Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards BUDGET - SUMMARIES AND ANALYSIS Laura Walters (Newsroom): Budget takes from squeezed middle for growth Lloyd Burr (Stuff): Budget 2025 is a bit bitsy - here are the best bits Luke Malpass (Post): Willis delivers more with less but fiscal risks remain (paywalled) Bridie
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards BUDGET RNZ: New Zealanders across political spectrum want increased spending on public services, poll finds Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Budget 2025: Nicola Willis to Labour: ‘Show me the money’ Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): National says Labour divided on fiscal policy - here’s what was said
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards TE PĀTI MĀORI SUSPENSION DEBATE RNZ: ACT asked for advice on range of punishments for Te Pāti Māori MPs - including imprisonment Kelly Dennett (Post): ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sought imprisonment advice for Te Pāti Māori haka (paywalled) Russell Palmer (RNZ): Up for debate:
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards TE PĀTI MĀORI SUSPENSION Matthew Hooton: Can Luxon lead on TPM shambles? Russell Palmer (RNZ): Parliament faces a debate primed for filibuster in Budget week Derek Cheng (Herald): Te Pāti Māori voices in Parliament on Budget Day in doubt after compromise talks fail (paywalled)
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, THE C-WORD Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): I said what I said. And I’m sorry... sort of (paywalled) Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): When all hell breaks loose, and politics becomes theatre (paywalled) Jesse Mulligan: Thinking about the c-word Vernon Small
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PARLIAMENT, PAY EQUITY, THE C-WORD Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Echo Chamber: A C-bomb explodes in parliament Cherie Howie (Herald): Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters blasts behaviour in Parliament as ‘degradation’ Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Inside ‘the House of Chaos’: Six days that saw Parliament go bizarre
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Lies, damned lies and political subterfuge Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Lack of debate fans pay equity fury Mandy Henk (Newsroom): I’m a librarian and you’re right Mr Luxon. But not for the reasons you think. Hayden
Pursuing this to its logical conclusion, since every news outlet must at some point offend someone, trust in ‘The Media’ will eventually decline to zero.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, BUDGET Laura Walters and Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Ministers set to take big pay rises, right after wiping 33 pay equity claims Jo Moir (RNZ): FamilyBoost policy: $14m of $62m spent on administration costs Dan Satherley (RNZ): Pay equity claims: What they are
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY Chris Trotter (Interest): Low pay isn’t a fixable bug in our free market system, it’s one of its indispensable features Edward Miller: Detonating pay equity leaves workers footing the bill RNZ: 'Nothing further from the truth' - pay
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, GOVERNMENT USE OF URGENCY Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): The girl-math budget that will cut deep, especially for women (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): An ugly week for National MPs (paywalled) Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): National will pay a steep price for
It’s time to close the accountability holes, strengthen our integrity rules, and reaffirm that in New Zealand, open government is the only way government operates.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LOBBYING AND INFLUENCE Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Alcohol lobbyists given input on health policies, documents reveal Danica Ludlow (Health Coalition Aotearoa): Evidence of lobbying of NZ Government officials by the alcohol industry RNZ: Labour proposes law to restrict big tobacco lobbyists influence on government John
Jewish businesses won’t be targeted again? Synagogues won’t be vandalized and have their windows shattered? That won’t happen again?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, EMPLOYMENT Janet Wilson (Post): National blows up its support from women with pay equity debacle (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Under urgency, without basic paperwork, the Govt moves to change workers’ rights (paywalled) Marc Daalder (Newsroom): National grins and bears it as Act
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PAY EQUITY, EMPLOYMENT Luke Malpass (Post): Pay equity slashing a sub-plot in a much larger game (paywalled) Jo Moir (RNZ): Pay equity changes: Two sides of the coalition brought out Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Five things you need to know about the surprise pay equity
