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Author: Bryce Edwards
PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SEVICE
Audrey Young (Herald): Sir Brian Roche spells out what’s wrong with the public service (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Swell the pot, then raid it: Inside the ministerial wrangling over using the tourist tax to improve the Government’s books (paywalled)
Ian Powell: When Politics gets in the Pocket of the Gun Lobby
Anusha Bradley (RNZ): $2m upgrade for 'creaky' mega government database
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Luxon, Hipkins, Seymour promise agenda-setting speeches to start year
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): Stayin’ alive at the Beehive in 2025: Your handy guide to the year ahead in politics
Ben Thomas (Post): Brand new year, same old challenges (paywalled)
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): New Zealand's 2025 Political and Economic Outlook
Andrew Gunn: ACT: Regulatory Oversight Should Be Subcontracted To Wilson Parking (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): The submission surge: How having a say on new laws went from nerdy to normal
Mike McRoberts (NBR): Kotahitanga ‘whare’ for Māori might take some building (paywalled)
Hūhana Lyndon (Te Ao Māori News): Titiro atu ki ngā taumata o te moana, ka hua mai i reira he ao hou - thoughts on the new year
Catrin Owen (Stuff): Former MP Golriz Ghahraman under investigation again for shoplifting
RNZ: New shoplifting allegation against former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman
Herald: Police investigating Pak’nSave shoplifting complaint against former MP
HEALTH, DISABILITY
Pete Hodgson (ODT): Hospital lesson one: delay costs
Joel Maxwell (Stuff): 'They've got a scalpel - are chopping off by gut feeling' - experts line up to slam health restructure
Ruth Jones (Press/Post): The hidden toll of government cuts on the disability community (paywalled)
Stephen Forbes (NZ Doctor): Briefing paper shows lab providers lobbying for user pays (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Post): Beyond BMI - redefining obesity (paywalled)
Felix Walton (RNZ): Tying BMI to obesity ineffective and prone to misdiagnosis - paper
Rachel Thomas (Post): Mount Cook private hospital gets green light (paywalled)
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): British American Tobacco lowers prices for Dunhill Switch cigarettes (paywalled)
Patrice Dougan (NZ Doctor): Summer Survey: How primary care has changed in the past two years (paywalled)
ENVIRONMENT, FAST TRACK, NATURAL DISASTERS
Gary Taylor (Newsroom): The environment’s most important year for decades
Simon Wilson (Herald): Climate change: Fronting up to managed retreat (paywalled)
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): How banks can make climate pledges – then keep funding fossil fuels
Ben Tomsett (Herald): Dunedin climate activist Bruce Mahalski convicted over train protest, pays legal costs inside bag of coal
Anne Gibson (Herald): Devonport $400m intensification plan fast-track application: New apartments, shops, offices (paywalled)
Shannon Pitman (Open Justice Reporting): Forestry giant Ernslaw One delays cyclone damage repairs, court extends deadlines
Maia Hart (Local Democracy Reporting): $1.3m spent on ‘business saver’ travel subsidy since July 2021 storm
Diane McCarthy (Local Democracy Reporting): $7 million pegged for Edgecumbe flood litigation
There are links to 32 items above in today’s free version of “NZ Politics Daily”. But below the paywall there are an additional 53 categorised items, and today’s newspaper cartoons.
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