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Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, GOVT LEGISLATION
Anna Whyte (Post): Jam-packed political start lies ahead (paywalled)
Spinoff: NZ politics in 2025: The big issues on which the year will hinge
Dave Armstrong (Post): The country has bigger fish to fry (paywalled)
Herald: David Seymour’s Treaty bill draws record response amid widespread criticism (paywalled)
Tureiti Moxon (Herald): Regulatory Standards Bill undermines Māori equity
Bryce Wilkinson (NZ Initiative): Submission: Discussion document on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill
SOCIAL MEDIA, MISINFORMATION, FREE SPEECH
Nicholas Agar (Newsroom): Meta cannot be custodian of our national debates
Jonathan Ayling (Herald): Facebook ends fact-checking: The global debate over free speech and online misinformation
Nicole Skews-Poole & Seamus Boyer (Post): Time for public sector to step up in defence of online trust (paywalled)
ECONOMY, TAX
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Hugely complex' new global minimum tax likely to cost New Zealand more than it yields (paywalled)
Ganesh R Ahirao: The scourge of the clickbait homily - ICYMI: the government is NOT a household
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): 'I'll be back': Concerns grow about US inflation (paywalled)
Rebecca Howard (BusinessDesk): Weak NZD may curb RBNZ's appetite for Feb 50bp rate cut (paywalled)
RNZ: Growth in consumer spending at a five-year low
Aimee Shaw (Post): New Zealanders’ retail spending hits $36.3 billion in 2024 (paywalled)
Tom Raynel (Herald): Consumer spending growth stalls in 2024, December spending down (paywalled)
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Hospitality bears brunt of 2024 spending downturn, Worldline says (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, MINING
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): NZ’s climate credentials on the line in 2025
Patrick Phelps (Herald): Fast-track Approvals Bill clears House: Why mining expansion could benefit Māori (paywalled)
Kate Newton (RNZ): Research reveals potentially dangerous 'urban heat island’ effect in central Auckland
Chelsea Daniels (Herald): Front Page: LA fires: Expert warns climate change has ‘made it worse’, urges better planning for a warmer world
Anneke Smith (RNZ): Scientists head to Antarctica to study ocean: 'Catching glimpses of a future we really want to avoid'
Ke-Xin Li (Waikato Times): What people said about Te Awamutu’s waste-to-energy plant (paywalled)
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