NZ Politics Daily: 30 July 2024

HEALTH
Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Govt set aside $216m to pay for heated tobacco product tax cuts
Richard Harman (Politik): Former National Cabinet Minister didn’t know what questions to ask (paywalled)
RNZ: Health NZ changes: 'Everything's on the table' - Luxon
Adam Pearse (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon says heads could roll in Health NZ executive team
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon doubles down on incorrect Health NZ claim (paywalled)
RNZ: Patients, doctors on list of '14 layers of management' at Health NZ
1News: PM says no doctor for Dargaville Hospital cardiac arrest 'challenging'
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Botched merger’ or ‘manufactured crisis’? What is going on at Te Whatu Ora?
Nick James (RNZ): Telehealth company called in to help with staff shortages at Porirua's Hospital
Herald Editorial: The state of Health New Zealand is like an episode of American medical TV series ER (paywalled)
Ruth Hill (RNZ): 'Lucky' young mum with cancer spends house deposit on private care
RNZ: The effects of doctor shortages through the eyes of practitioners and patients
RNZ: Patients travelling hours amid doctor shortage, mayor says
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Nurses may revive campaign to keep promises on Dunedin Hospital (paywalled)
Jackie Cumming (The Conversation):Under pressure, 80% of GPs closed their books to new patients at some point since 2019 – here’s why
Louise Ternouth (RNZ): Community pharmacists afraid for future of business and patient care
John Braddock (World Socilalists): New Zealand health system faces steep funding cuts, possible privatisation
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Third Age Health's profit up 140% as expansion continues (paywalled)

ABUSE IN CARE, BOOT CAMPS, CHILD WELFARE
Chris Trotter (Interest): The why and the how of abuse in care
Simon Wilson (Herald): Crime on Queen St, abuse in care, and Christopher Luxon: Yes, they are related (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Govt could take a bootcamp off-ramp
Dave Armstrong (Post): The softer approach to getting the boot (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): History never repeats. Except for boot camps
RNZ: Abuse in care: Mission to identify thousands of unmarked graves possibly holding victims
John Lewis (ODT): Barton vacates uni council as PSO fallout continues
Tim Scott (ODT): PSO records torn out, abuse survivor says (paywalled)
Erik Monasterio (Press/Post): There are still vulnerable abused in state institutions (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Calls to end segregated education in light of Royal Commission
George Heagney (Manawatū Standard): ‘Zero appetite’ for culture of abuse in Catholic church
Rukuwai Tipene Allen (Te Ao Māori News): I can’t help but look at the system and think those are our babies, our Māori babies
Bryan Bruce: State Abuse And Gang Membership (paywalled)

GREENS
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
Gordon Campbell: On The Greens’ Darleen Tana Dilemma, And The Weirdness Of J.D. Vance
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): The many complex truths within the Darleen Tana saga
David Farrar: Looks like Greens will waka jump Tana out of Parliament
Herald: Chlöe Swarbrick explains why three senior Green members walked out of AGM
Herald: Green’s Pasifika leadership says the treatment of Darleen Tana was last straw in list of disgraceful decisions around Māori and Pasifika MPs
Stuff: Senior Pasifika Green Party members resign over treatment of Darleen Tana

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