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NZ Politics Daily: 10 September 2024

Republished with Permission

Author: Bryce Edwards

TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL
Simon Wilson (Herald): 
Luxon’s choice: Kotahitanga or destructive referendums (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: 
Act leader David Seymour has a goliath task to get his Treaty Principles Bill over the line (paywalled)
Laura Walters (Newsroom): 
PM still hasn’t seen draft Treaty Principles Bill
Anne Salmond (Newsroom): A Cabinet of principles?
Jane Kelsey (The Conversation): Rewriting history: how the Treaty ‘principles’ evolved and why they don’t stand up to scrutiny
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): David Seymour hits out at church leaders over Treaty Principles Bill
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Christopher Luxon says his hands are tied on Treaty Bill, set for release in two months
Anna Whyte (Post): Questions surround Treaty Principles Bill (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): 
Treaty Principles Bill: PM Christopher Luxon responds after open letter from more than 400 church leaders
RNZ: Christopher Luxon refuses to speak about Treaty Principles Bill after it was handed to Cabinet
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Why not kill the Treaty Principles Bill now?
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Jesus’s vision fulfilled: David Seymour restores unity to the church
Andrew Gunn: A Reading From The Book Of David Of Seymour (paywalled)
Peter Williams: 
How Christian are the 400 Church Leaders?
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill to now include specific mention of hapū and iwi
Rob Campbell (Herald): The Crown’s thirst for Māori land was nothing more than brutal home invasions
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Nats would romp home in October election (paywalled)
Muontain Tui: 
Seymour vs The Clergy (paywalled)

GOVERNMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): 
Does the NZ Government have a cronyism problem?
Derek Cheng (Herald): The official warnings over Minister Nicole McKee’s proposed changes to gun clubs and shooting ranges (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): 
The Libs vs. MMP (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): 
Winston Peters negotiates chief-to-chief with PM to avoid severe cuts at his ministry
Bill Verrall (ODT): No degrees concerning corruption

TAX, IRD
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): 
Why National might be more vulnerable than Labour on tax (paywalled)
Kathy Spencer (Post): 
The tax debate that won’t die - why we finally need a capital gains tax (paywalled)
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): 
I know you hate taxes. But have you got any better ideas?
Grant Duncan: Taxing the rich
Phil Pennington (RNZ): IRD data sharing: Safety of anonymising detail to be examined
Justin Hu (1News): Concerns mount over IRD handing Kiwis' data to social media giants

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