NZ Politics Daily: 28 June 2024

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THREE WATERS
Georgina Campbell and Azaria Howell (Herald): Wellington City Council passes long-term plan, avoids Government intervention
Erin Gourley (Post): Not the end for Wellington Airport shares, mayor's opponents say (paywalled)
RNZ: Bid to stop Wellington Airport share sale fails
Erin Gourley (Post): Fury, bickering, points of order but the LTP has been passed (paywalled)
Erin Gourley (Post): In pictures: Wellington council’s tumultuous long-term plan debate (paywalled)
RNZ: Ratepayers across Wellington region face increases as long-term plans approved
Bay of Plenty Times: Bay of Plenty Regional Council green-lights Port of Tauranga share sell-down
Evan Harding (Southland Times): Mayor's brother slammed for ‘disgraceful’ comments
Jonathan Ayling (Waikato Times/Post): Free speech: an idiot detection device (paywalled)
Mike Mather and Avina Vidyadharan (Waikato Times/Post): Feel free to call me a ‘c..t’ - councillor defends potty-mouthed rant (paywalled)
Al Williams (Herald): Thames-Coromandel District Council snubs Chief Ombudsman’s recommendations for more transparency
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Big rate increases for Hutt Valley ratepayers (paywalled)
RNZ: Christchurch rates rise 'navigates choppy financial waters' - Mayor
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RNZ: Half a million New Zealanders without access to safe drinking water
Grant Miller (ODT): Councillor defends city’s ‘mature’ water system (paywalled)

ENVIRONMENT
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Shane Jones defends links to industry and diary omission
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt will weaken methane target in defiance of Climate Commission – McClay
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Methane reduction targets will be lowered if panel advises it, Agriculture Minister says
Julia Gabel (Herald): Climate change: Panel members revealed for review of country’s methane goals
Christina Hood (Post): Ministers should be accountable for policies that affect emissions (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Climate Change: A strapped chicken "review"
Allan Brent: An aquaculture Bill, property rights, and cans of worms
David Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Environment Canterbury investigates easier path for farmers to develop wetlands
Marty Verry (BusinessDesk): Time to push go on Building for Climate Change programme (paywalled)

PARLIAMENT
1News: Exclusive: John Campbell asks Golriz Ghahraman why she threw it all away
1News: Golriz Ghahraman fined for shoplifting, denied discharge without conviction
Maia Ingoe (RNZ): Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman convicted, ordered to pay fine and court costs
Jogai Bhatt (RNZ): What is 'loss-reactive shoplifting', cited in Golriz Ghahraman's court case?
Newstalk ZB: Does Golriz Ghahraman have a future in the legal sector?
Simon Wilson (Herald): Moana Jackson’s dream for Aotearoa (paywalled)
Metiria Stanton-Turei (ODT): A Maori parliament need not be like the one we know (paywalled)
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon still wants to move into Premier House, four months on (paywalled)
Arena Williams,  Stuart Smith (Stuff): In the end, the taxpayer pays
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Has Progressivism Peaked?
Bridie Witton (Stuff): Chlöe Swarbrick still believes the Greens can overtake Labour as the voice of the left
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova podcast: Chlöe Swarbrick on Golriz Ghahraman, Darleen Tana and the Greens’ future
Claire Trevett (Herald): Government’s spooky timing on law-and-order push; the coalition ‘cracks’ that weren’t; minister’s magical cocktail (paywalled)
Post: Briefing from the Beehive: What you need to know from today (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Saying sorry, fixing ferries, power problems disagreement
Newsroom: Raw Politics: The glasses clink in the coalition bunker

TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): NZ is at an infrastructural breaking point
RNZ, Amelia Wade (Newshub): Government unveils 10-year transport plan, including several new road tolls and increased petrol tax
RNZ: Transport minister suggests all Roads of National Significance to be tolled
Thomas Manch (Post): Car registration fees to rise to pay for $22b transport plan (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Transport Minister Simeon Brown unrepentant about cuts to cycle lane funding to pay for potholes and roads in Govt transport plan (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Govt sets $22b transport plan, lowers debt repayment track
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Exclusive: KiwiRail CEO Peter Reidy on future of Cook Strait Interislander ferries after turbulent week (paywalled)
Andrea Fox (Herald): All eyes on Govt to end the state-run Cook Strait ferry service fiasco with a speedy decision (paywalled)
Mark Quinlivan (Newshub): State-Owned Enterprises Minister Paul Goldsmith says no plans to sell KiwiRail amid ferry crisis
Tim Hunter (NBR): Let’s privatise Interislander (paywalled)

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