NZ Politics Daily: 21 November 2024

GANGS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Police’s own research adds to evidence against gang patch ban
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Gang members reveal humiliating police tactics in new report
Katie Ham (Post): Hell for leather: What the gang patch ban means for Wellington (paywalled)
RNZ: Enforcement action taken' hours after gang patch ban comes into effect
Stewart Sowman(Lund): Will banning gang patches actually make New Zealand safer?
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Gang patch ban day 1: into the unknown, subterfuge and pressure on police
Tony Wall (Stuff): Inside the Ōpōtiki Mongrel Mob on eve of patch ban
RNZ: Gang patch ban: 'Subtle adaptations' of insignia already being seen
Herald Editorial: Ball firmly in gangs’ court as patch ban comes into force (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Gang patch ban: 'Some of them will probably die for it'
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘Leave your patch at home’: Police make plea ahead of gang patch ban
1News: Police 'as prepared as we can be' with new gang laws coming into effect
Chelsea Daniels (Herald0: Front Page: Doubts as Government’s anti-patch law comes into effect
Alice Neville (Spinoff): The gang patch ban is now in force. What’s going to happen?
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Explained: The gang patch ban
Finn Blackwell, (RNZ): Gang patch ban: Senior Black Power member concerned about impact on families
Herald: Gang patch ban: Police ready to enforce new Gangs Act laws
RNZ: 'Impossible' to know effect of new gang laws on victimisation - Justice Minister
Stuff: ‘Free ride’ for gangs over at midnight, Government says

POLICE
RNZ: 'Pistols on the hip' - Police union hopes new Commissioner open to arming officer
Sam Sherwood and Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ‘I don’t talk about policing by consent’: Richard Chambers announced as new police commissioner
Adam Pearse (Herald): Police Minister Mark Mitchell unveils Richard Chambers as new Police Commissioner
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Richard Chambers to be announced as new Police Commissioner
Katie Ham and Thomas Manch (Post): New Police Commissioner focused on ‘core policing’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Who is the new Police Commissioner, Richard Chambers?

TREATY OF WAITANGI
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Does the Treaty Hikoi signify the birth of a new Māori nation?
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Hikoi Aftermath
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The key questions left in the wake of Te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti
Verity Johnson (Stuff): Hey pākehā, are you gonna let David Seymour talk for you?
Shane Jones (Post): The hikoi has passed, but a way ahead must still be found (paywalled)
Ben Thomas (Post): Winners at opposite extremes of Treaty Principles Bill stoush (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Where the Treaty debate could end up
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): The hīkoi was Māori Party’s crowning glory
RNZ: Listen: Christopher Luxon says 'no need to meet' with hīkoi at Parliament
1News: Prime Minister on why he did not meet hīkoi at Parliament
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Does Christopher Luxon regret letting the Treaty Principles Bill through?
Andrew Gunn: Seymour Named As Ambassador For Unawareness Awareness Week
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Hīkoi to Parliament: Winston Peters, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer make accusations, warnings in heated debate
Maiki Sherman (1News): Treaty Principles Bill: Protest in debating chamber prompts complaints
Te Rina Kowhai (Te Ao Māori News): Te Pāti Māori files complaint against Brownlee as coalition targets haka
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Speaker's handling of hīkoi 'overkill' - Te Paati Māori
Robert MacCulloch: Dame Whina Cooper's hīkoi was for change. This week's hīkoi was for keeping the status quo, the opposite of what the NZ Herald claims
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The hīkoi was a good example of democracy working
RNZ: The world reacts to te Hīkoi mō te tiriti
Melissa Nightingale (Herald): Data scientist uses hīkoi drone footage to estimate crowd size of at least 40,000
Samuel Carpenter (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: The principles need to remain tied to the historical Treaty
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Cowboy hats and feathers? Yes. Bad behaviour? No
Anna Murray (1News): Explainer: How select committee stage will shape the Treaty Principles Bill
Isaac Gunson (Te Ao Māori News): The do’s and don‘ts of public submissions for the Treaty Principles Bill
Emily Writes: How to make a submission against the Treaty Principles Bill
Hilary Colbert (ODT): Better question is: who governs NZ? (paywalled)
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand government’s racially divisive Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading

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