NZ Politics Daily: 9 September 2024
CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: 400 church leaders want David Seymour’s bill voted down
RNZ: Treaty Principles Bill: 440 Christian leaders sign open letter asking MPs to vote no
Richard Harman (Politik): Seymour’s Treaty bill making Nats nervous (paywalled)
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Labour, Greens praise church leaders for opposition to Treaty Principles Bill
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Controversial Treaty Principles Bill to be considered by Cabinet on Monday
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Windbag: Should Wellington City Council refuse to hold a Māori ward referendum?
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Councils vs Government in battle over Māori wards
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Māori ward seats voting wraps up
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Far North District councillors vote unanimously to retain their Māori ward following impassioned meeting
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Emotional scenes as Hutt City endorses Māori ward (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Councils reject racism
Dale Husband (E-Tangata): Helmut Modlik: We’re building our own rangatiratanga
GOVERNMENT
Jo Moir (RNZ): Health surges in rankings of New Zealanders' concerns - Ipsos survey
Ipsos: NZ Issues Monitor August 2024
Derek Cheng (Herald): Which former National MPs have been chosen for important government positions? (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour saved $500m, the coalition spent it (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The Secret Diary of .. Christopher M Luxon
Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins, Winston Peters brought Shane Jones to heel over judges (paywalled)
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Semantics, breach of Cabinet rules, or death of democracy? (paywalled)
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Shane Jones and the ‘communist’ judge: He’s naughty but not guilty in court of public opinion (paywalled)
Camryn Brown (The Blue Review): Real Change in the Blind Spot (paywalled)
Helen Castles (1News): Finance Minister to find Kaitaia College entrepreneur an internship
LABOUR, TAX
Chris Trotter (Interest): Looking for Labour’s vital signs
Corin Dann and Arusha Bradley (RNZ): Billionaire Mainfreight co-founder Bruce Plested backs wealth tax - with a catch
1News: Q+A: 'Traditional Labour': Hipkins signals party revival, tax policy pivot
Vernon Small (SST): Hipkins gingerly moves on tax, but is it too little, too late? (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (SST): Labour and the capital gains tax doom-loop (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Is Chris Hipkins just hiding in plain sight? (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Labour promises to tax capital
Andrew Coleman (Interest): Taxes and the housing market
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PUBLIC SECTOR, CONSULTANTS
Andrea Vance (Post): Health NZ staff required to sign gag orders over budget pressure (paywalled)
Amelia Wade (Post): Further $300,000 spending revealed on ‘gravy train’ workshops (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Top public service job still vacant a year after last boss Peter Hughes announced retirement (paywalled)
Phil Pennington (RNZ): Inland Revenue giving thousands of taxpayers' details to social media platforms for ad campaigns
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Big name consultants trim about 120 jobs, but Government ‘nibbling’ again (paywalled)
SUPERMARKETS
Tim Hazledine (Herald): Supermarket competition: Why the duopolies require a regulatory kick up the backside (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Reporting): Time to break up the supermarket duopoly
ODT Editorial: Reform needs political will (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): ACT pledges pushback on supermarket crackdown
Robert MacCulloch: Here's the Supermarket Duopoly Defamation Threat Letter written by Chapman Tripp naming Auckland University Economist Tim Hazeldine
Ella Somers (Interest): Of Interest Podcast: Pierre van Heerden on how it costs twice as much to set up a supermarket in NZ than Australia
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): Hundreds of Woolworths staff incorrectly paid for months after adopting new system
KIINGITANGA
Bruce Munro (ODT): Global Insight: Kingitanga could bring foreign policy rethink
Siena Yates (E-Tangata): Tom Roa: Nga wai hono i te po is ‘the right woman for the job’
Joseph Los’e (Herald): New Māori monarch Ngā Wai hono i te pō is already the peoples’ queen
Shane Te Pou (Herald): Kīngi Tūheitia’s passing is a time for Christopher Luxon to reflect on monarch’s call for unity (paywalled)
RNZ: Kuini Nga wai hono i te po needs to carry kotahitanga forward, advisor says
RNZ: Hope new Kuini will be voice for rangatahi
RNZ: Young Māori take to social media to embrace their new queen
Trent Hohaia (E-Tangata): Kiingitanga: Our most unique political institution
E-Tangata: Vincent O’Malley: The origins of the Kīngitanga
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE
Phil Pennington (RNZ): New Zealand takes another step towards US space operations
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Explosion in NZ’s space sector
RNZ: NZ will retain sovereignty despite joining US space mission - Minister
Jonathan Milne (Newsroom): Worst diplomatic failing provides chance for diplomacy masterclass
Kim Grigg (Post): If it’s Wednesday, it must be South Korea (paywalled)
Victor Billot (Newsroom): An Ode to .. King Luxon
Nick James (RNZ): Business case to replace NZDF's Boeing 757s in the works, as repair costs skyrocket
Thomas Manch (Post): More than 200 defence staffers apply for voluntary redundancy (paywalled)
John Braddock (WSWS): US urges New Zealand to ramp-up military capacity to police the Pacific
PARLIAMENT
Harriette Boucher (Post): Parliament’s Complaint Commissioner: No complaints, no problem? (paywalled)
Anne Bardsley and Tatjana Buklijas (Newsroom): Can we do democracy more … democratically?
David Round (NZCPR): A Dangerous Legacy
Peter Wilson (RNZ): The Week in Politics: More roads and maybe fewer tourists
Stuff: Political review: A king is buried, a Queen is crowned, and tax debates
Newsroom: Raw Politics Podcast: A humble Seymour and overspun Simeon
Herald: Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson provides breast cancer diagnosis update
RNZ: Greens co-leader Marama Davidson 'in the thick of it' with cancer treatment
Stuff: ‘In the thick of it’: Green Party co-leader’s cancer update
Grant Duncan: Is there a widening gender gap in politics?
Anna Whyte and Robert Kitchin (Post): Inside the Beehive: 10 minutes with Kieran McAnulty (paywalled)
Louis Collins (RNZ): In pictures: Commonwealth Youth Parliament takes over the House
Melissa Stokes (1News): Newsmakers: Sir Geoffrey Palmer reflects on 1984 post-election crisis
Catherine Groenestein (Stuff): Former MP and forestry pioneer Peter Gresham dies
HEALTH, DISABILITY, COVID-19
Janet Wilson (Post): Patients queueing for care a sign of a system nearing collapse (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Government of deceit
1News: Q+A: New book sheds light on rheumatic fever's devastating impact
RNZ: Dunedin City Council calling for under review hospital project to proceed
Hannah Martin (Stuff): ‘Disappointed’: GP visits were free for young people here - now some could pay up to $64
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Lack of reliable healthcare leaves Waiheke lsland local 'anxious'
Emma Hatton (RNZ): Red flags raised over lowball pay equity offer to care worker
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: the ‘hidden’ disability (paywalled)
Cecilia Robinson (Herald): Solutions to our healthcare crisis (paywalled)
Robin Martin (RNZ): 'We're not going to back down': 300 protest changes to disability services in New Plymouth
Amanda Kvalsvig, John Kerr, Paula Lorgelly, Nick Wilson, Michael Baker (Public Health Communication Centre): Long Covid: High economic burden justifies further preventive efforts
David Hood (Newsroom): The truth about NZ’s death rate that the Covid Commission will hear
Katie Kenny (RNZ): Will NZ follow other countries and get new Covid vaccines? What you need to know
EDUCATION
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Schools' shake-up: What some find ‘terrifying’ about govt plans for charter schools (paywalled)
John Gerritsen and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Secretive legal advice argues charter school rules likely to breach FTA, labour rules
Greg Presland (Standard): Gormless Government releases confidential legal advice on Charter School law
RNZ: Results of school property inquiry yet to go to Cabinet
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Warnings of ‘political interference’ as Govt looks to move oversight of teacher training
John Gerritsen (RNZ): What you need to know about the draft English and maths curriculums
Hanna McCallum (Post): Porirua College cancels NCEA test amid rising stress, principal says (paywalled)
Ben Leahy (Herald): The hybrid learning debate - should our schools just ‘get back to basics’? (paywalled)
Brett Kerr-Laurie (Press/Post): NZ’s legacy schools on the receiving end of mega donations (paywalled)
GUN LAWS, NATIONAL SECURITY
Kris Gledhill (The Conversation): A last minute amendment to NZ’s gang legislation risks making a bad law worse
Thomas Mead (1News): Officials raise alarm after McKee makes rapid gun law change
Thomas Manch (Post): New national security agency scrapped due to cost concerns (paywalled)
Tatiana Gibbs (Press/Post): ‘We must not go backwards’: Petition launched to oppose unwinding of military gun ban (paywalled)
1News: Govt 'turning its back' on victims of March 15 attack, imam says
TRANSPORT
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: Media focus on small stuff in government's big-budget transport plan
Mama Moayyed (1News): 'Risky, expensive and confusing' – councils challenge government's proposed speed limit changes
ODT Editorial: The truck stops with Mr Brown (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Wellington cycleway now set to be paused (paywalled)
Luke Pierson (Post): Meet Wellington’s new elite – cyclists (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): On a wing and a prayer: Air New Zealand braces for the American armada (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): No funding for bridge could spell the end for the Melling line (paywalled)
Nicholas Boyack (Post): Watch: Progress on the Petone to Ngauranga shared path (paywalled)
ECONOMY, BUSINESS, INFRASTRUCTURE
Brian Easton (Pundit): Have We An Infrastructure Deficit?
Simon Wilson (Herald): Can Chris Bishop get NZ’s infrastructure pipeline working (paywalled)
David Hargreaves (Interest): As interest rates fall, will we make trouble for ourselves?
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): A dangerous thought for New Zealanders: cheer up! (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: Government is manufacturing a crisis (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (SST): We know times are tough; can we start talking about the recovery? (paywalled)
Arena Williams, Stuart Smith (Stuff): Some might say what we’re proposing is long overdue
Liam Dann (Herald): What we learned: 10 of NZ’s top economists share their biggest lessons from the Covid years (paywalled)
Madison Reidy (Herald): Reserve Bank’s Christian Hawkesby on rates, recession and resilience
Jamie Gray (Herald): Better times ahead? Key economic indicator turns positive for first time in two years (paywalled)
1News: Are New Zealand's biggest cities becoming boring backwaters?
Julie Jacobson (Post): Their best shot – how Wellington can bounce back (paywalled)
Laura Frykberg (Stuff): Pandoro Wellington to close after 28 years serving customers in the capital
Kate Green (RNZ): Pandoro Wellington closes after nearly three decades
RNZ: Telecommunications companies to come up with coverage maps
EMPLOYMENT
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): The industries struggling to keep up with the living wage
Max Rashbrooke (Post): University cleaners demonstrate the case for the living wage (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Vic Uni excludes living wage from draft strategic plan (paywalled)
Listener: Why NZ’s Living Wage Movement is bigger than you think (paywalled)
Eric Crampton (Post): Court ruling on Uber drivers undermines the ride-share model (paywalled)
The Standard: Unions are still relevant
Esther Taunton (Stuff): Five of NZ's highest-paying jobs and how to get one
RETIREMENT, KIWISAVER
Rob Stock (Post): How much do you need to put into KiwiSaver? New research out. (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Funds industry plots strategy to get MPs to upgrade KiwiSaver (paywalled)
RNZ: Retiree calls for pension 'top-up' for those unable to save
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Lois Williams (Local Democracy Reporting): Government’s ‘nice-to-have’ rhetoric unfair to councils – Buller mayor
Russell Brown (Listener): PM’s speech to the local government: Mana-diminishing or what ratepayers wanted to hear? (paywalled)
Post: Wellington City Council credit rating downgraded as financials weaken (paywalled)
Nick Loughnan (ODT): Ownership of Aurora Energy must stay in Otago for good of province
Laura Smith (Local Democracy Reporting): Council with ‘best water’ looks at how best to deliver it
RNZ: Queenstown Lakes District Council files charges against three companies over slip
ENVIRONMENT
Kate Newton (RNZ): 80 percent chance of another Cyclone Gabrielle in next 50 years, Treasury says
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Air NZ, Mitre 10 get lowest climate scores in Otago University rankings
Sara Walton and Andrea Foley (The Conversation): How well are NZ companies reporting their climate impacts? Our new tracker shows very mixed results
Sara Walton (Newsroom): How to tell if companies are really cutting emissions
RNZ: Mike Joy on his memoir and butting heads with Sir John Key
Nikki Macdonald (SST): Book or be gone ‒ is the spontaneous tramp or roadie dead? (paywalled)
ENERGY
Sam Stubbs (Post): How to get our power prices down (paywalled)
1News: Q+A: NZ economy better off by ditching fossil fuels - report
Bernard Hickey (Spinoff): When the Facts Change Podcast: Does the government have it wrong on gas?
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Open electricity risks ‘retailer gatekeeping’
Catherine Groenestein (Stuff): Clarity in legislation update pleases offshore wind developer
HOUSING
Amy Ridout (Stuff): Fewer people living in motels not a win, says housing provider
Ben Leahy (Herald): Housing affordability: The income Kiwi families need to comfortably buy a new house in Australia vs NZ (paywalled)
Greg Ninness (Interest): Rents moved very slightly in favour of tenants in most New Zealand regions during July
Tatiana Gibbs (Press/Post): Gen Swipe: Lifetime renters or scrimping savers? (paywalled)
WOMEN’S REFUGE
Tony Wall and Justin Wong (Stuff): The women's refuge and the children's dance uniforms
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Porirua Women's Refuge diverted funding to new charity
Ruth Hill (RNZ): Shock closure for Porirua Women and Family Centre after funding pulled
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