Republished with Permission
Author: Bryce Edwards
BUDGET DOCUMENTS DUMP, GOVERNMENT
Claire Trevett, Jamie Ensor, Thomas Coughlan, Derek Cheng, Adam Pearse, Julia Gabel, Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Budget docs revealed: Warnings cancer promise was under-priced, Treasury wanted even less health funding
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Peeking behind the curtain of Budget 2024
Anna Whyte and Glenn McConnell (Post): Budget documents dump reveals more on funding cuts (paywalled)
Kate Nicol-Williams (1News): Treasury advised against Budget charter school funding
Jem Traylen (BusinessDesk): Public service struggled to meet $1.5b savings target (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Treasury told Willis to trim tax cuts
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Winston Peters' 'extreme reluctance' to make MFAT cuts
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Winston Peters’ fight for minimal Foreign Affairs cuts revealed in new documents
John Gerritsen (RNZ): Government told free school lunches have 'profound impact on wellbeing' before funding cuts
RNZ: Treasury urged govt to scrap Gumboot Friday funding, delay changes to tax package
RNZ: New ministry spending more than $400,000 on contractors
RNZ: Ministry for Regulation sets out timetable for action
Newsroom: Raw Politics podcast: How do you solve a problem like David Seymour?
Imogen Wells (Stuff): Māori Development Minister encourages govt agencies to bebilingual
RNZ: ACT Party leader David Seymour: 'I'm a (not so) secret admirer of Raygun'
MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Act achieves total victory on Treaty Principles Bill (paywalled)
Gordon Campbell: On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine On The Treaty
Audrey Young (Herald): David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill hasn’t yet been drafted, but it’s already a disaster (paywalled)
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): Managed Democracy
Chris Trotter (ODT): Gratitude for idea that we have equal dignity and freedom (paywalled)
Wynsley Wrigley (Herald): Luxon defends local democracy and ‘unprecedented’ health spend
Paul Moon (The Conversation): Blowing the dust off NZ’s ‘founding documents’ reveals the hold they still have on today’s Treaty debate
RNZ: Māori health leaders demand government kill Treaty Principles Bill
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Seymour defends Treaty Bill after international indigenous leaders label it a ‘profound violation’
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Where ACT and Te Pāti Māori stand on key Treaty developments
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova pod: What you need to know about Treaty Principles Bill developments
Robert MacCulloch: Treaty of Waitangi legal "experts", in particular judges, have misunderstood its economic rationale
Andrew Gunn: Deflecting the Treaty Principles Bill, Trump-Style
A J Hendry: Treaty Principles Bill: Is Christian Theology on Seymours side?
Georgina Campbell (Herald): Far North Mayor Moko Tepania says Government should pay for Māori ward referendums
PARLIAMENT
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Why New Zealand can’t have a fairer tax system
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Tax and borrow plans will sink Labour in 2026
Steve Kilgallon (Stuff): ‘Buyer’s remorse’: Green Party says Darleen Tana wants to walk back her resignation, but can’t
Corazon Miller (1News): Tana says Green Party, co-leaders, did not abide by constitution
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Darleen Tana says Greens broke own constitution by asking her to resign
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Analysing government answers on guns
Greg Dixon (Listener):Does God hate the Act Party? (paywalled)
Julia Gabel (Herald): Politician of the Year: Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori wins major international award
Today’s free version of “NZ Politics Daily” contains links to 38 items, and the full version, which continues below the paywall below, has links to an additional 101 categorised items, and today’s cartoons. To subscribe to the full version, click on “Subscribe now” link below. Your paid subscription helps keep the newsletter going, which is 100% subscriber-funded and not-for-profit. I’m also happy to give complimentary full subscriptions to anyone on limited budgets - just email me: bryce.edwards@vuw.ac.nz
