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Author: Bryce Edwards
FAST TRACK, MINING
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): ‘Luxon Hustle’ targets foreign tech and infrastructure investors
Fox Meyer (Newsroom): Zombies given new life as fast-track passes into law
Eva Corlett (Guardian): ‘Dark day for New Zealand’: outcry as bill to fast-track controversial mining projects is approved
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Winton’s Kāinga Ora lawsuit balloons to $305m-plus
Tim Scott (ODT): Mining company hails passing of Fast-track Approvals Bill (paywalled)
Roeland van den Bergh (Post): Santana Minerals welcomes passing of the Fast-track Approvals Bill (paywalled)
Maria Slade (BusinessDesk): Two fast-track projects collide (paywalled)
Stephen Ward (Waikato Times): Site of planned $100m-plus steel plant revealed (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Treasury gave Labour an open goal, somehow they missed it (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): NZ almost last in global economic comparison
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Balancing the budget without tax increases or austerity measures may require a Christmas miracle
Brent Edwards (NBR): Fixing the economy and fiscal situation no easy task (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): Political blame game begins over state of Government’s books
Grant Duncan: Nicola Willis's fiscal poetry contest
Cameron Bagrie (BusinessDesk): Did Treasury go far enough? (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Barbara Edmonds not sure how coalition will meet spending limits (paywalled)
Robert McCulloch: Yes, Labour Recklessly Borrowed $100 billion. National's doing the same.
Steven Cowan: Christopher Luxon: ‘Merry Xmas, here’s some more brutal austerity'
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The Government aren't fixing our economic mess
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Kneejerk reactions won't fix the fiscals
Virginia Fallon (Post): ‘Well done everyone’: the PM goes to a foodbank (paywalled)
Amy Williams (RNZ): 'The government's turning down people' - declined food grants put more pressure on foodbanks
David Hargreaves (Interest): NZ's current account deficit narrows
Liam Dann (Herald): Current account deficit narrows as Kiwis import less (paywalled)
RNZ: Consumer confidence up, but still below long time average
Dita De Boni (Post): Economic optimism up but Xmas will still be frugal (paywalled)
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, YEAR IN REVIEW
Andrea Vance (Post): ‘Really disgusted’: Judith Collins rips into judge’s party behaviour (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Stuff): ‘Really disgusted’: Judith Collins rips into judge’s party behaviour
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Peters considers legal action over judge’s ‘verbal attack’
RNZ: Attorney-general 'appalled' after Judge and former doctor verbally abuse Winston Peters at exclusive party
Herald: District Court Judge Ema Aitken, Dr David Galler disrupt NZ First party at Northern Club
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Act Party’s highly influential year
Ben Thomas (Post): Kiwi summer couldn’t come at a better time for the coalition (paywalled)
Geoff Neal (TheFacts): National Party’s performance rated 10 percentage points higher (+25%) than they poll
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Opposition parties move towards 'formalising' collaboration
No Right Turn: Open Government: The joke ends
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Why Christopher Luxon is my politician of the year
RNZ: Winston Peters spends much of of year speech criticising Te Pāti Māori, Waititi breaks into song
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon gifts Chris Hipkins an Air NZ safety message as Parliament wraps up for Christmas
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon ends Parliamentary year with unsparing roast
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The year in five news events
Liam Hehir (The Blue Review): Who, whom? The Luxon Piñata Shows We Can Never Escape the Playground
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