NZ Politics Daily: 24 July 2024

Richard Lewer - Wellington Tent Protest, 2022

ABUSE IN STATE AND FAITH BASED CARE, ORANGA TAMARIKI
Aaron Smale (1News): State care has key role in creating violent gang members – submission
Elizabeth Stanley (Newsroom): The least we should expect from final abuse in care report
Stephen Winter (The Conversation): Tragedy and hope: what the abuse-in-care report will say and what has to happen now
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): What you need to know ahead of the abuse in care inquiry report
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: Abuse in Care Inquiry: Final report due today after years of harrowing evidence
Hanna McCallum (Post): New Zealand to face up to shameful past (paywalled)
Rawiri Waretini-Karena (RNZ): How colonisation created the state care to prison pipeline
RNZ: Unsafe Harbour: in honour of survivors and victims of abuse in state and faith-based institutions
Amy Williams (RNZ): 'I live with my nightmare' - intersex abuse survivor unable to give testimony at hearing
1News: Royal Commissions 101: Their role and powers explained
Michael Morrah (Herald): Children’s Minister Karen Chhour apologises to abuse survivors as officials eye major shake-up of Oranga Tamariki funding model
RNZ: Nights: Why do Governments' apologise and do they mean anything?
RNZ: PSA files to put hold on Oranga Tamariki job cuts
Anna Whyte (Post): Oranga Tamariki care provider’s sleepless nights over payment delays (paywalled)
RNZ: Jehovah's Witnesses lose last ditch court case over abuse in care report

GREENS
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Sacrifices may be called for if Greens are to flourish (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Why do MPs dig in after being publicly disgraced and humiliated?
Claire Trevett and Julia Gabel (Herald): Darleen Tana refuses to resign as MP - Chloe Swarbrick and Green Party to decide on waka-jumping law at AGM
Justin Hu (1News): Darleen Tana: 'I'm determined to continue serving the people'
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Darleen Tana is back, vowing to stay at Parliament
RNZ: Darleen Tana returns to Parliament, blanks Greens
Herald: Darleen Tana’s husband Christian Hoff-Nielsen’s bike business: First liquidators’ report released
Sam Smith (Stuff): Darleen Tana’s husband’s bike shop owes $400k to IRD, other creditors
RNZ: Failed company of MP Darleen Tana's husband owes more than $400K - liquidator

GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government softens on asset sales, promising to go to voters first
RNZ: State-owned enterprises sale decisions will not happen before election - minister
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Te Pāti Māori calls out the Act Party over Treaty Principles donations plea
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Mata: Jackson on Treaty Principles, Pharmac, and the Coalition
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Ministers cautioned after Supreme Court criticism
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Herald): Painting over Te Tiriti with ignorance, neglect, and tyranny
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Luxon's right to skip some sessions with the Press Gallery
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: health's 'hard reset', help wanted busting red-tape, and more (paywalled)
Bridie Witton (Stuff): NZ First complains to Parliament Speaker over ‘anti-trans activist’ comment from Labour MP
Claire Trevett (Herald): Helen Clark weighs in over Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ ‘retard’ remark in Parliament
Harriette Boucher (Post): Beehive Briefing: Parliament is back! Everything you need to know from today (paywalled)
Azaria Howell (Herald): Stats NZ senior adviser Nika Rua’s Rātana speech ‘offensive’ to ministers and ‘not politically neutral’
No Right Turn: A worrying sign
RNZ: Andrew Little on the Biden backdown: 'Ego is important, but it can't be everything'

HOUSING
1News: Expert on home ownership decline: 'There is no magic wand’
RNZ: Checkpoint: New Zealand on track to soon have more renters than homeowners
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Are we fine with 47.9% home-ownership by 2048? (paywalled)
1News: What does shared home ownership look like? The options explained
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Push to rip down barriers to new home ownership models
ODT Editorial: Well-insulated from reality (paywalled)
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Whangārei’s controversial 50-house development by Kāinga Ora now being reviewed
Mary Williams (ODT): Using lodge for homeless still on table (paywalled)
Grant Miller (ODT): Views sought on multi-unit housing (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): What happens with low equity fees if a borrower's LVR falls below 80% & then rises back above 80%?
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Rental prices have finally dropped, according to Trade Me Property
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Short-term rentals have little influence on rents and house prices in New Zealand, analysis finds
Miriam Bell (Post): Airbnb not to blame for rent increases - Infometrics (paywalled)

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