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

Herald: On the Tiles: Political drama sees internal fights for Greens, open conflict between Act vs Te Pāti Māori

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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