Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE Matt Nippert (Herald: New Zealand slips off least-corrupt podium Pattrick Smellie and Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): Business of Govt: corruption, transparency and purgatory (paywalled) Bridie Witton (Stuff): David Seymour’s 48 hours under fire Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Has David Seymour gone mad?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, POLLS, PUBLIC SERVICE Claire Trevett (Herald): Tension between Act’s David Seymour and PM Christopher Luxon spills over in public (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Seymour tells Luxon where to go (paywalled) Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Seymour asking Luxon for the sack (paywalled) Jamie
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WAITANGI, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS Simon Wilson (Herald): Act’s David Seymour, NZ First’s Shane Jones and the battles of Waitangi (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Inside the debate and drama of the Waitangi Treaty Grounds Brent Edwards (NBR): Honouring the Treaty would have helped avoid
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WAITANGI, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS Adam Pearse & Julia Gabel (Herald): Te Pāti Māori to demand a new Te Tiriti Commissioner to audit Government policy Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori issues coalition ultimatum, naming Treaty Commissioner as a 'bottom line' RNZ: Te Pāti
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WAITANGI, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS Laura Walters (Newsroom): Waitangi sets the scene for political fireworks, Shane Jones calls for calm Glenn McConnell (Stuff): A stark contrast as David Seymour’s hapū welcomes National MPs Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Waitangi prepares for 50,000 visitors as Treaty politics
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Kia ora This is the first “Integrity Briefing” email newsletter from The Integrity Institute. As I explained in today’s “News Briefing” email (formerly “NZ Politics Daily”), the Democracy Project is being retired and superseded by a new research and advocacy organisation, The Integrity
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Kia ora everyone I established the Democracy Project five years ago as a vehicle for putting out news and analysis about New Zealand politics and society. Over that time, I’ve become increasingly concerned with the state of democracy in New Zealand (and elsewhere)
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Bridie Witton (Stuff): Bribe allegations about NZ vape kits in employee secret recordings Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): Costello rejects 'premise' of questions around $575,000 contract to Chinese vape company RELX (paywalled) Rachel Thomas (Post): Simeon Brown says health privatisation ‘not my
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PRIVATISATION, ASSET SALES, ECONOMY Janet Wilson (Post): The fear is getting real for National (paywalled) Max Rashbrooke (Spinoff): How a failure of the imagination opens the door to privatisation Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Luxon stumbles into toxic privatisation debate Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Privatisation fear
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PRIVATISATION, ASSET SALES Richard Shaw (The Conversation): David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Asset sales are on the agenda. So, what could be sold? Jo Moir (RNZ): Christopher Luxon hints
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR Chris Trotter (Interest): Seeking growth unambitiously, the easy way Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Asset sales: Government starts the mood music for privatisations (paywalled) Giles Dexter (RNZ): Greens accuse Prime Minister of
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Economics 101: The coalition’s wake-up call (paywalled) Russell Palmer (RNZ): Economists challenge details of Luxon's new growth plan Press Editorial (Post): Just a question of attitude (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Going for growth (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): Growth,
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Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LUXON STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH, ECONOMY Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Luxon launches year of growth with a war on nojo Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Presiding over a shrinking economy, Christopher Luxon decides it’s a good idea to grow it again (paywalled) Bernard Hickey (The
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Guyon Espiner (Listener): Is Christopher Luxon worried his party might reshuffle him? (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon goes all in on economy as National MPs accept reshuffle fate (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Christopher Luxon expected to deliver reality check on what’s
