NZ Politics Daily: 20 September 2024

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ECONOMY, TAX
Matthew Hooton (Metro): Welcome to the next Argentina
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Worst economic downturn in living memory (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): New Zealand facing a second Great Recession
Dan Brunskill (Interest): NZ’s per capita recession has surpassed the Global Financial Crisis after contracting for seven consecutive quarters
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Economy goes backwards as GDP falls 0.2%
Liam Dann (Herald): GDP: What does the shrinking economy mean for interest rates? (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): NZ economy narrowly escapes recession, GDP falls 0.2%
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government and Opposition trade barbs as GDP drops 0.2% (paywalled)
Jonathan Mitchell (NBR): Will the RBNZ follow the Fed with a 50bp cut next month? (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Confidence in our economy is growing
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government wants to reduce jobseeker beneficiaries by 50k, but forecasts are up 11k
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Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich
No Right Turn: Tax the rich!

HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Chief Ombudsman criticises Costello over withholding tobacco documents
John Lewis (ODT): Costello’s department criticised for ‘failures’
No Right Turn: Worse and worse
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Health minister warned first-hand by doctors about impact of staffing shortages on patients
Anneke Smith (RNZ): 120 Wellington families lose access to respite care support, but ministers say it's not a cut
Corazon Miller (1News): Number of clinical health staff increasing - Health NZ
Thomas Manch (Post): Health NZ planned to call staff 'boundary spanners', 'story collectors', 'information wranglers’ (paywalled)
Lee Scanlon (Westport News): Health Minister Shane Reti fails to address West Coast health cut concerns
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Public called on to march for hospital
Stuff: Southerners urged to march over Dunedin Hospital concerns
Claire Dale (The Conversation): A looming crisis means New Zealand must rethink how it pays for aged care
PHCCA: Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better
Graham Adams (North & South): Staying Alive (preview)
Michaela Gower (Hawke’s Bay Today): Investigation launched at Hawke’s Bay Hospital after patient strangles healthcare worker
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Those worst affected by ADHD the least likely to get treatment - psychiatrists
Stephen Forbes (NZ Doctor): Report shows $138 million Te Whatu Ora project was on shaky ground (paywalled)
RNZ: Covid 19 update: 728 new cases, 3 further deaths

GOVERNMENT
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Luxon a long way from joining legion of strong leaders
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): These targets will be the making or breaking of Luxon
Guyon Espiner (Listener): Luxon’s MMP woes: Our political culture, not the system, is broken (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Is National A White Supremacist Party?
Charlotte Graham McLay (Associated Press): Seen abroad as a leader on Indigenous rights, New Zealand enters a divisive new era
ABC News: How Progressive New Zealand Shifted Right | Foreign Correspondent (video)
Jamie Tahana (Metro): Commission of inquiry
Metiria Stanton Turei (ODT): Waitangi Tribunal deserves respect for holding shared past (paywalled)
Justin Tipa (Post): Forget the political debate and focus on potential of rangatiratanga (paywalled)
Kassie Hartendorp (Metro): Australia said 'No'. New Zealand must say 'No Further'
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump-backing venture capitalist meets Luxon in NZ visit
David Farrar: A return to sanity
Herald: National Party forgets date New Zealand women achieved suffrage... 1983? 1883? 1893?
Rob Campbell (Post): Looking beyond the myths used to justify asset sales (paywalled)

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