escalates
Max Harris (Post): The 40-year-long shadow cast by Rogernomics (paywalled)
HEALTH
Gordon Campbell: On the government crusade to degrade public health
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Proportion of Health NZ staff in ‘back office’ roles falling, not rising
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Health Minister Shane Reti’s political drama
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Hundreds more doctors could be trained if government funded them - report
NIcole Bremner (1News): Proposed Waikato medical school's impact on doctor shortage queried
John Lewis (ODT): Proposal to train extra doctors
Richard Harman (Politik): Putting pressure on the Government (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Northland cancer specialist speaks out on shortages
Jo Moir (RNZ): Health NZ drops tool that factored in ethnicity for waitlists, despite review findings
Barry Soper (Herald): Ethnicity no longer factor in waiting list a fair outcome for all
Kate Green (RNZ): Hutt Hospital doctors told to make beds, clean sinks
Oliver Hartwich: Pervasive myth of centralisation unravels in NZ
Kate Green (RNZ): Fewer pharmacists stock Covid-19 anti-viral drugs after funding cuts
Phil Pennington (RNZ): No shortage of IV fluids unlike in Australia, Pharmac monitoring situation
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE FORCE
Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): How will New Zealand respond to Middle East escalation?
Audrey Young (Herald): Warnings of ‘catastrophic conflict’ by Australian Aukus sceptic Hugh White (paywalled)
Maika Sherman (1News): ‘Irresponsible not to’ investigate joining AUKUS Pillar II – Peters
Phil Pennington (RNZ): NZ joins US military exercises deploying AI for 'kill chains'
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter
RNZ: New Zealanders warned not to travel to Lebanon
RNZ: Defence Force fire crew numbers questioned before fatal blaze - Report
CHILD WELFARE, ORANGA TAMARIKI, ABUSE IN CARE
John Campbell (1News): Malachi Subecz was murdered in 2021 – report finds NZ children 'no safer now'
Derek Cheng (Herald): Malachi Subecz follow-up report: Children aren’t any safer today than when the 5-year-old was brutally murdered
RNZ: Not enough safety nets to protect children from harm - Children's Commissioner
RNZ: Malachi Subecz: Review continues to find gaps in protecting children from abuse
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Report finds tamariki are no safer now than when Malachi Subecz was murdered
Tova O'Brien and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Children’s Minister Karen Chhour defends cuts to Oranga Tamariki service providers
Tim Scott (ODT): Law Society investigating Otago lawyer
1News: Section 7AA explained: The repeal that has iwi marching to Parliament
Julia Gabel (Herald): Oranga Tamariki Act: Doctors warn removal of section 7AA could lead to worse health outcomes for Māori kids
RNZ: Oranga Tamariki denies asking social workers to do court work
HOUSING
Jonathan MIlne (Newsroom): Fast-track panel hears PM’s objection in rejecting Botany apartment block
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Kāinga Ora to slash Māori-focused housing team in half
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Prime minister selling Onehunga rental property
Muriwai Hei (Te Ao Māori News): Poor housing, family violence and poverty all connected, new research finds
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Queenstown council throws out affordable housing levy (paywalled)
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Family mulls moving to double accommodation supplement
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Reserve Bank details results of first published study on New Zealand non-performing loan data
David Hargreaves (Interest): Non-performing housing loans level off after their recent surge
David Hargreaves (Interest): Kiwi borrowers locked, loaded, and ready for mortgage rate falls
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Banks relax borrowing test rates
Anne Gibson (Herald): Ryman Healthcare bombshell: reviewing fixed weekly fees, DMF for new residents (paywalled)
INFRASTRUCTURE
Herald: Damning Treasury report on why everything costs too much and takes too long (paywalled)
Matthew Scott (Newsroom): No free lunch when it comes to infrastructure
Brent Edwards (NBR): Government demands agences improve investiment reporting (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): One of the worst cases of red tape idiocy
MEDIA
Shayne Currie (Herald): TVNZ set to launch new round of proposed cuts, union fears for jobs and shows (paywalled)
Melanie Earley (RNZ): TVNZ staff fear still more job cuts after 'change process' announced
Stuff: Fears more job cuts on the way for TVNZ as broadcaster aims to find $30m
RNZ: NZME cops criticism after using AI to write editorial
Anan Zaki (RNZ): Warner Bros. Discovery lost $138m in 2023 before Newshub closure
Shayne Currie (Herald): Warner Bros Discovery posts $138.2 million loss for 2023 – finances paint picture behind closure of Newshub (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Former TVNZ host Kamahl Santamaria’s new legal move; TVNZ CEO’s Paris Olympics trip at personal cost; new All Blacks media manager revealed (paywalled)
David Harvey (Listener): A different approach to the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, PERSONAL FINANCE
Matthew Hooton (Herald): What I’d do if I was Finance Minister (paywalled)
Josie Pagani (Post): The cure for a quick-setting economy (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): Fears women can't afford to leave abusive relationships amid cost of living crisis
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Here's what you could do with your tax cut
RNZ: Kiwis advised to overcome 'taboo' around getting smart on money
PUBLIC SERVICE
Thomas Manch (Post): Government parties yet to reach consensus over new Public Service Commissioner (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Where are the public sector jobs in Wellington? (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Public overhaul shows it’s tough at the top too
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Treasury boss Caralee McLiesh to become Australia’s Auditor-General
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Govt advertises for new 'change agent' Treasury Secretary
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Rating the council rating system
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘Disrespectful and offensive’: Heated exchange on wards at council meeting
Doug Laing (Hawkes Bay Today): Napier council leads way in new Māori wards review
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): Solution required for funding of councils: Mayor
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): 'This is wrong': Local Auckland boards oppose pool privatisation
Julie Jacobson (Post): $8.5k prize up for grabs as council asks for better cycleway ideas (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): Upset Thorndon Quay businesses petition council (paywalled)
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporter): Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell faces backlash for ‘shut down’ of veteran councillor Trevor Maxwell
Grant Miller (ODT): Mayor optimistic about planned climate change pitch to govt (paywalled)
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Town that lost its only supermarket is getting a brand new one
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): New Tauranga Council, mayor kicks off its term
Alisha Evans (Local Democracy Reporting): Tauranga election: Voters pick Rick Curach as city councillor for a seventh time
Emily Ireland (Post): U-turn on proposal to cut community boards
Justin Wong (Post): Boundary changes, one less councillor proposed for Kāpiti Coast
EDUCATION
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Small polytechs would be federated, others left to stand alone, under govt plan
Julia Gabel (Herald): ‘Abject disaster’: Consultation on Te Pūkenga replacement begins; Chris Hipkins fires back
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Otago Polytech could stand alone, staff say (paywalled)
John Gerritsen (RNZ): 'Please listen to the experts': Charter schools would break labour laws, union says
Rodney Hide: Vacancy: Minister of Education
Mahdis Azarmandi and Sara Tolbert (Times Higher Education): Can we really decolonise the university?
Jerry Coyne: Unsettling the settler colonial university: a “feminist decolonization” of higher education in New Zealand
PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Susan Botting (Newsroom): Far North council fears mining on historic Māori sites under fast-track Bill
Tim Scott (ODT): $900m from Tarras gold mine (paywalled)
RNZ: IKEA owner to convert Hawke's Bay farm to forestry
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Archaeological assessment delays forestry harvest
BusinessDesk: New chair for Pāmu (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT
Eric Frykberg (Interest): Consume less, live simpler lives, learn humility, or be humbled, environmentalist warns
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Don't let Canterbury become the nation's dumping ground
RNZ: Reports Peter Thiel has abandoned plans for luxury Wānaka lodge 'speculation'
Mare Haimona-Riki (Whakaata Māori): Parliament meeting on future of Waikato River
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): Two-day event marks 10 years since historic Whanganui River signing
TRANSPOWER
RNZ: No compensation for Northland after pylon collapse, Transpower says
Natalie Akoorie (RNZ): Northland power outage - Inexperienced worker removed too many nuts on pylon
Rachel Moore (Post): Sandblasting distraction took supervisor’s eye off uncertified worker who undid power pylon nuts, investigation finds (paywalled)
GAMBLING
1News: Auckland SkyCity casino confirms closure dates after host 'failures'
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): No royal flush in gambling tax grab
Kelvin McDonald (Te Ao Māori News): Māori gambling harm collective ‘alarmed’ by government’s online casinos regulatory scheme
MARINE CUSTOMARY RIGHTS
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Ngāti Whātua taking Government to court over customary marine title overhaul
Te Aniawa Hurihanganui (1News): Ngāti Whātua rūnanga taking Govt to court over customary marine title plans
TRANSPORT
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): ‘Unjust and unethical’: The scrap over speed reductions, explained
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Toll roads no silver bullet for transport funding difficulties (paywalled)
Emma Stanford (Stuff): Air New Zealand explains its airfares after it cost almost $2000 to fly domestically (paywalled)
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Learner drivers face 3-hour round trip to sit test
BUSINESS
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: When an algorithm is your boss
RNZ: Grocery Commissioner to review new code on supermarkets' dealings with suppliers
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Competition watchdog to review grocery code after less than a year (paywalled)
Nikitin Sallee (BusinessDesk): One more last chance to fix the Holidays Act (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Auckland businesses liquidate at twice the rate of other regions
Miriam Bell (Post): Young people are bypassing construction careers (paywalled)
OTHER
Martien Lubberink (The Conversation): Owner beware: 4 reasons why selling part of Kiwibank could do more harm than good
Herald: Tikanga with common law can help New Zealand face its deepening racial challenges
1News: Concern at social impact of communities losing post office services
Kylie Seumanu (Post): People trafficking is happening here; this is what to look out for (paywalled)
Senthil Nathan (Post): Why New Zealand must move towards a modern slavery law (paywalled)
Bronwyn Heenan (Post): Modern slavery in the spotlight but no Government action? (paywalled)
Ian Powell: What’s behind cruelty to animals
RNZ: Microsoft services go offline for thousands around New Zealand
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