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NZ Politics Daily: 11 November 2024

Republished with Permission

Author: Bryce Edwards

TREATY OF WAITANGI, PROTEST HĪKOI
Claire Trevett (Herald): David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has political rewards for Act and Te Pāti Māori – but not for PM Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill to put rookie MPs to the test
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Protest season begins as Government opens the Treaty debate
Vernon Small (Post): Treaty bill rush on eve of protest hīkoi no coincidence (paywalled)
Caren Fox (E-Tangata): Tearing the Crown-Māori relationship apart
ODT Editorial: Treaty Principles Bill lands (paywalled)
Press Editorial (Post): Principled exercise or pointless division? (paywalled)
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): Tribunal report reveals profound, radical impacts of Treaty Principles Bill
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): Hīkoi (v.24)
RNZ: Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi: David Seymour open to meeting with organisers
RNZ: Dawn karakia at Te Rerenga Wairua launches national Hīkoi mō te Tiriti
Karanama Ruru (Stuff): Hīkoi leader ‘excited and equally nervous’ ahead of march for Treaty of Waitangi
Raphael Franks (Herald): March for the Treaty of Waitangi protest: Convoys start in Northland tomorrow, police plan to spring into action
Kelvin McDonald (Whakaata Māori): ‘Ka rawe!’: Free legal helpline for Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi
Stuff: Cheat sheet: There’s a Treaty hīkoi going down, what does it mean?
Metiria Stanton Turei (E-Tangata): A modern day muru
Connie Buchanan (E-Tangata): Manufacturing complexity

ABUSE IN CARE
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Govt bars journalist from abuse apology at Parliament
Aaron Smale (Newsroom): Sorry means you don’t do it again
Cushla Norman (1News): Abuse in care survivor wants his precedent setting case to be revisited
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): A hollow apology’: Abuse survivor’s planned protest
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Abuse in care: Survivors, advocates uneasy ahead of national apology
Bridie Witton (Stuff): ‘We have got to get real with ourselves as a country’: Survivors hope for reckoning at abuse in care apology
RNZ: Abuse in care: Survivors say they were tortured by state employees in psychiatric hospitals
RNZ: Abuse in care: Teen given electric shocks without pain relief, beaten and raped in hospital
RNZ: Abuse in care: Woman received more than 200 electric shocks to 'cure' homosexuality
Maddy Croad (Press/Post): Feeling ‘worthless’ at 62: Abuse survivor calls for redress ahead of national apology (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (SST): Few but mighty: Takatāpui abuse in care survivors speak out (paywalled)

HEALTH, DISABILITY
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): How is Casey Costello able to keep her job? (Paywalled)
Adam Pearse (Herald): Auditor-General rejects Labour’s request to probe heated tobacco policy
RNZ: Auditor-General rejects heated tobacco inquiry as out of scope
Mary Williams (ODT): Redesign was not asked for
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Five firms to review retrofit of hospital
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Come all within, you won’t see nothing like the mighty Cliff (paywalled)
Barbara Fountain (Newsroom): Fixing Health NZ an ‘exceptional burden on one individual’ – Treasury
1News: Increase in the number of Kiwis who have diabetes, new data shows
Denise Piper (Northern Advocate): Whangārei clinic opens for patients who can’t get to a doctor
Peter de Graaf (RNZ): Patients carried down stairs all week after lift breaks in Northland hospital
Helen Petousis-Harris (Newsroom): The WHO’s bold step towards a cancer-free future
RNZ: Pharmac green lights free treatment for some thyroid, liver cancer patients
Delphine Herbert (RNZ): 'Why do they let it happen in Dunedin?' - Push for cleaning up drink-filled streets
Derek Cheng (Herald): New study says 60% of cannabis and alcohol users say weed makes them drink less. So, should we legalise cannabis? (paywalled)
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Glimmer of hope for natural health exporters (paywalled)
Justin Wong (Post): New Hōhepa houses for special needs open at Otaihanga (paywalled)

US ELECTION, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Trump’s win reflects a major political shift in the US, and NZ
Andrea Vance (Post): Why a Trump presidency is not a disaster for NZ foreign policy (paywalled)
Robert Patman (Newsroom): NZ shouldn’t be afraid to call Trump out
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon says he will surely 'catch up' with Trump soon (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): A long, hard winter for the Democrats (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): US elections: Why Kamala Harris lost and the lessons for NZ’s Labour Party (paywalled)
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Climate finance negotiations could be harder after Trump's victory
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Should NZ bet the farm on Trump’s MAGA?
Esther Taunton (Stuff): What will a Donald Trump presidency mean for New Zealand business?
1News: Experts on how Trump presidency affects Pacific, NZ exports
Tina Morrison (Newsroom): Trump’s tariff threat likely to be watered down
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): New Zealand exporters brace for US-China trade war after Trump win (paywalled)
Wayne Brown (SST): When it comes to superpowers, it pays to be friends with both (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: How Trump’s decisive victory came about and what it might portend for us here in New Zealand
Ryan Bridge (Newstalk ZB): The Kiwi trying to stop the Trump tariffs
Hamish McNicol and Nicholas Pointon (NBR): Longer-term market implications of Trump presidency ‘murky’ (paywalled)
Melody Nixon (E-Tangata): Resist US-led politics while we still can
Ross Stitt (Interest): How the Australian government is preparing for its relationship with the 'new' unmoored and vengeful Trump 2.0 Administration
Colin Peacock (RNZ): Mediawatch: US elections: Media messages from Donald Trump's triumph
Tom Hunt (Post): 18,000 Americans look into moving to NZ the day after Trump won (paywalled)
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Matthew Knott (Sydney Morning Herald): ‘Whitewash’: New Zealand foreign minister blasts Australian Covid inquiry
Thomas Manch (Post): Cash-strapped Defence Force operating under 'austerity', briefings show (paywalled)
Nigel Allardyce (E-Tangata): Citizenship bill achieves ‘very little for very few’
Maire Leadbeater (E-Tangata): New Zealand’s chapter of shame in Sāmoa
Sam Stubbs (Post): The edge Australia has as a place to live - and what we can learn from it
Duncan Garner (Listener): Is it time we became part of Australia?

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