NZ Politics Daily: 7 October 2024

FAST TRACK, INFRASTRUCTURE
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Critics express alarm at list of fast-track projects
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): The details for each of the 149 projects on the ‘fast track’ list
Richard Harman (Politik): Bishop answers the call (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Why fast track is the centrepiece of the coalition’s first term (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Roads, mines, housing developments and Eden Park upgrade on fast-track approvals list announced by Government
Dan Brunskill (Interest):55,000 housing units included in Fast-track list
Glenn McConnell and Luke Malpass (Stuff): Government announces massive new Fast Track list
RNZ: Government unveils 149 projects selected by Fast-track Approvals Bill
1News: Govt unveils 149 projects it wants fast-tracked across NZ
Matthew Littlewood (ODT):Fast-track housing news 'important, challenging’ (paywalled)
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Northland connections aplenty in fast track list (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Why New Zealand struggles with infrastructure compared to Australia (paywalled)
Eye of the Fish: Fast Track Bishop

HEALTH
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The government cuts that won’t heal (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): How did Health NZ go from $500 million of savings to a $1 billion hole?
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Cuts looming for 'critical' public health services
RNZ: Health NZ deputy commissioners being paid $200k a year in fees
David Williams (Newsroom): Shockwaves felt in Dunedin Hospital after bombshell announcement
Hamish McNeilly (Stuff): The 72-page report on the Dunedin Hospital blow-out cost taxpayers $3720 a page
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Trying to remain as angry as possible for another two years (paywalled)
Michael Hundleby (ODT): Opinion: New hospital project: how options stack up (paywalled)
ODT: Civis: Their broken promises will not be forgotten (paywalled)
Janet Wilson (Post): Heated tobacco products farce burns through coalition’s political capital (paywalled)
Vernon Small (SST): Time for Peters to step in and end Costello’s farcical run (paywalled)
Richard Edwards, Andrew Waa and Chris Bullen (Newsroom): The heated tobacco products excise cut – a trial, but not as we know it
1News: 'Bizarre': Critics baffled by Costello's 'independent advice' on heated tobacco
Greg Presland (Standard): She did her own research
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Casey Costello and the efficacy of heated tobacco products
1News: Addicted young vapers 'falling through the cracks'
Nicholas Jones (Herald): Racism fallout at North Shore Hospital after patient request to avoid Asian staff
Cherie Howie (Herald): New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation calls for Health NZ-Te Whatu Ora to do more in fight against systemic racism
Ian Powell: Effectiveology
Bay of Plenty Times: Health NZ Te Whatu Ora report raises questions for ministers, Council of Trade Unions says
Belinda Loring, Papaarangi Reid, Elana Curtis, Melissa McLeod, Ricci Harris, Rhys Jones (NZ Medical Journal/E-Tangata): ‘An attack on science and good medical practice’
RNZ: Covid-19: Removing free RATs will hit low-income people hardest - epidemiologist
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Cancer in Northland: Stark figures show postcode lottery for cancer care
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Cancer in Northland: Whangārei mum Jacqualine Findlater in fight for life against aggressive cancer
David Williams (Herald): Health system: Wellington man’s 11-hour wait with sick daughter in emergency department
Eva de Jong (Herald): More patients visiting pharmacists for GP advice due to wait times for appointments
Brittany Keogh (Post): Health NZ doesn’t know how many youth eligible for free vaccine (paywalled)
Katie Harris (Herald): The regions, age groups and ethnicities using the most medicinal cannabis (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (SST): Why does ACC cover mothers injured by birth but not their babies? (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (SST): ‘It’s not rocket science’: Could we banish cervical cancer? (paywalled)
Jamie Morton (Herald): Kiwi consumers being left in the dark over harmful fats in supermarket foods (paywalled)
Jamie Morton (Herald): Mothers’ stress, smoking, deprivation in pregnancy linked to depression in pre-teens - first-time NZ findings
Jamie Morton (Herald): Scientists reveal first results of bird flu sampling; health plan shows how NZ would respond to human outbreak
Sharon Brettkelly (RNZ): The Detail: Warnings that crackdown on nangs will make them more dangerous

HOUSING
Philippa Howden-Chapman (Post): Govt rushes to fix its own error that helped collapse the construction sector (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government pinches KiwiBuild idea National dubbed ‘financial black hole’ to save property developers
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Coalition brings back Kiwibuild-style underwrite scheme
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Labour says Govt delay on house building underwrite 'unnecessary', cost jobs
Miriam Bell (Post): Do quicker build times = cheaper houses? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): More than 50,000 property investors making losses
Susan Edmunds (RNZ):What's driven the increase in homeownership, and can it last?
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Here's one interesting takeaway from the Census data
Ben Leahy (RNZ): Pensioner party poopers? Kāinga Ora bans elderly tenants from happy hour drinks

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