NZ Politics Daily: 31 October 2024

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ABUSE IN CARE
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Why abuse survivors want the Solicitor-General gone
John Weekes (Herald): Abuse in care Royal Commission apology: Survivors ‘hypervigilant’ and many have unrealistic payout expectations, advocate says (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Lake Alice survivors: Relief, annoyance over Crown move on legal fees
RNZ: Crown to pay Lake Alice survivors back $2.67m for legal fees
1News: Lake Alice: Government to address historic redress inequities
Ava Whitworth (Stuff): The Crown will reimburse legal fees to survivors abused at the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit
Tina Law (Press): Government develops fund to help identify graves of former psychiatric patients (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Government rights historic wrong with Lake Alice survivors – now we must ensure history never repeats (paywalled)

ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING, WELFARE
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Why economies fail: Stark lessons for NZ from a 2024 Nobel Prize winner (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Why Nations Fail
Peter Griffin (BusinessDesk): We know what we need to do to be more innovative (paywalled)
Nanaia Mahuta (Herald): Māori futures chart towards nationhood and economic success
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How much have prices risen in five years?
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Benefit forecasts highlight need for tougher sanctions, government says
Stuff: Report suggests young people spending more of their lives on a benefit
Ella Somers (Interest): ANZ calls for Government KiwiSaver contributions for under-18s
Maddy Croad (Press): Te Tahi Youth becomes largest provider of programme to help struggling young jobseekers (paywalled)

HEALTH
RNZ: Health system relies on doctors overworking, says burnt out cardiologist
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Cuts to clinical leadership bad for regions, say frontline health workers
Tess Brunton (RNZ): Dunedin council commits to funding of Save Our Southern Hospital campaign
Grant Miller (ODT): Sam Neill slams govt; council votes for campaign overspend
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Nearly $100,000 spent on catering Health NZ conference
Adam Pearse (Herald): How smoking ended NZ First minister Casey Costello’s father’s life
RNZ: Slight fall in suspected suicide figures, Māori still worst-affected
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Suspected suicide numbers are still high. Can a new action plan turn it around?
Anna Sophia (Spinoff): The bleak reality of working in mental health when you don’t have Mike King’s funding
Rohan Botica (Spinoff): The impact of long Covid will be huge. So why is New Zealand doing nothing about it?
Jemima Huston (RNZ): Pay later alcohol sales need more protections - credit advisor
RNZ: Otago students sceptical of changes to Local Alcohol Policy

TREATY OF WAITANGI, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Julia Gabel (Herald): Foreshore and seabed: Iwi, academics, lawyers, Hobson’s Pledge have their say during Select Committee hearing
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Changes to customary marine title 'deeply reckless' - law expert
Michael Daly (Stuff): Courts have made a mockery of Parliament’s customary marine area intentions, Brash says
Tumamao HarawiraIwi (Te Ao Māori News): Iwi to keep marine customary title regardless of legislation rollback - Hobson’s Pledge
Brent Edwards (NBR): Iwi call on Government to abandon customary rights legislation (paywalled)
Lianne Dalziel (Newsroom): Seymour is relying on us not knowing our history
Emma Andrews (RNZ): Hīkoi mō te Tiriti: South Island to join nationwide hīkoi to Parliament
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Tūhoe elders seek urgent hearing into iwi election process

PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE, GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
Verity Johnson (Stuff): The Greens shouldn’t waste this crisis
Richard Harman (Politik): Boldness be my friend (paywalled)
Krystal Gibbens (RNZ): DIA restructure finds more job cuts, despite protests from staff, union
Simon O’Connor: Entitlement
Centrist: Richard Prebble’s Waitangi Tribunal appointment sparks criticism, but what about the existing bias?

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