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Author: Bryce Edwards
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR
Anneke Smith (RNZ): ACT wielding 'disproportionate' influence in government - Seymour
Adam Pearse (Herald): How Act leader David Seymour ‘got it wrong’ about NZ First’s Winston Peters - and why Treaty Principles Bill could live on (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The coalition’s priorities, and the challenges it faces, in year two
Liam Hehir (The blue Review): Let Luxon Be Luxon
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): The tax policy Labour members will vote on this weekend (paywalled)
Natalia Albert: The Green Party’s Incompetence and Inconsistency is Deafening
Anna Whyte (Post): The Annual Report: The Government’s public service seismic shift
Azaria Howell (Herald): Public sector cuts: Health NZ considers more redundancies in the lead-up to Christmas
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Public sector job cuts: Te Whatu Ora considers more redundancies
Brianna McIlraith (Stuff): More job cuts to come at Te Whatu Ora
ECONOMY, TAX
Simon Wilson (Herald): The secret to economic growth is to end poverty, so let’s do it (paywalled)
Robert MacCulloch: Finance Minister Willis is Sitting on a Gigantic Fiscal Hole - she's conjured Figures in Budget 2024 that Contradict Treasury's Long Term Fiscal Forecasts
Rob Campbell (Newsroom): Opposition parties also failing to address economic orthodoxy
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Will this week's OCR cut mean better home loan rates?
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): KiwSaver supervisor braces for hardship surge
Diana Crossan and Malcolm Rands (Post): The case for tax reform, and why a capital gains tax won’t be enough (paywalled)
Terry Baucher (Interest): Te wiki o te tāke: Can a GST increase be done with equity?
TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL, CONSTITUTION, HAKA
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Foundations of a constitutional crisis?
Audrey Young (Herald): Do Māori have rights other New Zealanders don’t have? Legal experts explain (paywalled)
Grant Duncan: Indigenous government: what could it mean in Aotearoa/New Zealand?
Philip Temple (Newsroom): Book of the Week: How to honour te Tiriti
Joseph Los’e (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: ‘I have never seen a bill more damaging to our race relations’ – former Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres
Frances Chin (Post): Porirua councillor challenges other councils to oppose Treaty bill (paywalled)
Heather Roy (Post): Hush the political noise and let the real Treaty debate begin (paywalled)
Rob Hamlin (ODT): Principles Bill debate is not a binary argument
James Nokise (Post): Both sides of hīkoi response show diverse nature of Māoridom (paywalled)
Gerrard Eckhoff (ODT): Better to shine a light on problematic Treaty issues
Baz Macdonald (Re: News): Exploring the Stop Co-Governance movement
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Layla Bailey-McDowell (RNZ): To haka, or not to haka? Who has the mana to decide?
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori): Do politics belong on the field? All Black’s haka sparks debate
Liam Rātana (Spinoff): All Blacks haka controversy: A bold statement or brand risk?
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): The haka is more than just pre-match entertainment
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): TJ Perenara's left problems behind for the All Blacks
RNZ: Louisa Wall says TJ Perenara's Treaty statement during haka was censored
Andrew Gunn: Seymour To Re-Write All Black Haka (paywalled)
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