Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards RACE RELATIONS, KORONEIHANA, HOBSON’S PLEDGE AD 1News: Poll: Just 10% think Govt's policies reducing racial tensions Jo Moir (RNZ): No lifeline for Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill after Koroneihana Te Karere: Koroneihana 2024: PM called out on policies targeting Māori
“While the Police Association feel that they’ve been excluded, we have actually included New Zealand Police who represent all of the frontline, not just those that belong to the union” – McKee
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, LOBBYING, POLITICAL INTEGRITY 1News: Q+A: NZ's political lobbying, donations rules need tightening - think tank Derek Cheng (Herald): Political corruption, donations and lobbying in New Zealand: New report from the Helen Clark Foundation on rules in need of overhaul (paywalled)
Seymour’s courageous but who will support him?
New Zealand needs to have public debate about its foreign policy direction. There are massive choices to be made. The problem is that this public debate is barely happening at the moment.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FOREIGN AFFAIRS Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Christopher Luxon’s hawkish foreign policy address in Sydney Chris Trotter (ODT): In whose footsteps exactly are our leaders choosing to follow? (paywalled) Laura Walters (Newsroom): Luxon to Canberra: we need you (you might need us too) Jenna
There is good reason to blame the energy companies – they are acting like a cartel to price gouge consumers while failing to invest in the necessary infrastructure.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ECONOMY Ben Thomas (Post): Interest rate decision will be like the clouds parting for Luxon (paywalled) Dan Brunskill (Interest): RBNZ performs U-turn, cutting rates as recession worsens Richard Harman (Politik): Success has many fathers (paywalled) Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): What’s behind the Reserve Bank’
Socialism or schism?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELFARE Gordon Campbell: On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor Bridie Witton (Stuff): ACT pushes for harsher sanctions on beneficiaries who ‘keep having children’ Amy Williams (RNZ): JobSeekers already being warned of benefit cuts Giles Dexter (RNZ): How will the benefit changes coming next
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELFARE Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): Welcome to the benefit Olympics Stewart Bowman-Lund (Spinoff): The green light flicks on for tougher beneficiary sanctions Glenn McConnell (Stuff): New sanctions for beneficiaries, but minister doesn’t know what happens post-sanction Russell Palmer and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Government benefit
We either have to get real about using our own coal and gas reserves, or we have to think seriously, really seriously, about another form of power generation – the nuclear reactor.
The question is, therefore, how to fix this quality problem. And it’s far from clear that the best answer is to just give party leaders the ability to fire MPs via the waka-jumping law.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ENERGY Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Electricity Crisis: why we are ‘forked’ (paywalled) RNZ: Pressure on power companies to act as energy woes mount Press Editorial (Post): The exercising of power (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters says he ‘knows’ power companies are profiteering during ‘crisis’
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ENERGY Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): What is behind our super high electricity prices? No Right Turn: Reaping what they sowed Richard Harman (Politik): Jones runs rings around the coalition (paywalled) Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Energy crisis: Simeon Brown says power shortage the problem despite gouging claim
