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Author: Bryce Edwards
FERRIES, KIWIRAIL, INFRASTRUCTURE
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Politicians are failing to put the national interest first in infrastructure
Gordon Campbell: On cancer drugs, and the Great Ferries Cancellation Disaster of ’23
Thomas Manch (Post): Luxon assures he 'knows how to deliver economics' as Cook Strait ferry saga boils over (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Interislander debacle shows problems with state ownership (paywalled)
Steve Maharey (Herald): This Government should blame itself for the infrastructure hole it’s in (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Claims new ferry project will hit iRex price, for much less ship (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): KiwiRail confusion as rumours swirl around ferry construction and privatisation
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Government refuses to rule out privatising KiwiRail amid revelations contractor spend tops $8m
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Interislander could lose rail capability but stay with KiwiRail (paywalled)
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Possible ferry cancellation liability 'hasn't been finalised' - Hipkins
Newshub: Christopher Luxon stands by scrapping Interislander project after Aratere debacle
Shanti Mathias (Spinoff): A brief timeline of Cook Strait ferries
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): New Zealand is one big crappy flat with successive negligent landlords
Georgina Campbell (Herald): KiwiRail board members may lose their jobs, call to release consultant cost
CANCER DRUGS, HEALTH
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Government's cancer funding announcement a catch-up, clean-up job
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt risks getting stuck in the short-term thinking trap
Chelsea Daniel (Herald): Front Page: Government’s Pharmac funding foreshadowing could have cost New Zealand
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Luxon defends drug funding's effect on Budget, refuses to share total cost
1News: Oncologist welcomes Pharmac funding boost, but warns over staffing
Rodger Tiedemann (Post): New medicine funding something to celebrate - but there’s a long way to go
Ellen O’Dwyer (RNZ): Cancer drugs promise: Mixed reaction to news from patients
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): I'm weirdly grateful for the Government's cancer drugs stuff-up
Robert MacCulloch: Seymour should've never politicized Pharmac by making National's Biggest Fundraiser, Paula Bennett, its Chair
Greg Presland (The Standard): The great Pharmac backflip
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): Wellington has one MRI scanner operating, Health NZ has no plans to buy more
Rachel Thomas (Post): Union tells allied staff: don't pick up work of missing staff (paywalled)
ODT Editorial: Looking after our graduate nurses (paywalled)
Fiona Ellis (ODT): GP funding a matter of ‘survival’ (paywalled)
1NEWS VERIAN POLL, PARLIAMENT
Felix Desmarais (1News): Poll: Vast majority believe they will not be better off from Budget
Felix Desmarais (1News): Poll: Government coalition makes up lost ground as NZ First lifts
Felix Desmarais (1News): Govt ‘not resonating’ says Hipkins, but Luxon unmoved by poll
Adam Pearse (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon brushes off poll result as Kiwis deliver verdict on Budget 2024
RNZ: Political parties not reading too much into latest poll
Claire Trevett and Adam Pearse (Herald): Governing coalition bounces back in new 1News Verian poll, Hipkins closes preferred PM gap
Steven Cowan: Chris Luxon is in no danger of being popular
Post: Beehive Briefing: Everything you need to know from today (paywalled)
No Right Turn: Unbridled power again
Anna Whyte (Post): Green MP Darleen Tana investigation now funded by party (paywalled)
Bryan Bruce: Should We Ban Political Donations? (paywalled)
WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
Tom Hunt (Post): D-Day is here for Wellington airport shares sale (paywalled)
Tom Hunt (Post): Legal threats, demands and mud-slinging as Wellington council mega-vote tension heats up (paywalled)
Diane Calvert (Post): Wellington's ‘a city on the brink’ (paywalled)
Tim Brown (Post): ‘Don’t play the man and try to stick to the truth’ (paywalled)
Erin Gourley (Post): State of the art plant to solve Wellington’s stinky sludge problem (paywalled)
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