NZ Politics Daily: 26 September 2024

Retro cartoon of the Beehive building in Wellington - by AI

TAX
Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): Here’s what’s at stake in the Labour tax debate
Toby Manhire (Spinoff): A roll call of all the people championing a capital gains tax
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Inland Revenue raises capital gains tax questions
Newstalk ZB: 'It needs to be done': PwC expert backs ANZ's call for Capital Gains Tax
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Luxon takes crack at ANZ boss Antonia Wright over capital gains tax support
Ripu Bhatia (Stuff): PM fires shot at ANZ boss over capital gains tax support
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Govt calls out ANZ boss for backing capital gains tax
Peter Davis (Post): Ten fixes for mainstreaming our tax system (paywalled)

PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS, WORKING FROM HOME
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis front foots public service job losses in meeting as fear looms of further cuts
Anna Whyte (Post): Nicola Willis’ public service balance: Does she need it to like her? (paywalled)
Anna Whyte (Post): Willis asked by public servants to ‘repair damage’ (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Government agencies should recall more staff to the office but not as a form of Soviet-style economic stimulus
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): WFH: Employees say they’re ‘financially worse off’ if forced back to the daily commute
Annemarie Quill (Stuff): The work from office directive is a bitter pill for people who’ve built lives around flexible working
ODT Editorial: Spending more time at the office (paywalled)
Nick James (RNZ): Working from home: Wellington councils mostly stick with current policies
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Kiwis love hybrid working but not hot desking - and we’re coming into the office more
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): Remote or in the office, work is still not really working (paywalled)
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Revealed: A cost-benefit analysis for public servants returning to the office
Kate Green (RNZ): Kāinga Ora doing what government asked, Bishop says
Kate Green (RNZ): Kāinga Ora set to cut about 330 jobs
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Hundreds more jobs to go at Kāinga Ora
1News: Hundreds more Kāinga Ora jobs set to be cut
Isaac Gunson (Te Ao Māori News): Jackson claims Potaka ‘spinning’ housing stats as Kāinga Ora set to cut 320 roles
Krystal Gibbons (RNZ): 59 jobs to go at GNS Science
Michael Daly (Stuff): GNS confirms loss of a net 59 positions
Azaria Howell (Herald): Public sector cuts: Nearly half of all corporate police staff ‘interested’ in voluntary redundancy scheme

STATS NZ GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY
RNZ: The consequences of losing trust in our public institutions
RNZ: New Zealanders' trust in key institutions declines, Stats NZ survey shows
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Are we in a happiness recession? Stats NZ releases official ‘wellbeing’ data (paywalled)
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Kiwis’ ‘wellbeing’ still high but trust in institutions declines (paywalled)
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Listen: Stuart Nash on Kiwis’ declining trust in Parliament

GOVERNMENT
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: The lobbyists, the minister, and the mystery document
Andrew Gunn: Situations Vacant: Cabinet Level Positions – Gambling and Alcohol Industry Ex-Lobbyists
Brent Edwards (NBR): The tortured path of RMA reform (paywalled)
RNZ: Christopher Luxon's chief press secretary resigns
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon's chief press secretary Hamish Rutherford resigns (paywalled)
Harriette Boucher (Post): Beehive Briefing: Press-sec shake-ups, charter schools, and the knacker’s yard (paywalled)

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