NZ Politics Daily: 29 July 2024

ABUSE IN CARE
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): Finally heard, seen – and believed
1News: John Campbell asks Nikki Hurst: How safe are NZ kids in state care now?
John Weekes (Herald): Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry: Survivor network says some victims overlooked, risks to children remain (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Royal Commission into Abuse in Care raises tough questions for current Government
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Either the Government pays compensation to every victim or to no one (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On the Royal Commission inquiry into abuse in care
Max Rashbrooke (Post): The poverty pipeline which delivers the victims of abuse in care (paywalled)
Aaron Smale (Listener): As Abuse in Care report is released, ghosts of war and the 28th Māori Battalion come calling (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: A horrific stain on New Zealand (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): ‘Dark shadow’: historic day must lead to historic actions (paywalled)
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Lifting the lid - or turning a blind eye?
Matthew Tukaki (Waatea): It’s hard to give evil a name
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Abuse in Care apology hollow if boot camps continue (paywalled)
NIva Chittock (RNZ): Government boot camp starts, no NZDF facilities to be used
Neil Ballantyne (Reimagining Social Work): Close the racist boot camps!
RNZ: Māori leader says government's controversial boot camps the wrong approach
Greg Presland (The Standard): A short history of National’s fascination with boot camps
Paul Buchanan: About boot camps
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Military academies - let them give it a crack
Tim Scott and Grant Miller (ODT): Embattled chief executive resigns
Tim Scott (ODT): Records could have been ‘very detrimental’ (paywalled)
Michael Morrah (Herald): Abuse in Care records: NZ Law Society president Frazer Barton on leave after complaints laid
RNZ: Law Society president to take 'leave of absence' while complaint against him addressed
Michael Morrah (Herald): Abuse in Care records: Second complaint against NZ Law Society president Frazer Barton over advice to church group
RNZ: Lawyer denies advising Presbyterian Support Otago to destroy record
RNZ: Abuse in Care inquiry: Judith Collins warns of possible prosecutions if records destroyed
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Focus on Politics: Abuse in care report delivers survivors' demands for justice
Mariné Lourens (Press/Post): Waiting for justice: Abuse survivors call for decisive Government action (paywalled)
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): ‘I have to have faith’ ‒ Māori survivors react to abuse in care report
Bernie O’Donnell (Herald): Abuse in care report: I went to represent myself and my two late brothers
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): Former Jehovah's Witnesses welcome inquiry's findings of 'credible evidence' of abuse
Caleb Fotheringham (RNZ): Abuse in Care inquiry: Call for Pacific focused redress pathway
David Fisher (Herald): Revealed: The 1992 police inquiry into ‘paedophile’ politicians and public servants and what it found (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Prime Minister encourages people with information relating to alleged 80s politician paedophile ring to come forward
RNZ: Christopher Luxon calls for witnesses to alleged '80s politician paedophile ring to speak out
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: MPs on the Abuse in Care report
Mountain Tui: Will the real PM Luxon please stand up?

GREENS
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Green Party party drags out process to evict now independent MP Darleen Tana (paywalled)
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Swarbrick rallies Green troops as Tana saga drags on
1News: Darleen Tana: 200 Green delegates to vote on MP's future in weeks
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Darleen Tana drama could end in a month, following Green conference
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Former Green MPs back call to dump Darleen Tana from Parliament
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Ruptures emerge over Greens’ handling of Darleen Tana
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Green Party fractures start to show over Darleen Tana debate
RNZ: Three Green party members quit over treatment of Darleen Tana
Waatea News: Roopu Pasifika leaves Green Party in pieces
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Greens set deadline to decide Tana’s fate
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Chlöe Swarbrick tells Greens to ‘evolve’ as Darleen Tana hangs over AGM
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Waka-jumping the elephant in the Green Party room
RNZ: Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick speaks at annual general meeting
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): G-Day as Greens to debate booting Darleen Tana from Parliament (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Green AGM: Party processes will be respected on Darleen Tana issue, Chlöe Swarbrick says
Anna Whyte (Stuff): Greens AGM to grapple with gnarly waka-jumping questions
Craig Kapitan (Herald): Golriz Ghahraman theft case: Court documents used by judge in ex-Green MP’s sentencing released

“NZ Politics Daily” continues below. Paid subscribers can access the following categories of news and analysis: HEALTH; GOVERNMENT; ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATION; JUSTICE, LAW AND ORDER, POLICE; HOUSING; ECONOMY, MONEY, TAX; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; FOREIGN AFFAIRS; CARTOONS

To subscribe to the full version of Democracy Project email newsletters - which helps keep this service going - click on the link below: