NZ Politics Daily: 5 August 2024
NATIONAL PARTY CONFERENCE
Thomas March (Post): National’s challenge: Move on from the Key-era glory days (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Less to the Nats conference than met the eye (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Christopher Luxon will be hoping his maths fix will save future headaches (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): Winston Peters and David Seymour who? Act and NZ First get written out of the script at National Party conference (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): PM won’t set targets to improve his personal polling
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party conference delivers PM Christopher Luxon a challenge to lift polls to Key-era levels (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party Conference: party president Sylvia Wood sets goal of mid-40s in the polls
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party conference: Sir John Key’s call to ‘take the temperature down’ on race relations, verdict on the National coalition with NZ First and Act
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Christopher Luxon growing into the prime minister role - John Key
Thomas Manch (Post): No more cosy oligopoly': Nicola Willis signals action on banks amid economic gloom (paywalled)
Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party Conference: Finance Minister Nicola Willis hints at Kiwibank sale and more public sector cuts
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon says ‘shocking’ student achievement results prompted hurry-up job on maths curriculum change
RNZ: Watch: Christopher Luxon decries 'shocking' state of maths achievement in schools
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon announces maths teaching changes at National Party conference
1News: PM unveils 'maths action plan', speeds up curriculum refresh
Thomas Manch (Stuff): Luxon announces new maths curriculum for primary students
Anneke Smith and Maia Ingoe (RNZ): National Party to work 'very hard' to grow membership base
Anneke Smith (RNZ): National Party conference: 'A government focused on action and delivery'
Thomas Manch (Stuff): PM Luxon tells National Party faithful getting NZ ‘back on track’ is ‘exactly what we’re doing’
Luke Malpass (Post): Christopher Luxon returns to the National Party faithful (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT
Audrey Young (Herald): Cabinet report card - the ministers thriving and those just surviving (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Will Luxon become boss of a South Pacific Alcatraz?
Isaac Gunson and Tumamao Harawira (Te Ao Māori News): Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Manuhiri walk out of Iwi Chairs Forum hui with ministers
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Ngāpuhi walks out of hui with PM, plans protest at Parliament
RNZ: Ngāpuhi leaders walk out of meeting with Luxon in protest
Te Aniwa Huirhanganui (1News): Ngāpuhi leaders walk out of iwi chairs session with Govt
PARLIAMENT
Andrea Vance (Post): ACT: the party of crybabies (paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Debbie Ngarewa-Packer cites Govt’s threat to Māori in defence of mocking tearful Children’s Minister Karen Chhour
Jenna Lynch (Stuff): ‘The fragility is real’: Te Pāti Māori reacts to ACT MP Karen Chhour crying over personal attacks
Greg Presland (The Standard): About Karen Chhour’s future
Mountain Tui: “Karen is no Victim. She's a Survivor." Is she, David? (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. Gerry Brownlee
Andrea Vance (Post): Electoral Commission, police and Stats NZ warned of marae census allegations last year (paywalled)
Rawiri Taonui (Waatea News): Te Pāti Māori, Manurewa data allegations lack mana and credibility
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): Indian rich-listers side with National in 2023 donations
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: Health horror stories and claims of racism in Parliament
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: National tries for message discipline, ACT not so much
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Pinning the tail on the Act NZ donkey (paywalled)
Gabi Ladies (Spinoff): ‘Remove the pin’: A short history of politicians squabbling about party logos
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Palestinian headdress barred from Parliament’s public gallery
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Green Party’s identity crisis should be cause for a rebrand (paywalled)
Benn Bathgate (Waikato Times/Post): Shane Jones asks ‘what sort of country do you want?’
Brodie Stone (Northern Advocate): Winston Peters inducted into Whangārei Boys’ High School Fideliter Fellowship (paywalled)
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