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NZ Politics Daily: 16 September 2024

Republished with Permission

Author: Bryce Edwards

CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS
Janet Wilson (Post): 
The price everyone will pay for Luxon’s naive deal-making (paywalled)
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): 
Doomed debate around Act’s Treaty Principles Bill turns up heat on polarising issue (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Post): 
The political game behind ACT’s zombie Treaty Principles Bill (paywalled)
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): 
The Secret Diary of .. Sheriff D Seymour
Claire Trevett (Herald): Act leader David Seymour’s annoying habit of hogging the headlines in coalition circus (paywalled)
Peter Wilson (RNZ): 
The Week in Politics: David Seymour's dragon soon to be unleashed
Audrey Young (Herald): Legendary Āpirana Ngata resurrected in Treaty of Waitangi sovereignty debate
Catherine Delahunty  (E-Tangata): Treaty bill plays on ignorance
Press Editorial: Is the Treaty bill a pointless exercise? (paywalled)
Tai Ahu and Natalie Coates  (E-Tangata): 
‘An act of bad faith and deep dishonour’
David Harvey: The Letter
Julia Gabel (Herald): Foreshore and seabed: Waitangi Tribunal releases report, slams ministers’ meeting with seafood reps
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Waitangi Tribunal findings on customary marine title changes no surprise to iwi leader
RNZ: Waitangi Tribunal finds failings in government's handling of Marine and Coastal Area Act changes
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Waitangi Tribunal finds Coalition’s Marine and Coastal Act changes ‘grossly’ breach Treaty
Te Aniwaniwa Paterson (Te Ao Māori News): Greens and Māori Party condemn amendment to Takutai Moana Act
No Right Turn: Dangerous ground
James Nokise (Post): Feeling the warm embrace of the Crown and Kingitanga (paywalled)
Pretoria Gordon (RNZ): 
Rangatahi Māori launch 'musical assault on the plague of colonisation

PARLIAMENT, FORMER MPS
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): 
Political corruption in NZ can’t be tackled with a softly, softly approach
Haimona Gray: Why isn't it about the economy? Stupid!
Chris Trotter (Interest): The dead-end options of political decay
Brian Easton (Pundit): In Open Seas; A Book
Tracy Watkins (SST): Trust falls victim to rise of NZ’s complaints culture (paywalled)
Nikki Macdonald (Post): 
OIA delay watchdog failing own timeliness targets (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): 
Parliament Bill sets it free from Beehive, and gives security guards greater powers (paywalled)
Shane Te Pou (Herald): 
Tax debate and a cost of living crisis: Why Labour’s Chris Hipkins needs to spring into action (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): 
Labour MP Lemauga Lydia Sosene diagnosed with breast cancer, taking medical leave
Phil Smith (RNZ): The House: Leading in opposition and building an alternative government
Mike Houlahan (ODT): An emotional reminder that what Parliament does matters (paywalled)
RNZ: 
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke wins young world politician of the year award
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Melissa Nightingale (Herald): 
Kiri Allan crash: Police file on ex-Justice Minister’s offending reveals new information from the night (paywalled)
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): 
Prime minister ‘completely unaware’ of ex-minister’s child sex abuse allegations
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): A predator’: Ex politician investigated at least three times over alleged child sex abuse
Sam Sherwood (Stuff): Former National Party minister accused of historical child sex abuse
Donna Fleming (Woman’s Weekly): Tāmati Coffey on life after politics, fatherhood and TV
Philip Chandler (Mountain Scene): What's Todd Barclay doing in Saudi Arabia?

PUBLIC SECTOR
Andrea Vance (Post): 
New social investment agency doubles budget, pays higher salaries (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): 
Taxpayers left in dark over alleged KPMG-led probe into $33m MFAT IT cloud project leaks (paywalled)
Jo Moir (RNZ): 
Watch: ACT Party leader David Seymour announces policy directive on 'need, not race'
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Government directs public service to deliver on need, not race
Stuff: Public services must be ‘needs-based’ over ethnicity, Govt says
RNZ: Privacy Commissioner has no record of knowledge of MSD's use of fake social media profiles

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