NZ Politics Daily: 6 January 2025
TARIANA TURIA
Audrey Young (Herald): How Dame Tariana Turia influenced NZ politics (paywalled)
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘She could scare you’: Remembering Dame Tariana Turia (paywalled)
RNZ: Obit: Dame Tariana Turia has died
1News: 'Significant legacy': Tributes paid to Dame Tariana Turia
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): 'She believed in people' - Tributes from across political parties for Dame Tariana Turia
Willie Jackson (Herald): Labour MP Willie Jackson reflects on Dame Tariana Turia and what she said to him after he rejoined Labour
Mike Tweed (Whanganui Chronicle): Whanganui region leaders remember Dame Tariana Turia’s generosity and strength
ODT Editorial: Wahine toa, Dame Tariana Turia (paywalled)
Miriama Aoake (Spinoff): A politician for the people: Dame Tariana Turia, 1944-2025
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): In Memoriam: Dame Tariana Turia (paywalled)
David Farrar: RIP Dame Tariana Turia
Isaac Gunson (Te Ao Māori News): Lady Tureiti Moxon joins chorus of tributes to Kahurangi Tariana Turia
RNZ: Hīkoi mō te Tiriti supporters invited to honour Dame Tariana Turia at tangi
Maioha Panapa (Te Ao Māori News): A hīkoi to honour the legacy of Dame Tariana Turia
Rachel Thomas (Post): Hīkoi organisers to attend Dame Tariana Turia’s tangi (paywalled)
RNZ: Tangi for Dame Tariana Turia welcomes figures from throughout the motu
Riria Dalton-Reedy and Isaac Gunson (Te Ao Māori News): Hundreds turn out to pay respects to Tariana Turia at Pākaitore
Stuff: Former minister and Te Pāti Māori founder Dame Tariana Turia has died
PARLIAMENT
Geoffrey Palmer (Newsroom): Protecting our democracy by reforming Parliament
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): The year that could make or break the coalition Government (paywalled)
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): Hunger Games in the Beehive
Noel O’Malley ODT): Is anybody taking notice of the Regulatory Standards Bill?
Mike Friend: Regulatory Standards bill
Laura Walters (Newsroom): My emotion is my strength – Karen Chhour
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Stanford braces herself for a year of cuts – and reform
Finn Blackwell (RNZ): This year saw policing get 'back to basics' - Minister Mark Mitchell
Rachel Thomas (Post): Handful of hot-button public consultation closing while Wellington sleeps (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): The House: A year in The House: Law and order, deregulation and repeal
Steve Deane (Herald): Your guide to sports viewing by political affiliation in New Zealand (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. New Year’s Resolutions
Kelly Dennett (Sunday Star Times): Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ summer off politics ... sort of (paywalled)
Brian Easton (Pundit): Quality Ministers
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): The fines for environmental offending that never get paid
Marika Hill (Local Democracy Reporting): Division, abuse and rates pain: Local politics year in review
Federico Magrin (Post): It’s an election year, can political apathy be reversed? (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): What is coming down the line at Wellington City Council? (paywalled)
Ethan Manera (Herald): Wellington’s Reading Cinema complex purchased by Primeproperty Group
Tom Hunt (Post): Reading Courtenay sold, hopes for a ‘Commercial Bay’ of Wellington (paywalled)
Frances Chin (Post): Lambton Quay vehicle closure may hit Golden Mile retailers (paywalled)
David Long (Herald): How big can Auckland get? And how big is too big?
Kelly Dennett (Sunday Star Times): Auckland is getting bigger and better, but there are pitfalls (and potholes) (paywalled)
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Retiree cost crunch: Jump in Aucklanders putting council rates on hold
Maia Ingoe (RNZ): Auckland Council confiscating recycling bins in bid to stop people throwing rubbish in wrong place
Lois Williams (Local Democracy Reporting): Buller mayor not sure about standing again
Jonathan Leask (Local Democracy Reporting): Ashburton's dancers tiptoe around looming eviction
Deborah Morris (Post): Lower Hutt mayor’s trip to find his ancestors
HEALTH
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): Calls for warning labels on alcohol may grow after US announcement
1News: Inside the challenges faced by rural healthcare providers
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Lack of Covid-19 leave a problem for health professionals, nurse says
Megan Wilson (Rotorua Daily Post):Health NZ Bay of Plenty, Lakes voluntary redundancies: $251,000 paid out
Sophie Barker (ODT): Dunedin hospital a lifesaver for me and my community (paywalled)
ODT: Wreath at hospital site as wait goes on
Francesca Storey and Bev Lawton (The Conversation): The elimination of cervical cancer in NZ is within reach in our lifetime – but not without funding and a plan
Felix Walton (RNZ): Diabetes doctor caught in deepfake deception
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, ENVIRONMENT
Grant Miller (ODT): Footage shows ‘true nature’ of industry: Peta (paywalled)
Lisa Fickenscher (New York Post): Matt Lauer targeted by PETA for alleged ‘abuse,’ beating of animals by sheep farmers at his $9M New Zealand hideaway in bombshell findings
Jamie Morton (Herald): Growing pains: Scientists paint troubling picture for NZ’s crucial farm pastures (paywalled)
Marty Verry (Herald): Farm emissions should not be targeted while concrete gets a pass (paywalled)
RNZ: Fruit fly incursion: Biosecurity NZ making good progress after 'destructive' insect found
RNZ: Fruit fly incursion: More than 100 new traps set up around South Auckland
RNZ: Biosecurity urges people to report Oriental fruit fly findings
Raphael Franks (Herald): Oriental fruit fly found in Auckland: Restrictions on fruit, vegetables to come into force in Papatoetoe
Shilpy Arora (Stuff): Movement of fruit and veges restricted after Auckland fruit fly discovery
RNZ: Destructive fruit fly found in South Auckland surveillance trap
EDUCATION
Kate MacNamara (Herald): The price and politics of $3 school lunches — and how they compare with hospital and prison fare (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): The Wāhine Māori leading NZ’s largest education union
David Farrar: Government moves to strengthen free speech on campus
ECONOMY
David Chaston (Interest): We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): Means testing national super is inevitable (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): How tax rules discourage foreign investor migrants to NZ
Ross Stitt (Interest): Australia in 2025 – and why it matters for New Zealand
Michael Sherrock (Post): Analysis: the economy is still a game of two halves (paywalled)
BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT
David Farrier: Billionaire Nick Mowbray Shows Support for Far-right Figurehead Tommy Robinson
Alan McDonald (Herald): Have 90-day employment trials been worth it? (paywalled)
Imogen Wells (Stuff): ‘Quietly confident’: Wellington’s job market tipped to pick up after ‘tough’ year
RNZ: Boxing Day sales boomed after flat first half of December - retailers
HOUSING
Rachel Helyer Donaldson (RNZ): LGBTIQ+ renters putting up with 'uninhabitable' housing - researcher
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): How much house prices dropped in 2024
Kelvin Davidson (Herald): House price falls: The cities starting 2025 in the red
Toni McDonald (ODT): Plan to house workers falls through
GREYHOUND RACING
Paula Penfold (Stuff): Who punched who? Assault at greyhound racetrack caught on video
Allen Bryce (ODT): They are not off, or racing, this time
Cartoons
She was nice as a nannie. As politician she was no different than any of them. So many of our old people rightly or wrongly believed (many still do) that if the politician is Maori then issues will be addressed and solved - at a personal level. Like a whanau approach. Most maoris in top hole government jobs, academia, NGO type ppl etc still impose that useful myth. When I was an advocate at the People's Centre in Wellington I remember writing letters to her on behalf of benes. TT was Minister of welfare/social development. Of course she didn't actually write back. Her niece did (pvt sec) did - just the usual bullet pointed policy drivel. I get it but elderly, sick and poor Maori folks didn't.