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Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Time for Labour to shrug off the shackles of election defeat
Max Rashbrooke (Post): The honeymoon’s over, but a hangover’s just kicking in (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Labour’s message for 2026: Are you better off?
Jane Norton (Newsroom): Charities no place for politics
Andrea Vance (Post): It’s the worst job in the country. Why does Ayesha Verrall want a second go at it? (paywalled)
The Standard: Labour’s Long-Sightedness and the Opposition’s Opprobrious Omniabsence
Cécile Meier (BusinessDesk): BusinessDesk’s 2024 OIA naughty list (paywalled)
David Williams (Newsroom): A door-knock and the death of the Official Secrets Act
Deb Te Kawa (BusinessDesk): Paint by numbers: Why the Kāwantanga needs to hand over the brush (paywalled)
Steven Joyce (Herald): Nikki Kaye and Tariana Turia shine amid the collapse of civility in politics (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Katie Nimon more frustrated than surprised by Parliament (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): The Act Party’s ‘accidental politician’ (paywalled)
Mountain Tui: Elon Musk adores Chris Luxon
TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL, MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Andrea Vance (Post): Luxon’s not a ‘drop-nuts.’ He’s just got nothing to say at Waitangi (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Sunday Star Times): The true legacy of the Treaty Principles Bill (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (Sunday Star Times): ‘Never experienced in my lifetime’: Treaty Principles Bills draws unprecedented submissions (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Rough start for proposal for unified Māori deliberative body
Pokere Paewai (RNZ): Pan-Māori assembly debate is a start, Ngāti Kahungunu leader says
Elizabeth Rata (ODT): Ngai Tahu’s ambitions for the South Island
Ian Taylor (Stuff): Agreeing to disagree with Shane Jones, and what we agreed on at Dame Tariana Turia’s tangi
Damien Grant (Stuff): New Zealand is where we live. Not who we are
REGULATION STANDARDS, SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT BILL, GOVT LEGISLATION
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Regulatory Standards Bill slammed as 'dangerous' call for 'alarm bells'
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Concerns for Te Tiriti as submission deadline looms for quiet bill
Sasha Borissenko (Herald): Rush to pass laws makes for bad government (paywalled)
Ryan Ward: My Regulatory Standards Bill submission
Hanna McCallum (Post): Concerns over tight time frames on ‘significant legislation’ (paywalled)
Hanna McCallum (Post): Midnight deadline looms for submissions on beneficiary bill (paywalled)
Mike Friend: Rejecting the Social Security Ammendment Bill
There are links to 28 items above in today’s free version of “NZ Politics Daily”. But below the paywall there are an additional 66 categorised items, and today’s newspaper cartoons.
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