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NZ Politics Daily: 28 January 2025

Republished with Permission

Author: Bryce Edwards

GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR
Chris Trotter (Interest): Seeking growth unambitiously, the easy way
Gordon Campbell (Scoop): On The Government’s Gaslighting About Growth
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Asset sales: Government starts the mood music for privatisations (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Greens accuse Prime Minister of softening language on privatisation
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Chlöe Swarbrick calls for Christopher Luxon to ‘end all speculation’ about privatisation as Parliament returns
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Highest chief executive payout triggered by change in Government: $532,500 (paywalled)
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Soliloquy for Monday Jan 27
Natalia Albert: David Seymour is not Donald Trump
Grant Duncan: 2025: what's up in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Regulatory Standards Bill champion defends its principles (paywalled)
Kelly Dennett (Post): Jacinda Ardern meticulously documented her governance, now it’s a documentary (paywalled)
Mike Fleming Jr (Deadline): Sundance: Jacinda Ardern On Her Docu ‘Prime Minister’

MĀORI-CROWN RELATIONS
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Experts, political figures consider Treaty principles debate beyond bill
Joel MacManus and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Spinoff): What you missed from day one of the Treaty principles bill select committee hearings
Jo Moir and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Select Committee Treaty Principles Bill submissions hearings begin
Eva Corlett (Guardian): Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Māori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told
Julia Gabel (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: Sharp arguments for and against as Parliament wraps up first day of hearings
Julia Gabel (Herald): Treaty Principles Bill: Christopher Finlayson tells David Seymour ‘be very careful what you wish for’
Glenn MCConnell (Stuff): 9 hours done, another 71 to go for Treaty Principles hearings
Kelly Dennett (Post): David Seymour says Treaty principles movement will succeed eventually (paywalled)
Daniel Perese (Te Ao Māori News): Treaty Principles Bill: ‘Subjugate, humiliate, assimilate, oppress’ – First submissions heard
Brent Edwards (NBR): Treaty Principles Bill select committee hearings begin today (paywalled)
Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Treaty bill hearings will cast a long shadow
Simon Wilson (Herald): Bill English’s Waitangi lessons for Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Kevin Norquay (Post): Waitangi Day: Not perfect, but beats Australia Day hands down (paywalled)
Michael Bassett (Bassett, Brash and Hide): Reforming the Waitangi Tribunal

CTU MOOD OF THE WORKFORCE SURVEY
Rob Stock (Post): Mood of the Workforce: Workers believe Govt has undermined workers (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Mood of the Workforce: Winston Peters takes top spot for workers ranking ministers (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): Workers want capital gains tax, CTU survey shows (paywalled)

FAST TRACK, MINING, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
Nick Rockel: Money Changes Everything - Fast-Track bill to pay dividends for coalition donors
Oliver Lewis (BusinessDesk): Seabed mining project a 'great argument' for fast-tracking (paywalled)
Chris Lynch: $4 million spent on Kauri tree research using whale song and whale-oil potions
Centrist: Taxpayers’ Union alleges government director funnelled millions into own organisation to play whale songs to trees
Eloise Gibson (RNZ): Fonterra caught up in misinformation around use of feed additive Bovaer
Philip Seddon and Yolanda van Heezik (ODT): Total effort needed to save hoiho
Jamie Morton (Herald): Science shows when things turned bad for the Hauraki Gulf’s snapper (paywalled)

There are links to 37 items above in today’s free version of “NZ Politics Daily”. But below the paywall there are an additional 68 categorised items and today’s newspaper cartoons.

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