NZ Politics Daily: 7 August 2024

PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): National’s conference illustrated hollowing out of politics
Roy Morgan: National support lowest since the election but Labour support also down
Jo Moir (RNZ): Poll shows support for using law to oust Darleen Tana from Parliament
Haimona Gray: The Olympic Gold For Racial Tolerance
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Speaker Gerry Brownlee sets out sterner approach to Parliament culture
Kelly Dennett (Post): Speaker says nobody has used new mechanism to complain about bullying in Parliament
Felix Desmarais (1News): Minister removed te reo greetings from official Matariki invitation
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): A brief history of te reo Māori in parliament
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Trade Minister Todd McClay says 'nothing personal' in Mexico barb to MP Ricardo Menéndez March
Mihingarangi Forbes (RNZ): Willow-Jean Prime and Tamatha Paul on Oranga Tamariki, 7AA opposition and boot camps
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Business of Government: Hiring in a 'scary' consulting market, marking the ministers and more (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis puts new Social Investment Agency at heart of Government  (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): How the Government can tap private funds for social investment ambitions (paywalled)
Louisa Wall (Newsroom): Peters delivers self-uppercut with cynical boxing claims
Post: Beehive Briefing: Everything worth knowing from politics today (paywalled)

HEALTH
Derek Cheng (Herald): Government’s pre-Budget lack of action to fund cancer drugs and post-backlash scramble revealed (paywalled)
Isaac Davison (Herald): Health New Zealand backtracks on Keytruda delay, will allow early access to some patients
RNZ: Health New Zealand u-turn on early access to cancer drug Keytruda
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Health NZ says cancer patients will get early access to Keytruda
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Cancer drug delay a cruel result of bad decisions, Labour says
Russel Palmer (RNZ): Health NZ: Minister Shane Reti defends Commissioner decision as 'shorter path' for decisions
RNZ: Health NZ finances worse than thought - commissioner Lester Levy
Richard Prebble (Herald): Right solutions and wrong answers for a health crisis (paywalled)
Kathy Spencer (Post): How David Seymour can deliver faster access to medicines (paywalled)
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Crown says agreement with midwives imposed no legal obligations to improve pay, conditions
Louisa Steyl (Stuff): Has the Government stalled digital health innovation?
Gill Bennett (RNZ): Not enough nurses, too many or an 'artificial glut'?
Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Explained: Decades of tinkering with NZ’s health system

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Robin Martin (RNZ): New Plymouth councillor Murray Chong's car hit by gunshot
Glenn McLean (Stuff): Government under fire as NPDC vote to retain Māori ward
RNZ: Kāpiti Coast District Council re-affirms decision to establish Māori ward
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Northland iwi call for action over Kaipara District Council's Māori ward
Susan Botting (Local Democracy Reporting): Māori wards: Dame Naida Glavish calls for Kaipara mayor Craig Jepson’s resignation
RNZ: What you need to know about Māori wards
Moana Ellis (Local Democracy Reporting): ‘It will be ugly’: Council warns cost of water set to balloon
Stuff: Bluff residents asked to consider best option for wastewater discharge
Sinead Gill (Press): Councillors warned against listening to public opinion (paywalled)
Bill Hickman (RNZ): Sandy Calkin inquest: Wellington waterfront balustrade installation could take years, council says
Tom Hunt (Post): Waterfront boss: Safety not a job but a mission (paywalled)
Catherine Hutton (Herald): Sandy Calkin inquest: Council says there’s a waterfront fatality in Wellington every 1.7 years
Tom Hunt and Frances Chin (Post): Rare moment of Wellington City Council unity over Johnsonville Mall (paywalled)
Post: Quake-risk conflict prompts Porirua council to leave the building  (paywalled)
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): Councillor-turned-MP on salary requests and hate mail
Tatiana Gibbs (Stuff): Former deputy mayor made lewd comments and touched boys while working at school
Doug Sail (Stuff): 'No-frills' budget comes with average 14.7% rise in Mackenzie District rates

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